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42,422 | Is it correct to express PhD in brackets "(PhD)" as suffix to express the ongoing degree? | [
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42,432 | There was a master student who was supervised by a lecturer for his dissertation. They also decided to write and submitted a paper, whose first author was the master student, based on the dissertation. The paper is accepted but it also creates an issue about who should go and present it since there is enough funding fo... | [
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42,440 | I'm currently writing a paper on a certain topic for which a review article was recently published. Of course, I want to contrast my new approach to existing techniques. For that purpose, I have identified the relevant prior work with the help of the above-mentioned review article.
However, in my current version, I si... | [
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"text": "I do not see why that would be plagiarism at all. Taking references from other papers, reading them, and citing them i... | 2015/03/26 | [
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42,454 | I am an academic with hoping for an offer at an Oceania university. I want to know how common in this system is it to ask the university to give my spouse a job? It is common and often successful in the U.S. universities, but I don't know in the Oceania (which is largely the same as the British) system. | [
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"text": "*My experience on this is more anecdotal, but perhaps it will be helpful.*\n\nIn Australia, I've certainly known p... | 2015/03/26 | [
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42,460 | I'd like to cite the following articles from "Scientific Data" (a journal from the Nature Publishing Group), but no authors are mentioned (as far as I can tell):
1. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.4>
2. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2014.10>
However, it's likely that it was written by one (or more) of Nature... | [
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42,473 | I was at the MIT-Vienna-Conference and they had a pretty nice App-System (Superevent), where Questions to the Speaker could be asked per the Superevent-app, upvoted from others and finally answered by the speaker, all without hand-raising, etc.
I now would like to try to implement that sort of "Guerilla" in my Univers... | [
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42,475 | I'm a pre-doctoral researcher (does it exist?) figuring out my true interests and learning the craft. When I start exploring a new (that is, unfamiliar) area, I try to find the most influential literature and scholars in that area through a haphazard and unsystematic process (such as starting with some highly-cited pap... | [
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42,481 | I have a friend who was accepted into an [interdisciplinary program at the University of Arizona](http://abbs.arizona.edu/) a few years ago.
They are more than halfway to completing their Ph.D., however their advisor is indicating that they may not receive the full amount of funding this year.
Their offer letter and ... | [
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42,486 | In a face-to-face meeting with a professor, he told me he would send me some papers to read. It's been almost a week, so I assume he's forgotten. That is understandable, since he has a lot to do. I would like to send an email to remind him, but am having difficulty writing it. How can I phrase it nicely? | [
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"text": "> \n> Dear Professor X,\n> \n> \n> during our meeting last week, you mentioned that you wanted to send me... | 2015/03/27 | [
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42,487 | I worked on my research for about 2 years and recently submitted a paper to a reputed conference. The referee reports came back and one of the referees pointed out papers that I should have encountered in my literature review but didn't. The knowledge of these papers completely changes the way I view my own work now. I... | [
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42,488 | I'm currently an undergraduate and have a cGPA of about 3.6 in Mathematics. I worry that it's not good enough to land me a place at some of the best graduate schools such as UCB, Princeton and MIT. I still have a little over a year left till I get my degree, which means that I still have time to mess up or increase my ... | [
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42,499 | This question was prompted by answers and comments on [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42481/proper-procedure-when-promised-funding-not-given-to-ph-d-graduate-student) about PhD student funding.
I am under the impression that STEM Ph.D. graduate students, when accepted into an RU/VH univers... | [
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42,511 | I am just about to send a paper for publication, and I would be grateful for some advice on how I should acknowledge my fellow PhD students.
The paper in question is my own, in the sense that I am the only author. However, it is clear that science does not happen in vacuum, and it was helpful to have an informal discu... | [
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42,514 | I am currently doing a medical science research masters with a difficult supervisor. Due to two incidents of equipment malfunctions (equipment that I am using), I was stopped from doing any experiments for more than three months in total. During the three months I did almost nothing. Over the entire 6 months that I hav... | [
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"text": "In experimental sciences, such incidents are unfortunately common. I do a lot of work in synthetic biology, for e... | 2015/03/28 | [
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42,519 | I am about to resubmit a manuscript to a journal, having now addressed the reviewers' feedback.
The instructions say to submit my final manuscript along with a "marked-up manuscript", which is "the final version showing all changes from the former version".
Since my manuscript is in LaTeX, what is the standard way of... | [
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42,523 | The below is in a paper I am reading, written by Gareis.
>
> One of the uppermost complaints of study-abroad students remains the lack of
> meaningful contact with host nationals (e.g., Gareis, 1995; Klineberg & Hull, 1979;
> Marginson, Nyland, Sawir, & Forbes-Mewett, 2010; Ward & Masgoret, 2004;
> Yashima, Zenuk-... | [
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42,527 | While I was doing my PhD in my previous position I was diagnosed with a mental illness. I started medication however as a result I could not concentrate very well and it made me quit my previous position. I continued my medication and recently have reduced it. Now I think I am able to concentrate again.
Soon I will ha... | [
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42,539 | I was made a verbal offer for a job at a college, which I accepted over the phone. I haven't got the written offer and I have not signed anything yet. I was informed the written offer will be sent to me in a few days.
That evening, I received an interview e-mail from the same college but a different campus (which I pr... | [
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42,546 | I've had a promising Skype interview with a great professor from a top-level university in US. Our research interests are closely related and he encouraged me to apply BUT he says that all decisions are finally made by admission committee there.
The question is "Is a professor in such a high-level university able to a... | [
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42,548 | On behalf of my advisor, I recently wrote a grant to obtain some specialized and expensive hardware. Is it ok to mention this on my CV, even though the grant is in my advisor's name and if yes, what would be a good way to word it ? | [
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42,553 | My supervisor gave me some guidance in order to complete my Masters thesis and to publish the result in a journal. His idea to develop the work is not correct and in this case I know my thesis better than him.
How do I tell him his idea is not correct? | [
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42,569 | I am PhD student and I had submitted my manuscript by email (the journal has not online submission system) to one ISI journal in November 2014. After one month I asked about the status of my paper but they said that they have not received any paper. Then again they want me to try for submission.
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42,573 | Is there a problem to change (reduce) list of authors of a paper after it has been submitted to a journal? I am one of the (ten) co-authors of this paper. After the review and changes we made in the paper, one of the coauthors withdrew as a co-author of this paper.
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42,581 | Is it okay to contact potential advisor if you have no specific topic in mind about your dissertation? I wanted to pursue graphics for masters, its a bit difficult narrowing it down. Is it okay to ask them for a specific topic? | [
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42,588 | Note: I saw this [link](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/14063/while-contacting-professors-should-we-mention-if-we-have-contacted-some-other-fa), however I'm hoping to get wider range of opinions to help me make my decisions.
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42,594 | Is it generally accepted in academia, that a PhD supervisor should have a PhD in the same research area as the student's PhD research area?
For example, let's assume that my research area is the ACM subject area "Information Systems" and the supervisor's research area is in Sociology > Psychology. | [
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42,606 | I am an international grad student in the US. I would like to quit the PhD program(mathematics) in where I spent 2 years without "any degree" for some reasons. I am in the status prior to the research. If I want to apply for another PhD in other universities, will leaving the fact that I dropped a PhD program without a... | [
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42,615 | I have done my bachelors and currently doing masters in pure mathematics. I have done four physics courses during bachelors degree which also includes special relativity. What is the possibility that I may prosper in theoretical physics and earn a PhD in any branch of mathematical physics?
Also, I am going to take the... | [
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42,624 | When I have to use Microsoft Word for writing a paper, I tend to export most my graphs and charts into the PNG image format since I find it the most convenient due to its smaller size (than [TIFF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format)) and higher quality (than [JPEG](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG))... | [
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42,627 | I will soon defend my PhD in social science in Sweden. I want to ask what questions the evaluation committee will ask me during the defense?
If they ask me some questions outside my thesis, what shall I do? Is it enough only know well my own research?
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42,630 | I'd like to know what percentage of PhD candidates in Computer Science does not graduate with a PhD and thus drops out of their PhD program.
This number probably varies quite a bit for different countries (e.g., in Continental Europe one usually has to have a Master's degree before being eligible to start with a PhD,... | [
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42,645 | I got my Ph.D. in math in the last year and am currently in the first year of a 3-year research-oriented postdoc at a large public American university. I am finding it harder and harder to focus on research, not necessarily because of teaching, but for various reasons which I don't think are relevant to the question, a... | [
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42,648 | What does "TV-L (E14, 100% position)" mean in terms of gross and net pay? What lifestyle does this buy you in Berlin?
This is in the context of a postdoc at a research institute. | [
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42,652 | I made a rude comment to my advisor's spouse when I was 19. I have recently discovered that she and a tenured professor in a program that I declared a second major in were/are good friends, and the two planned and plotted ways to harass me out of that major - in order to avenge the offended spouse. Is this unethical? A... | [
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42,657 | I'm a chemistry major and I've developed a strong interest in some areas of physical chemistry (and physics) and I do really well in physics and math courses. However, organic chemistry has really hit my GPA pretty hard.
This is due mostly to the fact that I'm having a tough time with the subject material and recent i... | [
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42,660 | In a thesis or journal you write all sentences yourself, but on some occasions you prefer to take a piece of text from another source. If you do, should you use quotation marks only, or italicize it, or use both, to identify that you have not written it?
Example for quoting directly from a source:
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> 1. This can, a... | [
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42,669 | General-purpose word-processing programs are OK for academic writing. But I feel the experience can be much improved with some specialized software that takes better care of the special needs of academic writers, such as version control, collaboration, reference generation, in-text citation etc.
Is there any such soft... | [
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42,674 | I'm an undergraduate. I sent two emails to professors regarding potential research work. Both responded positively, which I didn't expect, and I started work with one of the profs last term. As for the other, I think his work is incredibly interesting but I simply don't have the time for two research projects at once. ... | [
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42,679 | I'm currently a M.S. student. My supervisor give me freedom to choose thesis topic. Since it is so hard for me, I decide to ask another professors whom I consider to be their PhD candidates in future. I have written an email to ask them.
Is it a good idea to do so? And is my email appropriate for this purpose?
>
> D... | [
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42,691 | When writing a paper that discusses previous work by the same set of authors, what is the correct way to refer to it?
For example,
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> "In 2012 Fred et al. introduced a third way of resolving the washing crisis [1234]."
>
>
>
Should this be written
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42,704 | I read that some candidates will arrange their interviews by not placing the preferred ones at the beginning. How that is possible? Do they wait for few weeks to know all their interviews and then decide? | [
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42,720 | I am wondering if academics (Professors, Researchers etc.) who usually have to spend their lives on research get bored of the subject or get tired of research?
In this case, I want to know how they stay motivated - for example Nobel Laureates more often spend a large part of their life (15 - 20 years) on specific res... | [
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42,724 | This question might be appropriate for music SE but I am looking for more academic views.
I know of Associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. Inside of these are different fields. I have also seen JD (law) and DM (music). I have recently seen "Graduate Performance Diploma". While I usually do not think of the... | [
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42,727 | My research team has developed a model, analyzed data, and generated results. We are currently in the process of publishing the results -- the article is in review -- and we are preparing to make our model available (we're talking with the publisher about whether to include it as a supplementary material with the journ... | [
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42,732 | I am a non-academic who has collaborated (privately, no employer support) with some academic researchers and been invited to present our work at a conference. The conference admission price and travel costs are steep.
Is there any provision for my collaborator's university to pay for *my* travel costs as well? (I know... | [
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42,734 | In response to a solicitation in an area of my expertise, I approached a known expert in a different field; I had thought of a way to apply that field to solve the problem. He liked my idea and set up a meeting with him and his postdocs; over time, we went through several rounds of written communication, proposal outli... | [
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42,741 | I applied for an permanent lecturer position in the UK and received an answer of the type "we regret to inform you...". My question is, should I call the university and ask more details about the selection procedure such as how many candidates were shortlisted, what was my overall ranking among the candidates, etc., or... | [
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42,753 | Is there any publication venue that makes rejected papers available for download?
I am most interested in the field of computer science, and English-speaking venues. | [
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42,756 | If a conference accepted a paper with 3 authors, and the 2 co-authors were mainly reviewers. When submitting an extended version to a journal, should the co-authors be included or they can be removed? Can the paper include new authors? | [
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42,761 | Is it a bad sign in a department if most of those who do their thesis in that department also did their undergraduate studies there and most of those who get their PhD there either
1. are employed in said university
or more often than that
2. find themselves outside of academia roughly within 5 years after defense?
... | [
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42,763 | I am in High-School but want to pursue research in Computer Science, but as you know High-School usually does not offer any such options or tasks.
So I want to explore avenues where I can get these options and tasks as I am **very very** interested and really want to do it.
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42,770 | In [a comment](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/32855/should-i-start-my-cv-by-telling-about-myself#comment73689_32884), ff524 said this (and got confirmed by scaahu, Nate Eldredge below (not to mention the number of votes)):
>
> Actually, academic CVs are typically not as sales-pitch-y as non-academic CVs... | [
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42,771 | I'm in the process of setting up an account on Academia.edu and as you may know there is an area that allows you to add publications. My question is how does this work with a copyright agreement (Springer International Publishing) that I have signed?
For anyone that may have also signed this agreement: going by Sectio... | [
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42,782 | For example in computer science, systems conferences have low acceptance rates hovering around ~20% as listed here: <https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/conf/stats/>
But in robotics many of the conferences, even the major ones, seem to have acceptance rates of ~40% (ICRA, IROS) as seen here: <http://www.adaptivebox.net/... | [
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42,792 | This question was inspired by the [recent question on posting to Academia.edu](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42771/uploading-papers-on-sites-such-as-academia-edu-copyright-issues-author-copy).
The general copyright policy for Bwrungor, as listed on [SHERPA/RoMEO](http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/), is that... | [
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42,795 | Recently, I attended a conference as a [corresponding author](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corresponding_author) of a paper with five authors. After the paper was published in the conference proceedings, I realized that the technical editor changed the authors order by grouping them according to their affiliations. I... | [
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42,811 | I was just about to send my first PhD application to University XXX. I am currently finishing my master's thesis at University XXX. Would it be incorrect to use my university address to apply for PhD positions?.
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42,826 | I read that universities invite candidates and ask them to book a flight. If universities don't specify the amount available, can candidates select any airfare? Should the candidates ask or just book any? 100$ or 1000$, would that matter? And do booking the cheapest flight be a positive sign? | [
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42,835 | Someone I know is apparently claiming to have obtained PhD when I know for a fact that he did not. He is working in a biomedical company and having himself presented as Dr. Is there a way to have this checked out? | [
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42,841 | This happened to me in my 2nd year of grad school, in a STEM field. As many do, our professor gave the class the last year's final, to give us an idea of what areas to study and what to expect, etc, which he obviously isn't required to do and is very nice of him.
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42,845 | I am applying for a faculty position and want to highlight the quality of my publications.
Are any of the following appropriate in an academic CV:
* citation rate (citations/year)
* F1000 Recommendations
* separating a 'monograph' from other 'articles'?
If so, how should I do it?
For example, should I just put the... | [
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42,857 | I want to start soon with a Ph.D. in mathematics, though I'm not sure, that long-term I want to stay in mathematics. But I know that I'm going to like doing mathematics full-time right now and invest the effort required for a Ph.D. so this unsureness will not deter me. Additionally, because I'm quite old, I want to do ... | [
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42,861 | I just know ProQuest which supplies some PhD dissertations. However, it's hard to find some the dissertations of French and German.
So are there any other good databases for dissertations of French, German, UK, USA? Any answer is encouraged. | [
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42,869 | Is there any web site that shows average Ph.D. student salaries in European countries, and also information about living cost and so on?
update: what about France and Germany? | [
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42,876 | Let us consider that one is supposed to teach a class of a large number of students (say 100 or more). I am thinking of this scenario corresponding to undergraduate students, but hoping for a general solution.
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42,884 | I am part of a recently founded laboratory in computational biology and we are trying to get all the parts (biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and so on) to speak the same language, or at least one we can all understand. To do so, we want to figure out some strategies beside seminars and weekly lectures.
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42,889 | For PhD graduates who are more interested in research and little teaching, which is better, a postdoc with a focus on research, or a (non-tenure-track) teaching position (lecturer, instructor, etc.)? I assume that both positions would be helpful when moving to a research position. The point with a postdoc is that even ... | [
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42,908 | In September I started a mathematics PhD at a UK university straight after my undergraduate MMath degree at a different university. On the whole, I am enjoying the experience. However, I've been having recurring thoughts that perhaps I am not cut out for doctorate level work and it might be a good idea to revisit mathe... | [
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42,910 | I'm putting together a slideshow for an upcoming talk (I'm in a field where slideshows are slowly becoming common, and these colloquia are always good opportunities to get used to things like this). The talk itself only runs to slide 20 or so, but after that I'm going to have another 20-25 slides to help me deal with a... | [
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42,918 | I finished bachelor's in mathematical finance and am nearly finished with master's in mathematical finance (I am already done with thesis), and I plan to pursue a PhD not in mathematical finance but in pure mathematics particularly stochastic analysis.
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42,921 | I'm currently a Master's student in my final year and I want to start a Ph.D. next year. I really like doing research (one of my papers got published in a fairly reputable journal), but I more or less dislike the teaching aspect that comes with the Ph.D. title. Is there any alternative way to do research, outside of in... | [
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42,931 | How do you name the section on your CV to list your participation as scientific/organization members in academic events (e.g. conferences, workshops, etc.)?
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42,938 | Is it possible to order a physical copy of an academic journal? If I were published and wanted a copy of that Issue to keep, could I buy a physical copy? The journal that I might be published in is Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, which is an AIP journal. | [
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42,944 | Assume a student with diagnosed depression or bipolar disorder has already been admitted to the university, and thus has a resume comparable to their peers. How do you feel about taking them on? | [
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42,950 | I'm currently finishing the 3rd year of my Computer Science course at University. My expected classification is Second-class honours, upper division (2:1). After I finish this course, I'd like to go ahead and study further for a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and become a teacher.
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42,951 | Almost every discipline in humanities and science requires some level of math. It seems to me that math majors can specialize in any field they like, while people who are good with words are stuck with editorial or journalistic jobs. I’m not trying to make an unwarranted dichotomy between linguistic intelligence and ma... | [
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42,952 | As faculty or postdoc positions at top schools are getting hard to land, should Ph.D. students interested with research continue to work as research assistants and publish more, or try to get a teaching position or work in industry and then try to move to a research position? | [
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42,953 | I am a distance education student at a Parisian university, and I am currently preparing for the exam in a research-level mathematics course.
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42,957 | I've graduated and I'm looking to apply to a Ph.D. program in computer science. However, during my undergraduate years I did not take math courses other than the ones required for the CS major (i.e., discrete maths and algorithms). Thus I haven't taken a college course in calculus/statistics/linear algebra/probability,... | [
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42,959 | When you're writing your dissertation, your advisor will undoubtedly make many contributions. They might suggest literature to look into or ways of tackling a problem. Many of these contributions I assume would be acknowledged sufficiently in the acknowledgements section where you thank those who helped, your advisor a... | [
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42,987 | Some scholarly articles explain in detail the epistemological and ontological differences of the two methods, while some argue that the distinction between them is now blurred. I try to reconcile this inconsistency by thinking that quantitative and qualitative traditions form a methodological spectrum, where pure quant... | [
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42,990 | Some people claim that working as an independent researcher is more useful than collaborating with others, since you will be the star in that field and maybe get more funds. Others disagree, and think that collaborating and publishing more is more useful. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and... | [
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43,001 | On my CV, I would like to reference some "letters of gratitude" I have received from different institutions about training courses I have given to them.
I imagine these letters could go under "Honors and Awards" section on my CV, is that right?
How should I mention these letters? Something like:
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43,012 | Recently, I submitted a paper to a journal published by Elsevier. The "Elsevier Journal Finder" feature suggested this particular journal in #3 out of a total of 5 suggestions. A while ago, I had also published a work in the same journal, which was of the same topic (satellite retrievals) that I was trying to submit no... | [
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43,017 | My campus is full of flyers, typically attached to lightposts and so, advertising to write essays for money. There's plenty of such services offered on the internet as well. Presumably, many students make use of such service.
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43,019 | Computer Science PhD admit here.
Is it crazy of me to turn down a top school (MIT/Stanford) for a lower-ranked school (think Cornell/UW/Columbia/Michigan) if I think there is better advisor fit?
Obviously all of these are fantastic schools and I am very lucky to be choosing from them. However, I felt like I got alon... | [
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43,023 | A friend is in a situation where they obtained a PhD in one field in a different country, but now is working at a university in an unrelated field in a non-faculty, non-research position. However, they have got invited to a conference to present on matters relating to their PhD field. How should they list their affilia... | [
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43,035 | I had sent my manuscript mistakenly to two different journals and both journals are ready to publish (not yet published) my work which is not possible. So, after knowing their impact factor I requested one of the journals to withdraw my paper. They had just sent me the review of my paper and for withdrawal they are dem... | [
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43,057 | If I won 3rd place or an honorable mention for Award X. Is it reasonable to simply state the name of the award without stating what place I got? | [
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43,062 | I'm doing a project-based postdoc in an European university.
I have serious ongoing eye conditions that significantly affect my reading speed and as a result it took me 5 years to complete my PhD in a country where a standard Ph/D/ is only for 3 years.
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43,064 | * Is there any possible penalty (from the educational institution) for the professor for disrespecting a student?
* What can and cannot do a professor in terms of respect to a student? | [
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43,066 | I saw that some students, even from top schools and who are giving faculty candidate talks are posting a sentence like, "I am actively looking for a job in ..". Is this a good thing or only shows a desperate job candidate? | [
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43,073 | **In general**:
What is the proper manner in which to thank a supervisor for allowing you to take a really long shot? I am talking about when a professor (supervisor) who did not really know you decides to give you a chance, even though there is clearly a very low probability of success. Especially in the case where t... | [
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43,075 | I just got tenured and promoted to an associate professor, the contract for which will start from Fall this year. However, my partner, who is also in academia just accepted an position in another city starting from this Fall. Our plan is to give up our current tenured positions and move the entire family to the new cit... | [
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43,085 | As an undergrad I had a couple majors and a couple minors...no big deal. Ultimately all it meant was I took a lot of classes all over the place and went through the time and effort to declare them.
As a PhD student, though, declaring a minor is pretty uncommon. Hell, a lot of schools don't even offer the option. My un... | [
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43,096 | Self-explanatory. I would be most interested to hear from researchers who have published a fair amount, decided one way or the other wasn't working for them, so switched — and why.
Related advice / observations welcome: e.g. "why the hell would you need more than one .bib file?" | [
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43,104 | When writing a technical article that includes mathematical proofs: Is it acceptable to have footnotes within the body of a formal proof (to elaborate/clarify non-essential points) or is the use of footnotes in proofs considered bad practice? | [
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43,122 | I'm a recently minted postdoc working in an applied computer science field. Occasionally I get requests to review an article, or even to serve as a technical program committee member in various workshops.
Should I basically accept all of these requests as long as the papers to be reviewed are related to my subfield? O... | [
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43,140 | I have now more than once had the following series of experiences as a referee of mathematics papers:
1. Elite Journal A sends me a paper. I find some problems with it, some small and some large, and describe them in a carefully- and thoughtfully-written report, but also tell the editor that even if the problems were ... | [
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43,147 | Generally speaking, keeping the door open to your office while attending with a student (or students) is a safe policy given the amount of danger one can get in should any allegations be made. (I mention this last bit in light of the number of Title IX investigations that seem to be on the rise.)
However, is there eve... | [
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