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2018/04/10 | 337 | 1,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to rephrase and reproduce some part of the Introduction of a Research publication without giving citation to that publication. Will it be considered an act of plagiarism ?? I am not using and citing any result or any table and figure of the publication.<issue_comment>username_1: I don't ... |
2018/04/10 | 1,057 | 4,366 | <issue_start>username_0: I grew up with a nickname, and I prefer to be called as that. It is quite different from my first name. When I introduce myself I usually just use the nickname.
I plan to use my full name in publication, and I have published papers using the full name already.
My question is, how problematic... |
2018/04/10 | 526 | 1,874 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Facts
My visually impaired brother attends university ("UNI") in England. In Jul 2017, he requested Alternative Formats. As of Apr 11 2018, UNI's Library still hasn't contacted the publishers, but avowed that they probably can by May 1. They haven't explained this 8-month stonewall. Still ... |
2018/04/10 | 577 | 2,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a 4th-year science student planning to do undergraduate research for credit during the summer. I completed an engineering course the previous semester and discussed research opportunities with the professor a handful of times. From what I gathered during our discussions, he is willing to ha... |
2018/04/10 | 661 | 2,672 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I submitted an article to a peer-reviewed book to be added as a chapter. Finally, my article got accepted and it is ready for publication. The publisher is going to be Springer.
I would like to share a copy of my article on my website and with my colleagues through the university re... |
2018/04/10 | 3,684 | 16,239 | <issue_start>username_0: We're thinking of implementing a policy where if a student asks a question/makes a mistake in a lab, they are required to write down what that question/mistake was and how it was resolved. These "lab notebooks" (for want of a better word) will be evaluated based on the quality of the responses ... |
2018/04/10 | 3,090 | 13,343 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student (mid stage) and my work includes the use of mathematics. I try to learn as much as possible. I am facing a problem: I spent enough time on the mathematics required for my research, and according to my research supervisor I am good at understanding proofs, theorems, etc. at an... |
2018/04/10 | 1,082 | 4,518 | <issue_start>username_0: How common is it for students to take a loan to pursue a theoretical physics degree in Europe, as a non-EU foreigner.
Theoretical physics and mathematics students are advised not to take a loan as there are very few jobs in both the fields. I was admitted to a Masters Theoretical Physics (Quan... |
2018/04/11 | 1,376 | 4,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a computing conference paper, it's for a high quality conference, and my friend and I have a mini dispute. The loser pays for drinks, so no pressure!
Which of the following is better/appropriate/there is no difference?
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> The loser will: 1. get laughed at, 2. pay for drinks an... |
2018/04/11 | 901 | 3,784 | <issue_start>username_0: My university has a 5 year BS/MS degree for mathematical sciences and I am graduating a year early, so I can do the BS/MS in only 4 years. I am considering applying to PhD programs at other universities after I complete my MS. Do PhD programs want students right out of undergrad? Or will I be a... |
2018/04/11 | 1,061 | 4,177 | <issue_start>username_0: Almost immediately after becoming a corresponding author, my academic email account quickly become inundated with unsolicited communications from predatory open access journals and “conferences.” My spam filter does a fairly good job, catching maybe 50-75% of these messages. But now that I will... |
2018/04/11 | 1,175 | 4,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a research paper. A small but important idea for the paper was found on MathOverflow. I know the real name of the user. I tried contacting him and offered him co-authorship, but I got no reply. How do I acknowledge him now ? Do journals encourage citations under pseudonyms?<issue_c... |
2018/04/11 | 2,201 | 8,520 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a proverb going around for a long time
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> *Doing a PhD from an Asian country is a career suicide.*
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* What is the significance of this proverb in case of *Computer Science*?
* Does this also include high ranking universities in Russia and the middle East?
* Does internatio... |
2018/04/11 | 929 | 3,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I knew from some newspapers that Taiwanese education system [prefers rote memorization over creativity](https://jsis.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/taiwan.pdf). This culture was imported from [Japan](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/14/national/global-education-exp... |
2018/04/11 | 686 | 2,584 | <issue_start>username_0: In the French system and other francophone systems, tenured faculty is divided in two categories: [maitre de conferences](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%AEtre_de_conf%C3%A9rences_(France)), equivalent to associate professors if I understand correctly, and [professeurs](https://fr.wikipedia... |
2018/04/11 | 1,112 | 3,759 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if it is okay write something like:
"Many scholars hold the view that this is like that" and then give one example reference (e.g. Gans et.al. 1965) ?
The reason I am wondering because it is generally accepted and no one seems to disagree on that. Is it better (1) not to refe... |
2018/04/11 | 524 | 2,268 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a conference sponsored by IEEE. After 3 hours, i received an email that said
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> your paper has been accepted and recommend to present paper. Your paper will be recommended for publication in IEEE Xplore�. The conference date is after 23 days.
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Note: I did... |
2018/04/11 | 570 | 2,440 | <issue_start>username_0: A large number of US schools I applied to have put me on their waitlist, and since I also applied to a few programs in other Europe that release their decisions later, I still need more time to make my decision. (Especially because I've been put on the waitlist for the best graduate school in t... |
2018/04/11 | 456 | 1,912 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there some kind of academic norm that says "when I reject an applicant, I don't want anything to do with him?"
*edit:* If a professor is reading this, personal experience from himself and colleagues will be really helpful!<issue_comment>username_1: It very much depends on *why* you were rej... |
2018/04/12 | 450 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: For example: Do graduates *receive* a Bachelor of Arts degree or *become* a Bachelor of Arts?
Are Bachelor degrees grammatically and/or etymologically distinct from advanced degrees?
I note that the titles Master and Doctor are still in common usage, even though in practice frequently divorce... |
2018/04/12 | 509 | 2,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two questions:
* How can I know which university/school uses Bell Curved Grading system,and which one doesn't?
* Suppose, I have two acceptances from two schools *(a)* one applies Curved grading, and *(b)* another one doesn't. Is there any reason I should choose the one without curve so... |
2018/04/12 | 628 | 2,529 | <issue_start>username_0: How strange is it to want to spend three years on a Master's degree to take an extra six courses? A lot of programs have different curriculum for introductory PhD students vs introductory Master's. I want to be able to take some of those PhD classes, and I want to have spare room for exciting e... |
2018/04/13 | 797 | 3,141 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose Alice wins the Nobel Prize and $1 million. Does the prize money go entirely to personal matters, or is she likely to use some (most/all?) of it for academic pursuits? If the latter, how does she go about it? Does she just "award herself" a grant similar to grants that academics apply fo... |
2018/04/13 | 281 | 1,156 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a citation of an online article that I used in my research for an essay, yet I haven't referenced this citation anywhere in the essay. Should I keep the citation, or delete it because nothing refers to it?<issue_comment>username_1: I would not include an entry in the bibliography of a pa... |
2018/04/13 | 661 | 2,751 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me first say that the I am a first semester student studying in North America coming from a very different cultural background, so I get confused as to what would be okay in not just college but also this part of the world. I am reaching towards to the of my first semester one of my profess... |
2018/04/13 | 882 | 3,779 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed that most .edu domains have a very "academic" looking simple HTML websites ([Do academics look down on well-designed academic websites?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/69275/do-academics-look-down-on-well-designed-academic-websites)) for professors and departments. ... |
2018/04/13 | 712 | 3,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know the paper rejection probability (very rough) after two round of major revision. At the 1st and 2nd revision, I have revised the paper properly according to the reviewer's comments. The reviewer has raised a new issue in the 2nd revision and the reviewer has recommended me t... |
2018/04/13 | 1,115 | 4,771 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing a paper of my results in a field of pure mathematics.
My work is a generalization of an already existing result, which is not mine. My adviser and I think that there is a substantial differences between my result and the already existing result, and so it's worth a public... |
2018/04/13 | 2,067 | 8,865 | <issue_start>username_0: **Short version**
I am a senior postdoc in a research lab mentoring a first-year graduate student from another country, and he has very poor English:
1. Would it be rude or unethical or just silly to suggest he improve his English?
2. If it is appropriate, what should I suggest he do, and ... |
2018/04/13 | 1,893 | 7,632 | <issue_start>username_0: My family originates from Russia but I only have experience with American academia. My parents constantly describe oral exams whereupon a student is required to choose one of many cards that have a certain amount of questions on them and then after some time preparing be able to answer the ques... |
2018/04/13 | 1,514 | 6,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been facing the following "problems" with my department head at an undergraduate institute. I joined it just under a year ago and am already facing (what appears to be) a lot of negativity from her. Here are my main problems:
1) Last semester, she would always come to me/email me tellin... |
2018/04/13 | 942 | 4,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an electronics engineering sophomore at an Indian university, particularly interested in quantum computing, quantum information theory and quantum engineering. However, the problem I'm facing is that we do not have the possibility to take up extra theory courses in computer science (e.g. co... |
2018/04/13 | 701 | 3,028 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a peculiar situation, which I'll try to describe as concisely as possible.
Around three years ago I worked on something and I published a preliminary conference paper, which described the idea in great detail. I'm currently working on a PhD that's about this topic I published 3 years a... |
2018/04/14 | 509 | 2,178 | <issue_start>username_0: As noted in <NAME>'s "Higher Education in America," there is a trend in increased funding for large interdisciplinary research programs since the 1970's (Think NSF MRSEC, for example).
What is the root cause or viewpoint for a shift towards this style of funding, as compared to single-PI resea... |
2018/04/14 | 1,166 | 4,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to finish a master’s degree in data science/analytics. (Yes, I realize these are all the rage now, but let’s leave that alone for now.)
I have enjoyed the program and have learned quite a bit. However, I feel that overall the program is a survey of analytics/ML/AI techniques and the... |
2018/04/14 | 1,199 | 5,217 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a recent fresh graduate who came from math and physics. Recently (< 4 weeks), I've taken on a junior research role in a research institute within a University.
This particularly university - and those in this country - have extremely strong collaborations with industry partners so work in ... |
2018/04/14 | 591 | 2,591 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science (particularly AI), in a project where a postdoc proposes an idea and guides a junior PhD student, and the student does most of the dirty/labor work, what is the typical author order? Is it one of the following?
* Student Postdoc Professor
* Postdoc Student Professor
* Stude... |
2018/04/15 | 1,927 | 7,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be conducting research in a Latino-studies research institute next summer. I will probably be the only non-Latino researcher in the institute that summer. I’m also approaching my research from a computational sociological point of view, which is vastly different from the qualitative orie... |
2018/04/15 | 717 | 2,854 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student currently in the middle of my PhD. After talking to some senior PhD students, I came to know that during the last or second to the last year of PhD, advisors don't advise their students (advice to very small extent ). There are many things last year students have to do on the... |
2018/04/15 | 2,519 | 10,289 | <issue_start>username_0: This question concerns PhD programs that, unlike most U.S. programs, don't start with a 2 year coursework program. That is, programs where you're expected to do a 2 year master before the PhD and then finish your PhD in about 3 years consisting solely of research. Let's say this concerns a PhD ... |
2018/04/15 | 560 | 2,273 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a university provides a five-year PhD studentship (i.e., tuition waiver and monthly stipend). What are possible outcomes if the student doesn't complete their PhD in five years?
* Will the university continue waiving tuition and paying a stipend?
* Can the student complete their PhD?<i... |
2018/04/15 | 1,039 | 4,306 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently got my PhD in Europe and I am doing applications for the postdoc positions in Europe and in the US. I've got two possible offers and I am a bit confused to decide which position would be better for my future. One of the offers is from the US and the other one is in Europe. My init... |
2018/04/16 | 390 | 1,565 | <issue_start>username_0: In the answer to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/107963/how-to-acknowledge-a-mathoverflow-user/108004#108004) and [similar questions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1580/attributing-contributions-to-academic-work-that-occur-in-stack-exchange) it is recommended ... |
2018/04/16 | 864 | 3,556 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student who works in a theoretical field. Often times, I have discussions with my research supervisor, and I try to do as much work as possible.
It seems that many times these days my research supervisor does not seem happy with my performance. He often doesn't seem satisfied, judgi... |
2018/04/16 | 907 | 3,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a computer-science PhD student. I like to work on things and I enjoy doing computer science. But here is a problem: I am not that much into debates. When I meet with my supervisor, he asks me some questions and I try to answer those. I don’t go into debates on the research questions. I lik... |
2018/04/16 | 1,242 | 5,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite a journal itself, not an article in it, the publication. I think the same would hold for a magazine, not an issue of that magazine. The specific citation information will be enough.
Bonus points for showing how to set this citation information with biber and biblatex, so it dis... |
2018/04/16 | 1,265 | 5,539 | <issue_start>username_0: Why would a scientist or mathematician want to publish a paper under the Creative Commons CC BY licence? This licence allows the work to be modified. Why would you want to allow a scientific paper to be altered?
Yet Arxiv at <https://arxiv.org/help/license> seems to offer only licences that al... |
2018/04/17 | 670 | 2,900 | <issue_start>username_0: (My field is Computer Science, where conference publications are the norm.)
I reviewed a paper submitted to conference A six months ago. The paper was borderline, and was eventually rejected. I wrote a reasonably lengthy review.
I've now been asked to review a re-submission of the same paper ... |
2018/04/17 | 547 | 2,255 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an incoming math PhD student in the US. I am thinking of starting a math blog. The intended audience is myself plus maybe other math graduate students.
I am a little concerned about citations to avoid plagiarism. Of course if a theorem or proof comes from a paper, I need to cite it. What ... |
2018/04/17 | 598 | 2,486 | <issue_start>username_0: If a professor asks to write your own recommendation letter, is it really a good opportunity to grab? There may be multiple reasons for him to ask this, but I want to know what if you write your own LOR? What are the pros and cons, keeping in mind the person who is reading it?<issue_comment>use... |
2018/04/17 | 1,599 | 6,187 | <issue_start>username_0: Why don’t most graduate schools in Eurasia and Ocenia accept/impose GRE?
Suppose, someone completed his bachelor degree 10 years ago, or, someone had bad grades in the bachelor’s, he can still manage to get into a graduate research program if he can demonstrate a good GRE score.
On the contr... |
2018/04/17 | 578 | 2,565 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose, a student left a negative comment about a professor in the university's confidential review page. Somehow the professor guesses who the student was.
What can the student do if the professor intentionally gives the student bad grades?
Can the student file a request for a exam paper r... |
2018/04/17 | 1,467 | 6,178 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to perform a meta-analysis on the efficacy of web-based counsellor interventions across different modalities (text counselling, video counselling, etc.)
To do so I created the following search term:
(Internet OR Online OR Web-based) AND (Therapy OR Counselling OR Intervention) AND (... |
2018/04/17 | 1,579 | 6,700 | <issue_start>username_0: Setting
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I am currently an undergraduate student in chemistry and I have recently started working on an undergraduate research project in a known laboratory in the US. I am very passionate about the topic, however I have problems with my supervisor, who is a PhD student.
Problem descr... |
2018/04/18 | 511 | 2,014 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently posted the above question along with another in the same post and was asked to post this one separately.
I have received a Marie-Curie individual fellowship from the European Commission. As a non-European, this allows me to take up research in a Member State. I know this fellowship... |
2018/04/18 | 328 | 1,376 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student who is very enthusiastic about open access and sharing research. When I worked with my former supervisor, we would write a paper and then post it to a preprint server (e.g., arXiv) *at the same time* as submitting it to a venue. My current supervisor, however, is of the mindset t... |
2018/04/18 | 888 | 3,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I tried asking this elsewhere and got answers from people who do not know the difference between a resume and a CV. I figured academics would.
I ask this question because my LinkedIn is pretty detailed. It has a lot of the same content as my CV, except in the terrible organization enforced by ... |
2018/04/18 | 2,459 | 9,926 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student who works in theory. Too many times, I have to defend my ideas or claims in front of my supervisor. I have failed to do so in the past and it worries me.
Please note that I am only interested in defending correct ideas, not wrong ones.
Some of the things I have tried are:
*... |
2018/04/18 | 314 | 1,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote some texts related to mathematical logic:
<http://www.mathematics21.org/formulas.html>
How to check if my ideas are novel? Where and who to ask?
The problem is that I am not even nearly a professional logician.<issue_comment>username_1: The best way of finding out if your ideas are no... |
2018/04/18 | 1,430 | 6,256 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD advisor is someone who values workplace/personal life boundaries. Sometimes I feel that he gets mad at me for accidentally crossing those boundaries in small ways. The problem is that he doesn't explain when he is mad at me, and this can cause problems in our working relationship - for e... |
2018/04/19 | 295 | 1,171 | <issue_start>username_0: There are three things written on the journal’s home page: EIC (editor-in-chief), AE (associate editor) and ADM (administrator). The EIC is assigned, whereas the AE and ADM are not. The status is "Under review". In this situation, what can I expect? Has the EIC invited the reviewers or it is no... |
2018/04/19 | 416 | 1,740 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if anyone has any answers to this? I am quite worried! I submitted my manuscript to a top international relations journal and it went through the usual admin checks and one day went to 'awaiting referee selection'. The next day it went to 'awaiting decision'!
I wonder if they made an ... |
2018/04/19 | 528 | 2,005 | <issue_start>username_0: A postdoc has published some works that I am interested in. I have some questions about the work, and I would like to share some idea about the topic.
Is it considered polite to send the email to the postdoc and CC his PI? If I email the PI only, I might have to wait for a long time. However,... |
2018/04/19 | 499 | 2,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I read an article in the past - I forget the source now, but I believe it was credible - about how American STEM PhD programs (and master's programs) admit a lot of qualified international students, e.g. from China and India, in order to help fill the skills gaps in the U.S., but an interesting... |
2018/04/19 | 319 | 1,358 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my PhD in natural sciences in 2015. At some point during my PhD studies I did some measurements for some other scientists.
Now they are about to submit a paper containing my data, and I am listed as a coauthor.
I barely remember the experiments. I did not read the paper (yet).
Do ... |
2018/04/19 | 1,307 | 5,556 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a difficult situation about limit of absences during classes in my university.
The teacher of one subject made a rule that 3 absences with disrespectful reason during the course leads to **fail grade**. I've exceeded this limit because of my part-time job, which I need to perform in ord... |
2018/04/20 | 1,149 | 4,856 | <issue_start>username_0: My school's comprehensive qualifying procedure has thee parts.
1. A paper that is a synthesis and analysis of the literature on my topic,
2. A written exam that lasts 5 days, and
3. An oral exam on my topic.
This question refers to the second portion.
After reading your paper, each committ... |
2018/04/20 | 420 | 1,809 | <issue_start>username_0: Alice is teaching a class and one student is clearly not understanding the material very well. Should she approach the student (e.g. ask to meet after class, write an email, or during class itself if it's not a lecture) and offer to help?
The argument for "yes" is that although the student mig... |
2018/04/20 | 2,967 | 12,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished taking an undergraduate class and I enjoyed it. I was thinking of emailing the prof and saying this, but I don't know if it's appropriate or not, for a few reasons:
1. I would have already said this in the class evaluations, which the prof will read.
2. More importantly, I ... |
2018/04/20 | 1,802 | 7,556 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m 17 and will be joining a UG physics program soon. I’ve done a lot of DIY projects over the years, ranging from electric arc speakers to air-quality and climate-control systems. Most of my projects involved Arduinos.
I’ve been thinking of conducting a five-year study on air quality and clim... |
2018/04/20 | 1,093 | 4,452 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to submit two separate works to two different conferences in CS field. The conference deadlines differ only by 3 weeks and one of them would be held in November while the other in September.
The problem is that i designed an algorithm and used that in both of the works. This algorithm ... |
2018/04/20 | 676 | 2,929 | <issue_start>username_0: First and second year students are unlikely to get selected for major internships (right?). Given this, what can students do after freshman and sophomore years that will be useful later on. I thought of learning MATLAB, but not sure if this is a good idea or if there are better options.<issue_c... |
2018/04/20 | 362 | 1,595 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a postdoc in computer science. Last year I completed my PhD. I have published one research paper during my PhD with my research supervisor. I am trying to work on that paper. I mean I have got something and I think it is going to be an incremental result of the previous research ... |
2018/04/20 | 2,086 | 8,620 | <issue_start>username_0: How are professors able to multitask seemingly well?
I see some professors are able to work on their laptops in seminar or other presentations, sometimes talk to the person next to them, and then still come up with a suggestion or question at the end of it which bemuses me.<issue_comment>userna... |
2018/04/21 | 1,010 | 4,343 | <issue_start>username_0: Within one week I shall leave my present institution, where I felt severely mistreated around salary payment and work conditions for 2 years, as a postdoctoral fellow.
The PI who signed my contract (theoretically my supervisor) has played passive-aggressive "not-here" all my stay while consis... |
2018/04/21 | 2,866 | 11,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a computer science PhD student who works mostly in theory. I always have multiple ideas in my mind about the research problem I am working on and also on problems which are related to my research. Many times my ideas were vague and not important, and many of my ideas have led to algorithms... |
2018/04/21 | 679 | 2,750 | <issue_start>username_0: I have at the moment a visa for my PhD valid until 30.06.2018, but my defense will be in the end of July or middle of August. This week I have received a job offer (full-time) and I would like to change my present visa to a working permit Visa in order to start working and also wait for my defe... |
2018/04/21 | 577 | 2,538 | <issue_start>username_0: In my article, I have cited a preprint version (arXiv) of one references. After my article has been published in the final form, I received a request from the author of the preprint article asking me to make Corrigendum that tells the readers about the journal version of his cited article. I am... |
2018/04/21 | 748 | 2,781 | <issue_start>username_0: If someone majors in political science or international relations or history, what do they end up actually doing as a career?
I've found numerous sites that give the obvious answers what they *can* do, but to date no site that says what they actual do.
It's all fine and dandy thinking that an... |
2018/04/21 | 318 | 1,356 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written this paper and I would like to ask, via email, from some professors in other universities to give me feedback. How is the best way to write such a request? First, what should I write in the email subject box? Then, how do I write the body of email?<issue_comment>username_1: Profe... |
2018/04/21 | 1,748 | 7,192 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't get paid much as a TA. I wanted to go to conferences but all of them operate on a reimbursement system. Between flights, shuttles, hotels, etc. it can be up to like $1000 not including food. They offer funding but with reimbursement. I don't have $1000 in my bank account to pay with in ... |
2018/04/21 | 526 | 2,253 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a sponsor to do my PhD but the problem with supervisors. I keep sending emails to them and no one replies to my email.
Could you let me know how can I encourage them to look at my email? for example what title is appropriate for my email in this case? and what should I include in my em... |
2018/04/21 | 1,560 | 6,274 | <issue_start>username_0: As a PhD student in a multidisciplinary subject, I am grouped with a postdoc by my supervisor. In our lab, the usual rule is student do the theory and coding, and postdoc do the experiment.
My collaborator postdoc is highly unmotivated: he badly performed the experimental tasks that I told him... |
2018/04/21 | 1,111 | 4,372 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a sophomore in undergraduate college who is just recently became a business administration major and I was undeclared for my freshman year and part of my sophomore year. Once my old advisor signed my paperwork about changing majors, I asked him when I would be graduating since I w... |
2018/04/22 | 2,740 | 11,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to be applying to grad school (a combination of direct PhD and research thesis masters programs) this fall, and I cannot make up my mind between two different fields - machine learning (essentially artificial intelligence) and computer architecture (essentially processor design). They... |
2018/04/22 | 965 | 3,824 | <issue_start>username_0: I published my first article a while ago, nothing special, just rigorous formalization of some well-known facts.
Now I got a mail writing
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> We have read about your published precious paper in FORMALIZED MATHEMATICS titled About Quotient Orders and Ordering Sequences, and the topic of the p... |
2018/04/22 | 1,422 | 5,685 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently accepted into a graduate biophysics program and have a couple questions about what I should expect going into my first semester. While I'm going into a physics PhD, I'd like general advice from any field. I have two specific questions, but welcome any advice that you are willing ... |
2018/04/22 | 571 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I am so tired of contacting potential supervisors and submitting applications only to get rejected! Is the problem in my qualifications?
I graduated university with a GPA of 4.94 out of 5 (A Saudi Arabian University), and then I got my masters from Warwick University with a Merit but a distinct... |
2018/04/22 | 618 | 2,517 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on my second paper (as phd projects) which is an extension of my first paper. For my first paper, I will send it to a journal very soon. As I know acceptance of a paper by a journal is not an easy journey. Therefore, may I need to submit my paper for different journals (not at the ... |
2018/04/22 | 1,693 | 7,450 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student. My supervisor frequently tells me if you want to do a review for journals, login into my account and perform the review. He never reviews any paper. He is very lazy and I have to do all of the submission of my articles into journal system myself using his account.
A whil... |
2018/04/22 | 646 | 2,774 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field (economics), I see lots of scholars (some of them are famous in their field) putting their papers with the information (R&R at Journal X.).
I understand the fact that they try to transfer the signal that the paper in question has an academic quality but what happens if the paper ge... |
2018/04/22 | 1,736 | 7,010 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my PhD recently. I applied to many tenure-track positions and got selected for several onsite job interviews. Yay. However I have actually been told in no uncertain terms by several trusted people that this year, my chances are extremely close to zero, considering my short track record.
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2018/04/22 | 4,164 | 17,409 | <issue_start>username_0: It is my understanding that academia as a nebulous whole has its own culture and speaks its own language that makes it a very different environment to work in compared to other so-called "industry" jobs.
Indeed, my own supervisor once referred to a former student of his as "having a job", mea... |
2018/04/23 | 567 | 2,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student. A professor that I collaborate with (not from my university) asked me on two separate occasions to help with grants that were due in a week. In both cases I managed to squeeze out 20 hours to help him, and he paid me out of his own pocket (not using grant funds).
How can I t... |
2018/04/23 | 422 | 1,880 | <issue_start>username_0: I interviewed for an advertised PhD and got an email thanking me for interviewing but advising that I wasn't successful. They encouraged me to apply for PhDs at other colleges and their college. I have actually already applied to another advertised PhD with the same supervisor (who knows I have... |
2018/04/23 | 585 | 2,583 | <issue_start>username_0: Our manuscript, for which I am the first co-author, got accepted in a journal. However, upon careful review of our manuscript, I noticed that there are errors in one table. The percentages were calculated as: % = (total number of positive samples/total number of samples analyzed) x 100. The val... |
2018/04/23 | 3,143 | 13,432 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a computer science student who doesn't find lectures useful. I think self-studying is more useful and I should quit my degree in favour of a distant-learning degree. I've tried to convince my parents that lectures are useless for me and that I'd be better served on a distant-learning degree... |
2018/04/23 | 1,028 | 4,169 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my supervisors told me that the language should not be varied, but instead we should use the same technical words (not synonyms) again and again. Is that really true?
**PRE- & POST-EDITED SUBQUESTION (related to accepted answer):**
How should paragraphs and sentences be formatted/struc... |
2018/04/23 | 1,322 | 5,292 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard that universities tend not to hire people who earned their PhD there for professorships (tenured or not). (I've read this question, but it's about postdocs: [Is it normal that research institutes do not hire their own PhDs for postdoc positions?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/... |
2018/04/24 | 659 | 2,676 | <issue_start>username_0: If I know a faculty member is up for tenure this year, is it appropriate to ask them for news about the tenure decision? If yes, are there norms around how to ask?
I'm a grad student and still figuring out professional norms. That being said, I hope this question can be a place to discuss the ... |