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2022/11/16 | 745 | 3,135 | <issue_start>username_0: One thing that is stopping me from abroad studies is my lack of ability to drive. So, I was wondering if there are countries where it's not necessary to drive. Countries where public transportation is good in every part of the country.<issue_comment>username_1: **Pretty much all of them**.
Jus... |
2022/11/16 | 578 | 2,335 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my PhD thesis now and my supervisor said it can be in the cumulative way because I've got enough papers, 3 in sum. So now I look for publisher permission to reprint the papers. My university uploads every thesis after it is defended to the university database, which is open access ... |
2022/11/16 | 1,669 | 7,027 | <issue_start>username_0: A section in a paper I'm authoring goes something like the below:
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> We want to do x. Upon first inspection, x could be easily done using approach A.
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> A, however, has the drawback that .
> For this reason, we propose B.
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The is rather long though, making me question whether... |
2022/11/16 | 1,440 | 6,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently been asked by a colleague to help acquire some data with a specific method that only I know about. Beyond that, I have an analysis pipeline that is very specific to this project. Originally, my colleague said that I could look at all of the datasets but suggested that it would be... |
2022/11/16 | 421 | 1,892 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a manuscript accepted with minor changes. I had to delete and rewrite some texts as the reviewers suggested. The journal specifically asked "Please highlight the changes to your manuscript within the document by using bold or coloured or highlighted text. Please do not use track changes ... |
2022/11/16 | 1,818 | 6,691 | <issue_start>username_0: So first off, let’s start by saying that I’m insanely stupid for letting this happen. I’m currently a doctor early in my career. I was on a dating app and I sent nudes (No face showing).
It turns out I was texting scammers which were making demands for money and they threatened to send the pic... |
2022/11/16 | 2,185 | 9,293 | <issue_start>username_0: As I write personal statements for graduate school, I want to highlight my hard work through humor and also just show my personality. As someone who works full time (in order to fund my education) as a carpenter and does research/studies in their free time while working towards a masters degree... |
2022/11/16 | 1,046 | 4,059 | <issue_start>username_0: In 20+ years of research, I believed rounding of results should follow the "round up at 0.5" rule, while internal rounding during computation may follow other rules such as "round to even" that are supposed to reduce cumulative errors. However, I just learned that my favourite programming langu... |
2022/11/17 | 238 | 946 | <issue_start>username_0: As a professor/postdoc, when you submit an article to a journal you note your department, school, and city:
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> Department of History, Barnett College, Fairfield, New York
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But when you are in a PhD program, do you need to explicitly mention it in your address and if so how?<issue_co... |
2022/11/17 | 495 | 2,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in the Social Sciences at a German university. I want to apply for an exchange program at a research institute in France, which is very relevant to my research. It is a very big research institute, with ca. 40 senior researchers and ca. 70 Ph.D. students (half of them visit... |
2022/11/17 | 2,995 | 12,362 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc at the lab of, say, <NAME>. Together with a few students and external collaborators, we performed a research study and sent a manuscript for publication, where I am the leading and corresponding author. Prof. Johnson and I verbally agreed on the author's order and role before fir... |
2022/11/17 | 364 | 1,671 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to use a figure from a published paper that is non open access, and copyrighted. What is the general advice for going about this? Do people tend to pay the fee for access to reproduce it? Or do you just not insert it into your preprint article? It would be difficult for me to not have it... |
2022/11/17 | 862 | 3,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I realize that lots of engineering/biology/physics/computing sciences tend to encourage their researchers to go and make industrial applications out of their research.
I noticed there is a complete lack of that in the social sciences (which is neither bad nor good), except in economics. I neve... |
2022/11/18 | 1,362 | 6,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an article to a journal of a reputed publisher. After about six months and 3 revisions, of which 2 were major and 1 was minor, I re-submitted the article. However, after the third revision, I received another request for revision, and this time it was from a third reviewer. The first rev... |
2022/11/18 | 795 | 3,495 | <issue_start>username_0: A big argument I hear for why stipends are actually a great deal is because tuition is covered(often).
This makes sense for the first year or two but once courses are complete it's no longer a valid argument. Why doesn't your stipend jump in value in accordance with what tuition would normally... |
2022/11/18 | 482 | 1,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working with data on "parental level of education". I have ranked the following levels from the lowest to the highest. I am a foreigner and I do not understand the US education system. Could you please validate?
1. some high school
2. high school
3. associate's degree
4. bachelor's degree... |
2022/11/18 | 800 | 3,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I did not like my Msc. specialization (one of Chemistry streams). I won a PhD scholarship overseas. Though the area (protein engineering) was my favorite area, I graduated without having enough knowledge and skills due to the following reasons:
* the supervisor did not allow me to work on my c... |
2022/11/18 | 1,115 | 4,654 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m doing a postdoc in a STEM field in central Europe. I’ve been employed for a year, with a bit over a year of funding left on the contract. Over time, I have become less and less interested in continuing in academia, and I have now started looking for industry jobs.
My dilemma is that I don’... |
2022/11/18 | 1,591 | 6,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I joined a PhD program in Germany 6 months ago. I have two supervisors here - one is a clinician and the other is from natural sciences background. I am really unhappy with the way I am being guided because really there is no guidance. The guy from the natural sciences background is my immediat... |
2022/11/18 | 650 | 2,798 | <issue_start>username_0: In the guidelines for the statement of purpose for a PhD one of them says this: "A self-assessment of any past research experience and analytical skills.". This is my first ever statement of purpose and I'm not really familiar with it, plus I'm not an native English speaker, so I'm not sure I u... |
2022/11/18 | 735 | 2,862 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I want to cite a PhD thesis of someone who has a name in three parts. The latest example I came across was "<NAME>". Shope sounds like a last name, but is there a way to know for sure? His name does not appear on Google and this kind of ambiguity seems to happen all the time for me (m... |
2022/11/18 | 936 | 4,109 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was a student, I wrote a paper and submitted it to a journal. Having graduated, I am working for a company and am very busy. Recently, we got a revision for the paper and my prof asked me to do it. Unfortunately, I don't have time for it right now. Then, I got another email from him that... |
2022/11/18 | 968 | 4,245 | <issue_start>username_0: The purpose of end-of-course surveys is to have feedback on the course overall.
However, the survey is more of an evaluation of the instructor than the course itself. A successful course depends more on how a student approaches it than how the instructor does. Obviously, most of the time a bad... |
2022/11/19 | 2,805 | 11,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in Western Europe and began a CS degree 1.5 years ago. I had no prior programming experiences but the degree was aimed for beginners.
The male-female student ratio was 100:1 (as also stated by the official statistics). I was expecting this but I didn't let myself feel discouraged. Howev... |
2022/11/19 | 699 | 2,965 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I posted a question about including [humor in a personal statement](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/190635/humor-in-a-personal-statement) for PhD school applications. In this question, I mentioned that I work full-time as a carpenter, in addition to working towards a mast... |
2022/11/20 | 3,460 | 14,893 | <issue_start>username_0: One professor at our institute gave all his students the same advice when it comes to Ph.D. application: apply to non-obvious programs at top universities. Here "obvious programs" refer to the program that aligns well with your area of study. For example, if you are a Master's student in Statis... |
2022/11/20 | 3,280 | 13,830 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in a PhD program in Electrical Engineering. Sometimes, my adviser will send me papers with a small note such as "I thought this may be relevant to your work. Please have a look and see if it is helpful." Because I'm relatively new to the field that I'm working in, reading a paper,... |
2022/11/20 | 1,020 | 4,261 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a large, publicly available data-set that, in my opinion, has been horribly under-analysed. I can only find one paper that seems to use the data from it and I think there's some significant value in going through that data, identifying trends and performing a proper analysis of it.
Tha... |
2022/11/20 | 347 | 1,513 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my PhD application. I like it very much but I want to update my motivation letter with more details.
Should I do it?
I don't know if this kind of behaviour is too pushy or impolite.
The position is in the Netherlands.<issue_comment>username_1: If I was the person who got the... |
2022/11/21 | 1,424 | 5,775 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master student employed at a company as a co-op intern. For the first half to two-thirds of the program I had really poor mental health and had extreme difficulty to focus on anything. I only recovered a little during the last third of the program (still worse than my usual state). I coul... |
2022/11/21 | 782 | 3,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying for the Ph.D. programs in the United States. My academic instructor has been notified that he violated some immigration regulations (he is not U.S. resident) and he lost his affiliation. Now he's in transition and applying for his next position.
We had very good collabor... |
2022/11/21 | 1,436 | 6,067 | <issue_start>username_0: I had taken a year break after my masters, before seriously applying to PhD programs. The reason was that I was stressed and burnt out, especially during the COVID times, and wasn't ready for a PhD directly after 5 years of university, and felt like I should take a break. Even though I had appl... |
2022/11/21 | 445 | 1,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a freshman attending a community college. I’m taking 17 credits, 5 of which are from my MTH 111 class. I have struggled with sepsis and infection over the past year and got sick in the middle of the term, causing me to fall behind in due dates and information in the class. It is too late fo... |
2022/11/21 | 1,475 | 6,274 | <issue_start>username_0: An [NSF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation) research proposal was prepared last year.
Even though all scientific work planned at the university will be done by two postdocs and 2 - 3 graduate students, the university requires a tenured/tenure-track faculty to be a [PI](h... |
2022/11/22 | 604 | 2,709 | <issue_start>username_0: If the editorial manager wants a list of changes during the revision process, is it normal to add another file (what should this be called? Should it be a highlight or the name of the file is not important as they will eventually read through all files?) or where should I address my changes (wh... |
2022/11/22 | 1,315 | 5,390 | <issue_start>username_0: When a professor gives me some timelines to choose for an interview, I always say I am available anytime that suits your schedule, mainly because all times are OK with me, I can even have a discussion even at work.
Do you think its better to pick a timeline rather than saying you are OK with a... |
2022/11/23 | 556 | 2,451 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently completed my coursework for International Business Strategy in the UK. I have been marked unfairly in a sense where my professor has given me the feedback of not mentioning certain points from the criteria. However, it’s quite evident that I have, for which I have proof and have rais... |
2022/11/23 | 771 | 3,409 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked a professor for a recommendation letter for my Ph.D. application, and she said something like
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> Sure, I am willing to write you a letter. Can you send me your research statement and school list by XXX date? Also please request all letters in a batch so that it is less likely for me ... |
2022/11/23 | 949 | 4,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master's student at a world-wide top business school. In one subject (a subject that related to my undergraduate specialization) I had a very good professor. He researches in the same field I want to conduct research in later, so we had quite some conversations about research, which were ... |
2022/11/23 | 798 | 3,344 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed there are some related topics on the forum but my situation is somewhat unique so I'll ask again.
I completed 2 years of my Bachelor's at a Top50 Worldwide University. About 40% of the credits were in CS and Math - the rest were electives and first year requirements. I could not cont... |
2022/11/23 | 1,314 | 5,276 | <issue_start>username_0: I am autistic and I hold a bachelor's degree but, sadly, had to quit grad school due to health reasons. I have a special interest in a subfield of hematology-oncology and have read a fair amount of research papers about that subject. I have some – hopefully – sound questions that I'd like to ge... |
2022/11/23 | 1,283 | 5,377 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD in Sociology. My schools "require" scores of about 300ish and I scored 270. My reason for the poor score is that ETS requires medical tests I cannot afford (more than half my monthly income) to be given accommodations, so I was unable to use any accommodations. ETS was a... |
2022/11/23 | 1,052 | 4,617 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D student who needs to take coursework each semester and also (obviously) do research. I find some of the coursework assignments particularly interesting and I end up spending a lot more time than necessary, sometimes doing extra bits that are not really required to get a full grade. T... |
2022/11/23 | 754 | 3,138 | <issue_start>username_0: *The title is misleading mainly because there is not much room to write a detailed question.*
I am currently working on a (Maths) paper. While doing the literature review, I first found something interesting that I would like to include in my paper in another paper (A) from a not-indexed journ... |
2022/11/24 | 1,251 | 5,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in math and currently I'm stuck at a problem. But my advisor has some idea and it seems to me that he might even solve it soon.
Earlier I had an idea which seemed to be working, but a few days back we found a gap in that idea.
If my advisor solves the problem, will I still b... |
2022/11/24 | 730 | 3,302 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in how a MSc in Mathematics, MSc in Applied Mathematics, and MSc in Applied and Computational Mathematics compare in terms of content, but also in terms of how they are perceived and the opportunities they create. Can all three make you a qualified candidate to teach math at the ... |
2022/11/24 | 2,725 | 11,549 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my students' behaviour just feels always disrespectful to me. A homework was due tonight, and she asked me yesterday evening how to solve multiple questions. I try to respond as soon as I can, so I replied to her this morning. She asked me a lot of questions and though I already answered... |
2022/11/24 | 827 | 3,488 | <issue_start>username_0: My plan is to make a YouTube channel with a curriculum based on a pretty well-known textbook.
I want to reformulate and re-present the ideas in my own way. I will not take any direct quotes from the book. I will try to make money off of the videos.
The way the theory of the videos lines up co... |
2022/11/24 | 909 | 3,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to find a way to bulk-download citation data on (ideally!) all the papers published in my particular academic discipline. I want to analyse this large corpus of data using AI text classification tools, because I want to identify all papers that fit in a certain category. At the very leas... |
2022/11/24 | 247 | 1,107 | <issue_start>username_0: My background is close to optimisation, but the position I like is closer to computer vision.<issue_comment>username_1: Strong motivation is necessary but not sufficient. There are a lot of factors in a doctoral application and others are probably more important. In the US, letters of support t... |
2022/11/24 | 1,004 | 4,229 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a professor of mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the US. My department is fortunate enough to have a wonderful group of math majors, many of whom go on to graduate school each year. Consequently, each year I write quite a few letters of recommendation for students applying to ... |
2022/11/25 | 1,371 | 5,966 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on projects for which having very direct access to relevant reference materials on the subject (linguistics) is basically essential.
I have come to understand that there is no satisfying alternative to being part of a research library, as a researcher. There is no similarly conven... |
2022/11/25 | 856 | 3,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my master thesis in Computer Science and AI. I am very undecided about what to put on the first place, and changed my mind many times already. Because of that, I keep rewriting the contents to fit the structure.
I have read from multiple sources that literature review must come fi... |
2022/11/26 | 1,522 | 6,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph. D student. I have been fortunate to have an extremely supportive advisor against whom I have only positives and literally no complaints so far. She offers me sound technical guidance, almost always available, refines my problems, never rude, given me several weeks off when I had some ... |
2022/11/26 | 1,026 | 4,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a master's student in mathematical physics preparing my applications for PhD. I've been working on my current research topic (say A) for 3 years, and all of my publications/talks are in A. However, I found another field B really interesting, and thinking about the possibility to t... |
2022/11/26 | 1,234 | 5,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with my M.S. in physics, with a focus in Quantum Computing, (course-based M.S.) last December and aim on doing a career in research. Thus I'm very attracted to doing a PhD (within the US), the experience that I had in that program really cemented my interest. However my unimpressive... |
2022/11/26 | 2,651 | 11,537 | <issue_start>username_0: Basically, I am working on a project which is scientific/scholastic/academic by nature, but I am not in a university at the moment. I mainly just want university affiliation so I can access a research library, plus some minor other things, such as Research Gate only allowing you to join if you ... |
2022/11/26 | 1,050 | 4,497 | <issue_start>username_0: Do math departments require the math GRE primarily to weed out applicants? Or is it predictive of completing the program?<issue_comment>username_1: This answer applies to the US, and maybe not universally even there.
Graduate admissions in the US are broad based with many factors to consider. ... |
2022/11/26 | 5,027 | 21,113 | <issue_start>username_0: We recently held online midterm exams at my institution, where I am a manager. (We were forced online just before the exams.) The exams included a range of subjects, and were typically less than 2 hours.
There are indications of cheating (e.g. exam scores much higher than offline performance, ... |
2022/11/27 | 1,180 | 4,847 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of applying to graduate school.
Previous to this, I published an article under the name "<NAME>". At the moment, I'm working on my second article. My MSc supervisor told me to use my legal name instead of my preferred name.
The problem here is that my full name is "<NAME>" ... |
2022/11/27 | 2,175 | 9,803 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in my second year of chemistry bachelor, which I love for giving me interdisciplinary insight into the world around us. My favourite course is quantum mechanics and recently I became fascinated by the whole quantum computing research. However, when I find any summer school/scholar... |
2022/11/27 | 973 | 4,214 | <issue_start>username_0: I am expected to teach a large (80-100 students) graduate level class in AI this spring. The class is offered exclusively online, and students from various backgrounds are expected to join. It is not possible to meet face to face, as they are spread all around the world. Office hours are also v... |
2022/11/27 | 1,936 | 8,400 | <issue_start>username_0: During the postdoc phase, at least in math, it's usually a very short period, like 1 or 2 years. Isn't it really important to write something and get it out there, even if it's of no real significance or interest? The reason I ask is that a postdoc *could* spend more time working on a more sign... |
2022/11/28 | 1,330 | 5,797 | <issue_start>username_0: During my masters I experienced a burnout and as a result of that my masters took 3 years instead of the usual 2 years. I will have an interview soon for a PhD position and one of the questions that could come up is why my master took longer than usual. Should I tell this reason? Or should I ju... |
2022/11/28 | 822 | 3,148 | <issue_start>username_0: Are citation mistakes and mistakes in paraphrasing considered plagiarism?
I read opposite opinions on if this could be considered plagiarism or it is simply something else.<issue_comment>username_1: This is a very clear-cut case.
Taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own is pla... |
2022/11/28 | 515 | 2,133 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to graduate schools this year for a master's degree.
I've read that some universities will reject some "strong" applicants because they believe this student would be accepted by a "top" university and would rather go there.
I am specifically interested in a particular university... |
2022/11/29 | 1,266 | 4,879 | <issue_start>username_0: Where do we draw the line between *suspicion* and *evidence* of cheating on an exam?
For example, on an online timed essay exam, in a student's essay, 99% of the sentences are identical to sentences found in an online essay (not written by the student). That's evidence of cheating, and warrant... |
2022/11/29 | 770 | 3,387 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper that invalids a previous result. The referee heavily attacks "minor points" such as typos, misuse of jargons, overall "hard to read", and some story-telling or speculation could be off. The referee avoids direct commenting on the main result.
My question is, in an academic deba... |
2022/11/29 | 1,763 | 7,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an assistant professor in an engineering field, and my wife is a PhD student in a physics-related field. We live in an eastern European country and work in different institutes. I am quite happy with my colleagues and boss, and I really enjoy working with them. They are very friendly, and ... |
2022/11/29 | 765 | 3,175 | <issue_start>username_0: I am geographically limited in my academic job search. I have seen some jobs I am qualified for, but might not be 100% fit. For example, I have the qualifications but only a few papers on the topic whereas most of my work is in other areas. Any insight would be appreciated!<issue_comment>userna... |
2022/11/29 | 1,551 | 4,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a project to analyze PubMed abstracts over a given period. I'm using the PubMed API (Entrez) to get PMIDs over a given period. I'm submitting queries looking like this:
2001/06/03:2001/06/03[dp]
This would result in all PMIDs with a publication date of the 3rd of June in 2001.
... |
2022/11/29 | 1,542 | 5,045 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the middle of an authorship dispute and need some help. Raw data was shared with me by a Master's student, and we re-analyzed the data for the publication. I was going under the assumption that the data were already published. Summary statistics (e.g. mean and standard deviations) are a... |
2022/11/30 | 1,878 | 8,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied for a postdoc position at a research institute in the UK via their job portal. I didn't contact the PI in advance because the job advert was already posted. However, after 3 weeks, I still didn't hear back from them & when I checked my status though the job portal, the status... |
2022/11/30 | 1,086 | 4,556 | <issue_start>username_0: In our PhD class, we have to present a paper. However, just 24 hours before the day I present a paper, the professor gave me a new version of the paper.
This new version has a similar motivation but is different in methodology and results – so pretty much they are different things.
He asked me ... |
2022/11/30 | 1,037 | 4,324 | <issue_start>username_0: I premise that my University does not indicate a precise guideline for the typographic rules to be adopted; so I'm wondering if it is a good practice to expand the acronyms only in the abstract and then in the first chapter or if it is bettier to expand them at the beginning of each chapter. I ... |
2022/11/30 | 759 | 3,101 | <issue_start>username_0: During my masters I spoke with my research guide and he seemed to be interested in taking me as a PhD student afterwards. I joined a job and want to start my PhD after a year.
My research guide mailed me recently asking if I am joining back as a PhD student, as he is getting a new project, and... |
2022/11/30 | 1,638 | 6,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a law school research paper where one of the sections describes multiple legal cases, each under a separate heading. For each case I am describing the factual history of the case, then the holding, noting specific areas of interest to the paper topic.
Should I have a separate footn... |
2022/11/30 | 1,095 | 4,170 | <issue_start>username_0: According to [academicpositions.be](https://academicpositions.be/career-advice/phd-professor-and-postdoc-salaries-in-the-united-states), which quotes the New York Times, PhD students earn 15000 and 30000 dollars per year. But according to [Educationdata](https://educationdata.org/average-cost-o... |
2022/12/01 | 2,087 | 8,300 | <issue_start>username_0: As its quite apparent from many online discussion forums and also in-person conversations, a lot many Ph.D students seem to have impostor syndrome, of course in varying degrees. We hear statements like:
1. I don't think I am cut out for research, although my advisor thinks I'm quite capable
2.... |
2022/12/01 | 1,660 | 7,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently enrolled in an elective course from our degree program. There is something that sometimes annoys me, namely the English used by the professor.
He is not a native English speaker, but it is not about his accent or pronunciation. These are decent. The problem is that he keeps app... |
2022/12/01 | 1,673 | 7,137 | <issue_start>username_0: *This might sound silly for those who know how to do it and do not see that it is a problem but for some people like me it is.*
Since I started working in academia, I have had the problem of building collaborations, or to be more precise, of maintaining the collaboration and making it fruitful... |
2022/12/01 | 1,531 | 6,368 | <issue_start>username_0: I supervise an employee who insists on being called Dr. in emails and on social media, but is ABD (all but dissertation) from about a decade ago. How have people handled such situations?
I was promoted from within my government organization into a supervisor role of a separate directorate in D... |
2022/12/01 | 822 | 3,676 | <issue_start>username_0: My university recently required all professors to attest that they do not consult nor are employed for more than one day per week. This statement is required to ensure the professors are engaged in research or educational activities.
Curious if that is pretty standard in other universities?<is... |
2022/12/01 | 599 | 2,689 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper that has now been reviewed four times. In the first revision the two reviewers had comments, which I addressed. On the 2nd revision the reviewers had fewer comments, which I also addressed. On the 3rd revision only the one of the two reviewers had comments, which I again add... |
2022/12/02 | 580 | 2,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I have sent a manuscript to Optica, I have published there before and in other high-impact journals. This time my submission was first sent to 5 referees (I listed three names as requested). I thought that is reasonable since some will not be available etc. One ref agreed and the other said the... |
2022/12/02 | 7,548 | 31,216 | <issue_start>username_0: Large language models (LLMs) are complex neural networks that can capture and represent world knowledge present in the human-generated text as their weights. LLMs are trained on a large collection of textual documents; for example, billions of webpages that are crawled from the web by the Commo... |
2022/12/02 | 1,443 | 5,953 | <issue_start>username_0: How should a person with 110 IQ approach studying? Particularly with math and physics. What are the methods (if any) that can be employed to compensate for my inherent inability to understand very advanced topics? Perhaps focusing on rote memorization in such a case? I'm looking for personal ex... |
2022/12/02 | 1,611 | 6,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate working on my thesis. It is a difficult situation because my thesis advisor took a new job and has left the university, and I also work part-time. My advisor goes months without responding to my e-mails, and there is no other way for me to contact him.
I am curious on who... |
2022/12/02 | 2,065 | 9,173 | <issue_start>username_0: How would you handle a colleague offering your PhD student a postdoc position?
I had applied and received fund for him to continue with me as a postdoc immediately he graduates. We had this discussion before the application. Now I'm informed that a colleague offered him a longer postdoc contrac... |
2022/12/03 | 672 | 2,197 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently reading The Limits of Realism by <NAME>. I'm having trouble understanding the convention of reference that he is using. [On page 7](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3nNKM.jpg), he writes the following:
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2022/12/03 | 1,984 | 8,248 | <issue_start>username_0: About a month ago, I read a new article published by my previous advisor and three other researchers in a top journal. I noticed that part of it uses part of my master's thesis, only written as if they are the ones who did it.
It is the second time he is doing that, only that last time I didn'... |
2022/12/03 | 548 | 2,192 | <issue_start>username_0: In one of the papers, I have mistakenly written a wrong/irrelevant word which makes the sentence vague. The sentence contains review of somebody else's work. The referee is confused and has asked for an explanation about that sentence. Shall I directly express that I have made a mistake and inc... |
2022/12/04 | 558 | 2,257 | <issue_start>username_0: My field is life science/biology.
I am wondering if there is any difference between last author and corresponding author. For example, if one is the second last author and corresponding author, and another one is the last author but not corresponding author, who is actually leading the work?
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2022/12/04 | 433 | 1,867 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume that it is appropriate to send an email to potential supervisors to inquire about a research program.
Is it a good idea to attach recommendation letters in the cold email? Or instead, should I write in the email that recommendation letters from my academic referees can be provided if it... |
2022/12/05 | 604 | 2,699 | <issue_start>username_0: I am involved in standardization in my field and have thus insight and information about the contents of upcoming standards that are not yet published. I am co-chair of one standardization group that is working on a particular standard that is projected to be published sometime (rather towards ... |
2022/12/05 | 1,375 | 5,875 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a rejection after minor revisions although I handled all requirements.
I got comments from two reviewers:
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> Reviewer #1: Good work. Like the paper.
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> Reviewer #2: I like these kinds of quantitative comparison papers and
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2022/12/06 | 3,826 | 16,424 | <issue_start>username_0: Something I hear from students about certain instructors is a complaint that the instructor "makes the course harder than it has to be" or some variation. I'm a postdoc and my students generally really like me. I hear them say this about other instructors and I'm just curious, what is going on?... |
2022/12/06 | 1,476 | 6,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to finish an undergraduate degree in mathematics, and I want to do research in mathematics, so naturally I'm looking into postgraduate study options. I'm quite stressed about this, and I was thinking about what I want in an institution to continue my studies, and I came to the conclus... |
2022/12/07 | 214 | 883 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a letter of recommendation from my internship coordinator and the year the letter is dated to says 2021 instead of 2022. It clearly seems like a mistake but I’m worried that it will render the letter invalid since it looks like it was from over a year ago when it was written a just a... |
2022/12/07 | 330 | 1,433 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of writing a paper which proves some conjecture.
What I want to know is:
Is it standard practice to include general commentary on the conjecture and other research around it as references, even when I didn't need any of it to come up with the proof?
If it is standard, acce... |