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75,547 | I'm looking for a reference manager with note-taking/quote-storing capabilities. I don't need a full knowledge management suite, but I want to find a program where I can store and search long notes/lots of quotes, attached to entries in my bibliography.
So far I've used:
* Bib(La)TeX + pen and paper
* Zotero
* Mendel... | [
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75,555 | I want to acknowledge a retired professor. How do I specify his name? With just Prof. or something particular? | [
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75,563 | Shall I use my university address to contact professors in other universities who are specialized in the field of my dissertation? | [
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75,573 | Arum and Roksa (p. 7) say:
>
> Research on course evaluations by Valen Muhtson has convincingly demonstrated that "higher grades do lead to better course evaluations" and "student course evaluations are not very good indicators of how much students have learned. "
>
>
>
I don't have access to Muhtson's book, but ... | [
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75,581 | I asked my ex-professor for a LOR almost a week ago and I have got no response yet. It is making me pretty nervous and I am not sure what I should do now. I was thinking about visiting him at the department and asking him in person, but I am afraid that his silence means "no" and it will be quite an awkward situation w... | [
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"text": "Receiving a null response doesn't necessarily mean no. There could be other reasons for the delay than to just s... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,588 | I have an article accepted in a journal, providing I make certain revisions. I have now made the revisions and sent them off, but am awaiting the journal's confirmation that the reviewers are satisfied. How do I reference my own paper in this limbo situation? 'Accepted'? 'In press' seems a bit ahead of myself. But 'In ... | [
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"text": "The most closest thing you could refer to would be to consider your article as *unpublished* or *submitted for p... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,592 | I want my PhD thesis findings to be presented as a scientific pager and get it published in a journal which uses "iThenticate" as plagiarism detection software. When I present my findings, it's unavoidable that I'll use many exact sentences and exact findings from thesis to the paper. So, as I have already published my... | [
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"text": "iThenticate might check your paper against your thesis. Many universities send theses to Proquest, whi... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,595 | Over the years, I have had experiences at some conferences where more senior faculty members have been—shall we say—less than appropriate to women in the field. The same can be said about colleagues being heterosexist and/or racist, but I digress. Sometimes, these are isolated incidents and I didn’t feel comfortable ha... | [
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75,608 | I wonder, which one of these structurings is to prefer for a thesis.
---
1. To write text between a topic and subtopic, e.g.
A. Main Topic
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse viverra lobortis semper. Donec ultrices ante eu ex interdum, eget eleifend tortor iaculis.
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"text": "Both of such instances are common in practice. It is only a matter of preference and context based necessity tha... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,613 | I am going to apply to several US universities(for 2017 session),mostly ranked within top 25 places,and I will apply for PhD positions in Pure Mathematics(Representation theory,to be precise).I took GRE with a week's preparation and scored 326(verbal 161,quant 165)-top 88 percentile,although I sucked at AWA-with a meag... | [
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"text": "Take a look at Grad Cafe. \n\n<http://thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php>\n\nSearch for the programs you will be app... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,618 | I am a postdoc in a US university (Rank A, edit: [R1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States)). I tried to get an academic faculty position in the US, but was unsuccessful. I got an offer (lecturer in the UK system) from the UK university (say, Rank B, edit: "[new university](h... | [
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"text": "One important issue is being able to get to an on-campus interview. Although prestigious research universitie... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,620 | Is there any established clause to make a note of the fact that a paper is not meant to be published yet because part of the research is still pending and thence the final conclusions may prove inconclusive.
A case being a solid piece of work within reasonable framework and submission bound to happen. However, it shou... | [
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"text": "You should only submit that which you would be willing to publish.\n\nIf you want to publish part of a piece of w... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,628 | I'm applying for a reserach internship at a company at which I just finished a software internship.
I also want to go to grad school to get a Master's degree in computational neuroscience.
Does anyone have experience with where the legal boundaries are for this? The company obviously has private intellectual property... | [
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"text": "You should take the internship - congrats on that. Yes, you may learn some stuff that is proprietary to the com... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,631 | I am currently in the process of finishing up my Master's thesis which requires me to disclose the exact word count.
My thesis contains a lot of mathematical symbols and equations and I am not sure whether those, together with table and figure captions, should be included in the final word count or not.
I know how m... | [
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"text": "To me, the key question is this: what is the purpose of the word count?\n\nIf the purpose is to fill in a blank th... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,632 | If I understand it right, Graduate school means MS, PhD, or both, but a
Doctoral program means just PhD. Is this correct? | [
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"text": "In general, a Doctoral program ends in a Ph.D (\"doctor of philosophy\"). If the program does not grant doctorat... | 2016/08/22 | [
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75,648 | If a professor is *very* famous for his research and belongs to the most prestigious academies of science for his lifetime work, I find it unusual that the math department would ask us to evaluate him. We did so anyway and submitted the evaluations to the director of academic affairs.
Is this typically done at most Am... | [
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"text": "Being a good teacher and being a good researcher are distinct skills. If someone has a job that requires... | 2016/08/23 | [
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75,658 | What is the correct term for a PhD student who does entirely research and is paid through third-party funds?
One can see that sometimes people doing a PhD call themselves a Research Associate or Research Assistant (in a very few cases also Research Fellow). I am looking for clarification regarding which term would be ... | [
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"text": "How about \"PhD student\"?\n\nSince you also asked about Germany: in German you can call yourself \"Doktora... | 2016/08/23 | [
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75,663 | I do not have any particular situation at hand but I am about to start in a new short-term (research assistant) position. The thing is, I will be working on a topic that is very controversial. There are papers (appearing in top journals) explaining how my supervisors and their colleagues got it all wrong. On the other ... | [
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"text": "You might want to have a look at the Toulmin Model of argumentation: <https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Toulmi... | 2016/08/23 | [
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75,680 | I'm thinking about leaving my current lab, since it's moving to a field that I'm not really interested in.
I am thinking of contacting other PIs that work on topics that are a closer match to my research interests, to see if they are interested in starting a project together.
I am concerned that if I talk to my curre... | [
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"text": "In my experience, people who have been in a field a long time *all know each other*, even if only peripherally. If ... | 2016/08/23 | [
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75,685 | I am looking for the percentage of total scholarly literature available in open access repositories by year of publication broken down by discipline.
I am aware of the following figure, however it is old. Are there any more recent statistics?
Nwin, Alma. [Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of open ac... | [
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"text": "Ask the research team at Open University. Contact [Petr Knoth](http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/petr/#projects). This is... | 2016/08/23 | [
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75,693 | I inquired a professor at a reputable university regarding the per-requisite for his research group and if a certain knowledge is required, with a CV of mine. He asked for my transcripts. I mailed him my transcripts but have not got any reply yet. It has been 4 days.
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"text": "Keep waiting. 4 days is not very long. If you have not heard anything in 3-4 weeks, send another email asking ... | 2016/08/23 | [
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75,699 | [In answer to a question about moving between employment in the UK and the US,](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/75640/58418) user StrongBad suggests that "the obsession with the UK REF will likely push your CV in directions that are not ideal for getting a job in the US."
This point struck me as interesting, as i... | [
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75,703 | I have the translation of a work in front of me and want to quote it. The translation reads:
>
> "This is the right decision, and yet it is the wrong [one]"
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The translator added the 'one' in brackets to make sure to indicate that he added this for comprehension etc. but that the original did not have this w... | [
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75,733 | I know that it depends on where I publish whether I am allowed to upload my paper to an online repository like [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/ "ResearchGate") (cf. [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/54397/when-can-cant-i-upload-full-text-to-researchgate "When can/can't I upload full-text t... | [
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75,737 | A professor asked from me to send one of his books I've had. Because I've had to leave for some days from the country I've arranged with a relative to send the book. However, he ignore it and now the professor sent me an email asking for what happened. In my reply should I mention that the fault is not mine? | [
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75,750 | I'm an undergraduate in CS and I had a class in Adv. Data Structures & Algorithms in the spring of this year. Near the beginning of it I was pressured by a fellow classmate to "google pseudocode examples" and use them to do my labs. I guess the point here was that it wasn't copy and paste (being pseudocode) and still h... | [
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75,765 | I will be teaching a course that has a significant programming component.
I would like to evaluate students' programming skills
using a computer-based quiz/exam,
because it seems to me that this is a better way
to evaluate students' programming skills than a paper-based quiz/exam,
given that in the real world,
people w... | [
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75,770 | During the U.S. admissions process to PhD programs in the STEM fields, are the admissions committees typically notified by university administrators, if one of the applicant's family is a generous donor to the school?
If the answer is yes, does this cause PhD admissions committees to consider that candidate more favo... | [
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75,783 | I'll be starting my 4-th year of post-secondary education, in a few weeks, and during my first 3 years, I've had problems with attentiveness. My latest problem was last year, where I don't think I've been able to follow a single lecture during more than 30 minutes out of the 2 to 4 hours (There is one break during the ... | [
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"text": "I think that a key question here is why and how you stop paying attention. If you can understand what's happening... | 2016/08/25 | [
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75,798 | About 3 months ago, my co-author and I submitted a mathematical paper to a journal. Yesterday, we got the editor's response and the paper has been rejected. The reason is that the referee thinks that our results are wrong or trivial.
However, we carefully read the referee's report and we conclude that the "errors" poi... | [
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75,802 | I sent a proposal for public sector transformation to the Ministry of Economy and received a reply from the Federal Minister, who highly appreciated my suggestions. I would like to know this: can I put "Email of Appreciation" by the Federal Minister of Economy in my CV? | [
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"text": "\"Thank you, I appreciate your suggestions\" can mean anything from a true and deep appreciation to \"I am polite... | 2016/08/25 | [
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75,808 | I am in math and I am fairly new in supervising PhD students, so I need some advice. I have a fairly good student who has made very good progress initially. But after a promising start, he's been stuck at the same problem for over one year, without making any progress. I have at a few occasions suggested that he should... | [
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75,815 | I am a graduate student in an interdisciplinary psychological field. With the help of a paper I have read today, I have realized that a result of mine is now invalid: I missed a covariate in my analysis and when I include it, my result is non-significant. Fortunately it was not that much about the main point of my conc... | [
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75,817 | I am going to finish my PhD in the Netherlands within one year. Ideally I would like to get a postdoc here. However, due to competition or other factors I might not find a postdoc position. Then, there are two options:
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75,826 | I recently attended a conference and met a professor who I would be interested in working with for my PhD. One of his students introduced us, and I mentioned some of my research interests, and he asked me about my GPA and GRE scores, and encouraged me to check the school website for application instructions and more in... | [
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75,827 | I recently completed a course project with some other students in my department. In this project, we discovered a few novel results that might be of interest to others in the field. I would like to revise and submit this project for publication (with the consent of my coauthors, of course).
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75,841 | A person claims to have earned a PhD from Harvard University, but is offering no credible proof. How can I verify their claim? | [
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75,850 | There is a hypothetical situation I've wondered about. When an undergraduate student receives an undesirable class grade, that grade is typically left on their transcript (with the exception of sparing "grade forgiveness" allowances) for the rest of their academic endeavors. Naturally, this allows the student's Grade P... | [
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75,858 | I've heard anecdotally that some mothers will list the dates of birth of their children on their CV, but I've never seen it done myself. The intended effect seems to provide a kind of excuse for lower output around those dates, I suppose. Is this common? Am I totally misinterpreting the motive? | [
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75,865 | Quick question for the collective.
1. Is it appropriate to list completion of online courses (eg. Coursera) on your academic CV? I'm in medicine, but want to articulate that I am expanding my skill set by completing work in data science and analytics.
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75,866 | I am looking at applying to a couple of schools abroad (for math grad school), and outside of the fact that they are fairly well known, I have little idea about how competitive they are to get into. Internet searches haven't really helped me out, so I am wondering if it is it acceptable to email a school about what the... | [
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75,876 | *This question is about my attempt to give the administrators at my institution some feedback on how to better help **them** assess faculty teaching effectiveness.*
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75,880 | I graduated with a Ph.D. in Physics (specialized in studying protein dynamics via laser light and coherent X-rays) from a U.S. university in May 2014. However, could not continue with research/post-doc due to a medical condition with my infant child. We had to move to a different state for his medical treatment. Over t... | [
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75,885 | My question is similar to this - [Rude to ask a book chapter](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/15413/is-it-rude-to-request-a-book-chapter-from-the-academic-who-wrote-it-if-you-dont?rq=1).
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75,891 | Technically, plurals shouldn't be indicated with apostrophes.
However, in maths and computer science textbooks, I've often seen people write things like "if we combine the x's and y's" or "string A is the same as string B xor'd with string C".
Is that right? Should I adopt this convention when writing an academic pap... | [
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75,906 | My school policy for PhDs does not require any publications, but it's good to publish anyway. Recently my advisor asked me to write a journal paper, but I have more experiments to focus on.
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75,908 | I'm not sure if this question would be more appropriate here or on SO. My hope is that someone has already had this need and found a solution.
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75,925 | In a modeling paper I am writing, I know that there are some limitations.
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75,931 | Are there books/writing on project management as applied to scientific research (for PhD students and higher)?
I am looking for something synonymous to Scott Berkun's "Making Things Happen", which was written for software developers.
Other interesting and useful practices I am familiar with include Agile and Extreme P... | [
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75,932 | Context: I am a PhD student in mathematics currently applying for tenure-track positions at small colleges throughout the US.
In general, most openings I've seen are asking for what they've termed a "Teaching Statement," while the remainder ask for a "Teaching Philosophy." Is there a difference between these two docum... | [
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75,947 | I'm a statistics student at the undergraduate level, writing an undergraduate thesis about genetics. I already have the objectives well defined and I will write the introduction lined with those objectives.
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75,949 | I am taking an Introduction to Differential Equations class. There is assigned homework. It is specified that we must turn it in on paper.
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75,950 | Prof. A and I were working on a proposal which we intended to submit to a current call. Upon learning from my ex-supervisor Prof. B that she was also preparing a similar proposal to submit to the same call, I told Prof. A about it, and he suggested that we submit to another call, whose deadline is about two months late... | [
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75,957 | Some universities do not publish the list of persons who obtained a degree from their institution. In order to verify whether an individual obtained a degree there, one needs to call them, for instance.
[Example](http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/frequently-asked-questions/faq-verify-degree):
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> Contact the Regi... | [
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75,991 | Is there any specific rule that requires someone supervising and awarding a Ph.D. to have a Ph.D. themselves? I learned recently in some parts of Asia it is possible to have a Masters degree and award a Ph.D. One point made was, in the example of Korea, there was no education system and as such it was required for this... | [
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76,003 | I'm working on my bachelor's thesis to get my bachelor's degree at a German university. I am not sure about the situation in other countries, but German universities are very sensitive when it comes to gender-neutral language. Some professors mark it as a mistake if you use gender-specific terms instead of gender-neutr... | [
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76,007 | How long before you need them should you ask for letters of recommendation for academic jobs? I've heard the etiquette is to ask 3-4 months in advance, but haven't found much corroboration for that. Honestly, that seems like quite a long time. Would asking as late as 6 weeks in advance come across as rude? | [
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76,021 | There is an intern sharing the office with me. Once day his PI came to talk to him. Since there were only 3 of us in the office, although I didn't pay attention, their conversation just automatically went into my mind.
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76,029 | I seem to have reached the phase of my career where I receive regular requests to **externally evaluate** faculty: this means that I am evaluating the research program of tenure-track faculty (so far always at US institutions, so let's concentrate on this case) and writing a letter to be used in some ways for the pre-t... | [
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76,036 | As an undergraduate, I did some group research a little over a year ago which is now being compiled into a paper. My advisor at the time is contacting us to request feedback and help writing it. I am especially important to the effort, because I am the only one who knows some of the results (and proofs) well enough to ... | [
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76,037 | What free programs/software are best for creating publication-quality scatterplots?
I'm looking for something like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x9wN0.png)
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76,045 | When referencing to another work in a scientific paper, do we cite the paper or its author(s)?
This question is intended to clarify the conjugation of the verb that follows the reference -- especially in these cases:
* One author, two papers:
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76,059 | As an academic, my papers (I assume) have been cited. But only once do I remember a publisher, on behalf of a writer, contacted me to ask if they could reused (or republish) a chart I had created in one of papers - for a textbook. I gave them my permission and that was the end of it.
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76,066 | Is it possible to submit two papers to the same conference which are citing each other?
Both papers were accepted and they are both very related, so I think to cite the papers in each other, when submitting the camera ready version. Is this allowed or is it not a good idea? | [
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76,077 | A journal with high impact accepted my paper after peer review. In the copy-editing phase I noticed some errors -- mostly mixed up references. Can the paper now be rejected due to these errors? What about if I want to update some references? | [
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76,098 | Several journals have short digest articles highlighting specific research publications. One of the best known examples are the Nature News and Views articles.
They describe these articles like this:
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76,101 | Is it frowned upon to add slight humor and sarcasm to academic presentations? For example, I flip to a background slide and say "This is a typical slide used by researchers in (field) just to show off how difficult their work is." before going through the content of the slide. Is there a difference in doing that in dif... | [
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76,111 | I am not sure about the incentive effects of websites such as ratemyprof.com, as Professors with tenure may or may not care about *undergrad* students. However, they may be more serious about graduate students (supervision, co-authorship etc).
**Does a ratemyadvisor type website exist?**
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76,112 | I will introduce a well-known speaker who will give a lecture in his work in neurobiology in front of a large student audience. What is a good introduction and followup?
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76,113 | I have finished my Phd in maths shortly. A few days ago, I have heard a revision decision from a very good journal where I submitted my paper. The comments from referees are generally fairly positive, and are not too difficult to address. However, I have found a mistake in a theorem proof, which the referees have not s... | [
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76,137 | Currently it is my job to schedule (Date+Time) my PhD defense which shall take place in approx. 2 months from now. Hence, I have to ask all committee members about their availability. How should I approach this task:
1. Using a tool like doodle. I worry that this is too "modern" for some committee members.
2. Proposin... | [
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76,154 | When I had joined the program last year, I was assigned an advisor who was the one I'd wanted to work with. However, due to things not working out (because she thinks I lack the background), I have had to start looking for a new one, and that's what I was working on all summer. I'm still in the process of finding someo... | [
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76,168 | My PhD supervisor claims being first author of all the work I do. I also write research proposals for his grants and the rest of our group, he just redirects their emails to me and pretends that he's writing it.
He refuses to start my PhD programme - no idea for a possible subject.
I'm depressed, because I do not get... | [
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76,173 | When I was a graduate student in the 1980s, I translated a treatise written by an important artist into English. A person who at the time was an assistant professor approached me about it. Flattered by the professor's interest, I gave him/her a copy. Soon thereafter, I asked for my translation back, but the professor a... | [
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76,180 | I have the idea to commission a local artist to make an artistic version of a couple of figures I often use for presentations, and that I would probably use for my thesis cover. The figures does not present any numbers, but rather conveys the general idea behind the work (subject area is theoretical chemistry). The art... | [
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76,190 | I reviewed an article for a journal, suggesting some revisions. The authors made revisions and now the journal has asked me to do a second round of reviewing. As well as the revised manuscript, the journal also sent me the report written about the original submission by the other referee of the paper.
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76,192 | So after all these crazy days of trying to finish my application and encouraging professors to finish the letters of recommendations (LORs) for me, there is the next thing - my professor sent the letter of recommendation (which he had to send just to the institution) also to me. I think he did it unknowingly, but now I... | [
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76,200 | As the title states, I don't have Computer Science background (B.A. in Business Administration and Master of Social Work) but would like to do PhD in Computational Social Science (Data analysis or Information sci).
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76,201 | I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science. I asked a supervisor for thesis and he must still send me the first materials for starting. The actual supervisor hasn't yet even told me exactly what I must do and is waiting for me to return from my Erasmus to start. In the meanwhile I discovered that another supervi... | [
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76,209 | In February-2016, I have undertaken my thesis. That was the topic proposed by my supervisor on my request. I started to work on the project and finding that I am actually short of various topics/knowledge(theoretical and practical). I still contacted the supervisor and he passed me in my lab and told me to continue the... | [
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76,221 | I emailed a professor about possible openings for graduate studies in a certain research group and he answered me like this:
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76,227 | I'm working in chemical engineering field and being mathematician and programmer I'm conducting simulations and mathematical modeling problem solving. Basically the battery processes simulations. There is a problem with my chemists colleagues who can't really help in theory regarding the processes inside of batteries t... | [
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76,228 | Data are available publicly on several websites e.g. icpsr, databank, UK Data Archive. I am seeking guidelines, references and examples about using these open data for research. In other words, I want to publish a paper based on analyzing some publicly available datasets. Do I need permission first or they are availabl... | [
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76,245 | For papers in disciplines where the authors are alphabetized, how does one decide which author of a paper to contact for more information? Suppose for the sake of argument that one doesn't know any of the authors even by reputation, so it's impossible to decide that way. | [
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76,248 | I am a [deferred action](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals) student, meaning that I apply for in-state resident tuition but I am not a US citizen (non-permanent resident).
I have a work card that allows me to work like any other citizen and pay taxes accordingly.
However, due to me b... | [
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76,267 | I work for an organization that has some research restrictions -- for instance, we do not allow non-employees to have direct data access for security purposes.
I recently invited an academic collaborator to work with me on a new (social science) project that may get launched. It would involve data collection from a no... | [
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76,286 | I have a professor in my university. He has married his PhD supervisor, and students are now making fun out of it as he didn't work on his PhD. Instead they were in relationship and this and that.
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76,303 | Our department is awesome. But every year, I think: "why aren't we getting more awesome applicants? They could be super happy here, and we could do a great job of jump-starting their careers."
Well, this year, I am on the PhD admissions committee.
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76,307 | I am an undergraduate student and while I was taking a class I happened to come up with some new concepts contrary to what my professor had told me regarding their possibility.
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76,317 | Are pure mathematicians, e.g., Algebraists, Number Theorists, Geometers, and Topologists, at good U.S. research universities expected to win research grants to fund their work, in order to gain tenure and be promoted?
I see a lot of questions here on Academia SE that talk about the need to win grant-funding, in order ... | [
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76,322 | For my graduate studies my supervisor was assigned to me without me having spoken to him first. Now I am wondering if I should introduce myself via e-Mail and then ask for an appointment, or keep it short and ask for an appointment specifically to introduce myself. I don't want to waste his time or appear rude. | [
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76,331 | I am in the process of preparing various applications for postdoctoral positions in the US, and I need advice on what is the appropriate way to include contact information on my cover letters and CVs.
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76,334 | Quick background: I'll be applying for PhD programs and most likely want to study theoretical condensed matter (though I'm open to other theoretical and mathematical fields). I find experimental physics alright, but it really doesn't excite me.
I've heard that I should apply as if I'm pursuing an experimental physics ... | [
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76,342 | In [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/76192/professor-wrote-me-a-letter-of-recommendation-but-sent-it-to-both-me-and-the-in), it seems that most people think it is acceptable for candidates to see their references. I find this very strange, as in the vast majority of case I have come across it... | [
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76,349 | I am very interested in a particular PhD program that I feel is in line with my professional background. Specifically, I am thinking of doing a PhD in Communication Rhetoric and Digital Media.
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76,354 | I recently graduated from a university in Germany, and I would like to apply for a phD in UK. However, my university provides initial funding for me if I choose to do my phD in the university.
I will apply for my dream schools in UK. However, there will be a one year gap and I have no idea how to use it to enhance my... | [
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76,369 | I am submitting a paper to a computer science conference, can I submit it without author list? The submission guideline says: "submissions are reviewed following a single blind review process, meaning, you do not need to hide authors’ names and affiliations"
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76,370 | As many of you probably know, almost all advice regarding doing better academic talks includes universal advice to *not* put too many words in any one slide, and to *not* read straight from slides (this is always thought to be a sign of a bad talk).
I used to agree with all of this because it sounds reasonable, and an... | [
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76,375 | I have communicated my article to one elsevier journal. After being with editor for more than one month, the current status is "submitted to journal". I am confused regarding this status? What does it signify, kindly answer me? | [
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76,392 | I am wondering, because she is the only one in the department who is specialised in the area I worked in. But then also she worked with me, so she will recognise the things I've written - apart from that there is probably noone else who tackled exactly my topic.
How is fairness ensured here? It does not seem possible ... | [
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