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2019/08/13 | 658 | 2,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I am presently developing a handbook/manual based on our published methods in a not-open access journal. The content of the manual is different (i.e., format and structure) from the published version and we made a modification, for example, we structured our manual to a "recipe style" so it's e... |
2019/08/13 | 469 | 1,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a finance paper and I change my data frequency from monthly to daily data,
With monthly data, two decimal places is fine. However, my daily results look strange with two decimal places.
For example, *1.0042* becomes to *1.00;* then I have a tables full with *1.00,* which is not i... |
2019/08/13 | 462 | 2,000 | <issue_start>username_0: So I've just finished my Master's and my advisor has offered me a tentative position to work in his lab. I say tentative because it's dependent on if his project gets funding. He emailed me recently right before his leave that his project has been shortlisted and that they'll hopefully hear bac... |
2019/08/13 | 2,339 | 8,978 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying and failing to find a particular paper. My university's library catalogue, Google Scholar, and Google all came up empty. I even tried the catalogue of the paper's institutional affiliation, but they didn't have it either. It's possible the paper really has been lost forever, but I f... |
2019/08/13 | 728 | 3,272 | <issue_start>username_0: I am almost ready to publish my research project. In my project, I used different clipart and created a couple of figures for my participants to view. For example, I created an image of a person walking in a park. In this image, the park consisted of trees, the sun, and grass. These are all sep... |
2019/08/14 | 785 | 3,366 | <issue_start>username_0: Hi I and a Student from <NAME> and I do have 2 Bachelors degrees one with a Class (2nd Class Honors) and another General degree. However I do wish to enroll to a PhD program, possibly in Australia. Is it possible to do so. I have studied mainly in the stream of Cyber Security.
I tried with app... |
2019/08/14 | 514 | 2,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I've worked for 3 years in the same field which I'm going to apply in. And my boss belongs to the same field too. He completed his M.tech.
I am taking three LOR's. Two from qualified Ph.D professors from my undergrad and one from my boss who works in research but is not a Ph.D.<issue_comment>... |
2019/08/14 | 1,168 | 5,051 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, my advisor has put me working together with some group colleagues on a very loosely defined theoretical physics project. From the beginning, I didn't like this too much because I felt that what was planned to be done, I could do by myself, and I felt the other students were added... |
2019/08/14 | 711 | 3,001 | <issue_start>username_0: I am postdoc in computational biology field and writing one grant proposal. One of the section of the application expect applicant to show
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> how he/she will reach maturity to become an independent researcher?
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This further expect me to show 'leadership' quality and should be suppo... |
2019/08/14 | 2,492 | 10,863 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I came across a PhD thesis and an article derived from that PhD thesis and found a serious flaw in them that actually makes their conclusions invalid.
In the first place, I was unsure if I'm right or not, so I contacted the guy that wrote the PhD thesis and subsequent article and des... |
2019/08/14 | 514 | 1,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I am sending an email to two people: Prof FirstName1 LastName1 and Dr FirstName2 LastName2. The former has a PhD and is officially a professor (with tenure, if that matters) with whom I am not intimately familiar. He prefers to go by Prof or Dr LastName (I have no problem with it). The latter I... |
2019/08/14 | 922 | 4,065 | <issue_start>username_0: So my PhD supervisor is very senior in the university. This has its advantages but unfortunately this also means he's *very* busy most of the time, especially now that it's summer and he's been away on holiday a few times. By and large this isn't a problem; I'm quite happy to get on with my wor... |
2019/08/14 | 1,067 | 4,444 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be teaching my first Calculus I class this fall (USA) and 5 percent of the grading is discretionary. Other sections are doing three quizzes over the course of the semester, with each taking about 10 minutes. The quizzes are on limits, derivatives, and integrals, one for each topic.
I do... |
2019/08/15 | 629 | 2,677 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the tips I learn when writing academic papers is to avoid generalizing, and by that, it means we, as writers, need to understand the difference between fact and opinion and try to express things with different levels of certainty. However, I still find the way to differentiate between fa... |
2019/08/15 | 1,153 | 4,757 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is mainly focused on the field of mathematics, although it might make sense for other areas too.
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> would setting up a Mathematical Institute of Refereeing be a good idea ?
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To explain the idea, I have noted several things that seem to go in the same direction :
* re... |
2019/08/15 | 752 | 3,396 | <issue_start>username_0: it's a month from the submission of a manuscript of mine in a "World Scientific" journal, but its status is still "Editor Invited". I just sent the editor-in-chief a note to ask about the situation because the editor assignment process is unusually getting long. The editor-in-chief did not answ... |
2019/08/15 | 687 | 3,120 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just started my first job in a company as an engineer, I was asked to write a brief description of myself which will be sent to all the staffs.
Could you please provide some template? how we can write an interesting autobiography?
edited: Having said that some humor or random facts can... |
2019/08/16 | 503 | 2,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematics undergraduate student from India and am presently in my final year. Being a bit less talkative, I had not had many conversations with my professors even though I had tried to maintain a good score in my subjects and learn them well. However nowadays, when I am trying to apply... |
2019/08/16 | 652 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to fill in copyright form for my PHD thesis submission.
I have used some of the images already published in my IEEE/IET journal and conference papers.
I signed copyright forms during the publication process of those papers.
Do these figures fall under the copyright act?
Can I confident... |
2019/08/16 | 863 | 3,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an offer of admission from one of the Australian Universities in Perth. My supervisor recommended my application for tuition fee waive off scholarship and university has accepted that. I have to manage my cost of living and travel expenditure. I am not sure that I will be able to man... |
2019/08/16 | 537 | 2,331 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for master’s programs, but I need two letters of recommendation. I was never very close with any of my professors, though I did receive good grades in all of my classes.
The professor who probably knows me the best is one of the core faculty at the college. I asked her for advic... |
2019/08/17 | 2,534 | 10,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to defend my thesis. My PhD journey was not a pleasant experience. I worked in an area not within the field of expertise of my advisor. Though she was present to discuss; the conception, implementation and problem solving of the projects were a lonely enterprise. This was dishearteni... |
2019/08/17 | 3,008 | 13,002 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose, you are the head of a lab, and there is a particular undergraduate in your lab that you want them to continue working in your lab while doing their graduate studies in the university you are working.
You know that the student wants to go abroad for their graduate studies, but if they c... |
2019/08/17 | 2,442 | 10,811 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done research on a topic that is very sensitive in my original country. I want to submit a paper to a (well-rated) Computer Science conferences, but I do not want to use my real name or university at all (neither for submitting nor publishing). Have you ever heard of such thing? How doab... |
2019/08/17 | 822 | 3,479 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it okay to apply to a PhD without knowing precisely what you want to achieve? I heard advisors have projects, so would it be okay to state that you are interested in one of those projects without necessarily being an expert in it?
If so, how much knowledge do you need anyway? and in the st... |
2019/08/17 | 1,268 | 5,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I am Canadian, and I had a postdoc interview in a Canadian university on-site late May. It was two days long. I gave two presentations and a 6 hour long hands-on lab demonstration. Prof. seemed satisfied with the results and said "thank you for the successful demonstration." During the intervie... |
2019/08/18 | 1,463 | 6,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished my PhD in Developmental Biology in the US, but I left a couple of experiments completed prior to finishing the paper. (This paper was developed during the course of my PhD and has had numerous changes).
I have since finished my PhD and my supervisor started to take my paper... |
2019/08/18 | 1,590 | 6,905 | <issue_start>username_0: Last semester, I was doing well (A+) in three of the five courses I was taking, but had a problems with two others:
1. For one course, the professor supplied a long list of study materials of several thousand of pages. And, the lecture material was way too extensive for a four-month semester. ... |
2019/08/18 | 570 | 2,408 | <issue_start>username_0: if it is the same data, but you put it in another style for your PhD thesis and created a new figure - does it still counts like "figure from publication "\*\*\*" ?<issue_comment>username_1: There might be two parts to this question here, so I will answer them separately.
**Is it plagiarism if... |
2019/08/18 | 796 | 3,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I just graduated from my university, and I have a paper to submit to a conference. I was filling out the information to submit my work to them, but I am not sure what to put as my organization. Since I have now graduated from the university, can I still use their name to publish my work? If the... |
2019/08/19 | 1,041 | 4,697 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a paper accepted at a conference and want to extend it with some new material based on the comments and submit it to a journal.
One of the co-authors was added to the conference paper because he was the head of the group where I was working. His contribution were textual suggestions to t... |
2019/08/19 | 804 | 3,281 | <issue_start>username_0: At least in the field of biology, some academic journals have added a separate summary paragraph (for example: "Significance Statement" (in Journal of Neuroscience), or "Significance" (in PNAS), or "In Brief" (in Current Biology)) in recent years. Why do the publishers think an abstract is not ... |
2019/08/19 | 541 | 2,491 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past I have seen students eager to get a recommendation from a proffesor from the upper management like the dean of the faculty. Especially for academic endevours such as grad. school applications. Or similarly a letter from the superindendant of the highschool for undergraduate applicat... |
2019/08/19 | 374 | 1,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently enrolled in a PhD program in the US. Before picking up my master's degree, I'll be applying to a different PhD program that's more suited to my interests. I will be able to get two letters of recommendations from my undergraduate university and one letter of recommendation from my... |
2019/08/19 | 635 | 2,697 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a rising senior and will be applying to PhD programs this fall. I'm wrapping up a research project I was doing this summer at another school (basically an REU-like program) and the school is at the top of my field. I learned so much this summer and was able to accomplish a lot with my proje... |
2019/08/19 | 4,704 | 19,173 | <issue_start>username_0: Most students encounter a life-changing decision during their undergraduate years. That is either to choose a high-paying career, yet such that they might not be passionate about or a career they like but is unlikely to be high-paying.
It is not unusual to find career advice popping in various... |
2019/08/19 | 553 | 2,223 | <issue_start>username_0: If somebody gets a law/engineering degree or something similar with academic fraud surely they could be sued for malpractice? Maybe another examples is/are doctors.
Are there any examples of this ever? If somebody got a Computer Science degree (via academic fraud) and then marketed it couldn't... |
2019/08/20 | 355 | 1,637 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I quitted my current research group and I will start to work with someone else. I was in my former research group for almost three years and during these three years I wrote more 200,000 lines of codes by myself alone. These codes rest in my former advisor group repository in Github, ... |
2019/08/20 | 531 | 1,930 | <issue_start>username_0: I (first author) received a decision on a manuscript recently (minor revision). All my co-authors were cc'ed in the decision email and some of them replied to the decision email saying "congratulations" to me while cc'ing the other co-authors.
One of them accidentally cc'ed the Editor-in-Chie... |
2019/08/20 | 1,760 | 7,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student looking to apply for a PhD in mathematics in mainly the USA. My current university uses a 10 point scale for GPA but most of the universities I've seen, in the US seem to use a 4 point scale, and they rarely provide a conversion scale to convert a 10 point GPA to a... |
2019/08/20 | 400 | 1,723 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the four cadres: assistant professor, associate professor, professor and above.
Are there any universities or other institutes across world in academia that removes from office permanently, any person, possessing anyone of the four cadres because of her less or no publishing activity?... |
2019/08/20 | 529 | 2,268 | <issue_start>username_0: So first let me introduce myself. I am planning to apply for masters in mathematics in this year. I am student of bsc. 3rd year of Mathematics. Although my initial interest was to study about algebraic number theory, to know about algebraic number theory deeply, i think one should know about co... |
2019/08/21 | 587 | 2,454 | <issue_start>username_0: My title is pretty self-explanatory, but I was wondering how it looks to mention specific researchers to work with in graduate school via my personal statement/s. I'm applying to PhD programs in neurobiology (neurological disease/therapeutics research).
I know the general consensus is "yes, m... |
2019/08/21 | 596 | 2,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to do a Doctoral program in computer science. However, there are Two degrees:
1. Doctor of computer science (DCS Doctoral degree)
2. Doctor of philosophy in (PhD) computer science
I am a working professional and I'm planning to do one of these degrees mainly for career advancemen... |
2019/08/21 | 358 | 1,327 | <issue_start>username_0: I contacted the EIC before submission to inquire if they would accept a paper of 15 pages and he advised that the paper topic and length is not appropriate. The paper actually falls into the scope of the journal and sent him another email message explaining that but did not reply. Shall I submi... |
2019/08/21 | 4,547 | 19,061 | <issue_start>username_0: A student has failed a course I just taught. Grades were announced yesterday. This student sent me a very long heartbreaking email about how this means she will be kicked out of her program, how she tried very hard, and how she wants me to reconsider her final grade.
I'm relatively new at bein... |
2019/08/21 | 582 | 2,434 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to continue with my academic path but, the last year, I've been conducting mainly research activity with no teaching assignments. I would like to build up my portfolio to gain some teaching experience eventually thinking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor position but, on the other... |
2019/08/21 | 1,774 | 6,831 | <issue_start>username_0: Background
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In a [question](https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/43871/why-is-neither-methane-nor-fracking-mentioned-in-the-green-new-deal) about the [Green New Deal](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text), I posted a comment to [an answer](ht... |
2019/08/22 | 852 | 3,610 | <issue_start>username_0: If you write a thesis, is it legal to ask somebody if things you did are correct in the thesis? When it's my own work and this person says, everything correct, there shouldn't be any problem, right? When does plagiarism start?<issue_comment>username_1: From a publication point of view:
In gene... |
2019/08/22 | 640 | 2,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask for advice in this particular situation of mine:
I am a Mexican medical doctor, and I am applying for a Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering at a german university. The program offers bridging subjects for students from non-engineering students in the first semester, howe... |
2019/08/22 | 1,120 | 4,944 | <issue_start>username_0: I got kicked out from graduate school in the past. The reason was that I had very poor GPA, and I failed to meet the academic criteria (some administrative regulations, nothing personal like disciplinary action or anything). Actually I left before I got technically kicked out, but you get the i... |
2019/08/22 | 2,357 | 9,268 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year PhD in mechanical engineering. I did average/below average in my core courses, during my undergraduate, and PhD coursework. My research area involves using finite element and volume methods to model material and fluid flow. I had got B-'s and C's in my mathematics, mechanics, ... |
2019/08/22 | 1,374 | 6,175 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand reviewing literature is an important part of completing the application. Do most applicants develop a plan independently solely based off of the articles they read or do faculty advisors usually give students a specific question to write about? How feasible are the research plans w... |
2019/08/22 | 1,895 | 7,931 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a mathematics paper ready for publishing, but I can't decide to which journal should I publish it.
The main thing based on which I want to publish the paper to a specific journal is its short period of peer-review process (because I need to publish it as soon as possible).
Suppose I ha... |
2019/08/22 | 519 | 2,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a professor from the USA about a Ph.D. position with my CV. He replied saying its excellent and I should apply in the next fall. Now I have some queries which I will ask him in my next mail and one of my paper has been published today in a very good journal (which I wrote 'submit... |
2019/08/22 | 657 | 2,820 | <issue_start>username_0: I prefer to be called by my maiden name by colleagues and friends. Is it unprofessional or illegal to use my maiden name at school and even after graduation?<issue_comment>username_1: I know a variety of women who have retained their maiden names for publications (some because they started publ... |
2019/08/23 | 1,287 | 5,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Indian student in the United States and I am a Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card). After my PhD in STEM (computer science), I had a postdoc offer from a professor in a new university (I'll call him Prof. A).
I'm really looking forward to start that project, as it totally fit my sk... |
2019/08/23 | 801 | 3,294 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I improve a paper which has the following comments from the reviewer:
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> There are missing references to recent literature, which are closely related to this submitted work. A proper comparison of results and the methodologies among these efforts, as well as clear motivation for the ... |
2019/08/23 | 682 | 2,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my bachelor's (undergraduate) thesis in a research lab. My supervisor, who is head of the lab, has assigned a junior professor and his PhD student as my direct point of contact. With both of them, I have a weekly meeting where I present the work that I have done.
I get severe doubt... |
2019/08/23 | 830 | 3,400 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student in my final year and started doing my bachelor's thesis in a research lab. My official thesis supervisor is head of the lab, and a highly experienced expert and equally busy person. He has assigned a junior Professor and a PhD student as my direct points of contact... |
2019/08/23 | 3,905 | 14,850 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a student who's on the autistic spectrum. He exhibits several disruptive behaviors in class, such as
1. Inability to moderate his volume/interjections: he will shout out questions and comments irrespective of whether others are speaking (be it myself or other students).
2. Unintentional... |
2019/08/23 | 445 | 1,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a manuscript that was returned by the Editor mainly because there is "no enough data" on the manuscript. The manuscript is a bit shorter and to-the-point. Of course, I have been also asked to revise the English and proofread it.
Now I have addressed the editor request, should... |
2019/08/23 | 4,629 | 19,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my PhD in computational materials science. I used molecular dynamics simulations and finite element method to carry out my research investigations. I have published several publications and about to defend my thesis next month.
But, I did not take any classes on finite element analysis o... |
2019/08/23 | 1,328 | 5,919 | <issue_start>username_0: Say for example a physicist (person A) came up with a theory and sent it to a journal. But it was rejected. (As an example, maybe person A came up with the idea for the Higgs particle).
Then 10 years later the same theory was published by someone else (person B). And this time it was published... |
2019/08/23 | 903 | 3,732 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently sent an email to a professor asking him about an administrative problem I was having, but after I'd hit the send button, I realized I'd forgot to say: "Sorry to bother you" or something of that sort in the beginning...
Now I'm wondering is that considered impolite? Shoud you apologi... |
2019/08/24 | 710 | 3,064 | <issue_start>username_0: During my research on a specific topic, I found two interesting papers by same authors. So, I decided to implement their proposed idea but it was not possible. At first, I thought that I was wrong but after thorough exploration of the papers and reading other papers in the field, I found many m... |
2019/08/24 | 1,129 | 4,673 | <issue_start>username_0: how do ask for a teacher to let you do a Ph D thesis despite your qualifications are bad ?
a) invent a new formula (even a useless one)
b) to solve an unsolved hypothesis : this is the hardest option
are there any other options ? i would like to do a thesis i have a master degree (FISYMAT) a... |
2019/08/24 | 1,410 | 6,166 | <issue_start>username_0: *I re-uploaded this question here, since a user from Physics Stack Exchange told me it might fit better.*
**TL;DR:** I feel like I could not come up with most reasonings myself, so I end up feeling like I'm a phony, a bad student, or not good enough, and I can't focus on the actual problem.
I... |
2019/08/24 | 474 | 1,942 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting my article to IEEE Access to get its rapid response (degree deadline time problem). I'm hopeful of their fee waiver/discount because I am student/unemployed as well as physically impaired. However, I am not sure if I would be definitely given the fee waiver/discount.
What if I ... |
2019/08/24 | 1,211 | 5,451 | <issue_start>username_0: For a high school engineering project, a friend and I have found ourselves deriving an equation for how to most efficiently configure a system.
We found an equation that, given a few parameters about the system, equates the amount of material added (and thus weight), to the amount of energy th... |
2019/08/24 | 1,751 | 7,622 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my Ph.D. and am interested in a specific field of research which seems quite promising for the next years. Now, my masters supervisor does not work in this field, nor anyone in the department, and it seems in the country.
Nonetheless, *he is interested* and suggested me to find ... |
2019/08/24 | 587 | 2,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a paper with a professor. I want to put a link to my website in the paper. I am first author, so I'm wondering if the following is okay:
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<NAME>, Slifer University, https://BobSmith.io
<NAME>, Georgia Tech of Mechanical Engineering
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Suppose I'm <NAME> and the professor is <... |
2019/08/25 | 1,199 | 4,785 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a grad student. I have been away for an internship in another city. My professor came to meet me at the weekend and he invited me to dinner.
I did not have any time to prepare and I did not bring a gift and he brought me a gift. I was embarrassed, really.
I recently got a result from my p... |
2019/08/25 | 565 | 2,463 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine, you did data evaluation, published. When preparing your data for the thesis, you've realized that your approach was wrong. It does not change the main course of the paper and do not damage main conclusions, although it does affect the quantitative part of research. It is more than 1 ye... |
2019/08/25 | 574 | 2,405 | <issue_start>username_0: Are they tenured / on tenure track?
Are they more like clinical teaching professors?
Do they perform research?
I recently saw this job with lots of teaching duties but no research listed.<issue_comment>username_1: This may vary from university to university and department to department, but... |
2019/08/25 | 4,965 | 19,937 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been reading [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/96813/how-to-silence-the-voice-that-tells-you-youre-being-financially-irresponsible-b) question, whose premise is that going directly into industry after (presumably) just a bachelor's will make you more money than doing a Ph... |
2019/08/26 | 2,798 | 12,518 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After asking another question on this website, I have decided to become a professor of practice. To do this, I will pursue a Ph.D.
A Ph.D. project that I have already started in my free time this summer is developing an application and website ... |
2019/08/26 | 770 | 3,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper under review for over 6 months now. Recently I have done some more work which is an extension of paper under review and wrote it as a new paper. As there is dependency on the paper under review, I have included some important theorems of paper under review in appendix of the new ... |
2019/08/26 | 1,426 | 4,583 | <issue_start>username_0: This [press release](http://www.flcgil.it/universita/ffo-universita-sempre-peggio.flc) by an Italian union mentions a huge difference between the number of academic positions in various countries:
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> Per fare solo un esempio, sul personale, a fronte dei circa 50.000 docenti universitari nel ... |
2019/08/26 | 391 | 1,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finishing my masters in Germany and I will start my PhD soon. I will be having a TV-L contract, however, I haven't acquired my official diploma yet. In case that the bureaucratic stuff are not finished before my starting day, would I still be able to sign the contract by proving ... |
2019/08/26 | 1,135 | 4,715 | <issue_start>username_0: I am sure this is a quite subjective topic, but I haven't been able to find clear advice or info about this particular situation. Also, I'm going to give some context; therefore, you could understand my dilemma.
I've been in the IT industry for a considerable amount of time, but I have always ... |
2019/08/26 | 722 | 3,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I made a mistake 5 years ago. I changed my field from materials science to civil engineering. I did a PhD under a professor whose research expertise was not in my research topic. I had to independently work on my knowledge and skill set to become productive and produce research. But, due to lac... |
2019/08/26 | 2,440 | 10,051 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in a math department at a research university in the US. When I started the program I was given an account on the department server with a website and a nice department email address. Now I've found out that the department (or the university?) is doing away with the server and... |
2019/08/26 | 1,346 | 5,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a mathematics PhD student and I have a question.
I am writing my thesis, and I'm looking for a postdoc too. I would like to do research long-term, but I am not sure that I will be successful as a researcher because of the following problem.
I am very good in the research that I am doing. E... |
2019/08/26 | 1,147 | 4,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now torn apart between leaving Canada to do a masters program in a foreign country, which will put a huge financial burden on me, I don't even know if I can afford it, and I would also become isolated from my family and would likely have to break up with my GF.
I also could spend the next... |
2019/08/27 | 4,048 | 16,876 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a post-doctoral researcher in computer science, but my next position will be in industry. I've been negotiating a contract with this commercial company to do R&D work (not while I'm employed at a university). It's been a negative experience overall, because - like many companies - they did ... |
2019/08/27 | 1,834 | 8,486 | <issue_start>username_0: A paper is eligible for publishing in reputable journals in general if it satisfies the criteria objectivity, reproducibility and (optionally) novelty.
But why are they not considering Explainability as a criterion? Although the model proposed in the paper satisfies the above mentioned three m... |
2019/08/27 | 979 | 4,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PS undergrad with a minor in CS that's 22 credit hours and covers most, if not all, masters pre-reqs that I've seen. The only issue I forsee is that I will only be taking one semester of calculus.
I'm only a sophomore, but I have a 3.78 GPA and I believe I will maintain it at minimum abo... |
2019/08/27 | 276 | 1,215 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose **hypothetically** I download certain new research articles from sci-hub which I read and eventually liked. Now if I contact the authors for follow up question/discussion, then is it a good idea to tell them that I read their papers through scihub (if they ask me how did I get I came ac... |
2019/08/28 | 3,003 | 12,718 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months back I received a request from a reputed journal to review an article. The article was in a fast-track mode because of its assumed importance. I did review it, and found that it makes some improvement over the existing models, and hence does not rate high on the novelty axis. Moreo... |
2019/08/28 | 829 | 3,766 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on my research paper. I read a paper that is related to my works. But I cannot reproduce the results. The information provided in the paper is not sufficient for me. How can I ask him to share his simulation works with me.
Is there any specific email format for that?<issue_comment... |
2019/08/28 | 1,933 | 8,571 | <issue_start>username_0: I am very fortunate to have several sources of research fundings to run my lab. Like many other skills needed for running a lab, I have no background in accounting (?). Different funds come through different systems with different restrictions, and my institute does not provide a unified soluti... |
2019/08/28 | 2,169 | 8,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reading about the [Grievance Studies affair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_Studies_affair) and there's one thing I don't understand. Portland State University (PSU) initiated a a research misconduct inquiry against Boghossian for conducting a research on human subjects without IRB... |
2019/08/28 | 2,037 | 8,503 | <issue_start>username_0: **Main Question:**
I am an undergraduate student who just attended my first conference and gave a podium talk on my research from last summer. I tried talking with a researcher who is well-known in the field about his views and he was rather dismissive. I am not sure how I should have handled ... |
2019/08/28 | 1,408 | 6,035 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is divided into two parts and related to the situation like:
Committee gets PhD thesis to read through/give comments/report on it.
Thesis is written based on several publications.
1. What is the chance that Committee members are going through the papers as well as the thesis? For t... |
2019/08/29 | 1,762 | 7,277 | <issue_start>username_0: As an instructor at a large university, you will sooner or later have a waitlist for your class. Is it better (for you) to admit those students into your class or do you better keep the enrollment limit firm?
I favor the latter because it reduces my work, however marginally. What's more, it mi... |
2019/08/29 | 3,145 | 13,343 | <issue_start>username_0: For context, I've been a postdoc in computer science for about 3 years. I recently wrote a grant and was awarded a fellowship for 2 years.
I've heard from multiple sources that if I don't get a tenure-track position in the next two years it will become very difficult for me to have an academic... |
2019/08/29 | 3,712 | 15,290 | <issue_start>username_0: I faced the following situation a few days back. I am doing my teaching assistance work under a professor.
I attended one of his classes as a TA during which he was teaching some technically wrong stuff, which he assumed as true. Since most of the class were students of the course, they do no... |
2019/08/29 | 3,870 | 16,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been involved in a collaboration project for the past year or so (the collaborator was the one who approached me and they were leading the project), the problem is that the progress from the collaborator side was slow and sometimes clumsy (they would often call for meetings without all thi... |
2019/08/29 | 829 | 3,488 | <issue_start>username_0: I am post-doc from biological sciences writing a grant proposal. One of the sections of the application is dedicated to risk assessment of the given project. There were no further instructions.
I can think of very general risks and their solutions. For example:
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> 1. Experiment failed. → T... |