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2023/02/24 | 1,153 | 4,787 | <issue_start>username_0: In February last year, I submitted a manuscript to a well-known Q1 BMC Journal in my (very narrow and small) field. The editor asked for some direct revisions after one week. We resubmitted the manuscript in March 2022. Since the, the status has remained "reviewers assigned" for the entire peri... |
2023/02/24 | 616 | 2,605 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering applying for PhD positions. I finished my MSc in 2021. Would it be OK to ask my supervisor for references? I feel a bit strange because I've barely seen him in person due to COVID and it's been 1.5 years. Do I just ask him for a letter/email that I can keep and use for several P... |
2023/02/24 | 1,506 | 6,446 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor gave me a broad topic to research. I found a really good question and have done a big part of the work answering it but, have not finished yet, then applied to a prestigious conference to present a poster and got positive feedback and told him so out of happiness.
Before submitting ... |
2023/02/25 | 573 | 2,438 | <issue_start>username_0: For my PhD (finance) I need access to a scientific database. The problem is that my university unfortunately does not offer this database in its library. Another university (in the same city even) does provide access to the database via WRDS.
Would it be ethical for me to e-mail the datasuppor... |
2023/02/25 | 2,042 | 9,130 | <issue_start>username_0: EDIT: Original title was "Guarantee" Nature
publication for PhD?
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I am currently applying as a PhD student in a group at the intersection of experimental physics and engineering in a rather interdisciplinary research environment in Germany. The group only exists for about 2 years now. The ... |
2023/02/25 | 685 | 2,969 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my Ph.D in applied mathematics in a US institution last May. I have now started my postdoc position at another US institution last Fall. My post-doc is funded by the department of mathematics here (which means I have a relatively heavy teaching load) with a "formal" assigned mentor/a... |
2023/02/26 | 2,202 | 10,010 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in a STEM field. I collected and analyzed data for another graduate student (different PI) and they are now refusing to include me as an author on a research paper. I optimized conditions/parameters, characterized a new material with a specific instrument/technique, and ... |
2023/02/26 | 1,535 | 6,455 | <issue_start>username_0: TLDR: I am being excluded of a paper for which I worked, and I am not sure how to proceed.
Long story short, I am a theoretical physics PhD student and I was approached by experimental physicists about their experiment. They had a nice setup, didn't know what to do with it to make an interesti... |
2023/02/26 | 1,055 | 4,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I’ve got a sort of a dilemma in my hands and I was hoping y’all can help me out:
Although I’ve got a quite below average profile, I applied to multiple universities in the States and in Hong Kong for my Biology PhD studies. At the end of January, I received a PhD offer from a quite well-known ... |
2023/02/26 | 1,407 | 5,866 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an article for a university assignment, and I am essentially looking for sources to support fairly surface level points. Two of the points I am searching for is evidence of diffusion models being used in the modern day, as well as how diffusion models work on a surface level.
To de... |
2023/02/26 | 1,196 | 4,807 | <issue_start>username_0: My department (engineering) is hosting a day-long open house event soon, and I have been asked to prepare an ice-breaker/trivia type activity for 30 minutes between a couple of sessions. Could anyone recommend some activities of this nature that have worked well in the past?<issue_comment>usern... |
2023/02/26 | 2,445 | 9,014 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an undergraduate thesis in linguistics. My topic is about comparing politeness in English to the honorific system in Korean. No one in my school speaks Korean, neither my supervisor, but I wanted to include the language in my thesis to make the writing more fun for me. I think it wa... |
2023/02/27 | 1,069 | 4,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know how to make the best use of survey paper? When I'm new to a particular field, I try to grab some survey paper. However, these papers just outline briefly each methods without going deep enough. And after reading the whole paper I am left with I understand a bit of everything but ... |
2023/02/27 | 4,406 | 18,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a physics degree nearly 30 years ago. My goal was to understand general relativity and quantum field theory, but at graduation I still could not understand them. I then embarked on a career as a software developer.
About 10 years ago, I was reading an article and got an idea. I found my ... |
2023/02/27 | 1,748 | 7,672 | <issue_start>username_0: tl;dr I would like to practice problems to develop a better understanding of topics in mathematics graduate-classes, but I don’t get time off my homework (which only covers a few problems), so I need a plan of study.
As the title suggests, I am doing math and there’s too much I want to do but ... |
2023/02/27 | 4,961 | 21,031 | <issue_start>username_0: A math lecture typically works with the professor explaining something, and at the same time writing her theorems on the blackboard, without any Powerpoint slides. When the blackboard is full, its contents are quite close to what should be in the lecture notes.
I think this has advantages over... |
2023/02/27 | 391 | 1,610 | <issue_start>username_0: In an Elsevier journal, after some long time, I looked at the status of my paper on the tracking system and I realized that one of the two reviewers did not even accept the review invitation. One of the reviewer submitted the report.
Now, I see that the paper is in "Decision in process". Is th... |
2023/02/27 | 707 | 3,127 | <issue_start>username_0: In three years time, I will have (hopefully) finished a biochemistry degree at the ETH Zürich. I'm thinking about moving to the USA/Canada after that to study Vet Med. In most places I've read, there are so many requirements that I'd be surprised if any international students actually get accep... |
2023/03/01 | 2,009 | 8,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the beginning of my third year in a 3-4 year PhD program in the UK, in a STEM field.
Long story short, there is a misalignment of interests and skills between my advisor and me. My advisor is aware of the misalignment of skills but he most likely underestimates the amount of interest mi... |
2023/03/01 | 816 | 3,495 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning a PhD in Russian history at an Australian University in the next few years. However, there's a strong chance I won't have access to the Russian archives due to the War in Ukraine, visa complications (there are stories of British Doctoral students being deported due to using a touri... |
2023/03/01 | 1,135 | 4,938 | <issue_start>username_0: We are preparing a big European (HORIZON) project application (more than 10 million Euro) and with several partners. The deadline is in two months. Two partners are required to write their parts of the proposal, but they do not respond at all, or they say "yes, I will do it. Same answers after ... |
2023/03/01 | 4,351 | 18,924 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose, I am an examiner in an oral exam. I have done my best to [design and conduct the exam to reduce students’ anxiety](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/82591/7734), but it just didn’t work: The student has a panic attack that makes it impossible to continue the exam in a regular way. *... |
2023/03/01 | 683 | 2,886 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is mostly addressed to those ho have *crossed to the other side* (i.e., left academia): what are the options for career growth outside of the academia?
Note that the question is not about *"what kind of job I could do outside of academia with my degree"* - I have successfully hand... |
2023/03/02 | 630 | 2,747 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first-year MS student working as a part-time student researcher in a lab. Earlier this year, I received and accepted an internship offer as it was my top choice and my goal is to work in the industry. However, when I told my research manager about this during a meeting, it was not taken w... |
2023/03/02 | 1,125 | 4,666 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday I emailed a professor inquiring about a research opportunity. He replied within an hour, told me to follow his profile to find the open position, and that he would be pleased to receive my application as I was fit for the position. I followed his profile on LinkedIn and emailed him th... |
2023/03/02 | 1,498 | 6,258 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that journals approach the second round review for a revise-and-resubmit paper differently. Sometimes, new reviewers are assigned. I find this kind of case very unfair to an author. We all know that reviewers can be very subjective, and they may or may not agree with the initial reports.... |
2023/03/02 | 460 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: There seems to be a trend with science and math classes especially, where target distribution for the absolute grades are somewhere in mid Fs. But then the curve brings all the students with 30s and 40s into high Bs or even As.
What's the rationale here? Isn't it effectively the same as having... |
2023/03/02 | 582 | 2,279 | <issue_start>username_0: At first I suggest readers to look [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/193943/how-to-handle-a-coauthor-who-is-very-late-in-finalizing-a-research-paper). My current question is related to that.
In [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/193943/how-t... |
2023/03/03 | 476 | 1,765 | <issue_start>username_0: It is common for PhD students (at least in Europe) to spend some months in a different institution. Can this be later included on CV as *visiting scholar*?
It seems the definition varies depending on the University.
[Harvard](https://hls.harvard.edu/graduate-program/visiting-scholar-visiting-... |
2023/03/03 | 996 | 3,913 | <issue_start>username_0: A **majority** of academics (from assistant-full professors) at The [Faculty of Computer Science](https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/en/pracownicy_i_doktoranci) in my university are working as adjuncts.
Why do they stay as adjuncts and not move around too in the EU or other developed countries to find a... |
2023/03/04 | 681 | 3,014 | <issue_start>username_0: I am talking in terms of values. Is there any difference between these two when it comes to the weight they add to a CV? Is a paper presentation better than a poster presentation?<issue_comment>username_1: This probably depends on the field, but in CS, at least, a paper presentation is much mor... |
2023/03/05 | 554 | 2,322 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my revision two months ago and emailed to inquire about the status of my manuscript, but I have still had no response. The editor had set a deadline for the revision to be submitted. I was given a little shorter than two months so I prioritized revising the original manuscript to tu... |
2023/03/05 | 3,240 | 13,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interviewing for a university faculty position. I would like to ask the committee why they are interested in me.
I would like to learn about the possible implications of this question.
My initial motivation for asking this question is that faculty positions (especially in multidisciplinar... |
2023/03/05 | 814 | 3,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I am excited to have been accepted to a few PhD programs in public health. The two top contenders have both offered me full tuition remission, a stipend, and health insurance, but there is a difference in the stipend offers of about 4.5K between the two (with the lower amount being a bit more t... |
2023/03/06 | 490 | 2,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question regarding on how to list this specific activity in undergraduate school.
I have helped many students (for free) in my undergraduate school with their graduation research by guiding them, reviewing their work and making sure everything is correct.
How do I list this in my CV?... |
2023/03/06 | 852 | 3,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a manuscript which is based on some results of a preprint. I have submitted it to a journal and it is under review. Will the reviewers also verify the results of the preprint?
One thing worth mentioning is that my result is groundbreaking (if it is correct!), it seems to me that... |
2023/03/06 | 679 | 2,963 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the best way to inform my preferred university that I got another offer?
What type of reply I can expect iff I am a top candidate?
Position: Tenure track
Country:USA<issue_comment>username_1: A warning, and maybe an answer.
Telling them is very unlikely to boost your application and ... |
2023/03/07 | 521 | 2,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to send these items to a high-impact journal. However, I don't exactly know where I can find these pieces of information.
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> The names, affiliations, h-index from either Web of Science or Google
> Scholar Citations, and full contact information including email
> addresses of six to te... |
2023/03/07 | 821 | 3,681 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview for a postdoctoral position with a group with a big grant, who later rejected my application, the official reason being that "some [...] important aspects of [the project] might require intensive
cooperation and supervision" and that "the supervision capacities of the PIs are... |
2023/03/07 | 972 | 4,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked at a university the UK, at the end of 2010s and left on good terms with the research group. Thought boss was a nice guy and was appreciative of being able to use him as a referee. Just yesterday I happened to come across an article published 8 years ago with his, his boss’ and other re... |
2023/03/07 | 1,917 | 8,251 | <issue_start>username_0: Almost all U.S. states have [mandatory reporting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_reporting_in_the_United_States) laws, that specify certain professions, especially those dealing with children, as being obligated to report evidence of abuse **to a state agency**. These laws vary by stat... |
2023/03/07 | 783 | 3,370 | <issue_start>username_0: This post is an extension of this previous situation that I discussed a few years ago here: [Supervisor has said some very disgusting things online, should I pull my name from our paper?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/162544/supervisor-has-said-some-very-disgusting-things-online-... |
2023/03/08 | 1,067 | 4,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that a straight F semester sounds despicable, but hear me out please. I got hit by a car and that alone caused me hospitalizations that led me to a straight F semester.
I'm a physics/ astrophysics major, econ minor. I love physics so much. I don't know what year as I've transferred prog... |
2023/03/08 | 1,302 | 5,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a master's student in the second semester of my first year. I have just returned to graduate school after taking several years off due to the pandemic. Last semester I had two classes that required book reviews. The book I picked met the criteria for both classes and at the time,... |
2023/03/09 | 679 | 3,087 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently handled a paper where the peer review process ended with two minor revision reviews and two reject reviews. The disagreement was pretty fundamental - the two reviewers recommending rejection think the authors should do X, but the authors disagree, and it's extremely unlikely they are... |
2023/03/09 | 468 | 1,963 | <issue_start>username_0: I was waitlisted by my top choice (got into 2nd choice, though), and somehow I received an interview for an external PhD fellowship (something like NSF, which is not linked to the program or school that I applied to). The results of the fellowship will be out before April. So my question is, sh... |
2023/03/09 | 3,582 | 14,938 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in Germany. I've just recently finished my M. Sc. in computer science and I'm now thinking about pursuing a PhD. I've been offered a full-time position on a topic which I'm quite interested in (related to my Master thesis). The contract would be for five years and well-paid, so I wouldn'... |
2023/03/10 | 1,023 | 4,281 | <issue_start>username_0: Some students are so eager to publish something that they do so without their supervisor (advisor) knowing. They publish work that was supervised by the supervisor with the supervisor's name on but the supervisor didn't know it's published in journal xyz until later. In that case, what is the b... |
2023/03/10 | 6,392 | 27,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a physicist currently doing a master's degree and I have a background in programming with a knowledge of computer science — not on the level of someone who studied computer science but I would still say a bit above average.
As I program a lot for physics and astronomy applications, I have... |
2023/03/10 | 6,381 | 27,161 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted my thesis and also defended it successfully. But then I found mistakes in the statistical analyses of my research.
When I was doing my bachelor's there was no biostatistics in my curriculum. So I didn't have a grasp of statistics at that time. That is why during my researc... |
2023/03/10 | 900 | 3,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in year 2 of my PhD, and have a fairly good idea of what papers I'm planning to get out of it by year 3. Is it too early to start writing the full introduction to the PhD? Or is it a good idea to get started early if I have a fairly good idea of what to work on?<issue_comment>username_1: I ... |
2023/03/11 | 2,282 | 9,880 | <issue_start>username_0: This is cross-disciplinary conceptual research on existing engineering solutions that could be employed for the new industry, 10-15 years from now. These ideas about future tasks are discussed in popular science but lack fundamental academic research yet. This is the third journal that accepted... |
2023/03/11 | 2,476 | 10,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I call myself an "independent researcher", however, I have no relevant academic degree in the field in which I do research (physics, especially relativity, and electromagnetism). I just have some articles published in peer-reviewed journals and some self-published scholarly books. I do have a B... |
2023/03/11 | 316 | 1,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm dealing with Springer about a monograph proposal. My draft was 80,000 words and they asked me to make it 85–100,000 words. I don't want to bother the editor with a question that is just out of curiosity. But, why do they need to expand it? What difference are 5,000 words going to make?<issu... |
2023/03/12 | 4,683 | 19,670 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that at a British university, there is a chemistry exam. The exam describes a person performing a chemistry experiment. This person leaves the experiment sitting there for a fortnight. After a fortnight, the person comes back to see the results.
The question asks the students to desc... |
2023/03/12 | 5,057 | 21,251 | <issue_start>username_0: Back in my original cycle, I applied right out of undergrad for a couple of programs that I initially thought could fit my interests well. All of them ended up falling into two fields, Engineering or Earth/Climate Science, and I got into some good programs for earth science (e.g. Stanford and B... |
2023/03/12 | 743 | 3,481 | <issue_start>username_0: In my final year research project, my supervisor sent me a random research paper of 20 pages and told me to translate it to my native language, using all of the commonly known translation techniques. That was in the field of colonialism and its aftermath of natives. My question is: Does such a ... |
2023/03/13 | 1,067 | 4,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a mathematical paper where I (re-)state a well-known theorem, followed by several corollaries. One of these corollaries is my main result and, naturally, it is somewhat lost in the text, while I would like it to stand out to the readers without them reading through all the running ... |
2023/03/14 | 405 | 1,577 | <issue_start>username_0: If you worked as a postdoc, on a grant for example as many do. A situation where it's basically felt to be a glorified continuation of your PhD, with the same routine of checking in and giving progress updates to your PI (who has just replaced your or literally is your old supervisor), are you ... |
2023/03/14 | 981 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I enrolled in a master's program in mathematics a while back and finished my coursework and comprehensive exams with good marks. I had difficulty finishing my thesis since I had no motivation doing it as it was in a field that I am not interested in. I had a full-time job while my thesis was st... |
2023/03/14 | 318 | 1,244 | <issue_start>username_0: How would you call an award given by students to their favourite professor/instructor by voting? *"Favourite professor award"*? Any other suggestions?
This is not about how a new award should be named, but about how to properly identify this type of award in, say, one's CV.
The students gave ... |
2023/03/14 | 410 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: It's a finance paper. Is there any problem with adding somebody with a Master in English as a coauthor, since he could help me correct the grammatical mistakes and make the paper more readable?<issue_comment>username_1: Helping you polish a paper is not earning co-authorship, unless they have s... |
2023/03/14 | 1,214 | 4,759 | <issue_start>username_0: My field is mathematics. I am editing a preprint for submission to a journal and one requirement is an abstract length of 150-250 words. I find it quite surprising that there is a minimum length for the abstract. My abstract has 60 words and three statements: The result, the method, and the hal... |
2023/03/14 | 758 | 3,029 | <issue_start>username_0: In my pure math thesis I have an important lemma and I want to name it. The statement is quite technical so I will omit quite a lot of details.
I want to call this lemma “the adding lemma”. My supervisor thinks it should be “the addition lemma”.
I feel like it should be “adding” because there... |
2023/03/15 | 782 | 2,986 | <issue_start>username_0: As in the title. The relationship between two countries seems to go towards a colder climate and actual war scenarios are discussed (slightly) more openly.
What are possible implications for academia in the long-term? This includes:
* Chinese student admission to the US (and their tuition fee... |
2023/03/15 | 1,004 | 4,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a university professor in Europe and was recently invited by my alma mater in the Middle East to give a talk on a topic of my choosing. Excited to accept the invitation, I traveled to the university to deliver my lecture. Upon arrival, I discovered that my talk had been scheduled in a smal... |
2023/03/15 | 1,173 | 5,339 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for some advice on how to take notes effectively when the professor reads off their lecture notes or presents slides with marginal explanations. My preferred format is to have textual notes that I took myself, as I find that writing things down helps me remember and understand the ... |
2023/03/15 | 881 | 3,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to describe my situation first. I was employed in a German institute as a PhD researcher with a contract. I had to go through a six-month probation period. However, since the first day in this group, I’ve been experiencing overwhelming pressure and anxiety from high load of work without ... |
2023/03/15 | 2,717 | 10,967 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor said to me that a supervisor isn't expected to help a student with such problems as errors in statistical packages (R, etc). I suppose it refers to all sort of data managing questions. I asked him, what if I am stuck, what should I do? Go to a stats teacher or do it on my own and ... |
2023/03/15 | 532 | 2,466 | <issue_start>username_0: For context I am an electrical engineer and this is a paper for an electrical engineering conference.
I am currently writing my first research paper, and there have been many papers published in the area but I would say that with the exception of one, none of them had any direct influence on t... |
2023/03/15 | 387 | 1,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I read this: "All types of literature reviews including systematic reviews, integrated reviews, bibliometric reviews, content analyses, hybrid reviews, etc., as long as they are not descriptive, are encouraged". I only knew about descriptive reviews.<issue_comment>username_1: #### First figure ... |
2023/03/15 | 724 | 2,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I contacted a professor and asked him for a PhD supervision, his reply was:
>
> Dear XXX,
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> I will retire in 2 years.
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
How could I reply to this email? Is it ok to have this professor as my PhD supervisor and to find another professor who will be my second su... |
2023/03/16 | 344 | 1,545 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted an article to one of the JAMA network specialty journals. I asked for my article to be referred to a second specialty journal if not deemed acceptable for publication by the first. However, the editor of the first journal did not send it out for peer review and thus it was not refer... |
2023/03/16 | 943 | 3,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently become editor-in-chief of an open access journal (Statistica) that works on a platform provided by OJS. In the web editorial system, the word "decline" is used for what I'd normally call "reject", i.e., we "decline" a submitted paper. I don't think I have seen this elsewhere, as... |
2023/03/16 | 1,376 | 6,014 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's assume your article has been published and is now available. What do you do you next? Notice it and move on? Celebrate with your team? Read it again ? Print it?
I notice that my own behaviour towards my own work has changed quite a lot recently. In the very first years, I would print eve... |
2023/03/17 | 1,078 | 5,101 | <issue_start>username_0: During my research, it appears that I have managed to stumble upon a new kind of solution for a problem that our lab has previously worked on. My classmate in the lab worked on that problem prior to me and developed and implemented a solution to that problem.
To clarify, I was not deliberately... |
2023/03/17 | 1,821 | 7,405 | <issue_start>username_0: The question [Choice of personal pronoun in single-author papers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/2945/77701) has a good discussion of the motivation for using first-person plural pronouns ("we") instead of first-person singular (“I”), especially in math-type papers.
But here are three ed... |
2023/03/17 | 543 | 2,287 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a similar situation as in this [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/82646/easy-proof-of-a-big-conjecture-based-on-possibly-faulty-paper-what-to-do). I can prove a big conjecture by combining results from literature.
However, the difference is I want to maximize my cre... |
2023/03/17 | 903 | 3,892 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a relatively newly-minted PhD (in math, algebraic geometry specifically, if that matters) approaching the end of their first year in a TT position at a smaller teaching-focused state school.
Like many people that I know, my thesis question was suggested to me by my advisor. As a result I d... |
2023/03/17 | 711 | 2,847 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a lot of single author contributions/articles (e.g. 30% of my total papers). This is uncommon in my field, medicine. The reason is that I regularly write commentaries/letters for 2 specific journals. Yet, I also have some original articles (secondary data analyses) I did on my own.
My s... |
2023/03/18 | 1,608 | 6,461 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the UK and I am looking to contact a supervisor about starting a PhD.
First, I know the area that I want to focus on but I don't have a defined research project just yet. I'd like to define the proposal once I know who my supervisor will be and I would look for his input into the propo... |
2023/03/18 | 1,111 | 4,684 | <issue_start>username_0: Two days ago, I accepted a desired faculty job offer and cancelled an on-campus interview at another university that was scheduled for three days later. I wanted to be honest and not waste their time. However, the university has asked me to pay for the flight ticket they purchased for me due to... |
2023/03/18 | 1,048 | 4,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two scholarly books self-published in the field of physics. However, some parts of my books have previously been published in peer-reviewed journals and the editors of my books have academic positions.
If I can succeed in republishing more parts of my self-published books in peer-review... |
2023/03/19 | 699 | 2,877 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that in US PhD programs, students are often labelled as a "PhD Student" until they pass their qualification exams and begin working on their dissertations, at which point they can be called "PhD Candidate".
What is the convention for Oxford DPhils and other European PhDs, given th... |
2023/03/19 | 1,767 | 6,815 | <issue_start>username_0: First of all, I know that academic writing is ordinarily not a place to jam-pack in large quantities of literary, theatrical, film, or other pop-culture allusions, references, or parodies, but sometimes one or two references, tastefully done, can add some levity to content that might otherwise ... |
2023/03/19 | 422 | 1,751 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to understand if a 6-year long position of "researcher for habilitation" (called "Habilitationsstelle"), and that is offered in German universities, would be a junior position (just after the PhD) or with some level of seniority (maybe after 4-6 years of postdocs).
Other way around... |
2023/03/19 | 545 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working on a project related to the biological domain at a German institution. I have created ontology and knowledge graphs using public data from [DSMZ](https://www.dsmz.de/). After working on the project for two years, I was fired due to slow working speed (the original reason was diffe... |
2023/03/20 | 6,196 | 24,266 | <issue_start>username_0: Every so often a journal I edit receives papers with some kind of claim that, if true, would break mainstream physics. For example, a paper could claim that waves in dark matter can travel at v ~ 1014 m/s.
Because relativity has met every experimental test we've thrown at it, and because relat... |
2023/03/20 | 805 | 3,551 | <issue_start>username_0: The grade I received for Fall 2022 semester was not the grade I feel like I deserved so I emailed my professor as soon as I saw it. The professor did not respond to my email or any follow-up emails until the start of the next semester. A week after the new semester he agreed that we’d meet to d... |
2023/03/20 | 406 | 1,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted an abstract to a journal that is on the predatory list of publishers. It has been accepted within hours, but I only now learned that publishing there involves fees and that the journal is on the predatory list. What can I do to protect my chapter? I have not sent the full manuscript... |
2023/03/20 | 1,346 | 5,589 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to give my first conference presentation, in historical linguistics. (In case it matters: I'm an undergraduate presenting at an undergraduate conference in the UK). My presentation and results are the result of corpus analysis using Python and pandas. I want to share my code (in a pub... |
2023/03/20 | 1,720 | 7,664 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished my master's thesis and my supervisor agrees that my work could be suitable for a publication. He suggested to:
* write the article independently, and as the only author
* have him correct and review my article, he will be a co-author in this case
What are pros and cons of each... |
2023/03/21 | 1,168 | 5,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year PhD student in machine learning at a reputable university in the UK. Over the past six months, my work has consisted of reading papers that I find interesting, studying textbooks, and experimenting with code. Although this may seem like a typical first-year experience, I have ... |
2023/03/21 | 646 | 2,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been a retired Emeritus Professor for 10 years. Thus I have no university email address anymore; I only have my personal email address. Google Scholar has pages and pages of my articles listed, and I am trying to verify my personal email address (the only one I use now) on my profile pag... |
2023/03/22 | 2,118 | 9,372 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not fully understand which interest a supervisor has in their student's work. Is the Ph.D. student somebody who the supervisor should teach, a colleague, an employee, or an independent researcher who is given advice when and how they feel like?<issue_comment>username_1: That depends on the... |
2023/03/22 | 2,178 | 9,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering how can I download the videos in the supplementary information section on nature.com ([here](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93915-0#Sec9)).
My professor adds them in the slides so I know that is possible to do it, but it's a bit tricky.
I tried from the developer tool... |
2023/03/22 | 2,617 | 10,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my master thesis two years ago and I got a passing grade. Now I got a call from the university stating that my supervisor has found plagiarism in some pages of the thesis. They told me that they will send me a letter and I have to give my statement, and then the case will be submitt... |
2023/03/22 | 3,398 | 14,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently obtained my PhD in physics from one of the Max Planck Institutes in Germany. Unfortunately, I only barely passed with a "rite" grade (the lowest passing grade here in Germany). This is despite my supervisor (and head examiner) going through my thesis with me during the writing proces... |
2023/03/23 | 1,008 | 4,289 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who has been conducting research with a professor for the past year. Unfortunately, I have been feeling defeated lately because the professor I am working with is extremely callous and patronizing. Every time I interact with them, I walk away feeling like the dumbe... |
2023/03/23 | 1,169 | 4,774 | <issue_start>username_0: Here I'm not referring to research topics on that specific country (e.g. a study on high school in New Zealand would be very likely conducted by New Zealand researchers, for obvious reasons). An example of the kind of topic I'm thinking of is gravastars in modified gravity. ([Gravastars](https:... |