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2022/12/07 | 757 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I am really paranoid/scrupulous about plagiarism and I would like to ask if what I did below counts as some form of plagiarism. A while ago, I wrote a paper and basically I don't know if the very last sentence in my conclusion sounds too much like the very last sentence of somebody else's artic... |
2022/12/07 | 8,587 | 32,972 | <issue_start>username_0: Being from Russia, the idea of paying 5-6 digit sums for a university education sounds ludicrous. I understand that prices in the US are different but surely there have to be cheaper options. Besides, if your education operates like a free market, one would expect that at least some universitie... |
2022/12/08 | 663 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background:
Currently, I am trying to manually scrape the contents of a transfer map tool hosted on Arizona State University's website. I was pretty successful in deconstructing how the URL for the tool/webpage works, but found a strange naming convention for its colleges.
Specifically, t... |
2022/12/08 | 2,842 | 12,333 | <issue_start>username_0: Americans spend 12 years in school which is more than in many places, yet, when they come to university, they continue to study a [general education](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gen_ed) program that may be unrelated to their major.
My understanding is that it eats up a better portion of the... |
2022/12/08 | 458 | 1,836 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my mathematics master's thesis (in topology) in my native language, German. Most of the literature is in English and some of the words are hard to translate. Is it ok to mix both languages?
For example, the German term for "adjunction space" would be *Verklebungsraum*, b... |
2022/12/08 | 3,936 | 16,476 | <issue_start>username_0: We are towards the end of a graduate level course of about 20 students, and its time for course evaluation. The instructor is fairly new (just graduated from Ph.D a year ago) and is not a native English speaker. Overall the instructor is knowledgeable on the subject. However, the style of deliv... |
2022/12/08 | 716 | 3,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently found a Computer Science BA degree program that requires, as part of the program requirements, students to get a minor in a second department. They say this is done to provide the student with breadth and depth apart from their BS program. Is this arrangement of "Just get any other m... |
2022/12/09 | 6,271 | 27,348 | <issue_start>username_0: On the one hand, weaker students benefit greatly from studying with good students, and it's helpful for the good student to be able to explain a concept to weaker students as well. On the other hand, good students benefit from studying with other good students ([example](https://en.wikipedia.or... |
2022/12/09 | 3,275 | 14,500 | <issue_start>username_0: Can you explain how course schedules are structured in the United States? Is there a pre-set timetable? Do people generally attend classes with the same people? Do most people graduate on time?
For example, in Russia we have cohorts of students who attend the same degree program. Everyone in t... |
2022/12/09 | 3,172 | 13,541 | <issue_start>username_0: I gave a test in person this week. For the students that require accommodations, I submitted it online. The staff that provides the accommodations at their facility printed the test and gave it to student "A". When the next student went to take it, she realized the test had all the correct answ... |
2022/12/10 | 2,176 | 9,160 | <issue_start>username_0: A student often sends me emails asking obvious (homework) questions whose answers can easily be found in the teaching materials.
I do not always keep the teaching materials with me, so I cannot reply immediately to the student that, for example:
*(questions whose answers are in the lecture no... |
2022/12/10 | 568 | 2,563 | <issue_start>username_0: People generally agree that grades don't matter in graduate school because they are reflective of your understanding of other people's work. What matters is the work you did and your research.
But could it be said they matter to the same extent as undergraduate grades when applying for a job? ... |
2022/12/11 | 1,343 | 5,790 | <issue_start>username_0: While I understand this is not a legal help site and it may differ from university to university, I am curious if anyone has any thoughts on this.
I am in an undergraduate programme in a life sciences-related field. My friend and I have an idea for a genetically modified organism product that ... |
2022/12/11 | 501 | 2,058 | <issue_start>username_0: For my statement of academic purpose I want to highlight that I have a work on arXiv which has been submitted to a journal. How would I call such a work? Is the term "submitted publication" appropriate?<issue_comment>username_1: Bibliography styles usually give provisions for that: see e.g. [th... |
2022/12/11 | 1,206 | 5,100 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been paid to develop a piece of code which is being used in a scientific paper. The code is an important piece of this paper, since the paper is about a specific (novel) computational method.
Would it be fair to be included in the list of authors even if I have been paid for it?<issue_c... |
2022/12/11 | 1,412 | 5,962 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math postdoc who defended his Ph.D. two years ago.
I have 9 papers and 3 of them are with co-authors. In other words, I am a single author of 6 papers of mine. Two of my papers where I was a single author were published.
Recently, one of my papers was rejected after 8 months because th... |
2022/12/11 | 1,097 | 4,747 | <issue_start>username_0: There are different metaheuristic algorithms for evaluating optimization benchmark problems, some give better results than others and some don't. If a novel metaheuristic has a very close fitness function value to another algorithm created before, let's call A, but is not better than the fitnes... |
2022/12/11 | 999 | 4,498 | <issue_start>username_0: **I have accepted a journal paper for a peer review for the first time. However, given a very limited time to review it, I’m no longer confident about whether to continue or come back from it.**
The subject of the paper is my field of research for years. Also, I have many publications in the s... |
2022/12/11 | 953 | 4,292 | <issue_start>username_0: You are not allowed to directly post material from a professor's lecture but any notes you take are considered your intellectual property. By the same token if you take an exam and remember a question can you post it online after taking the exam to know whether you did it correctly? The numbers... |
2022/12/12 | 724 | 3,174 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently applied to postdoctoral positions, the applications for which are still under review (or will start the review process soon, based on their deadlines). In the mean time, I have got calls from faculty members at a few institutions I've applied to, asking if I'd be interested in w... |
2022/12/12 | 2,198 | 8,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already finished my Mathematics Ph.D. application form for several universities. However, I noticed that my email address in my CV and personal information contains the number "666", which, I recently learned, is the number of devils. I'm not a native speaker of western countries. I'm fr... |
2022/12/12 | 1,866 | 8,180 | <issue_start>username_0: I've completed 2 years of my PhD and now have a few ideas which I would really like to work on and publish, but though they are novel, their scope is quite limited (i.e. they aren't ground-breaking). I don't feel confident sending them to Q1 journals and it'll likely just be a waste of time. I ... |
2022/12/12 | 4,366 | 18,512 | <issue_start>username_0: *There is a negative attitude towards volunteering in academia.*
I am about to graduate (currently an undergraduate student). There is a 6-month gap between my graduation date and the matriculation date at another university. I have planned many things to do during the period (to be productive... |
2022/12/12 | 1,638 | 7,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I am first author on a perspective paper being reviewed. The last authors are well known and comfortable discussing the future of certain technologies that can be seen as exciting but also provocative/delicate/controversial.
Our paper has about 20 co-authors. We wrote the paper very conservati... |
2022/12/12 | 1,254 | 5,204 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me begin with a short disclaimer: I am aware that similar questions have been asked here more than once. However, none of the answers seemed useful to me and hence, I decided to make my own post about it.
I'm 29 years old, having just finished my PhD in math and working as a PostDoc (fixed... |
2022/12/12 | 1,379 | 5,941 | <issue_start>username_0: Do you think it's possible that in the future there will be programmes for PhD in mathematical physics all online?
As I see courses being offered online, I assume if academia is to progress, this is bound to occur.
I once graded people's HWs offline, and nowadays I am grading their work throu... |
2022/12/12 | 6,189 | 24,001 | <issue_start>username_0: As a PhD student and a post-doc, I always liked being a TA, and I always considered teaching as a natural duty for grad students and faculty. In the end, universities are and should be mainly about transmitting knowledge to students. Sometimes, I even enjoyed grading and proctoring because it w... |
2022/12/12 | 6,122 | 23,744 | <issue_start>username_0: What makes a university prestigious?
Is it that they are harder and more rigorous? My intuition would tell me that the more prestigious a university is, the harder should be the curriculum and the fewer people should be able to graduate from it since the curriculum is so hard. I expected, for ... |
2022/12/12 | 1,191 | 4,273 | <issue_start>username_0: Some years ago I uploaded some images to Wikimedia commons and selected "own work". That images were uploaded under a CC BY-SA 4.0 License.
However, the journal (in which I am attempting to publish an article) uses a CC BY 4.0 license.
My question is, may I use this CC BY-SA 4.0 image in the ... |
2022/12/13 | 1,186 | 5,659 | <issue_start>username_0: To gain extra credit for a course I lead, students can share their notes from a lecture which we intend to use as starting point to develop a better (free) learning material than just sharing slides from the lectures. To this end we explicitly asked the students to share their notes under a Cre... |
2022/12/13 | 1,217 | 5,569 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an electrical engineering PhD student (computational electromagnetics) and recently I learned about systematics reviews, which seem to be the norm in the health sciences. I tried to search for systematic reviews in the most relevants journals in my field:
* IEEE Transactions on Electromag... |
2022/12/13 | 2,221 | 8,644 | <issue_start>username_0: There are very limited sources on the topic I am working on, so I have used quite a bit of information from a single source and I have cited it. That source has citations in its body and I have cited the original source as well.
Is this okay? Will it be considered to be plagiarized?
English i... |
2022/12/13 | 1,035 | 4,487 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a TT assistant professor at a R1 school, and I just recently accepted an offer from a private company. I'm planning to talk with the department head and let him know and I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts how to approach this (with maybe examples if you have anything in mind) and qu... |
2022/12/13 | 984 | 4,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm half way through my MBA, and my highest mark is around 73%, which I've had in several modules and pieces of coursework. I've contacted the university to ask for concrete examples of previous answers for exams I've sat that have received > 80% but they won't provide any. I've read several bo... |
2022/12/13 | 333 | 1,484 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a major revision from IEEE Transactions, however one reviewer left no comments. Earlier this already happened to me and the reviewer had left the comments in “Comments to Editors” section. Should I contact the editors in this case and ask if there are some comments? Or should I ignor... |
2022/12/13 | 1,154 | 4,549 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking at the [CNRS](https://www.cnrs.fr/en) CR (=[charge de recherche](http://postes.smai.emath.fr/apres/accueil/livret/livret004.html) - a research only academic position with no teaching duties)
recruitment process, and in the booklet that walks candidates through the application proces... |
2022/12/14 | 3,960 | 15,640 | <issue_start>username_0: No one from my UK university appears able to give me a concrete example of an answer for coursework or an exam that would get over 80% for any of my MBA modules.
It was suggested [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/191585/) that this is because scores over 80% are not really ac... |
2022/12/14 | 523 | 2,240 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing my PhD (my third year just started). My field is empirical finance. My PhD consists of writing three papers and is set to last four years.
My supervisor does basically nothing. In the beginning a friend of mine who started his PhD with me and I started working on a (in my ... |
2022/12/14 | 3,100 | 12,638 | <issue_start>username_0: My work deals with transformations in matter, wherein one physical form (a 'phase') changes to another. The initial form has often traditionally been called the 'parent phase' and the transformed form has been called the 'daughter phase'. I think this borrows from nuclear physics, where a 'pare... |
2022/12/14 | 2,884 | 11,724 | <issue_start>username_0: I plead guilty and was suspended for plagiarism (for a lab exercise) during my first year in undergrad. I felt extremely bad and apologized to my professor on the spot without even thinking of defending myself. I took the penalty suspension of 2 months which automatically forfeit my entire firs... |
2022/12/14 | 845 | 3,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to understand better the factors that affect the decisions of journal editors (re: publication). I am not interested in strategies to boost my chances of publication, rather I want to understand explicit policies and objectives that incentivize publication choices. Since policies di... |
2022/12/15 | 951 | 4,274 | <issue_start>username_0: In software development, there are many development methodologies with a focus on speed/efficiency: Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban etc.
Are there similar methodologies in scientific research? (something like "Agile Research")
A couple of related ideas that come to mind are: [design of experimen... |
2022/12/15 | 6,023 | 25,015 | <issue_start>username_0: For many years one of the main problems for academic essays and BA/MA/PhD theses was plagiarism. However with the [recent advent of artificial intelligence (AI) that can write high quality texts](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04397-7) (e.g. ChatGPT) a fresh concern has risen: was a... |
2022/12/15 | 425 | 1,759 | <issue_start>username_0: It is becoming increasingly important to keep track of performance, do scientists have a good figure of merit to measure their performance?<issue_comment>username_1: There is no single measurable criteria by which one can easily evaluate the researcher performance.
Some quasi-efficient metrics... |
2022/12/15 | 752 | 2,887 | <issue_start>username_0: I am unsure about how to capitalize the title of my dissertation. In my case, I am wondering about "testing" and "empirical":
>
> Four Essays on the empirical testing of the Efficiency Hypothesis
>
>
>
Should I capitalize gerunds?<issue_comment>username_1: I'm not a language maven, but I'... |
2022/12/15 | 897 | 3,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper examining performance among female athletes in a particular, less-well-documented sport over a certain time period. Unexpectedly, I have discovered a paper addressing very similar questions to those in my paper, but about (exclusively) male athletes in the same sport.
The ... |
2022/12/16 | 429 | 1,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology, but there aren't any professors doing clinical psych research where I'm going to school. I'm at a top university, and I'd like to get into a prestigious PhD program. I don't know how to set myself up for that though, trying to reconcile w... |
2022/12/16 | 1,334 | 5,615 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, in September 2021, I was hired as an associate lecturer at a British university. I was headhunted for the position. Since I was about to finish my PhD and I needed some experience, I decided to put myself forward.
I covered for a colleague who was on research leave. I became ... |
2022/12/16 | 1,386 | 6,028 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in studying abroad in America. I am currently doing a M.Sc. in Quantum Science and Technology in Germany and would like to start a Ph.D. in the same subject at one of the big American universities (MIT, Harvard, Caltech ...) after I've finished my degree. I noticed that every on... |
2022/12/16 | 585 | 2,433 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate from a top 30 liberal arts college (according to usnews.com at least) and I've applied to several PhD in Computer Science programs. How do the departments of the, say, top 15-20 programs view applicants from liberal arts colleges? Are they still classified as "top schools"? Or i... |
2022/12/16 | 532 | 2,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my manuscript this July and got comments from two reviewers and two editors. It seems like there was one reviewer no in favor of my manuscript although s/he did not directly say to reject my manuscript though. The other one was positive and said to accept mine with a minor revision.... |
2022/12/17 | 2,147 | 8,663 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year PhD student in computer science and caught in a political dilemma.
My master thesis project was supervised by a researcher at my university, let us call him Dr. Anderson. There is currently a paper written by us under review on this topic. After I finished the master’s projec... |
2022/12/17 | 1,624 | 7,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a sophomore CS Major, and I have a final programming project due on Monday for one of my classes, but right now, I've been stuck on it for the past two days. I've tried several different approaches to finding the problem with my code, but I can't get it, and I can't ask for help from anyone... |
2022/12/17 | 1,843 | 7,971 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a new collaboration with Dr. Y: together with Professor X, we applied for funding for a project based on a working paper that I had worked on for more than 1 year. Dr. Y provided some successful applications he had and also edited the funding application. I was happy with his contributio... |
2022/12/17 | 1,680 | 7,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year PhD student in an American university. I am having an issue with relationships in my lab. Right now I am very jealous of another student in my lab, and I start to hold grudges against him. Let’s call this student X.
We have the same advisor, but I feel my advisor likes X a l... |
2022/12/17 | 2,544 | 10,698 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year PhD student, in the process of writing the thesis and submitting the manuscripts of my work done. Unfortunately, the work-environment in my lab was quite toxic, with several bullying- issues, personal (verbal) attacks and condescending behaviour (particularly towards students ... |
2022/12/17 | 4,912 | 20,389 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach in a small college and one student seems to have an obsessive need to make comments aloud during class. Sometimes those comments are funny (he is the class clown) but sometimes they feel abusive and critical when aimed directly at me. Yesterday when I was reviewing an exam he made it a ... |
2022/12/19 | 2,449 | 10,216 | <issue_start>username_0: I left academia years ago and am self-employed, but haven't stopped refereeing papers for one of the journals I published a few papers in. Now I've been informed by the editors that I've been selected as a distinguished referee. They are going to send me a certificate and publish a note honorin... |
2022/12/19 | 597 | 2,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted an article to the International Journal of Surgery, and it has gone into production. Just as I was signing the licensing agreement, it caught my eye that the name I had put in as the main author only contained my surname and my last name. **It did not contain the middle name th... |
2022/12/20 | 1,235 | 5,128 | <issue_start>username_0: How much in practice would someone minoring in a subject end up knowing about the subject as opposed to somebody majoring in it? How much extra work does it take to get a minor?<issue_comment>username_1: There are at least two reasons to minor. One is to get some background in a field complemen... |
2022/12/20 | 1,203 | 4,802 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a situation that I've never faced before: I believe that I've found the solution to a classical mathematical problem and would like to get the solution published in a reputed journal. The solution might be wrong as and I'm willing to accept that because I've not shared the solution with ... |
2022/12/21 | 667 | 2,855 | <issue_start>username_0: Once in a while I find out that an interesting conference in my research area has taken place, but I did not hear about it. Usually when I find out about upcoming conferences it is when a friend, colleague or collaborator lets me know. But sometimes interesting conferences are organized by peop... |
2022/12/21 | 1,734 | 7,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reviewing an application for a grant and found out that one of the applicants has included a publication on his CV that does not exist in the journal. It was supposedly published several years ago. I counterchecked the list of publications of that particular journal, including the issue a... |
2022/12/21 | 2,992 | 12,883 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate in Teleinformatics Engineering and, during my academic career, I was required to learn English in order to write articles, communicate with partners around the world, read books, and so on. It has been a quite useful language. I suspect that it would not be mandatory to lea... |
2022/12/22 | 1,457 | 6,504 | <issue_start>username_0: Many years ago (when I was young and naive), I accepted a job offer (rejecting two other offers, with some acrimony from one of them) and moved to a new country (Chile) in order to take the job, only to realize after arriving there that I did not have a work contract, just an invitation, and th... |
2022/12/22 | 587 | 2,595 | <issue_start>username_0: There are various assessments and you need to get a grade of over 50% in each. i wasn’t able to do that in one of them (I came close) although my overall grade is good. How can I convince my teacher to pardon me?<issue_comment>username_1: Extenuating circumstances exist, and need to be taken in... |
2022/12/22 | 1,451 | 5,816 | <issue_start>username_0: First: I want to do grad school, and I'm a undergraduate student.
Now, I have a really bad GPA. My probable final GPA value will be 2.0, and I'm an international student. Still, I have two papers published (more yet to come before I finish the undergraduate school), three scientific projects (... |
2022/12/23 | 1,311 | 5,675 | <issue_start>username_0: I got an offer for an assistant professor position in the USA starting on September 1st. Classes start on August 21st. So I am expected to start teaching at the university before I'm actually employed. Until this point, ok, I don't mind.
However, as I am a foreigner, I can enter the USA with m... |
2022/12/23 | 395 | 1,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I cited a paragraph of an article, which classified some model according to different categories. For each class it contains related work from the literature. Is it plagiarism that some citations match with mine?
Structure of the cited paragraph:
* Class 1 / related work
* Class 2 / related w... |
2022/12/24 | 579 | 2,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a recent social sciences master's graduate based in the UK, and I'm interested in making PhD applications next year. I would like to take the year I have available to gain some kind of experience, ideally research experience to strengthen my applications. Do you have any advice on some step... |
2022/12/24 | 1,349 | 5,252 | <issue_start>username_0: *My field is Statistics & Machine Learning*
I have come to know that job prospects in academia are really (really) bad. Of course, it is discipline-specific, but it did discourage me from pursuing a PhD, not necessarily because of the imposter syndrome. It could be because of my initial expect... |
2022/12/24 | 1,771 | 7,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I keep seeing my graphs all over presentations and proposals that is presented to companies for funding. There is no part that cites my name, and it looks like it is my professor who is doing this work. They will also send my ideas and work progress to another student in the group who will then... |
2022/12/26 | 602 | 2,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m not from the US and I'm applying to US grad schools for a PhD in Math and I'd like to share my academic website containing details about six of my favourite courses that I took in my masters and around 30 or so PDFs of solutions to challenging problems, assignments, tests etc. that I did du... |
2022/12/26 | 273 | 1,078 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I noticed a small typo in my resume two weeks after submitting it. In my professional summary, I accidentally put "counselling" instead of "counseling". Are small typos overlooked or detrimental? I didn't notice anything else but I also don't want to keep looking and then cause my anxiety t... |
2022/12/26 | 1,387 | 4,639 | <issue_start>username_0: On the list of [top 250 largest patent holders worldwide](https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings-global-assets-2021.htm) (2021), I see that Chinese universities hold many more patents than other universities, even normalizing by population size or student population size. Why? I am especially inter... |
2022/12/27 | 3,819 | 16,745 | <issue_start>username_0: Unlike the supervision style in my department (CS), I put an enormous effort into supervising my master's students. I meet with each of them twice a week and spend around two hours each week explaining what to do and how to do it.
From the first step, I propose a topic with a potential methodo... |
2022/12/27 | 706 | 2,584 | <issue_start>username_0: My university provides access to [Turnitin](https://www.turnitin.com/) for every student. I have prepared a manuscript ready for submission to a double-blind review conference for September 2023. Is it OK to use the plagiarism checker to assess the similarity index of my manuscript before submi... |
2022/12/27 | 1,284 | 5,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in an uncomfortable situation: Last week, shortly prior to Christmas, I submitted my (me as first-author) manuscript. The journal replied on Dec 23rd, saying that the manuscript needs major revisions (and included their suggestions).
The time period for the revision is stated as being 7 da... |
2022/12/27 | 1,262 | 5,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an independent researcher in mathematics. I wrote a research paper and I intend to publish it.
It is my first math research paper, I have no prior experience in this.
I submitted my paper to multiple journals, but they found out about the multiple submissions and replied negatively.
I t... |
2022/12/28 | 1,520 | 6,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I started an engineering PhD program this year with an excellent advisor that I get along well with. I just finished my first semester where students are mostly required to focus on coursework with minimal research work.
When I first started, I was asked to choose either project A or B for my ... |
2022/12/28 | 844 | 3,747 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to ask my teacher for a letter of recommendation, and wanted to contact her via a phone call. Upon asking her what time she would be free (I didn't mention the purpose for calling), she answered that she was sick and out of town as well. She told me that she would be free after around ... |
2022/12/28 | 381 | 1,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an established lecturer, with my own niche area of research. My area should be of interest to lots of Master of Arts (MA) courses in my field—I get good student feedback and it's an interesting topic.
What are good ways of letting organisers of Masters courses in my field know that I am a... |
2022/12/28 | 1,034 | 3,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I (actually my cousin) just received an offer letter from [SJSM-Anguilla](https://www.sjsm.org/anguilla-school-student-life/) to study [MD](https://www.sjsm.org/usmle-step-1-guarantee/). They are saying that they are accredited in the Carribbean, and after completing the program, the students c... |
2022/12/28 | 998 | 3,704 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for PhD programs and some of them ask for a teaching statement for TA positions. However, as a graduate student, my only experience related to teaching is working as a grader of a graduate level class. I only worked closely with the professor and never communicated with any studen... |
2022/12/28 | 4,464 | 18,337 | <issue_start>username_0: As an example, someone who's not a native speaker of English might come up with the following paragraph (generated using a second-class translation service):
>
> Basic principle of gamification is providing of receipt of permanent,
> measurable feed-back from an user, providing possibility dy... |
2022/12/29 | 2,464 | 10,251 | <issue_start>username_0: I took a course, with 2 term exams (20% each) and a final (30%). I achieved close to the highest score on the first term exam, the highest score on the second term exam, and the highest score on the final exam. In all cases, I was significantly above the average score (by >20 points). But I did... |
2022/12/29 | 790 | 3,224 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a university faculty supported by [this](https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-collaborations-in-mathematics-and-the-physical-sciences/) Simons Foundation research grant. Who decides on the spending rules for this grant? Can my universty impose any rules, for example acomodation co... |
2022/12/29 | 921 | 3,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I made several plots and figures. About 20% of data I used to make a plot came from papers of other people, which I'm surely going to cite in a common manner. But the other 80% percent of data I collected on my own during the research, so I'd like to point it out in the figure's caption (otherw... |
2022/12/29 | 922 | 4,103 | <issue_start>username_0: If another PhD student created a dataset, can I use it for my own PhD thesis, with permission and attribution, and not collect any data myself? Or it is usually expected that a PhD student should collect at least some data?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, in principle there is no issue with not ... |
2022/12/29 | 1,342 | 5,587 | <issue_start>username_0: (A bit difficult to describe what I mean without sharing my definitions, but I am cautious of posting them since this is regarding my thesis.) I had to provide a definition for a term I came up with. Since it is a complex matter, I provided one definition and then wrote "alternatively put:" and... |
2022/12/30 | 1,485 | 6,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my Bachelor's degree this year. I worked on some research with my advisor and after a few months, we decided that there's enough interesting research to be able to write a paper. This will be my first paper. He told me that I'll be the first author and asked me to start working on it... |
2022/12/30 | 1,801 | 7,492 | <issue_start>username_0: *It is about my friend (an undergraduate student in Australia), but I used first person pronoun "I" for convenience. My friend needs advice, and I tried my best to describe the situation. The second-person pronoun "you" can be used in the answer.*
After taking an undergraduate course taught by... |
2022/12/30 | 3,298 | 12,336 | <issue_start>username_0: In the question [Is it OK to use GPT-3+ to rewrite your own paper to have better English?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/192013/is-it-ok-to-use-gpt-3-to-rewrite-your-own-paper-to-have-better-english/192076#192076) @gerrit mentions that:
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> Check the rules of the journal. Chanc... |
2022/12/30 | 495 | 1,771 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not one of the primary authors of the article, and there are more than 15 authors for the paper I am referring to.
How should I include the paper in my CV? Should all authors be cited? How can I neatly highlight my contribution without having to enlist all authors?
(This is only necessar... |
2022/12/31 | 402 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: Several months ago I submitted an article to a journal with good reputation. Then I received two different reports. One was asking for minor revision. However, the second one overlooked at the content of the manuscript, and confused it with several previously known results. The editor, seeming ... |
2022/12/31 | 1,167 | 5,100 | <issue_start>username_0: The company I work for is funding a project led by a professor at an engineering department in a US university. I was recently accepted by the university and they offered me a departmental fellowship for my first semester with subsequent semesters being funded by the advisor's grant money (whic... |
2022/12/31 | 1,350 | 5,910 | <issue_start>username_0: Of course, they may be looking up something related to the lecture content, but I can usually spot that dead-eye TikTok coma a mile off. I get distracted because I am genuinely upset that they’re wasting time, money and opportunity.
I initially thought I was just taking it too personally and t... |
2022/12/31 | 1,028 | 4,695 | <issue_start>username_0: What does it mean when the posting says they are looking for an associate or full professor? Does this mean that only people that are currently in tenure-track positions will be considered? Would the search committee consider applications from non tenure-track applicants?
Any advice would be m... |
2022/12/31 | 667 | 2,885 | <issue_start>username_0: I have code I wrote to replicate a simulation study by another author. Is it okay to publicly upload this in my code repository?
This will include:
* code (my work, based on the author’s description in the study)
* replicated table (values are similar to original)
* original table (for compar... |
2023/01/01 | 1,917 | 8,353 | <issue_start>username_0: I would wish to have some summary advice for the specific scenario of looking for a new postdoc position and trying to avoid ending up with a terrible supervisor. Let me narrow this question down by saying that the most important thing to avoid would be an unsupportive/pressurizing/controlling ... |