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2017/09/13 | 2,412 | 10,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that it is best to give a good oral presentation supported by slides with minimal text. Questions like this [have been asked before](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/55120/how-much-information-should-i-include-in-my-lecture-slides), but in the context of a "normal" pres... |
2017/09/13 | 344 | 1,550 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an assistant professor of linguistics. In order to get promoted to the associate professorship one of the things I need to do is write a book or a book chapter. I was wondering how I could write a chapter in a book to be published. Where should I start? Who do I get in touch with?
Many t... |
2017/09/13 | 510 | 2,232 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about 1 year away from finishing my PhD (hopefully), and have recently seen a few advertised postdoc positions that I think would be perfect for me. Most positions indicate that the start date is around 3 months away. My question is: how early is too early to apply? Is it worth applying fo... |
2017/09/13 | 4,254 | 17,094 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my freshman year of high school, and one of the electives I'm taking is a year long research project where we can choose any topic, do an experiment, and write a paper about it. I chose to do a research project with mathematics, specifically a *really* cool subject called class f... |
2017/09/14 | 1,868 | 7,807 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a Graduate student.
I had the opportunity to do some research as undergraduate for which the professor seemed very busy. I tried my best to "bother" him as much as possible with emails of when to meet up, questions and guidance for my research. The research didn't go far as you... |
2017/09/14 | 793 | 3,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a grad student in a moderately large department. I share an office with a few other grad students, and I get along with all of them fairly well. However, one of my officemates is rather loud and unfiltered with what he says in and around the department. The office walls are very t... |
2017/09/14 | 819 | 2,329 | <issue_start>username_0: 
I am currently at my brother's graduation ceremony at Adelaide University, and in the Professor's/Post-grad seating area, sits a man fully in green. What does this special gown mean?
(Apologies for the awful picture), and am looking to apply for jobs. Some of the jobs that have just caught my eye was Tutoring either Writing or Study Skills, at a commu... |
2017/09/19 | 1,237 | 5,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new (and hence young) faculty member, in a city where I don't really know anyone. I also really enjoy swing dancing.
The university has a swing dance club. I don't think there really is an issue necessarily, it's a public space in full view of a large group. However, because it is dancin... |
2017/09/19 | 418 | 1,864 | <issue_start>username_0: The Springer template is by far the most bizarre out of all of the LaTeX templates I've seen so far. There is no problem as long as you stick to the two-column option, but the appearance of the single column option is just crazy.
The main problems are the following
* The right margin being ou... |
2017/09/19 | 567 | 2,483 | <issue_start>username_0: Institute II is setting up a benchmark project under the lead of main-author MM. 20 other developers participate, run their methods without having access to ground truth data and also MM contributes with his methods results.
A paper is written by MM. Is it the right of one or all of the other ... |
2017/09/19 | 352 | 1,372 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my thesis (computer sience) and wonder how to refer to an algorithm which i reimplement as a part of the thesis.
There is a paper describing the original algorithm and I am only implementing this algorithm in my thesis.
I considered to refer to it as 'baseline' or 'reference algo... |
2017/09/19 | 2,472 | 10,549 | <issue_start>username_0: This question deals with letters of recommendation written for students in the humanities, and in particular for those on the job market or those submitting to dissertation grants and fellowships. The question may also apply to letters of recommendation in the sciences.
On this site and in con... |
2017/09/19 | 396 | 1,847 | <issue_start>username_0: Would this be considered at all, or is this not even important? I am not talking about fields which have these foreign languages as their object of study, or where it is obvious that the language would help (if I were to study French Literature, knowledge of French would obviously be important)... |
2017/09/19 | 675 | 3,069 | <issue_start>username_0: I just have graduated university and currently am applying for a master degree and various positions on different labs as I am eager to go deeper into science. I have been asked for two references together with other documents. As I had two different internships I have asked my former superviso... |
2017/09/19 | 1,698 | 6,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing for my PhD oral defense in engineering. It consists of two parts: first, a 40-minute long (public) presentation; then, Q&A with the jury.
**Question:** Is it advisable to give a handout with presentation slides to the jury?
In such a document, there would be 2-3 slides per pag... |
2017/09/19 | 1,312 | 5,329 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a mathematical paper. In it, I use a lemma. The lemma is not hard to prove and I have verified it myself. The proof is too tedious to include in the paper, so I want to just include a citation. I found a paper that includes the result. However, that paper does not actually include a... |
2017/09/20 | 784 | 3,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new faculty and I have serious conflicts with my chair because she has taken two of my grant proposals (putting herself as the PI) and a conference research proposal and tools I developed for my study (she put a senior faculty and herself as the first and the second author before me).
... |
2017/09/20 | 459 | 2,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper in a physics background journal about eight months ago. However, I have not received any status updated of the paper yet. I sent email several times to the Editor, but I have not received any reply. Five months ago, one of the journal staffs informed that they are waiti... |
2017/09/20 | 609 | 2,461 | <issue_start>username_0: Below are two examples of a table, with different orientations of the *trial* header.
The number of the trial represents the chronological order, but there is no relationship between all the Trial 1's, for example.
[](https://... |
2017/09/20 | 758 | 3,486 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a detailed review article (for submission for publication) that aims to survey the various proposed explanations for a particular biological phenomenon. I'm aware of one explanation (that was proposed 20+ years ago), but a number of papers since then have pointed out fatal flaws in ... |
2017/09/20 | 651 | 2,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student who decided to change the direction midway. At a high level, I work on combinatorial optimization under uncertainty. In my proposal, I had said that I would use a technique A and its variants to tackle my problem. But now I have become uninterested in this direction.
1. I ... |
2017/09/20 | 2,335 | 9,889 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a math-related PhD but currently work as a software developer. One day, when I retire from software development, is it possible to "join" a local university's math/cs department as an independent scholar? All I need is a PhD student desk and access to the libraries. I can fund my own tra... |
2017/09/20 | 444 | 1,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working in a lab as an undergraduate worker. Can I ask one of my lab member who is a postdocter candidate for a recommendation letter?<issue_comment>username_1: You can ask, but he/she might not be knowledgeable in writing nor in a position to give you a recommendation letter. You should as... |
2017/09/21 | 1,535 | 7,090 | <issue_start>username_0: Many journals do specify that cover letters are optional. From my experience, most people write cover letters in journal submission, but I am also aware that articles can also be published without the cover letter. Therein arises the question: why are cover letters written if they are not neces... |
2017/09/21 | 1,116 | 4,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and I hate my supervisors. they are bossy, do not allow me to explore my ideas because they have their own agenda and vision. Force me to publish in mediocre conference. Force me to cite all their friends and other students even if their work is irrelevant. They do research t... |
2017/09/21 | 1,921 | 8,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an established, normal, non-stellar postdoc in computer science, several years after my PhD defense, and am going now for higher-rank academic positions. A particular university in the US offers both assistant and associate professor positions in my subfield. These are two different positio... |
2017/09/22 | 762 | 3,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked for a research project on the migration of a prototype to a low-level consumable solution. I am also co-author of a paper that describes the math used for that project (my contribution was not the math, but the tests used to evaluate the performance of the algorithm). According to the ... |
2017/09/22 | 3,506 | 15,456 | <issue_start>username_0: An article is published and the results depend heavily on a piece of code that the author wrote themselves.
The author has not shared the code with the community, even though they have been using it possibly for years now.
If I request the source code from the author and they refuse to share ... |
2017/09/22 | 278 | 1,212 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already submitted the PhD thesis for examination. I have started to email potential supervisors yesterday to get information regarding postdoctoral positions in their departments. I am wondering whether it is possible to start postdoctorate while waiting for PhD viva.<issue_comment>usern... |
2017/09/22 | 543 | 2,229 | <issue_start>username_0: In my school, we have a program that allows students to do research as an undergrad with a mentor. Not uncommon. Naturally, as a participant, this is my first dive into the world of research.
I am choosing to do research on high power lasers.
The school gives us a 3 figure budget, but when my ... |
2017/09/22 | 1,516 | 6,444 | <issue_start>username_0: A constant struggle for most graduate students is how to clearly lay out research ideas in a coherent manner. We are constantly in the "weeds" reading papers, move data around, running models, and researching tiny little details. When we decide to come up for air and begin to talk about our ide... |
2017/09/23 | 573 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: Like the GED, which is equivalent to a high school degree, is there a test that you could obtain that is equal the a bachelor's degree? Which states in American can you take it? And what are the requirements? Is there a website? Please leave the link. Or is there some kind of online test that i... |
2017/09/24 | 3,059 | 12,960 | <issue_start>username_0: TAs are responsible for answering students' questions. But sometimes there are bad-mannered students who don't treat the TA with respect during the interaction. Should TAs just take it and still answer students with patience? Otherwise, they may be complained about by students. Or do TAs have a... |
2017/09/24 | 1,471 | 6,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the professor in charge of a first-year course for undergraduates.
Recently, I received an e-mail from a student,
the general meaning of which is the following:
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> Dear professor,
>
>
> I am sorry for missing the last few lectures and assignments.
> During the last few weeks, I was r... |
2017/09/24 | 3,237 | 13,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m an undergraduate student, and I find that multiple times (each week), I have an obsessive need to make sure something I’m doing is allowed/accepted. I do this by asking the TA/Professor for my course in question.
It’s usually situations where it’s *almost* certain that something I’m doing ... |
2017/09/24 | 995 | 4,206 | <issue_start>username_0: I know someone very well who is a board member of a business school at one of the world’s top ranked university. This university has a great business school for undergraduates but the MBA program is not at all held in high regard.
I have my eyes on a highly ranked MBA program at another unive... |
2017/09/24 | 821 | 3,485 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any **free** online databases where I can do literature review by
(1) giving keyword(s) that occur in **title**
(2) at the same time, sorting by publishing date from newest to oldest?
I found google scholar meets criteria (1) but it sorts by date only for one recent year. Pubmed me... |
2017/09/24 | 293 | 1,198 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> A high standard of illustration (both line and photo) is an editorial
> priority.
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>
>
What is meant by "line" here? I am not getting this into my mind. The sentence above is taken from the "Instructions to author" part of a journal.<issue_comment>username_1: Though it depends on fie... |
2017/09/24 | 527 | 2,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm teaching a lot of students who are fairly unresponsive in a large class that is set early in the morning. While I'm working on ways to encourage them to respond to questions, I find that normal indicators of how one is doing are absent: they don't laugh at jokes, groan, interrupt, or give m... |
2017/09/25 | 901 | 4,058 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard different takes on what the convention is when an Assistant or Associate Professor does not achieve tenure. Can you just remain at your existing position and continue to teach and conduct research? Can you reapply for tenure again later? Is it more conventional to leave the instituti... |
2017/09/25 | 3,133 | 12,676 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor and I spoke recently (I'm a grad student), and she told me about her upcoming sabbatical, and I wished her well and was genuinely excited for her and her travel plans. But the reaction that I got from her was one of caution and displeasure, with no reciprocation of good vibes. I mos... |
2017/09/25 | 6,088 | 24,866 | <issue_start>username_0: I have sent the solutions of some assignments to the students of my class.
One of my students sent me a message that reads as follows (not greeting or anything, no closing, just the following):
>
> *The proposed solution of Exercise X is obviously wrong because of reason blah blah. An appro... |
2017/09/25 | 413 | 1,642 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you describe your Research Support (part D of NIH's biosketch) if you've never been a named member of a grant? For junior researchers, NIH provides [helpful guidance here](https://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/biosketch.htm) on parts A (personal statement) and C (contribution to science). ... |
2017/09/25 | 2,625 | 10,595 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the best email to use as corresponding author when publishing academic papers as a graduate student, postdoc, pre-tenured faculty or other potentially non-permanent position where your email address may change in the next few years? I know many academic institutions will let you turn yo... |
2017/09/25 | 524 | 2,169 | <issue_start>username_0: This is about a non-academic issue I've had with a student, who is outside of my department, and I would like to know if I should pursue it or just let it go.
I recently moved to the US for a postdoc and I sublet a room for a student over the summer. All interaction between the student and I w... |
2017/09/25 | 450 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a European Union citizen living in EU and applying for an assistant professorship position in US. The application form asks the question
>
> For purposes of compliance with The Immigration Reform and Control Act, are you legally eligible for employment in the United States?
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>
>
I k... |
2017/09/26 | 440 | 1,887 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in the physical sciences. I have recently decided to start applying for some faculty positions. One open position in particular was recently brought to my attention, and I want to apply for it.
If I compare myself to other people I know in my field who are getting offered facult... |
2017/09/26 | 790 | 3,205 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my story. I did my PhD in neuroscience (took me 5 years), with no publications during my PhD, but got my PhD thesis published 2 years after graduation as a first-author Nature Medicine paper and a Nature Communications coauthorship. I also have a few other coauthorships in smaller journ... |
2017/09/26 | 811 | 3,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited for a postdoc interview. After reading some questions and answers, I noted that sometimes the applicant is required to give a presentation/talk. In my invitation, nothing is mentioned about a presentation or talk during the interview. Now I am not sure: should I prepare a pr... |
2017/09/26 | 921 | 3,769 | <issue_start>username_0: As a young researcher, I find it disheartening to find how much of a cut of total grant awards are taken by a university. Sure, there are overhead costs, but 40 - 60%? Come on. This seems like a terrible deal. Especially in some fields, such as software research, where faculty do all the work, ... |
2017/09/26 | 947 | 3,893 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from Eastern Europe with a strong research record. This year, I applied for similar professor positions in the US and UK. From 5 applications in the US universities, I was invited for interviews for 3 positions. I got one offer and one is still pending.
However, all 4 applications I submi... |
2017/09/26 | 978 | 4,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across some job advertisements for faculty positions that stated
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> Strictly No Agencies
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This implies that some agencies apply on behalf of the applicants. Is it common? Is it possible at all? I mean do open positions without the above statement accept applications sent by a... |
2017/09/27 | 492 | 1,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who is majored in Math now. I plan to continue my phD degree in Logics in Math. My ultimate job plan is to be professor (I know instructor first). So I really want to learn the employment of PhDs in this major.
Thank you for your time.<issue_comment>username_1: Wh... |
2017/09/27 | 884 | 3,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if there was a rule regarding the use of acronyms at the start of the sentence in **Journal Papers**.
If so, is there a difference between the state of use of that acronym (i.e., whether it is being referred to as a noun or verb st the start of the sentence).
According to my u... |
2017/09/27 | 727 | 3,034 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just finished a postdoc but will not start a new postdoc for a few months.
In the meantime, I will continue to do my research. The problem is that I registered for a conference while at my former institute and the conference will take place while I'm not officially employed at any insti... |
2017/09/27 | 3,733 | 15,864 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a graduate student (PhD, first year) in physics, and there have been a few times where I just can't figure out something regarding the material/subject of the class. Normally I just tell myself that since I'm a graduate student, I better be able to figure it out myself without the help of t... |
2017/09/27 | 832 | 3,528 | <issue_start>username_0: At the University of Cambridge, PhD students are not required to publish papers in order to be able to defend a thesis. One consequence of this is that some supervisors, especially in more experimental areas (e.g., some fields of biology), adopt a policy of deferring all publications until afte... |
2017/09/28 | 218 | 812 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a standard opening salutation for a letter of recommendation to be posted on mathjobs?
One possibility might be, "Dear hiring committee", or "Dear search committee".<issue_comment>username_1: There is the widely used
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> To whom it may concern:
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and also
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> Dear Sir/Mada... |
2017/09/28 | 2,627 | 10,589 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a young (female) professor in a (U.S.) department with a small graduate program and a research expectation. I usually teach Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and try to save Tuesday and Thursday for research (where possible). On MWF, I'm quite good about meeting with students, even if they sto... |
2017/09/28 | 1,840 | 7,434 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a master's student in computer science, thinking about applying to PhD programs. As I detailed in [this post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/95809/should-i-leave-out-research-in-my-nsf-fellowship-application-if-im-not-getting/95926#95926), I had the audacity to ask m... |
2017/09/29 | 483 | 2,098 | <issue_start>username_0: Note that I am currently an undergrad.
One month ago, one of my professors agreed to let me work on a research project with him. After a few weeks of not hearing anything from them, I emailed the professor asking about the project (1.5 weeks ago). He replied saying that he would be contacting... |
2017/09/29 | 1,072 | 4,422 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor (say Mr. X), a theoretical physicist, is in charge of a course on Math Physics in the undergrads. He had co-authored a book on Statistical Mechanics but he never mentioned anything about it to us, since it had no part in that course on Math Physics.
Now, that course was 2 semester... |
2017/09/29 | 1,451 | 6,080 | <issue_start>username_0: I only have knowledge of American universities: I know of junior faculty that serve on graduate admissions committees in the STEM fields -- at top schools such as Harvard. The things that I hear from them are quite interesting, for instance, how strong the recommendation letters are from the un... |
2017/09/29 | 494 | 1,989 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume an editor has sent out a manuscript to reviewers. Let's say the manuscript has potential but with mixed reviews; some reviewers say accept whilst others recommend revision/reject. The editor recommends re-submission. So the manuscript goes through the usual revision-resubmission-revision... |
2017/09/30 | 737 | 3,258 | <issue_start>username_0: I was discussing this topic with an older professor of mine who had published more than 90 papers and couple of books in his field. The papers are highly specialized and half of them are with different co-authors from the same or a different field.
Since he has so many papers, I asked him if h... |
2017/09/30 | 394 | 1,713 | <issue_start>username_0: How to address reading courses in cv for Phd application for pure math? I can only think of listing topics we covered in the course. But that seems to me very pointless since professors know the major topics of most math courses without reading that. However, I think independent readings are im... |
2017/09/30 | 872 | 3,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading a review paper which includes hundreds of useful citations for my paper. I would like to import some of the citations into a bibtex file. The only thing I know to do is to search them on google one by one, and then click on "export bibtex".
Is it acceptable (ethical) to ask the au... |
2017/10/01 | 336 | 1,410 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the best way to alert Elsevier or Clarivate Analytics -- for instance, if I see a potentially predatory (or just really low quality) journal indexed in Scopus or WoS or if I see recent changes that possibly indicate a lowering of standards by the journal (such as a dramatic increase in ... |
2017/10/01 | 583 | 2,663 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen postdoc job adverts which were asking for as many as three recommendation letters, despite being supervised positions and inviting freshly graduated PhD students. Is this practice common and reasonable?
As a more practical question, how should an applicant deal with this situation?... |
2017/10/01 | 839 | 3,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm 22, and I'm one year into my PhD in History. I immediately started my PhD after finishing my master's, working with the same supervisor. Throughout the years, I've started to become more and more anxious when it came to writing essays and doing research. I hated working on my master's thesi... |
2017/10/01 | 1,097 | 4,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a fellowship that would allow me to start an independent research group--something between post-doc and faculty levels. Part of this application requires that I explain my choice of host university. My question is whether I should include family reasons alongside professional ... |
2017/10/01 | 384 | 1,652 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleague has been presenting our work overseas. I'm primary investigator and first author on the work/papers. Should I or can I be including these presentations on my CV?
My context is that I'm a doctoral student in healthcare discipline and using the CV for grant applications.
Thank you!... |
2017/10/01 | 744 | 3,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a moderator for an online forum for a particular module at a distance-learning University.
Part of the job is to answer questions regarding course materials, the other main part is to be on the watch for inappropriate content (rudeness, giving answers away, etc)
In the event of students b... |
2017/10/01 | 693 | 2,949 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently tailoring my CV for Ph.D. applications (STEM). I am applying to various schools in USA and Europe, and most of them are competitive.
Given that I will have a Master's as well as >5 years of research experience in my field, I would like to list most of what I have done/been award... |
2017/10/01 | 636 | 2,670 | <issue_start>username_0: There are lots of questions about how undergrads should address professors, but this is about the opposite. Context is North American research university.
My instinct and personal preference is to ask undergraduates to address me as Professor Lastname or Dr. Lastname until I let them know othe... |
2017/10/01 | 426 | 1,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I will start soon an Assistant professor position in USA in Engineering. During the first 2 years the summer is paid. From the third I hope to get funded with grants. Is it badly seen if I spend the summer to work at distance in my home country?
EDIT: I will have 2 PhD students in the start-u... |
2017/10/01 | 388 | 1,530 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received my admission letter for a graduate program from a Canadian university. However, the letter contains no information about funding. I have already talked to my professor about the availability of funding. I contacted him again more than one month ago and he said that he will send ... |
2017/10/02 | 374 | 1,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently seeking reference letters from professors for my masters application. It struck me that the professors that I'm close with, who know me on a more personal level (through projects, work, etc.) are not as academically renowned as some other professors *who may only know me as one o... |
2017/10/02 | 4,836 | 20,841 | <issue_start>username_0: I just had a lecture from someone who has been a senior scientist (and has completed a PhD, post-doc) at a hospital for already 15 years. So I'm assuming this person is experienced in giving talks in English. However, almost one out of three words was completely unintelligible because of a very... |
2017/10/02 | 6,331 | 25,252 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm very conflicted regarding applying to (American) PhD programs vs. not doing so and finding a job in industry to have more money.
The thought of doing a PhD makes me feel financially irresponsible; yet, I have concrete research interests and would be doing a PhD for the right reasons. I've ... |