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2018/01/25 | 625 | 2,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I am involved in a peculiar PhD situation. I am working full time at a government lab that is fairly new (<10 years of existence), but has however attracted some strong names in my field (Computer Science and Data Management) as appointed researchers. Government labs do not issue PhDs, so I had... |
2018/01/25 | 1,185 | 5,145 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate in computer science and I am looking for postdocs.
Surfing the web, I have found a post-doc opening that I find extremely interesting, but I do not know personally the PI of the group, nor my advisor does.
The opening asks for submitting 3 items: a CV, a cover letter and... |
2018/01/25 | 963 | 3,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I've applied to be a teaching assistant (helps with running undergrad labs and marking reports/tests/exams) every year so far during my PhD, but have never been successful. I'm getting to the end of my PhD, and despite my best efforts, have no teaching experience, thus that section of my CV is ... |
2018/01/25 | 361 | 1,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been more or less adding material to my CV since I started it while in grad school. As I am now a much more senior person, I am starting to feel it is a bit cluttered and perhaps larded up with inane facts about my (academic) life. For instance does it really make sense to continue to incl... |
2018/01/26 | 1,564 | 6,697 | <issue_start>username_0: How would I find and select a PhD program in Computer Science, or Computer Science combined with Mathematics? Since I am not a traditional candidate, I am unable to seek relevant advice from professors and fellow student. I am not too concerned about school ranking.
Some background about me an... |
2018/01/26 | 1,553 | 6,750 | <issue_start>username_0: We had a tenure track professor announce she was leaving at the start of the academic year. Documented in faculty meeting minutes. Job posting appeared shortly thereafter. Candidates brought in and offers were made. This person was up for tenure. The committee voted no for tenure since she was ... |
2018/01/26 | 307 | 1,250 | <issue_start>username_0: Almost all examples I can find in the internet do not say "letter of recommendation", however there are a few which do.<issue_comment>username_1: It’s frustrating to have to look for a bunch of emails titled “Letter of Reference” to find the one about a particular student or post doc candidate.... |
2018/01/26 | 592 | 2,574 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor became an assistant professor nearly two years ago. I worked with him for one year but did not publish a paper, and he thinks my progress is too slow. He asked if I want him to assign a new PhD student on this project. I replied that this was not necessary; I had been slow due to per... |
2018/01/26 | 690 | 2,995 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently preparing for a new class in an area in which the individual problems can be very long. (My writeups for individual homework problems were often three or four pages long when I took the same course as a student!)
Solving a typical problem involves:
1. Identifying the correct di... |
2018/01/27 | 609 | 2,397 | <issue_start>username_0: When I asked for the letter, last semester’s grades hadn’t been fully uploaded to the system so among the things my professor wrote, they said I was a top-5% student. This week, grades were updated and now I’m the top student in my cohort.
I don’t want to bother my professor again, and they mi... |
2018/01/27 | 753 | 3,135 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and recently I came across a researcher who is currently an assistant professor. I don’t know them. But I want their thesis, which is currently not available online. I want to know details of their work.
Is it okay to ask an unknown professor or researcher for their PhD thes... |
2018/01/27 | 820 | 3,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my PhD thesis to my department last August for examination. However, I found out from my supervisor that my department only sent my thesis to examiners last November for examination. So it took them about 3 months to get my thesis to examiners. Before submitting my thesis, my superv... |
2018/01/27 | 1,418 | 5,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering doing a PhD in the social sciences at an Israeli university. My research will not be conflict-focused, and I'm not sure yet whether it will have a local component. I would likely do research that appeals to more left-wing academics (economically and socially), perhaps those who ... |
2018/01/27 | 1,480 | 6,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I feel that I can get into big trouble very soon. I have been working on my master's thesis in computer science area for about 3 months(out of 6) and still haven't achieved any meaningful result. Although I am working really hard(at least 8 hours per day + some time during weekends), I can't se... |
2018/01/28 | 504 | 2,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I know many people have asked similar questions and admissions can sometimes be a crapshoot. But, I am currently a sophomore mathematics major at a non-target top 25 public school. If I can maintain a 3.8+ GPA and major GPA, is that a respectable range for a top grad program? I know GRE scores ... |
2018/01/28 | 1,615 | 6,908 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate at a US college. I wanted to take a course in a specific area of my major so that I could do better research during the summer. I do not have the prerequisite courses but I have extensive industry experience in this area so they are much less relevant. The course instructo... |
2018/01/28 | 1,993 | 8,839 | <issue_start>username_0: I've started to look for postdoc possibilities as my PhD is getting closer to its end (in 6-7 months).
My PhD was in the area of Machine Learning and more specifically motion data analysis (and even a more detail subset of that!). So at the start i focused on the institutes which are doing th... |
2018/01/28 | 2,245 | 9,349 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at some institute. My Ph.D. supervisor, from my former institute, keeps asking me to review papers that come to her for review. I am pretty sure that this is because I am good at a particular topic which is not her expertise. She has coauthored papers o... |
2018/01/29 | 4,966 | 20,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I attend a public university in Kentucky (USA). My professor has assigned an advocacy assignment that requires students to write three letters of support for a certain House bill that will soon be voted on (H.R. 592 / S. 109).
* The professor has given us all a template where we get to "custom... |
2018/01/29 | 897 | 3,878 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor does not want to push this further and take official action since this was a lone incident and I had health issues at that point. However, since I am not getting closure, I do not feel like I have a go-ahead to re-apply to universities. I feel that future advisers/people I write t... |
2018/01/29 | 4,968 | 20,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I take on more than I can handle and everything is left incomplete. Constant reminders from my previous supervisor, my current advisor, and colleagues, increases my anxiety level and sometimes I end up entirely avoiding work. I haven’t completed a paper as first author in the last two years, al... |
2018/01/29 | 426 | 1,879 | <issue_start>username_0: I've uploaded an article to ResearchGate, and ResearchGate asks me whether it has been peer reviewed. It hasn't, and I'm wondering whether ResearchGate can get it peer reviewed for me.
Is this possible and if yes how would I do it?<issue_comment>username_1: As far as I know, the answer is no.... |
2018/01/29 | 1,621 | 6,836 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, I want to propose a new algorithm for an existing problem, and I already have published several papers about this topic, they share exactly same background, is it OK for me to copy the "background" and "related work" part from my published paper?
The background contains some alrea... |
2018/01/29 | 603 | 2,636 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student at a university with a strong co-op program. It is assumed and well-known by all the professors that all students will complete one or more co-ops, and that it is currently application season.
I am currently taking a class in a subject manner that is strongly rela... |
2018/01/29 | 342 | 1,343 | <issue_start>username_0: It became a real problem for me. I need to read some old articles for my research but these qualities are so bad that I can't even read the text. For example, this article "<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012365X74901368?via%3Dihub>".
Do you have any opinion on my problem?<... |
2018/01/29 | 1,332 | 5,415 | <issue_start>username_0: I’ve just completed a graduate degree at a university in the UK, as an older student.
The department, IMO, is a mess of politics, fickle actions, and backstabbing. Whilst here, I have been pushed, abused, called names, intentionally failed and ignored.
A few others have suffered the same fate... |
2018/01/29 | 2,326 | 8,761 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering what are the most well-regarded rankings of computer science departments in the US. Preferably, this would be broken down into rankings by research output and rankings by student labor market outcomes.
Surely, one can find a myriad of such rankings by google searching, but I am ... |
2018/01/29 | 761 | 2,653 | <issue_start>username_0: Presume that these mainstays (even if their names are short) can all be [named publicly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe).
I fancy referring to them only with my abbreviations that I introduce on the first page, to save space and avoid typos, like for long surnames (e.g. some [Indian](... |
2018/01/30 | 1,486 | 6,318 | <issue_start>username_0: The government science sector is relatively small, but when you add up all the state and national departments and related organisations, it's a lot of people doing a lot of science.
Despite the strategic importance of public sector science, as far as I know there is no group responsible for th... |
2018/01/30 | 768 | 3,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that it is general practice to include a footnote on papers acknowledging research assistants who have contributed to the project. I am wondering, however, if any guidelines or accepted practices exist for how to determine which assistants should be acknowledged where. In general, since ... |
2018/01/30 | 683 | 2,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to several computer science PhD programs, and several professors who I mentioned in my statement of purpose have reached out requesting Skype interviews. My question is: how often are these requests made? Should I be very encouraged or is this standard procedure for almost all qua... |
2018/01/30 | 1,859 | 7,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Engineering undergraduate student at a Canadian University and have had trouble in a course with regards to time to complete online quizzes. The course syllabus says there are 4 quizzes worth 4% each throughout the semester and gives the weeks that they will be conducted on, but does no... |
2018/01/30 | 1,087 | 4,949 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it unethical to research journals for other students?
For example, a student is researching gifted students and their subsequent ACT/SAT scores. Then:
1. Would it be unethical for me to research educational journals and give the student the title of articles that pertain to their research?... |
2018/01/31 | 570 | 2,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed my Master's in Mathematics.
I loved two subjects: Algebra (modules and non-commutative rings) and Cryptography (visual and algebraic). I wanted to work on them in my PhD. I scored good grades in both subjects.
Now when I am going to apply for a PhD program at different instit... |
2018/01/31 | 446 | 1,831 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing the application for an AP position at a local university. The documents I am required to submit include recommendation letters from three referees, who the university's website states should preferably be my ex-supervisor and/or employer. But altogether I have only two ex-supervi... |
2018/01/31 | 719 | 2,681 | <issue_start>username_0: My former prof switched university and now I can't ask him in person for a letter of recommendation - should I try to see him in person? I've read [on here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16610/how-to-obtain-a-fair-recommendation-letter-from-a-professor-who-knows-me-via-cou?rq=1) ... |
2018/01/31 | 524 | 2,341 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got a paper back from review, with a comment from the editor:
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> "As the suggestions are primarily editorial I deem the revisions required to be minor."
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I have been given one week to revise the manuscript and write a response to both reviewers, but unfortunately both review... |
2018/01/31 | 349 | 1,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate math major and have hopes of attending graduate school in applied math. I also have a love for physics and thinking of minoring in physics. After some research, I found that many departments have professors in the research area of mathematical physics. Is having ... |
2018/01/31 | 686 | 2,818 | <issue_start>username_0: As part of my graduate program, I am required to give presentations to a group of attendees and a program panel about various topics including but not limited to research, involvement, and case studies.
The audience pays attention but rarely ask questions. A survey was released about my effec... |
2018/02/01 | 1,492 | 6,491 | <issue_start>username_0: I started to do questionnaires and surveys to assess my teaching methods and the learning gain of my students. How to convince the students to participate in these surveys? Is it OK to give small course credits for taking these surveys (say 1%)? otherwise, what are the incentive for the student... |
2018/02/01 | 3,551 | 14,478 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received an offer for a research award for early-stage scholars producing outstanding research in my field. I have verified the award and the association are genuine and I have colleagues who have won the prize previously.
The problem is two-fold.
The first problem is that I don't... |
2018/02/02 | 516 | 1,904 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written:
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> In an oil-water system, if the particle contact angle is larger than 90°, showing greater affinity for the oil phase, then the system is likely to be a W/O emulsion and vice versa.
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Does this convey "*if the particle contact angle is lower than 90°, that the syste... |
2018/02/02 | 343 | 1,481 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a masters program. I have read about the courses, which will be taught at the program. In fact, I think that I have had a lot of such courses in my bachelors program. Does it help to specifically mention that I think that I will do great at the program, because I have taken si... |
2018/02/03 | 367 | 1,634 | <issue_start>username_0: In recent months, I've begun receiving invitations to serve as a "guest editor" for various journals from publishers I've worked with in the past that I believe are reputable.
I recognize that there's significant workload for such an issue and very little, if any, compensation, but I'm wonder... |
2018/02/03 | 716 | 2,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm 2.5 years in to a 4 year PhD with possibility of a 5th year of funding. I started with one advisor, but research interests started shifting, so we brought on a co-advisor. My research interests have continued to shift in the new co-advisor's direction. The research components that the origi... |
2018/02/03 | 1,646 | 6,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a professor at an academic institution in applied mathematics. Last year around summer, a Masters student in my research group wanted to switch from his supervisor towards my research interests as he became more interested in my line of work. He displayed enthusiasm during my classes with ... |
2018/02/03 | 1,002 | 4,314 | <issue_start>username_0: My master’s supervisor talks to me once every six months and is uninterested in my research unless I have a half-written paper with a working model already.
There are also no post-docs or assistants managing the students or providing alternative guidance. It is only a professor. And he has abou... |
2018/02/03 | 454 | 1,690 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor has refused to provide a recommendation that I requested from him and directed me to approach the head of the department.
How do I close this communication with him?
Would a thank you email be necessary?<issue_comment>username_1: You don't need to reply to him at this point, what... |
2018/02/03 | 1,090 | 4,665 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my research as a PhD student a few years ago. I was assigned to researcher X's team and had to assist him in finding a solution as the project got stuck. However, X was not able to implement his approach properly and, after some time, I doubted that the solution's concept would work o... |
2018/02/03 | 4,366 | 18,901 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently been the subject of bullying by a group of students. I taught a difficult module alongside another module, which was taught by somebody else. The other module was much easier and offered huge amounts of support. Students described having their hands held in this module. One studen... |
2018/02/03 | 1,275 | 5,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying to the masters program at my undergraduate institution for a degree in mathematics. Due to my rather ambitious nature and biting off much, much more than I could chew at times (sitting in on multiple graduate courses and doing the coursework for them as an undergraduate f... |
2018/02/04 | 662 | 2,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with a Mathematics degree from a top-20 program in Mathematics. I have a good math background (I took many honors and some graduate level courses in my university with good grades with a 3.8+ mathematics GPA, and some researches and reading courses as well).
I applied for the PhD p... |
2018/02/04 | 546 | 2,293 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor said that when I write my thesis I should staple together my three papers. One of my committee members says my thesis should have a unifying theme and a narrative that ties together all the papers. My advisor thinks this is stupid and explicitly told me not to listen to my committee ... |
2018/02/04 | 1,568 | 6,731 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I am taking a mathematics course on something I have studied partially by myself. Say the professor assigns a problem whose proof I have already seen before, whether through owning a textbook that contains it, a lecture or assignment in a different course, or elsewhere during the natura... |
2018/02/04 | 2,475 | 10,815 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in theoretical computer science. I meet my research supervisor once a week for around 2 hours. I prepare some of my research and try to present in front of him. I always try to make a list of theorems and claims given in the paper to discuss with him in a certain flow but m... |
2018/02/04 | 1,910 | 7,913 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to some unfortunate miscommunication, one of the staff members at a university felt like I did not meet one of my obligations.
The staff member sent me an extremely rude email that happened to include other members of the department who I happen to know personally. The fact that the email ... |
2018/02/04 | 3,234 | 13,294 | <issue_start>username_0: We are having Visit Days soon, and we (current grads) are expected to have one-on-one conversations with visiting students with research interests closest to ours. One typical question we get, "How is Prof. X? What is it like working with them?".
As a current grad, I can see the names of the ... |
2018/02/05 | 413 | 1,863 | <issue_start>username_0: After completing a paper my supervisor at the time wanted to use a paper review service to review my paper for grammar, English etc..
I am a native English speaker and the service is based in a non-English-speaking country, but I don't know the nationality of the person who reviewed the paper.... |
2018/02/05 | 1,619 | 6,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a <NAME> early stage researcher in a H2020 funded project (early training network, for those aware of the terminology), that's spread between several universities in Europe (including where I am now, London /snark). I'm approaching the end of my contract.
This project is, according to th... |
2018/02/05 | 1,906 | 8,088 | <issue_start>username_0: I started working on my master thesis a few weeks ago. When I talk to my supervisor and try to discuss new ideas she always starts to explain **very basic** material that is only tangentially related. Sometimes even repeating what she said in our last meeting.
This leads me to believe my super... |
2018/02/05 | 929 | 3,720 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in pure math, namely graph theory and combinatorics. I have recently been nominated by my department to be the math department candidate for a university-wide research award. In the award application materials, it asks for my CV and is very specific that the authors name... |
2018/02/05 | 1,097 | 4,133 | <issue_start>username_0: I know peer reviewing is done freely and voluntarily, at least I think for the most part, so I am not sure strike is the best way of calling it, but it gives the idea. With all the recent discussion about open access and overworked researchers that relate to the publishing cycle, I was wonderin... |
2018/02/05 | 332 | 1,570 | <issue_start>username_0: It is common for professors to have cordial relationships with their colleagues who work in different institutions (obviously), and I was wondering if it is also common for them to exchange info about their PhD applicants during the application review season. For example, if a promising candida... |
2018/02/06 | 478 | 2,031 | <issue_start>username_0: For my masters project I utilized user stories as a means of requirements gathering. I have roughly 100 of these along with the acceptance tests to go with them.
I'm currently writing my thesis and detailing the methods I used to gather these requirements. My question is: Do I include these u... |
2018/02/06 | 688 | 2,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper to a journal. It came back with a "revise and resubmit" recommendation and two referee reports. Both of them were quite positive. One of them suggested that I remove from the paper a certain topic and publish it separately in order to give it more visibility. The ot... |
2018/02/06 | 1,694 | 7,189 | <issue_start>username_0: At our institute, PhD students carry out presentations on the advance of their projects once a year. The presentations are "internal" in the sense that only undergrads, PhD students and professors of our institute may attend.
I am about to carry out my second such presentation corresponding to... |
2018/02/06 | 612 | 2,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate in biology. I have a paper that I need to be published for me to graduate. It was accepted for publication in November 2017. I returned corrected proofs in December. In January the production team asked about "problems to be fixed" before final production and I immediately ... |
2018/02/06 | 675 | 3,110 | <issue_start>username_0: In conducting a literature review i.e., research done on a particular topic for a certain period of time what is the prefered period of the review? Would it be advised if the time period is from 2000 to present only?<issue_comment>username_1: The year that a paper was published is entirely irre... |
2018/02/06 | 946 | 3,823 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been offered admission in a top-25 university, and a RA position in a lab that works on my area of interest. I am pretty happy with this offer and I would feel comfortable accepting it. However, I still have not heard back from some top-10 institutions.
I am concerned that the professor... |
2018/02/06 | 1,247 | 5,150 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is, how can I publish my results without name of my supervisor as a co-author? Do I need their name in my paper? Is it suspicious if I submit an article without his name?
I have a problem with the head of the lab that I performed the experiments there. He wants to be the coauthor b... |
2018/02/06 | 1,833 | 7,532 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fourth year graduate student at a tier 1 research university in the US. I had lot of hiccups in getting started with my research. Our program is rotation bases where you rotate with your potential PIs for a semester (or more). I decided to rotate with Prof. A and continued it for another... |
2018/02/07 | 576 | 2,399 | <issue_start>username_0: I have always loved psychology, and so I went and got a first degree in that field. However, I also loved technology (especially computers) while growing up. Unfortunately, I wasn't well-informed about university programs, and so I didn't know I could do both psychology and computer science in ... |
2018/02/07 | 473 | 1,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I need a specific class to graduate. However, it's only taught by a single instructor who happens to be of a demographic group that I'm uncomfortable around.
How could I complete the required coursework given this discomfort?<issue_comment>username_1: Take the class with this professor. You ar... |
2018/02/07 | 565 | 2,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate major in International Studies applying for grad school programs in Development, Securities, and Global Governance. I have international experience working in West Africa for World Bank and USAID sponsored NGO research initiatives.
I've recently submitted all of my intende... |
2018/02/07 | 272 | 1,183 | <issue_start>username_0: My M.Sc. Thesis' abstract got accepted for presentation at a conference this year and I am about to send the paper. Should I give the paper to my current supervisor (of my Ph.D. in a different University) to read it and have an opinion?
**EDIT: Including answers to comments**
My previous supe... |
2018/02/07 | 805 | 3,689 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask about a reasonable interpretation that can be made in the case that an aerospace engineering faculty member of a high-level US university, like Caltech or MIT, directly talks to my current university professor about my backgrounds and preparations before my formal submission... |
2018/02/07 | 4,209 | 16,979 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a Syrian refugee residing in Europe. I am about to complete my undergraduate degree in mathematics, and have applied to several graduate schools. To my surprise I got into a few very good ones. However, the last years I have suffered from tinnitus as a result of an explosion in Syria. I am ... |
2018/02/07 | 459 | 1,929 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it acceptable to add articles under my profile in "google scholar citation" in which i was acknowledged for my real contribution rather than being a co-author?<issue_comment>username_1: Being acknowledge doesn't count as authorship and claiming otherwise will make you seem clueless or fraudu... |
2018/02/07 | 1,297 | 5,350 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be giving a talk in a research seminar in mathematics in a couple of weeks. During this talk, I'm planning to present one particular result of mine which shows that a certain method introduced by another researcher several years ago is quite limited. This limiting result is really simple... |
2018/02/07 | 266 | 1,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my revised paper (second-time major revision) just few days back through Scholar One. Now I found some errors in my submitted paper. As the paper is already submitted, what shall I do? Can I write a mail to the editor-in-chief?<issue_comment>username_1: Generally, you can’t change t... |
2018/02/07 | 1,324 | 5,641 | <issue_start>username_0: Faculty and students are generally regarded as having some degree of academic freedom (tenured faculty sometimes having more than non-tenured).
Non-faculty staff seem to be a different matter. Specific institutions might have policies addressing this, but I'm asking more from a general / phil... |
2018/02/08 | 1,427 | 5,761 | <issue_start>username_0: A very busy professor just responded my email. He answered my questions, and in the end, he explicitly said something like "Please let me know if you have any questions" or "Please respond if you have further questions".
So, I am trying to think as if I am in his shoe. Is he not expecting me t... |
2018/02/08 | 896 | 3,804 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a BS in math and a BS in computer science. I attempted to get into a math PhD program right out of undergrad, but I was not prepared for the GRE subject test, so my applications did not go well. I had to find a job while I thought up a new plan, and I have now been accepted to computer s... |
2018/02/08 | 1,377 | 5,860 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new assistant professor in the UK in Electrical engineering. I'm in the process of setting up my lab and I work in a "hot" area. Thus, I have the chance of getting good students funded by industry or funding bodies.
I know of professors with 10+ PhDs and others with 2-3. The group I did ... |
2018/02/08 | 2,008 | 7,799 | <issue_start>username_0: About 5 years ago, <NAME> wrote an [interesting and in my opinion, crucial, piece on why many **academic cultures**](https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/big-data-brain-drain/) are **unsustainable in the long run**, and **will eventually be outcompeted industry** if not **totally collapse*... |
2018/02/08 | 599 | 2,282 | <issue_start>username_0: Actually I'm proving that `∀n∃p∈P|n. Which is a result similar to Bertrand's Postulate, but with a shorter proof. Should I publish my result? If so, as I'm not affiliated with any Research Institute how do I do that?`
**Edit**
Since yesterday I've improved my proof: `∀n∃p∈P|n. This means I'm ... |
2018/02/08 | 3,483 | 14,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I serve on a faculty search committee at a large university here in the US. The part of the job none of us enjoys is informing a candidate who's visited and given a teaching demonstration that we've decided not to recommend a hire. We do it in three pretty bare sentences thanking them for comin... |
2018/02/08 | 288 | 1,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that I uploaded to arXiv and google scholar listed it as a publication. The paper cites a number of my papers that are already published. However, Google scholar doesn't add arxiv citations to the already published papers.<issue_comment>username_1: So apparently you have to wait.... |
2018/02/08 | 1,588 | 6,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cover the topic of [achondroplasia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achondroplasia), the most common form of dwarfism, in a large introductory biology lecture. How can I discuss it in an appropriately sensitive way, one that respects people who have the condition or are close to people ... |
2018/02/08 | 1,090 | 4,823 | <issue_start>username_0: While doing literature review towards my Master's dissertation I noticed that many recent papers in my field (robotics/computer vision) frequently cite publications produced a decade or even more ago.
Now, that would not surprise me so much if those were, say, about fundamental algorithm which... |
2018/02/09 | 3,342 | 14,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm lucky - I probably won't have to provide for any loved ones after I die (they can take care of themselves). That means I can use my assets on whatever I want, and most likely, that will be science. The exact amount I can spare depends on how much longer I have to live, but an order of magni... |
2018/02/09 | 688 | 2,665 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm aiming to apply for a MA in Germany and in the description for my programme of choice it says:
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I'm a bit unsure of what this could mean, any German student could clarify if this means that meeting the criteria is enough for admission or ... |
2018/02/09 | 226 | 949 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student working in applied probability theory. I have submitted my PhD thesis and started to apply for postdoc positions.
Is it OK to ask a professor whether they have a position available? If so, what should such an e-mail contain?<issue_comment>username_1: I advise you to have thi... |
2018/02/09 | 1,693 | 7,112 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago I undertook the position of co-editor as a journal and organized a redesign of the entire journal: new layout, new cover, new typesetting, new printers, everything. I'm very proud of all of this work, and I make sure to bring it up in cover letters and interviews.
I learned abo... |
2018/02/09 | 1,033 | 4,492 | <issue_start>username_0: In the US graduate universities, Ph.D. students have to take courses. Can a student with low GPA do good research? I think doing research is solving problems. If someone cannot solve a homework or an exam, how the person can even solve more complicated problems to publish?<issue_comment>usernam... |
2018/02/09 | 525 | 2,405 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently I'm a student at one of the russian universities which obviously requires me to write theses and similar academic papers in Russian. Most russian universities (and CIS unis, in my observation) follow locally modefied versions of Soviet thesis structure guidelines. In my writing I regu... |
2018/02/09 | 1,794 | 6,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently have had a discussion about my friend's tone in his email.
His supervisor asked him whether he wants to attend a summer school in May. He wanted to thank him for his invitation and also wanted to keep the mail short. As a result, that is what he came up with:
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2018/02/09 | 674 | 2,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in my first postdoctoral research position at a European university, in pure maths. I'm considering changing to software development. In case I would rather like to return to academia, how hard is it, as compared to trying to stay in academia right away?
The two scenarios I'd lik... |
2018/02/10 | 1,072 | 4,171 | <issue_start>username_0: The Michigan State University (MSU) has moved to fire the medical school dean for the actions of the child molester / doctor, <NAME>. Why does that happen in academia? I'm interested in knowing why the professors around a convicted child molester also have to lose their tenure and jobs. Is this... |
2018/02/10 | 439 | 1,698 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been invited to an academic workshop in India. As a North American woman, it is conventional to wear business casual (e.g., pant suit or dress) or even casual clothing to a conference or workshop in my field (geography/health). Would it be appropriate to wear business casual in India or to... |