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78,042 | The question is regarding Computer Science field. I wish to know which countries have such teaching positions that do not require doing active research.
Also, what are these positions called?
And, is a PhD required for these positions or Master's is sufficient? | [
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78,044 | Recently, I got two times rejection for my paper from two different reputed journals of Mathematics fields. The first time, I received two review reports in which both reviewers gave detailed comments with decision of major revision. But the paper got rejected by the handling editor of the journal.
Before going for a... | [
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78,068 | To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how I'm still in grad school.
I've been researching under one professor's wing for two years now, ostensibly shooting for a PhD (note: no topic yet), and I have accomplished nothing except write a lot of code, fill a bunch of notebooks with theorems and scratchwork, and whine a lot.... | [
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"text": "As a fellow Ph.D student in a field close to yours, it seems to me you are underselling your skills too quickly; it... | 2016/10/10 | [
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78,070 | *This post is an attempt to reformulate [this misunderstood question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/78032/is-it-permitted-to-not-take-ph-d-students-who-have-girlfriends-are-married-don/78033?noredirect=1#comment191199_78033). I (and others) did add clarifying information, taken from the OP's comments, to... | [
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78,080 | As the question suggests, is it ethical for me to check if my supervisor is reading my whole report/paper? If yes, then can I add a line somewhere in the middle of the report to test whether or not he reads it? For example,
>
> Please highlight this line if you read it.
>
>
>
I know that this may irritate him, b... | [
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"text": "I would strongly recommend against putting a \"trick\" sentence into a report, because it looks immature and unprofe... | 2016/10/10 | [
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78,083 | Last summer I wasn't able to get much research done due to a complicated issue in my family which cost me a lot of time and emotional attention. Since it was not simply that I was sad and lazy for an entire summer, but that I was actively helping with an urgent issue in my family, I feel like it may help to briefly - i... | [
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"text": "I don't think it is relevant to your applications. It was a short period, and many students take advantage of t... | 2016/10/10 | [
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78,097 | My first source of information when preparing a manuscript are reviews. If up-to-date and comprehensive, I feel I can create most of my introduction by rephrasing and citing them. Nevertheless, reviews are based on citing other papers and, with the deluge of literature published these days, finding the source material ... | [
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"text": "It all boils down to practicality. How central is that fact to your paper, and how controversial may it be?\n\nIf ... | 2016/10/10 | [
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78,110 | It is customary (at least from where I'm from) to have undergraduate and masters thesis viva voce with project demos. So far, I have never been to a PhD thesis defence viva voce which had a demo in it.
How (un)common is it to have a demo at a doctoral thesis defence concerning the fields of engineering, technology an... | [
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"text": "I also have never seen a demonstration. However at PhD level there is a difference in that there will have been peer ... | 2016/10/10 | [
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78,155 | I am currently a PhD student in theoretical computer science applying for postdoc positions in Europe and the US that will start next year. Apart from my advisor's, I will also include a letter of recommendation (LOR) from a professor with whom I have published several articles. The problem is that while he is an accom... | [
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"text": "**USA Grad Schools Answer:**\n\nSpelling and grammatical errors are ignored - especially if we know the letter w... | 2016/10/11 | [
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78,159 | In the US, politics is probably the most talked-about subject at the moment, and I have strong opinions.
I would very much like to volunteer for a specific party, but I am concerned that I am in a position of power, and thus if I were to be out campaigning for a particular candidate, this could affect my students' fre... | [
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"text": "In the Texas A&M University system, employees are allowed to participate in political activities as a privat... | 2016/10/11 | [
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78,167 | I'm currently writing my Ph.D. dissertation, and I would like to use for my thesis exactly the same title as for one of my previous poster presentations.Is this OK? | [
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"text": "I did *exactly* the same thing and am regretting it slightly. No one seemed to care, but for some reason the pos... | 2016/10/11 | [
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78,195 | I have recently accepted a postdoctoral position at a reputed institute in the UK. I am an oversees applicant, who will soon be moving to the UK to take on this role. During the interview, I did not enquire about relocation expenses, assuming there would be support for that, but I have now been told that postdocs in th... | [
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"text": "You have been told (by HR I assume) that postdocs can not claim their relocation expenses from the Univ... | 2016/10/12 | [
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78,196 | I am a Masters student. I wrote my first paper and sent it to a conference in Spain. To my surprise, they accepted my paper. Now I am hesitating, because I am afraid that my first work is not good enough. It will affect my future plan to study for a PhD. Should I publish it, or just cancel the conference submission and... | [
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"text": "Personally, I don't think that it is considered \"bad\" to publish a conference paper. Even less so, if it is your fir... | 2016/10/12 | [
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78,203 | How often PIs have to deal with "bad hires" in their lab/group? I sometimes hear the PI/trainee relationship be compared to marriages, where half ends in a divorce. There are also posts like [these](http://thenewpi.blogspot.ca/2016/09/tales-of-postdocs-past-what-did-i-learn.html?m=1) that reinforce this. Is there actua... | [
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"text": "I've discussed this with a few line managers, I've hired a few people, and I've checked with headhunters. We all come t... | 2016/10/12 | [
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78,206 | Say a M. Tech thesis contains original experimental data, but some results were edited to show significant results, and is this is later found out. Can this editing result in a cancelling/revocation of the awarded degree, even if found after some years? Who can be held responsible for this fabrication (faculty, student... | [
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"text": "A prominent German example is former minister of defence zu Getukbirg. He lost his title *and* his job becaus... | 2016/10/12 | [
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78,212 | so i have this pool of potential supervisors who I am super interested in their research.
I have formulated the best introductory email - short, concise and relevant to their research- . No response! I sent back a follow-up email which had my old email in addition to my CV, still no response! I even called , but no on... | [
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"text": "I ignore such emails all the time. And I'd feel threatened/harassed if the email writer kept emailing me, contacted m... | 2016/10/12 | [
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78,228 | I am interested in posting my math Ph.D. thesis on the arXiv, but I also plan on writing a shorter paper based on some of the results in my thesis. I plan on posting this paper on the arXiv when I am finished.
Would this be appropriate? | [
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78,242 | I have a question about a paper of mine, which is highly likely to be published. Do you think I could put the following disclaimer: "This paper gives the views of the author, and not necessarily the position of the...(name of university)"?
If yes, where is the right place to put it?
Thank you in advance! | [
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78,246 | I graduated this past May from UC Berkeley with a degree in applied math. I realized that I am very interested in getting a PhD in computer science. However, my programming experience is mostly self taught and I have only one introductory class in Python on my resume as programming experience. Right now, I'm working at... | [
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"text": "Kind of not an academic answer but lots of computer science is self-taught these days. If I remember correctly from... | 2016/10/13 | [
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78,254 | I want to get in touch with some professors for PhD applications. Thus I will send them my CV and I am wondering if I should mention achievements and engagements which are in general strong, but not related to the domain of the PhD. (I want to do a CS related PhD)
E.g. organizing conferences, McKinsey distinguished, D... | [
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78,255 | This is my first semester as an assistant professor. I developed a project (with three publishable sub-topics) and got the IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval. I prepared a proposal to attend a conference, and submitted it to get my Departmental approval.
Then suddenly my Department Chair and a director "insist... | [
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78,260 | I had a student in my C++ class a few years back who did well on tests and assignments, but rarely showed up. This was the first student I dropped due to attendance.
I have the same student again this semester and we're roughly halfway through. I suspect he has been resubmitting his previous labs to get an easy A. Is... | [
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78,268 | I would like to know if it is possible to write and submit a comment/reply to an article that has been published earlier (by oneself). This is because there are new results that underline the findings and conclusions of the previous article that havent been published yet and are not enough material for a seperate publi... | [
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78,269 | I recently left a PhD program after finishing my first year. I think one of the biggest driving factors in my decision to leave was the uncomfortable department atmosphere. To add more context, I was the only American in my cohort and the vast majority of the other graduate students in the department (PhD + Masters) we... | [
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78,273 | I am 22 years old and I have recently began my first year of grad school. It is very overwhelming. Everyone seems to have more developed thoughts than I do, and all my classmates are 2nd or 3rd year PhD students who speak in metaphors. I have struggled with anxiety and depression for about 5 years now. I have had all k... | [
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78,275 | Recently I submitted a manuscript to an international journal. It was accepted with a minor revision, but I am worried about the reviewers’ comments. The first reviewer commented that the paper is well written but it still needs some English improvements. The second reviewer also commented that English improvements are... | [
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78,283 | I am surprised that some of the most historic universities in continental Europe are ranked above 100 on an average. I specifically have in mind University of Gottingen and University of Vienna. I am assuming that at the peak of their fame, they were rubbing shoulders with the best in the anglo-sphere. What caused the ... | [
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78,291 | I am a junior researcher.
Recently I was able to prove a result in Graph Theory. I wish to know whether this result is already known in the existing literature of Graph Theory. I am not an expert in searching articles. I used Google and browse through some of the articles in vain.
I shared my result with my advisor. H... | [
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78,303 | The project I work on has numerous members -- several graduate students, a couple of postdocs, and my advisor. We meet every other week to discuss progress and update one another on our status. Almost to a point these meetings run over, as we continuously find ourselves in tangential discussions.
One effect that I've ... | [
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78,322 | I am in my 3rd year of PhD. I am doing my PhD on Computational Biology, with a background of purely Computer Science. Since I am under pressure to publish 4 more journal papers, apart from my review, I am always in a hurry to do the same. What I have noticed for this field is that if I predict something, I need to prov... | [
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"text": "Always look at the literature, \n\nIf you are doing thermodynamics work, the biological validation will probably c... | 2016/10/15 | [
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78,323 | Is it **appropriate** (I type 'common' in the original post)for graduate students to draft the research proposal for their advisor’s funding application (like NIH’s or NSF’s grant application) ?
* in the field of Biomedical research.
* major grant proposal, like NIH's or NSF's)
* Is this behavior allowed? Although it ... | [
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78,324 | I'm an international applicant and I'm not very familiar with the routines of admissions in United States. I was wondering if I get admitted from a university and accepting their offer and while trying to get F-1 visa for it, I get another admission from another university, would I be eligible to accept the admission o... | [
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78,328 | Having recently received a PhD in Economics from a European university, I am entering the academic job market for economists this year. I am targeting research-intense, PhD-granting universities in the U.S. and Canada. I am thinking about Tier 4-5 institutions (certainly not Tier 1 or 2, I do not think I would have a c... | [
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78,329 | I want to cite `polyfit` function described in : <https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/polyfit.html>
How can I cite it? Specially in bibtex format?
I don't know if I should point to the URL or use MATLAB trademark and the software version... | [
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78,335 | How to politely describe a situation where you have no publication because both you and the advisor are inexperienced in a new research topic?
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78,344 | I'm currently writing my personal statement for a big ten university, I have read many guides on the subject and have written out most of my undergrad research experience, my academic interest, my involvement in student life, connections to faculty and involvement in sports.
On to the subject; while I was growing up my... | [
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78,350 | I am a undergraduate student working with an awesome lab director from whom I've learnt a LOT. He is a very knowledgeable and energetic person, and is generally available for help. The lab atmosphere is full of helpful grad and PhD students.
Even though I have been working for over three years with him, he is unwillin... | [
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78,356 | My [master's in mathematical finance](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42304/with-a-background-in-mathematical-finance-and-desire-to-apply-for-a-mathematics) doesn't have a "thesis" exactly, but it has a research project where we helped a bank develop a model to help with credit risk by identifying which va... | [
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78,359 | Is it right to use '**X is a new research topic of interest to our lab**' to say that the lab has not done research on X before?
I want to convey:
1.The lab only focused on research topic 'Y'(e.g. proteins) in the past. In the future, 'Y' will still be the focus, even though 'X' will be the secondary focus.
2.The la... | [
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78,366 | I just noticed there is an important typo mistake in my recently submitted conference paper. Actually it is like inserting a "-" where it shouldn't be and of course the whole algorithm might not converge if you use the above "-" in the formula! Well, if the reviewers try to dig out the mathematical details leading to t... | [
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78,379 | I submitted a paper for a conference. While the paper got submitted for publication in the proceedings, the feedback seemed quite negative. The main criticism was that the model I have designed uses too many simplifications.
I am giving a presentation at the conference in about a week and a half. Since I submitted the... | [
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78,386 | I ~~wasted~~ spent like a month or so trying to get two software libraries to work.
They partly worked, but at some point produced only unplausible results.
That might have very well been my fault.
The third one worked right out of the box and it's the one I should have chosen to begin with. The lack of problems with ... | [
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"text": "Report what *did* work. Forget the rest. Anyone looking to reproduce or expand on your results needs to know the... | 2016/10/16 | [
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78,387 | I've observed that many PIs are especially prone to having favorite students in their research group, and will treat these students differently than others. Most of the time, this isn't so obvious and doesn't cause problems. However, from time to time, this will be made extremely clear as the time spent on the "favorit... | [
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78,392 | As a graduate student I switch between many tasks during each week. My activities consist of attending classes, doing homework, grading, working on my research and studying for exams. However I notice that from time to time I tend to procrastinate **and this happens mostly** when I have to switch from one task to anoth... | [
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"text": "Suggestions (overlapping rather than mutually exclusive; different techniques may work to different extents for ... | 2016/10/17 | [
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78,399 | I am looking for a Precedent of a country that would have done a teaching reform: From many tutors with minimal (or low) salaries to a fewer teachers with bigger salaries and how did it work out...
I was a bit reluctant inquiring here, so have [asked this on meta](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3515... | [
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78,403 | I'm not so familiar about the regulations regarding arxiv and conference papers.
Recently i submitted a conference paper and it's under review, but i couldn't put all the supplementary materials (proofs and extra analysis, pseudo-code etc) in the submitted paper due to the limited space!
So legally can i put the comp... | [
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78,415 | I am PhD student in mathematics and am writing a joint paper with a computer science PhD student. As we will submit the paper to a computer science journal we discussed the author ordering and agreed to equal distributions for us PhD students and our respective supervisors.
The computer science student has now ordered... | [
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"text": "Go with your supervisor's advice, talk to the Computer Science student and ask him/her, in a very gentle manner, why t... | 2016/10/17 | [
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78,417 | As a follow-up to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/78359/is-it-right-to-use-x-is-a-new-research-topic-of-interest-to-our-lab-to-indicat) question:
Who does a lab *belong* to? Is the lab the *sole property* of the PI (lets assume a *simple/small* lab with a single PI bringing in all the intramural a... | [
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"text": "TLDR; every member of the lab can call it \"my lab\" or \"our lab\". It's all the same. \n\n---\n\nJust because o... | 2016/10/17 | [
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78,429 | I am a Ph.D. student who will be graduating sometime in May 2018. I am hoping to apply to the academic job market in Fall 2017. My goal is to obtain a tenure-track assistant professorship position at an R1 university in a field within computer science and/or statistics.
I recently looked at job descriptions, and found... | [
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78,433 | If one has already got a Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, can he/she apply to the Masters’ Program in Bioinformatics at another university in another country? | [
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78,446 | I have now submitted my thesis. My advisor didn't help me at all during this 3 and half years time. My thesis hasn't been read properly and I fear about the outcome. Unfortunately the culture of my school is not something where you can change things but nothing I can do except getting on with it.
I will feel burdened... | [
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78,451 | One of our posters has been accepted with "Strong merit" at ACM DEV 2016. We have finalized the draft and sent the camera ready version to the authority. But this year's venue is Nairobi and a 5 days trip to there will cost about a lot of money. And as a student if I cannot afford to attend the conference, what will th... | [
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78,456 | I'm responding to an anonymous referee who made comments and suggestions on an article I wrote.
Since I don't know the gender, I thought of two possibilities:
1. We agree with the referee on **its** comment...
2. We agree with the referee on **their** comment...
Is either of these the proper way to refer to the refe... | [
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"text": "The use of [singular they](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they), as in your second option,\n\n2. We agree with the... | 2016/10/18 | [
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78,464 | Suppose my name is Jehj Slotj, and I am writing a new (single-author) paper which wants to cite a previous (single-author) work by myself.
What is the best style for this?
(1) As we showed in [1], the following condition applies ....
(2) As I showed in [1], the following condition applies ....
(3) As Swoth showed i... | [
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78,468 | I have a question about my choice of name for publication.
I recently got married and legally changed my name to my husband's surname (for example's sake: from Hogtor to Jonif).
So, despite legally being Ms Jonif now, I would quite like to use the hyphenated name Hogtor-Jonif in the professional context and in publica... | [
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78,472 | So I am gradute student in theoretical computer science.
Throughout my education path up to highschool, I have all been praised a big lot by my teachers, some of them even went to such lengths as to say I was the most intelligent student they have ever taught. By dint of all that, I took it for granted that I must be... | [
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"text": "I too went through a period where I panicked when taking tests. I saw a psychologist for help. Even if you choose... | 2016/10/18 | [
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78,478 | I'm a business student and I'm really fond of computer science and engineering. Is it possible to apply for cs major in computer science? If not, is it possible to apply for MaSc in Master of Business Analytic then continue to study in CS? | [
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78,479 | I have come into a strange position and could greatly use some advice on how I should proceed. I am an undergraduate student at an American university in a computer engineering program. For the last several months, I have been hired as a student developer working for the university. However due to HR issues I have been... | [
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"text": "I have no clear answer -- but you certainly can't get into trouble for working without pay. Your supervisor ... | 2016/10/18 | [
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78,500 | I have done two projects in the area of molecular biology. I have a Master's degree. So, I find that it requires more than 20 minutes to talk about them. My first-language is not English. I think this is too long, right? I would be tired, and the interviewer may also be tired. We may need additional time to discuss the... | [
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"text": "A skype interview is interactive: people will interrupt you and ask questions. So if the overall intervi... | 2016/10/19 | [
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78,507 | My first name is Евгений (it is Russian; the usual transliteration is Yevgeny). I was born in Ukraine in 1990, when it was still in the Soviet Union, where Russian was the official language. I lived there until 2011, when I went to Canada, where I am currently working on a Ph.D in mathematics. The name indicated in my ... | [
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"text": "Your question has a lengthy introduction, but finally:\n\n> \n> If at some point I will need to prove the authorship ... | 2016/10/19 | [
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78,508 | Recently, I was working on some mathematics (number theory) and try to do that just for a math fun. Prior to that, I did not refer to any literature or any research articles, as I was doing this for fun. But I went in very deep and spent almost 15 days on that as it was getting interesting.
After one stage, I was abl... | [
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"text": "An article is not about you. It is not a reward of effort. In an article you try to communicate to the reader... | 2016/10/19 | [
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78,515 | Why do people studying e.g. Business Administration (or similar) receive BSc or MSc degrees? Those guys don't rely on the scientific method even if they may use some mathematical or scientific tools from social sciences sometimes.
Is this just an institutional artifact? | [
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"text": "At [University of Essex](https://online.essex.ac.uk/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-an-mba-and-msc-in-business/)... | 2016/10/19 | [
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78,521 | I just got a paper accepted without revisions in a prestigious journal. This is of course nice. Reading the referee report makes me a bit worried, though. It is clear that the referee has gotten the basic ideas of the paper, and has identified what we also think is the primary contribution. It is, however, also clear t... | [
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78,542 | I have a professor that I've gotten to know pretty well. Currently we're going through and learning about a newer area of mathematics just for the fun of it. It was my idea to do it and now he's looking to do more with it. He wants to do research on an application of this area of math next summer through next fall. We ... | [
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"text": "Yes, you should ask! Don't be shy -- there's nothing at all to lose. In the worst case, he'll point ou... | 2016/10/19 | [
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78,546 | I have been invited to give a seminar related to applying for a postdoctoral position. The professor has been very kind and seems like a very nice person. He also helped me look for a postdoctoral position for my girlfriend. Now I have received the tickets to travel to the university with first class accommodation and ... | [
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"text": "If you are getting excellent treatment, that likely means they are fairly keen to hire you. They are working to recru... | 2016/10/19 | [
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78,564 | I have heard from quite a number of PhD students, that one can get a good post-doc, if the summation of the impact factors of the journals published by a PhD student is nearing 10. Is this true? How does the impact factors that you earn before your post-doc have an effect on getting a good post-doc? I am talking about ... | [
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"text": "[Note: my experience is from mathematics. I guess most will still be applicable in other fields, but I don’t have first-h... | 2016/10/20 | [
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78,565 | I really can not find a justifiable answer to this question. Are they used interchangeably?
One answer that's i found to be true is that we use the term literature review in writing thesis and related work in the writing research paper. but i am not sure if it is correct or not? | [
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"text": "I've been looking last week for the difference between the literature review and the background. And I found this whic... | 2016/10/20 | [
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78,572 | My paper has been rejected four times in last two years. I have tried two journals. They don't even have good rankings but it was rejected repeatedly. I improved the article by taking reviewers comments into consideration but still it comes back with rejections.
What frustrates me is the fact that I can see some arti... | [
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"text": "It depends. That is my answer.\n\nIf you really believe that your paper offers an interesting contribution, then:\n\n*... | 2016/10/20 | [
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78,580 | This semester I was assigned as a TA to a Class that I am not very familiar with.
As a result, grading takes me too much time.
For example, for a class of 74 people, it took me 24 hours to grade their assignments (7 exercises per person). One of the reasons it takes me that much time is that I have to study in order to... | [
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"text": "Definitely, you should discuss this with the professor teaching the class, since 24 hours to grade a p... | 2016/10/20 | [
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78,584 | I'm about to defend my Phd thesis in November 2016 in software engineering. I started my Phd in February 2010. One of my thesis reviewers stated in his review comments that my bibliography references are too old: the most recent work I have quoted in my bibliography is from 2012; that was when I was elaborating my thes... | [
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"text": "First, if a reviewer stated that you should better do something, then you better do something (in most cases, do what the... | 2016/10/20 | [
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78,591 | The internally funded Anne McLaren Fellowships at The University of Nottingham state in their eligibility that "Candidates for the Anne McLaren Fellowships must be female and pursuing a career in a STEM subject". ([link](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/researchwithus/fellowships/internally-funded.aspx)) One of th... | [
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"text": "In the UK, there are a number of fellowships exclusively for women (e.g., [L'Oréal WISE fellowship](https://www.wome... | 2016/10/20 | [
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78,605 | I have a question in regard to choice of recommenders.
I'm applying to my dream school and I want to make the best choice for my LOR. I have two recommenders, one is a professor and he doesn't really know me, but I got an A in his class. Another one is a faculty, he knows me better than the other one, and he asked me ... | [
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"text": "The B instructor's letter is promising; it may be more insightful and more diligent. An impersonal letter that... | 2016/10/21 | [
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78,611 | I am a female undergraduate taking classes from two professors, Prof. A and Prof. B, in the same department. I have some concerns about Prof. A.
First, Professor A has been trying to involve me in his attempts to get Professor B fired. I have never had a problem with Prof. B.
* He asked me to bcc him on all my e-mail... | [
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"text": "you sound very sensible to me. my advice, fwiw, is:\n\nkeep records. all the emails you have received but also your th... | 2016/10/21 | [
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78,616 | I'm a PhD student at a university in the UK. The head and director of graduate studies at my department are trying to get me removed from the department.
Almost all of this is going on over my head, but my supervisor has told me about a number of meetings and emails that have gone on about this topic.
On the basis of... | [
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"text": "No.\n\nSuch action should be the very, very last resort, and only undertaken if you have taken legal advice on whe... | 2016/10/21 | [
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78,622 | My advisor has been asking me to generate plots I am uncomfortable with, since they overestimate the success of our approach, or make the data seem less noisy than it is. He says this is okay because the numbers in the paper don't matter as much as the high level message. What should I do?
We haven't fabricated data p... | [
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"text": "Standard definitions of scientific misconduct consider omission of conflicting data an instance of data falsifica... | 2016/10/21 | [
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78,632 | I'm an undergraduate writing my CV.
I've given two presentations at undergraduate conferences on my (unpublished) research projects. I independently prepared my presentations but my lab mates/supervisor helped with the research. I want to list these presentations on my CV.
So my question is:
**How do I properly cred... | [
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"text": "All official and known conferences will need the authors to present their accepted work in oral or poster manner, and... | 2016/10/22 | [
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78,638 | As I check forums to compare top UK schools (specifically: Oxbridge and Imperial College) v.s. top US schools (MIT, Stanford, Caltech, etc.), most of people have mentioned the subjects, just like stuffs below, to consider higher priority for electing US schools:
* The UK academic system is archaic, as the yearly syste... | [
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"text": "A year and a half ago I found myself applying to top Ph.D programs in the US and in the UK in Mathematics. Having b... | 2016/10/22 | [
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78,650 | I'm an undergraduate student in the Netherlands, and as the title states, I'm encountering an annoying situation. How should one deal with the situation of constantly being asked for the notes of a lecture, summaries of book chapters, flash cards, etc by other, fellow-students?
I do not mind to share my stuff with my... | [
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"text": "Giving course notes is probably ok, if you are happy to provide them as a one-off. \n\nIf becomes a regular o... | 2016/10/22 | [
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78,668 | I teach a first year undergrad class in MATLAB programming, and one of my students is completely blind. Quite amazingly, the student memorises the whole chapter before class and regurgitates with the help of someone saying what the output is.
I wonder if anyone has some advice to help the student? I have heard of [Ema... | [
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"text": "Yes, this is all possible, but I recommend seeking specialist advice. Blind support organisations ofte... | 2016/10/22 | [
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78,670 | I am an associate lecturer and it's my second term with the undergraduate students.
I noticed some of my students laugh when I teach. It's the most annoying thing I have ever felt in my academic life so far. I always think, why some laugh while others appreciate my way of teaching? It's very puzzling.
At the end of my... | [
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"text": "In my experience, there are some students who just cannot take class seriously. They may not even be laughing ... | 2016/10/22 | [
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78,672 | Or is a PhD a ceiling that they'll never be able to reach, no matter how hard they worked?
By average intelligence I mean a person who has an IQ of 100. | [
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"text": "I recently reread Malcolm Gladwell's book *Outliers*, which has a discussion of this very point, i.e., IQ versus ... | 2016/10/22 | [
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78,683 | I just got my PhD recently and have a postdoctoral position now. I started applying to faculty jobs (tenure track/US/engineering/R1) for this cycle. I know that the whole hiring process is complicated, can/may involve politics, luck etc. and since most applicants don't hear back from search committees, how can I evalua... | [
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"text": "Unfortunately, there's little you can do on your own. One huge obstacle is letters of recommendation, w... | 2016/10/23 | [
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78,699 | My supervisor has not finished marking my master's thesis.
Am I allowed to publish it in a journal before he finishes marking it? I asked him the question twice, but he never replied to me. | [
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"text": "I suppose your advisor will be coauthor in whatever paper you write that is based on your thesis. In such case, you nee... | 2016/10/23 | [
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78,719 | I have been working very hard on my thesis and I have reached a point with my data where I am required to code.
I am no where near experienced in coding, and there is also not enought time left to learn it.
Simply, the coding is required to re-format the information and figures I already have.
I have used an externa... | [
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78,725 | this is my first post here, I'll copy and paste a recent answer I asked in the physics and resulted a little bit inappropriate. I do physics so I'm mainly looking for answers for people in the field that maybe had some similare experience, but I think any opinion could be useful, so if I'm not out of context, thank you... | [
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"text": "Although many physicists tend to like more the physics than the mathematical details, it is crucial for a physi... | 2016/10/24 | [
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78,726 | this is a somewhat specific question aimed especially at people who have experienced in serving in tenure-track search committees that use Mathjobs.Org.
Many of the job descriptions say something in the lines of "Review of applications will start on 1 November" (or any other date) or "For full consideration please ap... | [
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"text": "I have not seen anyone print any files from MathJobs.org, but only look at them on-line, so certainly any updates ... | 2016/10/24 | [
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78,729 | How do you cite (in APA) the authors last name when it is a foreign language with special unknown characters that can't be identified by most word processors. | [
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"text": "Try shapecatcher.com and detexify.kirelabs.org to identify the characters. Then proceed from there by inserting... | 2016/10/24 | [
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78,740 | I'm being offered a postdoc position at Penn State University.
[The recent rise in salary sounds good](http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/08/nih-sets-new-postdoc-stipend-levels) (about 4000$/month), but I wonder taxes may be not included. Any help? | [
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"text": "You will be taxed like any other employee in the US, unless you are in the US temporarily and the US has alte... | 2016/10/24 | [
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78,744 | I am at a stage to apply for an academic job, but can not find enough recommendation letters (3 typically). Currently, I am on my own grant, and mainly working alone on some relatively small, independent projects. Thus little collaborators.
When it comes to job application, they typically requires three recommendation... | [
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78,746 | I live in the UK and I have a foreign name of the form
Abcd Efghjk
where both words and the space are part of my first name. Due to common UK standard everyone usually assumes either that Efghjkl is my surname or, more often, that Efghjkl is my middle name and proceeds to omit it.
I am fine when people omit it in sp... | [
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78,751 | In February I submitted a paper that was sent back asking for minor revisions. I revised and re-submitted the paper (with rather significant changes) much later, in October, and it was accepted for publication three days later.
Given the extent of my modifications I'm surprised that the process went that fast the seco... | [
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"text": "Unless you have some reason to believe your revised paper has some serious additional problems, I don't think you shou... | 2016/10/24 | [
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78,755 | I've noticed that my advisor (non-native) sometimes makes minor spelling/grammatical errors in academic papers. I believe this is due, in part, to the fact that until very recently, nobody in the lab was a native speaker.
Is there a way that I can bring this to my advisor's attention professionally? I would like to al... | [
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78,762 | Of course the exact status of the title has changed in different places and times.
I mean it most specifically in the sense of Emmy Noether's title at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1923: *nicht beamteter Außerordentlicher Professor.* But I doubt there is a standard translation for that specific situation.
M... | [
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78,763 | Today I met with a student who had plagiarized answers on an exam from online sources. She explained to me with apparent honesty that she had spent too long answering the first two questions and then run out of time. In her telling, being a non-native speaker makes grammatical writing in English very slow going. On thi... | [
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78,766 | I found a one-panel comic that is relevant to the content of a course I am taking. I think my professor would enjoy it. Is it socially acceptable to send him a hyperlink to it? | [
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78,798 | A few weeks ago I've enrolled in a Coursera course offered by university A, without asking for a certificate. I've completed some of the work, but now my university holds a course on the same topic, to which I am enrolled for credit.
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78,803 | I am applying for postdoc this year. I was given standard one hour for my job talk. I prepared for a 45-50 minute talk and 10-15 minutes for Q & A. But probably I spoke bit too fast and also people didn't interrupt me, my talk was over by 30-35 minutes. Is it really bad for getting a job? | [
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78,809 | I am an undergraduate student in mathematics. My academic performance is really good but many people tell me "you are too stressed up", including people who know me for a few weeks.
Due to some serious family issues the last few years have been hell.
As the time passes everything is returning to normal but the profes... | [
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78,813 | I'm currently in the job market for tenure-track applications in mathematics. I have seen that some of the positions ask for undergraduate or graduate transcripts (both unofficial and official).
I have an issue, especially with graduate transcripts: I obtained my Ph.D. in France, and I didn't had any coursework or an... | [
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78,816 | I am a mathematics professor, and recently I invited (using my own grant funding) a speaker to campus give a lecture on popular math. As I expected, he gave a wonderful talk that any undergraduate could have enjoyed.
I decided to try to publicize the event widely, and I failed in a big way. Our Director of Public Rela... | [
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