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2018/06/20 | 792 | 3,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a masters student that is due to finish early next year. I have a scholarship which covers costs and pays me a modest wage up until and including PhD. I would like to do my PhD but I am concerned about the job opportunities that will be available to me after graduating due to my ... |
2018/06/20 | 804 | 3,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got a tenured (yes, permanent) faculty position in mathematics. During my PhD and postdoc, I collaborated with the same people on some projects, one big and one small, but most of my time was spent on my own, single-authored projects.
This clearly worked, however I now feel like I a... |
2018/06/20 | 6,437 | 27,459 | <issue_start>username_0: Inspired by this [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/90271/postdoc-that-refuses-to-follow-the-terms-of-her-contract), I have a similar but somehow different problem.
I recently assumed a tenure-track position. One of my strategies for a visible start is to have a strong pre... |
2018/06/20 | 525 | 2,220 | <issue_start>username_0: One of our lab directors, on tenure track, has been active in the mainstream, e.g. doing science interviews on radio, tv, newpapers, and another researcher (post-doc, I think) has published in the "trade press" rather than in an academic journal.
Does promoting your work in the mainstream hel... |
2018/06/20 | 1,025 | 4,381 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I do a master's thesis with exploratory work without any results? It's like assume some hypotheses about certain data and testing them. If yes, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Can such a work support me as a good Ph.D. student?
If I didn't publish anything in my master's level, and I... |
2018/06/20 | 713 | 3,067 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm very interested in working with a specific professor, who is a full-time full professor in one department, and adjunct faculty in another. In this case he is *not* a part-time adjunct who only teaches. I'm more interested in being a grad student in the second department, for a number of rea... |
2018/06/21 | 401 | 1,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a letter of recommendation for a student who is applying to study abroad (we are in the USA, she is applying to study in Spain). The institution she is applying to requested that letters be submitted in Spanish; since I do not speak or write Spanish fluently, I asked a close frie... |
2018/06/21 | 1,352 | 6,065 | <issue_start>username_0: I was part of a university project team, and at the end of the semester we decided to submit a review paper related to the topic of our project. Our advisers gave us feedback and made suggestions on our draft. We submitted our draft to a journal and many months later, one of my team members got... |
2018/06/21 | 2,007 | 8,944 | <issue_start>username_0: To get my first paper published I carefully followed all reviewers’ instructions as I was convinced that reviewers are experienced researchers and reviewers. After major revision my first paper was smoothly accepted.
However, as I progressed in research I also grew to dislike my first publica... |
2018/06/21 | 1,001 | 4,399 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I've written a paper which someone else (who I do not know) has built on. The new work is intimately related to mine; it would not have existed without my paper. I'm now asked to review the paper. Should I:
* Accept because I am an expert on my own work, making me very qualified to rev... |
2018/06/21 | 612 | 2,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my PhD in an interdisciplinary research lab. For the research I wish to pursue, I am missing some methodological skills, particularly in statistics and machine learning. Are there any suggestions APART from taking online courses? How can I fill this knowledge gap whilst doing all... |
2018/06/21 | 716 | 3,064 | <issue_start>username_0: About a year ago, I finished my Master's thesis, which was supervised by one professor from my university, and two people from a different university. One of the two is a professor, but he was not involved much in the daily supervision. When finishing up my thesis and presentation, times were q... |
2018/06/21 | 655 | 2,779 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning on applying to PhD programs in November of this year. I originally was purely looking for Cog-Neuro labs studying PTSD, as it became my main interest during some of my graduate-level courses in undergrad.
During my research into different programs however, I've come across several... |
2018/06/21 | 2,451 | 10,339 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate and I have recently received an undergraduate (Bachelor degree student) to work for a short duration. For purpose of discussion, the work is mainly mathematical in this project.
I have chosen this student based on the classes he has taken and works he has done. They were p... |
2018/06/21 | 2,157 | 9,076 | <issue_start>username_0: Every once in a while I come across an article whose quality stands out exceptionally in my field of research. While I don't always have the time to read the full paper (usually tens of pages long), I "mark" it so that I may read it later or refer to it in a future article if needed. Unfortunat... |
2018/06/21 | 5,949 | 25,360 | <issue_start>username_0: While I was a TA for an undergraduate CS course, I built up a good teaching relationship with a student who was struggling. By the end of the course, she had turned things around and was performing much better.
We hadn't spoken since I was her teacher until she reached out to me about a gradua... |
2018/06/21 | 1,606 | 6,843 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student in my last year at a Canadian university. Today, I gave a presentation about anti-censorship technology being developed at my institution. We were required to ask questions to the audience at the end of the presentation and one of mine was a multiple choi... |
2018/06/22 | 588 | 1,909 | <issue_start>username_0: Please advise how I should cite the US Federal Register in Harvard Reference style.
As an example, I have seen [this part of the Federal Register](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/04/09/2012-7502/national-forest-system-land-management-planning) referenced as:
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> 2012 Planning ... |
2018/06/22 | 661 | 3,100 | <issue_start>username_0: **Question:** How can I formulate a hypothesis for an engineering project that I help to develop but probably won't have time to test?
**Explanation:** The project is to develop a system that will train clinicians to write a certain kind of research data. This type of data will be posted into ... |
2018/06/22 | 609 | 2,609 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a TA who is assigned to help grade papers for an upper level course. In the first assignment, I realized that I do not know how to do one of the assigned problems. The professor has requested that I grade all of the assigned problems. I don't think I will get a grading rubric (showing the a... |
2018/06/22 | 873 | 3,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I accepted an offer to teach a graduate course at the university, as an adjunct professor. This program has a minimum threshold for number of students signed up. In other words if not enough students signed up by the deadline, they won't offer it.
I wonder how do you advertise the courses tha... |
2018/06/22 | 1,045 | 4,422 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is related to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/111550/is-it-ok-to-review-a-paper-which-builds-on-my-work) one, and is dual to it in some sense.
Assume PIs A and B publish a few key papers in what turns out to be a new mini-area. Their work is well received, an... |
2018/06/22 | 963 | 4,093 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field (computer science), students often get jobs through [referrals](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/289703), where faculty members pass on the student's resume to someone employed at the company the student wants to work at. In an annual talk and throughout the year, I advise my st... |
2018/06/22 | 575 | 2,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a biology student with major interest in neuroscience and molecular biology. It's my first year at university.
What should I do if I want to be a reliable researcher in biological sciences, especially in neuroscience?<issue_comment>username_1: Why do you dread his reaction? You have no re... |
2018/06/23 | 585 | 2,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD Student works in computer science. I am currently in the middle stage of my PhD. I am facing a serious problem right now. It is about reading a research paper at a faster rate. I usually takes 2 weeks to read a paper nowadays, but my supervisor wants me to read a research paper in 4-... |
2018/06/24 | 2,099 | 9,146 | <issue_start>username_0: I am graduating with my Ph.D. very soon. In addition to my thesis and published journal papers, my supervisor required me to copy all my work—code, figure files, data, etc.—to him before my leaving. However, **all the works during my PhD have been done by myself from scratch, including the idea... |
2018/06/24 | 777 | 3,081 | <issue_start>username_0: How does the ECTS ABCD etc grades compare to the American ones?
Would I in particular be right in saying that the European B is worth more than the American B?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> How does the ECTS ABCD etc grades compare to the American ones?
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You cannot compare them. Comp... |
2018/06/24 | 1,011 | 4,041 | <issue_start>username_0: I see that a TA position requires 20h every week which almost equals 2.5 days workload. Wouldn't that be too heavy for a Ph.D. student? If I don't do the TA, I could save the time to do high-quality research but I will lose 18K AUD stipend, which would make my life difficult at Sydney. Is it wo... |
2018/06/24 | 253 | 1,098 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted journal articles that come from my thesis.
When defending the thesis, is it a good idea to give the names of the journals to which those pertaining papers were submitted to?<issue_comment>username_1: From my experience of defending my own master thesis and supervision of some ... |
2018/06/25 | 684 | 2,902 | <issue_start>username_0: We've all heard of postpartum depression, though I'm not a woman so I have no idea what it's really like.
I am wondering if there is any medical/psychological evidence to support similar (reported) feelings after the completion of a big research project.
This is my (I'm the sole author each... |
2018/06/25 | 1,314 | 5,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not prepared to give many details in a public forum - as such this posting will contain intentional generalizations that may be of interest to academia.se's research higher studies community help, in particular senior faculty members, if any.
I would like to ask for help in figuring out ... |
2018/06/25 | 516 | 2,234 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing to write an article. For that, I got an easier proof of the already published result. My result is very simple to prove. Is it ethical to include this result in my
article after citing the other author's work that we are improving their result?
Kindly help. Thanks a lot.<issue_co... |
2018/06/25 | 614 | 2,664 | <issue_start>username_0: I am translating an academic paper to English. However, most of the sources cited at the end, are in other languages (e.g. Russian). Do I need to translate the list of references into English as well?<issue_comment>username_1: The general principle here is to think about your reader. Imagine a ... |
2018/06/25 | 458 | 1,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been rejected by a particular university for MS two times now. I really want to get into it to work with a professor. I am thinking of emailing him to ask him what I can do to improve myself to become acceptable. I am trying to improve myself on various fronts that I can think of, so I w... |
2018/06/25 | 941 | 4,107 | <issue_start>username_0: [I am too much afraid to ask this question becuase I think most of you will say that I am too stupid to understand meaning of "Summary of Accomplishments".]
So, I am applying for a PhD position which is asking for "Summary of Accomplishments" letter. What things should be included in it?
Is i... |
2018/06/25 | 1,018 | 4,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to get into MS in Computer science in the US, specifically in data science. I have a Masters in Physics but my GPA is low. I have scored 51% in my undergrad and 62% in my postgrad. I have cleared my postgrad with 10+ back logs. But I have an international conference paper published in ra... |
2018/06/25 | 781 | 3,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed my master's degree year ago and took a gap of 2-3 years before committing to the Ph.D. Right now my financial condition is worse and I don't want to make any decision in any urgency. My peers are getting enrolled for Ph.D. and I am getting worried by watching them. I am 27 righ... |
2018/06/25 | 1,035 | 4,401 | <issue_start>username_0: When I am searching for literature on a particular topic, I'd like to see a list of results together with three main pieces of information: citation count, year, and publication venue (i.e., conference or journal name). In my field (Computer Science), most papers are published in conferences. T... |
2018/06/25 | 4,279 | 17,999 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an interview later this week and the advertisement goes something like:
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> Grade 7: £31,604 - £38,833 p.a.
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While talking to a postdoc at my own department, she told me that the scale wouldn't actually matter, that I'll always be placed on the lowest possible spine on that gr... |
2018/06/25 | 826 | 3,699 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently work at a research org, and will be applying to PhD programs soon. For my CV, I am a co-author on a few publications that I'll be able to add, but have been recommended to add some in-progress or under review reports.
While "under review" is pretty straightforward, I'm curious wha... |
2018/06/26 | 773 | 3,320 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for two patents.
The first one is based on a journal article (obviously written by me) which is published a few months before.
My first question is: Is it legal/possible to apply for a patent based on an already published journal article? Is it a kind of self-plagiarism?
The ... |
2018/06/26 | 968 | 4,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working for two years after my Master and I am now looking for a PhD. I got a PhD offer from one university, met the person who would supervise me and told them I am very interested, while making it clear that I also applied to other PhD offers and am waiting for answers. They said ... |
2018/06/26 | 478 | 2,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to contact the editorial board of a journal I recently submitted an article to [about an issue](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/111770/i-forgot-to-add-preprint-submission-biorxiv-before-the-actual-journal-submissi), and I am having some thoughts as to who would be the approp... |
2018/06/26 | 853 | 3,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an external consultant who has been brought to develop a software suite to collect, analyze and reduce data for a project (with oral assurance that I would participate to any paper to come from this project).
Since then, the IT engineer assigned to the project has filed a complaint arguing... |
2018/06/26 | 3,371 | 14,349 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be starting as a tenure-track professor in a few months where I'll be doing research on software developer tools. I have seen that it is *extremely* difficult to recruit good PhD students in this topic area (even at elite schools), since most of them are heavily recruited by industry. Unde... |
2018/06/26 | 880 | 3,556 | <issue_start>username_0: At US universities, how should one address a professor while talking to him or her? In my home country, we usually address the professors as either "sir" or "madam" while talking about our queries in person.
What's the norm at US universities?<issue_comment>username_1: Assume that you should ... |
2018/06/26 | 434 | 1,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering, as yearly, universities get lots of students per year, how are all of the email accounts created? Are they created one by one?<issue_comment>username_1: Just to have a clear answer here... although, yes, the question invites humorous responses! :)
No, such IT tasks are highly ... |
2018/06/26 | 918 | 3,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I've worked in higher education on the administrative side. I've been able to get a very thorough look at University budgets. From my perspective it's really a travesty that research Universities, with their multi-billion dollar operating budgets seem more inclined to hire largely purposeless a... |
2018/06/26 | 695 | 2,821 | <issue_start>username_0: Do German universities (specifically, Technical Universities) take mid-career professionals from other countries (i.e., the USA) for PhD studies?
I am trying to grasp how that process would work - or if it would work - for someone with family & in their mid-30s.
N.b., I am aware that the sys... |
2018/06/26 | 405 | 1,850 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, I designed a compression algorithm that performs well compared to some other compression algorithms.
I was wondering if it's acceptable to write a scientific paper on this algorithm even though there exist other algorithms which are faster and provide better compression ratio... |
2018/06/27 | 466 | 2,052 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor agreed on helping me with applying for a postdoctoral fellowship.
However, after I wrote the application materials and send to him, he stopped replying to me. It is really just several days before the deadline now. And I started to feel frustrated. I don't know what I have possibly... |
2018/06/27 | 1,388 | 5,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I spent a postdoctoral period in China, where I faced number of [issues](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/104541/persistent-issues-with-salary-pay-as-a-postdoc-in-china-what-can-i-do) with the administration and supervisor. In short, I felt exploited in many ways, from payment and f... |
2018/06/27 | 222 | 969 | <issue_start>username_0: Is Harvard referencing style used mostly in Europe? I ask because it seems to be less well known in USA than I had expected. If so, which is the most commonly used style in US academic institutions?<issue_comment>username_1: It's used throughout nearly all universities in UK and would generally... |
2018/06/27 | 1,467 | 5,869 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I came across a conference paper that tried to solve the same problem I solved couple of years ago and published a workshop publication about, but using a different algorithm. In their introduction they mention and cite 6 applications that can benefit from the solution to this specific... |
2018/06/27 | 630 | 2,484 | <issue_start>username_0: My master thesis was the greatest sh\*tshow that ever happened in my life. Fortunately I did manage to put it all together and submit it. After that I booked a defense date which is tomorrow.
In the meantime, two days ago I got the reviews for my master thesis from both professors and I bare... |
2018/06/27 | 3,149 | 12,864 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: In school in USA, US citizen, male 26. Have B.S. in chemistry, and another in applied math & stats (but my main focus was chemistry), from reasonably good public school. After graduating, looked for a job in my field for a solid year with no success before entering a masters program... |
2018/06/27 | 3,394 | 13,918 | <issue_start>username_0: First things first. I am not a good person - I have never pretended to be. But I tried to make my parents (more importantly my dad) proud. Today I screwed up. I sat for an exam that I don't understand the work for, despite trying my best. I got desperate (this module is a prerequisite for every... |
2018/06/27 | 4,104 | 17,741 | <issue_start>username_0: A fellow student and I are part of the same graduate student research group (in applied mathematics), under the same PhD supervisor. The (relatively new) student came to the group with an idea for a thesis, and we helped him come up with a different research idea that more suits our research in... |
2018/06/27 | 333 | 1,235 | <issue_start>username_0: In Germany there exists the title *Priv-Doz* before the name of some professors. What does it mean? Do these professors allow to hire postdoctoral applicants?<issue_comment>username_1: Formally it is a title given to a university teacher, translation: private lecturer. It means you are able to ... |
2018/06/27 | 784 | 3,320 | <issue_start>username_0: Today after a paper of mine got accepted I received this from the publisher (Elsevier):
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> We have received the above article for publication, unfortunately
> figures x1, x2 and x3 are of low resolution and of insufficient quality
> to reproduce well.
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> The minimum resolution require... |
2018/06/27 | 1,188 | 5,239 | <issue_start>username_0: In my department, students can be paid quite differently, and accumulate multiple fellowships and assistantships. Departmental fellowships are provided upon acceptance to some top applicants. Students can also be hired as RAs by interested faculty members. RA stipends are also not fixed by the ... |
2018/06/28 | 1,247 | 5,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I am beginning to plan for graduate school. I will be applying to many Ph.D programs and a few Masters programs as a backup plan (all pure mathematics).
I am starting to think about how to write my personal statement. I am seeking advice regarding the *process of writing a personal statement* ... |
2018/06/28 | 294 | 1,249 | <issue_start>username_0: The SciPost seems to be a new publishing platform with rather unusual peer review procedure -- fully open. It means that names of authors/editors/referees are known to the public at any stage. My colleagues expressed an opinion that it cannot be productive. Therefore my question: can SciPost be... |
2018/06/28 | 1,657 | 7,079 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working in the sciences (broadly speaking, the STEM field) in the United States as a researcher.
I have been following quite closely to the social-political trend of the US for the past few years, and I am quite troubled at the direction that the administration, as well as a (s... |
2018/06/28 | 3,420 | 14,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PhD in a high prestige UK university.
I am finishing my second year and I have funding for three years in total.
I have already two papers finished (pending to be published) and working on two more.
I like research and I like being pushed to achieve the best I can. What I don'... |
2018/06/28 | 584 | 2,396 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote an ugly master's thesis in mathematics. There were errors and I think it is not worth publishing. However, I managed to prove one theorem in a simple way that I have never seen before. I have seen another proof of the theorem and, in my opinion, it is more complicated than my proof.
1.... |
2018/06/28 | 1,502 | 6,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I am taking a course in Computer Science next semester (it is currently a vacation period for my university) and I would like to email my future lecturer and ask them for the set of course notes for this course (and ask if they have any suggestions for further reading on the topic) so that I ma... |
2018/06/28 | 549 | 2,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I use private git repositories to manage the code I use for projects. After I publish a paper, I like to make the code available by making the repository public. My field is Geography/GIScience, and uploading code is typically not required for article submissions. I mostly refer friends/colleag... |
2018/06/29 | 735 | 3,021 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently looking for a PhD in computer science for the fall in France, Germany and Switzerland. Although I still find some offers, I think applying in June is quite late.
**What are the common periods to apply for a PhD in those countries and in which month do people usually start their... |
2018/06/29 | 2,092 | 8,884 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year, I was helping a colleague with statistical analysis. Originally, I was on the paper but after a personal falling out with this colleague, I removed myself as a co-author. Because I am passionate about open science, I told them that they could use the analysis I did (and the computati... |
2018/06/29 | 456 | 2,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my manuscript to one of the journal of frontiers groups, It has been 3 months now since the submission, in the first round of the peer review process, One reviewer gave me minor revision and the second reviewer asked me to do some extensive revision in my manuscript, I complied with... |
2018/06/29 | 1,191 | 5,336 | <issue_start>username_0: In our country, the first author gets most of the credit and the other authors practically fall much behind. While, the first author should really get more point as he does maximum work, I find the others contributions are not as minuscule as indicated by the weightage rule. To be clear it is 7... |
2018/06/29 | 382 | 1,810 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a revised manuscript which I submitted to Nature Communications. The status of the manuscript says 'Reviewers Assigned' for about 24 days. What does it mean? Is it under review by the reviewers? Or reviewers are not responding to the editor after the request to review the revised manuscr... |
2018/06/29 | 626 | 2,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a case where I applied for a tenure-track position in a R1 research institution. A month after the application, all my references were contacted and were asked for a telephone interview, which I got to know from all my references. This was a good sign and I expected the committee to cont... |
2018/06/30 | 1,065 | 4,502 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my MSc. this September (UK), and am strongly planning ahead and setting myself goals. Simply, when would be the appropriate time to submit my applications?
My MSc is 12 months long and will go from Sept 2018 to Sept 2019. I was thinking of applying 6-8 months into my MSc.
What d... |
2018/06/30 | 1,024 | 4,282 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**
Few years ago, I have published an article on a peer-reviewed internationally recognized journal. My study went through an extremely sound (blind) peer-review, which allowed me to improve many aspects of the final manuscript. The article has been cited a sizable number of times ... |
2018/06/30 | 964 | 4,173 | <issue_start>username_0: 14 years ago, I attended med school. After 6 years and chronic depression issue, I decided to withdraw from that program. This means I have an official transcript, but of course did not earn a degree. (In my country, you can start med school right after graduating high school, and I enrolled wh... |
2018/06/30 | 726 | 3,217 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a PhD program. I worked in the past with researcher A from research team T who was my bachelor thesis supervisor. Now, I am applying to a PhD progam within the research team T and also to another universities.
Researcher A would be a perfect candidate to ask for a reference l... |
2018/07/01 | 1,406 | 5,926 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I have had a year out to work and am now going to do my Master's degree in Computing. I have decided to fully embark on a career in academia.
What can I start doing NOW that will help improve my academic reputation, credentials, CV and career prospects? For example, should I do more writin... |
2018/07/01 | 1,826 | 6,766 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems -- <NAME>
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All the universities whose staff lounges I've been to have had coffee machines with free coffee. I've seen groups name their meetings after coffee much more than other beverages (e.g. from Google, "AstroCoffee... |
2018/07/02 | 1,715 | 7,188 | <issue_start>username_0: I will soon be in my final PhD year and am about to start my job search. Suppose that for some reason I suspect that I did quite well, research-wise. My main question is:
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> What is the optimal job search strategy/advice in this case?
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Generally, I can think of two options that are ... |
2018/07/02 | 1,172 | 4,510 | <issue_start>username_0: Authors of scientific papers usually use the introduction of the paper to introduce the subject of the paper by reviewing previous work in that field, i.e. the works that serve as the foundation of the current research they have conducted.
Therefore, it is fairly easy to get acquainted with th... |
2018/07/02 | 467 | 1,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to use an supercomputer to run my big data project to test it speed. I google the service & see that only [this](https://www.ais.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/uncategorized/octobus-installation2/) is available for free but it closed last year? Could anybody with experience in using supercom... |
2018/07/02 | 1,905 | 8,258 | <issue_start>username_0: It's been about 2 years since I've left academia, partly because of the kind of deeds that I'm about to describe to give a bit of context to the question.
About a month ago I was CCed in an email exchange involving my former PhD supervisor and one of our collaborator, a Post-doc in Mathematics... |
2018/07/02 | 2,269 | 9,202 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written my thesis on my own (with my limited English skills) and I gave it to my supervisor to check it. He said the work is fine but the writing is a bit bad and I need to proofread it by myself. I know that my English level is just below the normal and needs time to improve. However, I... |
2018/07/02 | 962 | 3,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I the United Kingdom there is a very useful website ([jobs.ac.uk](http://jobs.ac.uk)) which allows researchers to search academic jobs, including postdoctoral positions, lecturer's posts, and so forth. I have been looking for similar search engines for other countries, in particular France, wit... |
2018/07/02 | 1,451 | 6,005 | <issue_start>username_0: I will start in freshman in a fairly good undergrad institution in August 2018. I am planning to major in Mathematics. However this school attracts the most brilliant high schoolers in Math. This includes IMO gold and silver medalists. Participation in IMO guarantees admission to this school. I... |
2018/07/03 | 1,592 | 6,640 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**
My life had (and still has) difficult problems (chronic disease and its consequences: social isolation, anxiety, having to take extra measures to take care of my health...). As a disclaimer, I am in psychological therapy right now.
That being said, I managed to finish my bache... |
2018/07/03 | 950 | 4,268 | <issue_start>username_0: In cases when the authors would like to make their code available online after it is published, is it recommended for authors to make their code available for review when they submit technical papers for review and possible publication?
Side Note: The author may not necessarily choose to incl... |
2018/07/03 | 3,081 | 12,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a third-year Ph.D. student. A few months ago, I lost my maternal grandfather and grandmother in quick succession. More recently, I lost my close friend in a bus accident and my paternal grandmother was wheeled into the emergency room. These incidents have affected me personally and I haven'... |
2018/07/03 | 2,975 | 12,540 | <issue_start>username_0: CC BY-SA requires that you distribute anything derivative of the work with the same license.
I found a very nice but complex diagram (let's say a CAD model) under this license and I would like to modify it to add the relevant information on top of it for an introduction to a paper. Can I use ... |
2018/07/03 | 930 | 3,799 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be applying to math PhD programs at the end of this year. I’m practicing for the math subject test, lining up letters of recommendation, etc. Along those lines, I just took the GRE general test.
What I've learned from math professors at some of my target schools is that the quantitative p... |
2018/07/03 | 562 | 2,275 | <issue_start>username_0: I publish under a single name (no last name). As Google Scholar does not recognise me as an author I face several issues with citation counts and wrong bibliographic data being available in Google Scholar. I have reported this issue several times through the contact us form for Scholar but I ju... |
2018/07/04 | 1,763 | 7,319 | <issue_start>username_0: My university is using cracked OS and software throughout. The school is very huge at 70 hectares and there are buildings everywhere. All of the computers in the computer labs and offices are full of cracked Windows and software¹. In our computer labs, we use a cracked OS and software to progra... |
2018/07/04 | 770 | 3,312 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to run a survey on large number of engineers in a specific field and ask them about a few specific methods they use for in their industry/research.
Like:
* Are you a researcher/engineer/student?
* Which of the following methods have you heard about? A B C D E
* Which of the follow... |
2018/07/04 | 562 | 2,450 | <issue_start>username_0: Normally, we have to include contact details of three referees for PhD/Postdoc position application. So let’s say we apply for an opening postdoc and include three PhD supervisors as reference. Is there any case that PI (of the Postdoc position) will contact the not listed one (e.g. Msc supervi... |
2018/07/05 | 834 | 3,333 | <issue_start>username_0: It sounds stupid, but I came to realize that it's significantly more difficult for me to read scientific papers when they are typeset in two columns than papers in which the text appears in one column. Something about multiple columns feels too "packed" and wearisome to the point that it takes ... |
2018/07/05 | 782 | 3,365 | <issue_start>username_0: But I don't understand if it is ethical because he was the one who identified the problem. I wouldn't have thought of the answer if he hadn't asked the question. I am an undergraduate and this is my first time in research. I do not understand the process, I think. But is this how research works... |
2018/07/05 | 4,693 | 19,976 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the biggest challenges I face year after year in teaching—and one that seems to affect my teaching evaluations—is that students are convinced that they are doing poorly in my course, no matter how much I reassure them that this isn’t the case.
Part of the problem is that the university ... |
2018/07/05 | 3,497 | 14,165 | <issue_start>username_0: Today I saw a photograph of an upcoming exam at my university. At first I thought it was last year's exam; so I took a closer look at it as I think it is okay to see last year's exams even if they aren’t officially published.
Anyway, later someone revealed to me that it was the upcoming exam wh... |