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2019/06/04 | 1,349 | 5,423 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard from not a few people that the first postdoc can be quite tough. You've been kicked out of the nest and have to figure out for yourself what's worth working on, what's likely to turn into a real project, etc. Many new postdocs struggle to publish or even submit anything in their firs... |
2019/06/04 | 1,178 | 5,007 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard from several places that to get a tenure-track assistant professor position and to get tenure, not only do you have to be a very solid researcher, but you have to be *lucky.* But I don't know what they mean. Could someone explain?<issue_comment>username_1: I can't give a universal ... |
2019/06/04 | 1,000 | 3,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a young grad student, also having the luck to be collaborating a bit with a (rather) big shot. Of course, it would be nice if he gets a good impression of me for the future, as he could probably be an excellent reference when it comes to finding jobs later. But probably, the same discussio... |
2019/06/04 | 1,574 | 7,068 | <issue_start>username_0: In the comments [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/131373/is-it-impolite-to-ask-to-which-journal-a-preprint-was-submitted#comment349159_131373), a user suggested that when two proofs of the same theorem are obtained independently, it is a common practice (at least in physics) t... |
2019/06/05 | 7,788 | 31,172 | <issue_start>username_0: Premise
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My department recently finalized the faculty teaching assignments for the Fall 2019 semester (starts at the end of August 2019). As these assignments were being discussed a few weeks ago, my department chair approached me and asked my "interest" (her word) in teaching an "explo... |
2019/06/06 | 1,495 | 6,791 | <issue_start>username_0: To review a paper that was submitted to a good journal, what am I required to do? Must I understand everything presented in the paper? Must I check the details and verify each argument/proof? Or is it sufficient to check that the paper is generally well-written, contains no obvious mistakes, an... |
2019/06/06 | 1,660 | 7,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m about to enter my ultimate year of a physics BSc at a top university in the UK, and have done a computational physics internship with a research group at the university and am currently doing an internship at Harvard that requires strong machine learning skills. I was hoping this would be e... |
2019/06/06 | 862 | 3,527 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to submit papers from my completed PhD thesis (finished less than a year ago) but recently found that unfortunately, my supervisor who had a significant contribution to my thesis is not well and not available for a review, preparing for chemotherapy :( What would be the ethical way... |
2019/06/06 | 1,251 | 5,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm new to this forum and am mainly asking for advice. -- From a conflicted rising junior in undergrad (at an Ivy).
I'm an engineer majoring in ECE with interests in CS (definitely planning on a minor, and if sanity is sacrificed a bit, a double). I've been doing research with a professor in m... |
2019/06/06 | 3,735 | 13,126 | <issue_start>username_0: There are various reports about full-time, on-campus MBA programs closing its doors, e.g. from LinkedIn:
>
> MBA programs are getting axed: The number of full-time MBA programs in
> the U.S. declined by 9% between 2014 and 2018, the Wall Street Journal
> reports. Wake Forest, Virginia Tech ... |
2019/06/06 | 1,544 | 6,567 | <issue_start>username_0: In this forum, I am reading this great question ([What is required of a mathematics referee?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/131532/what-is-required-of-a-referee)) by a user with the name mathprofessor. There is an answer by a user with the name Buffy which starts with:
>
> Sorr... |
2019/06/07 | 697 | 3,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I know I graduated from the university many moons ago, but my wife has been attending community college for awhile and wants to transfer to an online program with Arizona State University (ASU).
My understanding is when you transfer from one institution of higher learning to another you transf... |
2019/06/07 | 594 | 2,491 | <issue_start>username_0: According to my offer, I am admitted to the Ph.D program and funded by a Research Assistantship by Professor X. Nevertheless, I am interested in other research directions, and we are supposed to decide our adviser by the end of the first semester.
Is it appropriate to change adviser in my case... |
2019/06/07 | 2,155 | 9,559 | <issue_start>username_0: During my bachelor I did a research internship in another country for a few months and contributed to a research project which is now, a few years later, going to be published. The research is in a specific field of computer science, but the responsible professors' main interest is focused in a... |
2019/06/07 | 1,282 | 5,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third year PhD Student in math. I am studying abroad from my country. I need some advice.
I have three main problems that I would like to share with you.
1) It seems, I will be graduated with 1 published paper. As you know, finding postdoc position is so difficult even though I would ... |
2019/06/07 | 862 | 3,736 | <issue_start>username_0: My girlfriend and I am in the same college, but different major. She is a law school master student.
She just graduated from the master program and wanted to transfer to juris doctor in the same college.
I am wondering if it is appropriate for me to write the dean of law school a letter in su... |
2019/06/08 | 322 | 1,326 | <issue_start>username_0: It is often the case that the proposal of a specific idea or approach to a problem (or whole field of research) triggers a sequel of papers discussing and extending this idea. In this sequel there are papers (probably two or three) that are established as "basic", as points of reference. Each o... |
2019/06/08 | 623 | 2,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a low to mid-tier online-only journal in my field last January. I did not receive any acknowledgment from the editors that they received my paper and the journal has already published papers that were submitted after I submitted mine. Having been busy since January I forg... |
2019/06/08 | 1,242 | 5,064 | <issue_start>username_0: Next november I will face my third and last year of my PhD. However, my percourse has been torturing and twisted.
I started my PhD in a different group because I was kind of tricked out. My background is molecular biology and microbiology and I ended up in a group about biosensors, which was e... |
2019/06/08 | 968 | 3,557 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using Mendeley to save my reference. And I find it seems that Mendeley does know the format of arxiv format.
I find many papers use a format like this:
```
<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, et al. Searching for mobilenetv3. arXiv
preprint ar... |
2019/06/08 | 978 | 4,223 | <issue_start>username_0: I usually have a good instructor-class relationship, but I am also an admittedly easy instructor - in previous classes my assessments have been on the easy side of fair. This term I have set very high expectations for my class and the class is doing exceedingly well. I am very impressed by thei... |
2019/06/09 | 3,772 | 14,960 | <issue_start>username_0: In the next year I will (hopefully successfully) graduate from a PhD programme in pure mathematics. The location is (continental) Western Europe, the topic of the thesis is arithmetic geometry, if it matters. During my PhD experience I have found out the following things
* being a pure math Ph... |
2019/06/09 | 3,736 | 14,807 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> I am not sure if it is the right place to ask such a question, but I don't know any other place that would provide a serious answer or advice for me.
>
>
>
I am an undergraduate student (and a Sophomore starting in September this year) in Logistics field. Before entering the University... |
2019/06/10 | 1,387 | 6,151 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asked to start from scratch and develop a new under-graduate course this fall. I still have about 2.5 months left but since there are tons of research commitments ahead, I am basically a bit unpositive on whether I can get all the course development task done before that.. The central hurd... |
2019/06/10 | 257 | 1,051 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed an obvious minor mistake in an in-press article. It is related to the description of symbols in an equation, but it does not alter the rest of the manuscript in any way (they were used properly in the rest of the manuscript). Also, any attentive reader could note (and fix) it.
Should... |
2019/06/10 | 691 | 2,964 | <issue_start>username_0: Going round conference poster sessions, I notice the occasional poster where the presenter has used a bit of creativity to help with their communication/networking, perhaps related to linking in some way to online information, or giving people something to take away that will help them to remem... |
2019/06/11 | 1,182 | 5,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a rough place right now in the homestretch of my PhD, and I'm looking for advice. I've recently reached out to my advisor about this, but they are not responding to my emails, hence me asking this question here.
My advisor is on sabbatical this year (my final year of my graduate progra... |
2019/06/11 | 594 | 2,365 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a manuscript to a journal, but due to some issue with that I asked the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor to withdraw the manuscript from further consideration.
Despite several emails, they are not still responding me nor ended the process.
Now, what should I do? Can I submit the... |
2019/06/11 | 2,834 | 10,894 | <issue_start>username_0: This [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/131523/teaching-a-class-likely-meant-to-inflate-the-gpa-of-student-athletes) and the pertinent answers suggest that, as a rule, college athletes in the United States are not held to the same academic standards as other students. It al... |
2019/06/11 | 2,882 | 12,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to a foreign university. I was interviewed and now I am waiting for the result.
I had also applied to another research opportunity abroad, which is organized by my current department head. I was very hopeful that I would be selected for this opportunity because I am the first-ranking... |
2019/06/11 | 836 | 3,532 | <issue_start>username_0: My friend is in a new postdoc position. Her PhD thesis is unpublished. Her new adviser hired her with the mandate that she get it published (or a paper based upon it) in a good journal, with his help. He also expects to be last author on that paper (she is first), something at which my friend h... |
2019/06/11 | 1,194 | 4,989 | <issue_start>username_0: We are starting a new computer lab and expect to have data that is 50-100 TB of text, images, and maybe videos to process. We will need to run tasks occasionally (10-30% utilization per month), so mostly it will be used for storage. Should we go for a server or cloud computing? Some points to c... |
2019/06/11 | 2,354 | 9,759 | <issue_start>username_0: As an editor, how appropriate do you think it is to send a referee request to an author who currently has a paper under review at the same journal (with you as the editor with final say on whether that paper is accepted)? Because of the power imbalance, it seems as though the author might feel ... |
2019/06/12 | 2,311 | 9,756 | <issue_start>username_0: We have just received reviews on a paper, and in reading through one of the "borderline" reviews, I recognized that the "voice" of the review sounded like a researcher I associated with at a conference a few years ago. In particular, they use a certain terms in parts of their review customary t... |
2019/06/12 | 930 | 4,291 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a proper way of showing academic knowledge with assignments when your professors and or school is not on par with a particular students knowledge, so-to-speak?
A student is extremely smart but lacks communication skills due to a disability and is completing advanced work when it is not... |
2019/06/12 | 838 | 3,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m doing my master’s and I recently had an exam with one of my favorite professors.
I spent a lot of time on my paper and got the highest grade and I’m very happy. But during the oral part of my exam, when I was supposed to defend my paper, the professor pointed out I haven’t referenced much ... |
2019/06/12 | 2,574 | 9,781 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm sure you've seen a dozen variations on this question in this forum, but here's mine:
I've just finished my first year in a top US PhD program in the physical sciences, which I never dreamed I would be admitted to (ok, that's not true; I dreamed about it quite a lot!). It's gone all right, ... |
2019/06/12 | 906 | 3,995 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm sure if I work in industry for a couple of years and then apply for grad school, I would not be disadvantaged compared to straight applying to grad school from undergrad.
What if instead I go work in industry for 5-10 years?
Specifically top Ph.D. programs in CS, like CMU, MIT, Berkeley,... |
2019/06/12 | 1,077 | 4,785 | <issue_start>username_0: Most of my work thus far comprises two rather long and detailed papers that rely on a common underlying framework. (I know this is not great for a young academic, but it is what it is right now.) This framework is new and often misunderstood, so I find it is important to devote ample time to ex... |
2019/06/12 | 418 | 1,883 | <issue_start>username_0: Say the deadline to register for a conference is now, but the conference doesn't actually run until 3 months from now. During that time, I will have changed institutions. When I register, should I use my current or future affiliation?
There have been several questions here about how to deal wi... |
2019/06/13 | 958 | 4,284 | <issue_start>username_0: Or do they do a sort of selective search? If I apply, is there something I have to do in advance to ensure that will my file be opened, at all?<issue_comment>username_1: In my department, postdoc applications are read first by the faculty in the applicant's research area. Each area chooses abou... |
2019/06/13 | 4,042 | 17,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student from a small and relatively-new private university that was set up overseas. The main home campus might be quite well known. My supervisor 'left' the university 4 months ago, but he has been helping me all the way until I submitted my PhD thesis. I submitted my PhD thesis 2 m... |
2019/06/14 | 963 | 4,146 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a teaching assistant for an introductory programming course. A student in the course approached me and asked if I would tutor them for a different discrete mathematics course in return for payment.
I grade all of the material for the programming course, and so I feel like there's a confli... |
2019/06/14 | 1,722 | 7,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some ideas related to computer architecture/electrical engineering on which I would like to get feedback from academics.
A professor at a university I visited has the belief that something I proposed is crackpot, and that I must be delusional for not accepting his arguments. I turned up... |
2019/06/14 | 2,550 | 10,387 | <issue_start>username_0: How useful is the GRE for the academic career/research/daily academic tasks?
It's not required in my country but I'm wondering about the intrinsic value of its study material.<issue_comment>username_1: The GRE's effectively only good for one thing - getting admitted to graduate school. You wil... |
2019/06/14 | 1,045 | 4,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to start a 2-year postdoc in math with a possibility to stay a 3rd year. This means I will probably be on the job market in one year. I am planning to apply for tenure-track research positions. As I understand it, to get a tenure-track offer I should try to get at least one paper in a... |
2019/06/14 | 612 | 2,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to apply for a particular postdoc in the UK that has a start date in September. It is a great opportunity but I would need to delay the start date as I am currently in the US and it would not be possible for me to move before then.
How common is it to delay the start of postdocs? Is i... |
2019/06/14 | 368 | 1,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a publication using a specific optical instrument protected by different patents. To see how it works I opened it and I have redrawn the arrangement of the optical components. Am I allow to publish my drawing for explaining the physical principle behind the measurements I have perfor... |
2019/06/14 | 1,472 | 6,149 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach math classes and I was speaking with the assistant chair of my department about a student who claimed that I was rude and put my students down when lecturing. (I'm a Ph.D. student.) This particular student was seeking a letter recommending tuition for my class be refunded (she dropped o... |
2019/06/14 | 932 | 4,281 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper has been rejected but encouraged re-submission. The reviewers were overall positive said it was well written and that all the analyses were correct. The problems pointed out were changes to the introduction and conclusion to change the scope of how the experiments are framed, not to an... |
2019/06/15 | 486 | 2,160 | <issue_start>username_0: Is a first class-degree from a highly-ranked university (ex: Lancaster University) equal to a first-class degree from a lowly-ranked University (ex: Central Lancashire) when applying for a Masters degree at a privileged University (ex: Imperial College)?
I'm basing my logic on the fact that ac... |
2019/06/15 | 1,195 | 5,094 | <issue_start>username_0: I've currently finished two years of undergraduate study in physics. I'm at the end of a close to two month summer research program in math, at one of the best universities in my country. While I'd applied for a mathematical physics type project, the problem I was assigned has to do more with m... |
2019/06/15 | 1,440 | 5,988 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a third-year undergraduate student yet to experience the graduate world.
Currently, with the course choices I made, I can choose between two degree titles, namely “BSc Mathematics” or “BSc Applied Mathematics”.
I will be taking the same courses regardless, but I'm wondering if it matters t... |
2019/06/15 | 2,677 | 11,370 | <issue_start>username_0: *EDIT: I should clarify this is not the first draft of my PhD, it's the first draft of my upgrade document to go from MPhil to PhD.*
I have been working on my PhD for about two years now, it is a six year part-time program. I have a very good relationship with all my supervisors and they are v... |
2019/06/15 | 615 | 2,672 | <issue_start>username_0: What if this happens:
Say I contacted a researcher R in my field about particular question I had. They answered the question in a private email to me. Their sketch of the argument was about 5 sentences long, and it can be turned into a rigorous proof. I really like the result. However, R has b... |
2019/06/15 | 1,034 | 4,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently enrolled at the engineering school of a large university (as a freshman). I am set on majoring in Computer Science, and have been taking courses towards the requirements of that major. In fact, I am so interested in CS so far that I suspect I will want to pursue graduate educatio... |
2019/06/15 | 676 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is specific to the United States.
Can one acquire something like "tenure" if either
(1) their primary / only responsibility is teaching undergraduate courses
and / or
(2) they work as a Research Scientist for a university lab but are not professors.
I am wondering about job... |
2019/06/15 | 574 | 2,323 | <issue_start>username_0: Some universities require that each graduate student have a minor. I wonder whether it is helpful in the long run? For example, if one has PhD in mathematics with a minor in philosophy, would it be helpful to obtain a position in logic in a department of philosophy? [Probably related to [this q... |
2019/06/16 | 1,669 | 6,460 | <issue_start>username_0: It's not hard to find sources that say that the UK punches (punched?) above its weight in the research, and there're lots of people who want to go to the UK for work or study. We can see this in StackExchange questions as well - people often explicitly ask about doing PhDs in the UK.
Why is th... |
2019/06/16 | 3,857 | 15,827 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been offered an award to be presented to me at my graduation this summer at an English university. The award is not for academic achievement per se. It's for gaining my science degree despite having suffered significant illness at a crucial point in my degree. The award is for a student ... |
2019/06/16 | 727 | 2,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in Australia and hold a M.A. degree from the University of Hamburg.
That degree doesn't exist in Australia, so I can't get it acknowledged through the accrediting bodies.
What is the etiquette to present such a degree on a business card?
**[Update]** I refer to a particular degree in... |
2019/06/16 | 692 | 2,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I will publish a conference paper and as I'm a PhD student the committee asked "If the corresponding author is a PhD/MSc student, he/she also should send a **Publication Approval Letter** from his/her supervisor".
What does it mean? What is a Publication Approval Letter?<issue_comment>username... |
2019/06/17 | 800 | 3,418 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have to write my master's thesis, and I need to contact a potential supervisor. The field is statistics.
I am slightly confused by how these things work: on one hand, you often hear that you should have your own ideas and proposals for what you want to write about. On the other hand, your... |
2019/06/17 | 553 | 2,663 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it normal in computer science courses that one can't use open source code to solve exercises on courses even if the licenses of the code allows to use the code? I was confused as I used some code, gave source where I found the original code but still the lecturer said we have to learn to do ... |
2019/06/17 | 1,873 | 6,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my bachelor’s and master’s from different universities in different countries:
* I enrolled for my master’s overseas when I hadn’t officially graduated undergrad yet, despite having done the allotted four years. This was since the master’s was done under the initial plan of it being a co... |
2019/06/17 | 388 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that was a published in a conference proceedings. This paper was extended and turned into a journal paper. However, some things like figures from the motivation section or the experimental setup (used same metrics) are the same. The journal paper was reviewed, and one reviewer ra... |
2019/06/17 | 530 | 2,425 | <issue_start>username_0: While being a Ph.D. candidate (software engineering), I've observed a strange tendency in academia: many mediocre researchers are writing lots of white papers with no evaluation at all. I was also initially encouraged by my supervisor and other professors to do the same, but working with other ... |
2019/06/17 | 373 | 1,675 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student works in computer algebra(Theoretical computer science). I have published one research paper recently, I am currently making slides for the paper. It is my first time and believe me I am struggling a lot. I have spent 4 days but till now not able to convey the idea that I wan... |
2019/06/17 | 1,825 | 7,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently sent some of my research to a local conference entitled "XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto". After the conference, I started getting contacted by some publishers asking me to publish the work I sent to the conference in the form of a book chapters and another one eve... |
2019/06/17 | 3,741 | 15,692 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with a biology PhD last year. My supervisor named X was pretty hands-off (which was great) and most of my project, from conceptualization to data analysis, was done by me generally without much input from X partly because it wasn't X's area of expertise. I now have a full-time job d... |
2019/06/17 | 2,253 | 9,377 | <issue_start>username_0: Once in a while, I will hear stories (usually of the "friend of a friend" type) about some bold instructor who took some specific action in order to entrap or trick their students into poor academic (not behavioral/conduct) performance. Typically, this involves the instructor breaking tradition... |
2019/06/18 | 397 | 1,801 | <issue_start>username_0: My manuscript was favourably received, with a recommendation to publish after a minor revision. However, after submitting the revised version, the Associate Editor (or Editor-in-Chief) responded:
>
> Please benchmark your manuscript against recent articles in [other journal] to increase the r... |
2019/06/18 | 836 | 3,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I am at the end of the fifth year of research. My thesis was written last year but my supervisor refused to take in any submissions stating that he is very busy. I followed up from time to time for feedback but that irritated him and he told me to wait till he called me on his own. I have now a... |
2019/06/18 | 525 | 2,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a final year project on software development. I intend to publish it as a research paper on computer science, but the university says that it will hold intellectual-property rights (IPR) over all final year projects.
Can I publish the project as an independent research paper in ... |
2019/06/18 | 413 | 1,778 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm from Computer Science field and usually I've seen students are required to publish a few research papers to be eligible for writing a thesis. I'm talking about masters level thesis here.
As far as I know the rationale behind this is that research papers are usually well evaluated by the co... |
2019/06/18 | 1,800 | 7,627 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my internship with a biological data analysis institute yesterday (i.e. have spent two full working days there), and I am very concerned that I am expected to have programming skills that I really don't have.
My own background: I have just finished a theoretical physics degree and nex... |
2019/06/18 | 850 | 3,780 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just gotten a textbook (physics) for next year and I noticed that, like many other textbooks I've had, it contains solutions to only odd-numbered questions.
From my experience, this is typical, at least for texts at the undergraduate level.
If anyone is wondering, the text is "Fundament... |
2019/06/19 | 5,023 | 19,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I can surmise that some of them mightn't have gotten tenure and needed to find another job, but wouldn't these former professors be bored teaching the same (relatively basal) material yearly?
Let me know of other examples, but I was riffling some fee-paying schools and lighted upon:
* [<NAME>... |
2019/06/19 | 520 | 1,996 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been studying a recent paper, and wanted to extract the some data from it, in an effort to reproduce it. I wrote to the authors, and got no response, so I got the raw data by digitalizing a figure in the paper where the data is plotted.
Then I made another plot, where I plot the raw da... |
2019/06/19 | 722 | 3,293 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field, conference submissions are usually scored by all reviewers during the review process (for example using the following scores: 2 = accept, 1 = weak accept, -1 = weak reject, -2 = reject). Many conferences includes the review scores in their notification mails, which makes a lot of s... |
2019/06/19 | 513 | 1,963 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my master's thesis (in physics) in which I included a drawing that a friend of mine made for me using Adobe Illustrator. I would like to cite him as an author.
Usually, for reproducible images found on papers or books I write:
*Authors, Title of the Work (Date of Publication)\cite{... |
2019/06/19 | 985 | 3,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing an 5-year Integrated Master's degree (3-year Bachelor + 2-year Master) on Physics in Europe. Aiming for a thesis in Quantum Computation/Information. I am currently on the 4th year and have a **"good" overall grade** (84%).
However, due to health issues, I **failed to perform well o... |
2019/06/20 | 759 | 3,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm having some trouble parsing the implications of all the job titles that get thrown around in academia. Does someone whose job title is just "Professor" *necessarily* have tenure, or are there nontenured full professors?<issue_comment>username_1: It depends on the institution whether it is e... |
2019/06/20 | 1,640 | 6,816 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the things I struggle with in academia is measuring my daily/weekly productivity. Before academia, I worked in various fields and always felt productive because I could measure my productivity, i.e. cash on hand after a shift of waiting tables. Since being in academia (currently a post-d... |
2019/06/20 | 2,396 | 10,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student, before that (as I have posted about before) I was forced to leave my Ph.D. program after one year because of a bullying supervisor. Previously, I made a good relationship with other researchers in my field and other scientific volunteering activities. ... |
2019/06/20 | 563 | 2,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the enviable position of receiving an anonymous review from an extremely knowledgable member of my academic community and am incorporating all of their excellent suggestions into my article. Quite rightly, I want to flag the examples and suggestions they have provided me with, but at wh... |
2019/06/20 | 799 | 2,889 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in environmental engineering, but I received a masters in Mechanical. Within engineering, the two fields are very different, and I feel my value-add is my multidisciplinary approach and ability to communicate between. However, I don't want to appear pretentious or boastful.
... |
2019/06/20 | 972 | 4,189 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior student in a 5-year integrated Masters degree in Applied Mathematics and i have selected a specialization in Mathematics for Computer Science(Data structures,Algorithms and Complexity,Graph Theory etc.). I have a good understanding of Statistics, Probabilites etc. and decent knowl... |
2019/06/20 | 604 | 2,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently assigned a research mentor in my Master's program who also happens to be my professor (in a quantitative economics course). We've had a brief meeting to introduce ourselves, and I made it clear that I'm very interested in his research subject; needless to say, I want to impress t... |
2019/06/20 | 698 | 2,854 | <issue_start>username_0: A bit of backstory- I'm a rising sophomore undergraduate student studying computer science who is strongly interested in urban planning as well. This spring, I put about 12 hours a week of work into conducting undergraduate research with a lab at my uni and was offered a funded research assista... |
2019/06/20 | 635 | 2,880 | <issue_start>username_0: I decided on my supervisor because he is the only professor working in this field in my country, and he is very resourceful. He helps me out a lot on every aspect other than technical guidance because he is an experimentalist and I am focused right now on numerical simulations. How do I find re... |
2019/06/20 | 870 | 3,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to conduct independent research on different forms of early childhood education. I have a B.A. in Early Childhood Education but no formal education in research methods or statistics. I was hoping to enroll in a statistics class at a community college (I specifically chose this one becaus... |
2019/06/20 | 274 | 1,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to write a rebuttal for a machine learning conference in which I included a lot of new references (to prove broad interest). The rebuttal has a page limit of one, and my reference list is too long for that. Is it ok to cite the paper by only using the DOI in the rebuttal, if I cite the w... |
2019/06/21 | 2,349 | 10,154 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to graduate with a PhD. I have an accomplished advisor (whose advice I value very much) who told me that I should always include the salary of my previous and current job in my CV when applying for jobs. Her argument is that the academic job market is very competitive and university ... |
2019/06/21 | 1,128 | 4,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I kind of struggle with my students. I always told them to put the reference number (identification) close to the cited object - to make really clear what is the cited object. For example:
* The theorem:
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> In the study [1] it is possibl... |
2019/06/21 | 1,123 | 4,697 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I have an undergraduate degree from a top university in my country which is, however, not renowned around the world. Does this have a negative impact on my chances of getting into a good graduate school?
Next year I will be a high school senior and I am thinking about where to go for... |
2019/06/21 | 1,046 | 4,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m starting a PhD but I’m disabled and can’t travel. This means I won’t be able to present my work at conferences. Has anyone had experience this? Will it negatively impact on my research?
My tutor is aware but I’ve already had a sponsorship declined because I can’t travel to training course... |
2019/06/21 | 1,241 | 5,405 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Master's student doing a research internship. I do not have to defend the results of my research at the end of the internship; however, I would ideally get a publication out of this.
I am working with a well-respected professor in applied mathematics. When he suggested a research topic... |
2019/06/21 | 1,180 | 4,876 | <issue_start>username_0: At a recent networking workshop (not one of the "just don't be an introvert" ones, an actually helpful one with applicable ideas) I learned that it is supposedly very common to have a (career) mentor in academia.
This is not meaning a supervisor or a former supervisor you are still in contact ... |
2019/06/21 | 777 | 3,424 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a conference which defined several submission categories: papers, posters, etc. I submitted my abstract in the paper category, but was asked to present a poster instead.
I would do it if it was practical in my situation. But the conference is in another country, and... |