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2019/08/29 | 713 | 2,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I realize that it is really not unethical or illegal for a university professor to assign their own book that they have published as the textbook for a class. However, is it unethical for a professor to assign an expensive book, then require the students to get the book personally autograph to ... |
2019/08/29 | 2,499 | 10,903 | <issue_start>username_0: Textbooks are highly important resources for course work as well as for research work.
Some textbooks are freely available over internet. Some textbooks can be purchased.
Is it true that there exists secret textbooks available **only** for the students of that particular university and for n... |
2019/08/29 | 169 | 681 | <issue_start>username_0: How should one address people with titles Dr. and Professor from Canada.<issue_comment>username_1: Publicly, you should address them as you would their peers in your current country of residence. Privately, you can inquire as to their personal preference.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: ... |
2019/08/30 | 3,878 | 15,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m doing my masters (while working full-time) and one of my professors from last semester, who is teaching my class this semester as well, always asks me, “Did you get your husband to do your homework?” He also asks me if I'm married before giving me feedback. I wish he would just give me the ... |
2019/08/30 | 705 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some high school students submitting assignments where the entire paper is copied from another source. They cited every line. Is this plagiarism? I'm sure they are just being lazy, but they are a smart lazy. I can't find anything to back up my suspicions that they should get a 0 on this ... |
2019/08/30 | 726 | 2,846 | <issue_start>username_0: I am aware that grants often only provide the earned money over a certain period of time. And if the money is not used up by the end of that period you lose access to it. Are there ways to effectively spend this money so it does not go completely to waste?
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*Note:* A previous version of th... |
2019/08/30 | 2,189 | 8,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm asking just about textbooks that are sold for profit, not free ones. I know journal authors can email their papers or articles free, but textbook? Is [Reddit comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cx0cy3/logically_morally_humanely_what_should_be_free/eyj0lyh/) wrong?
I ask a... |
2019/08/31 | 705 | 3,085 | <issue_start>username_0: We had a client who submitted samples for chromatographic analysis years ago to our research service lab. The client is now an assistant professor in a state university campus. The research is now under editorial review and the editors want some "cosmetic" touch ups to the chromatograms prior t... |
2019/08/31 | 616 | 2,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that it's a horrible thing to do. It was a professor at a prestigious University who expressed interest in my ideas. I never responded because severe conflict broke out between me and my family regarding my career choice. And that was a year ago. Conflict is still there but I'm stronger,... |
2019/08/31 | 2,079 | 8,030 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question specific to mathematics.
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> * what is the status of the journal Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Proc. AMS)?
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It seems to be a generalist journal that only publishes short papers, and has a massive output (in 2018: 12 issues on 5485 pages). The [b... |
2019/09/01 | 7,307 | 30,150 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the last couple of years, math and programming have become a big part of my life; I know I’ll pursue a career involving CS and math (most probably machine learning) and usually, my days revolve around these two. Now, I do not have a problem with doing either of those things; in fact, I lov... |
2019/09/01 | 621 | 2,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a (maths) paper that generalises an earlier work, and aplies it to something slightly different.
The problem is, I am literally having to step through the previous paper, and point out how the more general case would differ. My paper is therefore essentially entirely based on this... |
2019/09/01 | 887 | 3,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm starting my fifth year in math PhD. For two years I've been thinking on a well known problem (well known enough to have a Wikipedia page) in my field with no success and all of a sudden I think I did solve it with a very short solution. I haven't written it down yet but I can do so in 1 wee... |
2019/09/01 | 647 | 2,817 | <issue_start>username_0: To keep this brief, I have two new math ideas that are supporting a larger work. I want to write two small papers detailing these math ideas (plus some other details I figured out about them), publish them to arXiv, and then cite them in the larger work. The smaller papers do not have enough su... |
2019/09/02 | 3,701 | 15,750 | <issue_start>username_0: It's common for students to be asked for their evaluations of a teacher/course at the end of the semester. Is it safe for the student to give negative feedback? After all, even if the lecturer will not see these evaluations until after the grading is completed, it's possible the student will wa... |
2019/09/02 | 1,708 | 7,073 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a masters' student. I have written an article, which was part of my thesis. This was my first article. After I handed it over to my professor, it was highly commended. My professor was not the least involved in writing the paper. He just gave me the idea, which I am sure was his.
But afte... |
2019/09/02 | 1,677 | 7,217 | <issue_start>username_0: My theoretical computer-science paper that I submitted to an Australian (i.e., located in Australia this year) B-level (according to <http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks>) DBLP-listed computer-science conference was accepted 4 weeks later, but the reviews are short:
1. 5 sentences (accept)
2.... |
2019/09/02 | 1,478 | 6,257 | <issue_start>username_0: Senior readers will recall that in North America (USA/Canada) it was required to show a reading knowledge of another language besides English in order to complete the academic requirements for a PhD in basic sciences. It is no longer necessary now in physics and chemistry but other top notch un... |
2019/09/02 | 357 | 1,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to know what the best next step is given my situation. I have been interested in doing research with a professor, however after the initial response from him about setting up a time to meet he has not responded. Given it was summer I assumed he was busy with travel and grant proposals.... |
2019/09/02 | 1,161 | 5,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I joined for my PhD in mechanical engineering in a Canadian university almost 3 years back. I had completed the necessary coursework and preliminary exam last July. My advisor had approved my research proposal to develop a numerical procedure to predict the damage behavior of composities during... |
2019/09/02 | 1,341 | 5,847 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked by this (tenure-track) assistant professor X, with whom I'm in very friendly terms, to collaborate on a project together. X and I work in the same broad area of pure math (topology) but our subfields of expertise differ considerably. At the beginning I was very excited but I've now ... |
2019/09/03 | 597 | 2,533 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in very tense situation. My supervisor is not allowing me to submit my Master by Research thesis.
I have already told him that I have some potential fully funded PhD opportunity and he initially agreed but now he is creating problems. Earlier he wanted me to do PhD with him which I refused... |
2019/09/03 | 3,415 | 14,927 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a fourth-year Electrical Engineering student. I have been a top-ranked student in our department. I have passed 3 courses with a professor in our department and have received a full mark in all three. I did participate a lot in all classes and had many discussions about the cours... |
2019/09/04 | 898 | 3,905 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering how can I split my research into two or more research article.
I heard that there's a type of papers that called revisiting which basically relies on previous work with some enhancements.
The question is what's the **structure for the revisiting paper** and what's the **structu... |
2019/09/04 | 3,677 | 14,279 | <issue_start>username_0: The last year has been ridiculously difficult. I can easily say it has been 90h weeks 12 months in a row, with the hours taken of rest being vastly overshadowed by intense guilt (over not using that time to work) and inadequacy. I produced a lot of research, published 5 new papers, and produced... |
2019/09/04 | 633 | 2,424 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a Senior Undergraduate planning on applying to MS and PhD programs this Fall.
Between my current research job, TA position, and courses I believe I'm over committed time wise this semester (only 2 weeks in and I'm very stressed). I was looking to drop a course to free up my sche... |
2019/09/04 | 876 | 3,465 | <issue_start>username_0: <NAME> has recently been appointed an Adjunct Professor in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Auckland. As you know, <NAME> is the founder of Rocket Lab, which has put payloads into space, but <NAME> also never attended college and even dropped out of high school.
How many Adjunct Prof... |
2019/09/04 | 951 | 3,827 | <issue_start>username_0: This is probably more relevant to conference submissions than to journal submissions, but still.
Some CS conferences have recently started to employ a resubmission policy: if your paper got rejected from a prior (relevant) conference, and you are resubmitting, you have the **option** of attac... |
2019/09/04 | 887 | 3,773 | <issue_start>username_0: *I've searched the Stackexchange sites and found several potentially good places to ask this question but I have eventually chosen here as here where I personally found it best fits.*
I'm an academic student and a language learner, autodidact, researcher, enthusiast and translator. Theoretical... |
2019/09/05 | 1,357 | 5,919 | <issue_start>username_0: Background:
My lab (life-science) has been awarded with a grant that allows to employ a PhD student that the group should select.
We shortlisted three candidates according to their knowledge (they are fresh graduates of the master) and experience for an interview. The interview was structured... |
2019/09/05 | 1,552 | 6,709 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: I am an assistant professor at a small institution in the US.
Question: My significant other has the opportunity through work to travel to an exotic location over a long weekend in February, and I would very much like to join. That said, it would require that I miss both my Thursday a... |
2019/09/05 | 3,719 | 15,748 | <issue_start>username_0: During my last year of MSc. studies, I was part-time employed on the university project. The project was related to my diploma thesis, and my task was to create a data-mining software and run experiments using this software.
I've finished the software, run the experiments in it, successfully g... |
2019/09/05 | 825 | 3,426 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed from time to time that some PhD students at good, sometimes top, universities (who must have shown promise at some point) start to act as if they're gone a bit crankish. Say, they speak cryptically about how they are working on [insert famous research problem here, like quantum g... |
2019/09/06 | 513 | 2,278 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D. student and my advisor has asked me to write a few paragraphs about the history and the existing literature of a relatively new line of research (the first paper on this topic was published in 2014 and there are only 3-4 major papers on this topic) to be included in a grant applicat... |
2019/09/06 | 410 | 1,626 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a scientific paper and compare my results with those of other studies in several tables and figures. When presenting the data, I have one column in the table/ one axis in the diagram, where I provide the sources of the data (with very low space). The other studies I can abbreviate ... |
2019/09/06 | 1,371 | 5,864 | <issue_start>username_0: As a PhD student nearing the end of their degree my Prof invited me to write a review with him. A decently well known journal had asked us to write a review on a topic that is only tangentially related to our labs area of study. My prof thought this was a great idea since it "guarantees a publi... |
2019/09/06 | 1,074 | 4,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to get into a top university for graduate school, specifically in computer science. Would taking the non-required mathematics subject based GRE test make my application more competitive? Since it's not required, would the people doing admissions even consider it as a data point?<is... |
2019/09/07 | 1,145 | 5,001 | <issue_start>username_0: Firstly, I am not specifically talking about PhD supervision. I think that's less relevant for my question since a PhD supervision is usually a mutually beneficial arrangement, as the professor gains a PhD student to help them with related research.
My focus is more on supervision of bachelor... |
2019/09/07 | 1,629 | 7,247 | <issue_start>username_0: I have M.Sc. in mathematics, and I was/am working on a PhD for almost 10 years now (on and off), but I haven't published a thing. I have many results (most in a single field) and potential paper drafts, but I never finish up and publish, because I always find something new to learn or a new pro... |
2019/09/07 | 704 | 3,038 | <issue_start>username_0: Okay. SO here is the thing.
I got national overseas scholarship from my government. The scholarship almost covers everything. My question is how will professors view those who are admitted under scholarships, other than institute scholarship?
I heard that PHD guides always prefer to spend mor... |
2019/09/08 | 2,710 | 11,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not in the habit of scaling exams, although I'm aware that the practice is widespread and highly recommended in some circles (such as grading on a curve). To my recollection, none of my college instructors scaled exams or wrote any policy about such on their syllabi. I'm wondering if one di... |
2019/09/08 | 590 | 2,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently reading a book on a research-level science topic. But there are some concepts that aren't properly explained in the book and are stopping me from proceeding. I have tried the following:
* Searching the Internet and the library for these concepts
* Asking about these problems onl... |
2019/09/08 | 1,478 | 6,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper, which I would like to submit to a convention. I've never written a paper before. I'd like it to be thoroughly reviewed, not to say edited, before I submit it. I'm willing to pay for a reviewer. Where can I find a reviewer? The orientation is mathematics related to computer scie... |
2019/09/08 | 1,826 | 8,081 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently finished obtaining my PhD in a non-English speaking country. All of my papers have been published locally, so I've never felt the need to translate them into English before. Now I'm looking to continue my career as a postdoc in an English-speaking part of the world. One of the bas... |
2019/09/08 | 649 | 2,307 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an analytical summary on Meditation II of Descartes from the compendium we have been given at school. We have been told to use this as our main source. Nevertheless, there is this specific part in section 12 of that meditation which I don't quite agree with:
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> [...] something ex... |
2019/09/08 | 4,661 | 19,723 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a professor at my school that claims to be writing a book. He is requiring students to sign a [non-disclosure agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement) (NDA) before certain lectures because he wants to maintain certain ideas of teaching his content part of his i... |
2019/09/08 | 559 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I need some help writing a polite email to a professor from a different department at my university. A while back I emailed him because I was interested in doing graduate studies at his department (I'm at a department in a pretty similar field). I asked him about the entrance exams and all the ... |
2019/09/08 | 473 | 1,891 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it okay to just say "I know what I know, and I'm not gonna try to learn anymore, because I'm already so exhausted as it is"? I'm asking this because this is basically how I feel right now, and several other times, I don't know if I'm even gonna make any more progress. Has anyone ever been in... |
2019/09/09 | 422 | 1,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to submit a paper to a conference in computer science. The conference's submission guidelines state 14 as the maximum number of pages. Should I take it at face value? My paper is 20 pages long (19, if you disregard the bibliography). If I submit it, can I expect an automatic rejection ... |
2019/09/09 | 2,040 | 8,513 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor got his PhD in the 1970s while having two kids and a house. He spent 25k on the house. Everyone from that era, even the 80s or 90s, said that their degree was dirt cheap and they were very easily transiting from academia to work life post graduation.
Fast forward to the present d... |
2019/09/09 | 365 | 1,314 | <issue_start>username_0: [Parallel Computing journal](https://www.elsevier.com/journals/parallel-computing/0167-8191/abstracting-indexing), according to their website, indexed in SCI. However, [master journal list](http://mjl.clarivate.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=D&ISSN=*0167-8191) (MJL) indicates that the jour... |
2019/09/09 | 1,160 | 4,513 | <issue_start>username_0: [Preprints.org](https://www.preprints.org/about) is a new site for sharing preprints of papers.
[arXiv](https://arxiv.org/) is one of the longest standing, stable and mature places for many people.
I'm wondering where to upload a paper (which is already open access on [GitHub](https://github.... |
2019/09/09 | 504 | 2,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been a tenured faculty member at a math department in the US for a few years. Recently two colleagues of mine asked (apparently independently) why I do not have PhD students. I honestly explained my reasons to each of them. Also I added that despite that, if it is necessary I CAN take st... |
2019/09/09 | 4,843 | 19,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my PhD 3 years ago from a university in the UK. Today I was looking for some papers in google scholar. I found a patent in China. The patent was written in Chinese however, all diagrams/figures and equations were exactly same as one of my PhD research papers, which was also part of ... |
2019/09/10 | 752 | 3,253 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a bachelor pass out of 2018. Electrical background. Currently i am working in R&D in an automobile company for the past year. PhD is something I have always wanted to pursue (mainly because I want to be a professor). But the PhD scenario here in my country makes me really uneasy towards it... |
2019/09/10 | 1,643 | 6,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a faculty job seminar coming up in a few weeks. Since this seminar will be attended by most faculty members in the department, I am wondering if it would be good to start the first slide (after the title slide) with an introduction of myself. That is it would be a brief bio of myself, wh... |
2019/09/10 | 1,627 | 6,476 | <issue_start>username_0: In 1873, Johns Hopkins University was started with an inflation-adjusted [$144.5 million](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University#The_philanthropist_and_the_founding). In 1884, Stanford University began with an inflation-adjusted [$139 million](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo... |
2019/09/10 | 2,545 | 10,568 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed a professor, saying I'm looking for a position. I introduced myself and wrote about experiences that I thought would be relevant to his work. I read on his website that he was recruiting students in a few research fields, and I cited the two in which I was interested, and said I would... |
2019/09/10 | 424 | 1,769 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently PhD student, and giving lectures to undergrad students (4 semesters). Is it legit to write about this activity in the CV separately. If yes, then how (i.e. lecturer)?<issue_comment>username_1: If *lecturer* is an actual title in your location, as it is in many, and you don't actu... |
2019/09/10 | 1,604 | 6,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I (as a Ph.D. student) supervised a masters project.
In particular, I defined the problem statement and prepared a sketch of the solution, that is, the steps which had to be done to achieve the solution. The masters student basically followed those steps which were mostly programming implement... |
2019/09/10 | 3,387 | 12,916 | <issue_start>username_0: Related: [What does "Publish or perish" really mean?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/9173/58912)
The issue of "Publish or Perish" is pretty much an accepted reality in Academia nowadays. When I look at history, however, I see that the Medieval university was far from this - that the aver... |
2019/09/10 | 871 | 3,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently talked with a professor about his offer to me a postdoc position. Later on I was notified about an interview for a tenure-track faculty position. So, I am wondering, if I have accepted the Postdoc offers, can I still proceed with the faculty position interview? I don't want to lose t... |
2019/09/11 | 528 | 2,338 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been a postdoc for a year and half with a good number of publications. I feel it is the time for seriously exploring the TT faculty positions. However, my mentor wants me to work for a few more years in the current position. Though I have good rapport with my mentor, I dont know if it is... |
2019/09/11 | 341 | 1,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper intended for a conference in computer science. Before submission I hired an expert to review and edit my paper. Do I need to mention them? If so, in what way? As a collaborator? In a footnote? In a special "Thanks" section? Would it be unethical not to mention them at all?<issue... |
2019/09/11 | 403 | 1,666 | <issue_start>username_0: Someone graduated from a university few months ago. She asked for certificate but university staff informed that it will take around 9 months to be ready and stamped from authorities. They offered to give Graduation Letter signed from university only and transcript.
The degree is in Arabic Lit... |
2019/09/11 | 431 | 1,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed my PhD this month, but this month also marked the completion of 8 years of my PhD journey. Standing on the new road ( and long road) of establishing myself as an academic. I wander if it is really worth of putting the efforts. Will the fast or productive publication from now on... |
2019/09/11 | 1,124 | 4,671 | <issue_start>username_0: This might sound like quite a basic question, but the answer has eluded me for the past couple of years. I'm from a computer science background, but the question is probably relevant outside this discipline.
Please forgive if my register for the rest of this question is quite frank. I'm coming... |
2019/09/11 | 295 | 1,285 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD research is about AI and the topic I choose is relatively new.
As far as I know, the only organisation that has worked on that area is Google.
by searching this topic there wasn't enough info of that it was done, techniques, methodology, statistics, etc.
I wonder if there is a certain... |
2019/09/12 | 2,202 | 9,786 | <issue_start>username_0: While working on a research paper with a coauthor, I found an unpublished paper in arXiv and discovered out that the technique we developed in our paper can be used to improve a result in the unpublished one. Specifically, we can design a superior algorithm to solve the same problem solved in t... |
2019/09/12 | 837 | 3,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as a research engineer for my professor. He told me to write a conference paper from the master’s thesis of one of his graduate students, since I am working in the same field. After reading the thesis and analyzing the student's results, I found that most of the work is of low qual... |
2019/09/12 | 289 | 1,126 | <issue_start>username_0: May I dedicate a paper to two persons in different ages on the occasion of their birthdays? For instance, "dedicated to John on his 70th birthday, and to Steve on his 60th birthday." I appreciate it if you could help me with finding a proper sentence.<issue_comment>username_1: >
> May I dedica... |
2019/09/12 | 543 | 2,408 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering about the acceptability of submitting two papers to the same journal at the same time. (I see some similar questions here, but they don't quite address my particular situation.) My area of interest is Media Studies. The two papers would be related but stand-alone, and I would be... |
2019/09/12 | 915 | 3,751 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a regional university in the United States. Several years ago (before I arrived) our department admitted five years of doctoral students (approximately 50 students) as general admits to a distance doctoral program without assigning chairs.
Now those students are reaching comps and t... |
2019/09/12 | 634 | 2,753 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated with my bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and started working in industry. During my undergraduate work, I had always planned on going back to school, but it wasn't until shortly before graduating that I realized that I really wanted to pursue academia and become a profe... |
2019/09/12 | 1,050 | 4,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a mathematical paper. Since my English is not perfect, i am borrowing sentences from English-speaking authors. I have some questions about copy and paste from other papers to my paper. As you know, one needs some definitions and theorems from other papers. I cited all of papers tha... |
2019/09/13 | 594 | 2,378 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be applying for PhD in USA this year, so I will be needing recommendation letters. Can I ask a DST INSPIRE faculty who used to work in same lab as me (apart from my principal investigator)? Will US universities consider this reference because I don't know if they are aware of what is a D... |
2019/09/13 | 1,255 | 5,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in Italy on a research group working on the conservation of cultural heritage analyzing artworks. I had some discussion with my lab on what job or project the university shouldn't accept to avoid overlapping with the private market as unfair competition.
For instance, in my field, many ... |
2019/09/13 | 1,944 | 8,103 | <issue_start>username_0: Every year rankings are published that list Oxford, Stanford and the like at the top, while many(most?) universities in continental europe share ranks well beyond 100. I myself am a Phd student at a technical university in Austria that is ranked somewhere beyond 300 and I don't quite understand... |
2019/09/13 | 480 | 2,058 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a tenure track position at a European university. Owing to some serious health issues in my family I will move to be closer to them.
I will resign before the term is over (but will try to keep on 1 day/mo to contribute to a small project and hopefully keep my title, I’m about to be pro... |
2019/09/13 | 414 | 1,845 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my thesis where I have two underlying sources where one says that a variable (has the founder of a kickstarter project backed other projects?) has influence on the dependent variable, while another source says it doesn't. What do I do in such a situation?<issue_comment>use... |
2019/09/13 | 325 | 1,359 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a faculty interview for a Canadian university coming up some time in the next week. For this interview I have to prepare 2 lectures.
I still havent received the date, nor the lecture topics. So I havent even booked time off work yet.
How much advanced warning is expected for this sort... |
2019/09/14 | 1,209 | 5,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student from China, and I want to apply for (pure) math PhD this fall, in the USA. Now I have a TOEFL score which has 102 points in total but only 20 points in speaking section. I am hesitating to take another TOEFL test.
What I want to know is, how important the TOEFL speaking section ... |
2019/09/14 | 721 | 3,163 | <issue_start>username_0: I have strong publication record in my Ph.D. and 1st Postdoc that went for two years. Got 4 TT interview calls before last year.. but not successful in any. Last year did not apply, but this year, after fixing a few shortcomings noticed in my previous interviews, started the search again. In th... |
2019/09/14 | 588 | 2,534 | <issue_start>username_0: I missed the PhD application deadline (Physics), and apart from applying late, what can I do if I get no position and I have to wait another year?
I would like to keep doing what I was doing for the Master thesis, and so spend a good amount of time staying in research somehow, so I won't feel... |
2019/09/14 | 712 | 3,064 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently came to know that one of the patent we filed in my previous organization has been abandoned. I am currently preparing my resume for PhD applications. I am confused whether to specify the abandoned patent in resume/CV considering the effort involved in coming up with the patent.
I th... |
2019/09/14 | 3,433 | 14,507 | <issue_start>username_0: When designing an exam, would you mention the maximum score per question or not? Is it common practice?
In my view this promotes cherry-picking. This could be seen as a way to prioritize or to satisfice (leaving questions open since "they are not worth it").
Is there any scientific proof/pe... |
2019/09/14 | 1,101 | 4,603 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my terminal Master’s degree program in Fall 2017. My plan was to graduate Spring 2019, and if successful, enter a Ph.D. program Fall 2019. My Master’s program is a more general program and not one that is necessary to obtain in order to proceed to my specific Ph.D. program, however, s... |
2019/09/14 | 711 | 3,123 | <issue_start>username_0: My academic research supervisor is asking me to write a patent that he is self-funding, with potential private commercial interests and benefits. I am also directly involved in the work that is related to this patent. However, this work was funded by my supervisor's research grants from our cou... |
2019/09/15 | 2,410 | 10,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I've submitted more papers for review than I've reviewed myself. I try to review as much as I can, but it's limited by incoming requests. Publons says I'm somewhat above the median (of 0.3 reviews : 1 publication), although this data is incomplete.
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> The Project Description should be written with both specialists and non-specialis... |