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2019/04/13 | 1,224 | 5,119 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I used to hold a tenure-track math position at a R1 institution, but then I was denied tenure. Assume I **do not care** about job security (and never cared) and I would be more than happy to keep working under the same conditions and would work just as hard as I worked before tenure den... |
2019/04/13 | 9,944 | 40,116 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD candidate in biology about three semesters in. I am co-advised by two young married principal investigators (PIs), who are just about to get tenure. Things were going great initially, as I completed a medium-sized project and got publishable data very early on. However, now that it ha... |
2019/04/13 | 729 | 3,327 | <issue_start>username_0: I was teaching a graduate course in previous semester. One of my student implemented an idea I discussed with him during semester project. The results are astonishing and we decided to publish our findings in a prestigious journal.
I included his supervisor as co-author, and before submission ... |
2019/04/13 | 2,777 | 11,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on my PhD in a Canadian university. I already had a master's degree before joining the PhD program. In my department (chemical engineering), the normal timeline for getting a PhD is 3.5-4.5 years (if joined with a prior master's degree). We take only 2 courseworks in the ... |
2019/04/13 | 663 | 2,147 | <issue_start>username_0: In a thesis using the “(Author, Year)” citation style a problem arises when the date is missing. Then Citavi for Word just writes “(Author)”. Now in case that there are several undated sources from the same company, all of them become “(Company)”, which is ambigious. If there was a year one cou... |
2019/04/14 | 632 | 2,243 | <issue_start>username_0: Dear academics and scholars,
Since the primary purpose of the Stackexchange academic community is suppose to be creating a reliable internet resource of easy to access facts; this "Big List" request for similar cases from around the world should, in my humble opinion, be "compelling" enough to... |
2019/04/14 | 1,234 | 4,897 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I’m sure we all know about the stereotype of the professor in the tweed jacket. Based on a cursory web search, it looks like the stereotype started because tweed was a relatively cheap but warm material, and professors were a relatively poorly paid class of professionals, so they kept weari... |
2019/04/14 | 861 | 3,778 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a couple of interviews for research assistant vacancies in the next few days, but I didn't list the advisors of my undergraduate research project as my references, even though I added the project details and listed them as the advisors. I left them out of the references as the relationsh... |
2019/04/14 | 890 | 3,735 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that a PhD is necessary to enter academia which means you can find a better job and get salary.
But, how about doing a Habilitation in Germany? Does it have any positive impact on the career or financial situation as an international student?
For instance, say someone is barely employ... |
2019/04/14 | 2,974 | 12,570 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm aware that some institutions offer something that is called 'Thesis by Publication' (sandwich thesis) but that's not available to me. I'm trying to work out what pitfalls there may be to simply copying from papers that I have previously published in order to form large sections of my thesis... |
2019/04/14 | 472 | 2,067 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to send a manuscript for publication. I made the work in my vacations (while having a fellowship) with my own resources and, although related, it was not part of my research plan.
My fellowship is over. I still teach at some university but I am not paid for doing research. However, ... |
2019/04/14 | 3,893 | 16,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I really love physics, and I told my parents about my interest. They want me to become an engineer, but I hate engineering (too practical, too far from physics), and I don't enjoy fixing things. What should I do?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> I hate engineering (**too practical, too far from p... |
2019/04/14 | 1,078 | 4,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a faculty job interview coming up in a few months.
I am trying to prepare the presentation that includes my past (PhD and postdoc) research and future research. I am looking for some sample presentations or guides and tips online , so far could not find any. **I would be grateful if any... |
2019/04/14 | 551 | 2,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my paper to a supposed editor for publication in a book.
He never responded to the emails post my submission of the paper and upon contacting others from the mailing list I found out that they haven't received any response from him either.
A senior scholar suggested that I should p... |
2019/04/15 | 1,546 | 5,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I see some academics – both professors and grad students – write their biography on their university webpages in the third person, and it sounds really weird.
What's the purpose of writing about oneself, e.g. research accomplishments, research interests, in the third person? Is it considered m... |
2019/04/15 | 1,550 | 5,993 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose in mathematics, someone writes a paper, uploads it to arxiv and afterwards he learns that the proof technique used in the paper has some similarity with some discussions in a math forum (e.g. math exchange / stack exchange). It was not published in any journal or in arxiv. He did not se... |
2019/04/15 | 1,642 | 7,180 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**
I did my Master's and PhD with my former PhD advisor in an Australian university. Coming from the experimental biology background, my advisor switched to the field of bioinformatics around the time when I started my Master's.
For my Master's project, I mainly used Graphic User ... |
2019/04/15 | 1,355 | 5,848 | <issue_start>username_0: Later this week one of my undergrad classes have their first written test and one of the students is not from my country, and he said he's been having some problems both understanding my lectures and the recommended book
And now he desperatedly sent me an email asking for advice on what to do.... |
2019/04/15 | 958 | 4,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm aware that most literature reviews follow a similar structure, which is:
1. Introduce a topic
2. Discuss and cross reference papers that cover this topic
The literature review that I am covering is a very broad topic (medical applications for machine learning) and is interested in all the... |
2019/04/15 | 328 | 1,151 | <issue_start>username_0: I can't find an answer to this question anywhere. How do you properly cite an advertisement from a website online in APA formatting?
Is it just:
Company. (Year, Month Day of Ad Retrieval). Ad title [Advertisement]. Title of webpage. Name of website. Retrieved from URL<issue_comment>username... |
2019/04/15 | 840 | 3,440 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a paper has authors A, B, C, and D. The first author, A, isn't in academia anymore, and much of my work is inspired by the senior author, D. I've also only communicated with author D.
Can I say/write "author D et al."?
When I looked this up, "first author et al." is the recommended v... |
2019/04/15 | 834 | 3,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already read the relevant questions, but mine is really different;
I found useful information in a paper, it (basically) says for a specific case that "they use up to %60 more torque" but when I go to original source I saw that, in the original paper one of the values was "%63 torque",... |
2019/04/16 | 2,674 | 11,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I am enrolled in a lpn nursing program, and the professor teaching the pharmacology course announced to the class last week that he wont be here the following week, due to a "conference in California", and that another teacher would come and teach us the remaining chapters for the final exam.
... |
2019/04/16 | 467 | 1,982 | <issue_start>username_0: My proposed PhD supervisor told me the department is currently working on my offer.
Does that mean my admission is guaranteed? And what can they be doing?<issue_comment>username_1: Nothing is guaranteed until you have a **written** and **signed** piece of paper.
(this advice applies to all p... |
2019/04/16 | 889 | 3,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student studying in an area of mathematics and am planning to apply to do a masters research degree next year. I have been doing research with my supervisor who works in some topic say X and will be doing more research throughout the remainder of the year with hi... |
2019/04/16 | 2,144 | 8,753 | <issue_start>username_0: As a fifth year PhD student in chemical engineering (in North America) who's about to submit his thesis in 4 months, I have a serious doubt about my capabilities.
My PhD thesis was in an area not exactly in my PhD supervisors forte and I did not think that to be an issue when I accepted the P... |
2019/04/16 | 1,284 | 5,063 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past year, as faculty, I have spent 33% of my time on paperwork and bureaucratic activities. This does not include service (committees,department meetings, etc), and is *after* hiring a full time laboratory manager! It is simply the filling out of forms, arguing to retain and expand my s... |
2019/04/16 | 627 | 2,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied to a Canadian university for a math PhD starting this fall. I was very keen on working with Prof. A and he in fact, had encouraged me to apply. Few days earlier, I reached out to him for an update on my application status and he replied saying sorry that his funds for this fall a... |
2019/04/16 | 475 | 2,064 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I know a PostDoc in USA is 2 years of research program. Habilitation is 4-8 years program. So, why is this difference in time frame?
What are advantages/disadvantages of Habilitation over PostDoc in case of academic career?<issue_comment>username_1: PosDocs usually work on someone el... |
2019/04/16 | 667 | 2,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I start my master's degree in this lab in September. After accepting my offer I found out that an ex-PhD student has been spreading rumors that the supervisor is publishing fraudulent data, going back many years, basically suggesting her whole field of research is a lie. The ex-student was very... |
2019/04/16 | 2,033 | 8,731 | <issue_start>username_0: My English professor recently asked us to bring in all of our graded essays from the whole semester in order to fill out a 'rubric' of sorts which tallied the various types of mistakes we had made. She will be grading the rubric, and previously stated that if we did not have *all* the essays fr... |
2019/04/17 | 1,905 | 8,182 | <issue_start>username_0: A faculty interview is short, whether it be a skype one or an onsite one. Esp for the former, as interviewers have tight and non-negotiable time limits, it's so short that there's little space beyond answering the interviewers' direct questions. In a short interview, as one invariably improvise... |
2019/04/17 | 756 | 3,329 | <issue_start>username_0: Statements of authors' contributions appear to be a standard practice in journal papers from experimental sciences or similar fields. Yet I haven't seen many such examples in mathematics.
I'm wondering if it will be appropriate to have a statement of contributions in a paper (algebraic geometr... |
2019/04/17 | 1,211 | 5,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new assistant professor in a research institute, where the number of top-tier publications matter a lot. In short, they simply **count the number of tier-one papers**.
I am highly advised to work out a good publication pipeline, in terms of how many papers are in progress (e.g., implem... |
2019/04/17 | 541 | 2,438 | <issue_start>username_0: In the field of applied math where a paper has been accepted for a conference presentation (talk), is it common for the ordering of the authors to be changed for a proceeding that entails thereafter?<issue_comment>username_1: In general it is **not** possible to change the order of authorship o... |
2019/04/17 | 1,239 | 5,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a postdoctoral fellow at a university and received nothing but the regular postdoc salary. I received no grants myself, but worked on various projects, many of which happened to be industry sponsored. My PI disclosed them as sources of potential conflicts of interest, but I never did. Ass... |
2019/04/17 | 213 | 828 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ok to use a slash to separate alternatives, as in "If 1st\_method/2nd\_method is used and 3rd\_method exists....", in academic paper writing?<issue_comment>username_1: Strictly speaking yes it's "ok" but it does not mean it's the best.
Most style books (I'm looking at AMA Handbook at the... |
2019/04/17 | 767 | 3,288 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an early-career scientist and I attended a conference 2 years ago organised by a local university. I presented the results of one of my first funded research projects and I included my assistants as co-authors. The presentation went well and the rigorous work has impressed the panel and the... |
2019/04/17 | 567 | 2,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I got accepted to a PhD program at a university 3 years ago, sent an offer and everything but declined. Now I have secided I want to return. Is there any possibility of being admitted again without reapplying if I went and spoke with members of the department and graduate division?
Has anyone ... |
2019/04/17 | 3,557 | 15,816 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently been accepted to a top five math PhD program. The department seems to have a good mix of pure and applied math, and there are plenty of opportunities for collaboration with other departments (Stats, CS, Econ, etc.)
I am most interested in pursuing math more on the applied side... |
2019/04/17 | 3,735 | 16,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a finishing PhD student in the field of cognitive neuroscience. During my PhD program I was underperforming than anyone else in my department (in my belief at least). Although I liked research, or at least some aspects of it, I had become so emotionally exhausted in the absence of support ... |
2019/04/18 | 1,115 | 4,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third-year PhD student in Germany, and I have some issues with my supervisor.
To make a long story short, he does not read my research drafts but instead, he asks us to review papers he takes from conferences as a reviewer, and then he submits them with his name to make a reputation.
... |
2019/04/18 | 3,978 | 16,322 | <issue_start>username_0: Funding agencies in academia use peer review to assess the quality of submitted grant proposals and to decide which proposals should be funded. I have some doubts that this system actually works based on the following findings:
1. A recent [study in PNAS](https://www.pnas.org/content/115/12/29... |
2019/04/18 | 1,900 | 8,003 | <issue_start>username_0: It has been a month since I received the rejection email. I gave it a long thought for a month, about whether to pursue another try at the position, while applying for other PhD and job opportunities. I would still like to give it a shot, and the following email is what I am about to send. Plea... |
2019/04/18 | 961 | 3,501 | <issue_start>username_0: Several times I read or heard about the claim that there is a discrimination against theists in academia by atheists. For example the german newspaper ZEIT Campus ONLINE cites an anthropologist <NAME>:
>
> Für Akademiker ist es ganz einfach, sich zu diskreditieren. Sie müssen nur sagen, dass ... |
2019/04/18 | 1,530 | 6,607 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated last year from a master's course where I was fortunate enough to graduate top of my class. However I was told this in confidence by one of my referees to a PhD programme, and they informed me that under no circumstances was I to put this on academic applications, as it would be agai... |
2019/04/19 | 1,328 | 5,002 | <issue_start>username_0: Hypothetical:
* I found an error which fundamentally kills a published paper and re-opens a number of problems the paper claimed to solve.
* Not only is there an error, but the results are actually wrong. Part of another publication (by a different author) proves this. Yes, I am 100% sure. Oth... |
2019/04/19 | 502 | 2,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the following situation (I am in the humanities):
I am writing a paper. In that paper, I several times cite a particular scholar's book. Now, in that book, this scholar cites (not quotes) a particular historical primary source.
As this looked interesting to me, I traced down this prima... |
2019/04/19 | 1,054 | 4,467 | <issue_start>username_0: **Some Context:**
Over the past year, I have built relationships with 2 of the professors at my university. In this case, I was referred to Professor X by Professor Y. The professors work in two related fields (physics) and are friends.
I worked with Professor X on some of my research a few m... |
2019/04/19 | 2,258 | 9,803 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:**
I have been applying for a PhD in the last three years to more than 150 positions, very much specific to my skills and background. I only applied when I found positions' requirements matching my skills and experience.
I got the same response for all those positions. I almost... |
2019/04/19 | 2,047 | 8,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I missed my chance to attend university when everyone else did and I'm out of school for seven years.
Now I'd like to get a degree (BA History & English) through the Open University.
I've never been good at organization, though and I do not have even the slightest idea how academic studies wo... |
2019/04/20 | 2,188 | 9,521 | <issue_start>username_0: My situation is a bit unusual: I plan to apply for a second Master's degree in a foreign university I did an exchange semester in. It is pretty well-ranked compared to my current one. The Master's is related to my current one, but contains more theory (from a computer science degree with data s... |
2019/04/20 | 937 | 3,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I am giving my first course this fall and, as a LaTeX enthusiast, plan to prepare my slides in LaTeX for all the usual reasons.
For those of you who also do this, I wonder what resources you use to manage your slides for a semester. For ex., do you have one "master presentation" with differen... |
2019/04/20 | 3,559 | 15,422 | <issue_start>username_0: My department has a number of courses we need covered by adjuncts in the next academic year. We were given permission to hire one (and only one) salaried adjunct and to cover the rest of the courses with per-course adjuncts. Salaried adjuncts receive benefits and are better paid than per-course... |
2019/04/20 | 2,441 | 10,319 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 4th year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at a Tier 1 University. I have joined the current research group due to funding reasons but never really liked the project. The project is not academic in nature (Not possible to get any decent publications, no design or innovation aspects),... |
2019/04/21 | 464 | 2,200 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is that what improvement in introduction of a paper or other parts of paper the authors should do when the reviewers wrote the following sentence:
*The authors have missed many important state of the art references*
Thanks in advance<issue_comment>username_1: I think the statement... |
2019/04/21 | 667 | 2,934 | <issue_start>username_0: As a peer reviewer, I sometimes feel there are issues in the manuscript but I'm not sure how they should be corrected/addressed, partly due to my inadequate expertise in those exact issues.
I also sometimes find some words/terms are incorrectly used, but as a non-native speaker I can't easily ... |
2019/04/21 | 355 | 1,429 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently published a book chapter with my supervisor. I just realized that I messed up two dates in the chapter. For the first one, the original sentence is like "xx policy decisions were published in 2004", but the year should be 2015. Another one "xx policy will be abolished in 2013 ", but ... |
2019/04/22 | 1,347 | 6,018 | <issue_start>username_0: My professors usually give solutions for part term tests. But it seems that, they never gave any solutions for the past final exams in any courses I've taken.
Does anyone has the same experience? Or does anyone know why it's like this? I personally believe that students could use past exam's a... |
2019/04/22 | 638 | 2,658 | <issue_start>username_0: My field of study is Computational mechanics and branch is mechanical engineering. I will be submitting my thesis in September. Subsequently, I will be submitting my 3 manuscripts to journals for publishing. At this moment, I have just one paper published. So, I was wondering what should be the... |
2019/04/22 | 1,097 | 4,943 | <issue_start>username_0: I met a faculty (from a university in the UK) at a conference. She liked and praised my work and we are in touch after conference. She has an impressive profile and her research work is similar to mine. Is it okay to take a recommendation letter from her to seek postdoctoral position overseas? ... |
2019/04/22 | 1,044 | 4,422 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any research/study/survey that tried to analyze whether industry-sponsored papers contain more incorrect results than papers that aren't industry-sponsored, and if so, to what extent?
For example, if a drug company publishes a paper about the efficiency of one of their drugs, some re... |
2019/04/22 | 1,128 | 4,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on my research paper. My subject is quite original and I even had difficulties to find a supervisor. In short, I found a fairly recent book on the Internet (2017), which is exactly what I am looking for, but it is not available in the libraries of my country. Could I ask the author ... |
2019/04/22 | 955 | 4,193 | <issue_start>username_0: As a reviewer, when would it be appropriate to reject a paper (rather than recommend "major revision") for publication? I am interested in views from seasoned reviewers/editors who served for journals with moderately high importance factor (IF > 4.0) - primarily in engineering/science fields.
... |
2019/04/22 | 772 | 3,108 | <issue_start>username_0: If I want to use diagrams I created using GeoGebra in a dissertation or paper, how do I properly credit/give attribution? The terms of service say:
>
> We grant you permission to use the Website Content under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike licence (ver... |
2019/04/22 | 484 | 2,127 | <issue_start>username_0: Does it count as plagiarism if a student pays a professional transcription service to transcribe an audio recording of a social science interview/focus group for the appendix of their written assignment?
Note that the appendix is not graded as part of the assignment.<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2019/04/23 | 1,312 | 5,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a second-year PhD student at a well-ranked university, and am seriously beginning to feel that I'm an imposter in this place. My lab group is filled with people who ranked in the top 0.01 percent of examinations in their home country, have won olympiads and international competitions, and p... |
2019/04/23 | 1,434 | 6,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to PhD program and gladly received official admission offer on the 29th of March. They guaranteed me four-year funding. I accepted the admission offer and was preparing for obtaining student visa.
I accepted the offer on the 13th of April, declining two admission offers from other ins... |
2019/04/23 | 1,286 | 5,324 | <issue_start>username_0: Every year are published around a dozen of books **directly** related to my research. By directly I mean on the same topics of my research, normally by authors I am familiar with, and potential reference sources for my current or future research. Some are fairly technical, but others can be of ... |
2019/04/23 | 922 | 3,852 | <issue_start>username_0: Part of my post-doc has involved organizing a series of workshops. At some of these workshops, I end up with many roles. As an example, for the most recent workshop I wrote the proposal to get the funding, served as organizer, gave a talk/tutorial related to my research, and gave a (teaching) t... |
2019/04/23 | 2,408 | 9,710 | <issue_start>username_0: A person I know cheated through most of their science classes while an undergrad. They literally had someone else take the exams, write reports, and do most of the homework. They then took their stellar GPA and not so stellar GRE score and got admitted to a not so great PhD program.
A new sign... |
2019/04/23 | 1,283 | 5,407 | <issue_start>username_0: I got accepted into a PhD program, but I wasn't offered any funding through assistantships. I emailed a person in charge, and I was told that if I receive good grades in the first semester, it would be possible to get funding. The email also seemed to suggest that there is still a chance that I... |
2019/04/23 | 1,029 | 4,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an amateur mathematician. I have trained myself on math-related websites and other resources. However, the lack of technical knowledge, methods, and sociological culture usually shared by professional mathematicians has prevented me from going further and publishing rigorous and interestin... |
2019/04/23 | 2,307 | 9,757 | <issue_start>username_0: In the middle of the current semester, a student in my large lecture class (of an undergraduate course) asked me for a letter of recommendation, to supplement his application to transfer to another, much stronger, school. (In case this matters: this is in the U.S.)
He is one of the quiet stude... |
2019/04/23 | 260 | 1,159 | <issue_start>username_0: Just wondering if anyone has ever been asked this question during a PhD interview: If you get a place without funding, would you be able/willing to self-fund?
My interviewer said that it was compulsory to ask this question.<issue_comment>username_1: Short answer: Yes.
Slightly longer answer:... |
2019/04/24 | 848 | 3,428 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in engineering in an university in Canada. I am close to completion of my thesis but I am not very proud of my work. I have couple of publications from my work, all in decent journals. I feel that I have not utilized the opportunities available to me and wasted time in person... |
2019/04/24 | 767 | 2,872 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently engaged in some volunteer data work with a charity, I would like to create a write up of the work that can be shared with a few partners who do not have full access to the data.
The write up will be mostly statistical overview, which is not sensitive. The statistics are drawn fr... |
2019/04/24 | 5,592 | 23,667 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an international, teaching at an American university, and I have an accent, which can be strong at times. I'm working hard at it, have always been, but still, the accent is there.
This has never been a problem in my career as a researcher because I was most of the time working with senior ... |
2019/04/24 | 1,385 | 6,098 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, one of my articles has been accepted in Frontiers. At first, I thought, Frontiers' journals are reputable and they acted like a reputable journal by just assigning an associate editor and then 2 reviewers to take care of my article. Last month, they sent the reviewers' comments. It wa... |
2019/04/25 | 999 | 4,281 | <issue_start>username_0: 1.Candidate is to teach 1 out of several topics given. Should there not be any preferrential topic to be taught in the eye of the interviewers? Is there any disadvantage not to choose the hardest topic?
2.In a real classroom, it's better to make the class interactive and ask students to come o... |
2019/04/25 | 1,063 | 4,539 | <issue_start>username_0: The proposal I’m shopping around revolves around three broad topics and I’m coming across a lot of academics who are experts in one or two of these areas and I have only been able to find one who hits all three, but working with him is not going to happen for various reasons. I have not been ab... |
2019/04/25 | 593 | 2,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently took my Ph.D qualification exam. Out of the 4 exams I took, I passed 3 and I failed one. My professor failed me because I failed the written one and because of that, I failed the oral exam too. I asked my professor if I can see the written exam, and I found out that there were 2/3 qu... |
2019/04/25 | 1,283 | 5,372 | <issue_start>username_0: If one is doing a PhD in an area that is on the borderline of a few areas (see the specifics below), would it be harder for them to find a job in academia after graduating?
To be more specific, the fields of linguistics (formal semantics), math (natural logic), and philosophy of language are c... |
2019/04/26 | 3,915 | 16,953 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year Ph.D. student in a North American university who is mostly working on applied mathematics with a supervisor/advisor/PI. I have been troubled by a pattern of my own behaviour that seems to go against the seemingly correct way to succeed in research and I wonder if I have some ... |
2019/04/26 | 1,877 | 7,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a second year US PhD student in applied math. For the last year I've been working on one project with my advisor and another one of her students. We have also started a collaboration with a professor from another university on an unrelated topic. Both of these project are progressing at a f... |
2019/04/26 | 1,297 | 5,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a collaborative project between different parties, and there is a senior researcher who underestimates constantly what I ever propose or speak, and he tries to illustrate that I am doing nothing new.
Although I have proven for the second time that there is a limitation in the s... |
2019/04/26 | 1,029 | 4,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a mathematical journal, and recently received a Minor Revision decision from the Editor. One of the reviewers suggested an alternative and much simpler proof to my main theorem. The suggested proof greatly shortens my paper. Now, I am in a dilemma.
1) Should I retain my ... |
2019/04/26 | 978 | 4,120 | <issue_start>username_0: My first three year postdoc was almost over and no good publications came out. The thing is that my carefully crafted papers are getting rejected again and again by decent journals (not that good ones). Knowing how bad the academic job market is now, I have a feeling that I may not make it in a... |
2019/04/27 | 535 | 2,291 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you want to obtain a faculty job at a particular time. When should you start searching for job ads? When are they advertised?
Answers describing different customs in different countries and disciplines are encouraged.<issue_comment>username_1: In the United States, many permanent facul... |
2019/04/27 | 2,972 | 12,129 | <issue_start>username_0: ------ NOTICE ------
*The above put box "This question already has answers here: [Why are journals used in modern scientific academic research?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86686/why-are-journals-used-in-modern-scientific-academic-research)" is wrong and void: it has a title t... |
2019/04/27 | 1,275 | 5,771 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a high school student and I am trying to publish my first research paper in mathematics.
However, I have already had my full paper posted without author information on the website of another organization. Now this paper (in pdf) can be found by Google. Does this prevent me from publishing... |
2019/04/27 | 779 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently preparing an article for a very good journals in mathematics (AMS, Acta, Advances, etc.). I have never had a result worthy of these journals until now. I would like to know whether I can count on the editors to at least read my one-page introduction before making a decision. Or co... |
2019/04/27 | 1,041 | 4,437 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider a qualitative question on a physics exam such as, draw the path of an object's center of mass as it is dropped. I have included a graphic here:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mB5Ya.png)
Would it be considered cheating in practical terms if ... |
2019/04/28 | 228 | 1,047 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to Journal of comparative physiology-B. After major revision, two reviewers gave me minor revision (only change one word) and the editor was pleased to consider publication. After re-submission, the status changed from "under review" to "decision in process". However, the st... |
2019/04/28 | 984 | 4,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student works in theoretical computer science, I work on the area which is related to rings and my work is to design algorithms for problems related to rings. I did my bachelor in computer science not in mathematics.
I have a **strong interest** in this area, despite the fact that... |
2019/04/28 | 1,670 | 7,348 | <issue_start>username_0: Teaching assistants (TAs) often have the task to compile exercise sheets for the students and need to come up with new problems for such sheets.
Let's assume that in the lecture, two methods for a certain use case were presented, and a TA is supposed to write a problem that should make the stu... |
2019/04/28 | 1,796 | 8,134 | <issue_start>username_0: Conventional research almost always involves the research of only one aspect, problem. But sometimes, I feel, there is need for integrative, holistic, synergistic research projects. Let's consider artificial intelligence and neural networks. Almost always the individual research is around the s... |
2019/04/28 | 1,110 | 4,473 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a genuine problem in waking up early in the morning. My advisor prefers to walk in my office whenever he wanted to. Lately, he started to complain to me about not showing up in the morning. Even the way to
he used to come to my office has changed, he started to open the door without kno... |
2019/04/28 | 1,620 | 7,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in Computational Materials Science in the US with just one publication in a Q1(according to Scimago Journal Rank) or Q2(according to Journal Citation reports) journal. Another as co-author in a Q1 (according to both) journal. I have manuscripts ready for two works with finali... |
2019/04/28 | 2,363 | 9,030 | <issue_start>username_0: In 1926, the article titled [*“On a certain minimal problem”*](https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/vol-ismp/30_nesetril-nesetrilova.pdf) was published. Nobody could guess what it was about, from the title alone.
Nowadays, one may expect something more descriptive, such as [*"Workspace ... |