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11,416 | Here is my situation, I'm about to graduate with a Ph.D. within the next few months. My dissertation is done, so I can dedicate quite a bit of time to the issue I'm describing.
At the moment, I have never taught a college level course. For the entire length of my program I've been on the research side. I'm very frust... | [
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"text": "First of all, put down all of that experience on your CV, and when you apply for jobs, make sure you write a grea... | 2013/07/26 | [
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11,421 | My wife and I just found out that we're having our first child. While this is a wonderful thing, it also concerns us a bit. Particularly because we're on limited funds (TA & RA combined salary) and we're still 1.5-2 years away from graduating together. Also, since our academic careers are so demanding, we're also conce... | [
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"text": "Congratulations! First of all, you are in for a wonderful and life-changing experience.\n\nHowever, your life is goi... | 2013/07/26 | [
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11,428 | If no author of an accepted paper registers for the conference, the paper is simply dumped from the conference.
If, however, the authors duly register but fail to present it at the conference, what is the fate of the paper? I have an accepted paper at a European conference (IEEE), but due to lack of travel funds, our ... | [
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"text": "This has actually happened to me a couple of times in the past. This really depends on the policy of the organizing pro... | 2013/07/27 | [
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11,441 | I just received the galley proofs for an article which has been accepted to a well-regarded math journal.
The copyediting is, quite frankly, terrible. The copyeditor has introduced dozens of mathematical, typographical, and bibliographic mistakes. The proofs were accompanied by a list of changes and questions, and som... | [
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"text": "If a copy-editor (CE) changes the meaning of your manuscript you obviously need to recorrect it. The CE should... | 2013/07/27 | [
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11,448 | This is one question that probably has an archaic answer. I recently reviewed a paper for a journal that stuck all the figures at the end (with placeholders in-text). Where I publish, we typically provide camera-ready manuscripts or at least give reviewers a version with the figures embedded so that they can see what t... | [
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"text": "There is a long tradition of submitting text and figures separated. this stems back to when manuscripts were ty... | 2013/07/27 | [
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11,453 | I recognize my advisor is busier than I am. But, nonetheless, I feel the need to tell her sometimes that I am overloaded with too many tasks and I need to push a deadline back or pass on some request.
How do other people handle this tactfully? | [
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"text": "I don't look up my advisor or other faculty members. I always behave like they were my peers. This way, th... | 2013/07/27 | [
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11,460 | This is a question about my advisor (supervisor, professor) in a lab, where I am a graduate research assistant, and had done research together with a PhD student, as a part of his dissertation. The student happened to be one of my close friends. The professor wanted to write a journal paper based on the results of his ... | [
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"text": "I'm not really qualified to assess how other departments would treat single- versus co-authored papers. As for the othe... | 2013/07/28 | [
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11,464 | I've seen some universities encouraging students to contact with the faculty before making applications. For example, [this one](http://www.cse.psu.edu/prospective/graduate/gradgrad). On the other hand I've heard some people saying that they are waste of times because professors receive several such e-mails every year ... | [
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"text": "This really only works as a strategy if you have something truly meaningful to say. If you have to force yourself to ... | 2013/07/28 | [
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11,471 | I'm about one year from receiving my master's degree. I have published a few papers, so I'm confident that I want to do research. I have been offered two different PhD positions at my current university, but I might not want to stay here. The reason for not taking the first position is that I don't like the advisor too... | [
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"text": "It is never too early to look around for PhD positions. Start out by looking at what is advertised to see what... | 2013/07/28 | [
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11,486 | I finished my bachelor project and my supervisor suggested to work with me on publishing a paper about my work which is an encryption algorithm, Now my supervisor helped me with some remarks along my bachelor project and helped me with the paper (like grammar mistakes and such) but I am the one who made encryption algo... | [
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"text": "Since he's your advisor and you consulted him through out the project, then you definitely need to put his name as ... | 2013/07/29 | [
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11,493 | For university-level researchers and professors, is the salary higher in the medical fields than in other fields? I suppose attracting physicians to teach may be harder, because they can usually get high payments working as physicians. Where can I find data about this in Europe, Australia, Canada and US? | [
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"text": "For the US, I would have thought the data would be in the [AAUP report](http://www.aaup.org/report/heres-news-annual... | 2013/07/29 | [
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11,497 | I'm writing a literature review at the moment. I have many many papers to read and I don't have that much time (just one month).
What I do is reading the abstract and then the conclusion and from the conclusion I see what were the key findings and then look them up in the paper and see some details.
Is that good wa... | [
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"text": "Your strategy sounds sound to me. You cannot read the papers from end to end. You need to weed out they papers ... | 2013/07/29 | [
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11,499 | I'm currently finishing a B.Sc. Honours in Canada, and I'm applying to Edinburgh (among other places) to do a Masters. They have two [research-based degrees](http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees), and I was wondering if people with experience in academics and CS could help m... | [
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"text": "Looking at the courses there appears to be a one-year [taught MSc](http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informati... | 2013/07/29 | [
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11,500 | How should one engage uninterested students in a fast-paced, densely fact-packed science course such as chemistry or microbiology? I find that the only students who truly understand and engage with the material are those who already have a strong background in the material being covered, while the rest of the class is ... | [
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"text": "From a pedagogical standpoint, you always want to teach with a couple of things in mind:\n\n1. You have to have a... | 2013/07/29 | [
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11,514 | A little while back I had sent one of my works to an ACM conference -just a National level conference. I knew my work was not one of the best they were going to receive, but given the quality of the papers published in the conference in the previous years, I was almost sure of an "Accept", and sure enough, an "Accept" ... | [
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"text": "> \n> Should I put any endeavor in contacting the PC Chairs and ask them to explain this strange stand? Should I ... | 2013/07/30 | [
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11,532 | I have a table of studies and formula per study in the appendix, so sth like
```
study A E = mc²
study B v = ma
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etc. For each study I need to cite a source. Now normally the citation list for the main part of document appears before the appendix. How do I handle this? Do I create a new citation list afte... | [
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"text": "Depends on where your appendix falls in your document (or whether it will appear in the document at all). If appendix... | 2013/07/30 | [
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11,536 | I would like to find journals that:
* are ranked with JCR (no matter how low) *and*
* have open access (anyone can access the papers for free) *and*
* are free to publish (authors are not required to pay)
Maybe I am asking for a unicorn, but I think this should be feasible.
If I'm not mistaken, [arxiv.org](http://ar... | [
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"text": "Please feel free to edit anything.\n\n* Computer Science\n\n\t+ Artificial Intelligence\n\t\t- Machine Learning\n\t\t... | 2013/07/30 | [
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11,540 | I am currently writing 2 conference papers. One is highly quantitative in nature and the other is absolutely qualitative in nature. I am submitting both papers to conferences having deadlines in the next couple of months.
The papers present results on 3 **different** research questions on the same topic and are highly... | [
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"text": "I think this boils down to the question\n\n> \n> Should I cite a paper that has not (yet) been accepted?\n> \n> \n>... | 2013/07/30 | [
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11,549 | I'm a senior in college and working for my final year project. I am required to read more than 8 papers. However, 2 of them cannot be found online or in the library (Summon system). The library delivery service is inaccessible now, and I believe my advisor have that papers.
Can I ask professor to send me a copy of the... | [
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"text": "Yes, you can, and you should. It is not impolite (unless you actually have access), and it is not unethical. I don't thin... | 2013/07/31 | [
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11,551 | My field is cardiovascular epidemiology, and my current research question relates to some risk factor which is supposed to strongly elevate cardiovascular risk in a defined subgroup. However, my data do not indicate any such association, and power analysis shows that I have about 0.85 power to detect an effect of the s... | [
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11,555 | I am in a "transition period" shortly after having finished my MSc, and shortly before beginning my PhD. In the summer period the academic life doesn't cease, though, and sometimes an affiliation is asked for at scientific events. I am going to a conference soon, and indeed the organisers need an affiliation.
Is there... | [
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"text": "Maybe I'm a little too practical, but I would go with whichever email address will you be using most consistently in t... | 2013/07/31 | [
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11,559 | I am a beginner researcher in a relatively new area. I published two papers in a conference directly related to the general field of my research (the general field is Artificial Intelligence or AI). Still there is no major conference for the new area; only one workshop and several special editions in top journals. As I... | [
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"text": "It's generally acceptable to e-mail senior scientists a copy of your paper. Say who you are and who your advisor is... | 2013/07/31 | [
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11,570 | I am lucky (or potentially unlucky) enough that a grant applications that I am working on does not have any formatting specifications and instead just has a limit of 5000 words. There are some suggested sections, that will be be variable in terms of length (some will have 200 words and others over 1000), and it is like... | [
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"text": "I envy you the fact that it is only a word count that counts. I am in a system where everything has to fit a ce... | 2013/08/01 | [
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11,577 | I just found out that my undergraduate institution made a tiny error on my transcript of records. I moved to another country and am currently in my masters and I'm wondering if I should make the effort to get that little mistake corrected.
So how often will I need that transcript of records from my bachelors in the fu... | [
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"text": "I guess this largely depends on *where* you apply. Industry usually interested in what recent projects/ education y... | 2013/08/01 | [
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11,579 | Just like my other research-related activities, I keep a complete record of the reviews I perform: both the original papers and the reviews I have written, as well as the revised manuscript I receive one, and the final published manuscript if it is published (but sometimes in a different journal!)
I don't think I ever... | [
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"text": "There is no legal reason to hold on to old reviews, it would be the responsibility of the journal in that case... | 2013/08/01 | [
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11,590 | A high citation rate is desirable in academia. Citing other work doesn't cost much, so citations are cheap to give but desirable to get. That brings me to the question:
If a previous article addresses a topic similar to the one I'm writing, is that a sufficient reason to cite it? Or should the prior article meet a min... | [
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11,602 | I work for a large company, I am also a student at a big school. My employer is supportive in terms of funding required for my studies. Although the research paper has more to do with my academic studies. What is a reasonable way to put both affiliations in the research paper? My primary affiliation is my employer and ... | [
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11,607 | This has not happened to me, but to a friend in the final stages of her PhD, she and the rest of the research group are understandably devastated, as the advisor was not only (in my friend's words), brilliant, but very kind and approachable.
My friend and all the research students are also worried about their researc... | [
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11,608 | I'll be starting a Masters of Science program soon and wanted to make plans for my professional/educational future. I've been looking at different doctorate level degree programs and I'm having a bit of trouble in understanding the difference between a Doctor of Computer Science program and a Ph.D. in Computer Science ... | [
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"text": "This is the first I've heard of a \"Doctor of Computer Science\" degree. Not having a dissertation requirement is a clea... | 2013/08/03 | [
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11,613 | I spotted that some universities do not have a comprehensive exam for their PhD students while it is standard at most universities (specifically for computer science). For what reasons do some universities drop the requirement of comprehensive exam? What is the impression towards someone who has graduated from no-compr... | [
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"text": "My department does not have a comprehensive exam. The most frequent reason I have heard is that we don't **need** it. ... | 2013/08/03 | [
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11,617 | Are students with masters degree allowed to enter a masters program in the same area at a good university?
Is second masters a good option for a better research experience and improving your CV before applying to a PhD in top programs? I am specifically interested in US universities and computer science. | [
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"text": "You are certainly allowed to apply, but your chances of getting accepted for a second master's in the same field is app... | 2013/08/03 | [
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11,618 | I'm going to my first conference in about a month, where I will be presenting a poster.
How do people usually dress for conferences? Do I need to dress more smartly than usual? Is formal dress (e.g. a suit) normal? Or does no-one really care?
I'm a PhD student, if that makes any difference, and both my university and... | [
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11,621 | I am looking for different national repositories (US, Canada, Australia, UK, etc.) of funded research projects, similar to what **[Cordis](http://www.cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html)** does in EU. Any suggestions?
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11,625 | I'm working for a university as a **research programmer** (prof staff, exempt) on an external grant ("soft money"), and there is a clear understanding between me and my immediate supervisor/PI, and at least one other PI, that I can use a certain non-trivial amount of my time each week to work on my own projects (the so... | [
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11,626 | I am filling in an application form for a PhD program and I am supposed to answer the following question:
**"How do you intend to fund your studies for the entire duration of your stay in ...?"**
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11,633 | It is my understanding that patents can be invalidated if there is prior art to the technique at hand; DJB has a piece that would suggest that this way authors can inadvertently invalidate their own patents, if not being careful with information disclosure.
<http://cr.yp.to/patents/us/4200770.html>
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11,635 | I want to know whether is it normal to publish an article in the journal in which one is associate editor. For example, one of the co-author article in [this](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927539813000261) article in [this](http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-empirical-finance/editorial-boa... | [
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11,637 | I have a question regarding how schools decide on who to give scholarship to.
Is it appropriate for me to ask my graduate school department on their guidelines in giving out scholarships?
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11,645 | I am a postdoc in Physics areas and trying to get myself ready for applying for tenure track positions. However, the US academic salary system seems still mysterious to me.
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11,649 | I am a PhD student, and have just finished the last part of my course requirement. My last assignment is to review several other student's term projects from a seminar course.
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11,654 | I know it is slightly controversial, but I am supervising a student who started with the right attitude, but is now less and less engaged with the research. We are at a point where there's no end in sight, and the student still wants to finish within unmanageable time limits.
The *context* is peculiar (but I would lik... | [
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11,655 | When writing a manuscript for a scientific article, I often wonder what software I should cite or acknowledge, and how.
The first problem is to make a choice **which** software to cite. On the one hand, there is no way to cite all software, as this would mean to cite my whole software stack (Linux, GNU tools, emacs, g... | [
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11,659 | Are there *written* or *unwritten* rules for avoiding the use of first-person while writing research papers? I was advised at the beginning of my grad school to avoid use of first person - but I still don't know why I should do this.
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11,660 | Many students arrive at University and struggle with the transition from school.
Has anyone run/attended a lecture in which some or all of the following topics - or similar - were covered? Note - I am envisaging a mandatory single lecture for first-years which is independent of course/faculty.
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11,663 | How can I motivate my undergrad students to do research?
Since these students are at an undergrad level, I don't expect any extraordinary results. However, I would like if they get something published (even in low impact publications).
Undergrads almost never do research in our country. It's not even a requirement of... | [
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11,666 | Suppose that a systematic review on a topic X was published some (3-8) years ago by someone else, and it is currently still a useful source for what has been made before it was published. However, more recent works were also published later.
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11,675 | I have been reading in different forums now and searching for the advice that can give me an answer to my dilemma of quitting or continuing my PhD. In this search I did not find any entry to why I should stay in the PhD.
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11,678 | There's no way to evade having a lot of acronyms in a scientific paper, often already in the title.
I use the [latex](/questions/tagged/latex "show questions tagged 'latex'") package `glossaries` to automatically expand the first use of every acronym (except usage in the title), but for a scientific paper, I do not in... | [
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11,679 | I recently graduated and am temporarily employed as a lecturer at the school I graduated from (9 hours a week of teaching, not counting prep time). There's a weekly seminar on my field of interest, and I've been asked to take over hosting it. This would involve handling various logistics like planning the meetings, pla... | [
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11,687 | I'm in the process of listing and comparing all the graduate schools I am interested in. What should I be comparing, gathering, etc. And what is the best way to keep all the information together? | [
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11,692 | I am currently finishing my undergraduate math studies, and I am really interested in computer science (especially theoretical). However, I realize that most CS departments expect their applicants to have a CS major or at least a significant amount of coursework in CS. I have taken a couple of programming courses and a... | [
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11,696 | As we enter a new school year, I'm wondering if the is any evidence to support or contradict the idea that putting a poor-performing students on academic probation improves their performance. Does anyone know of any such evidence?
I can imagine that schools are naturally concerned about eliminating students whose tuit... | [
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11,709 | If a paper has 3 weak accepts (in all evaluations, a weak accept in each evaluation), will it be published in the conference? If this is the case, what is the difference if it has 2 weak accepts and a strong accept or 3 strong accepts? | [
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11,710 | I am currently in the process of applying for PhDs. My question is whether it is frowned upon to have done a degree in a subject completely unrelated to my main studies. I just completed two masters at top universities concurrently, one in biology and the other in English literature. I did the literature degree to plea... | [
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11,715 | We need to hire a computer scientist with a very particular specialty as a consultant for a long term industrial research project. We've read the relevant papers and so know who does good work in it. But we don't know the first thing about hiring a professor as a consultant.
* Do I just email them and say "Hi, Dr. So ... | [
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11,720 | I am a visiting faculty, professor in B-schools. How does one go about in designing or compiling an open book exam, ensuring that it's not tough and neither too easy. At the same time someone who has not read the book will not be able to answer the question. What at the pointers or measures that should be taken care? I... | [
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11,726 | Inspired by the following question: [Co-authorship for not very involved supervisor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/6130/co-authorship-for-not-very-involved-supervisor)
I have got to ask a slightly different question: I have a past supervisor while I did my masters and she wasn't really involved or as ac... | [
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11,731 | I know you can apply for fellowships for individual students, but I'm not talking about funding only for one's self. Let's say I noticed a grant that was solicited on grants.gov and I wanted to apply for it. Can I do that?
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11,737 | As described in [Hiring a faculty consultant](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/11715/hiring-a-faculty-consultant), we need to hire a faculty consultant. The initial stages are perhaps only 100 hours, but subsequent stages may blossom to ten times that.
Will good professors be able to deliver that much cons... | [
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11,738 | Long story short, my transcript is quite the spectacle: I started off getting really good grades, but due to a lot of personal issues ended up graduating with a respectable, but lackluster GPA. Unfortunately, I have a downward trend. While my final GPA is slightly below 3.5, I have failed quite a few courses. I'm getti... | [
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11,740 | I am a first-year PhD student in Biology and I am currently working in a lab for a very hard-to-please PI (a new PI who started a couple years ago and only just recruited her first few graduate students). I am very interested and excited about this line of research and I really want to do what I am doing. But my PI's w... | [
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11,744 | I'm an undergrad in Australia, and at this stage I want to go on to do further study in maths (or maybe physics/CS, still have a few years till then).
Should I do so, I imagine that I will want to complete a PhD overseas. Possibly at a university in the US or maybe Oxbridge in the UK.
In Australia, PhDs typically tak... | [
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11,746 | I am willing very much to make a transition to a scientific position, but I am not sure what's the best way to do it. I would like to ask for your advice.
Let me describe my situation (it is quite specific, but it can be generalized):
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11,749 | I am fortunate to have a very nice, easy-going advisor (the last because I have seen some horrible PhD advisors). He respects me and my work (I did my master degree under his guidance). Then, I went to another university and returned to him again last year. I am a first year PhD student now. However, I have some issues... | [
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11,755 | I just finished my master and am about to start a funded PhD in October. Thing is that the reason I am doing this PhD is because I missed the deadlines for the PhDs that I am truly interested in. I was thinking that it would be better to do something academic this year and get paid than to do nothing until the next app... | [
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11,760 | In [this](http://jchyip.blogspot.be/2013/08/the-most-interesting-things-ive-learnt.html?view=classic) recent blog post the author lists several interesting concepts he has discovered pertaining to learning. One thing he mentions is the following:
>
> Mastery is more important than passing grades. You will reach limit... | [
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11,765 | [Imposter syndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) is a psychological phenomenon wherein an individual is convinced that they do not deserve the success that they have achieved despite (perhaps extensive) empirical evidence to the contrary. Some people with imposter syndrome doubt their own ability lev... | [
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11,775 | I am a postdoc and will be up in the tenure-track job market in the near future. Just want to know what the average duration one has to work on tenure-track. Is this duration negotiable or there is a strict rule for this duration?
Thanks!
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11,785 | Is the Australian academia following the same system as the US one? i.e., tenure track for a few years, and then tenured? Or it is more like the British one where there is 'probation' period? | [
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11,789 | Following some tips about graduate study, I have contacted the professors before the admission cycle, and managed to secure some appointments with them. I have read through their publications that match my research interests, and prepared some brief write up about my research experiences (though I had sent them my CV b... | [
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11,794 | I am advising an outstanding graduate student who is currently doing a summer internship with a government agency. He is also applying for a permanent job with the same agency, for which I was quite proud to recommend him strongly. That said, his prospective employer has been the subject of recent news reports which ha... | [
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11,802 | Similar to my previous question ["Strategies to overcome “academic-apathy” in the final stages of the PhD?"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10969/strategies-to-overcome-academic-apathy-in-the-final-stages-of-the-phd), one thing I am noticing as I am drafting papers and the thesis, I seem to becoming overc... | [
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11,808 | I'm currently a MSc Computer Networking student and I recently became acquainted with the internet of things. I've fallen completely in love with this new area and I would love to base my dissertation on this area.
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11,809 | Obviously being a teaching assistant as an undergrad or a masters student looks good, but *how good does it look*? Is it merely a nice little bonus, or does extensive TA experience have a large impact on one's acceptance? | [
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11,812 | I did my undergraduate degree in the US and am heading to graduate school here in less than a month, so I myself have taken the Graduate Record Examinations (the general as well as two subjects tests) and I guess it always just seemed as a sort of un-avoidable formality that nothing could be done about, and so I just t... | [
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11,822 | I am a undergraduate student who is trying to publish something so as to facilitate my PhD applications in the future.
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11,825 | I've heard from people saying that while applying for PhD, you need to have past experience in researching something and should have international publications. I was like more concentrated towards practical experience and have't had any publications. If I am aspiring to do PhD and want to apply, it would be impossible... | [
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11,836 | I am encountering some problems for making my research in English, due that this is not my native language. Even though my ideas are crystal clear in my language I find it extremely hard to express them in English.
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11,841 | I finished my B.Sc in CS about 6 month ago and now I am writing a paper for a conference. before when I was a student I put my university and department name below my name as an author. but now I am not a student. I saw somebody put their IEEE membership on the paper something like *"member of IEEE Computer society"* o... | [
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11,847 | If I read a scholarly paper and find it interesting and beneficial, should I write a short thank you letter to the author? Should I send the thank you letter from a `.edu` email address? | [
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11,850 | I'm nearing the completion of my undergraduate degree in mathematics. The handful of experiences I've had tutoring students are among the most satisfying ways I've applied math to real problems. My academic record is good but not honors material. I'm convinced that teaching mathematics at the secondary school level is ... | [
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11,854 | I currently have on my CV a list of conferences I organized, or co-organized, a list of invited talks, a full list of talks, etc. Recently I have been asked to chair a session in a prestigious conference. I am very honored, and thus wondered: is this something I can feature on my CV? If so, would somewhere along with t... | [
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11,861 | In academia, one is forced to read papers that come out. Some of the papers I read are directly related to my work and then it is reasonable to read them in my working hours. Others are completely irrelevant and I read them just for the pleasure and to broaden my knowledge in other areas. These, I think, should be read... | [
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11,865 | I just finished the 2nd year of a PhD program. I was planning to present a poster at the national conference but (probably) need to cancel. Now I'm deciding whether to attend the conference anyway. On the one hand: I'll meet people and probably enjoy myself. On the other hand: I could use the time for other work, would... | [
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11,876 | I have submitted a paper at a conference and it is currently under review. Can I use this paper as a 'scientific report' (asked to assess candidate's writing skills) for a Ph.D application ? | [
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11,881 | I'm trying to submit a latex document to a SAGE journal using ScholarOne.
I'm having a hard time.
The (poor) documentation says that it accepts tex files, but the pdf it produces says that it cannot turn my tex into a pdf.
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11,894 | What is the best way to conduct a training seminar inside a computer laboratory without a projector?
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11,895 | My friend submitted a paper to a well-known computer science conference. One of the reviews was very short - only 2.5 lines of text, extremely general and vague, and rejected the paper. The review is so meaningless, that the author cannot even respond to it, or use it to improve the paper. Additionally, the review incl... | [
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11,896 | I'm a 2nd-year grad student in a US PhD program in one of the social sciences. Coursework has forced me throw out the initial ideas I had about research, which I proposed in my application nearly two years ago. Now I'm actively hunting for the "right" topic.
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11,901 | I was a little bit surprised to read [this comment thread](http://chronicle.com/article/Week-One-on-the-New-Job/141009/) on the Chronicle of Higher Education, which suggests (among other things) that faculty shouldn't fraternize with grad students. I think this site has a different slant than CHE, so I thought I would ... | [
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11,910 | I recently won a scholarship related to my career focus. I was chosen as a winner in part because of a recommendation from a former professor. She is now asking me to draft a press release about winning the scholarship. I am hesitant because I do not want to appear press-hungry, but I would like to allow a write-up to ... | [
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11,912 | 1. What is the difference between termination and suspension?
2. Are there "neutral" ways for a graduate student leaving his graduate
school without completing a degree? Is a student voluntarily leaving his graduate school called termination?
3. When applying to another graduate school, will the student be asked
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11,914 | My research supervisor is a quite strict person who constantly criticizes me for my faults (such as slow progress, or always asking others for help on programming issues).
I don't blame him being a bit too strict with me, because anyway supervisor is here to supervise and give constructive suggestion. I really learn f... | [
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11,920 | I am writing a paper with my teacher and his teacher. I don't know the standard of writing authors name, affiliation and email in the paper. I am using **IEEEtran** template for an IEEE conference. If the authors are in different department or university there is no problem we can use column author name like this:
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11,923 | I had submitted a paper to a reputed Computer Science Journal. The reviewer has a lot of constructive changes, in addition to that he also suggested citing a few more papers, all by the same author. Since this is a double blind process, we don't know each other's identity. So, is it common for reviewers to suggest refe... | [
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11,926 | There's been a case of alleged data manipulation in a recent *Nano Letters* paper (initial report [here](http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2013/08/13/alleged-data-manipulation-in-nano-letters-and-acs-nano-from-the-pease-group/); now-retracted [paper](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl400959z)):
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11,927 | Is it OK to have a letter of recommendation from a senior lecturer rather than from a full professor? The lecturer knows me well (I took two of his classes and I'm TA'ing for him) and he really likes me. Unfortunately he is not involved in research, but I should have two other letters from research profs. | [
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11,936 | I live and teach at a university in S. Korea. I may have an opportunity to complete my PhD in TESOL or English linguistics at this university. However, I am reluctant because I have heard that PhDs from non-Western universities (in particular, Korea) are not valued or equatable to US PhDs. Anecdotal evidence from my de... | [
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11,937 | My current situation is that I am stuck teaching in a couple of universities that do not support the research at all in my country of origin. I am 38 years old and I have finished a MSc degree in Europe (one year ago), but I find it pretty hard to get a funded PhD position until now.
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11,951 | So, without giving out the details about the school. I joined a graduate program at school X, because I was really interested in work of professor Y. I met him during the graduate school visit and I accepted the offer to join school X.
Though Prof. Y did not officially accept me as his graduate student, he said come a... | [
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"text": "Yeah, this happens. :(\n\nI would recommend applying to school Z during your first year at school X. This would be... | 2013/08/18 | [
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