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2019/03/02 | 1,223 | 5,043 | <issue_start>username_0: Our computer-science curriculum mandates that we produce a paper about a research project:
* We set the topic.
* We get a professor assigned as a project guide.
* The paper has to be published at a peer-reviewed venue.
* The paper is also reviewed and marked by some professors.
For us the pro... |
2019/03/02 | 1,017 | 4,036 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate Computer Science student. I take the bus to college everyday at 7 am and come back at 4 pm. And take 3 lectures everyday, except on one day, I take 4, which are 1:30 hours long. Due to this I get very tired, especially towards the end of the week. Anybody would.
I have S... |
2019/03/02 | 3,093 | 13,401 | <issue_start>username_0: To what extent does coming up with a research idea, *without contributing anything else to the actual work*, constitute a sufficient contribution to be an author?
As a hypothetical, suppose a five year-old child tells me one day that he wonders if banana peels can be used to cure leukemia. I a... |
2019/03/02 | 1,045 | 3,864 | <issue_start>username_0: The number of retractions in some scientific fields like medicine, life and material related science seems rising in the past years. However, retractions in mathematics seem rare because of its rigorous nature. I wonder if there are retractions in mathematical journals.<issue_comment>username_1... |
2019/03/03 | 510 | 2,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I remember my MSCS advisor often refers to his "academic grandfather" (his advisor's advisor Dr. <NAME>) as the person who sent the first data packets. Although distant, I think it is cool for him to be a descendant of someone famous.
For PhDs, have you ever traced your academic family tree? D... |
2019/03/03 | 1,146 | 4,845 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a co-author on a paper that was published in a Nature family journal some months ago because of my scientific contribution to the work presented there. I've discovered that the first author of this paper (let's call them Pat) has, in several instances, over several years, committed scientif... |
2019/03/03 | 830 | 3,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I acted as a reviewer for a paper this year and would like to mention this in my CV. However, I would like the authors not to know that I was the reviewer before some time.
At the moment, I have remained intentionally vague in my CV, mentioning only the journal name and the topic of the articl... |
2019/03/03 | 442 | 1,926 | <issue_start>username_0: The title of my master degree certificate says that I obtained M.Sc. in "Control engineering", but half of the courses I took during my master belong to machine learning (computer science), and even my Master Thesis and my publication were related to machine learning.
But when I put in the top... |
2019/03/03 | 380 | 1,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found an interesting (and novel) result that I would like to submit to the American Mathematical Monthly. I am aware of the journal's prestige and I understand that my result likely would not warrant regular publication. I am looking to submit my finding and brief proof as "filler", howe... |
2019/03/03 | 452 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my Master's degree Thesis in Economics and I'm dealing with quite a lot of plots (my topic is more related to statistics, in particular I'm working with B-spline free knot placement) and I am wondering what's better, if to provide very fancy plots (for example using ggplot2) or ins... |
2019/03/03 | 1,490 | 6,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my last year of high school and about to move on to the next stage, undergraduate programs. The problem is that I don't care about any of my subjects enough to continue them at a higher level. I don't have any of that love for my potential subjects that good students seem to have, which ... |
2019/03/03 | 1,082 | 4,720 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a bad previous experience with flow of ideas. I received a fellowship for six months to work on a project. I started on the project. I was very active and attentive with my supervisor who was very supportive and flexible. I worked very hard, but after two months many new ideas accumulated... |
2019/03/04 | 759 | 2,541 | <issue_start>username_0: What is Post Secondary Education? Does it include only PhD (or) any degree lower than PhD?<issue_comment>username_1: Post-secondary is after secondary education, which in most jurisdictions would be high school. So your undergraduate degree counts, as does any Masters degree or PhD degree.
Upvo... |
2019/03/04 | 825 | 3,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a conference paper some time ago to a trusted highly ranked conference. Strangely enough there's almost no communication from their part, no replies most of the time to my inquiries.
The paper got peer-reviewed and accepted, I paid the fee (around 500usd), I asked just a week befor... |
2019/03/04 | 523 | 2,292 | <issue_start>username_0: here's my friend's situation, he submitted a journal paper then gave up after some time and thought it's going to be rejected after a few rejections in an open access journal,he put some parts (as it is), in a conference paper and submitted this work, to his surprise he got acceptance in both.
... |
2019/03/04 | 336 | 1,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received a decision letter from IEEE ACCESS. The recommendation of reviewer1 is "Accept (minor edits)" and the recommendation of reviewer2 is "Reject (update and resubmit encouraged)".
While reviewer1 did not give any suggestions need to be revised. Did I need to respond to him in the "... |
2019/03/04 | 228 | 985 | <issue_start>username_0: My research is a content analysis about portrayal of mental illness in films. The research I wanted to base my methodology is also about mental-illness representation. My research questions differ to the other researcher’s questions. We also have different sets of films to analyze.
I really wa... |
2019/03/04 | 495 | 1,925 | <issue_start>username_0: In my research field (operations research), several works have been published in the last couple of years by different authors that cover most of the recent developments in the field.
I’m writing a review paper and even though I read and used a couple of papers dated as far back as the 90s (mai... |
2019/03/04 | 566 | 2,570 | <issue_start>username_0: Writing my master thesis about the "Development and Assessment" of an algorithm, I'm wondering where the in-depth description of the individual modules of the algorithm and their functions belongs. Right now, the method section contains this part along with the metrics and scenarios used to eva... |
2019/03/04 | 609 | 2,527 | <issue_start>username_0: A scholarship based on existing mental health problems and conviction to finishing/doing well in school and it requests 2 reference letters and doesn't specify from whom. I'm only a second year in my undergrad, and all of my classes are too big for a connection with a professor. There is no one... |
2019/03/05 | 1,021 | 4,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I am third-year bachelor student currently seeking a research internship in Germany and I encounter many group websites that say something like: “We have positions for bachelor projects.” I am wondering whether this means that these projects are only intended for a thesis and suitable for final... |
2019/03/05 | 1,633 | 6,743 | <issue_start>username_0: As I understand academic career progression, the move to the "next level" (be it postdoc, senior lecturer, assistant professor, full professor, etc) is most dependent on two factors: research output and funding earned. However to get that research output and funding proposals, one obviously can... |
2019/03/05 | 1,937 | 8,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I have offered to do a talk at my old university’s 'employabilty fair' ten years after graduation, where am I now. With some advice on traps to avoid, how to make the transition from university to work life etc., with some anecdotes along the way type thing. Within the realms of software engine... |
2019/03/05 | 577 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: In my area of research distributing preprints of results is very common. Consider the following seqence of events:
* Group A finishes paper P, distributes it as a preprint and submits to a journal
* Group B posts related preprint Q
* Group A receives referee reports for paper P. Referee reques... |
2019/03/05 | 2,686 | 10,846 | <issue_start>username_0: Abit about my background first: I'm currently undertaking a PhD but have previously worked in healthcare for around 4-5 years. During this time I developed a suite of code to produce results from clinical sequencing data (a NGS pipeline plus filtering steps).
Recently while looking for example... |
2019/03/05 | 511 | 2,158 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying to grad school, I did not think enough about the requirements of disclosing past education. I failed to disclose a school I attended because it was so short and brief and I received all W's, there is no GPA, but there is a transcript. I did not realize how big a mistake this was a... |
2019/03/05 | 740 | 3,226 | <issue_start>username_0: A student asked for a homework extension due to unforeseen circumstances in their personal life. I am generally accommodating about this type of thing if they come to me in a timely manner, but this student did not follow up until a week after the homework was originally due. (It is online home... |
2019/03/05 | 1,445 | 5,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a finishing PhD student in Mathematical Physics in a very good and prestigious EU University. I have excellent publishing record, including a single authored technical paper, have been awarded international fellowships and awards and have given invited talks in places like UCLA, Berkeley, ... |
2019/03/05 | 1,121 | 4,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Masters' student in maths and it's close to my thesis oral defense. As such, I'm preparing my slides to present them. However, I'm feeling that my presentation has too many slides (albeit my equations are quite long as well), but at the same time I'm afraid of handwaving things too much i... |
2019/03/05 | 1,887 | 8,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a biology student working in a laboratory. I am planning to submit a solo author paper to a journal/book. I conceived the work, drafted and revised it.
My question is if I need to include my laboratory head as a co-author. He was not involved in conceiving the work, drafting the paper and... |
2019/03/06 | 1,146 | 4,666 | <issue_start>username_0: There are lots of questions on here about dealing with Imposter Syndrome throughout the whole Ph.D. experience. I have struggled with Imposter Syndrome throughout my whole Ph.D., but was able to manage it through a supportive adviser who thinks the world of my work. However, this is changing no... |
2019/03/06 | 509 | 2,228 | <issue_start>username_0: For a department focused more on industrial interactions, will going to work in industry for a while before applying for a faculty position in that department be recommended/helpful?<issue_comment>username_1: I would think that you should consider a somewhat different question. What is the best... |
2019/03/06 | 875 | 3,756 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied to a fairly prestigious PhD programme in the UK and a very short time after receiving a confirmation email I was rejected. The requirements were listed as a 2.1 in an undergraduate degree, which I do not have (I got a 2.2) however I am currently studying for a relevant postgr... |
2019/03/06 | 1,169 | 5,123 | <issue_start>username_0: As stated in the title (an IEEE conference). Does this create a conflict of interest antithetical to the reviewing process? Is it possible that accepting or refusing to review could jeopardise the chances of one's own paper being accepted?<issue_comment>username_1: Assuming the papers are part ... |
2019/03/06 | 1,019 | 4,358 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a layman with a series of questions regarding chemical engineering. I'd prefer to contact my alma mater and contact someone there - is there a protocol for doing that? Is this an unusual thing?<issue_comment>username_1: It isn't really unusual, and most places will be willing to talk to yo... |
2019/03/07 | 826 | 3,342 | <issue_start>username_0: If you see old pre-TeX-era classic research papers, technical articles and books the figures still look pretty good. They seem to be hand drawn but with some components of computerization.
For example see this CRAY-1 document: <http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cray/CRAY-1/CRAY-1_Brochure_1975.pdf>
Ho... |
2019/03/07 | 1,389 | 6,133 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question specifically about mathematics.
All math people I've talked with like discussing problems (or math in general) with others, and most people claimed that they learned most from communication rather than from reading textbooks. My situation is, however, different. Most of the ... |
2019/03/07 | 871 | 3,654 | <issue_start>username_0: About 8 months ago I was about to graduate university and was trying to figure out what to do with myself then. A professor asked me if I wanted to do my masters with him and I said yes almost without thinking.
I still had classes at that moment so for about a month and a half I focused on my ... |
2019/03/07 | 4,476 | 18,807 | <issue_start>username_0: I apologize in advance that I cannot write about details, as they contain identifying information about the senior colleague in question.
The low-down is that I am a tenure-track professor at a US institution, and one of the tenured professors (married with children) in my department (and in ... |
2019/03/07 | 820 | 3,571 | <issue_start>username_0: In our university, we are allowed to drop or cancel our classes before a certain deadline within the semester. The reason for dropping is, officially, not required but most professors I know usually asks the student why before agreeing since the professor's consent is required.
I'm planning t... |
2019/03/07 | 2,964 | 12,222 | <issue_start>username_0: I am Ph.D student in computer science and mathematics. I have published a few research papers and working on some papers. I am an after mid-stage student and I spend almost 90 percent of my time in my study place. I do exercise for half an hour per day. Before joining the Ph.D I was shy and now... |
2019/03/07 | 624 | 2,271 | <issue_start>username_0: Nowadays, people in biology make huge collaborations, so of course they're all having loads of publications.
Therefore, I was wondering if there is a way, on Google Scholar or on other sites, to filter for a PI's publications as last author. That would be really helpful!
Thanks in advance<iss... |
2019/03/07 | 580 | 2,350 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to give submit my Ph.D. thesis to my selected reviewers. Among the external reviewers, I really like the research themes that one of them is working on. So, I want to ask him about any possibility of working in his lab as a postdoc by sending him my CV and a proper statement of intere... |
2019/03/07 | 1,780 | 7,293 | <issue_start>username_0: As part of my PhD thesis I extended an existing method to a new problem. I finished my PhD thesis about 5 years ago and graduated afterwards. After graduation I started working in industry. I never published my thesis (or parts thereof) as a paper, since I was mainly focused on working at the b... |
2019/03/07 | 3,813 | 15,905 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year Ph.D. student. During my master's (which was in a different university), a professor (call him M) and I worked on a paper on banking regulations. Apart from the single idea, all of the paper and results were done by me. We worked on it for a couple of months and tried to submi... |
2019/03/07 | 3,535 | 14,866 | <issue_start>username_0: In my conclusion, I imagine what my results could imply for future developments. I want to emphasize my argument with a rough calculation. Is this allowed in a conclusion section?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't see anybody "forcing" you to do anything. Prof M has given you some reasonable su... |
2019/03/07 | 3,156 | 13,136 | <issue_start>username_0: [Open Educational Resources](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources) (OER's) are seeing a rise in popularity in institutions of higher ed, as both colleges and state-and-local governments [strive to address](https://sparcopen.org/our-work/state-policy-tracking/) textbook affor... |
2019/03/08 | 502 | 1,744 | <issue_start>username_0: I stumbled on [<NAME> on his UCT page](http://www.philosophy.uct.ac.za/philosophy/staff/angier), but [this page](http://www.ub.edu/stageira/?q=en/members/tom-angier) details his degrees more:
>
> MPhil. in Philosophy (University College London, 1995), PhD in Philosophy (University of Cambridg... |
2019/03/08 | 698 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an American postdoc working at a university in the UK, working in a mathematics department. I am planning on applying to jobs in both the US and UK, including smaller places, and SLACs.
I have the opportunity to supervise a master's thesis. In the grand scheme of things, is it worth it? My... |
2019/03/08 | 592 | 2,697 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field, it's a common practice to publish a work at a conference first, then extend it (typically with 25%-40% more content) and submit it for publication in a journal.
Often the extension is driven by a subset of the original authors, for example, because the remaining authors lost inter... |
2019/03/08 | 353 | 1,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked by a student to help him/her with a subject (probably for money). I previously taught a similar subject at a different university (that is where the student got my contact info from) but now I am at the exact department whose subject the student is attending, though I am not teachin... |
2019/03/08 | 703 | 2,959 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I get accepted to a Master's Degree Program in Applied Mathematics with a Research Thesis component. If I take 1 class a semester for 6 years and work on my thesis each semester, what could the time commitment for my most difficult semester look like? Assume I am trying to get an A in... |
2019/03/08 | 781 | 3,361 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a member of an academic institution right now, but am working on a paper for publication, partly to improve my prospects for admission to PhD programs after a long gap in my education. Two absolutely necessary books for my research are only available in academic libraries (one is also ... |
2019/03/09 | 2,278 | 10,145 | <issue_start>username_0: I am enrolled in a university close to my home in a bachelor of electrical engineering and a bachelor of data science. The university I am attending does not offer a lot of math courses. The only math courses they offer are first year calculus, discrete math, vector calculus, differential equat... |
2019/03/10 | 716 | 3,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I am experiencing conflicting reviews with my manuscript that recently received its reviews. The reviewer #1 wants me to delete the analysis X for the clarity and focus of my MS, while reviewer #2 wants me to further discuss the results of analysis X, as it appears to be interesting for them. B... |
2019/03/10 | 1,552 | 6,717 | <issue_start>username_0: My significant other (SO) and I are in five years of relationship. We met working in a lab and she already earned her PhD at that time. I was a graduate student. She was the main person I went after my adviser if I had logical questions about my project and helped me the process throughout. We ... |
2019/03/10 | 421 | 1,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm assuming that all good universities in Europe/North America have PhD as the minimum requirement for a teaching job. What I want to know is:
1. How much **experience** (research and teaching both) is generally
required? And how to get this experience during your studies?
2. How important ar... |
2019/03/11 | 488 | 2,034 | <issue_start>username_0: In the context of applied maths, physics and engineering. Videos/animations beat pictures and thousands of words, as is known to all. Is it bad to put too many videos/animations in a presentation? It's hard to define 'too' though.<issue_comment>username_1: It is good to use things in moderation... |
2019/03/11 | 967 | 4,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I am being considered for a very nice industry scientist position but this involves many interviews and assessments and can take some time.
However I have also accepted an invitation to the US (I'm in Australia) to give a presentation in relation to high likelihood of employment as a postdoc i... |
2019/03/11 | 2,331 | 9,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from my undergrad with a B.S. in math and cellular/molecular biology in 2017. Shortly after, I started a fully funded Ph.D. program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. I spent a year there and did very well. However, I felt as if something was missing. At the time, I though... |
2019/03/11 | 768 | 3,347 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a situation when I am a co-author of a manuscript. I returned back to this manuscript after several months and I don't think it should be published as it is. I am not the main author and my co-workers want to publish it as soon as possible. I do not want to block them in publishing it, ... |
2019/03/11 | 511 | 2,201 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in an institute where I am more concerned with Development of systems and solutions rather than actual research, but of course the head is a professor and writing papers is an important task when it comes to *productivity*.
My ordeal is that I would rather be:
>
> on the programming, ... |
2019/03/12 | 2,975 | 12,721 | <issue_start>username_0: I am composing a manuscript using data collected by a PhD student over two years. She doesn't have enough statistical or analytical skill to publish her work. On top of that, language is also a huge issue for her.
I redid the analyses, created the graphs and started writing with my own flow a... |
2019/03/12 | 666 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked two potential referees, 1 month before application deadline, to write me a letter and both gladly accepted, and one asked me to write a draft (which I learned was a common practice).
It has been 10 days and I have never heard from them after I responded thanking them for accepting my ... |
2019/03/12 | 514 | 2,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mostly self taught programmer. I read books and make things in my spare time. I want to go back to school soon for a CS degree and one of the ways I stay sharp is to help with stuff that's within my ability on Stack Exchange or Reddit. For example things like "How to print the reverse of... |
2019/03/12 | 755 | 3,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student working on a double major, one in mathematics and the other in geology. The minimum required workload/semester for a grad student in my school is 9 credit hours/semester.
This semester, I am taking 13 credits hours, the majority of them are math classes. There is no res... |
2019/03/12 | 991 | 3,944 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I got an invitation from a professor to contribute a chapter in one of his/her upcoming books. I am a novice in this field. I am still a student but simultaneously I do not want to lose this opportunity. I have a few published articles. I am quite confused about the content of the cha... |
2019/03/12 | 683 | 3,024 | <issue_start>username_0: Under ["Information for Authors" at the American Mathematical Monthly](https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pubs/AuthorInfo_Monthly.pdf), there is this statement for color charges in publishing:
>
> Color art will be reproduced in color in the online publication at no additional cost t... |
2019/03/12 | 485 | 1,971 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to apply to competitive PhD programs in theoretical physics. Unfortunately, I received a C+ grade in one relevant graduate-level course. I really don't know how I got this grade, because I think I did well in the final examination. The final exam was worth 100 % of the total grade.... |
2019/03/12 | 592 | 2,509 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a paper accepted for a data science conference. It has a more "philosophical" tone and does not talk about any concrete method from data science, but more about how data science should be conducted.
One reviewer criticized the lack of methodology in my paper. What I actually did was goin... |
2019/03/12 | 2,950 | 12,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I studied for three weeks straight for an exam because I was really anxious to pass it with a high grade, while everyone else didn’t study much. Now the problem is, I had access to the exam from the previous year because someone gave it to me. I don’t know where this person got this exam, but I... |
2019/03/12 | 1,374 | 5,913 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my first year of a humanities PhD program at one of the ivy-league colleges, and I've decided to leave the program at the end of the current spring term. (Yes, I'm 100% certain - I simply can't stand my field, dread every minute of my classes/research, and no longer desire to ... |
2019/03/12 | 2,609 | 11,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m about to get dismissed from a PhD program because I failed in the 2nd attempt of the qualifying exam.
Currently, I'm thinking of the option to appeal the dismissal decision due to a long history of mental health problems (anxiety & depression) and have the diagnosis of Attention Deficit H... |
2019/03/13 | 1,272 | 5,724 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a computer science and software engineer that worked in industry for some years with deep applied knowledge in ML and AI, i commonly read research papers and this year started a graduate scientific research program , in this first weeks we are studying basic concepts like what is research, ... |
2019/03/13 | 1,500 | 6,459 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student, and my advisor published what appears to be the theoretical frame I came up with for my dissertation as a standalone paper with some other people (not me). It seems (to me, though who knows) like I was going to make a reasonably important contribution to my subfield, so I'm e... |
2019/03/13 | 423 | 1,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Masters student in computer science. My current advisor is completely un-professional. He doesn't only write bad letters of recommendations for his students in order to keep them working for him, he even wrote bad letters of recommendations for students who did not ask him for these lette... |
2019/03/13 | 706 | 2,977 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it incentivised to pursuit two (related) majors (eg. Math and Aero- Space Engineering) or a single major (eg. Math)?
The question is asked with the premise that if one chose a single major, one would have more time and thus achieve better grades (assume top 5 or 10 percentile), whereas wit... |
2019/03/13 | 4,049 | 17,101 | <issue_start>username_0: I am dealing with this class that somehow became very cynical. We have constant complaints about the pace of the class, people asking literally the same questions over and over, blatant plagiarism, students pretty much insulting the lecturer and staff or laughing (sometimes at others asking que... |
2019/03/13 | 359 | 1,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read about reprinting other authors tables and figures, but I couldn't find anything on reprinting laboratory instrument pictures from their manufacturer websites. Can I use instrument photos that I took from manufacturer website without permission?<issue_comment>username_1: It might be ... |
2019/03/13 | 622 | 2,622 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper submitted in an Elsevier journal. The review process has been quite long. I submitted the paper on the 20th of December 2017. After 7 months, I have received first-round reviews. It was a major revision. Then, I submitted the revised version of the manuscript. The reviewers took ... |
2019/03/13 | 2,814 | 11,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen situations like the below happen quite a few times.
>
> Alice writes a paper. It's well-received and receives a hundred citations. Bob also works in the area, and he engages a student Charlie to study the paper. Shortly after starting, Charlie tells Bob he couldn't get from equation... |
2019/03/13 | 3,865 | 16,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a paper after finishing my Masters. I did all the lab research and writing of the manuscript. My professor was only involved to guide me throughout the research and read my writing and give his comments.
Can I argue with him and tell him I am not letting the article to be publ... |
2019/03/14 | 1,999 | 7,651 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is the flip side of [Mistook new faculty member to be a student, how big a faux pas is it?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85186/mistook-new-faculty-member-to-be-a-student-how-big-a-faux-pas-is-it)
I'm an associate professor, and apparently I look young for my age. ... |
2019/03/14 | 556 | 2,329 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is a special case of [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/62528/citing-a-paper-with-multiple-versions), which has no satisfying answer in my opinion.
I often encounter papers that have been published twice (or more), without any modification. An example is [th... |
2019/03/14 | 654 | 2,886 | <issue_start>username_0: As I'm approaching to the end of my PhD, I recently applied for a postdoc position. Before applying, I contacted the scientist offering the position, sending my resume and some publications which are of interest for the position. He encouraged me to apply as my experience would be important for... |
2019/03/14 | 1,224 | 5,311 | <issue_start>username_0: How can we create an environment in which academic institutions are responsible for the carbon footprint of the research carried out under their auspices?
For context, I am a postdoc working several thousand miles from home. I try to mitigate my carbon footprint, but there is absolutely no inc... |
2019/03/14 | 1,987 | 8,111 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited to visit a professor in a different country. I am very reluctant to go. The government of this country is currently under investigation by the UN for suspicions of crimes against humanity targeted at people of the same ethnic background as me. More generally, people from my ... |
2019/03/14 | 2,049 | 8,344 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious what is the current industry standard for delivery of online course materials. I have in mind coursework which traditionally has been graded on the basis of in-class residential tests which are closed-book and timed. For example, Physics, Chemistry, Calculus, Economics, Biology at ... |
2019/03/14 | 1,459 | 6,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student from an Asian country. I recently emailed one PhD supervisor at a well-ranked university in London with my CV attached to see if there are any PhD opportunities for me. The supervisor replied to me very quickly and invited me to have a Skype conversation with her.
... |
2019/03/15 | 351 | 1,494 | <issue_start>username_0: In the United States, if a university lab develops code while receiving public funding, are they legally obligated to release their source code?<issue_comment>username_1: No, in general they are not.
It is true that [works prepared by US *federal government* employees as part of their official... |
2019/03/15 | 808 | 3,229 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**
So, I got into a premier institute of my country but had a hard time there. I always had to look for some sort of a job to support my family and as a result I graduated with six technical internships and a very poor GPA.
Now after four years I got myself into research and have ... |
2019/03/15 | 4,051 | 17,522 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR**
What can a PhD student on a research stay abroad do about postdocs that are supposed to be collaborators but behave like "helicopter advisors"?
**Background**
A friend of mine is doing her PhD (fourth year) in Europe (in a STEM field) and she asked her PhD advisor for the possibili... |
2019/03/15 | 760 | 3,198 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for graduate school a year later. My institution is adapting an GPA algorithm which take all course grades record in to GPA calculation. But there is a consequence I think is unfavorable to students.
For example, I got a 1.0/4.0 for my calculus course in freshman which is a... |
2019/03/15 | 1,069 | 4,544 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year doctoral student in Computer Vision, and have some confusion about my research direction recently. I hope I can get some help and advice there.
A couple of months ago, I was arranged to do research about optical flow, which is a kind of motion representation and can be used i... |
2019/03/15 | 559 | 2,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my PhD dissertation and was wondering in what order I should list committee members in my dissertation? What is a good order that does not offend anyone? I know the advisor has to be listed first. For the rest of the members, some of the options I considered were: (a) lis... |
2019/03/15 | 657 | 2,859 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for postdoctoral positions and when I get rejection letters there is no reason given. Is there any way I can tell if there are "red flags" in my application that are getting it shot down? My adviser has reassured me that there is nothing wrong with my application but after so many ... |
2019/03/16 | 1,100 | 4,580 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I was back at the beginning of my undergraduate career, and I decided that while I was willing to *do* human-subjects research, my real career goal was to sit on an IRB and guide lost souls who can't be trusted to figure out right from wrong.
Is there a typical or expected career path ... |
2019/03/16 | 244 | 1,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that the thesis is needed when doing their master.
But do people still need to write a thesis when doing research as a past-time?
What if they just want to publish an article but not thesis?<issue_comment>username_1: No, people don't have to write theses after the Masters/PhD. The thesi... |
2019/03/16 | 1,369 | 5,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I got this comment after more than 75 days of submission:
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> The considered problem in this manuscript is a practice in high mathematics and can not be a paper for publication in high-level journals.
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What does it mean?
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/K6l... |
2019/03/16 | 681 | 3,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been doing a research attachment as an undergraduate in a malaria culture lab and my project involves the screening and hit prioritisation of anti-cancer drugs for repurposing use against malaria. Since the attachment is an official programme under my school, one of the deliverables is a p... |