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2018/02/24 | 1,013 | 4,385 | <issue_start>username_0: I work as a full-time employee in industry. Recently, I've been invited to present at a conference in an area not closely related to my degree. My employer approved me being absent for two-three hours and I accepted the conference invitation.
However, I'm not sure how will this look in the eye... |
2018/02/24 | 972 | 4,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently study for my B.Sc. in Media IT. I easily could finish a second Bachelor if I do one more semester. I want to do master's degree in Media IT afterwards.
I'm already 23 and in the third semester, since I finished an apprenticeship as a software developer before. Is it useful to start... |
2018/02/25 | 415 | 1,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted an assignment 1 day late. Should I email the professor to explain my situation? He has a pretty loose policy on deadlines but we should definitely submit the assignment before the answer is posted.
I dropped the assignment in his mailbox so if he does not check on Sunday and posts ... |
2018/02/25 | 855 | 3,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student in India. My music teacher was kicked out of the school about 1 month ago due to sexual misconduct.
Today, he messaged me on Instagram with a fake ID and started talking nastily to me so I blocked him. He again messaged me with a new ID and asked for pictures and so on. I had to... |
2018/02/25 | 589 | 2,482 | <issue_start>username_0: My interests are very broad. Before grad school I did a lot of things, but now it's expected that I only do one thing. Provided that I can demonstrate research competence in more than one field, by publishing for example, is it possible to write a thesis that consists of several smaller, orthog... |
2018/02/25 | 414 | 1,806 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done some work and want to upload that research work on Arxiv. The problem is that the second author wants to work more on this and doesn't want to upload the result to Arxiv. I am thinking that I will upload the result on Arxiv and then I will keep doing research on that thing, so if ge... |
2018/02/25 | 864 | 3,444 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I find a Math Proposition in another paper, which is just stated, and no proof (nor even sketch of proof) is given.
If I am writing a paper referencing that paper, is it good or bad (from reviewer's point of view) for me to fill in the proof of that proposition?
If I do so, what is a good... |
2018/02/25 | 616 | 2,630 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am applying for a postdoc position and I happen to be working on a problem that is quite closely related to PI's interests. I don't just mean that we share the same field/subfield (which we do anyway) but rather the problem that I worked out is an advancement of what he (and some other peo... |
2018/02/25 | 241 | 1,007 | <issue_start>username_0: Can anybody explain why someone who is editor of a reputable journal also act simultaneously as an editor for a potentially predatory journal?<issue_comment>username_1: We cannot know if this is really the case, but many disreputable publishers surreptitiously list well known scientists in thei... |
2018/02/25 | 553 | 2,173 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m on my 3rd/5 undergraduate years, so I’m just starting to think about grad admissions.
I’ve been planning on applying to MD/PhD programs. I enjoy/feel comfortable in hospitals and think I can make a contribution or two in medically-relevant bioinformatics/comp. genetics.
So, one of the b... |
2018/02/25 | 2,645 | 10,930 | <issue_start>username_0: This issue is about a university in a 3rd world country.
I friend of mine (I will call her "Z") is a faculty member at a reputable university. During one of her sittings with an undergrad student ("A"), she learned that another faculty member ("T") is sending "A" some inappropriate text msgs ... |
2018/02/26 | 4,035 | 16,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third-time postdoc, and had never before had problems with getting paid. For almost two years now I have been a postdoctoral fellow at a university in southern China. This is my first experience in Asia, and thus I am not sure of how common the situation I am facing is. Communication is ... |
2018/02/26 | 1,072 | 4,245 | <issue_start>username_0: I have sent a paper to the journal that was predatory and I had no idea what that was. Today, they sent me an email that I need to pay **1819 euros** to publish my manuscript. On their internet pages stands that publication fee is 1819 USD and **1705 euros**. This means that they have changed t... |
2018/02/26 | 496 | 2,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I've submitted the final manuscript for a book with a reputed social science publisher. My publisher wants a list of people who might be willing to provide endorsement for the book.
Whom should I suggest? In particular, is it appropriate to suggest people I've been working with, for example my... |
2018/02/26 | 1,087 | 4,594 | <issue_start>username_0: It could also be placed on <https://english.stackexchange.com/>, but I feel it is more suitable here. So: **Is there a term for the (trivial) fact that research is done only with the means available?**
For example a mineralogist won't study stones from the Moon if s/he doesn't have one. More ... |
2018/02/26 | 1,874 | 7,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a graduate student and I am really worried about the quality of my master thesis. It's my second year in graduate school and I've already done some pilot studies. But, entering the school, I was absolutely new in the real science (cognitive psychology) and now I'm afraid that data I collect... |
2018/02/26 | 1,223 | 5,175 | <issue_start>username_0: For the people here who do not yet work entirely electronically, and still use printed papers & old school folders to organise their papers, do you guys have a system for organising these papers?
I have bought a few folders today and have made a few rough distinctions, but I am wondering how m... |
2018/02/26 | 1,211 | 3,409 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I got a research from one of my colleagues. However, I suspect the draft of his work and think it is extracted from somewhere else and it is not a new research in the field of cryptography. I need to know due to the lack of the time I have can I make sure about this issue? what are the... |
2018/02/27 | 2,190 | 9,309 | <issue_start>username_0: Alright this question needs a little more context. **This is not about me but I will define the situation as if it were for myself**, so feel free to ask me directly for clarifications.
I'm a German student currently in my second year of a university course that combines both teaching (to chil... |
2018/02/27 | 2,015 | 8,302 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a professor at a university different from the one I study in, who I like to do some research with. I emailed her and did not receive any answer even after sending a follow-up email (a week after the first email). I knew her class schedule, but not her office hours. I thought about goi... |
2018/02/27 | 429 | 1,699 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm the process of paper drafting and stumbled upon the question, what's the appropriate name for individuals, who are affected by a disease, which is likely due to a mutation.
I was using the term "carriers" until now (like in: group one constists out of mutational carriers, group two is a co... |
2018/02/27 | 295 | 1,231 | <issue_start>username_0: Can my advisor's advisor (he is a very well known person in the field) be a reviewer for a paper written by me along with my advisor (I mean the authors are me and my advisor). The work is extending/generalizing a work of my advisor's advisor. I mean whether conflict of interest will allow this... |
2018/02/27 | 1,558 | 6,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering if someone could offer some professional advice regarding how I should approach a situation at my university. Essentially, we had a paper due for an English class, and the instructor provided a rubric. This rubric consists of six categories that are each worth 0 points, followed b... |
2018/02/27 | 659 | 2,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student third year and I almost finished working on a research with my supervisor. I have few research problems in my mind, I told him about one or two but he did not paid that much attention. I want to try one or two research problem on my own. I am little hesitant to ask him about ... |
2018/02/27 | 403 | 1,794 | <issue_start>username_0: As a physics major in US, my PhD application is screwed up this year and neither did I found a decent job. So I'm thinking of applying for a two years master program in German, which provides more time in research (so that I have chance to collect better letters) while does not charge for tuiti... |
2018/02/27 | 658 | 2,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering about how to refer to sections right above or below the piece of text referring. I know that I'm supposed to use section numbers almost all the time, but personally feel that this might be an exception.
I know that this question might be subjective, but that's what I want to find... |
2018/02/28 | 1,385 | 5,834 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to complete a Ph.D. in Hong Kong and would like to study in the United States. I hold a first class B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering. I have a CGPA of 3.67 out of 4 in my current PhD studies, two journal publications (IEEE Transactions) with two more to be submitted soon. I wo... |
2018/02/28 | 456 | 1,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering how to cite a figure that has already been modified from another source. Normally one should get the original figure from the original source, but there are cases when that is not possible or difficult.
Let's say that we find a figure A in source 1.
Figure A is a modified versio... |
2018/02/28 | 862 | 3,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to send an e-mail to a very well-known professor in the field of my interest. I have read most of his papers and I am 90% sure that I like to work under his supervision at least for some months. I am an undergraduate student but being realistic, I hope to be considered a *good* student i... |
2018/02/28 | 865 | 3,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to create an open access journal / a platform that is free of charge for authors and readers. Ideally, I would like it to get away from the current norms: offer the possibility to publish peer-reviewed articles, but also drafts, offer the possibility for reviewers to comment on dra... |
2018/02/28 | 5,201 | 21,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a short exchange of mails with a PhD student who wished to ask some questions about a paper of mine, which was troublesome in many respects:
* The student had a blatant lack of basic knowledge and techniques of their field. (Imagine a computer scientist not knowing what object-oriented p... |
2018/02/28 | 765 | 3,149 | <issue_start>username_0: I didn't do well in a part of a technical interview for a master's program, which was a question in the field X.
The most important subfield of my major for that program is X and X is not particularly my strength, because I took more advanced courses in other subfields during the last two yea... |
2018/02/28 | 593 | 2,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I know there are other questions about how to address faculty members, but this situation is a bit unusual, so hear me out:
I'm in my last year at an undergraduate institution. My department head is very conscientious about using titles, but has for some time now used his first name and the fi... |
2018/03/01 | 1,020 | 3,433 | <issue_start>username_0: After publishing a paper even with multiple proofreading and rerun the experiment, there is a feeling of "I should improve this" or "this section is so vague, I should explain more" or maybe the worst is when spotting an unintentional error in a graph or data.
Is it ethical If I make some kind... |
2018/03/01 | 1,288 | 5,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I am organizing a small workshop which is over subscribed. We will have to reject a few applications. The worst applicants are easy to spot, but there are a few borderline cases, and I'm afraid that a few unfair decisions will necessarily have to be made.
To minimize the damage, I would like t... |
2018/03/01 | 697 | 3,010 | <issue_start>username_0: As I see, most if not all Ph.D. students strive to be listed as the first author of the research paper, then followed by coauthors and finally the Prof who is responsible for the lab.
While I am checking my professor previous publications; I noticed that over the last 30 years my professor na... |
2018/03/01 | 458 | 1,933 | <issue_start>username_0: Will a reference from a postdoc be considered less than a reference from a lecturer/professor? This is assuming that I have done a dissertation under him/her and that the postdoc is in his/her (at least) third postdoc position. It may be worth to note that he/she has graduated PhD for around 10... |
2018/03/01 | 432 | 1,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for international master degrees which are offered in 2 different countries. For example first year in Singapore and second year in Brasil. How can I find such universities or programs? Is there a big database for such schools?<issue_comment>username_1: I think that what matters is... |
2018/03/01 | 1,004 | 4,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question that isn't immediately relevant to me, and I'm not sure will be important in the future as I am quite happy with my situation. It is however something I have thought about at length and I've yet to come up with a set of general guidelines. I am a graduate student in the United... |
2018/03/02 | 987 | 4,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently finishing my second year as a STEM PhD student at a fairly large research university. As a grad student, I am expected to fulfill 20 hours of extra duties each week. Typically this involves working as a TA for two classes and then completing a few hours a week in the tutoring cent... |
2018/03/02 | 5,340 | 20,900 | <issue_start>username_0: **I am referring more to young scientists after the PhD** than professors, although I am also wondering about people with a stable position.
I see many people overworking themselves, burning-out, being overworked and with pressure to work well, fast, and produce a lot (publications). I am dis... |
2018/03/02 | 5,077 | 19,862 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper which is a literature review about a specific topic. How can I reference some texts from this literature review if I want to paraphrase that in my research proposal for PhD?<issue_comment>username_1: This is a bit opinion-based, but I'll offer my own personal take on an answer in... |
2018/03/02 | 1,258 | 5,148 | <issue_start>username_0: In the first meeting my new advisor, how should I ask her what her "style" is when supervising students, in a way that is straightforward but not cheeky?
*Bonus question*: what are good questions to ask to your new advisor on your first meeting?<issue_comment>username_1: Good question. Most a... |
2018/03/02 | 284 | 1,243 | <issue_start>username_0: Conferences ask for abstracts for those authors wishing to contribute talks or posters. I wonder which conference committee decides on who gets a talk or poster based on the submitted abstracts; is it the Scientific Organising Committee or the Local Organising Committee?<issue_comment>username_... |
2018/03/03 | 1,616 | 6,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 32 year old Assistant Professor. I met a girl at a conference. I liked her, but I realized she is a graduate student at the same university where I am faculty member. She is from the same school, but from a different department. Is it ethical for me to date her?<issue_comment>username_1:... |
2018/03/03 | 1,415 | 5,953 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm studying Engineering in India. In Information Technology, Many CS-friends of mine told me that that degree is not worth it and that none of the subjects will be useful in my computer science career.
I subsequently lost interest in studying until a friend filled me in on the uses of each su... |
2018/03/03 | 691 | 3,132 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing papers about new research made from my doctoral research results, after my defense, must my doctoral advisor be included as co-author?<issue_comment>username_1: The traditional role of authorship is to clarify who (significantly) contributed to the work being published. Doctoral ad... |
2018/03/03 | 4,444 | 19,008 | <issue_start>username_0: Disclaimer: this is a hypothetical question, not (immediately) related to any concrete past, present or future reviewed paper.
My context is the no-fly zone between Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. In my opinion, there are some research directions within this field that are pointless.... |
2018/03/03 | 772 | 3,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in Mathematics. I wanted to know what exactly is the difference between PhD and Postdoc. Is it just the research that one does after PhD(kind of second PhD?)?<issue_comment>username_1: In mathematics, a "postdoc" is a special kind of faculty job you get just after your Ph.D. ... |
2018/03/03 | 2,149 | 8,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I suspect I might have offended some of my professors/lecturers and tutors by calling them sir or miss despite them holding a PhD.
**Edit** (info provided in comment): I'm from Malaysia. We have our own variation of English called Manglish (Malaysian English). So ma'am instead of miss then for... |
2018/03/03 | 589 | 2,180 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical if I use lecture slides of another professor and modify only 15-20% for my lecture and provide an acknowledgment at the end of lecture slides that lecture material was taken from Prof. XYZ Course ABC?
In the given condition do I still need to send a personal email to professor ... |
2018/03/03 | 1,245 | 5,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I am one year from graduating and am starting to look for Graduate programs. I would like to know if there exist graduate programs where the focus is on research from the start (apparently this is the case in the UK).
I ask this because I have noticed I learn better when motivated by research ... |
2018/03/03 | 1,976 | 8,320 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my graduate studies in computer science this year and am confused as to what quality research (some new innovation or discovery) domain I would choose specifically amongst virtualization, distributed computing, containers, and/or blockchain.
My main issue is that I understand but... |
2018/03/03 | 643 | 2,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a computer science PhD candidate. I have been reading and learning a lot of my interested research area - and now it's time to formally defend my research proposal.
There is a computer architecture that has already been discussed (online articles) over blogs and videos and some companies... |
2018/03/04 | 1,104 | 4,722 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if I should follow the advice of my co-advisor or a relative of mine who is also a researcher and used to write a scientific paper in the same field (but currently with less experience then my co-advisor).
I will make it a bit more clear:
* I am a Ph.D. student in CS, specifica... |
2018/03/04 | 660 | 2,877 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in CS and have been receiving quite a few sub-reviewing requests recently.
Each review takes me more than a day (and often, 2-3 days), and I have reviewed 11 papers on the last year alone.
I never declined a review request, but this seems to take far more time than the revie... |
2018/03/05 | 639 | 2,585 | <issue_start>username_0: A week ago, I contacted a professor regarding a PhD position in his group. He replied by saying that he is in search for a PhD student and after examining my CV, he said that he would like to organize a meeting over Skype and also asked for my transcripts. Therefore, I suggested him a date and ... |
2018/03/05 | 2,034 | 7,865 | <issue_start>username_0: While reading lot's of papers for my Thesis, I was looking for another solution than printing important papers. So I started browsing the internets, watched tons of reviews on YouTube, etc.
I learned that, as of 2018, most of the current eInk eBook readers support PDF reading. However, none o... |
2018/03/05 | 1,544 | 6,755 | <issue_start>username_0: So, the title speaks for itself, but essentially over the course of the last few weeks I've been doing a course in complex analysis, and some of the identities that pop up are immaculate, and I think including one of these will enable me to convey that not only am I passionate about my subject ... |
2018/03/05 | 633 | 2,235 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a hard time deciphering conference and journal rankings in order to find good places to publish. [Disclaimer - I am a computing PhD and this post is intended to have a strong focus in CS]
I think it would be beneficial to have a list of websites which rank conferences and journals (deffo... |
2018/03/05 | 732 | 3,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a Software Engineering apprentice, doing a related degree as the academic side.
I have noticed that despite how passionate I am about software, things never 'click' with me when I first read about them or when someone explains them to me. This can be both academic and practical.... |
2018/03/05 | 378 | 1,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for MS in CS. 6+ years of work experience.
I worked for a huge, globally well known company for less than a year straight out school. This was 5 years back.
I also worked for a very small unknown company for about 3 years.
I can get letters from both, and the content of both w... |
2018/03/05 | 1,015 | 4,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I have several projects that will be published soon. I am the 1st author in two of them and co-author in 3 of them. How to present this in my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: Simply have a section titled "publications". In order to aid readability and emphasize your contribution, I have seen the f... |
2018/03/05 | 504 | 2,309 | <issue_start>username_0: This is set up in a Russian university with English as a working language, but may apply to any university with a large share of international students.
Suppose I'm listing a set of course materials, including textbooks and educational resources, for a graduate course. Should I include textboo... |
2018/03/06 | 351 | 1,350 | <issue_start>username_0: During my PhD I was invited three times by two researchers to stay and do research in their lab, one week at a time. I'm now a postdoc and applying to tenured jobs in Europe (yay). Should I include these stays in my CV for these job applications?
To be fair most of the deadlines have already g... |
2018/03/06 | 664 | 2,749 | <issue_start>username_0: Let us assume that a phd student has discovered a brilliant idea during his/her phd studies and that the idea has not been published or presented yet.
How can that student protect the idea under a patent? What are the right steps to follow and wrong steps to avoid?<issue_comment>username_1: Yo... |
2018/03/06 | 979 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: This year I went on the job market early (one year before the end of my postdoc). I applied selectively but to about 30-40 positions across a few countries. I had one campus interview. After the campus interview, I asked for feedback and the only information I got from the hiring committee chai... |
2018/03/07 | 728 | 3,100 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper was accepted for publication in a journal. I have also received an acceptance letter and even I have filled out the copyright form. The corresponding editor first told me "Your paper is published in one of the volumes of 2017" and next time said that my paper is "published in 2018", bu... |
2018/03/07 | 802 | 3,085 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year PhD student.
Through a grant I was able to organize a scientific visit for myself to another university. The aim of this visit was just to talk and discuss with some of the staff there about their research.
Prior to my arrival, my host notified me that they frequently hold... |
2018/03/07 | 1,592 | 6,822 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that two collaborators sent a paper to a conference which was very far away (say, from US to Australia). After the paper was accepted, one of the authors took the flight to the venue, and died on the way.
Conferences generally require someone to present their work for their paper to ap... |
2018/03/07 | 2,853 | 12,407 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, I'm halfway through my PhD and have recently started receiving help for invisible disabilities from the university, although I have not disclosed the details of these disabilities to my supervisors. My supervisors know that I receive university support for 'medical issues' but... |
2018/03/07 | 2,142 | 9,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing up my third year of a PhD program this Spring. Until recently, I had assumed that I would have four years of funding as many of the PhD students do. However, after asking the department chair, I was told that "the department resources are stretched (as usual) and we made our recru... |
2018/03/07 | 508 | 2,036 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked her 2-3 years ago whether she would do that for me, when I was still a BA student, she said yes. I then did not need that letter because I had personal problems, now I am out of uni for some time but would like to apply for grad school. Should I somehow remind her that she once agreed t... |
2018/03/08 | 1,105 | 5,095 | <issue_start>username_0: I can think of two possible ways in which a new department is born: one, the university decides to start teaching a certain subject, and in the other, an existing department splits into two (e.g. department of physics and astronomy -> department of physics + department of astronomy). If the ans... |
2018/03/08 | 1,712 | 7,407 | <issue_start>username_0: I created an affinity group for first generation students at my graduate school. Shortly after, the school's diversity committee emailed the student government informing us that there would be a diversity committee panel on the issue of being first gen. It seems like sort of an informal lunch b... |
2018/03/08 | 1,144 | 4,987 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a second year masters student that will be applying to PhD programs in CS Theory. I have finished all of my required coursework for graduation, but my tuition is essentially free and I enjoy taking classes so I am looking for one to take this semester. The few that I am very inte... |
2018/03/08 | 599 | 2,744 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for ideas and suggestions on when someone would have enough experience and expertise to be presented as a potential peer review candidate.
I am specifically looking at using review history data as a source and keywords search to search that source. So a solution **could** be rela... |
2018/03/08 | 527 | 2,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a messy manuscript to a conference due to the urgent deadline.
After a period of revision, I corrected some mistakes and tidied the manuscript.
Is it okay to send an email to the conference chair or somebody else asking to resubmit the manuscript? Or are there any other ways to... |
2018/03/08 | 270 | 1,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some journal articles that are obviously copyrighted in some form that I am not allowed to share with people who don't have a license.
I also have a private student git-repo. I want to know if it's okay to upload these articles to the repo, considering the repo is private?<issue_commen... |
2018/03/08 | 761 | 3,126 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate, 3/5 years. I've worked in the same basic-genetics lab for three years now (mostly part time, 6 months of full-time).
I'm hoping to apply for MD/PhD programs doing computational biology, and I have a little bit of experience (an internship and some part-time industry work)... |
2018/03/08 | 1,546 | 6,710 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently researching the foundations of graph theory (math). I have noticed two kind of things in introduction books.
1. [There are results seemingly so obvious nobody writes about it.](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/289116/literature-about-most-basic-existence-proofs-in-graph-theory... |
2018/03/08 | 254 | 1,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted a Manuscript in a good journal which has given me the reviews as " Accepted for publication pending revisions"? What does this review actually mean? Is it accepted?
FYI, I have created a response letter in which I have given justification for some concerns and also made the ch... |
2018/03/08 | 3,177 | 13,280 | <issue_start>username_0: I am head TA in a 300-student class, with 12 other TAs. Currently I do the following things to motivate my TAs:
1. We have an internal Slack channel called #shoutouts where I mention TAs every time I notice them going above and beyond.
2. I post Piazza statistics to the Slack channel every wee... |
2018/03/08 | 1,650 | 7,312 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to give a 40-minute presentation about a research paper that I have to read in mathematics.
What I’ve done so far:
1. read the paper :-) and taken notes on unclear/non-obvious parts.
2. started crafting a presentation. However I’ve caught myself on putting too many definitions in the p... |
2018/03/09 | 755 | 2,713 | <issue_start>username_0: Every so often, I stumble upon a question concerning "double blind peer review", i.e., the authors don't know the reviewers (as usual) but also the reviewers don't know the identity of the authors.
It's always struck me as a rather odd system, with no discernible benefits (because I am under t... |
2018/03/09 | 721 | 3,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I talked with some colleagues and it seems that the review process for most grants proposals (NSF, NIH,etc) are taking months (~6). This is probably not helpful for science and innovation. I understand that reviewers are busy people but papers submitted for a conference would usually not take m... |
2018/03/09 | 1,842 | 6,091 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m taking a (non-student) job as a full time research assistant in a university engineering department, and am wondering what alternate title I could use for this on my resume that isn’t misleading.
*Research assistant* has a connotation of being a lower level student job, and I have a MS deg... |
2018/03/10 | 341 | 1,473 | <issue_start>username_0: My thesis is based on the application of a evaluation process. Therefore I want to add a subsection in the "Theoretical Background" chapter where I summarize the whole process. The process is described very well in an official (extensive) document so it is the only source I need to describe the... |
2018/03/10 | 599 | 2,628 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor has developed an idea earlier in his career. While this idea is not particularly bad, he always tries to force all his students to apply it to almost all research topics we encounter. Many of them are, in my opinion, obviously not suitable to apply this idea onto, and have resulted i... |
2018/03/10 | 3,888 | 15,233 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been forwarded a four-page outline of some sort of "theory of everything" whose ambition is to explain just about everything in the universe in terms of particles oscillating in and out of some kind of hidden anti-universe. I've been asked to give my opinion on the theory.
It has all the ... |
2018/03/10 | 1,317 | 5,156 | <issue_start>username_0: It is possible to obtain two PhD degrees (various fields) on the basis of one interdisciplinary PhD dissertation? Is this something feasible (in Europe)?
Or maybe there must be two different 'physical' doctoral dissertations?<issue_comment>username_1: No, at least the regulations that I am awa... |
2018/03/10 | 2,025 | 8,973 | <issue_start>username_0: At that time of the year, graduate schools in the United States are notifying applicants that they have been placed on a wait list.
I read this email sent by a top-ranked University's computer science department:
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> Our Committee on Admissions has asked me to tell you that we have placed yo... |
2018/03/10 | 1,210 | 5,174 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third year Statistics PhD student. As I have become more involved in the field, I have realized it is not as good a fit for me as I originally thought. I excel in applied, collaborative work but fall behind my peers in theoretical work. It is not that I am incapable of understanding theo... |
2018/03/11 | 1,028 | 4,249 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a word to describe the case when a student can only receive credit for one of a group of courses because they are versions of a single course?
For example, "Accelerated Elementary Statistics" and "Elementary Statistics" - these have different course numbers but I would only want a stu... |
2018/03/12 | 982 | 3,714 | <issue_start>username_0: A potential supervisor is greeting me with "Hi" followed by my first name. How should I greet him in return? If I say "Hi" followed by "Dr." and his last name, this will look awkward. If I say "Hello" followed by "Dr." and his last name, this will look more formal than his original greeting, an... |
2018/03/12 | 560 | 2,344 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my junior year, studying abroad in another country. The advisor at this school told me that I was enrolled in 5 businesses classes. I had asked her to drop one of them because I didn't need it and she said okay I will drop this course for you and you have 12 credits. I left he... |
2018/03/12 | 800 | 3,485 | <issue_start>username_0: There are multiple lecturer openings in the UK that are very relevant to my work, say posts A and B. I prefer B over A, but B's application deadline is a about 2 months after A's.
If I apply for both posts, there is a chance I might be accepted for A while I am still waiting for a response fr... |
2018/03/12 | 408 | 1,800 | <issue_start>username_0: Someone published a paper whose supplementary material contains source code. Can I include part of that code (I would mark it as copied in the source and the manuscript) in my own code, which is intended for the supplementary material of my own paper?
If not (or at least not automatically), w... |
2018/03/12 | 555 | 2,390 | <issue_start>username_0: I've applied for a position in the library of the local campus of the state university, and they've asked to set up a phone interview. I'm not a naturally outgoing person, and I'm even worse on the phone, so I'm going to be preparing for this as heavily as I can. I would love as much informatio... |
2018/03/12 | 1,237 | 5,006 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not well enough prepared for an oral exam I will have soon. I should probably pass the exam but with a bad grade I wouldn't be happy with. This comes due to some bad time management and some personal problems during the semester. Unfortunately I still decided to take the exam....
Since we... |