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86,796 | We are two students working in the same field under the supervision of the same professor within his chair and all of our publications are done together.
Hence I am curious: Is it generally possible in academia to submit a PhD thesis with two authors? | [
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86,805 | I am currently an undergraduate medical student studying in South Africa. In future I would like to do academic research but I'm not sure in what field. But I would like to get a head start now as an undergraduate. My exposure to research is very limited in the current curriculum. The most we do are research reports bu... | [
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86,807 | If a college professor has a clear rubric for their expectations for an essay, is it unethical -- or even illegal -- to grade certain students harder than others?
A few students I know are in a college English course. They are producing better essays than other students, but have recently been making C's instead of A'... | [
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86,819 | In some of the questions regarding author name, it is mentioned that people can use whatever they like, however, they must be consistent across their publications.
When it comes to being hired by a university for a tenure track position or by another principal investigator as a researcher, how can someone prove that t... | [
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"text": "This isn't ordinarily a source of fraud at least in Europe and the USA, though I have noticed some people not cu... | 2017/03/21 | [
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86,831 | I recently create a new google sites-powered webpage for my academic page (after seeing discussions at [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/26130) and others).
However, being a brand new page, it won't come up at all if you search for my name (even with qualifiers such as 'math' or my instituti... | [
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"text": "The usual approach would be to create links to the website from other prominent indexed websites. So for example, y... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,834 | I plan on starting my PhD in a few years. Is there any particular time that I should register for an ORCID identifier? Can I do it now (still an undergraduate student), or should I wait for acceptance to a PhD program? Or, am I overcomplicating this and the time of registration doesn't matter?
This may seem like a bas... | [
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"text": "PhD is not the requirement to get ORCID identifier. You will need it mostly when you are ready to submit your researc... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,841 | I wonder if there are some professors only focusing on teaching or management but no research. I think this may be feasible. | [
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"text": "In the Netherlands you can have a \"buitengewoon hoogleraar\", who has a professor position of typically one ... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,843 | I have sent out emails enquiring about academic positions in departments active in my field. I did my best to write them properly, consulting websites and more experienced academics.
However, it has been a week since I sent them, and have not heard back.
Should I do something? Or wait?
Clarifications:
I am in Zool... | [
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"text": "This differs hugely by field and country, but in mine you don't contact the professors directly. If positions... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,852 | Sometimes an argument will arise between collaborators where two (or more) contrasted views or (mis)interpretations of a scientific issue exist. Sometimes both views are partially correct, sometimes they're both incorrect, and sometimes one is correct and the other is not.
Some people don't handle being wrong in a ver... | [
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"text": "Use impersonal language\n=======================\n\nHopefully this is obvious, but make sure that your language... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,856 | I am applying to faculty positions and *two* of the people I asked to be my references requested me to provide a draft of the recommendation letter. I am in a STEM field. Is this common practice *even when applying for faculty positions*? Should I take it as a really bad sign and try to find other references for the ne... | [
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86,859 | At least two questions ([1](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86856/asked-to-draft-own-recommendation-letter-for-faculty-application), [2](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1452/points-to-remember-when-having-to-write-recommendation-letter-yourself)) on this site indicate that in more than a few i... | [
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"text": "i think the best you'll get is anecdotes. however, my observation has been that folks typically write their own let... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,862 | A significant, perhaps growing proportion of research at universities is carried out by postdocs¹. Postdocs are typically employed on fixed-term contracts. Personally, I know several people who have been employed on chains of temporary research contracts for well over ten years, including some all the way to retirement... | [
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"text": "I can only provide anecdotal data, I was going to do this as a comment, but it got too big. \n\nI'm a postdoc (... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,863 | I am close to finishing a PhD in applied mathematics and I'm looking to develop future projects that go beyond my dissertation topic into other domains. One of the major subjects my advisor has suggested that I look into is an extremely saturated - but still largely "unresolved" - field. While I find the subject incred... | [
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"text": "This is a mathematics specific answer.\n\nI have the vague feeling that what your advisor means by \"look in... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,864 | In some countries, labour law requires that if an individual has been employed on temporary contracts for a certain amount of time, the employer must offer them a permanent contract (or let them go). They may be reluctant to do so when labour law stipulates they need a reasonable cause to fire employees; however, if a ... | [
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"text": "**Because they can.** It isn't that companies are less reluctant than universities to offer permanent positions; u... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,879 | A student advocate at my institution recently claimed that grad students have more debt than undergrads. This surprised me, because I would expect that typical grad students are the kind of student that would be able to gather more financial aid (scholarships, awards, fellowships, etc.) during their time as an undergra... | [
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86,888 | I am writing this after much consideration, in a hope that I will be able to get practical thoughts to deal with the situation. I have recently been diagnosed with major depression. Although I have never talked about it in public, most of my life so far I was dealing with it without even knowing there is a help out the... | [
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"text": "There is a structure for dealing with this in the U.S.: a Section 504 Accommodation Plan. If you get your healt... | 2017/03/22 | [
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86,899 | At most schools an A is a 4.0, an A- is a 3.7, and so on. I feel like this system is not really representative of a person's true skill. For example, a person who got a 100% in a class will get the same GPA as a person who got a 94% in the class. However, a person who gets a 91% in a class will get a significantly high... | [
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"text": "The big reason: exact numerical scores are not comparable across classes and professors. \n\nSuppose I told you that... | 2017/03/23 | [
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86,906 | I'm a grad student teaching assistant for a freshmen undergrad non major multivariable calculus class.
What they didn't tell me is that the second half of the semester is not calculus but "finite math". This week's topic is game theory, which I've never learned myself.
In preparing tomorrow's material, I realized I w... | [
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86,918 | I've begun preparing my thesis and several key papers in my field are written by people with foreign accents in their names. While I have found a way to include this in my thesis with [BibTeX](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Special_Characters#Escaped_codes). However it has come to my attention that many citations ... | [
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86,922 | I recently received the results of student evaluations. After my colleague (who is qualified to make such determinations) observed one of my lectures and said it went very well, a small group of students took it upon themselves to make some very personal, hurtful, and untruthful comments about me and my teaching.
Unf... | [
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86,926 | I'm planning a course on advanced calculus. Some of my topics align quite well with entire chapters of the textbook, so it makes sense for me to teach the entire topic, link it to a textbook chapter and additional resources, and assign homework from the end of the chapter. However, some of my topics take material from ... | [
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"text": "A few options are open to you here.\n\n1. Simply highlight a proportion of the questions. So out of the 40 you have... | 2017/03/23 | [
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86,930 | Different conferences have different standards of accepting papers. A paper rejected at a conference A might be best paper at a conference B (in a lower rank).
I'm reviewing a paper for a conference, that is not really related to my narrow field, that I don't know its ranking, that I haven't read any paper from previo... | [
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86,939 | In a paper I want to state that a certain course of action increases the "chances of success" - with success defined earlier in the work.
In my field, words like "probability", "odds", and "likelihood" (and the associated variants) have certain connotations, and are likely to elicit semantic arguments, so I'd like to ... | [
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86,946 | I'm currently working in a research institution as a RA, and I'm thinking of asking my professor for recommendation letter for PhD application. But because of mandatory national service in my home country, I have to go back and serve my country for 2 years before going into PhD. In that duration of 2 years, I'll have m... | [
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86,952 | I am supervising a bachelor thesis and find the respective student attractive. Would it be ethical/acceptable to get into a relationship with the student after the thesis is completed? | [
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86,953 | If I'm going to give students the course X in next semester. Should I have full understanding of the subject before I teach them or can I learn about the topics before I go to the class and then teach them?
The idea that I want to reach is it good to study the subject in the same semester or should I study before? | [
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"text": "> \n> . . . the first time I was in a statistics course, I was there to\n> teach it.\n> - [John Tukey](https://w... | 2017/03/23 | [
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86,964 | In my university, which is in Canada, TAs are part-time positions for graduate students as far as I know. So do full-time TAs exist like other faculty members? | [
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86,972 | I had an academic job interview for a tenure-track faculty position in January but have not heard anything yet (March now). Should I send an email asking for the status of the application? Can anyone please tell me what a proper email could be?
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86,979 | I am currently working on my thesis and I am submitting a part of my thesis as a paper to a journal (same text no rephrasing in some parts). I believe the journal review takes about four to six months before it is published and my thesis will be published on my university website before that. When they check for plagia... | [
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86,980 | In the next academic year,
I'll be teaching a class on how to use a statistical software package
([the R programming language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language))).
I foresee that each class will have two parts:
a lecture and software demonstration,
and time for the students to get their hands dirty... | [
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"text": "This is not a direct answer, but I'd suggest an alternative.\n\nI've found that if all students work on their compute... | 2017/03/24 | [
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87,018 | I am in an MBA program and last week had a two part test for a marketing class. I was under the impression the first part was just analysis, essentially creating models and writing notes on trends so you can quickly and easily answer the questions on the test (take home, given 3 hours to complete during the regularly s... | [
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87,023 | What would be a typical cost for a donor to start up an endowed chair for a professor (an MD) in a medical school? Are there ongoing costs? | [
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87,027 | Background: Just completed my PhD, have to teach one part of a graduate course in EE. Remaining course is taught by another senior prof. Course has two classes, totalling 3 hours per week, and one assignment every week which involves one or more of simulation (SPICE), some programming (MATLAB) and some hand-calculation... | [
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87,049 | I am working in a company after completing my PhD. When I get time, I carry out some research work related to my PhD work but not related to what I do in the company. I look forward to publish the work in journals/conferences as an independent author. I guess I should use the present affiliation in the article. Will th... | [
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87,053 | What is the best way to establish your authority as the instructor in a classroom?
I am asking from the perspective of a graduate student who will be TA-ing a large class for the first time. But I think similar advice could be said for new assistant professors who still look like students. | [
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87,057 | Does literature survey/review include relevant theory (from textbooks/old references) or should it only include recent publications? Should I place the theory as a separate chapter? | [
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87,059 | I am an undergraduate student in China, majoring in chemistry. I am now considering which advisors would be most suitable for my future research.
Actually, I have been working in a professor's lab since over a year at my university and I am interested in their research topics. What concerns me is that he recruits many... | [
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87,073 | I'm using a PhD student as a reference for an application, and I wonder what title I should use for her. She hasn't yet got her PhD title but is still writing her thesis. **Is there a name for that position?** | [
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87,074 | I would like to organize a work-in-progress workshop for PhD students at my university. How can I make sure that the participants really profit from the workshop and receive valuable feedback? | [
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87,093 | Recently my article has been accepted for future issue in a prestigious journal published by Jhon Wiley and sons. After accceptance of article I received an email from an other publisher based in Germany that they are interested to publish my work in a form of a chapter of a book. They also offer to get roylity money o... | [
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"text": "I am not a lawyer, but John Wiley owns the copyright of your current article, and if you just copy la... | 2017/03/26 | [
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87,101 | I work as a programmer as a full time job. Since I'm an experienced programmer and have some teaching aptitude, I've been asked to give a 40-hour course in C# programming to a computer science group of 70 students.
I've given two lessons so far (4 hours total), mixing lecture and practice sessions. I think I'm doing j... | [
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87,108 | As a part of my PhD project, I wrote a paper. When my supervisor read it, she said “it is perfect and complete, go ahead and publish it yourself because I cannot contribute more to it”. She really meant it and tried to do me a favor.
However, I still think it can be more beneficial for my future to have her name on my... | [
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87,118 | For my thesis, I did some programming for a project. My supervisor seemed to be very happy with the results when I was there and promised I was going to be in the publication. Problems started when I graduated and moved abroad. My supervisor said they couldn't replicate my results and started pushing me to continue int... | [
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87,129 | I realize there is a somewhat similar question posted, but my question is different in that I found a pretty big mistake in my thesis. It's such a big problem, it changes my results. I almost wish I hadn't noticed, and been so careful to go back and check every thing, because I really don't know what to do about it exc... | [
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87,146 | I'm going to apply for a Ph.D. position in a nordic country, and as you know, I need my current supervisor recommendation letter.
I asked my supervisor to provide me with a recommendation letter regarding all the researches I have done in his lab. He responds that even though he is more than happy to provide one, but ... | [
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87,162 | I am an early stage researcher (just progressed into my first postdoc) and I have made some effort to keep my online presence (e.g. Google Scholar) correct and up to date. I have recently noticed that an author with a highly similar name (identical first and last name) has my publications listed in his google scholar p... | [
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87,166 | I have applied to a number of Ph.D. programs in mathematics, keeping in mind up until this point that the generally accepted wisdom is: "If you aren't fully funded, don't go."
Now, luckily, I have received full funding (TA position and full tuition waiver) from one university, and I still have five more places I'm wai... | [
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87,168 | I’ve frequently heard people claim that individuals who hold PhDs are not “real” doctors. These people assert that only physicians can rightfully claim this title, and that it’s inappropriate for PhD-holders to use this term.
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87,169 | I have been contacted out of the blue by a seemingly highly motivated high school student who has requested the opportunity to do a research project under my supervision (in the field of stellar astrophysics). I am not opposed to supervising such a young student, but I fear that they will lack all of the prerequisites ... | [
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87,180 | I am currently in my final semester of masters. I have some background in Algebraic Number Theory. I have one PhD offer from a US university.
When I started getting into algebraic number theory, I did not have much trouble as most of the pre-requisites were from Galois Theory and Commutative Algebra. But through my s... | [
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87,184 | One of the potential upsides of open access papers is that they can be accessed by anyone for free, including people who don't live or work in a university. As a result, one might think that non-"professional" researchers may access open access papers more than paywalled papers.
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87,208 | A few days ago there was an article on the LSE blog about scientific reproducibility which made little sense to me until I realised they were equating 'low reproducibility' with 'scientific fraud':
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87,218 | I'm writing a research proposal with a small maximum word count. References are included in this word count. Fortunately, the citation style is not specified.
I was wondering if there is any (widely accepted) citation style that will generally produce the shortest citations. As far as I've found, MLA seems to be the ... | [
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87,221 | I will soon be attending a Ph.D program in mathematics. I do not know how common this practice is, but the department has a requirement that graduate students must learn a foreign language and be able to read and write mathematics in that language. The three choices are French, German, or Russian. I personally have no ... | [
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87,224 | I got PhD admission offers from 2 Universities (say A and B) and yesterday decided to accept one of them (University A).
Today I decided to let University B know that I would not be able to join them. After they acknowledged my refusal to join, they asked for the name of University A since they keep track of the same f... | [
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87,225 | Could one potentially get into a PhD program if they don't take college graduation requirements and instead take more classes in their field? | [
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87,228 | [I apologize if it has been asked, I think it must have been but I couldn't find a similar question.]
I often receive invitations / calls for papers to write papers in journals. 95% of these cases are obvious spam publications, but in about 5% I see a letter that's not entirely generic, e.g. they mention my previous p... | [
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87,229 | I'm kind of embarrassed to talk about this, but I've attended quite a large number of schools throughout my undergraduate career. 6 schools, in fact. Most of these schools I attended for 12 or fewer credits- I was dealing with an undiagnosed chronic physical illness, which I've now totally overcome, but which was disab... | [
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87,240 | I was accepted into a Masters program (MS in Computer Science) at a nice university that has research groups working on the things I want to research (natural language processing).
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87,241 | I got a postdoc position and I am moving to a new university. I was contacted by my new professor about choosing a laptop that the department would buy for me.
The option they have is roughly the same model I have currently as my private machine, and the one that I have used to finish my grad school. Thus I find anothe... | [
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87,249 | I'm a first-year PhD student in a computer science department. As is usual at this school, my first three quarters are spent rotating with different professors, finding an adviser and a research fit that I like. However, unlike previous rotations, I can see myself working in this subfield for my PhD, and I've moved fro... | [
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87,255 | I'm writing a research paper and there's a large amount of code and data related to the study which may be of use to those who would read the study. They can confirm the correctness of the techniques, modify it for their own purposes, perform new analysis on the data, etc.
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87,279 | I am close to an academic who is facing heavy criticism for having used an unorthodox grading scheme in a final exams (there was a multiplication involved to ensure a good grade would mean decent success in two independent parts).
My main question is:
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> **Q0:** what are the main guiding principles you use when de... | [
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87,286 | I'm a PhD student about to begin writing my first research paper for a software engineering conference. My research is about an approach to measure the performance of software systems. I will evaluate and compare this approach to other state of the art approaches that measure performance to compare the performance of t... | [
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87,296 | I work full time as a Chief Operating Officer for a company and would like to pursue a PhD and study the population I am working with (women workers in fisheries).
I have been researching different programs in Gender Studies centers, mostly in English speaking countries.
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87,304 | I recently became aware that, when writing an article, my university's communications office reserves the prefix "Dr" for only those individuals with MD degrees.
For example, if Sani Zlish holds a PhD, an article published through this office would state, "Sani Zlish researches memory..." instead of "Dr Sani Zlish re... | [
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87,308 | I'm currently working for a professor in a research institution. The typical interaction with my advisor is as follows:
>
> Me: Hi! How was your weekend/conference/trips?
>
>
> Prof: Good. Do you have any results to report to me?
>
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87,319 | I'm writing a paper comparing the performance of 2 algorithms (lets call them A and B). A performs better than B, however preliminary data suggested a way to significantly improve the performance of B. I made the changes to B and sure enough now B outperforms A. I've verified that it's not just a fluke of the specific ... | [
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87,323 | I have recently completed my Ph.D. and would be joining the industry in an analytics profile where publishing is not mandatory. I want to keep on publishing to ensure my return to academia if I feel like it someday. Can I keep sending papers to journals and conferences using my old academic affiliation? | [
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87,327 | I do experiments on learning and instruction for my dissertation. They are almost no risks in participating in our studies--except maybe boredom since they tend to run for 30 minutes to 1 hour. We get a lot of unmotivated students who don't really take the experiment tasks seriously. But in spite of this, they never ge... | [
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87,338 | I am an undergraduate student. This semester, I'm taking a 1.5 credit course, which is a 1.5 hour lecture once a week from a rotation of different speakers. There will be a final at the end of the semester.
The course coordinator, Pacv (Not His Real Name™), cannot come to every lecture. He therefore asked me to give h... | [
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87,344 | I have two studies that are not related to each other but in the same domain (Social Media Analysis) and I already submitted one of them to a conference as my name the main author.
-Can I submit the second paper where I am also the main author to the same conference event? I have read the conferance regulation but di... | [
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87,355 | I do a B.Sc. degree project in computer science at KTH Institute of Technology. The work included a fair amount of source code written in C and NuSMV and the report is somewhat technical even for a CS report. We had a peer review this week where I got to know
* put the problem statement up front and clearly
* adjust t... | [
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"text": "You should ask your advisor - and I find suggestion #2 bizarre, to say the least."
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87,363 | I have read some posts regarding academic salaries such as
[In which countries are academic salaries published?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/26487/452) but none about retirement pension plans.
What is a typical retirement pension plan for professors in the United States?
I assume there might be some signific... | [
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87,371 | I would like to say thank you to a professor for a conversation we had when I was not in a good place. However, this is > 2 years ago now. I also have not been in touch, so I'm not sure he will remember.
Lastly, I will need a reference at some point in the future, and I am going to ask this professor.
I am worried t... | [
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87,383 | Many MOOCs have a system where enrolled students get points for submitting homework, and for grading a fixed number of their peers' homework (On a MOOC i took earlier, each student had to evaluate at least three other randomly selected submissions).
I'm wondering if anyone has used this approach in a physical classro... | [
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87,393 | Suppose I review someone's paper anonymously, the paper gets accepted, and a year or two later we meet e.g. in a social event and he/she asks me "did you review my paper?". What should I answer? There are several sub-questions here:
1. Suppose the review was a good one, and the paper eventualy got accepted, so I do no... | [
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87,394 | [Twitter announced](https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/847479110616047616) it would begin distancing itself from the requirement that all tweets could only contain 140 characters by no longer counting some things – like media attachments or @ replies – towards the character count.
I am doing research in that area of s... | [
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87,401 | Is it true that if you get PhD from an institution, then it becomes very hard to become a tenure track faculty position at the same institution? | [
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87,406 | Assume a student in the United States who has access to Adderall despite not suffering from ADHD. Would it be ethical for them to take the drug during their studies?
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87,424 | I was recently asked to review a paper. I feel like there is a conflict of interest as (i) I frequently collaborate with one of the authors, (ii) I discussed the paper with the authors while they were working on it, and (iii) I am currently doing follow-up work (i.e. extending the work of the paper in question).
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87,440 | I recently verified a degree, and the university reported that the degree was awarded five years after attendance. In other words, the student attended from 1995 to 1998 but the degree was not awarded until 2003, five years later. Why would there be a gap between the time the student attended and the time the Ph.D. was... | [
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87,454 | I'm not a US citizen, and I was accepted recently for an MS Degree in CS. After asking the Graduate Office, I was told so far they don't have a scholarship for me (only 15 out of the 115 accepted got one).
I'm proceeding with the papers and such, since if someone drops, it will pass the scholarship for the next one, ... | [
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87,462 | Despite the fact that most of the world is now connected with high-speed fiber and even phones can record 4k video, it seems to me that there is a large focus on offline events. Universities invite guest speakers, hold seminars, organize conferences, etc, and most of the content is not even posted online afterwards. Of... | [
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87,475 | I would like to know what license needs to be chosen in arXiv for a paper that is to be sent to an Elsevier journal. I have read the terms of both arXiv and Elsevier attentively, but I'm still in doubt.
arXiv has the following choices for licenses (from [their website](https://arxiv.org/help/license)):
>
> * grant a... | [
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87,483 | What kind of permissions do I need to obtain from the developer of an app if I am planning to use it in a study?
The study primarily aims to look at how different students learn mobile games differently, and what factors determines their score.
Since it is relevant to the study, we would also have to analyse the game... | [
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87,490 | So I am currently a Master's Student in an earth sciences field, looking to get into the PhD program at my university, provided that there is funding. My current adviser likely won't have funding for my PhD. Recently, my adviser told me about an opportunity with a different adviser, working on a topic in life sciences ... | [
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87,497 | In the US, tenure-track (TT) positions seem a common and natural step in the progression towards an academic career and quite "stable" state-wise in terms of what one might expect from them, in that if nothing goes too wrongly, after the fixed X years in a TT position one can reasonably expect to get tenure (I've heard... | [
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87,501 | Currently I am finishing my masters degree program in Life Sciences / Biotechnology by doing an industrial internship. After having obtained my degree, I would definitely like to do a PhD if I can find an interesting project in a location where I would also see myself living for a couple of years.
Another, non-career... | [
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87,521 | I am a university marker TA. The instructor requires TAs to meet students if they have marking issues. But I found most students just come to meet me for better grades, not to ask questions, and some are tough to handle; they just insist they should get better grades.
I feel that is annoying. Is it a better idea to ha... | [
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87,522 | I am reading a paper on arXiv
However the paper is completely in Russian:
<https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1701/1701.02595.pdf>
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87,527 | I am currently a (USA) Master's student studying biochemistry. I intend to get a PhD after my Master's but I am doing a Master's first because my husband is going to finish his PhD and want to move to another city before I would be able to finish a PhD at my current university (this was planned from the beginning, I ap... | [
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87,534 | It's always been my understanding that age precedes nationality in standard adjective order (see, for example, [The Royal Order of Adjectives](http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-royal-order-of-adjectives/)); thus, it should be "young Italian adults" rather than "Italian young adults".
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87,536 | As the title suggests, the issue is as follows:
>
> I finished my (4 year) Bachelor and my (2 years) MSc at department A. A few years ago, the department changed its name and also the character of its undergraduate studies. Now it's a department of *Engineering* (5 year studies) and it belongs to the Engineering divi... | [
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87,552 | Currently I am writing my master's graduate thesis. I am confused that which ordering style is more formal in a thesis reference list. For instance, consider the following three reference lists that I took as it is in order:
>
> [1] M. Fedrizzi, S. Giove Incomplete pairwise comparison and
> consistency optimization ... | [
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87,555 | I am supposed to meet with a PI to discuss the possibilities of joining his lab as a MSc student.
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87,561 | Our grades for the Coding class I am taking are divided between projects and exams. The professor I take the class under has the following policy on her syllabus:
If our cumulative average for either our exams or projects is below 65% we receive an F in the class.
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87,570 | I'm an undergrad student at a fairly well known math program (top 20). I have taken several upper level undergraduate courses (real/complex analysis, honors abstract algebra) and graduate level courses (commutative algebra, topology) and I also did some independent learning with one of the professor here in homological... | [
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87,578 | Due to my wife’s job, we’re moving to a country in Latin America (Brazil). I’m finishing my undergraduate in mathematics in the US and I’m starting to think about applying for PhD positions.
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87,580 | I am a member of ResearchGate.net and I sometimes receive this 'full-text request' for some of my publications. Thus far, I generally provide them an access to my publication. However, I am not sure if this is good since the profile of the person who made the request is not always visible. Perhaps, some people are taki... | [
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