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2023/01/30 | 1,089 | 4,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my PhD with my present supervisor a couple of years back. Her profile looked interesting. However, suddenly her previous work started receiving comments on publicly available domains (pubpeer). It appears that almost 14 of her papers that came out of her lab are under scrutiny. Moreov... |
2023/01/30 | 1,971 | 8,288 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't understand the reception that [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/192977/152405) has gotten.
What I understand is, due to the dating app, there is an influx of male students in classes who become the top %, and they attract all the female students there either through ... |
2023/01/30 | 892 | 4,016 | <issue_start>username_0: My university has recently moved to a new location. Last semester, we were informed the new campus would be ready come start of this spring semester. The semester has just began, and we have been informed only half of the campus will be open. Upon visiting the campus, it is a mess. The entire c... |
2023/01/31 | 539 | 2,162 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's an example of the kind of paper I'm thinking of: [Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146641022000096?via%3Dihub). The scope of the review is grand (1578 references cited) and pretty much every... |
2023/01/31 | 616 | 2,562 | <issue_start>username_0: My original PhD plan was to do a pilot study, followed by a main study based on the results of the pilot study. However, the complexity of the project is growing, and I've realised that I probably can't complete the PhD within my allotted 3 years if I do both.
The pilot study by itself would b... |
2023/01/31 | 3,293 | 13,323 | <issue_start>username_0: Summary
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Similarly to how [gerrit](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/1033/gerrit) asked "[Is there any research on the prevalence of academic theft?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27472/is-there-any-research-on-the-prevalence-of-academic-theft)", I am wondering if ... |
2023/01/31 | 1,914 | 8,583 | <issue_start>username_0: My team has been trying to replicate a study published in a journal.
After a month of effort my team is convinced that the details provided in the paper are incorrect and the study cannot be replicated with the information provided in the paper.
We now want to publish the discrepancies in the ... |
2023/01/31 | 666 | 2,377 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that we have a citation style in which given names of authors are abbreviated in the bibliography, that is, either
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> <NAME>.: An interesting observation.
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or
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> <NAME>: An interesting observation.
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In this case, how should one handle an author who publishes unde... |
2023/01/31 | 3,585 | 15,819 | <issue_start>username_0: Being an experienced reviewer, I know that rejection can be frustrating, but also fruitful and a good learning experience. There are many kinds of reviews (good, bad, constructive, opinionated, short, missing the points, etc.) and as many kinds of responses (revision, rebuttal, abandonment, etc... |
2023/02/01 | 600 | 2,701 | <issue_start>username_0: Some conference papers have misleading names, for example, 'journal of physics conference series' with both journal and conference in the name. 'journal of physics conference series' is almost like a journal because it publishes full manuscripts on their website but it also has conference in it... |
2023/02/01 | 614 | 2,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I am dyslexic and often struggle with reading and comprehension. Screen readers, such as VoiceOver on Macs, can be helpful in addressing these difficulties.
However, mathematics in arXiv papers can present a challenge for screen readers. A partial solution is ar5iv, which converts arXiv papers... |
2023/02/01 | 476 | 1,972 | <issue_start>username_0: According to [this Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_research_and_development_spending), Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, and Finland are the top spenders in the R&D sector by PPP per capita.
Does this mean that they pay a high... |
2023/02/01 | 1,070 | 4,377 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, we have a discussion in our work group as to whether one may use images from WikiMedia Commons in Case Reports. I have a general understanding of what types of CC license one may use or not. However, this specific case is confusing me:
[ and therefore it i... |
2023/02/02 | 789 | 3,004 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an junior undergraduate in the U.S, and Interested in HEP "Theoretical High Energy" in Physics. I have had some exposure in research (i.e. Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity), besides having a GPA around *3.67*/*4.0*.
I am currently working with a faculty, on Experimental *Particle P... |
2023/02/03 | 3,212 | 12,685 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to resubmit a revised version of my paper to a journal. While submitting, I was asked to provide a list of responses to the reviewers' comments. I've started wondering about an accepted way of organizing these responses.
Should it be a text in free form? Or a bullet-point list?
Given t... |
2023/02/03 | 302 | 1,311 | <issue_start>username_0: If a postdoc receives a conditional offer of employment, is it still a good idea for them to tentatively accept any further interview offers from another university which come during the waiting period, basically as a backup?
I suppose if one is committed to the first position, it won't offend... |
2023/02/03 | 768 | 3,467 | <issue_start>username_0: We recently asked several manufacturers if they could send us a sample of their material(s) for us to test towards their suitability for a process we developed. They sent us free samples. Once we identify the most suitable material we plan on ordering more from that material.
After receiving t... |
2023/02/03 | 3,964 | 16,530 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in some subdiscipline of mathematics and have had the following impressions. One of the senior faculty members (a professor) at my (not too famous) university mentioned, when talking about famous people in the field (high positions at top universities, etc.), that it is ... |
2023/02/03 | 1,368 | 5,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a finishing graduate student after, what I personally would say, a rather mediocre PhD (mathematics).
There has been some personal issues (mental health issues) and so I could not perform to the utmost of my abilities. The PhD will, however, still very likely be finished. The mental healt... |
2023/02/04 | 1,407 | 5,572 | <issue_start>username_0: [Sci-hub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub) and [ResearchGate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchGate) both provide (among other things) online access to journals that sit behind publisher paywalls. For example, I have just discovered, not unhappily, most of my own papers on both sites... |
2023/02/04 | 742 | 3,362 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a journal a few months ago and applied for a research grant one year ago. Currently, my grant application has not yet been awarded, but I anticipate that it will be granted in approximately two months. The exact date, however, is unknown.
I intend to include my grant num... |
2023/02/04 | 2,632 | 11,267 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a first-year Ph.D Student. My field is applied mathematics. Thankfully, I was able to publish my first paper. In our institution, students usually spend two years before having their first article published.
I heard from one of my colleagues, that his supervisor, a professor of p... |
2023/02/05 | 909 | 3,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got a lecturer position at UK university. However, coming from the clinical field, I have no idea what items I need to negotiate. I know the research part of it but my colleague told me it is not only lab space but I also have to negotiate equipment and consumables.
I will do teaching bu... |
2023/02/05 | 1,192 | 4,646 | <issue_start>username_0: A Christian pastor claims to be a Stanford professor who holds three PhDs in comparative theology, history, and eschatology.
However, his profile is not anywhere on the university website or anywhere in Google (rather than in his YouTube channel). However, he started a theological seminary and... |
2023/02/06 | 871 | 3,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student working in molecular simulation and GPU research.
I have poor grades in my bachelor's (49%).
Will this poor grade create a roadblock for me in the future if I want to work as a research professor in academia?
E.g., [This advertisement](https://www.mpg.de/1972347... |
2023/02/06 | 1,021 | 4,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I have encountered another weird situation as a referee. A couple of months ago, I submitted a referee report for an article, asking for major revisions. (This is theoretical physics, in which getting only a single referee report for published paper is not uncommon, even in top journals.) Last ... |
2023/02/06 | 1,922 | 8,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm pretty sure almost all mathematicians have been in a situation where they found an interesting problem; they thought of many different ideas to tackle the problem, but in all of these ideas, there was something missing—either the "middle" part of the argument or the "end" part of the argume... |
2023/02/06 | 1,690 | 7,348 | <issue_start>username_0: I see everyone in my university learning about machine learning and artificial intelligence. I understand they might have a genuine interest in it but is it the only subject that computer science is heading towards?
I have a deep interest in low-level computer science and have done projects in... |
2023/02/06 | 269 | 1,126 | <issue_start>username_0: Is the article processing charge paid only by the corresponding author or can it be split among all coauthors, with separate bills and receipts?<issue_comment>username_1: It depends on the publisher. For example, the IEEE does allow it:
<https://supportcenter.ieee.org/app/answers/detail/a_id/13... |
2023/02/06 | 342 | 1,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied to US universities and contacted professors I mentioned in the application. In one particular case (the most important one), all three professors are not accepting students. Would the application get rejected straight away?
My research area as mentioned in my SOP is “*Deep... |
2023/02/07 | 3,120 | 13,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I was shocked to learn that the participation fee for a large annual European conference almost didn't change when the host country changed from one of the most expensive Western European countries to one of the most inexpensive Eastern European countries. I couldn't see any explanation other t... |
2023/02/07 | 1,631 | 6,734 | <issue_start>username_0: From [an answer to another question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/172932/84834):
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> Unsurprisingly, both of these "jobs" cost money. Education needs teachers, research needs researchers, and both need administrative support staff. Buildings and other infrastructure need to be maintai... |
2023/02/07 | 467 | 1,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently retaking a calculus course that I failed, and noticed that all the quizzes are exactly the same from when I took it. I do have the solutions to the quizzes, as I have looked over them when I completed them in the past. Does it breach any rules if I study the solutions and get eve... |
2023/02/07 | 1,447 | 6,342 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about alternative salary streams for academics in fields with strong industry collaboration/interest. What is a typical "bonus" that a tenured academic can expect on top of their salary grade?
I am finishing up my PhD in Engineering in the UK. Given that my PhD (and I am sure ma... |
2023/02/07 | 1,159 | 4,848 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up from [Patching things up with advisor? He has been avoiding me since I found a simple answer to a problem he thought would be challenging](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/187724/patching-things-up-with-advisor-he-has-been-avoiding-me-since-i-found-a-simple)
I'm... |
2023/02/07 | 590 | 2,536 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a summer internship at a big biology research lab in my city. This is such a fantastic opportunity and it would be such a tremendous help careerwise to get this experience. The application asks for 2 letters of recommendation from "individuals familiar with your academic perfor... |
2023/02/08 | 951 | 4,173 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently one of my paper was rejected after review. The editor didn’t mention about the option of resubmission, just said:
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> It is challenging for us to envision a straightforward revision process to fully address these concerns, and therefore I am sorry that we can't offer to further consi... |
2023/02/08 | 862 | 3,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the US, was selected as a semi-finalist and had my first round of interview. The next step is that they will choose around three finalists to be invited for an on-campus interview. Does anyone have an idea how long it would take to be... |
2023/02/08 | 2,293 | 10,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently messed up my presentation in front of the audience because I couldn't answer or understand their questions well enough (even after I asked them to clarify their question). I keep ruminating about the moment and can't focus on work. I'm wondering if you have any strategies to overcome... |
2023/02/08 | 687 | 2,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently attended a talk and the talk was recorded and posted to YouTube, and the slides are available on the author's webpage. I would like to cite this talk in some work I am doing, and there are no other references for this material. How should I cite this?
This is the talk <https://www.y... |
2023/02/09 | 847 | 2,605 | <issue_start>username_0: Because of [reasons](https://github.com/Langenscheiss/bibitnow/issues/59), I'm curious to know whether there are any simple examples of papers where two or more authors have the same full name.
(To be clear: I am *only* interested in *exact* full-name matches. Instances where authors share a l... |
2023/02/09 | 718 | 3,105 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I'm about 2 months away from submitting my PhD Qualifying Report (QR).
I've spent the last 2 years (part time) doing a thorough literature review and writing significant amounts of software to analyse a relevant public dataset that is relevant to where I want to take my thesis and I believ... |
2023/02/09 | 594 | 2,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m applying to schools for my Masters in Computer Science and I’m writing my statement of purpose. I don’t really know what I want to do for my project/thesis, but in their prompts, the schools ask for a description of tentative research plans.
I could be interested in researching the interse... |
2023/02/09 | 1,589 | 6,686 | <issue_start>username_0: After a career in the industry, I started to work in research as a graduate student/research assistant, and I am learning to adjust my working and thinking style. That process is a little painful, but I also enjoy broadening my perspective.
I am genuinely thankful to work in a great team with b... |
2023/02/10 | 1,852 | 7,469 | <issue_start>username_0: [Athena Swan charter](https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan-charter) is a UK organization promoting gender equality in academia, among other things. University departments apply for gold / silver / bronze Athena Swan certificates, while providing an action plan of promoting... |
2023/02/10 | 545 | 1,878 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing in a description of three items in a thesis on Particle Physics, and I can do it in one line in theory. If there were just two items, e.g. A and B, which produce results C and D, I could write it like so:
>
> When using A (B) to estimate the upper limit, the best fit result is C ... |
2023/02/10 | 694 | 2,872 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard lots of stories about rejection based on unfair reviews, etc. But this is a new one for me, and I wanted to seek the Academia SE's advice...
We recently submitted a paper (let's call it A). Paper A got reviewed (Major Comments) and we revised the manuscript and resubmitted (let's ... |
2023/02/11 | 737 | 3,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student working at the intersection of applied mathematics and machine learning. I'm still early in my PhD, but I'm unhappy because my current research direction is too focused on applications as opposed to theory. I consider myself a mathematician and would like to prove theorems pr... |
2023/02/11 | 2,142 | 9,144 | <issue_start>username_0: My imposter syndrome is focused around the academic job market (which is different than other posted questions), and it comes in two parts:
(1)
My feelings of being an imposter have been exacerbated by poor treatment and abuse from my PhD advisor over the years who has, in moments in frustrati... |
2023/02/11 | 1,094 | 4,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a BSc student of Mathematics in Austria. I've been studying more advanced courses on the side (diff geo) to further my knowledge. I would like to attend contact/office hours of some professors to ask them questions about math and get to know them.
Is it normal in Europe to go to office ho... |
2023/02/11 | 2,594 | 10,624 | <issue_start>username_0: My course has 12-15 pop quizzes scattered throughout the semester. The quizzes are unannounced (thus, *pop*). I also have some at the beginning of the class, some at the end, and others in the middle. Most are 10-15 minutes in length.
One of my students has a university-approved accommodation ... |
2023/02/12 | 1,384 | 5,626 | <issue_start>username_0: Many entries in the [DOI catalogue](https://www.doi.org) contain incorrect information. Is there any central way to report such entries (to the DOI team or the publisher\*)?
Example:
When importing a work into a [reference management software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_managemen... |
2023/02/13 | 2,673 | 11,056 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I see articles, even high-quality ones, use illustrations (e.g. imagine a simple Powerpoint depiction of a certain process).
I'm now writing my thesis and found some interesting illustrations that I would like to use in the *Definitions* section of my thesis.
However, I'm not quite s... |
2023/02/13 | 2,881 | 11,943 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I am a physics student at UC Berkeley. However, at one point, just due to its utility and my own passion for the subject, I wanted to double major in math. Around a year ago, I had very bad personal circumstances which led to notably poor marks in two of the three courses I took that semest... |
2023/02/13 | 873 | 3,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a reviewer of an article that was finally published some time ago in a high impact journal.
I plan to apply to an open competition for a teaching assistant position in a subject very related to the topic of the paper. Extremely high qualifications are not normally required for these posi... |
2023/02/13 | 2,574 | 10,865 | <issue_start>username_0: It has recently been proposed that our college's math department move away from giving remote, online exams to our online students, and begin mandating that all students take (at least) an in-person final exam. This was the format for *years* before the pandemic, so this would be a return to so... |
2023/02/13 | 888 | 3,816 | <issue_start>username_0: This is about a post-review rejection. This is one of the top journals in our field. The reviewers found our work interesting but sent a long list of controls and additional experiments to do. The editor rejected it, saying it would take a lot of time. However, most of the concerns were address... |
2023/02/14 | 825 | 3,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I was accepted to a fantastic [U.S.] program last year I was surprised to get an offer from but because they didn't offer me any funding and my life was still in a whirlwind due to the pandemic, I deferred. I reached out about a month ago reiterating my happiness in being accepted and then I as... |
2023/02/14 | 912 | 3,868 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper to a (not very selective) journal (Sage publications). After a week of submission, the status changed to "awaiting reviewer selections". I took this to mean that the paper has passed the desk review, since the editor is selecting reviewers. However, after a few days... |
2023/02/14 | 758 | 3,126 | <issue_start>username_0: As a new hobby, I am wanting to read more and stick to the facts only.
I recently became interested in the public education system and many sites and YouTube videos claim that the modern American public education system is based on the Prussian system of indoctrination after Prussia lost to Nap... |
2023/02/15 | 923 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted an article 5 months ago to a journal. Since then, the article has been jumping between "*Waiting for Reviewer Assignment*" and "*Contacting Potential Reviewers*" (10 changes of status now). The article is quite technical and multidisciplinary, so I understand that finding reviewers ... |
2023/02/15 | 1,014 | 4,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my first year of PhD studies within science in Europe, and my interest and goal in the future is to to pursue an academic career, where I can find a permanent position in Europe. I am wondering if (and if yes, how much does) attending physically (international -) conferences, workshops,... |
2023/02/15 | 662 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a prof who is teaching between five universities, full-time at one and adjunct at the others. This semester alone they're teaching over 35 credit hours, which is double a regular full-time teaching load.
They are not organized and sometimes don't give helpful feedback.
Who can I report ... |
2023/02/16 | 1,720 | 7,014 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL; DR:** At least for the next few weeks, I'm going to be overwhelmed with reading a lot of research papers one after the other, sometimes even at the same time. How to deal with this? Are there any tricks to reading many research papers simultaneously?
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I am a senior year undergraduate... |
2023/02/16 | 1,753 | 7,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing PhD studies in a field of physics, and I want to do something similar (but more advanced) for a postdoc. However after browsing Linkedin, Researchgate, Nature Careers and some others, I found that there aren't relevant postdocs.
But there are plenty of interesting PhD programs t... |
2023/02/16 | 328 | 1,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student of English literature.
Since 2018, I have regularly published short stories and literary articles in national and international newspapers. The number is around 20.
Should I mention these published write-ups in my academic CV? If yes, then what is the right method of mentioning... |
2023/02/16 | 1,516 | 6,399 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my first postdoc in pure mathematics, which will come to an end in four months. I have been applying for numerous positions, of course, but to no avail. It is about time (has been some time?) that I considered a contingency plan.
Now a rule of thumb is, I hear, that once you get an ... |
2023/02/16 | 2,278 | 9,522 | <issue_start>username_0: Some years ago, I was stiffed for $100, but I let it go and took steps in my business model to be sure it never happened again. However, my colleague, is being stiffed for $600, an amount that is pretty painful to ignore.
**Situation**
1. The university provides a list of approved editors to ... |
2023/02/17 | 579 | 2,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I am referring to PhD admissions in US here. I've been always told that SoP's are important and require some commitment in writing. But in the meantime I hear a lot of such voices that PhD programs typically receive tons of applications like 500, so professors in committee would only spend a ma... |
2023/02/17 | 1,651 | 7,439 | <issue_start>username_0: *(I am posting this for advice regarding somebody else’s problem, but for simplicity, let me pretend it's me. To clarify misunderstandings in the comments: I am asking on behalf of my partner and can supply any additional detail as needed; I am fully informed.)*
I have conducted a research nea... |
2023/02/18 | 506 | 2,175 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it correct to remove a co-author from a resubmitted manuscript if the testing protocol was changed and the original experiments of the coauthor are no longer in the paper? The experiments were replaced, the result however is the same.
The co-author developed the method for this assay and wo... |
2023/02/18 | 1,844 | 7,891 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my masters thesis. I'm fully aware of the academic guidelines when it comes to citations.
Yet, I have a more nuanced question that maybe more stylistic in nature: when explaining a general concept, rather than specific research findings, I often use academic books as my ... |
2023/02/18 | 758 | 2,924 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year, I submitted a paper to the conference XX'22 in January. We made an Arxiv preprint.
And the paper got rejected. We got very good reviews, except there were some imprecisions that we needed to improve.
Some months later we submit to YY'23 and the paper got accepted in November 2022. W... |
2023/02/18 | 433 | 1,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I was having an email discussion regarding my postdoctoral application with my potential host supervisor. At one point, he asked for recommendation letter from my PhD supervisor.
When I contacted my PhD supervisor, he asked me to forward the above-mentioned email correspondence to him. So, I f... |
2023/02/18 | 344 | 1,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I was going through one advertisement for the Tenure track position. The job advertisement has written something like this: What does it mean?
Effective Date of Appointment: August 23, 2023 (Subject to Budgetary Approval)<issue_comment>username_1: It means that the job might be offered or not,... |
2023/02/19 | 1,672 | 7,572 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working (not in academia) after having graduated from college recently. I hope to apply to PhD programs at the end of the year.
I worked with a professor on a paper about a year ago and it got published in a top-5 AI conference. I was hoping to ask them to write my letter of rec... |
2023/02/19 | 1,695 | 6,976 | <issue_start>username_0: While flipping through my thesis to look up details in writing a postdoc application, I realized that I messed up my reaction rate quantification of one protein covalently bonding with another on a gel. The error I made here is that I assigned too large an intensity value for an unreacted prote... |
2023/02/20 | 2,436 | 10,651 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing the MsC. dissertation of a friend of mine before it is submitted to the evaluation board. I started looking for formatting errors, badly written parts, malformed citations, typos, orphaned references, factual errors, logical gaps, and other stuff like that. One of the authors tha... |
2023/02/20 | 1,079 | 3,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my thesis. For example, this paper on arxiv.
<https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473>
I'm using Overleaf. I used `Export Bibtex Citation` on arxiv and paste the information into the `.bib` file. The result is shown as in the graph.
But my prof says I should add the detailed information o... |
2023/02/20 | 814 | 3,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I have modified scientific open-source code licensed with the GPLv3 license. If I run some simulations on my PC with this modified code and later on I want to publish a paper with the results of my simulations, would this be considered "conveying" according to the GNUv3 definition (and therefor... |
2023/02/20 | 535 | 2,356 | <issue_start>username_0: I was applying for postdoctoral position in a reputed lab in a foreign country and they have asked for recommendation from my PhD supervisor. Although my PhD supervisor has given an informal recommendation by email, he has not given formal recommendation yet.
When I asked, he said that our coun... |
2023/02/20 | 2,061 | 8,295 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a "statute of limitations" on plagiarism? After being accused in one course, can my work in past courses be re-examined? I believe I unknowingly plagiarized in a past course.<issue_comment>username_1: Actually, anyone reading your work can accuse you of plagiarism if it is noticed that... |
2023/02/20 | 1,356 | 5,653 | <issue_start>username_0: About 4 years ago, before I started my PhD, I published a paper which used a method to improve an existing result. There were 2 papers on the existing result and method which I used for my work and appropriately cited. A couple of days ago I discovered another paper on arXiV by the same authors... |
2023/02/20 | 610 | 2,654 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an interview scheduled for tomorrow for a faculty position. However, today my flight got canceled. I tried to get another flight today, but unfortunately I could not.
I informed the university and requested to do my interview via Zoom, to which they agreed.
I booked the flight and hote... |
2023/02/21 | 1,248 | 5,493 | <issue_start>username_0: Previously I was working with professor A. During that time I feel lost: progress moved much slower than I expected and it's quite difficult to learn new skills required in the lab, which cannot intrigue my interest and push me to read paper at all. Also, lab environment makes me feel uncomfort... |
2023/02/21 | 1,033 | 4,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a job offer from a UK university as a lecturer. I accepted the written offer and started start-up package negotiations.
I did not get anything cause it is a small university so I had a counteroffer to get my salary higher but of course, it did not work out and got a response that this is... |
2023/02/21 | 1,374 | 5,085 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Postdoc, recently I submitted my first single-author publication (physics). I had one journal in mind and briefly discussed the idea with several seniors, and nobody really objected. Now I started to realize that the journal I targeted is most probably not perfectly matching the topic an... |
2023/02/21 | 571 | 2,463 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have started putting my (LaTeX generated, classic thesis .cls file) resume out there in job applications and this one question has been bugging me. Are Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) able to read LaTeX generated resumes well? This question is inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.co... |
2023/02/22 | 1,401 | 5,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been an full time appointed research professor most of my career (until 2017) in UK and Australia. I still work in a small business as CEO working exclusively with academic clients. I also have one 'staff' university based appointment but at senior Lecturer level to do a particular part ... |
2023/02/22 | 1,130 | 4,817 | <issue_start>username_0: I was born and educated in the UK but have spent the entirety of my career working in the US in government and higher education. I'm not, and never have been, a faculty member but rather part of the 'academic staff' supporting researchers with technical and domain specific knowledge. Due to cha... |
2023/02/23 | 766 | 3,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm preparing a research statement for a permanent position in math, but the number of pages have a strict constraint of two. So it seems I'm unable to fit in the bibliographic references in the research statement. **Assuming that the the two pages *do* count the bibliographic references (corre... |
2023/02/23 | 723 | 3,161 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergrad looking to apply for pure math PhD programs sometime in the future. The thing is, I do not wish to apply for grad program right after graduation but want to work in the industry a few years after graduation.
I am wondering (1) If general GRE test scores matter so mu... |
2023/02/23 | 456 | 1,917 | <issue_start>username_0: Our professor gave us a long exam worth 166 points. It was composed of 130 items 10 of which were identification and 120 were multiple choice. A lot of the questions required ethical analysis as out subject was ethics. He only gave us 30 mins to answer the exam. It this even legal?
Location: P... |
2023/02/23 | 1,059 | 4,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I am co-organizing a conference that will take place virtually on Mar 13, 2023. We invited the speakers and they confirmed their participation in Nov, 2022. Now, we sent them a form that collects their talk info + bios + photos, and a consent form to sign in Jan. and some of them have not submi... |
2023/02/24 | 1,326 | 5,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a very confusing situation. I am almost 3 years into my PhD project, and just today my direct supervisor suggested to me to read a paper in the best journal a PhD student would want to publish in.
After going through it, I realised that they have used a method that I spotted during the... |
2023/02/24 | 481 | 2,117 | <issue_start>username_0: One manuscript has been submitted after the 1st revision, and I am the 4th author. I didn't contribute to the work initially, so my name was not there on the first submission. Whereas during addressing comments from reviewer, I contributed and hence my name added as 4th author during re-submiss... |