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2018/10/28 | 2,587 | 11,161 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in engineering. I work in a small group with two professors and 5 PhD students (no postdocs).
Both the professors "follow" my thesis as supervisor. However, they don't get along with, and they are continuously trying to pull me to their side and change my research subjects.
... |
2018/10/28 | 3,499 | 13,976 | <issue_start>username_0: Some paper reviewers feel the pressure to criticize *something* in order to appear competent. Sometimes they feel this pressure due to huge blank form fields for criticism in the reviewing system. As a consequence, they sometimes criticize wrongfully. Fully recovering from wrongful criticism du... |
2018/10/28 | 810 | 3,566 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine the following situation. Somebody is doing their PhD in field A in the US.
Suppose they became interested in a different field, field B, and consider doing PhD in field B instead. Suppose further that the university they are doing PhD at is not suitable for doing PhD in field B for so... |
2018/10/29 | 2,421 | 10,360 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible, and what are the chances of doing so, to get into a Computer Science Ph.D. program at a top school like e.g. the U of Toronto with a Master's degree (say, with excellent academic record) from a lower-tier school?
My situation is as follows:
* I am about to complete my Master's... |
2018/10/29 | 947 | 3,617 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I attend a likely lesser university, PSU in Pittsburg, Kansas, for a graduate degree in history, or should I attend the University of Minnesota for a second bachelors degree in psychology? All of this is aimed at eventual graduate work in philosophical counseling and the history of philo... |
2018/10/29 | 847 | 3,859 | <issue_start>username_0: So, sorry if this is a daft question...
I've recently completed a paper that I'm hoping to submit to a journal later this week.
I think we have something important to say, and I want to disseminate the results more widely, in particular there's a conference I have my eye on. Their deadline ... |
2018/10/29 | 606 | 2,779 | <issue_start>username_0: In most of the universities of India, conducting exams such as mid terms and end terms for a semester is as follows:
1) Designing question papers and taking print of them
2) Distribute it among students along with answer sheets
3) Invigilating during exams and taking attendance
4) Collectin... |
2018/10/29 | 2,386 | 10,400 | <issue_start>username_0: How common is it that exam questions, after being designed by the instructor and before being given to the students, are checked by a colleague in one's same institute, to make sure that they are appropriate and unambiguous and that their results are correct? Is this normally enforced by univer... |
2018/10/29 | 2,255 | 9,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I have worked on few research labs and performed research as a master's student with PhD students and faced similar issues.
It has been papers that I have contributed most of the work for that paper, including producing results, and writing. Yet the PhD student wants to put my name second due... |
2018/10/29 | 1,241 | 5,585 | <issue_start>username_0: It's like the response to my PhD application usually includes something like "The number of the applications we've received is so high that we can't accommodate all of the qualified applicants." It's like outnumbering applicants is the general reason of rejection.
Besides that, they seldom ad... |
2018/10/29 | 1,068 | 4,660 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it appropriate for a professor to give an exam to section A and then give the same exact exam to section B 2 weeks later?
Would this be a proper argument towards the professor and/or university to either curve or do something about the grades of the two sections?
It's an engineering course... |
2018/10/29 | 526 | 2,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I am TAing for a CS course. The professor I am TAing for, I took the same course with him one year ago. In that semester and this current semester I am TAing, he has been taking lecture slides and simply relabeling the headers with our school name and date. Furthermore, this may be somewhat of ... |
2018/10/29 | 7,577 | 31,550 | <issue_start>username_0: On the first day of class, I told my students that they are not allowed to use their phones in class. However, a lot of them use their cell phones and don't pay attention in class. How should I deal with this problem? Do you let students use their phones during the lecture?<issue_comment>userna... |
2018/10/30 | 503 | 2,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently submitted required documents to apply for a postdoc position. One of the required documents was a personal statement. Unfortunately, after its submission, I found two grammatical mistakes, for example I used present tense of a verb instead of past tense. It does not make a big c... |
2018/10/30 | 371 | 1,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for the correct wording for a collection of homework that will be given to students throughout the duration of a course/class.
So far I came up with Homework Plan. But I'm wondering if this is correct or widely used or not?
For example: My `insert proper term here` for the term c... |
2018/10/30 | 482 | 1,814 | <issue_start>username_0: I left a PhD position that I did for a year and then changed to a different area in psychology, the subject I do my PhD in. I am just wondering how to put that unfinished PhD on my CV. After my current PhD, I would like to continue on academia and apply for postdoc positions, maybe even in the ... |
2018/10/30 | 867 | 3,295 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen a lot of negative reviews and even boycotts of some Elsevier journals. I do not want to jeopardize the future of my academic career by publishing in illegitimate journals. Am I correct in assuming that the journals on Elsevier are considered "legit" but just "very pricey," and this ... |
2018/10/31 | 502 | 2,202 | <issue_start>username_0: I was writing a take home exam where I was allowed to use notes. I copy-pasted some of my lecture slide show into one of the answers, to speed up the process of referring between my notes and the slide show and this way I could easily reference my notes. It was around two sentences and the font... |
2018/10/31 | 1,047 | 4,233 | <issue_start>username_0: The NRC Research Press (or Canadian Science Publishing) offers a, at least to me, peculiar option they call ["Just-IN" manuscripts](http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/authors/services/just-in). This seems to be an extreme version of an [online-first article](https://academia.stackexchange.com... |
2018/10/31 | 3,593 | 15,716 | <issue_start>username_0: The papers I write contain all the source code required to reproduce results. I have written a series of papers that build on each other over the years. My intention has been to release an open-source libary that encapsulates all of this, but I have not yet done so.
Before releasing anything I... |
2018/10/31 | 3,452 | 15,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for some research positions and send the name of my references. I would like to know that: Do the full list of my references will be forwarded to each of professors by institute which I applied for. In other words, Will professors whom I add their names as my references be informed ab... |
2018/10/31 | 768 | 2,513 | <issue_start>username_0: I vaguely remember reading an article(as an online pdf - possibly via twitter) on why one should/should not do a PhD; what doing a PhD entails. It was well structured and specifically mentioned that a PhD isn't for everyone. I also remember it was written by a prominent computer scientist(or a ... |
2018/10/31 | 583 | 2,475 | <issue_start>username_0: If you submit an NIH grant (e.g. RO1) as PI and then move to another institution prior to study section review, or after an award is made, what are your options under both scenarios? Also, what is the NIH policy regarding such PI changes?<issue_comment>username_1: I'm going to assume that NIH h... |
2018/10/31 | 957 | 4,230 | <issue_start>username_0: My current postdoc position will end in few months, so I started to apply for another postDoc position abroad. Shortly, if I would get the second position, there might be about two months overlap between them.
What is your advise on how to deal with it? What I am considering:
1. End the firs... |
2018/10/31 | 669 | 2,830 | <issue_start>username_0: I haven't worked with my supervisor for long (~3 months now, 4 when apps are due), and she is well known in her field. I understand she has a reputation to uphold is honest in her letters from what I hear, so she really needs to get to know you before something like this.
I will be giving a l... |
2018/10/31 | 1,954 | 8,310 | <issue_start>username_0: I feel let down and (right now) rather upset about how I've been treated by an academic at another institution. Any tips for how I manage my (unavoidable) working relationship with him going forward?
I'm a PhD Student in a small subdiscipline (only 2-4 of us in this country). He is a (moderate... |
2018/11/01 | 1,906 | 7,939 | <issue_start>username_0: Frankly, to get to the point, I am schizophrenic.
University sucked for me, not because it was hard and difficult work; not because I didn't get along with people; not because I couldn't communicate points; and surprisingly not because I had anxiety. But because I carried a ball and chain of "... |
2018/11/01 | 1,522 | 6,546 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to receive some feedback from the community about the following situation.
I have a permanent position as associate professor in an institution for some years now (3). This institution is the one I did my PhD 10 years ago, and in particular I am in the same department as my PhD ad... |
2018/11/01 | 1,163 | 4,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I am recently graduated with a degree of MS in Physics. I am very interested in condensed matter physics, that is why I chose a topic from this field for my MS thesis. But it was very hard for me to complete this thesis because I have not taken any advance course about condensed matter physics.... |
2018/11/01 | 9,807 | 40,942 | <issue_start>username_0: Inspired by another question where a user asks how to handle students with a phone, my question is from the opposite perspective: what is the correct response when a lecturer asks one to put away the phone?
This actually recently happened to me (a few months ago), and for obvious reasons (not... |
2018/11/01 | 377 | 1,537 | <issue_start>username_0: Last spring I did some teaching at a university. It was my first time. It was a temporary position. I was there 1 semester only. I was paid by the hour.
A couple of things caught my eye about the arrangement:
1. They only paid for the time I spent teaching in *a scheduled group setting*.
2. T... |
2018/11/02 | 8,554 | 34,969 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a response about a manuscript I reviewed earlier, and the authors write about the reviewer (i.e., me) and ***his concerns***. As a woman, I'm not so keen on this.
Obviously this isn't intentionally insulting or anything like that---it's a minor blip. Nevertheless, it's a bit irksome... |
2018/11/02 | 563 | 2,415 | <issue_start>username_0: I was pursuing Ph.D. at a certain institution, let's call it X. After I started working, my experiments would fail repeatedly. My supervisor started calling me incompetent in the first two months of starting my Ph.D. Only later did I know that my experiments were failing due to some uncontrolla... |
2018/11/02 | 938 | 4,076 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year, I started collaborating with a high-level professor in the field in a good but not the best institute. Before leaving there, I discussed with her a possible opportunity to having her recommendation letter. Also, I asked about the possible opportunity to becoming her Ph.D. student. Sh... |
2018/11/02 | 758 | 3,179 | <issue_start>username_0: Through this link, <https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/mathematics/journals/fast-publication>, one sees the publishing times for selected Elsevier journals, given by Elsevier itself. My question is whether there are averaging times listed for more/all of Elsevier journal... |
2018/11/02 | 499 | 2,111 | <issue_start>username_0: How would you weight each factor below on choosing an advisor?
1 - My interest in the advisor's research topic.
2 - How well he/she dedicates time and effort to guide me.<issue_comment>username_1: This is a Hobson's Choice as stated. In reality you need both.
But in reality each of these id... |
2018/11/02 | 934 | 3,920 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question that has been in my mind for a month now. I am a final year M.Sc student in mathematics and applying for graduate school this year. But for applying to graduate schools, let's say in Europe, it is recommended that you should study the papers of Professors to whom you are appl... |
2018/11/02 | 577 | 2,395 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a hot topic of research in a subfield, and I am possibly going to cooperate with a senior research scientist who is interested in this topic specifically. However, during our discussion, he mentioned that all research that has been done up to this point are rubbish, which, to be... |
2018/11/03 | 1,446 | 6,182 | <issue_start>username_0: This semester, due to an increase of students enrolled, I was assigned to teach an introductory course. The course had been previously taught by two lecturers, who taught a different half of the course. The two do not know well the other half, so they developed the teaching material independent... |
2018/11/03 | 550 | 2,327 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't mean misconduct that will make him get expelled or miss his academic requirement. He will have received sanction like making an apology or suspension for a month if the university finds it out earlier. But the student now has graduated and will not be back. Can the university still do s... |
2018/11/03 | 1,070 | 4,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about a junior-senior in college and got the chance for an interesting lab that's conducting research information theory, where the role would be to help write ML model code. This is an area of interest for me and I think I could learn a lot from it.
I want to know if it's reasonable to ex... |
2018/11/03 | 860 | 3,693 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know how to proceed in an experimental research, where there is a conflict between different theories with different predictions. I.e. the theory A predicts X > Y, while the theory B predicts X ≠ Y or X < Y.
So, can I, based on the conflicting theories, adopt and test both hypothesis... |
2018/11/03 | 803 | 3,043 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, would it be OK to write: Many of these articles belong to School of Thought A and/or School of Thought B.
What about the other cases in general just to replace "or" with "/"?
E.g. This brain area might coincide or connect with the brain area responsible for...
Can I write it as "T... |
2018/11/03 | 1,311 | 5,190 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up on these two questions:
[When can I safely use CC-BY license on arXiv?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9740/when-can-i-safely-use-cc-by-license-on-arxiv) and
[What arXiv CC licenses are compatible with American Physical Society publishing?](https://academia.st... |
2018/11/03 | 494 | 1,894 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from France and want to find an internship in Finland.
Can I use "BAC+n" on my resume? Will it be understood or should I use something else? Maybe the terms License and Master are enough since it is supposedly known in all Europe but this is relatively recent so I think it would hurt to a... |
2018/11/03 | 839 | 3,489 | <issue_start>username_0: It's been 4 years since my PhD and now I'm applying for a postdoc in China. The Chinese website mentions that the age limit for applicants is 35 years and the applicants must have received their PhD within the last 3 years.
I heard that Chinese universities are strict with age when it comes to... |
2018/11/04 | 1,521 | 6,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 2nd yr Master's student set to graduate this may. My plan is to pursue a PhD afterwards at another institution. In my program, you either have to do a Master's thesis or a 45 min oral summary presentation of what you learned.
I always had the intention of doing a thesis and had a really... |
2018/11/04 | 1,541 | 6,518 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the following scenario:
Bob goes to a top-tier university for his undergraduate degree. This university is known for its extra challenging curriculum and Bob also challenges himself while attending. Bob is able to learn the material, but due to the extra rigor of the college, Bob grad... |
2018/11/05 | 1,633 | 6,672 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a senior year student at Hansraj College, University of Delhi. I have completed my 2-month summer internship at IISc Bangalore recently. During my stay, I got to interact with a lot of Pure Mathematics Ph.D. students. I have come to know lately that many BS and MS students leave ... |
2018/11/05 | 1,169 | 5,154 | <issue_start>username_0: As I understand the funding model, it's generally the funder solicits research proposals, then choose those they find the most interesting/promising. The researcher who wrote the funding application then goes and does the research with the money. In other words, the funder mostly assesses the r... |
2018/11/05 | 1,823 | 7,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an EU citizen interested in pursuing a physics PhD in either a UK university or an European one. It looks like PhD fees for UK universities are so much higher than EU universities, so my issue resides more with UK universities.
How likely is it for a physics PhD to be self funded? Do most... |
2018/11/05 | 1,254 | 4,956 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, a full professor at my university lost their tenure and had their employment with the university terminated. I have never heard of a tenured faculty member "being fired" before. I am not sure why this happened or what the former professor did that resulted in this outcome.
I know tha... |
2018/11/05 | 1,618 | 7,031 | <issue_start>username_0: After three years in the workforce, I am planning on returning to school to get my PhD. I currently have a master's degree. Recently, however, there has arisen a complication: my thesis advisor for my master's degree was just discovered to have been embezzling from grant money (double dipping u... |
2018/11/05 | 3,979 | 15,904 | <issue_start>username_0: A few weeks ago, a student asked me during my office hours whether I was religious or not. More specifically, he asked whether I believed in *his* religion, and was visibly disappointed when I replied negatively.
How should I react to a question such as this? Religion is a bit of a touchy subj... |
2018/11/05 | 2,391 | 10,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently started working for a professor as the statistician on the project. I cleaned the data, performed the data management, statistical analysis, and reported the results (with explanations of how to interpret the results). A poster was submitted and I was not asked to review it and provi... |
2018/11/06 | 524 | 2,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply for a (quite competitive) scholarship offered by a foreign government, which I need the recommendation of a prospective doctoral advisor to apply. However, if I am offered the scholarship but decline it for opportunities in other countries, would I offend anyone? Are ther... |
2018/11/06 | 1,050 | 4,538 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my master in one lab and am continuing my PhD here. My advisor asked me to do some research that he doesn't know, and is also beyond the domain of my current major. I have no other choices so I did some work in my master. Because I haven't gotten any professional advice on that kind of re... |
2018/11/06 | 572 | 2,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I cannot get any help from my supervisor if I want to write a new thesis. Not only that, I didn't have anyone in my lab. Therefore it's obvious that I don't have any people who can help me here. I'm trying to write it again by myself.
Is it that impossible? If that is the case, what can I do f... |
2018/11/06 | 545 | 2,264 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose one of my papers is published by journal A and I upload it in addition to my university repository B. When people cite this paper, would some cite the paper in A and some the one in B? Or is it ensured somehow that people will only cite the one in the journal?<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2018/11/06 | 2,706 | 11,407 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc at a US university, and my principal investigator (PI) asked me to cover some of his lectures next semester. I do not want to do any lecturing as I want to focus solely on my research. I am involved in two funded projects, and I therefore have a lot to do research wise.
Can I sa... |
2018/11/06 | 1,396 | 5,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my last year of my PhD and start focusing on writing my thesis. In the course of my PhD I had to apply twice for external funding, in which I - thanks God - succeeded.
I believe that part of that success was - aside of the "hot" topic - the way I presented my research. I wrote roughly ... |
2018/11/06 | 540 | 2,137 | <issue_start>username_0: There are several answers available on Academia but all of them are 4 to 5 years old. That is why I am re-asking this question.
I was looking for a PhD in UK and contacted a professor of my interest. He's agree to take me but he said he doesn't have funding.
I searched over internet for poten... |
2018/11/06 | 1,176 | 4,798 | <issue_start>username_0: Today my student was not paying attention to my lesson. He just slacked off and gave a fit. I can't call the administration (It's a private College School). I have asked him nicely several times to comply with what we are doing. But he won't listen and/or do the work. Yet his parents bribe some... |
2018/11/06 | 1,316 | 5,212 | <issue_start>username_0: To the point, I do love conducting research, however, I have put myself in a very difficult point of research that made me switch to another Ph.D. program for the sake of more technical support. However, I found the other group doesn't have the required set-up devices as they have mentioned ear... |
2018/11/06 | 768 | 3,284 | <issue_start>username_0: I attended a networking event and met a distinguished professor at another major university. I am studying to attend graduate school for one of the Ph.D's that the university actually offers, and the professor would like to meet to me about admissions and research. I have been in an undergradua... |
2018/11/06 | 907 | 3,911 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, my MS advisor instructed me to submit a conference paper. They outlined what this paper would include, which would be a simulation study that is a near duplication of a ten-year-old published journal article (from a different group of researchers) that I have been reproducing results ... |
2018/11/06 | 1,816 | 7,641 | <issue_start>username_0: Why do some professors choose to go into academic administration (e.g., become associate deans, etc.)? I've always assumed the main attraction is that they get paid more.
But I've also thought that if I wanted to make more money than I do as a professor, I'd just leave academia entirely and ta... |
2018/11/07 | 1,349 | 5,417 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that you are likely to suggest "Ask your supervisor. He/She will know best.".
While that is obviously true, I would like to know from your personal experience either as the PhD candidate or as the examiner: What should I expect in my viva?
For example:
* Should I expect to be asked a... |
2018/11/07 | 459 | 1,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask those in Academia who supervise PhD students and get to read their Phd theses. When checking on previous theses submitted to the library, I found some printed not in the more common A4, but A5 format, half the size of A4.
I was wondering whether is is more comfortable for s... |
2018/11/07 | 1,146 | 4,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been trying to get a Ph.D. position in Germany so I follow the advertising sites frequently. A few days ago I saw a position from a group of X Institute. I wrote the professor about the requirement and he replied a bachelor is a prerequisite and he encouraged me to apply. Today again I s... |
2018/11/07 | 279 | 1,251 | <issue_start>username_0: I accepted an offer and after that got an iterview opportunity from my dream company. In the interview they had asked me if I have deadlines coming up. I informed them that I had to accept another offer since the deadline was before they invited me to the interview.
Will this create a negative ... |
2018/11/07 | 1,400 | 6,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently identified a textbook which is currently looking for authors of chapters. It states "For selected and invited authors" on the website, so I am wondering, if I submit a chapter proposal, if it has any chance of being accepted having myself being the only author, and not having graduat... |
2018/11/08 | 1,245 | 5,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in the U.S., specifically California although I am not sure it matters.
After three months in the American university system I am almost convinced there is an organizational level plot to ignore my emails, or people's emails in general. From Health Centre personnel to p... |
2018/11/08 | 1,376 | 5,698 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my high school teachers once said that if I ever meet her again, I should identify myself by name because otherwise she will probably not remember me (there are simply too many students every year to remember all of them).
So just curious: do professors remember all their ...
* Collabo... |
2018/11/08 | 1,016 | 4,168 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for several PhD positions but I was never able to reach to even interview stage. Now I wonder if my motivation letter is strong enough or not. I have written the following letter for a Physics PhD position in a research group. This research group is working on applications of top... |
2018/11/08 | 1,018 | 4,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching at the university, and I am giving Calculus 1 for first year engineering students.
I am having a problem with some students, their behavior in the class is inappropriate: making noise, speaking in the class with their classmates, not writing or even paying attention. As a consequ... |
2018/11/08 | 581 | 2,580 | <issue_start>username_0: How does my TOEFL score affect my odds of being granted a TA in US Universities? I'm an international student BTW.<issue_comment>username_1: Note that TA is normally only granted to a (usually) doctoral student. You need to be accepted into a program before you can be considered to be a TA and ... |
2018/11/08 | 700 | 3,005 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for some information about how academic conferences can or already do accommodate the needs of people with anxiety. For example, do you know of any conferences which have special measures in place to encourage people who have anxiety to attend (e.g. related to travelling to a confer... |
2018/11/08 | 566 | 2,589 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new teacher/lecturer in science, and I am preparing lecture notes for my module. I am putting together a lot of material coming from textbooks as well as borrowing material from other lecture notes I come across online. In the bibliography, I have included the main textbooks, as students... |
2018/11/08 | 1,027 | 4,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 30 years old, have Master's degree in Machine Learning from a CS department. I also have a job, which I have had for like 4 years, first as a software developer, now as a data scientist at the same company.
I have been thinking about PhD for a while now. Is it worth in the field of Machi... |
2018/11/09 | 2,666 | 11,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to apply for graduate programs in Japan, and I have sent email to several professors in Japan (e.g., Todai, Tohoku) using this format (I only change the name of the professor and university, since the research topic is always the same):
>
> Dear Prof Name,
>
>
> I would like to... |
2018/11/09 | 857 | 3,192 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper (about the usage of renewable energies) and I have the following sentences:
"In 2016, wind and PV contributed about 12% of Europe's electricity supply [SOURCE1]. A study carried out by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission concludes that a tripling of this co... |
2018/11/09 | 1,213 | 5,266 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a third year Physics and Mathematics student, and over the years, I've done lots of self-studies, and what I've realised is that, compared to what I learn & experience in my self-studies, the I barely learn anything from the lectures that I'm attending my departments (at least this is true ... |
2018/11/09 | 1,106 | 4,792 | <issue_start>username_0: This question goes along with this post here:
[E-mails being ignored by university](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/119724/emails-being-ignored-by-university)
Interestingly, my situation is also at a college institution in California. However, rather than note that it might be a ... |
2018/11/10 | 1,241 | 5,317 | <issue_start>username_0: I was invited to review a paper from a decent journal in my field. I was provided a month to review the article.
However, due to some work related commitments, I was not able to provide reviews within the stipulated time (and somehow forgot about the deadline). After 2 weeks of the deadline, ... |
2018/11/10 | 514 | 1,917 | <issue_start>username_0: Am doing a PhD in computer science.
Can I publish my paper in an international journal of pure and applied mathematics?<issue_comment>username_1: The criteria for being accepted in any journal are based solely on the content of the submitted paper:
* relevance of the topic w.r.t the scope of t... |
2018/11/10 | 1,415 | 6,018 | <issue_start>username_0: My master's supervisor delegates most (if not all) of his work to his senior PhD student. Let's name this student X.
* X creates all the assignments, midterms, and exams for the courses this professor is teaching (which is not in the TA job description)
* He often fills in for this professor'... |
2018/11/10 | 1,263 | 5,376 | <issue_start>username_0: :-)
We would like to ask a question of general interest, as it might be the case in other studies. It is the first time I stumble upon this situation.
In our research, we have used the wild-type of a microbial strain and mutants for about 7 distinct genes. They were all subjected to different ... |
2018/11/10 | 1,607 | 7,041 | <issue_start>username_0: This is possibly a more general question about copyright, but I think I can specify this question into question about teaching, especially on STEM subjects. I don't know exactly whether I should post this on academia SE or matheducator SE.
So, I have a printed version of a Calculus textbook (E... |
2018/11/11 | 566 | 2,280 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to statistics and biostatistics PhD programs for next year, and I just got my GRE scores back, and they weren't at all what I expected.
I ended up with a 159V/156Q/6.0AW, which corresponds to 83rd/61st/99th percentile in the verbal/quantitative/analytical writing sections, respec... |
2018/11/11 | 733 | 3,116 | <issue_start>username_0: I just graduated this April from undergrad and I'm now applying to graduate programs that start September 2019. I'm taking a gap year between undergrad and grad school for various reasons, mostly to travel.
From the past May to August (right after I graduated), I worked in a research lab in ex... |
2018/11/11 | 609 | 2,364 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to include some cartoons in my lecture notes, just to spice up things a bit and relax the atmosphere before moving to serious stuff. However, I am not sure if there is any issue with doing this (in terms of intellectual property) or if I can include any cartoon with the correspondi... |
2018/11/11 | 1,770 | 7,619 | <issue_start>username_0: I am first-year graduate student doing teaching assistance for an introductory calculus course.
The course is taught by four instructors, with 12 teaching assistants in total and I am one of them.
Each instructor has three assistant underneath him or her and I am associated with one of the in... |
2018/11/11 | 445 | 1,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my undergraduate studies around 2 and a half years ago. I didn't directly apply to any university to continue my master's degree.
Recently, I decided to continue. I live in Lebanon and I was searching for some universities in the UK to apply for. I found some local agents that help... |
2018/11/11 | 2,392 | 9,933 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume that a given postdoctoral position does not require teaching/laboratory.
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Perhaps communicating only by e-mail may be slight... |
2018/11/11 | 2,276 | 9,476 | <issue_start>username_0: *Nature Communications* has had a [policy](https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10277) since 2016 that authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of their paper.
Are there other journals with the same initiative?<issue_comment>username_1: I think that would be entirely up... |
2018/11/11 | 2,468 | 10,515 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I have ran into some issues about reproducibility of some of my research results which are obtained by our collaborators from different university. In fact, in our current repository there are some saved figures and plots which are significantly different from the results of current s... |
2018/11/11 | 960 | 4,018 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes it happens that a professor traveling has his TA or RA fill in for him/her delivering a class lecture. Is this experience appropriate for a typical engineering CV, and if so how would it be designated?
[This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/62599/should-i-add-gu... |
2018/11/11 | 1,453 | 6,439 | <issue_start>username_0: I just graduated in May 2018 with an undergraduate bachelor degree in Computer Science from a pretty good university. During my time at the university, I always had aspirations of attending graduate school for a Masters (as a terminal degree). I had considered studying Computer Science, but dur... |
2018/11/12 | 980 | 4,417 | <issue_start>username_0: Every now and then, a journal retracts a paper for some reason or another. I'm wondering what impact retraction has on copyright, assuming the journal (or its publisher) was given its copyright.
**Question**: Does a journal retracting a paper also renounce copyright?
The notion of "retracting... |