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2017/08/26 | 1,349 | 5,596 | <issue_start>username_0: When I go to university for four years and study, e.g., law or medicine, do I earn an undergraduate degree? And do I have to go to university for another two years or so to get a graduate degree? Also, is it the same university then, or do I have to go somewhere else? And do you have to get a g... |
2017/08/26 | 1,543 | 6,492 | <issue_start>username_0: From *The Professor Is In* and from other sources, I've gotten the impression that it's very good practice to refer to possible collaborators both within and outside of your department or academic unit. This makes sense to me. Doing so demonstrates that you're not just applying blindly, but rat... |
2017/08/26 | 887 | 3,834 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a master's in math a long time ago and now I am thinking I would like to get a Ph.D. Since I have not been in school, would it be ok to approach a professor I would like to work with by proving a small thing from one of his papers he says is "work to be done" and emailing to him? I a... |
2017/08/27 | 912 | 4,028 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing an essay on the possible benefits of video games in education for my Extended Project Qualification, and for part of it I want to cite a blog post from Gamasutra written by a developer who makes educational games. My supervisor has previously said to me that I should try t... |
2017/08/27 | 942 | 4,069 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student close to finishing my 1st year, highly motivated, passionate, hard working and with one accepted article in a really good journal (related to PhD project) plus conference proceedings.
I would like to grow as a scientist and also develop my ideas and therefore having a good r... |
2017/08/28 | 898 | 3,482 | <issue_start>username_0: It has been identified on [stackexchange](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/80698/published-paper-not-showing-up-on-google-scholar) that Google Scholar has a bug where ArXiv publications are not updated to match the final journal publication information in google scholar (for several... |
2017/08/28 | 580 | 2,450 | <issue_start>username_0: Considering that proper reference is provided (journal, author name, date etc.), is copying **exact numbers** from published scientific articles could be considered plagiarism or copyright infringement?
For example, there is a research called "Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brai... |
2017/08/28 | 1,070 | 4,337 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am writing for two conferences, independent from each other. One paper is a generic one, while the other one is more technical.
However, I would like to use some of figures I have drawn in both of them. Is this ethical or are there any issues doing that?
EDIT: The conference are ... |
2017/08/28 | 1,896 | 8,135 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading a blog post, [How to reject a rejection](http://serialmentor.com/blog/2017/1/2/how-to-reject-a-rejection), by biologist <NAME> where he explains that it is common to resubmit a rejected paper to the same journal after a revision or appeal a rejection and get it published there. Th... |
2017/08/28 | 1,424 | 6,041 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an agronomy major who's performing additional academic work as way of increasing my chances of getting into grad school.
This semester I'm going to be writing a literature review regarding plant breeding in ornamental plants using references from 2007 to the present year. The emphasis will... |
2017/08/28 | 1,058 | 4,373 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose author X writes a paper, and in this paper, they prove a result that is a very small part of their paper. However, the result has a mistake. Based on personal judgement, it appears the mistake is an innocent mistake that does not disrupt the intellectual flow of the paper. i.e. it is ve... |
2017/08/29 | 323 | 1,386 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it permissible for one of the authors of a paper to work alone for the extension of that paper?<issue_comment>username_1: There is nothing illegal about this, nor is this publicly frowned upon. After all, it's very possible for some of the original co-authors to simply not be interested in t... |
2017/08/29 | 785 | 3,285 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm getting my Bachelor's degree in Physics in a year and a half, I have a good GPA (~3.6/4.0) and I can score ~7.0 or higher in IELTS exam.
Which offers better chances for a scholarship for a Master's degree, North american or European countries? Is there a difference in accepting foreign (in... |
2017/08/29 | 894 | 3,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper about 20-25 days ago in this conference <http://ctceec.org/> knowing about IEEE involvement here.
Today I have got an acceptance email for my paper, The astonishing thing to me is, I knew at least 1-2 month is required to review this type of conference paper.
The conferenc... |
2017/08/29 | 519 | 2,038 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new to publishing and want to publish a paper as an independent researcher. The conference I want to submit this paper to states the following on their website regarding the review process:
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> Review process will be blind to review.
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Does it imply that the review process is dou... |
2017/08/29 | 629 | 2,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to apply for a PhD in Ancient History at Oxford in the future.
Currently I'm planning to apply for a ResMa in Ancient History at Leiden university, in the Netherlands, which is thaught in English.
Is it a recognised uni for classics in UK or the US or should I do a British university... |
2017/08/30 | 391 | 1,654 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m currently preparing a tenure packet. I have reviewed a few papers for journals in the last few years. I am wondering how I should include this activity.
Certainly I will be including evidence of this professional activity (e-mails with the editors acknowledging the receipt of the report, e... |
2017/08/30 | 558 | 2,255 | <issue_start>username_0: To publish a research paper in peer review journal is good, are they ask charges to get a paper published<issue_comment>username_1: That is not so easy to answer, as things might strongly differ between different journals. If you are in a PhD program, try asking your advisor. He/she might also ... |
2017/08/30 | 674 | 3,062 | <issue_start>username_0: The reviewers have already commented on our article and the conference management system shows us each of their comments. Based on the comments, we know that the article will definitely be rejected. The final verdict is scheduled on 15 days from today.
We are interested in improving (based on ... |
2017/08/30 | 836 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: From my understanding, a PhD thesis has more original/substantial contribution to the field than a masters thesis. Because of the time invested in a PhD thesis, it is more ambitious and expected to generate peer reviewed publications.
However, in terms of structure: length, content etc. how do... |
2017/08/30 | 378 | 1,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I am so worried about the GRE exam! I have not any experience about it, but need to take it in order to do my PhD in the USA. So far I prepared a vocabulary notebook and wrote the definitions of 3500 words. Now, I am thinking of how to memorize those words in a short time. Moreover, I need to s... |
2017/08/30 | 456 | 2,083 | <issue_start>username_0: During my undergrad (past 3 years) I worked in a niche ecology lab and during the time generated some data. The work I did was not exactly groundbreaking but I think it was solid publishable work and could find a home in a decent journal.
My PI is encouraging me to write up my work and submit... |
2017/08/30 | 1,220 | 5,219 | <issue_start>username_0: My ex-colleague (let's call her C) in the Lab is now a faculty member at a university. We have collaborated before in our work. Our works are similar in the methodology but different in the topic. In other words, in her dissertation, she used method X to solve a problem in topic Y. In my work, ... |
2017/08/30 | 419 | 1,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I and our security guards have not heard from nor seen a prof. of mine who I do research for. We do know that he is from Texas, but we are unsure of his exact hometown.
How can I email to ask about his and his family's safety without overstepping any boundaries?<issue_comment>username_1: It's ... |
2017/08/31 | 815 | 2,884 | <issue_start>username_0: It is an engineering/computer science/math paper, is 1/2x read as 1/(2x) or x/2?
Can you please let me know if it is clearly one of them, or it is not possible to say which one it is?<issue_comment>username_1: If it's correct as written, then it means 1/(2x).
However, it's possible it was a ... |
2017/08/31 | 399 | 1,481 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a postdoc in the UK. I hold an academic IELTS certificate. Does anyone know is that enough for a Tier-2 visa?
Thanks in advance<issue_comment>username_1: Being a Tier 2 migrant here myself, I can confirm that IELTS Academic exam is accepted for Tier 2 applications. The general... |
2017/08/31 | 2,720 | 11,667 | <issue_start>username_0: There are two ways of treating conferences that are commonly mentioned on this site:
* **Conferences are publication venues** for papers (or similar). Submissions will be subjected to a serious peer review, are citable as evidence, and are a relevant achievement.
Submitting the same material t... |
2017/08/31 | 1,216 | 5,297 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about how to best read mathematics papers for research.
I just passed the last qualifying exam as a Ph.D. student in mathematics (studying statistics) and I'm reaching the point where I will need to do more research, which involves reading papers. I used to write, in my own word... |
2017/08/31 | 697 | 3,037 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I wish to pursue a phd in some CS related field. How knowledgable do I have to be in the field I am pursuing? I'm asking because some things happened recently that led me to doubt myself:
I have been doing some machine learning research for the past year and I'm working towards a first aut... |
2017/08/31 | 756 | 3,050 | <issue_start>username_0: **Is it possible to write PhD thesis (or PhD thesis level scientific articles) in Computer Science without real advisor (of course there always be formal one)?** E.g. there are (almost) no books how to learn musical composition, artistic painting, cello playing - all such learning is done durin... |
2017/08/31 | 1,382 | 6,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to work out if I should release slides for my lectures before or after the actual lectures. I don't think the projectors for the lectures are very good, and I think it would also be nice for students to follow along and also get an idea of the structure of the lecture with slides th... |
2017/09/01 | 589 | 2,530 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to submit my very current research to some Journal. The work is related to recent hurricane in USA (<NAME>). Since the peer-review process takes months to publish a work, so I am looking for some well-known journal which can publish my research in maximum 2 weeks with no cost. Woul... |
2017/09/01 | 759 | 3,309 | <issue_start>username_0: There are already questions on how to handle unpublished material in CVs. But here I am wondering if would be reasonable to cite an article in preparation in the application of a grant for a PhD or a postdoc position right after a PhD. So basically only for Junior scientists who are still in th... |
2017/09/01 | 285 | 1,253 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for some (second) master programs and a few Ph.D. programs. I earned my undergraduate degree outside the US but got my master degree in an American university (I am an international student). I wonder if I can only submit the transcript of my first master degree for my application... |
2017/09/01 | 584 | 2,326 | <issue_start>username_0: My nephew, a recent graduate, is applying for a fellowship at CERN, and he is providing the usual letters of reference. He has in the past done some work for me (I work in the same field he is studying), and I know him quite well, professionally speaking.
If, in addition to the other letters o... |
2017/09/01 | 1,038 | 4,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing the State of The Art chapter of my thesis.
To my advantage, there are many good surveys in my field. My views are not equal to other surveying authors, so the structure is not the same, nor the way the existing work is addressed. So far so good.
The problem is that eventu... |
2017/09/02 | 2,798 | 11,698 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a CS student enrolled in a class about a certain programming language. Recently, I discovered a trick that is pretty useless in actual production code and doesn't seem to be known by many. The trick results in a program not outputting the expected result. The program is less than 5 lines lo... |
2017/09/02 | 961 | 4,302 | <issue_start>username_0: My mother is a quite famous researcher (she has a PhD) on the field I want to do a PhD in. She works on the industry (not academia). I helped her on successful projects. She knows more about my work than my professors since we have worked much longer together.
Is it a good idea to ask for a re... |
2017/09/02 | 858 | 3,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with a BS in physics in 2009, so it's coming up on ten years since I've been in academia. I have a great relationship with one professor, with whom I'm still in contact, and my old advisor would most likely also help me.
The problem is that most places I see want three letters, and... |
2017/09/02 | 1,107 | 4,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I found a better proof for a theorem than a proof from a published paper. Is it possible for me to publish my proof with the same theorem citing that paper?<issue_comment>username_1: You can publish anything *interesting*.
There are instance where a new proof of a new theorem is not interesti... |
2017/09/02 | 1,846 | 7,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm PhD student beginning my third year. I plan to graduate at the end of my fourth year, leaving me with about another two years in the program. However, at the end of a productive summer of research, my PhD supervisor has mentioned that I'd be on track to finish considerably earlier if I want... |
2017/09/03 | 484 | 1,997 | <issue_start>username_0: In the announcement of a tenure-track faculty opening in computer science in USA, I see a request for
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> a letter of application explaining your interest in ⟨university⟩ and in this position
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Other documents (CV, research & teaching statements, scholarly work, references) are also r... |
2017/09/03 | 1,718 | 6,889 | <issue_start>username_0: I've prepared a manuscript on biomedical sciences and my advisor, who commonly reviews papers from high-impact journals, and my co-advisor, who is in the editorial board of an open-access journal both liked it. I'm very sure that my results are novel, and I did my best to prove my hypothesis.
... |
2017/09/03 | 1,009 | 4,161 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc in computer science preparing an application for a tenure-track full-time faculty position in a US university. The opinions on whether to use a letterhead or not vary: [Postdoc using current university's letterhead for job application cover letter (academic/national lab jobs)?](ht... |
2017/09/03 | 857 | 3,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working on my teaching statement recently (for the mathematical sciences, but it shouldn't matter). I'd really like to keep the main body to one page, because I personally wouldn't want to read anything longer than that, but there are several instances where I feel like I could includ... |
2017/09/04 | 2,489 | 10,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fourth-year undergraduate student in Mathematics. Recently, I read a mathematics paper. It seems that the proof in the paper is not as convincing as what one might find in a textbook. For instance, the authors skip some calculations and arguments in the proof. I feel that the detail in t... |
2017/09/04 | 471 | 1,913 | <issue_start>username_0: I need advice on how to explain during a job interview why I am not listing my PhD supervisor as a reference. I have a third interview for a job as a scientist at a startup company.
Previously, my supervisor caused me to lose a job offer by saying I had bad presentation and communication skil... |
2017/09/04 | 761 | 3,401 | <issue_start>username_0: In one of the reviews I received from a journal on a paper I sent there, there was a complaint that the paper contained a lot of language mistakes, so serious, that they change meaning of phrases. But no examples of such mistakes were provided.
I am not claiming that language in the paper was ... |
2017/09/04 | 860 | 3,624 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a postdoc in a genomics lab, doing computational work. I will be completing three years in the lab, this fall (this in the US). I graduated with a PhD in theoretical physics in 2012 (US university) and during a postdoc year at an obscure lab somewhere in Europe (this was the only... |
2017/09/04 | 2,410 | 10,552 | <issue_start>username_0: Excuse me for the naive question, but **is the reputation/prestige of the journal you chose for your publication really important?**
In the end, I believe the scientific content of your paper must be the key part. Surely you want to publish it into a scientific journal which guarantees high vi... |
2017/09/04 | 337 | 1,453 | <issue_start>username_0: For travel convenience, I prefer to print posters near the conference location. How can I efficiently look for the best poster printing price near a conference location?
(In my experience, conference organizers sometime point to a printing business, but they typically tend to be not price opti... |
2017/09/04 | 602 | 2,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate Honors student in a STEM major, and in the upcoming years I will have the option to complete an Honors thesis in my field, either as a research/data analysis or a literature review sort of thing. Because of other circumstances I can graduate "with Honors" with or without it... |
2017/09/05 | 628 | 2,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I've learned it a bit, through a thesis paper (not PhD-level), and from reading good papers in good journals. But I'm interested in best practices, specifically the things to implement in my style of writing to get my work up to publishable quality (assuming that the content is good enough)?
A... |
2017/09/05 | 2,128 | 8,701 | <issue_start>username_0: I find it irrelevant to specify personal information on my CV, and frankly I do not see why they should be listed in academic applications. What is the advantage for the hiring committing to know if I am 18 or I have 17 children, aside from creating a chance to bias the hiring process with pers... |
2017/09/05 | 646 | 2,602 | <issue_start>username_0: For a university project I want to classify authors according to the subjects/domains they frequently publish in. For this purpose I want to first establish a subject classification with the according hierarchies (for example, chemical engineering would be a sub-subject of physical sciences and... |
2017/09/05 | 631 | 2,347 | <issue_start>username_0: I have come across a few times in research papers or in books, where the authors refer a past (mostly an old) research paper as **classic paper**. For example, in a book Bratko refers the following:
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> The procedural meaning of Prolog is based on the *resolution principle* for mechanical the... |
2017/09/05 | 904 | 3,869 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been in biomedical research for a long time without any good number of publications.
Recently, my work is now being published by my PI. My PI asked someone else to do another part of work. I was then asked to email the methods and results but did not provide me any chance to write a pap... |
2017/09/06 | 836 | 3,373 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background** : I did both my bachelor's and master's degree from the same institute, let's call it institute X. I liked it there during my bachelor's and since very few institutes near by offered a master's degree in the subject I wanted I joined it. It is a decision I regret. The level of th... |
2017/09/06 | 861 | 3,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing up a thesis and was wondering if one should cite the PhD supervisors on insights that were solely their idea?
As an example I have a sentence in the thesis that looks something like this in the outlook section at the end of the thesis:
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> We noticed {cool new phenomen... |
2017/09/06 | 1,395 | 6,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been appointed as a lecturer in a UK university. For establishing my lab, the department head offered two fully-funded PhD students (research programme) or two postdocs. I am struggling with what to choose. I consulted with some colleagues but received contradictory advice.
Postdocs are... |
2017/09/06 | 3,494 | 13,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I've started work as an assistant professor recently,
and my first PhD student has just started her first semester.
I'm working on a paper with my collaborators
which is almost ready to submit.
I am thinking of asking my PhD student
to help us in the writing of the paper
by drawing a graph usi... |
2017/09/06 | 414 | 1,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I got behind in my program because of illness. My university says it's ok for me to have extra time, but the department head of my program doesn't like this because he thinks all students must get a certain time. He wants to cut my funding, which would force me out of the program. He doesn't ev... |
2017/09/06 | 999 | 4,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I know nothing about the bureaucracy of the academic world when writing papers but I sometimes need or enjoy to read academic papers.
Usually all the papers I've read were written either by professors or by reasearchers (I'm guessing PhDs). Some papers were written by people working at Google ... |
2017/09/07 | 970 | 4,253 | <issue_start>username_0: During my undergraduate degree, in engineering, I took part in two 'undergraduate research assistantships'. Neither of them went well, from my point of view. Both were done during school terms, and were in my 2nd and 3rd years.
In the first assistantship, I chose to work in an area outside my ... |
2017/09/07 | 1,406 | 6,223 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a tenure track professor in computer science at a teaching-oriented university. I still have a number of years before I go up for tenure, but want to start preparing early. One of the metrics I will be judged on is teaching effectiveness; namely, some objective, quantitative measure of stud... |
2017/09/07 | 458 | 1,935 | <issue_start>username_0: When citing, does it have to be obvious from the sentence or placement of the citation what exactly is being cited or why the citation is there? Sometimes I feel like people cite things such that you can only figure out why there is a citation after reading the cited article. Is that ok or shou... |
2017/09/07 | 592 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I heard from an administrator of a different grad program than mine that TA salaries are in fact negotiable -- a little known fact to be aware of.
Given this tip, how can I effectively negotiate my pay for the classes I will TA for, before signing my contract with the human resources departmen... |
2017/09/08 | 1,747 | 6,904 | <issue_start>username_0: I read often that preprint servers such as arXiv are changing how we publish. However, no one in my area of medical imaging uses them and they are regarded in my lab with suspicion.
I currently have a finished manuscript that I am about to send to an IEEE transaction journal. I would like a pr... |
2017/09/08 | 902 | 3,603 | <issue_start>username_0: A globally available, free bibliographic database, much like Google Scholar but with stronger query-building and export of hits, would be tremendously useful.
[Edited to add explanation of why this would be useful: Specifically, systematic reviews and meta-analyses require replicable procedure... |
2017/09/08 | 717 | 3,034 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year math master's student looking to apply to math PhD programs next year.
Is it appropriate for me to cold-email a US math department to request information about the job placement of recent PhD graduates? For example, I may want to ask how many graduates with which advisers man... |
2017/09/08 | 1,286 | 5,167 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a couple of years into a PhD program one gets a job offer he/she is quite happy with and decides to take it. This could be for one or several reasons such as:
1. You are at a point in your life where you need some money and its financially more secure to work rather than being a gradua... |
2017/09/09 | 580 | 2,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new faculty member. My chair is simply crazy in my perspective.
1. I am an assistant professor. However, my teaching assignment is "offering individual statistical consulting/workshops", not "teaching any classes". This was indicated in my job description when I applied for this job. Ho... |
2017/09/09 | 833 | 3,375 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's a small dilemma. I have a few ideas that I am putting into the form of a research proposal. It borrows heavily from the insights of <NAME>'s Theory of Comparative Advantage. Now, the notion of comparative advantage is pretty much common knowledge in economics. However, my proposal is for... |
2017/09/09 | 412 | 1,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on my thesis and I'd like to see if some documents that I'll use have been used before to see if the topic and focus I'm working on has been done before. At the moment it seems it hasn't, I looked for citations in Google scholar and it has only 1 citation, Academia.edu has around 20... |
2017/09/09 | 407 | 1,652 | <issue_start>username_0: I want/need to use the word 'Android' referring to the Android-System/Software in a paper/thesis. I found [these](https://developer.android.com/legal.html) guidelines. Do I have to use both, the TM-symbol AND a footnote? Like AndroidTM - It looks strange...<issue_comment>username_1: Your thesis... |
2017/09/09 | 4,278 | 18,531 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the definite suspicion, that a fellow PhD student in my department hired someone else on a freelance cloud working platform to do his work. I saw him/her using the website of this platform several times and even found a very specific job posting. Despite the limited details in that posti... |
2017/09/09 | 1,063 | 4,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Computer Science Master's Student, currently working on my thesis at a research institute. I have multiple supervisors: **A**, who was my "theoretical" supervisor when I started my thesis 5 months ago, **B**, who is my "technical" supervisor, and **C**, who is my new "theoretical" superv... |
2017/09/09 | 2,546 | 11,051 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student. Recently, in one of my classes, a fellow student brought their baby in a stroller. She may have asked the professor beforehand for permission to do this. The baby cried, made loud utterances, and loudly kicked the inside of its stroller. Several students, including me, found this... |
2017/09/09 | 649 | 2,826 | <issue_start>username_0: Fall 2018 application cycle has started and I have a couple of (hopefully not too specific) questions regarding recommendation letters. I am applying for a PhD position in pure mathematics in the USA, with lots of top schools included.
(1) Does the status of the letter writer matter greatly to... |
2017/09/10 | 626 | 2,681 | <issue_start>username_0: What exactly is the definition of *self-citation?* I have looked around but I cannot seem to find a definition. There is even a publication, but I cannot access it at the moment. Also I would like to have a definition here on Academia SE.
For example, say I publish paper with a co-author. Then... |
2017/09/10 | 3,895 | 16,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year CS PhD pre-candidate in a top PhD program. During my first year, I published a first-author paper at the best conference in my area, which I know is a big accomplishment. My advisor is famous in his area and also very caring and supportive, and my labmates are great too.
The... |
2017/09/10 | 1,036 | 4,423 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an amateur mathematician. (I studied in a university but have not finished the study.)
I discovered some new mathematical theories.
Now I want to make academic courses about my theories.
What I need to do to make college or university courses?
A textbook already exists (it is the book wh... |
2017/09/11 | 2,048 | 8,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe that many people read articles from their computers. So, tiny fonts and many columns have no advantage.
Why don’t journals make alternative computer-friendly versions of the articles? For example, with a gray background, single column, double-spaced? I guess it wouldn’t be difficult ... |
2017/09/11 | 1,222 | 4,777 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a research proposal for a PhD in a very interesting field. While working on the proposal I noticed that I run through the following (emotional) stages:
1. Enthusiasm: I think about the topic and am excited to work on it. I
start thinking about what I want to do and how I... |
2017/09/11 | 582 | 2,605 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm starting my master's thesis work with a new professor and had a really bad meeting with them recently. They asked me questions I am supposed to be able to answer, but I was so stressed I couldn't think. I couldn't write stuff on the board. It was just a mess.
He said some things that made ... |
2017/09/11 | 876 | 3,566 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there guidelines how to choose colors for figures in papers? I know that about 5-10% of the population see colors differently. How do I create a figure that has to have at least 4-5 different colors in it and make sure everyone will be able to see it and distinguish between the components.<... |
2017/09/11 | 1,350 | 5,743 | <issue_start>username_0: I am lucky enough to be on a good schedule with my own **edit:** Thesis and have a little extra time. Earlier in the year, I offered to edit one of my classmate's/close friend's dissertation in Computer Science. I made sure to leave enough time to do this in the writing process and they gave me... |
2017/09/11 | 2,289 | 9,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a white person researching Asian history. Let's say I'm married and have taken my husband's name, which is unambiguously Asian (I'll use "Leung" for the examples). I'm unsure whether I should use my legal name for future publications, continue using my maiden name, or find some other soluti... |
2017/09/11 | 966 | 4,126 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm just starting my second year of a master's program and hoping to apply to PhD programs, but I still haven't even submitted a paper for publication. I've worked on 3 research projects over the past 3 years, all of which have fallen apart for different reasons. [EDIT: They fell apart not beca... |
2017/09/11 | 880 | 3,947 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm pretty sure that my former advisor lied to me, manipulated me, and thinks I'm an idiot, so understandably I don't think it's a good idea to ask him for a letter of recommendation for the NSF graduate fellowship. However, my most recent academic research experience was with him, during the S... |
2017/09/12 | 635 | 2,429 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a third year undergraduate engineering student in India.
I am applying for a research program at a foreign university which will start at the end of my third year. This internship program requires at least one and a maximum of two letters of recommendation. As is the case for many students... |
2017/09/12 | 468 | 2,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I have mildly contributed to a research project which is now ready for publication.
However, I am convinced the treatment of the experimental data is wrong.
I shared my concerns with the PI of this project and shown him why I believe this was not correct. Yet, I only made him doubt and he sti... |
2017/09/12 | 645 | 2,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I've attended a couple of conferences, and just standalone public talks held at universities and I've found the topics interesting, so I've written a summary on my blog to share with others (and also as a way to help myself remember the content).
It just occurred to me that I'm potentially "st... |
2017/09/12 | 404 | 1,691 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the process of writing my masters thesis. During my research I found this another thesis and I really like the way it is organised and structured.
By structure, I mean the heading titles, the organisation of results and their order etc, for one chapter only. Although the top... |
2017/09/12 | 419 | 1,731 | <issue_start>username_0: I've read from past questions and answers on this site, namely an answer by JeffE, that anyone with more than 12 months of full-time graduate study, *MS or PhD*, is considered too late of an applicant, unless there is a significant change of field.
What if my undergrad degree was not in mathem... |
2017/09/12 | 1,784 | 7,079 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm due to start my PhD in Pure Mathematics next month, fully funded by a scholarship, at an average university, I'll be specialising in combinatorial group theory, and I have a strong First in Mathematics from a Russell group university. My goal is to become an academic.
[This](https://math.s... |
2017/09/12 | 2,342 | 10,633 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergrad, I'm just starting to get a feel for the academic world. Obviously, the ability to communicate well in a collaborative relationship is extremely important. As a fledgling STEM experimentalist, I'm beginning to learn like one.
However, can someone educate me on why there can so... |
2017/09/12 | 426 | 1,863 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a journal and after more than one year I got a positive report. I revised the paper as requested by the referee but when I tried to submit the revised version I discovered that my handling editor is not in the editorial board anymore. What happens normally in a case like ... |
2017/09/13 | 380 | 1,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I have spent my career working in the field and have recently been approached to teach some classes that are specific to what I do. I have been asked to turn in an “evidence of teacher effectiveness.” I do not have any evaluations or proof that I would be a good teacher. I have guest-lectured a... |
2017/09/13 | 768 | 3,096 | <issue_start>username_0: In a PhD thesis I read recently, the author mentioned open-source software in the Acknowledgement section, an idea that I liked very much (I missed that opportunity in my thesis).
Now I am considering to do a similar thing in the paper I am currently writing (working everyday on a Linux syste... |