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<p>Many university mental health centers have PhD-only group therapy programs. These often focus on stress and anxiety. They will be proctored by a professional counselor but are designed to be a space where graduate students can help each other. </p>
<p>The benefit is two-fold - you get to talk to people who are in g... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/485 |
<p>There aren't many popular ones specific to students. Many universities use <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/">BlackBoard</a>, but despite having been in many classes where it was used, I've never seen students use it to collaborate. Students use the same tools everyone else uses... Skype, Github, Dropbox, Google D... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/488 |
<p>I see humorous titles in scientific articles now and again, like the "Wizard of Odds" joke in a recent commentary in <em>Epidemiology</em>. One should however be somewhat cautious. The general use of "marketing gimmicks" like <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z" rel="nofollow noref... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/492 |
<p>I think everything you're asking about is within the scope of the reviewer's role. Generally speaking, I divide my review up into three sections:</p>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: A summary and free-form critique. Here I communicate what I think the "gist" of the paper is about, its strengths, and offer some weaknes... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/498 |
<p>I can answer this from the perspective of someone who did it poorly in retrospect, but from a different field (engineering). You will want to make sure that any papers you begin with are:</p>
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<li><p><strong>Accepted findings in the field</strong>. I made the mistake of basing much of my thesis work on a paper ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/503 |
<p>Allowed - yes. Have any reasonable chance to compete - no.</p>
<p>(But to learn university-level things, given the determination - yes.)</p>
<p>There are two separate issues:</p>
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<li>you won't learn stuff abut the current research lines and you won't be able to attract others to your results,</li>
<li>in aca... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/508 |
<p>I think people stress too much about the "what if people can't find my papers?" problem. That's what CVs are for. Don't overestimate how often people will actually try to find all of your papers outside of hiring situations. It won't be often. By the time you are established enough to accumulate a significant number... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/512 |
<p>This is a difficult situation. If you believe that you will be placed in situations where a someone in question will need to know that you have Asperger's, lest he or she misread your actions in that situation, then you should inform him or her before it becomes a problem. As you said, informing them afterwards can ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/517 |
<p>It depends on what the error is.</p>
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<li><p>If the error is the publisher's fault—for instance, if they failed to make a correction you specified in the proofs—then they have an obligation to correct the error. In that case, an email to the editors alerting them of the problem, along with some documentation of... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/520 |
<p>Of course, it depends on how much teaching you would be doing, and how many hours a week it would take you, but generally, I would consider the following pros/cons points: </p>
<p><strong>Pros:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Teaching might allow you to meet other people than those you are doing research with, and interacti... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/530 |
<p>As Nunoxic noted, doing research as a part of your job is possible. Also, doing research at a graduate program that isn't at a top school is possible. But doing research on your own, and hoping to bring innovations to a field... is highly unlikely to work, in my opinion.</p>
<p>My opinion is based on experience wit... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/531 |
<p>The answer is strongly conditional on discipline and, to a lesser extent, country of origin. Conventions vary widely, as does the degree to which they are institutionalized. For instance, in some fields (e.g., Philosophy), co-authorship is not common and there is no convention about attribution, so absent an explici... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/535 |
<p>In my experience, the contents of the comments of other referee reports are only made <em>indirectly</em> available. Since the authors are normally expected to provide a response to the reviews, the relevant criticisms and comments of the other referees are typically mentioned or discussed in that document. Outside ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/545 |
<p>It happens, but rarely through co-advising. In my experience, co-advisors usually know each other before the student enters the picture, and the student has little effect on how much the faculty collaborate.</p>
<p>More often, students create new connections by becoming active independent researchers and working w... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/548 |
<p>I would advise against the use of "for dummies" books, firstly because they are not of academic quality, second they are too big.</p>
<p>There are 2 strategies that I myself use for rapid acquisition of quality knowledge:</p>
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<li><p>a) Start with Wikipedia, identify the basic strands, but most importantly the... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/549 |
<p>If it's a well-known journal like Nature, then I would follow their convention. Everybody who reads the article will assume that you do.</p>
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<p>I think the variations here are national rather than by discipline. </p>
<p>In the U.S., the thesis committee's primary role is that of a review panel when all is going well, and as a neutral arbiter between student and advisor when it isn't. Again, there is no formal obligation on the part of the committee—except ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/566 |
<p>I'm not sure what the exact percentiles are, but I'd estimate that most faculty members who handle their own emails (more on this below) probably spend on the order of an hour a day or more dealing with emails.</p>
<p>I think that emails don't necessarily increase when one is teaching as opposed to other times of t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/567 |
<p>No, both rankings are basically <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Too-Big-to-Fail/127212/">nonsense</a>. Even if you agree with the NRC's choice of a single "quality" model across all intellectual disciplines, the rankings are based on horrendously incomplete and incorrect data. This is especially true in <a h... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/570 |
<p>The biggest causes of conflict, beyond personality-related issues, I believe stems from a point made in the linked article—lack of communication.</p>
<p>When advisors and advisees are not on the same wavelength, either because goals have not been clearly communicated, or because the frequency or quality of contact ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/572 |
<p>It's an old adage that "You don't truly understand something unless you can explain it completely to someone else". Writing notes effectively forces you to explain the topic to yourself. Oftentimes, when writing over notes from a class or from what you've read, the simple process of re-explaining it to yourself will... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/574 |
<p><strong>Publish.</strong> I have seen the following pattern more than once. (1) Applicant X applies to my department's PhD program and is rejected, not for any major flaws, but just for not standing out from the crowd. (2) X joins a MS program at a different university. (3) As a master's student, X publishes one... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/582 |
<p>In my experience (as a visiting guest lecturer while a grad student elsewhere) the travel expense and accommodation were covered not by the university that hosted me, but by grant money from the professor that invited me. That being said, these visits were for a few days and included both the guest lecture, and some... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/588 |
<p>The only <em>necessary</em> component is the line "I was wondering about the status of my application". </p>
<p>Asking whether you can provide additional information is unlikely to help, as the question is too open-ended. It would be an excellent question to ask at the end of the interview phone call, as well as in... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/589 |
<p>As you suggest in your question, this likely will vary from both field to field, and from lab to lab. In the two research labs I've worked in, one engineering and one neuroscience, undergraduates did a tremendous amount of useful work. In engineering, they would help with circuit design and fabrication, as well as d... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/592 |
<p>I think a script is actually more harmful than good. It tends to produce very rigid talks, and it often forces you to concentrate on the <em>script</em> instead of the <em>content</em> and <em>audience</em>. Usually, you know what you are talking about well enough to not need a script, and just pointers. Below are t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/597 |
<p>A few points:</p>
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<li>What subject are you looking at? The answer varies significantly if you are not looking at science/math/engineering.</li>
<li>Define 'graduate level' because the Khan Academy (Not Kahn) is far from graduate level.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.infocobuild.com/education/education.html">This... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/603 |
<p>It's rare. I know of one conference though (in theoretical computer science) where the steering committee actively maintains a list of "qualified but has never served", and strongly encourages PC chairs to look over that list when selecting names. Your best strategy might be to approach the steering committee and su... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/611 |
<p>The short answer, at least in theoretical computer science, is <strong>yes</strong>. Especially pre-tenure.</p>
<p>The Coin of the Realm in academia is fame. Hiring and promotion decisions are based primarily on the perceptions of your impact by leaders in the research community. Those intellectual leaders must k... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/616 |
<p>The 2008 study entitled <a href="http://www.publishingresearch.net/PeerReview.htm">Peer Review in Scholarly Journals - Perspective of the Scholarly Community: An International Study</a> aimed "to measure the attitudes and behaviour of the academic community with regard to peer review." Some quotes from the <a href... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/625 |
<p>I have never (as far as I can remember) read a technical book cover to cover from start to end. Most of the time, I have a problem in mind that I want to solve, and I'm looking for tools to solve it; more often than not, if I'm trying to learn out of a book, I'm actually reading three or four books at once. I dive... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/631 |
<p>I've personally seen a few careers survive this exact problem (caveat: I don't necessarily see the ones that don't), but it isn't easy. </p>
<p>The best way to surmount this problem is to be referred into a job in an industry/government/NGO lab - and have someone within the organization pulling for you. If you're d... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/635 |
<p>Allow me to strongly disagree with eykanal's answer. <strong>There is no universal standard.</strong> You must ask your advisor in advance what her coauthorship policy is.</p>
<p>In theoretical computer science (and mathematics), it is generally considered <em>unethical</em> to list someone as a co-author who has... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/644 |
<p>The standard rule in my community is that once I finish reviewing a paper, I'm supposed to pretend that I don't know the paper exists. In particular, I am not supposed to use any insights I gained by reading that paper in my own research. I am not supposed to reveal the results to my colleagues. <a href="http://s... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/647 |
<p>There are a few clear reasons to decline a review request, although in complete honesty, I've never actually declined to review a paper yet, so these are all at least "in theory" for me. Some of them are one's you've mentioned, but there are some others:</p>
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<li>Conflict of interest. This one's pretty clear, t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/657 |
<p>As eykanal said, journals usually provide their own formatting, and personally, I use latex/bibtex, so I tend to assume this kind of problems will be solved automatically.</p>
<p>That being said, in the case you describe, I would expect the ordering to be (first name, year), and in the case where there are multiple ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/661 |
<p>Disclaimer 1: I know the two worlds : academia and the outside world ;) I worked in public and private universities, and in a consulting firm.</p>
<p>Disclaimer 2: I can only speak about life for people involved in theoretical areas, I know that science involving living things / big experiments has <strong>real</st... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/664 |
<p>At many (most? all?) universities, a committee is <strong>required</strong> to have at least one professor from outside the department (other than the chair, if the chair holds a joint position). </p>
<p>Other requirements are to have at least one professor at rank higher or equal to the rank of the chair (the advi... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/668 |
<p>My answer may not be completely relevant but I still thought it was worth putting in. I have had a few such sessions and I realized a few things. Not all of them could be true in general and I might have been a bit extreme with what I treat as knowledge. Here goes:</p>
<p>Your level of understanding is directly pro... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/670 |
<p>I believe that most of the students are event-driven. That is, if they have an important deadline, meeting, exam, TA section (agghh...), then they spend more time to prepare and be ready for that event. Whereas <strong>after</strong> an important deadline, (or finals week, etc.) they allow themselves to be more rela... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/679 |
<p>Note that those statistics are often averaged over all possible disciplines, and therefore, since there is such a wide disparity of stipend levels between different schools, and between different disciplines at the same school. </p>
<p>At the institution I attended for graduate school, engineers had stipends approx... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/684 |
<p>As a researcher in computer security myself, I guess I can try to provide bits of answers to your question. </p>
<p>First of all, I would tend to disagree with your assumption that computer security won't "prove beneficial for mankind in general/long-term". Clearly, you might not find the cure for cancer by working... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/694 |
<p>These funding mechanisms are in their very infancy, so I don't know if there will <em>any</em> "tried and true" techniques for a few months, assuming the funding model proves to work at all. That being said, it will be very similar to that on Kickstarter:</p>
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<li>Advertise in numerous channels. People can only... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/697 |
<p>Creating a conference is a very worthwhile activity—however, even organizing a two-day workshop can be a logistical nightmare that requires a dedicated support staff to pull off efficiently. If you don't have it, you can still get it done, but it still requires a lot of planning and a lot of effort.</p>
<p>I was in... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/705 |
<p>Honestly, my instinct is "no".</p>
<p>Both startups and PhD advance in the same way - the massive influx of effort. And that effort is often unpredictable. Both settings have "crunch time" wherein for the next few weeks, you might as well have dropped off the face of the Earth.</p>
<p>Balancing that is, imo, a ver... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/708 |
<p>I'd argue that you shouldn't worry too much about preventing plagiarism of your papers. At least in the areas I'm familiar with (math and theoretical CS), it's extremely unlikely to do you much harm.</p>
<p>To be clear, I'm talking about wholesale plagiarism of written text. There can be much trickier situations ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/712 |
<p>At least three faculty in my department (including our current head) have PhDs in electrical engineering, at least one has a PhD in mathematics, and at least one has a PhD in operations research. If a faculty candidate is actively publishing good research in computer science conferences and journals, which departme... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/717 |
<p>I can address questions 1 and 2 (although for 3, all I know is that my friends say it is very different).</p>
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<li><p>When you are negotiating over salary, your leverage is determined by the best alternative you have. To keep from losing you to another employer, your job must offer a better combination of pay ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/718 |
<p>You could consider hosting it via one of the reference / citation managers, such as <a href="http://CiteULike.org/">CiteULike</a> or <a href="http://www.Mendeley.com/">Mendeley</a>, which can take imports of Bibtex files. Your own university may (should!) have such a <a href="https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/publicat... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/719 |
<p>The best way is to be highly active in your field. (Note: this will take work.) Here are my suggestions for accomplishing this, and I hope others will post more in the comments or other answers:</p>
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<li><p><strong>Do awesome work.</strong> It all starts here. As a PhD student, this typically requires being in ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/726 |
<p>I was in similar situation than yours during my PhD: my proofs were correct, but tedious to read, and every time one my co-author rewrote them, they looked so much clearer! I wouldn't say that now my proofs are perfect, but they have definitely improved. I would associate this improvement with the following factors:... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/731 |
<p>"Why don't people publish failures?"</p>
<p>Actually, they do.</p>
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<li><a href="http://jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr">Journal of Negative Results</a> (ecology and evolutionary biology)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jnrbm.com/">Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pnrjournal.c... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/732 |
<p>As a general rule, my PhD students need to do two things to get a PhD:</p>
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<li><p>Publish 3-4 papers on a coherent topic, mostly in top-tier theoretical computer science conferences, including at least one paper without me as a co-author (and preferably at least one paper that was previously rejected).</p></li... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/735 |
<p>At least in the US, I can't think of very many fields where there are shortages of applicants for available faculty positions, especially in this day and age with the current economy.</p>
<p>Even when times were booming back in the mid-90's and in the 2000's, you'd still have dozens or even hundreds of applicants f... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/749 |
<p>As a current student, I find that the constant barrage of requests makes it very hard for me to keep up with the literature unless it is very pertinent to my staying afloat. Thus, reading should be tied to my staying afloat.</p>
<p>The most effective way seems to be a journal club with the advisor with the duty of ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/754 |
<p>This is a "Goldilocks" problem—you should try to schedule an internship late enough that you have enough experience to be of interest to a potential internship sponsor, but early enough so that it can have an effect on your long-term development (if you feel it was a sufficiently positive or negative experience to s... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/759 |
<p>What was written down on an application years ago will generally not come back to haunt a faculty candidate later. However, actions that might have been taken on a faculty visit—or in later interactions with faculty members at a department—could have repercussions.</p>
<p>If the reputation that someone builds is be... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/766 |
<p>I'm afraid I have contradictory advice.</p>
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<li>If you've been offered a funded place, there is no guarantee the funding will still be there in a year. What you know is that you are good enough to get into a grad school, but there is a luck component too. The school I went to told us that 1 in 10 applicants ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/768 |
<p>I had a similar situation. In this case, we did exactly what you did: we indicated that the participant (not a team leader, but a team member in this case) was a co-author, but that he was deceased. I think this is the only fair way to recognize substantial contributions. </p>
<p>Of course, the difficult comes if t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/776 |
<p>I know from all too personal experience that it the easiest thing in the world to say "I could totally ace these assignments if I tried, but I can't be bothered to try." Talk is cheap. You may be different, but when I said stuff like that I was completely deluding myself.</p>
<p>You may be being too hard on your pr... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/778 |
<p>As someone involved in graduate admissions decisions, I can say unequivocally that knowing a student has been denied admission at another program does not negatively influence my admissions decisions. I have all of the application materials from the student, and (assuming the applicant is strong) the decision is su... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/782 |
<p>This is quite common in American universities, and there are probably thousands of start-ups that have arisen out of university-based research. The question of financing such a venture is of course a challenging one to answer, but with the right contacts, is usually available. </p>
<p>I can think of at least four o... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/792 |
<p>I have seen reading seminars done like this: in the beginning of the semester, professor publishes a full list of papers + a little extra that (s)he wants to cover. Each student then picks a paper or two and the date when they will present it. Then the student reads the paper, prepares a presentation on it, and spea... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/797 |
<p>Collaboration is generally seen as a major strength in computer science and computational science, not a weakness. One of the biggest questions we ask about any faculty candidate in my department is "Who in the department/college will they work with?" We do occasionally hire faculty that work alone in their cave a... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/800 |
<p>Not necessarily. Copyright prohibits you from presenting the work as yours under any circumstances. In addition, it prohibits you from publishing or recopying large segments of the work, without securing the permission of the owner of the copyright.</p>
<p>However, the existence of copyright does <em>not</em> exclud... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/810 |
<p>Find the hallway where your department's faculty have their offices.</p>
<p>Knock on the first door.</p>
<p>When the professor answers, say "Hi, I'm [name]. I'm a master's student, and I'm interested in doing research. Do you have some time to talk?"</p>
<p>Repeat for the remaining doors.</p>
<p>(It also helps... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/812 |
<p>I'm honestly surprised at the question. "Primary" does not mean "only"!</p>
<p>If it's a good paper, then <em>of course</em> you should publish it. Aside from the obvious personal benefits of making you look more diverse, increasing your visibility in another field, and possibly creating opportunities for future ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/814 |
<p>For the value of the publication, it will matter more how it is published than whether it's a workshop or conference. If the proceedings are published by a well-known publisher (i.e. with ISBN/ISSN), a workshop paper might be as "valuable" as a conference paper. If on the other hand there are no formal proceedings o... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/821 |
<p><strong>Money</strong></p>
<p>First, there's very little way - I think - for a university to improve its standing across the board. Institutional reputation on the level of say, an Ivy League school, where everyone assumes each department must be excellent because they're at <em>Ivy</em> is a tall order, and one th... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/824 |
<p>To answer some of your questions:</p>
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<li><p>While there's no set guideline, education often comes first. You should include the university where you earned your BS/BA (list major, GPA, and any honors), masters university (field, GPA, and thesis title if applicable), and doctorate university (field, GPA, thesi... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/829 |
<p>Here's how it works at my university. There are several layers of votes; I've seen faculty turned down at almost every level. Once a negative vote is taken at any level, it is essentially impossible for the candidate to recover without an official appeal. (The appeals process is complicated.) On the other hand, ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/832 |
<p>My policy : the first time you contact the person, go with Mr. Doe (or Ms. Doe), but sign with your first name. The latter is a signal that you are OK with a "first name email relationship", from this point it will be so most of the time.</p>
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<p>This is an <em>excellent</em> question, for faculty as well as students!</p>
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<li><em>How important are these points in evaluating the teaching capabilities of a student?</em></li>
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<p>Obviously this varies significantly in different departments and institutions, but in my experience, the scores themselve... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/846 |
<p>Most universities are fine with having PhD students working as instructors/lecturer/teaching assistant at the same time, and it's actually quite common. I have personally been teaching at undergrads level while doing my PhD, and most of my friend who did a PhD were in the same situation. </p>
<p>However, it depends... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/849 |
<p>I accomplish this using the groups feature of <strong><a href="http://www.mendeley.com" rel="noreferrer">Mendeley</a></strong>. It works on all three major OS's, allows you to share bibliographies easily with both your group and external collaborators. It also allows something that I think is very important -- lot... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/854 |
<p>I've had great experience with Google Scholar Alerts. To use them, go to scholar.google.com and search for any term. In the results page, you will see a link to <code>Create Email Alert</code>. Click on that and create the alert to send you notifications. </p>
<p>One very good use of this is to follow specific pape... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/861 |
<p>It may not be necessary to wait until you've reached the end stages of your career to have time to explore your research. </p>
<p>If you are able to get fellowships to fund your graduate career—or to find a suitably understanding advisor—then it may be possible to "slow down" your graduate career. In such a case, y... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/863 |
<p>From what I could glean from this story, one thing is clear: you are confusing yourself a lot and your thinking is quite muddled possibly because of a few adverse experiences. Think on these lines:</p>
<ul>
<li>What is the 'new' area to which you want to move to? Do you <em>really</em> love the challenges it poses?... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/870 |
<p>It is very difficult to answer with very little information. Archaeology is a very vast transversal field. It can be decomposed by techniques, by periods or by the targeted cultures. So the first question you need to ask yourself is whether you want to be an archaeologist (expertise in techniques) or a specialist of... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/877 |
<p>Assuming the mentoring has a measurable successful outcome (student goes to grad school, student writes paper), the NSF would definitely look kindly on such mentoring. Whether the time spent doing this will (minute for minute) be a better value than writing an impactful paper - probably not. But that reasoning is of... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/879 |
<p>The reason for using "her" more frequently nowadays is to correct an ongoing imbalance: in general, for a long time, "his" has been used, even where a more neutral pronoun ("one") should have been used instead. </p>
<p>Grammatically, however, any of the recipes you suggest would be appropriate: it is only the matte... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/885 |
<p>I don't think there are any "official rules". (I can't even find a clause in my employment contract that officially requires me to list my university on my papers.)</p>
<p>But as long as you are a student, it's a good idea to list your university as an affiliation. Even if the university isn't paying you, you do ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/890 |
<p>As a graduate student I had to grade exams for the courses my supervisor taught. We had a very intricate system of establishing what would be a passing grade:</p>
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<li>Prepare a set of questions.</li>
<li>Let all the Teaching Assistants (TAs) solve the problems, keeping track of how long they took for each ques... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/892 |
<p>I don’t know your field, but in mine (theoretical computer science), you have to get used to long review processes. My personal rule is to contact the journal six months after submission. Given recent events, my new, additional rule is to also state upon submission that I can suggest referees if need be.</p>
<p>As E... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/900 |
<p>I would normally choose the two-year program, for exactly the reasons that you cite. One of the few reasons why I would consider the one-year program is if there is a particular individual you want to work with, or if it is your first-choice school for the PhD program <em>and</em> it offers a path of lower resistanc... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/901 |
<p>Anecdotal, but: I was 31 when I started my PhD, and it wasn't an obstacle at all. There were more than 80 applicants for two places. I have the impression that what matters a lot (at least in neuroscience, at least at my institute) is how much training the supervisor would have to invest in you. I've seen many times... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/902 |
<p>GRE/TOEFL scores are used in a number of different ways (some of which are alluded to above)</p>
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<li>GRE scores are sometimes used as a university-level filter (if your GRE score is < X, then you'll need a strong support letter from your department to get admitted)</li>
<li>TOEFL scores are used as a filter... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/906 |
<p>At my (large CS) department, the graduate admissions committee officially consists of:</p>
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<li><p>The director of the graduate program. This is a ~3-year rotating position among the senior faculty.</p></li>
<li><p>About a dozen faculty members, distributed roughly uniformly across topic areas and faculty rank... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/917 |
<p>Unless it is specifically requested, do not do it. Some school even urge you not to do it. It is highly probable, that they know your scale and understand what level means you are smart and hard working. Be sure to include thing like <em>cum laude</em>, merit scholarships, ranking within the cohort, ... These things... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/920 |
<p>Ultimately, the answer depends upon what admissions system a department uses.</p>
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<li><p>If you need to obtain admission to a group at the same time as (or instead of) the department as a whole, then it is of course absolutely critical that you make contacts ahead of time! In general, I'd even start contacting... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/924 |
<p>In my experience, citation counts are considerably less important than recommendation letters, but they still matter, especially for tenure. For fresh PhDs, high citation counts are definitely helpful, but they're not a hiring requirement for most fields in CS. But for tenure, it's <em>really</em> hard to build a ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/933 |
<p>From conversations with a mentor who was the editor-in-chief for a major journal, if you take the responsibility seriously, you need to have enough of an understanding of the papers assigned to you to figure out which referees will be suitable for a paper, while not taking so much time to read it that you can't proc... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/935 |
<p>You've mentioned that you intend to apply to grad school. It would be helpful to know where you are in the academic process: high school, started university, finished university?</p>
<p>Regarding asking for help, I see two distinct phases:</p>
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<li><p>If you have not yet started the project (and you are not cur... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/941 |
<p>The best way to take advantage of memberships in professional societies—beyond attending conferences—is helping to <em>organize</em> them. This will get you in touch with the other people in your field who are at an early-career phase. (Older faculty typically don't need to, or are higher up on the food chain.) Orga... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/943 |
<p>When you have a meeting with a "distant" potential colleague, you should let the interviewer determine the initial flow of the interview. The important thing is to not spend too much time trying to figure out if this is just for information, or if you're being "tested" in some way. (The answer is, yes, you're probab... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/946 |
<p>Normally, it's fine, as long as you submit a pre-print and not the camera ready of the conf proceedings. You can also check these questions: <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/7/102">Does publishing a paper on arXiv prevent me from submitting it to a non-open access journal?</a> and <a href="https://acade... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/948 |
<p>Even for conference papers you can still perform (relatively small) changes after the notification. When trying to rebuttal, it makes much sense to address the main issues raised by the reviewer (and not to pick on the minor changes they suggest). Some good practices include:</p>
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<li>Acknowledge good suggestio... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/955 |
<p>As aeismail says, what we are looking for is <strong>concrete evidence of research potential.</strong> So, in decreasing order of importance:</p>
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<li><p>Decent grades and (if required) test scores; otherwise, no one will read your application at all. Here, "decent grades" means three-point-something from a g... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/958 |
<p>As aeismail says, there's no single answer. As with most things in life, it's hard to know when you're "ready" to do something. The best way is to jump in when you <em>feel</em> like you don't need to prep any more, and then be prepared to shore up weaknesses as you spot them. </p>
<p>Over time, you'll learn how t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/966 |
<p>There are several major websites on which jobs in mathematics, including postdocs, tend to be posted. Most importantly (in the US) <a href="http://www.mathjobs.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mathjobs.org</a>, but also the <a href="http://www.ams.org/profession/employment-services/eims/eims-home" rel="nofollow noref... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/970 |
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