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2018/12/11 | 815 | 2,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I found [this paper](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/papers/joerg.pdf) online and would like to cite it. I've looked up the rules for citing conference papers, but this is not a conference paper. It's also not a book and not a website and not an essay. It looks like [this image](https://www.wik... |
2018/12/11 | 1,292 | 5,458 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a secondary source proves that poverty was rampant in the Middle Ages by using a variety of primary sources (or statistics from other secondary sources). If years after reading this secondary source I decide I want to make the same claim (that poverty was common), would it be plagiarism... |
2018/12/12 | 1,613 | 7,115 | <issue_start>username_0: This is in the field of life sciences, *i.e.* a field in which the order of authors is not determined randomly but reflects author contributions (whatever that means); in other words, being first author is better than being second, which is better than third etc - except for the very last autho... |
2018/12/12 | 463 | 1,958 | <issue_start>username_0: The number of journal on the topics tends to be quite high and most researchers of the field have yet to take on the habit of sharing their preprints on archive repositories (ArXiv or others).
Do you have any recommendation as to the best way to set up an efficient watch on what comes out ?<i... |
2018/12/12 | 1,255 | 5,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in mathematics, currently working on an article (article A) from two leading researchers in my field published in an 0.72 Impact journal.
I have an idea to generalize their results and publish my first article (paper B) but I have two problems:
**In one of the proofs in pap... |
2018/12/12 | 324 | 1,492 | <issue_start>username_0: In some cases a specific journal is one of the most important and relevant places for a research topic. So, is this normal and acceptable (for a pre-Ph.D. researcher) to have several papers published in that journal? I once heard from a professor that it may affect the CV in a destructive way. ... |
2018/12/12 | 548 | 2,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to do research by myself and with my friends, but I don't want to apply for a degree. What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing research without studying for a degree?<issue_comment>username_1: Your question is a bit underspecified, but if I understand it correctly, perhaps the ... |
2018/12/12 | 3,837 | 15,255 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor and all his other doctoral students are practicing religious, while I am not, I am "non-religious".
We never discuss religion together, but sometimes they all leave to pray together, and leave me alone, which makes me uncomfortable.
Surely, if they knew I'm "non-religious," it wo... |
2018/12/12 | 1,819 | 6,774 | <issue_start>username_0: Edit: Right so I forgot this really big thing. My question is actually under this framework: [Why are US PhDs different from European PhDs?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/43313/why-are-us-phds-different-from-european-phds)
1. After the basics of topology, linear algebra, abstrac... |
2018/12/12 | 1,237 | 5,348 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume a university allows students to audit classes informally, so they're not enrolled and don't pay, but they attend classes anyway. Obviously, no one has obligation to allow these students to attend anything and therefore doesn't even have the obligation to check their exams and such.
In c... |
2018/12/12 | 889 | 3,898 | <issue_start>username_0: My former master adviser published an article, which is derived from my master thesis, in a predatory journal without my consent. He put my name as the first and corresponding author and his name as the second author. I just found it when Researchgate sent an alarm to me that you have a new pub... |
2018/12/13 | 2,348 | 10,142 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a final exam today in my dynamics class. I took the exam with Adaptive Services because of my medically diagnosed ADHD, Anxiety, and OCD (among other things). I have been studying since Thanksgiving break and felt pretty confident going into it. I was even in the library just this morning... |
2018/12/13 | 3,045 | 13,174 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergrad in the US taking an upper-level biology course with ~30 students. My professor has been grading some assignments in what I, and other students in the class, realize is quite unfair. For example, we had to post to a discussion online and respond to our classmates' posts. When i... |
2018/12/13 | 617 | 2,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently listened to a [talk given by <NAME>](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHcdgrqbHE) about problems that [GNU/Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) are currently facing. In it (roughly 26m48s into the video) he mentions that keynote presentation time slots are being purchased by c... |
2018/12/13 | 428 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have to study for an exam, like organic chemistry, I know that I should be studying my notes and, most importantly, practice problems.
However, when you have to review for final that is cumulative, you have to go through potentially hundreds of problems assigned. I understand the best cas... |
2018/12/14 | 835 | 3,451 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor assigned a final paper due the 12th, and while our exam period extends to the 23rd of December, all my exams were scheduled on the 11th and 12th and a couple before. As this was one of my more interesting classes, I asked the professor if I could have a couple days' extension, beca... |
2018/12/14 | 887 | 3,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently reviewing a paper, which has this statement in the acknowledgements:
>
> The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting
> the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States
> Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-w... |
2018/12/14 | 2,753 | 12,170 | <issue_start>username_0: My real love is scientific computing, but I'm generally interested in nearly every academic field — through undergrad I've had research computing positions in social psychology, electrical engineering, volcanology, and pharmaceutical sciences. Now I've graduated, and I'm at a different universi... |
2018/12/14 | 1,764 | 7,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I got an externally funded research grant as a lead researcher to carry out a project at a UK University, together with other senior co-PIs. The grant would pay my salary for the duration of the project as a postdoc, which would be 6 months. Due to several administrative and other issues, the p... |
2018/12/14 | 930 | 4,081 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in an embarrassing situation. I have submitted my article three times, to three different journals, and always I get the same reviewer who copies and pastes the same reviews which actually make no sense.
With my first submission I had two review cycles, and two of the reviewers recommende... |
2018/12/14 | 3,152 | 11,664 | <issue_start>username_0: For those who aren't familiar, Lebron was so talented and sought-after in high school that he was able to [skip playing NCAA basketball and went right on to the NBA at the age of 19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James#Basketball). Have there ever been any academic researchers who showed... |
2018/12/15 | 3,390 | 12,790 | <issue_start>username_0: The graduate program to which I am applying has a centralized admission procedure, so individual professors cannot accept students. However, they recommend taking a look at the faculty, so that our research proposals are aligned with the work being done there. (Un)fortunately, the field I'd lik... |
2018/12/15 | 794 | 3,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using a somewhat obscure mathematical technique in one of my papers, and there is only one reference text (so far as I am aware) that collects all the important examples of the technique that I need. However, I am leery of pointing my readers to this book without a warning, because the ref... |
2018/12/15 | 463 | 1,964 | <issue_start>username_0: After a first round of revision, I have a paper whose status on Elsevier is "Accept, after minor Revision". Indeed, referees pointed out some revisions (very minor ones) which are relatively easy to be fulfilled. I made the necessary modifications in one day.
My question, is really a bad signal... |
2018/12/15 | 881 | 3,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that (most?) articles do not include the date of publishing/writing.
For example see [this paper (on researchgate.net)](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228897060_Characterization_of_Thermal_Response_Induced_by_HeadDisk_Interaction_in_Current_TGMR_Head).
If I click for a cit... |
2018/12/15 | 427 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have a question about a paper which has multiple authors, who should I email? The professor whose lab the paper came out of maybe? The first author named on the paper?<issue_comment>username_1: It probably doesn't make a huge difference, but your two suggestions are fine. The one you corre... |
2018/12/15 | 250 | 980 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been accepted for postdoc position. According the detail of postdoc
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> the successful candidate will begin in January 2019
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>
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What does it mean? Can I start my work at any time of January? Am I right?<issue_comment>username_1: I would presume that you have to inquire with the ... |
2018/12/16 | 1,459 | 6,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in an uncomfortable position. I am beginning to do research in a particular area within my field. The body of related works are mostly done by students of a single professor. And, nearly all of it makes a crucial mistake. The works are borrowing/applying concepts and techniques from other,... |
2018/12/16 | 1,483 | 6,146 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
My professor assigned me a project as part of a course. [The project is part of another student's thesis](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/120586/how-to-stop-working-for-other-peoples-thesis) and has several flaws. I explained the problems of the project to my profes... |
2018/12/16 | 1,744 | 7,465 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm almost going to start my PhD. Out of curiosity, I searched for several effective researchers in several fields over the internet. Most of the common property among almost of them are
1) Working under the supervision of another effective researcher.
2) Not doing PhD in my country.
The sec... |
2018/12/17 | 616 | 2,712 | <issue_start>username_0: Some authors have an ORCID ID in order to be identified and distinguished in case of authors with similar name, change of name, different name format, etc. However, some sources don’t provide the ORCID ID of the author (if any exists), which causes a lot of problems when someone tries to harves... |
2018/12/17 | 2,271 | 9,691 | <issue_start>username_0: While attending a graduate course on an engineering subject (reliability of complex systems) I had an idea about a different approach to a known problem. The application of this different method to a known topic would simply require to build a model of the physical system under study and to do ... |
2018/12/17 | 607 | 2,469 | <issue_start>username_0: I current have an 85% in his class but my final is pass or fail. I’m horrible at math and have really tried my hardest to get that b but my professors math final is either you pass it or if you fail it, you fail the course! Is allowed? I also asked around and it seems he’s the only professor th... |
2018/12/17 | 313 | 1,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a conference, but some one in lab help me after the paper has been submitted. Can I add them as a third author if the paper got approved to be appear in the conference ?<issue_comment>username_1: I think that in almost all cases this would be fine. But you should con... |
2018/12/17 | 1,041 | 4,254 | <issue_start>username_0: As students we have the right to choose our semester subjects (for the new semester beginning in 2019)
So we went send an email to the department chair indicating what subject we would like to take.
We received days later the notification about the courses to be open and my course was not t... |
2018/12/18 | 1,369 | 5,085 | <issue_start>username_0: My question parallels that of <https://english.stackexchange.com/q/99886/117318>, which asks whether "Gamma et al." should be considered singular or plural for verb conjugation. The top and accepted answer says that it depends whether the verb refers to the researchers (since the translation of... |
2018/12/18 | 2,188 | 9,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper where I have many co-authors and most of them did not contribute much. As a PhD student I am in a weak position to reject such inquiries of senior faculty.
To address this, I want to add a section on author contributions. However, the journal where I have this paper under revie... |
2018/12/18 | 2,915 | 11,389 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm using a throwaway account for privacy. I know professors are human beings and "I can just ask", but, as this is the start of the relationship, I don't want to seem rude - or to seem that I am interviewing *them*. This potential advisor has published papers in top journals before, but nothin... |
2018/12/18 | 605 | 2,554 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that there are very few Massive Online Open Course (MOOCs) that cover the core college math curriculum, for example
* Basic integral and differential calculus
* ODE
* PDE
* Linear Algebra
* Abstract Algebra
* Probability
* Statistics
* Combinatorics
* Symbolic logic
* Complex Vari... |
2018/12/18 | 1,480 | 6,041 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a general rule about what a postdoc or graduate student can or cannot refuse to do because of personal convictions?
I assume that there must be institution-specific rules, but also maybe legally defined limits? I know that (fortunately!) in most countries, a supervisor cannot "force" ... |
2018/12/18 | 739 | 2,869 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering graduating from undergraduate school in 6 years in 2024 to build up my resume and pursue interests for graduate school admissions. I feel that I would not feel ready to attend graduate school if I graduate undergraduate school in 4 years. However, most successful people (past U.... |
2018/12/19 | 1,507 | 6,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my PhD which is in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
My supervisor is specialized in Electrical Engineering with a hint of AI.
He knows that it is not his area of expertise and suggested if I can find a mentor who is more specialized.
I contacted many professors from other univers... |
2018/12/19 | 1,210 | 4,969 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say Alice is a PhD student who's well into the research phase of a PhD. She's got a nice exciting project she enjoys, a helpful supervisor, she's making good progress. And then there's a *big discovery*. She's excited about the new discovery, she wants to work on it, and her current proje... |
2018/12/19 | 2,591 | 10,728 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is the reverse of [Dealing with a PhD student reneging on an agreement to appear in social media](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/111498/dealing-with-a-phd-student-reneging-on-an-agreement-to-appear-in-social-media), in which the student had agreed during interviewing... |
2018/12/19 | 1,653 | 7,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm two and a half years into my PhD program. Recently, I finally worked up the courage to admit it — I've been slacking off for over a year and it's my fault. Now I'm determined to be productive in research again but realized that I forgot how to.
It was sweet in the beginning. I got a paper ... |
2018/12/19 | 1,646 | 6,946 | <issue_start>username_0: So the title explains why I'm posting. I'm a masters student in economics at a pretty prestigious university and one of the courses that you're required to take as a first year is called Math Methods for Economists. It covers topics from Calculus to Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. I ... |
2018/12/19 | 1,305 | 5,707 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of applying to junior faculty positions (e.g. Assistant Professor). This will be my first time I ever apply for an academic position.
My direct supervisor asked me to write a first draft for my own reference letter for this application. I know that this can be considered un... |
2018/12/19 | 623 | 2,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for a PhD position and have emailed many professors. My emails often include a general introduction and my CV plus a research statement is attached.
I try to be brief in the email text, as I know professors get tons of emails like mine and don't have time to read a long... |
2018/12/19 | 1,224 | 4,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Italian student who is about to get his undergrad degree in Computer Science. As I look to further my education, I'm also looking at universities outside of my own country, also in the UK. In the past years, I always thought studying there would be a great opportunity, although expensiv... |
2018/12/19 | 1,389 | 6,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently obtained an undergraduate degree in Computer Science with excellent performance and shortly afterwards got a research assistant post for a two-year industry-university collaboration project with the professors I worked with. The perks of this job are a modest salary for two year... |
2018/12/19 | 2,897 | 12,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just completed a 13 week group project on an undergraduate Electronic Engineering degree at a UK university. I am already an Electronic Engineer by trade and have been for 5 years since finishing an apprenticeship.
Naturally, the project came easy to me and I worked very hard. Unfortuna... |
2018/12/19 | 710 | 3,063 | <issue_start>username_0: In my area of research (experimental psychology), publishing an empirical paper takes on average one year of work. It seems to me (I could be wrong) that those authors who appear to use every available opportunity to write commentaries on recent "big" papers have it easier (or so they think) th... |
2018/12/19 | 909 | 3,732 | <issue_start>username_0: So I took this online class and the professor didn't grade our exams till the end of the semester and I was surprised to learn that I got a 0 on the first one. Now I remember taking this test and while I may not have gotten a perfect score, I don't think I did bad enough to deserve that grade. ... |
2018/12/20 | 1,185 | 4,482 | <issue_start>username_0: Why is a professorship sometimes called a chair? Are chairs only the correct term when the professorship has been endowed? (I don't think so, because endowed professorships are rare in the UK, but people still speak about chairs).
What's the origin and correct usage of the term?
Edit: Thanks ... |
2018/12/20 | 1,083 | 4,545 | <issue_start>username_0: I've left academia for business some time ago. However, it occurred to me that I could publish some of my old final papers/ theses online as online books.
I have all the copyrights.
The theses are good and I could probably publish the most recent ones in "traditional" publishing houses, but... |
2018/12/20 | 1,212 | 4,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in chemistry and my funding is specific for a certain project. This funding also funds another PhD student, a biochemist, with a different advisor (both our advisors are very well-respected). We're both in the 3rd year of our PhDs.
The project is now in its sixth year. The ... |
2018/12/20 | 450 | 1,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished half of my comps for an EdD program that I really have no interest in finishing. I would actually like to pursue a second masters in a different area, but I have no idea how to do so, and it's a sticky situation to ask these questions of the university advisor. Basically, I want to m... |
2018/12/20 | 1,407 | 5,824 | <issue_start>username_0: About four months ago I graduated from a reputable university and received great feedback from the committee who judged my masters defense as well as my thesis. Prior to my defense, I was asked to prepare my paper — not my thesis — within 5 weeks of graduating. There were a few problems regardi... |
2018/12/20 | 740 | 3,259 | <issue_start>username_0: This might be more relevant to early career scholars since the CV isn't quite long enough to start filtering, but should departmental talks be included on a CV?
In my department we have weekly meetings where students and facility will give updates on their research, early findings, or talks b... |
2018/12/20 | 461 | 1,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach at a university, and during lectures I would like to pose a question to all the students in which each student types their answer into their laptop, submits to me, and I can show all the answers on my screen at the front of the room. I will be able to see the names on my computer, but o... |
2018/12/21 | 1,306 | 5,530 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to start teaching next year in a university in the UK. One common question I get with students in one-to-one conversations is about my origin. I certainly have an accent, and they are naturally curious about it. **I was wondering if it is fine that, when I introduce myself during the... |
2018/12/21 | 767 | 3,082 | <issue_start>username_0: When a paper appears in a science journal, why do not mention the names of the reviewers so that we, as readers can get an idea about the seriousness of the paper?<issue_comment>username_1: Journals may run a list at the end of the year thanking by name all the reviewers.
But the main answer ... |
2018/12/21 | 1,481 | 6,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been invited to give a 20 minute talk at a mathematics conference in a couple months. The audience members all work in my field, so they will be familiar with most of the terminology and background. I have plenty of material to pull from a preprint I've already submitted to journals, and i... |
2018/12/22 | 2,363 | 10,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I know some advantages and disadvantages of using absolute grading as well as curve grading. Next semester, I plan to combine both by first grading absolutely, and then use curve grading to add points to the students.
For example, if one gets 80% (usually an A) absolutely, but when curved he g... |
2018/12/22 | 1,018 | 4,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to apply to graduate school next year after working a year in industry (software engineering) but have received advice to get my letters of recommendation and other application parts sorted out asap.
I'm conflicted on who I should keep in contact with for letter-writing purposes-... |
2018/12/22 | 971 | 3,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student from India. English is my third language and I am not grammatically sound in it. How bad could it be for my career (in academia) and how can I improve on it.<issue_comment>username_1: Clearly it's a big advantage to be comfortable at writing in English to work in a... |
2018/12/22 | 1,966 | 8,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked by a well-established professor to review a regular paper submitted to IEEE Transactions, however, I am concerned as in the email, he titled me "Dr. Monkia" although I am still being a graduate student. Of course, I am interested in the paper's topic, but I don't consider myse... |
2018/12/22 | 443 | 1,872 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a conditional offer from the University of Birmingham and an unconditional offer from the University of Leeds for a masters degree in marketing, both programs are great but I have a deadline to accept Birmingham's offer so I was wondering if I could accept both offers and then d... |
2018/12/22 | 350 | 1,526 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working on a research paper for about a year now, and am the first author (a graduate student). I'm getting a lot of help from some faculty mentors, and they will be listed as 2nd and 3rd authors if the paper gets published.
Before submitting the article to publication, I'm planning ... |
2018/12/22 | 891 | 3,280 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have a bachelor's degree and am planning on applying to medical school this year (in the US). I've previously used [federal student aid](https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/) to cover the cost of my undergraduate degree.
My question is, what types of sources of funding are available to cover th... |
2018/12/23 | 434 | 2,049 | <issue_start>username_0: If I solved a already solved recent problem with a totally different method, can I communicate my solution in a journal? How likely is the acceptance of my paper?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, you can (and you should!).
And you should compare the performance of your method with the existing o... |
2018/12/23 | 508 | 2,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a referee report on one of my articles. The report is amazing and gives me wonderful directions to improve my work however he rejected the article. Now I rewrote the article considering his comments and I am going to submit the article to a different journal. I would like to thank hi... |
2018/12/23 | 301 | 1,358 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergraduate interested in Academia, is it worth posting your reproducibility study of a paper on arXiv and linking to it on Google scholar? Is it useful to future graduate schools? Specifically with regards Machine Learning and Computer Science..<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, publishin... |
2018/12/23 | 533 | 2,062 | <issue_start>username_0: I did a summer internship in an industry for 9 week. It was a great experience and my supervisor was a very formal and professional lady. She rarely smiled but appreciated my work every now and then. On my last day, she asked about my graduation date and I told her it’s just 6 months away as it... |
2018/12/23 | 429 | 1,837 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about sharing code in my thesis. I ran simulations using ready data in my field from a book. After that, I compared the results with those from the book. Do I need to share my code or is sharing it optional? Because I already explained the methodology that I used for my thesis.
... |
2018/12/23 | 1,242 | 4,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I am confused about how course buyouts work in the United States and about how the incentives play out for professors and the university. I will use a constructed example to frame my confusion. Please let me know if my example is unrealistic.
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> Say that a university pays an assistant profe... |
2018/12/24 | 846 | 3,608 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a journal I read a paper in I wanted to respond to. The journal is open access, has no fee, and I have enough for a short paper (less than like 5 pages, there are no size limits). Writing this would take minimal time away from more important work. The journal is...not great. I don't thi... |
2018/12/24 | 420 | 1,813 | <issue_start>username_0: I did bad on the midterm exam not because I did not understand the material well enough but I was anxious on the exam day and did not get enough sleep the night before.
I feel terrible about my grade. Is it professional to do extra work (maybe solve some problems) and ask him for a bonus?<iss... |
2018/12/24 | 828 | 3,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student submitting a computational biology paper for peer review. It is intended to be a “methodology paper” for the journal. Our paper uses new methodology to analyze several public datasets and demonstrate the use and benefits of the new methodology. There were originally two ... |
2018/12/24 | 938 | 4,035 | <issue_start>username_0: A recent SE Academia question asked about how best to implement a university's requirement that the [instructor must keep attendance records](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/120218/my-university-requires-that-i-take-attendance-how-should-i-treat-students-who-a/) for all students. T... |
2018/12/24 | 724 | 3,055 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen a lot of information about the structure of an academic paper; and in summary the structure is as follows:
1. Title
2. Abstract
3. Introduction
4. State of the Art or Background
5. Methodology
6. Results
7. Conclusions
8. Future work or Recommendations
9. References
Nevertheless, ... |
2018/12/25 | 1,071 | 4,432 | <issue_start>username_0: Next year I'm going to college and would like to do undergraduate research in the second semester under the supervision of a certain professor, who I'll call Prof. M.
There are three points against me and three in my favor. They are the following
1. <NAME>. works at another university, which ... |
2018/12/25 | 953 | 3,995 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted a manuscript to an ESCI journal.
It has been over 1 month since I submitted but the status shows "with editor".
I mailed the editor to check the status of my manuscript. The editor informed me that he had sent the manuscript to some referees but he has not received any reply fr... |
2018/12/25 | 1,338 | 5,590 | <issue_start>username_0: If a STEM PhD holder applies for a Master's in another STEM major, would this be an advantage or disadvantage in the eye of the admission committee?<issue_comment>username_1: [Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Feynman!)
Sorry, but you ... |
2018/12/26 | 992 | 3,967 | <issue_start>username_0: It occurs sometimes that I am in possession of a factoid for which I know all of the standard terminology and can express the factoid in that terminology, and also know that the factoid is prior knowledge, but do not have a reference for the factoid. This is especially problematic in my field (... |
2018/12/26 | 1,065 | 4,039 | <issue_start>username_0: Examples: [Newcastle University](https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-staff/working-here/benefits-and-conditions/leave/christmas-closedown), [Queen's University](http://www.queensu.ca/humanresources/policies/time-away/observed-holidays/christmas-closing), [University of Florida](https://adminis... |
2018/12/27 | 2,586 | 10,958 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student works in theory of computer science. I am worried about the timing, I have taken in writing a one paper.In last semester, I have few ideas, I told those idea to my supervisor then he suggested me to write the paper. I have spent almost six months on writing this paper which i... |
2018/12/27 | 610 | 2,495 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the first half of my PhD (Pure Mathematics) in the U.S. In this period of time I've read all of my advisors papers (apart from the very early ones), discussed all of them with him, and improved on many of them. My advisor is great: he has been extremely helpful, he'd always read all my ... |
2018/12/27 | 1,364 | 5,318 | <issue_start>username_0: Related to my questions:
1. [How much knowledge is expected of a PhD applicant as compared to a postdoc or a research assistant?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/116498/how-much-knowledge-is-expected-of-a-phd-applicant-as-compared-to-a-postdoc-or-a)
2. [For the average pure math U... |
2018/12/27 | 589 | 2,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postgraduate student at a research-oriented university. I had spent about 2 months to work on a project. I collaborated with another postgraduate student who is the first author.
In the project, I mainly contributed to the paper writing such as whole parts of introduction, background, r... |
2018/12/27 | 365 | 1,653 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a Master's program using an online application where I must report my prior university education. The field to report my undergraduate GPA is not required and would anyways be verified by using my transcripts before admission. It would, however, be more convenient for the appli... |
2018/12/27 | 571 | 2,333 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the writing phase of my thesis. Factors related to and unrelated to academia are putting me under "nice" amount of pressure. it became much harder for me to concentrate on reading or writing and always end up procrastinating much of the time.
What are good strategies to get ... |
2018/12/27 | 2,206 | 9,366 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my PhD in statistics program next year, and I have some concerns.
In my institution, there is a mandatory course that every PhD student has to take in lieu of taking one qualifying examination.
The course requires students to read five academic papers and write a report, which wil... |
2018/12/28 | 906 | 4,117 | <issue_start>username_0: It is commonly accepted within academia that if you submit and publish peer-reviewed papers, you should also do your share, and review your peers' papers.
Does the underlying principle apply **globally** or **per-venue**? Should you aim to do approximately as much review work as your own paper... |
2018/12/28 | 977 | 4,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the course lecturer of a large undergraduate course
with about 700 students in the course.
One of the challenges of teaching such a large course
is grading the assignments and giving students feedback.
Here is some information about the grading process:
* The students submit their assign... |
2018/12/28 | 727 | 2,996 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up to [my previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/97152/poor-academic-performance-should-can-i-apply-to-a-phd-program). I'm currently in the process of applying for PhD programs. I finished college with a poor GPA 10 years ago; since then, I have become ... |
2018/12/29 | 765 | 3,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated this past year from an Ivy League university with a double major in a STEM field and Asian studies (with a focus in literature). Throughout university I felt the desire to eventually pursue a graduate degree in the humanities, but for various reasons ended up focusing much more on m... |
2018/12/29 | 629 | 2,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just started a post-doc. So far all of my papers have had small author lists (4-5 people). I have just been invited as a co-author on several papers with hundreds of authors. The papers are pitched as community-wide collaborations: some being white papers describing a future experiment t... |
2018/12/29 | 1,855 | 7,792 | <issue_start>username_0: It shames me to admit it, but I feel like I still haven’t figured out the right way to efficiently read papers and textbooks. I am a second year PhD student in pure mathematics, and I struggle a lot to balance the need to learn a lot new mathematics with the fact that I have a finite amount of ... |
2018/12/29 | 1,752 | 7,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an on-again-off-again academic, I guess you could say: I've switched positions in and out of academia several times over the past decade. When I write academic papers (or even Free Software in the context of academic work), I often face a dilemma regarding which email address to put down in... |