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2017/01/19 | 868 | 3,773 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it just to check that the paper's results are correct? Should I expect that the authors describe their methods for arriving at the right answers / solving a problem? I've often found that on a key part of the paper, e.g., the main result, the authors just give you the data without explaining... |
2017/01/19 | 1,051 | 4,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I am thinking of buying a small gift, like coffee, for a teaching assistant, who helped me solve problems in a particular subject, even outside of work time, to thank for the effort.
Is this appropriate or even allowed?<issue_comment>username_1: I would consider that, in many cases, helping... |
2017/01/20 | 1,239 | 5,230 | <issue_start>username_0: When taking notes while studying papers or concepts I'm always torn between
1. **classic pen & paper approach**, which I personally find more productive;
2. **digital approach**, will make it easier to find/sort/filter information later
I'm going to be a Computer Science Ph.D student, so I h... |
2017/01/20 | 1,229 | 5,068 | <issue_start>username_0: I have finished my M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 2016. I wish to pursue a PhD. Currently I am preparing for GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, a master’s-level national entrance exam in India). In this respect, I have a few questions.
1. If I only have a valid GATE score but no CS... |
2017/01/21 | 1,414 | 6,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a lab that I feel I cannot grow sufficiently in and am considering changing labs. The background is I chose to join this lab because it was aligned with the work I wanted to do, but I didn't really look into it any further since this was my first experience joining a lab.
After being i... |
2017/01/21 | 420 | 1,753 | <issue_start>username_0: For any paper on Google Scholar, you can click "Cited by ..." to see a list of subsequent papers that cite the original paper.
However, is it possible to see a list of papers that the original paper cites? I realize that one can simply view the paper itself for the list of references, but I wo... |
2017/01/21 | 1,561 | 6,503 | <issue_start>username_0: This may not be a suitable question for this but I wanted to seek some advice from some of you out there. I came into Florida State University as a PhD student in Financial Mathematics and I am finishing my second year here. I passed my qualification exams and started exploring in areas of Mont... |
2017/01/21 | 522 | 2,268 | <issue_start>username_0: If I am interviewed for a summer research program, would it be a bad idea for me to bring up the topic of publications? I've noticed recently that professors usually aren't comfortable talking about this, so would asking about this make me look bad?
I'm an undergraduate looking to pursue a Ph.... |
2017/01/21 | 1,244 | 4,489 | <issue_start>username_0: My name is SALMAN. No Middle and Last name. How do I write my name in research paper or article?<issue_comment>username_1: You have two choices.
Either just use your given name, e.g., as in [*<NAME>, <NAME>, **Robby**, <NAME>: Exploiting Object Escape and Locking Information in Partial-Order R... |
2017/01/21 | 395 | 1,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a PhD offer from University A, but I'm also considering other programmes (say C and D), for which I will interview soon.
I was wondering: should I mention during my interviews with C and D that I received an offer from A? What effect would this information have on my interview... |
2017/01/21 | 1,320 | 5,928 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for my PhD to start this Autumn. There is a conference coming up soon with a theme which is very relevant to my PhD topic and I would like to submit an abstract for it, write the paper and then develop parts of it for my PhD at a later stage. Is it OK to write a paper for the conf... |
2017/01/21 | 1,820 | 7,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on a book with several fellow researchers, and there seems to be a disagreement of how the author names should be listed. The book will be published by a major university press and will be listed on its website as well, so the order of names of the authors has become a to... |
2017/01/22 | 330 | 1,395 | <issue_start>username_0: Besides thanking my thesis advisor, can I acknowledge other professors who have guided me along the way during my master's program or is the acknowledgements section really only for thanking the advisor?<issue_comment>username_1: You might want to peek at a few other examples to make sure there... |
2017/01/22 | 3,918 | 16,306 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad and I tend to learn better when I understand the concepts behind things instead of rote repetition. As a result of this, I often have questions.
There are times when I don't understand concepts, so I'll ask questions. If after a line of questioning, I still don't understand so... |
2017/01/22 | 2,318 | 9,589 | <issue_start>username_0: The other day a former classmate asked to read my thesis and I don't know why but I got a little concerned about it and just told him honestly that, "I may do future work based on my thesis submission so I don't feel comfortable sharing it with you at the moment."
Am I right to feel this way? ... |
2017/01/22 | 1,875 | 7,562 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD advisor and I simply do not get along. I think it has a lot to do with the language and cultural barriers (we are in Germany). We had an argument this week that almost led to me quitting, but on Friday we discussed how things could be improved. However I still can't shake the notion away... |
2017/01/22 | 319 | 1,428 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an acceptance letter to a Master's Program. The official enrollment will be in one month. Until then I am not officially in the program yet.
I am about to finish a paper and I want to submit it to a conference. Would it be unethical to claim affiliation in my paper in this situation... |
2017/01/23 | 1,866 | 7,286 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago I started collecting papers that contain figures I think convey information in a very efficient manner (i.e., figures that I think are very well illustrated and that should serve as examples of how they should be designed).
Now, because I am a huge data-vis geek, I have been t... |
2017/01/23 | 693 | 3,143 | <issue_start>username_0: Can someone explain me the significance of Virtual issues, the difference between Virtual and Special issues? Also, under what conditions does a journal propose for a Virtual issue, does it have any impact on the Impact factor of the journal?<issue_comment>username_1: I suspect you might have t... |
2017/01/23 | 521 | 2,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a fellowship with the help from a potential PhD supervisor back in October. I had to write a research proposal and personal statement. The professor helped me edit it, and build the research proposal. I have been notified I have passed to the next round of the fellowship selection... |
2017/01/23 | 1,507 | 6,565 | <issue_start>username_0: In some of my papers, some of the results require tedious but straightforward algebraic manipulations. I am not sure what is the best way to present these manipulations:
* I can write them at the paper body, then they might disturb the continuous reading of the text and distract the reader fro... |
2017/01/23 | 646 | 2,601 | <issue_start>username_0: In a couple of weeks, I have to present my master thesis to both my professors (supervisors) and family and friends. After the title page, I immediately present the main novelty of my thesis (instead of first presenting a lot of "blablabla" about the literature and stuff).
What would be a sui... |
2017/01/23 | 1,708 | 6,181 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> "*You became a professor at Cornell without ever having received a
> Ph.D. You seem almost proud of that fact.*
>
>
> Oh, yes. I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system
> is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German
> professors in the 19th c... |
2017/01/23 | 974 | 4,529 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor was the corresponding author of an article written by me as first author and one second co-author. Having the correspondence with the editor, the professor didn't give much information about the actual status of the article, allthough I asked several times for it.
Some months late... |
2017/01/23 | 1,234 | 5,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having trouble choosing a category for a paper to upload to the [arXiv](https://arxiv.org).
The paper gives some results concerning substochastic matrices, [M-matrices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-matrix), and algorithms to determine whether a matrix is an M-matrix.
I am having troub... |
2017/01/23 | 1,715 | 7,238 | <issue_start>username_0: Some students with what is considered as academic disabilities receive 30 minutes of additional time for every hour of exam, which is a factor of 1.5 to the exam time.
How is this perceived by professors? Might some of them think that these students get an edge or advantage over other student... |
2017/01/23 | 1,163 | 4,816 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a mathematics PhD student looking for a postdoc position in the US, and I currently have two job offers:
1. Offer A is from a top department, but while they have some good researchers working in my field, they're certainly not the top researchers in that field.
2. Offer B is from a good bu... |
2017/01/23 | 745 | 3,024 | <issue_start>username_0: In a group, postdoc *A* believes postdoc *B* sabotaged her experiments. *A* shares her frustration with the PI (without proof) in a "half-jokingly, half-serious" sense. Since then, strange things appear to be happening in the lab -- specifically, *B*'s experiments are behaving strangely. There ... |
2017/01/24 | 758 | 3,070 | <issue_start>username_0: In addition to teaching at a U.S. university, I also do some private tutoring on the side. I am always scrupulous about observing my university's conflict of interest policy, which prohibits tutoring a student who is taking a course that I am currently teaching (even if he is in a different sec... |
2017/01/24 | 722 | 3,284 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it considered an academic misconduct to skip listing a university's name in the graduate application, in which somebody got admission but never attended any class/lab/test/exam whatsoever and as a result his transcript is shown failed in all courses in one semester?<issue_comment>username_1:... |
2017/01/24 | 769 | 3,505 | <issue_start>username_0: During January 2017 I noticed that one of my publications from 2000 that had a significant number of citations had disappeared from my Google Scholar publication list. I re-entered the missing publication manually, however, the citations have not reappeared. Rather another author’s paper appear... |
2017/01/24 | 1,985 | 7,464 | <issue_start>username_0: [<NAME> removed his list of predatory journals from the internet this past Sunday](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics). While the reasons for his doing this are not yet public, this is a real loss of a va... |
2017/01/25 | 3,883 | 15,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I as a student have done various courses at my university and for each of these courses a textbook was prescribed. On the other hand, the instructor provided his notes as well. The textbook was huge (approximately 500 pages) whereas the lecture notes were only 100 pages and really short and cle... |
2017/01/25 | 546 | 2,306 | <issue_start>username_0: If a professor gives a D for a student "just because", what can the student do?
In previous classes, this student was called ridiculous in the front of all the others, and this professor was always saying bad things about her.
Knowing that a D is a shameful, cut-off (one can lose their funding)... |
2017/01/25 | 627 | 1,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I find self-criticism and irony are strong means to communicate genuinely and involve people who are not necessarily expert in a field.
As cartoons offer a quick yet poignant way to describe how academia works, I am wondering which cartoons on academia are the most popular. I am interested in ... |
2017/01/25 | 782 | 3,397 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen a handful of academic teaching jobs request that the applicant send "**copies of student evaluations**" as part of the application.
1. **How exactly is this supposed to be done?**
* Pick and choose your favorites / all the positive evaluations?
* Send an entire class's evaluation... |
2017/01/25 | 1,040 | 4,276 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in a research group with a large number of international graduate students. Recent news in my country (the United States) has been deeply unsettling for some of these students, especially the ones who hail from "unwelcome" countries (see [here](http://www.wsj.com/articles/ban-on-u-s-entr... |
2017/01/25 | 1,133 | 4,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently published an article in a "renowned" open access journal which cost us 2000 USD. I say 'renowned' - not to brag, but to highlight that the journal is not the kind of new age OA journal from which I would expect questionable practices.
Another group of researchers now started t... |
2017/01/25 | 6,834 | 28,809 | <issue_start>username_0: During and after the talks and seminars in our dept. (~80 people, ~10 groups, ~40 postdocs+PhD+Master students), it is extremely rare to see postdocs or students asking questions. 90-95% of the questions are asked by senior people (mainly PIs or experienced permanent researchers).
This probabl... |
2017/01/25 | 570 | 2,688 | <issue_start>username_0: It can be argued in this day and age that virtually all academic journals are *international*, since they are online. Anyone with an internet connection can read and submit their work to journals, independent of their physical location or nationality (assuming they are not paywalled, which is s... |
2017/01/26 | 926 | 3,944 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that it is a common practice in computer science to submit a short version of article in conference and extended version in journal.
What if I submit same article one short version to conference and full version to journal simultaneously?
The journal has already mentioned that the... |
2017/01/26 | 821 | 3,329 | <issue_start>username_0: I am nearing the end of my undergraduate career at a not so great school (UHCL for those who are curious). I have an excellent GPA and an internship with a stellar company. The catch is I will probably have to go to grad school in order to work at that company, and this company likes to get ful... |
2017/01/26 | 1,910 | 8,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I've actually just finished applying to 12 graduate programs all around the country and so far, things have been pretty smooth but there is one thing that I am concerned about.
I have three people that I asked to write a letter of recommendation for me. Two of them have all sent in their LOR's... |
2017/01/26 | 848 | 3,537 | <issue_start>username_0: A respectable journal with high standards recently published a (mathematical) article. I care about the topic deeply, so I had a look at the paper. In several parts, it is poorly written (the authors are not native speakers, but I'm unsure whether they are students). In my opinion, the results ... |
2017/01/26 | 733 | 3,041 | <issue_start>username_0: Some years ago I published an article in a [Copernicus Open Access Journal](http://publications.copernicus.org/open-access_journals/journals_by_subject.html). They have a peer review process called [Interactive Public Peer Review](http://publications.copernicus.org/services/public_peer_review.h... |
2017/01/26 | 303 | 1,259 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to the graduate program in astronomy in US universities. In support of my application I have provided three recommendation letters. Two are from my thesis advisors, while the remaining one is from my course instructor who works in condensed matter physics. He is well known in his ... |
2017/01/26 | 1,313 | 5,970 | <issue_start>username_0: Personally I believe publication process is not optimized at all and is too wasteful. There are numerous problems associated with it, however, here I just point out one of those.
Due to formal presentation of papers, usually reading a scientific paper especially in field of science and enginee... |
2017/01/26 | 826 | 3,039 | <issue_start>username_0: Ads for postdocs in Sweden appear to always have a rule like *PhD degree obtained preferable not longer than three-five years ago*:
Example [1](http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=4747), [2](http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announ... |
2017/01/26 | 988 | 4,029 | <issue_start>username_0: In my research field, software tools are considered a research outcome, and therefore it's normal that researchers build tools and make them publicly available. However, in many cases, the authors only make the executable for a tool available, without sharing the source code used to build the t... |
2017/01/27 | 8,587 | 36,042 | <issue_start>username_0: First of all, I need to apologize for writing a really long description.
I started my PhD in Mechanical Engineering 4 years ago and working with a professor, who has no idea on what we are doing and keep changing research area based on the funding possibilities irrespective of our capabilitie... |
2017/01/27 | 787 | 3,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the stage of my PhD (in math) where I need to start discussing with my advisor about my PhD project and I'm wondering what kind of things am I allowed to say and which ones should I avoid. I want to know how should I manage my communications with them.
More concretely, to whic... |
2017/01/27 | 2,644 | 10,931 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it a bad idea to mention in a paper that I plan to address some of the questions it rises in a future paper?
**Background**: While discussing some results from a recent preprint with other people, we came to the conclusion that with similar methods we can prove a much more general statemen... |
2017/01/27 | 1,505 | 6,202 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate currently. I am looking to pursue a PhD next year. I have an established PI here who I have been working very well with, and we already have, well, probably at least 2 years in the future worth of plans for potential projects. Obviously, it often does not look good to do yo... |
2017/01/27 | 1,101 | 4,435 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I received the preliminary result for the MSCA-IF-2016 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship) application, and I learned that I am in the 'reserve list'. I wonder if there is a way to learn the updated funding threshold, which can help me make a better guess regarding ... |
2017/01/27 | 1,652 | 7,262 | <issue_start>username_0: Whereas it is often considered unethical to manage as an editor, associate editor or guest editor a manuscript from a researcher with whom you have coauthored one or more papers, this does not typically hold true for peer-review.
In other words, it is considered acceptable by most editors for ... |
2017/01/27 | 1,246 | 5,290 | <issue_start>username_0: Now I am ending my PhD in chemistry but love to switch to research in biology (bioinformatics or biochemistry). I already have wide knowledge in biology via university courses and latter learning with MOOCs, as well as programming. Please give a hint on getting a job in biology.<issue_comment>u... |
2017/01/27 | 422 | 1,862 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my last semester as an undergraduate and in a class in a field that I do not consider myself knowledgeable (but interested). I fear that I will be stressing rather than learning. The audited class will be a part of my final transcript, it will not appear until I am done with the class. ... |
2017/01/27 | 691 | 2,996 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach at a school and I create PowerPoint presentations to use in my classroom. I also need to upload the PowerPoints to my school website for my students to access. Access is restricted and students must sign in with their school codes. Can I use images I find on Google search? Are all image... |
2017/01/27 | 1,093 | 4,617 | <issue_start>username_0: This is an unusual situation where I want to take classes and receive credit for my transcript at a particular university but I am not currently a student there.
At some point in the next few years I will applying for a program that I actually do plan to complete, either PhD or master's, but n... |
2017/01/27 | 1,619 | 6,045 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm Brazilian and am currently trying to apply to [this scholarship](https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/aid-and-development/scholarships/) in New Zealand. However, when asked which "level of study" I will apply for, I see the following list:
* PhD
* Masters course
* Masters thesis
* Post-Graduate Di... |
2017/01/28 | 1,246 | 5,312 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a fourth-year PhD student. For a while my advisor has been complaining that I don’t take enough ownership of my projects and I just do what he tells me to do, and that I don’t have any critical thinking skills. He told me that if he left me in a room for six months by myself, I would not be... |
2017/01/28 | 744 | 3,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently posted something related to this ([If an assumption proves to be false, is the research then meaningless?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/83725/if-an-assumption-proves-to-be-false-is-the-research-then-meaningless)), but it is still bothering me.
As I mentioned in that... |
2017/01/28 | 1,968 | 7,147 | <issue_start>username_0: We are a bunch of people writing a collection of papers. Two of the writers are from Iran (where the common language does not have gendered pronouns), and they have expressed to me some concern with regards to the lack of gender-neutrality in our papers.
As you may know, English writing often ... |
2017/01/28 | 1,737 | 6,526 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there known cases of plagiarism in mathematics? The writing practices in mathematics are clearly different from the writing practices in the humanities. In the latter area I roughly know how to characterize plagiarism because examples are known. But I do not know how plagiarism is possible ... |
2017/01/28 | 1,923 | 7,540 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is partially inspired by [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/39022/how-not-to-be-like-a-rolling-stone-in-research). Do researchers, who actively publish, even have time for that? They seem to be a busy lot. I am not talking about [publishing outside the filed](... |
2017/01/28 | 3,100 | 12,617 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose, a prospective PhD student doesn't have money to self-finance his PhD in the USA.
Is it possible for a PhD student to survive in the USA only on TA/RA money?<issue_comment>username_1: Agnostic of institution, each of which has its own set of policies governing TA/RA pay (more or less d... |
2017/01/28 | 881 | 3,903 | <issue_start>username_0: This feels a bit like a grey area to me.
A student of mine has submitted a paper to a journal and has received a "major revisions" response. Instead of doing the revisions she wants to submit to a different, higher-impact journal. Is that ethical?
I understand that it may not be the best idea... |
2017/01/28 | 327 | 1,402 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't have any publications yet and I never coauthored a paper. My question is, should I put in my CV the list of publications I have read (publications of other authors, I mean) and list them under "Read publications" or it is meaningless?<issue_comment>username_1: I do not think it is commo... |
2017/01/29 | 2,210 | 7,247 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone have any information on this? Are academics somehow protected from Trump's ban on Muslims?
I know that some have the "alien of extraordinary ability" work visa, but what about for others that don't have such status?<issue_comment>username_1: The current ban applies only to people ... |
2017/01/29 | 516 | 2,084 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an American working overseas. I work with several students from Iran who have never been to America. What should I say to students who have been banned from entering my home country?<issue_comment>username_1: Just tell them "I think it is unfair that everyone from your country has been ban... |
2017/01/29 | 8,003 | 33,666 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student. Preparing the solution to an exercise regarding computer assembly language programming I discovered an error in the program skeleton that was given to us to base our solution on (one of the instructions was illegal, because its immediate operand was outside the pe... |
2017/01/29 | 759 | 3,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done Computer Systems engineering and working for a good company. I am interested in doing a masters (not really because I have much interest in theory but because it helps in career advancement.) How do I calculate how a masters will be a good decision and worth the time, money and ener... |
2017/01/29 | 158 | 696 | <issue_start>username_0: In my country Nigeria, Engineering students make projects along with their thesis in order to graduate.... is this the same for Americans ?<issue_comment>username_1: This is dependent on a school, however yes, generally undergraduate students complete a capstone (or thesis) that requires them t... |
2017/01/29 | 1,200 | 5,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper with a new approach and I implemented this approach in both R and SAS. I want to put the software online on Github and ideally on CRAN too. The paper has been reviewed by my collaborators, but I was told that the structure is atypical as this is my first paper and I used a struc... |
2017/01/29 | 761 | 3,313 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student in an online class at university, and we're now a few weeks into the course. So far, only two lectures have been uploaded—there should be six or seven. On the course discussion board, many students have expressed concern that we're behind and have asked when we can expect course c... |
2017/01/30 | 637 | 2,822 | <issue_start>username_0: In an acknowledgments section to a mathematical paper, one conventionally says the paper has benefited from "helpful conversations" with so-and-so that clarified matters in some way, started one's wheels in motion toward an idea, and so on.
It happens fairly frequently, though, that I email o... |
2017/01/30 | 1,708 | 7,299 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach at a U.S. community college, and commonly write letters of recommendation for students applying subsequently to either bachelor's programs or graduate school. I am accustomed to sending such letters directly to the school/program in question. Looking at other Academia SE questions, this... |
2017/01/30 | 1,180 | 5,094 | <issue_start>username_0: We had a master's student working on our project. He set up a database for us, and wrote some of the initial code with me in a pair programming session. At one point, he had more commits to the repository than any of the other students working on the project. Then he went to do an internship fo... |
2017/01/30 | 666 | 2,847 | <issue_start>username_0: My doctoral advisor has regularly taken 3-4 weeks to respond to each round of my revisions on my doctoral dissertation draft.
Because of her lengthy response delays, I defended very late in the semester. (In contrast to her 3-4 weeks, I take 2-3 days to finish all of her requested revisions.) ... |
2017/01/30 | 936 | 3,999 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently been offered a tenure-track position in a very prestigious northern European university. I am currently a lecturer in a smaller UK university but I have six years of experience between my post-docs and appointment as a lecturer.
The level of appointment would be as a an Assista... |
2017/01/30 | 435 | 1,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student and intern publishing a conference paper with a company I have been working with for about a year now and am trying to nail down the acknowledgements. I have never written a paper before. I have a few specific questions:
I am the only student-intern author and als... |
2017/01/30 | 748 | 3,268 | <issue_start>username_0: This question could sound weird. I'm reading through a computer science book which is the only reference I personally have about an algorithm, and I'd like to get in touch with the author of the book, which is quite famous in the field. I don't understand some of the conditions stated in order ... |
2017/01/30 | 633 | 2,411 | <issue_start>username_0: I read somewhere that you can reference, the Harvard way, by stating the author, before ending the sentence with a date - like so:
>
> *Author* said this *bla bal blabd bdalab d...* (2017).
>
>
>
But, after reading through my dissertation, my teacher told me this was invalid Harvard refer... |
2017/01/30 | 596 | 2,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my post-PhD, after two years working under a scholarship, in April 2015. In September 2015 I was notified that I was accepted as research staff in my institution (I applied in December 2014). In September 2016 I was finally added to the "payroll" as a staff member.
Between the perio... |
2017/01/30 | 894 | 3,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I got accepted into my dream program at one of the best universities in the US, and I'll be working under an excellent, very well known advisor whose interests align very well with mine. However, since I will likely be getting a multi-year fellowship, and due to how this specific program is str... |
2017/01/31 | 2,109 | 8,796 | <issue_start>username_0: Researchers need to get together with each other in conferences to give talks, listen to talks, discuss with others, network, etc. But travel to conferences is expensive and adds substantially to one's carbon footprint.
How can this kind of academic interaction be accomplished remotely, i.e. w... |
2017/01/31 | 1,664 | 7,157 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems to be the trend that fewer and fewer students take notes in class. Lately, and particularly this semester, for some reason, I have been noticing that several students take pictures of the blackboards with their phones in lieu of taking notes.
While I'm not necessarily against this, if... |
2017/01/31 | 1,567 | 6,721 | <issue_start>username_0: Good morning/afternoon/evening and good night
I am a psych major-undergraduate senior and have actively engaged in being part of and/or conducting research for past 2 years.
My past undergraduate projects are, in a good way, "interdisciplinary": developmental psychology, cultural psychology (... |
2017/01/31 | 300 | 1,280 | <issue_start>username_0: As the number of citations to some of my articles recently increased, I took a look to see who cites me among the articles listed on Google Scholar. To my surprise I found that I was cited in a document describing talks in a conference and in a curriculum vitae. These two citations are not "rea... |
2017/01/31 | 640 | 2,828 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the pros and cons of submitting a math paper to a general journal vs a field specific journal?
There are so many general journals today,
and sometimes there reputation is not nessecerily better than a journal devoted to a specific subfield.
Given that, is there any reason to prefer ... |
2017/01/31 | 1,228 | 5,719 | <issue_start>username_0: In my department, it has been fairly common to receive mass emails from our department chair about political developments. These emails followed the election last winter, recent executive orders from our current president, as well has his failure to receive a dean appointment at our university.... |
2017/01/31 | 913 | 3,701 | <issue_start>username_0: Supposing that Dr. A is teaching an undergraduate-level course, what would be the pros and cons for Dr. A to allow students to address himself in an "informal" manner?
By "informal" here I mean using what is employed in a number of languages for informal conversation. For example, this would ... |
2017/01/31 | 916 | 3,905 | <issue_start>username_0: [Edited] I am very shortly going to be sending off my PhD application. I cannot apply quite yet because I am waiting on my bachelor's documentation which was withheld (library fines which are now cleared) but now it is in processing, and I do have my transcript. I have my master's documentation... |
2017/01/31 | 3,121 | 13,080 | <issue_start>username_0: A lecturer does not make slides or lecture notes available (e.g. on the course website) in an effort to force students to show up at lectures.
However, many students learn the material just fine without attending each and every lecture. It also seems unethical to force us all to show up, even... |
2017/01/31 | 233 | 997 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to one of Elsevier’s journals. After a couple of days, its status changed to “with editor”. But now after about ten days from the submission date, it changed to “Decision in Process”. Is there any hope that it will not be rejected?<issue_comment>username_1: If there is a dec... |
2017/01/31 | 2,208 | 9,768 | <issue_start>username_0: **For example**, Let's say an American person wants to attend a French university F. F explicitly states that French is the main language of instruction. Why would they require the student to take a language proficiency test for admission? Any prospective student should be aware that he or she ... |
2017/01/31 | 702 | 2,925 | <issue_start>username_0: I will have a couple of interviews for postdoc positions in the US (at big universities). I have read that it might be very convenient to get an H1-B visa (I'm from a non-US & non-EU country).
Shall I talk about this and/or try to negotiate it during the initial interview? Or maybe only after... |
2017/01/31 | 382 | 1,643 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning on travelling to another country to meet a potential PhD advisor (we're both in Europe). He has said his lab will cover the expenses.
Is this usual practice? I'm from a country where standard etiquette when offered money (or indeed, anything) in a circumstance like this is to pol... |
2017/01/31 | 962 | 4,185 | <issue_start>username_0: European International Journal of Science and Humanities (EIJSH) published my article about 2 years ago. The publication was online. The problem is that I haven't been able to access the EIJSH website for about 1 year.
The study was cited once or twice when EIJSH still existed. I feel really d... |
2017/02/01 | 1,779 | 7,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of applying to summer PhD research internships in industry (I'm in CS). Last year I had two appealing offers, but of course could only take one. This year I am still interested at working at the company whose offer I declined last year. However, I am unsure if it's considere... |