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2019/11/18 | 3,132 | 13,598 | <issue_start>username_0: You are a professor. A student comes to you with a question on an exam they have taken and received back. The student wrote 5 as the answer to a question, and they want to defend why 5 is a correct answer and they should receive full marks. Their argument is invalid, but you notice that the ans... |
2019/11/18 | 408 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I am filling in a form for a Masters application. At the top is a question asking to describe research experience (if any) and interests. It's in an engineering field, if that matters.
I have worked on a research project where something somewhat novel was designed, but unfortunately, did not p... |
2019/11/18 | 539 | 2,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering if the growing catalogue of preprint repositories have known 'impact factors' similar to those of popular print journals. If so, can anyone highlight them?<issue_comment>username_1: Even if there are services computing them, the impact factor for a preprint repository would not be... |
2019/11/18 | 431 | 1,944 | <issue_start>username_0: One often reads stories along the lines of "I was told I wasn't suited to a career in academia; now I'm a professor at < Big Name University >". At the same time, given the structure of the academic job market, many people who desire an academic job will never get one. I am sure many of us can ... |
2019/11/18 | 944 | 3,850 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to finish my masters in stats and in order to graduate I was told that I need to sign a document stating that any patents that I filed while enrolled at the university, belonged to the university. My first question is, is this normal? My second question is, I did file a patent during... |
2019/11/18 | 3,218 | 13,892 | <issue_start>username_0: Today we were asked by the management of our department to give full access of our agenda in Outlook to the secretary. By full access, I mean the possibility to *look, read, write, delete (own) slots* in the agenda. It was mentioned that it's imperative *not to alter any settings* so the entire... |
2019/11/18 | 543 | 2,332 | <issue_start>username_0: During the review process of an article, the reviewers are (almost always) anonymous by default for obvious reasons.
Why are not authors also made anonymous?
It could help remove the weight that established authors carry in certain fields (which can tilt the scale in their favor), as well as ... |
2019/11/18 | 5,626 | 23,960 | <issue_start>username_0: Questions of similar topics have been asked [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21365/being-the-right-kind-of-demanding-as-a-college-instructor) for the situation of instructing a course and here and [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18513/is-no-late-work-a-com... |
2019/11/18 | 626 | 2,681 | <issue_start>username_0: If my current recommender recycles the letter from previous recommender after each other's consent, will this be classified as plagiarism?
This is for MS programs to US universities FYI.<issue_comment>username_1: This will not be classified as plagiarism. A letter of recommendation does not pr... |
2019/11/18 | 743 | 3,195 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Master's student at one of the TUs (Technical Universities) in Germany. I have been working as a hiwi ("Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft", or Teaching Assistant) under a PhD for the past one year.
I have signed a new contract starting from December for another six months. Can I breach the c... |
2019/11/19 | 893 | 3,642 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently on [social](https://twitter.com/schneiderleonid/status/1196361609943367680) media, news broke that [<NAME>](http://www.xuetaocao.org/) duplicated or manipulated images in more than 50 papers of his. These accusations were brought to the public by <NAME> and explained in great details i... |
2019/11/19 | 920 | 3,892 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to read efficiently old papers? For example, to read all the Science and Nature cover papers since 1950?
How do you read old/fundamental literature?<issue_comment>username_1: If you are researching a specific area (doing a lit search) then your university library and an academi... |
2019/11/19 | 1,418 | 5,864 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm 26 and an Bachelor-Student in the Electrical Engineering field.
My interests are Control-Theory and Robotics.
My Grade are good (maybe i get an 1.x Grade for the Bachelors Degree).
My Control-Theory Prof is very convinced of my knowledge and gave me the advice to go to an University.
Im cu... |
2019/11/19 | 352 | 1,342 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm confused: someone said that a PhD in Europe is free, someone said that you get paid. What's true? And how hard is to get a PhD salary in Physics in North Europe?<issue_comment>username_1: You go to their website, find a job posting, and apply. Example of a [PhD Research Fellowship at the Un... |
2019/11/19 | 938 | 3,870 | <issue_start>username_0: Last week, my PhD advisor commented that I can postpone my thesis defense for couple of months if I was not ready to defend. However, I was adamant of completing my defense this year. As a result, my advisor has scheduled my defense for december and I have few weeks to prepare.
Now, on second ... |
2019/11/19 | 565 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a manuscript as a Research Paper last May 12 to Journal A. Now, 6 months later, I have received a decision letter recommending "... undertake a major revision, and re-submit a revised version of your paper as a Technical Note". Talking with co-authors we disagree and would like to s... |
2019/11/19 | 634 | 2,866 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be doing some research for a company I am about to start working for. The company is small and provides animal assisted interventions in schools. They want and need ways to measure the children's progress. I have suggested a validated measure and agreed to help with research and analysis... |
2019/11/19 | 443 | 1,806 | <issue_start>username_0: I got caught cheating on my university GE exam, and I am afraid suspension, I know I was wrong, should I just email prof to said I sorry and you can give me 0 in this exam or other advance to me that can help me avoid suspension?
Note: this is my first time, but I still afraid suspension, and ... |
2019/11/19 | 2,319 | 9,671 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student at a UK university. A small part of my time is taken up by (voluntarily) organizing a monthly seminar series. The seminar is open to all PhD students in my school, and is regularly attended by 30 or so students. I took over this duty in January 2018, before which time there w... |
2019/11/20 | 852 | 3,405 | <issue_start>username_0: Many professors, specifically in China, wants students to provide at least a template (half-written letter). In US, is it similar? I've read an article from Harvard Business Review website saying that it is better to enclose a template. <https://hbr.org/2010/04/how-to-ask-for-a-reference-let-1-... |
2019/11/20 | 533 | 2,231 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was in elementary school, I was in a single classroom the entire day. I would have different teachers come in and give classes, but we as students wouldn't change our classroom. When I was in high school, we were in two classrooms, first half and second half of the day.
There seems to ... |
2019/11/20 | 1,447 | 6,319 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a researcher (a postdoc) in a research group at a scientific institute. I obtained my Ph.D. degree 2 years ago and right away I got employed at this institute and started as a postdoc. I dare to say that I did a nice job during my Ph.D. and also I am working quite well here and m... |
2019/11/20 | 510 | 1,823 | <issue_start>username_0: It has become increasedly more common that when I try to access an article from the publisher's website I get redirected to a sort of online reader instead of a plain old pdf file to download. Elsevier calls it [enhanced reader](https://www.elsevier.com/librarians/article-news/evaluating-resear... |
2019/11/20 | 977 | 4,185 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I make sure that my research paper gets published in the first attempt. Getting a paper accepted as it is compulsory for my master’s degree and the deadline is in a month.<issue_comment>username_1: >
> How can I make sure that my research paper gets published in the first attempt
>
> ... |
2019/11/20 | 3,005 | 11,675 | <issue_start>username_0: Why do some journals change the final software and do not provide a template for the final draft(e.g. contains the same font as in the gallery proof)?
I often hear that some of my colleagues get unacceptable proofs (often even from Elsevier journals).
I am checking an Elsevier paper (<https:/... |
2019/11/20 | 369 | 1,557 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it sounds stupid but I have applied for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at a university in London and I have received an invitation for a Skype interview. However, I am a fresh MSc graduate having finished my masters two months ago. One of the job requirements says "PhD and/or equivale... |
2019/11/20 | 1,343 | 5,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a psychologist. But I studied studies about psychology. The ones I read have in common that their results are never contradicting legislation. If a scientist realized that some criminal activity contributed significantly to the well-being of those executing those actions and was able t... |
2019/11/20 | 1,219 | 5,401 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many questions on this site that deal with *what* can be negotiated once one has received an academic job offer. However, I cannot find anything addressing the mechanics of when and how to conduct the negotiations.
The typical timeline from the university side is:
* Advertise a job
... |
2019/11/21 | 573 | 2,387 | <issue_start>username_0: **As a Professor, how do *you* identify new papers to expose yourself to new ideas?**
Most of what I read now is derivative of old favorites or my own work. Journals in my area don't do a good job of grouping my somewhat interdisciplinary interests. I have found more new interesting work throu... |
2019/11/21 | 2,268 | 9,548 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am a part-time research assistant in the field of physics. My supervisor is brilliant and very nice. He always encourages me and says that I have done a great job so far. I don't know why I feel like I did not do a good job and I am very bad at research. I got stuck on something fo... |
2019/11/21 | 767 | 3,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a Springer mathematical journal. The reviewers asked for a revision, and after revising the paper, the editor's decision, alongside with the reviewers' one (of course), was to **accept the paper**. In the email that I have received it was stated: "You will receive an... |
2019/11/21 | 1,055 | 4,606 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 6th year PhD in computational chemical engineering. I have extensively used Lammps for my Molecular dynamics simulations. However there are many aspects of the modeling tools that I have no idea about ( like the time integration procedures used, the algorithms to make parallel computing ... |
2019/11/21 | 967 | 4,116 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from undergrad 5.5 years ago and have been working full time ever since. I worked in the hospitality industry in operation management for catering and hotels. I have now decided to take a break from my career path and pursue an MBA, wanting to shift my career to the next level. I le... |
2019/11/21 | 4,459 | 18,958 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year PhD student in mathematics at a university in Spain and about to submit my thesis in a few weeks. During the last months, I have been writing up the remaining details of a project. Let me make clear that this project is not the only one contained in my thesis. However, it is t... |
2019/11/21 | 3,933 | 16,762 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student and I am applying for research Masters/PhD in the US. I joined a research group before to help out on a part of a project. My coworker in this group, a PhD student has published a paper afterwards, which is irrelevant to the work that I have done, but sin... |
2019/11/22 | 953 | 4,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a college student. For a recent test, the professor originally said that the test was extremely difficult and long and therefore they were going to send us a picture of the exam an hour and a half before we had to take it. They said an hour and a half would not leave enough time for people ... |
2019/11/22 | 1,950 | 7,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just submitted revisions for my first single-author paper, and it was *awful* (pronounced with all the exaggerated fervor of a whiny millenial). Nothing triggers feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt more than making your own decisions about what should be included in the greater body of... |
2019/11/22 | 1,990 | 7,820 | <issue_start>username_0: During my research in theoretical physics I encountered a problem that required integrating a space of functions that I don't think has ever been done before. I discovered that these integrals are analytic and can be represented by a linear combination of elliptic and non-elliptic functions whi... |
2019/11/22 | 2,187 | 9,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I am at the beginning of my academic career (first "professor at uni" job after PhD). My official obligations are pretty standard: teach, do research, and faculty-related admin stuff.
Now, I have my area of research specialisation. However, on top of this, I have an ambitious goal to form myse... |
2019/11/22 | 1,209 | 5,447 | <issue_start>username_0: I reviewed a research paper and found it to be well-written with no technical or language issues. How should I go about writing the review report for the paper?
If I write something on the lines of "the work is well-written and well-presented" and keep the review report succinct, I am worried... |
2019/11/22 | 368 | 1,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I just took and received a very bad math subject gre score of 600, or 37th percentile.
Would it still be worth it to apply to any school that requires the subject test? I've been working at several tech startups for a few years so some of the material wasn't as fresh as it maybe would have bee... |
2019/11/22 | 1,090 | 4,596 | <issue_start>username_0: Very simple question. Reading some Q&A here and experience from my own papers and reviews I'm actually wondering when and how often the associate editor managing a possible review process of a submitted paper declines to start the process.
Maybe for not reaching formal standards of the journa... |
2019/11/23 | 513 | 1,986 | <issue_start>username_0: In filling out my very first grad school application I've come across the Letters of Recommendation page. It says to list the "Title" of the recommender. Do I use Professor here? Or Dr.? I am stumped. Both of my recommenders are professors and that is how I refer to them, but I am just not sure... |
2019/11/23 | 485 | 2,062 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to two places last year; both failed. I am not sure if I ask the professor to write a letter for me again, would he be annoyed? How should I tell him?
If I tell him that I failed, would that cast a negative impression of me on him?<issue_comment>username_1: Two rejections are not so... |
2019/11/23 | 4,491 | 17,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a newly minted PhD researcher from Sweden who just finished my defense this summer (after a really stressfull and draining final year). Ever since then I have been thinking about my future in academia. I basically decided I wanted to build a startup together some friends of mine and we are ... |
2019/11/23 | 4,300 | 17,006 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student and I have been assigned to read a research papaer in the robotics field, understand it, elaborate it and write an essay about it. I have never done something similar, so I am a little bit lost.
How should I read a research paper in order to do this? Is there a particular way o... |
2019/11/23 | 4,348 | 17,169 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for PhD programs at graduate schools in the US and I am wondering how I should refer to researchers that I name in my statement of purpose? In particular, I am wondering whether to refer to people that have titles of 'Assistant Professor' or 'Associate Professor' as Prof. or Dr.? ... |
2019/11/23 | 782 | 3,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I know how many hours I am paid for each week but have recently been asked to do a bit more teaching and told that, based upon what I was already doing, they were allowed to ask me to do a bit more.
So it seems they have a way of figuring this out. Perhaps even rules about it. I didn't know t... |
2019/11/23 | 1,685 | 7,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I just wanted to get some input from the community about an issue I have run into with my main PhD supervisor.
I started my PhD about two years ago (hard science field), and about six months ago I finished a preliminary draft for most my first article. The draft is about 70 % complete, but I c... |
2019/11/23 | 1,224 | 5,019 | <issue_start>username_0: Earlier this year I had a paper accepted to a well-recognized journal in a particular (humanities) subfield. I *finally* received proofs of the article, and was (more than a bit) upset at the edits. A lot of the changes were at the sentence level: phrasing, punctuation, word choice.
These edi... |
2019/11/23 | 526 | 2,194 | <issue_start>username_0: In one of my PhD thesis chapters, I have a derivation of a theory that I have proposed in the paper. I just found out that I have made an error in the calculation, and my derivation is flawed. The chapter is yet to be submitted in a journal, so it has never been peer reviewed. I never saw the f... |
2019/11/23 | 595 | 2,567 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering whether it'd be worthwhile to spend an extra semester in my undergrad or two getting my grades up. Unfortunately I've taken all the courses relevant to my field, so this would mean using unrelated courses to boost my GPA.
But I'm not sure if the unrelated courses would actually ... |
2019/11/24 | 552 | 2,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I notice that many top American engineering PhD programs ask for undergrad or master degrees in engineering or physics, but this discussion excludes math majors. How come? Are math majors not qualified because the training is vastly different from engineering?
I'm a math nerd interested in app... |
2019/11/24 | 310 | 1,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a list of about a dozen small errors I've personally discovered in my thesis. Is it advisable to have a slide during the presentation listing these? I understand that this is superfluous, insofar that the examiners will probably already have identified these, but I want to look as if I a... |
2019/11/24 | 1,110 | 4,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the following situation in mind: consider two people A and B, who are roughly "equally good" in their field and do their bachelors in the same university - a small, not widely known insitution. Then student A stays there for his/her Master's, while student B chooses to do his Master's in... |
2019/11/24 | 695 | 2,818 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just seen a job advertised by a London university for a job similar to mine but as senior lecturer. I'm confused because the bottom end of the salary listed is lower than what I am currently on as just a lecturer, and I'm not in London so this is without any kind of London weighting.
The ... |
2019/11/24 | 692 | 2,805 | <issue_start>username_0: As a reviewer suppose you receive a paper (Paper 1) where one of main results is claimed to be concurrent work with another recently published paper (Paper 2). There is sufficient evidence to establish that this claim is true: (1) The proofs of the main result in Paper 1 and Paper 2 are complet... |
2019/11/24 | 2,566 | 10,858 | <issue_start>username_0: There recently was some bad press regarding job security for tenured academics in Denmark. A [critical article in a newspaper edited by University of Copenhagen employees](https://uniavisen.dk/en/professors-the-university-of-copenhagen-has-a-job-security-problem/) mentions the firing of two pro... |
2019/11/24 | 539 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a private tutor for (mostly) high school maths and physics students.
Recently a student came to me with an elegant little problem that he had been given on an exam. The problem was very short, and easy for him to remember, but he and others had found it difficult to solve. It required sy... |
2019/11/24 | 596 | 2,547 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first semester PhD student. The standard time for finishing a PhD is 3 to 5 years in the part of the world I'm in. I have to defend a thesis proposal or project by the end of the second year. I have changed my area of research since my master's, so I only have conference papers in my cur... |
2019/11/25 | 483 | 2,213 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose an engineering PhD candidate in the USA is trying to pursue an academic profession (e.g. Assistant Professorship in a Research Institute), is it even worth-while to commit to extra-curricular activities like student leadership during PhD candidacy?
More specifically, are soft skills l... |
2019/11/25 | 2,266 | 9,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and I feel extremely burned-out because:
* I work fulltime as a software engineer
+ I work for financial reasons because TAship pay is negligible or basically equal to one-third of my rent.
+ I asked to be part-time and I have been continuo... |
2019/11/25 | 602 | 2,679 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new in the field of research and am trying to publish my first paper.
I am working on improving a paper that involves Machine Learning. However, in order to make changes to it, wouldn't I need to implement it? Does this require that I implement the paper in my own way and not use their co... |
2019/11/25 | 2,034 | 9,154 | <issue_start>username_0: A little background info: So I'm in my second year of studies at a state university in the town I live in. I'm specifically going to school for computer science. As I said, I'm in my second year, but I've been programming since I was 14 and was recently accepted into a research group (not tryin... |
2019/11/25 | 723 | 3,207 | <issue_start>username_0: * Is it reasonable to request keeping my application to a tenure-track position secret in the cover letter?
* Would search committee likely to respect such a request?
* If at all possible, how long can such secret be kept?
The motivation for keeping an application secret is to not create any p... |
2019/11/25 | 1,120 | 4,826 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming you want a good chance of getting at least 1 offer from a research university, is applying for 20 jobs average? Is applying for 30 jobs overkill?
Would most letter writers feel hassled by having to send off letters to like 10-15 different websites, or would they expect that is normal?... |
2019/11/25 | 2,161 | 9,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I just joined a faculty as assistant professor, at a university in South America. The admin team and students treat me as "professor". Moreover, because the official language is Spanish, people refer to me as "usted" instead of "tu" (see difference [here](https://www.dummies.com/languages/spani... |
2019/11/25 | 506 | 2,278 | <issue_start>username_0: So, my situation is as follows: I submitted a paper to a journal and continued to work on that line of research, specifically on the open problems I mentioned in the submitted paper.
Now, in the received reviews the referees call for more content in the form of addressing one of the before men... |
2019/11/25 | 629 | 2,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my paper in a journal a week ago. After one week the administrator returned my paper and requested all the authors to associate their ORCID with their accounts and asked us to resubmit the paper.
During the resubmission, a question asked "Was this paper previously submitted to ... |
2019/11/26 | 890 | 3,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I was interested in deep learning and devoted most of my undergraduate time to it. However, as I learn more about this field, I discover it does not fit me: I hate tuning parameters and doing experiments. Developing concrete and explainable applications seems more appealing to me.
I am about ... |
2019/11/26 | 916 | 3,955 | <issue_start>username_0: Feeing kind of stuck here. I started out as a math PhD student then switched to engineering. I thought by doing so I would be able to learn new skills and expertise in that particular field. But I quickly realized my advisor had a side interest in a math-ish field that is tangentially related t... |
2019/11/26 | 890 | 3,531 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering having six chapters in my PhD thesis:
1. General Introduction (including literature review)
2. General Methods
3. Study 1 (as a published paper)
4. Study 2 (as a published paper)
5. Study 3 (as a published paper)
6. General Discussion
Appendix
and each chapter should have ... |
2019/11/26 | 6,016 | 26,361 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a TA in a graduate level course. Students in the course have to hand in a weekly assignment which is done in pairs.
A few days ago, one of the students approached the professor and told her that they are not getting along with their partner and requested to join another pair of students, i... |
2019/11/26 | 1,123 | 4,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I am undergraduate in Computer Science and my problem is that i don't quite understand what's wrong with me
1. When I am taking a course I am able to understand it but at much slower rate then other students which results in me taking 2 or 3 courses instead of 5 or 6 that i should be taking, ... |
2019/11/26 | 559 | 2,512 | <issue_start>username_0: A former colleague has created a figure. The figure is not published and serves only as a mean for information sharing. I used to be a part of that research group and thus had access to it.
I published an article featuring a modified version of this figure, to explain my current experimental s... |
2019/11/27 | 786 | 3,382 | <issue_start>username_0: I started in a combinded MS/PhD program and was on the PhD track, but for mental and physical health reasons I had to switch to the MS track. I had not yet made it to the research part of the program, so I don't have an adviser.
I really want to get my PhD, and the (then) graduate director in ... |
2019/11/27 | 2,615 | 10,249 | <issue_start>username_0: Not referring to degree mills here, but genuine PhDs.
This claim comes from [this blog post](http://neurochambers.blogspot.com/2012/05/tough-love-insensitive-guide-to.html?fbclid=IwAR2U1cB8NTAIEbXZzyatcZWwus4VM9aGvi28KD8zWU0cgZerzmKmvOB59Sk) by Cardiff University psychologist and neuroscientis... |
2019/11/27 | 1,373 | 5,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a Ph.D. program. In my program, I declared my preliminary advisor who is supposed to guide me when writing my first field paper.
Firstly, after I passed my qualifying examination in the last summer, I asked my paper advisor to visit his office to discuss and determine my research topi... |
2019/11/27 | 180 | 781 | <issue_start>username_0: When including a list of own publications in thesis, which order would you follow?
* Descending chronological order
* Ascending author position
* Relevance to thesis chapters
* (Any other ways)<issue_comment>username_1: This might be field-dependent, but in electrical engineering it is common ... |
2019/11/27 | 1,075 | 4,641 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD is in computational Materials science. I successfully defended my thesis yesterday. However, I felt that one of the committee members was starting to get angry with my answers. I was trying to answer his questions, but his questions were very vague indicating that he clearly did not go t... |
2019/11/27 | 1,138 | 4,455 | <issue_start>username_0: The EU has a research fellowship [program](https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en) named after Physicist <NAME>-Curie. The website lacks a bunch of information, but I'm specifically interested in understanding what kind of funding it actually provides ... |
2019/11/27 | 563 | 2,456 | <issue_start>username_0: What would happen if a student was admitted to graduate school (only consider US institutions here), but failed a course later and would have to wait till the next time to take the course to make up for it and get the bachelor degree?
Do they have a chance in this situation to apply for a def... |
2019/11/27 | 722 | 3,156 | <issue_start>username_0: You can prepare a talk from a to z, know exactly what you are going to say and how (and this is even more important when English is not your first language and your skills are not top-notch) - but what can you do when you are asked a question with a thick accent that you just don't understand?
... |
2019/11/27 | 872 | 3,479 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is a peculiar situation I face but I don't think it is uncommon in academia.
My adviser asked me in an email **to commit to continuing the work to publish a paper from my PhD work before signing my PhD dissertation form**
Let's assume the worst case scenario in which I will not be able t... |
2019/11/27 | 738 | 3,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I am polishing my CV for PhD applications (Statistical Physics related). I was wondering about whether it is appropriate to list some personal interests and non-academic skills. This is my list (last line is the more uncertain, since during the lessons sessions I am not able to read much):
Add... |
2019/11/28 | 789 | 2,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who is co-authoring a publication for a scientific journal for the first time. My advisor has asked what I want my name and affiliation to be but I need some guidance.
My full name is <NAME>, but I go by Lizzi. I go to Virginia Tech which has the full name Virgini... |
2019/11/28 | 577 | 2,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a job and they ask my h-index. The problem is that Scopus and Web of Science list different citation number for my papers and this results in a different h-index. Who should I trust?<issue_comment>username_1: The best thing to do would be checking directly why the two numbers ... |
2019/11/28 | 1,339 | 5,289 | <issue_start>username_0: [comments from my supervisor]
>
> You still have a tendency to use phrases such as "All in all", and "To
> this end". Not a serious problem of course, but be aware that the
> editors/reviewers for some scientific journals will not accept such
> wording - they will see it as a waste of word... |
2019/11/28 | 1,007 | 3,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my Ph.D. research in computer science a few months ago and started writing my dissertation. Meanwhile, I applied for a postdoc position before my Ph.D. fund could run out. So, I found and started a postdoc position around a month ago in another University in Germany, and I'm going to... |
2019/11/28 | 585 | 2,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I have decided to apply for PhD in cybersecurity even though my research during my graduate time period is totally of a different topic, which is neuroscience. My CV is majorly focused on research in neuroscience and data science and it doesn't contain any previous experience even though I have... |
2019/11/28 | 1,518 | 6,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I am giving a lecture in IT (for the first time) to more than 100 students. I refused to use the slides of the previous lecturer and I wanted to make my owns. They take me a lot of effort and I believe that are better than most lecture slides on the same topic.
The lecture includes so many mat... |
2019/11/28 | 625 | 2,709 | <issue_start>username_0: Posted here as OP is not on SE:
Ok I have a dilemma. I am a university student. I was re-diagnosed late with ADHD due to a misdiagnosis of severe depression and anxiety, I have struggled at university often having submited assignments late with careless mistakes.
Now I know that the standard ... |
2019/11/29 | 549 | 2,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently filling out an application for a lecturer position in the UK, which includes a section on employment history.
Previously I was employed at a Russian university where my official job title was an engineer. However, the work that I did correspond more to a research assistant. The ... |
2019/11/29 | 915 | 3,724 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the past few months I’ve contacted around 10 potential advisors at various schools of interest, and the only professor who has gotten back to me told me to wait until I was accepted if I wanted to work with him. My email strategy has been reading over papers from a professor and crafting p... |
2019/11/29 | 928 | 3,996 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working as a postdoc for nearly a year. In recent months, the university is working to upgrade office and common spaces within my particular building. Some professors wanted a "Faculty Club" which is something like a common space for interaction between scientists to share ideas and... |
2019/11/29 | 472 | 2,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that several MathJobs applications asks "Faculty contacts in our dept?", always with this exact, confusing wording.
I'm not clear what this means. Can someone explain?
Is it, "do you personally know anyone in our faculty?" or is it "who is the person in our faculty that's closest... |
2019/11/29 | 1,093 | 3,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I have quite some articles with more than 7 authors. I read [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/71453/when-citing-a-paper-with-a-lot-of-authors-is-it-ok-to-shorten-the-author-list-i) that when an article has more than 7 authors you shorten it in the reference list. So for exampl... |
2019/11/29 | 576 | 2,342 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my thesis. At times, I find it may be helpful to add additional context to a quotation or I may want to include an additional, interesting fact that complements the main body of the text whilst not being directly pertinent to the point at hand.
For example, I'm quoting "... |
2019/11/29 | 570 | 2,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm new on this website and am not sure how much of higher academia works.
Suppose I wanted to work with a professor in a particular field of mathematics at a research university (not necessarily a PhD-granting university) to possibly write a dissertation in that field. Must that university be... |
2019/11/29 | 517 | 2,099 | <issue_start>username_0: A job opening for a tenure track position specifies that the application must include "scientific highlights".
Now I am puzzled by this. I've applied before for tenure-track positions, and I've never heard of such a thing.
I don't get the difference with other more standard ingredients of an a... |