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2020/02/22 | 292 | 1,096 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a non-academic acquaintance who is at a senior position in the telecom industry. He might have good links in academia. I am thinking to ask him for suggesting or referring me to his contacts in academia for a post-doctoral position. I do not want any favor based on nepotism or anything l... |
2020/02/22 | 2,808 | 11,823 | <issue_start>username_0: **Update on Feb 27**
The extension is confirmed. I can get the different reviewer, but sadly the graduate school will be able to make a replacement for me next semester.
My additional advice for others who come here to read later.
1. Going to the harassment center is effective, but please di... |
2020/02/22 | 502 | 2,118 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an independent student of math and want to use many interesting video courses. Unfortunately the [math video courses of Duke university](https://www4.math.duke.edu/video/video.html) are unavailable for others. So I want to know
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> Is there any way to access these courses or is it possib... |
2020/02/22 | 962 | 3,980 | <issue_start>username_0: Just for some background information: I’m currently enrolled in a MS/PhD integrated program and finished my first semester last fall. I’m planning to opt out and apply to PhD programs this year and if all goes well then I’ll be attending school in the fall of 2021.
I’ve been looking into schoo... |
2020/02/23 | 3,436 | 14,087 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes advances are made in science research that have enormous and very easily visible potential. There are two examples that I have seen recently.
One example is [this newly engineered inexpensive process to convert carbon dioxide into methanol, for fuel](https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/s... |
2020/02/23 | 885 | 3,820 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently studying in BTech CSE 2nd year. My maths is very weak and I have to choose the specialization, but I want to choose a career in computer science which does not require maths. If there is maths in any career it should be very little or easy. Please guide me ..<issue_comment>userna... |
2020/02/23 | 1,438 | 6,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student majoring in civil engineering and I am in my 3rd year.I had a harsh beginning: I took 2 intensive courses during my first year of college after a gap semester. I didn’t perform well during my first and second year of college. I have repeated one failed major course( got a D- the ... |
2020/02/23 | 656 | 2,723 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted an article and I got first decision. I wrote answers and explanations to the reviewer comments and re submitted the article. After 2 months it sent to the same reviewer (as per info given at help section) and i am told that the reviewer has not accepted the invite. It is very su... |
2020/02/23 | 2,584 | 9,910 | <issue_start>username_0: **Note**: You may refer previous revisions for more context.
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I read [Academia varies more than you think it does](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1212), but in any school or university I've been to or heard of, students can always see how they were graded for any assignment. Or,... |
2020/02/24 | 2,088 | 8,577 | <issue_start>username_0: so basically I have recently started to teach my own course for the first time. In the past, I mainly taught professors in the department that were on leave etc and they normally supplied me with their teaching materials, so this is the first time I am completely writing my own notes/lecture sl... |
2020/02/24 | 2,305 | 9,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a very high expectation of a lab that I want to join and It's highly possible for me to eventually do that after my rotation period ends. The [PI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator) is the kind of person whom I have been looking for for so long. The only concern is tha... |
2020/02/24 | 643 | 2,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I will apply for a Ph.D. position, and the university is asking for an English version of my transcript record and diploma.
My diploma/transcripts records are in French and the cost of a certified translation is enormous.
Is it possible to send non-certified translations? I would, of course, ... |
2020/02/24 | 1,520 | 6,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my late 30's and started a Ph.D. program and am wondering what my academic career prospects are. From my understanding, after the Ph.D., there are 2-3 years of postdoc, then 4-6 years of tenure-track before becoming a Prof. Is that correct?
My field is `machine learning` (or `artificial... |
2020/02/24 | 1,180 | 5,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering asking another professor to be my thesis advisor. My situation differs from that of other question-askers in that:
1. I am in a position where I have done enough research to write my thesis and be done in a couple of months.
2. My relationship with my current advisor, while ro... |
2020/02/25 | 3,180 | 13,742 | <issue_start>username_0: In present day academia, it seems much harder to make foundational breakthroughs than it was in the past. Most work now synthesizes previously discovered results to study something extremely specific. Although this extremely specific thing may be valuable to know, it generally does not have the... |
2020/02/25 | 440 | 1,908 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting on September 12th and after about 4 months the status changed from "Awaiting Reviewer Scores" to "Awaiting AE Decision". However, it's been around 40 days that the status has not changed and I haven't received a decision. I have cont... |
2020/02/25 | 835 | 3,701 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to have advice on how a software engineer with a decent (>10 years) of industry experience can join a team doing academic research in the areas of physics, chemistry, biology or climate science. I am curious if there exists software engineer positions in these types of projects wit... |
2020/02/26 | 662 | 2,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received the Galley proof from the journal. I sent my correction, but there are more than 50. All of them are minor. Part of them are caused in the copy-editing process, and the editor changed some words incorrectly. Part of them are caused by my own mistake on factual information, l... |
2020/02/26 | 4,688 | 19,933 | <issue_start>username_0: I run a lab at an R1 university in the USA. Almost ten years ago I removed an undergraduate volunteer student from my laboratory group for harassing another student.
Today I received a multi-page, rambling, angry email from the student volunteer I removed. The email is disturbing, including re... |
2020/02/26 | 1,753 | 7,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just discovered that a former colleague is now working on some research ideas that I developed and laid the groundwork for now that I have left academia following failure to obtain funding. I'm happy that the work is being done, but feel that it would have been courteous to let me know tha... |
2020/02/26 | 418 | 1,590 | <issue_start>username_0: I visited the campus for an in-person interview 2 weeks ago.
They supported my flight and hotel.
I thought I was good at the interview and the director stated that she will be in touch after several weeks.
Is it okay if I send follow-up email?
I am so nervous and cannot focus on my work.
Any co... |
2020/02/26 | 423 | 1,685 | <issue_start>username_0: Papers funded by NSF grants usually contain a phrase like "This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants ENG-XXXXXX".
I wonder if it is possible to find some information about these grants with the grant numbers. I am interested in who applied for the grant, origi... |
2020/02/26 | 322 | 1,243 | <issue_start>username_0: Two weeks ago I have done and I have submitted the corrections that a journal had asked me to do, but today thay asked me to do the same corrections. I am looking for a good letter cover to let them know.<issue_comment>username_1: Perhaps the new version didn't arrive or they lost it. Perhaps t... |
2020/02/26 | 771 | 3,007 | <issue_start>username_0: What if when taking a test you could select multiple answers and the percent per question you got was
(100)(1/n), n being the amount of answers selected (only award points if any a selected answer was correct, and only for multiple choice questions). What this does is give people the option to... |
2020/02/27 | 5,348 | 22,366 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in an online, accredited, public, post-baccalaureate degree program. I think it's the first time my instructor is teaching a university course -- at least at this institution.
The instructor said he had found someone to play the part of a potential client. We were supposed to have a simul... |
2020/02/27 | 5,315 | 22,227 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been nominated for a community contribution award alongside another professor in our field, this nomination for serving our research community (scientific activities). The conference is established by the leaders of the field and well-respected professor who nominated me.
This award is ... |
2020/02/27 | 4,991 | 20,786 | <issue_start>username_0: Many job offers state that they the applicant should *include the full contact information for three referees* in the CV. I was wondering about two things:
1) How to decide upon the inclusion of scholars? Naming your supervisor of the PhD thesis might be obvious, but then? Do only professors c... |
2020/02/27 | 5,055 | 20,945 | <issue_start>username_0: Many universities have *visiting* (also sometimes termed [adjunct](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjunct_professor) outside the US) faculty positions for [non-salaried academics associated with a department](https://www.cmu.edu/mcs/people/faculty/resources/handbook/nonsalary.html). My question ... |
2020/02/27 | 5,242 | 21,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently pursuing a master's degree (math) in the US, and I have been accepted to a different PhD program (applied math). I've been offered funding for only four years, though, because I am already pursuing my master's degree. Is this something of a big concern? I'll essentially have to st... |
2020/02/28 | 5,042 | 20,895 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a history project at school. There were two other partners besides me. So I did basically 98% of the work, another person did approximately 2% of the work, and the last person did 0%. :( Now we are (I am) almost done. For the video we had to make on Japanese calligraphy, I draw a LOT of d... |
2020/02/28 | 1,033 | 4,405 | <issue_start>username_0: For example say a department has 5 full professors and 5 associate professors right now. Can we say that, assuming all the associate professors are good (and no retirements, institution changes, etc), the department will eventually have 10 full professors?
Or is there a hard limit that will st... |
2020/02/28 | 1,413 | 6,080 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an engineer from the US at a large tech company who had to cease their undergraduate studies due to family complications. Previously, I was an assistant in a CS research lab during college, and in industry I've been able to work on engineering problems within the same CS sub-field for the p... |
2020/02/29 | 608 | 2,738 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite a GitHub repository in scientific publications.
The repository that I used is a fork version of the original GitHub repository which is accompanied by a paper.
Both repositories are the same, but the fork has additional code for further calculations and plots.
I cited the paper... |
2020/02/29 | 1,250 | 5,314 | <issue_start>username_0: The title is pretty self-explanatory, but let me explain.
The lab I'm at right now is very big. It's around 30-40 people. I'm a master's student that just finished his first semester and am looking to apply for PhD programs this fall/winter so that if all goes as planned I'll start school in t... |
2020/02/29 | 354 | 1,100 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to report a ratio in my thesis. The ratio is 16:84, but I also want tot report which number represents which class. Can I report that like this:
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> The data was not evenly distributed with a ratio of 16:84 (CN:AD).
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Or should I put the CN:AD in square brackets? And is it cl... |
2020/02/29 | 714 | 2,966 | <issue_start>username_0: From my observations comparing syllabi, grades, and coursework with a few of my peers, their professor's section of the same class has a significantly lighter work-load, more lenient grading policy, and a higher overall class-average (we're talking a letter-grade higher).
Do I have a case for ... |
2020/03/01 | 849 | 3,682 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate who is going to apply for scholarships and to graduate school in physics in the coming months. At the start of last semester in August, I tried to join a group of a respected professor, where I was assigned a theoretical project. I've met with him maybe three times during t... |
2020/03/01 | 1,600 | 6,876 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master’s student (physics) in the US, and I am applying to this PhD position in Germany. This is what the application website says:
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> Please apply online and provide a cover letter next to a CV in English, as well as your work certificates in one single pdf-file.
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I just wan... |
2020/03/01 | 1,573 | 6,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm hopefully in the last half a year or so of my Ph.D. in a subfield of mathematics/theoretical physics and am considering applying for a postdoc within the next three months.
My supervisor works (partly) on field X, and I've pursued my Ph.D. in the direction of subfield Y (with the thumbs-up... |
2020/03/01 | 911 | 4,152 | <issue_start>username_0: I am lucky CS senior undergrad who has received offers from a number of good departments in the USA. I am currently going through the usual factors for evaluating departments and supervisors. In the process, I've noticed a common trend in advice: most of the advice that I've gotten has not ment... |
2020/03/02 | 6,993 | 30,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like your suggestion on a delicate matter involving a paper that I am reviewing. I will avoid giving too many details to preserve anonymity.
In this article the authors describe an algorithm for the (unmanned) control of a military armed drone. The work has been done completely in a si... |
2020/03/02 | 2,201 | 8,467 | <issue_start>username_0: Authors and readers can discuss about the writing of authors including ideas, experience design, hypothesis etc., like what people discuss at stackoverflow, rather than authors only get feedbacks until publishing the paper after all work done.
I am wondering if there is any website for researc... |
2020/03/02 | 348 | 1,441 | <issue_start>username_0: Professor replied me this:"To start with the practicalities, do you have funding to support a trip to the UK, or would you need financial support?"<issue_comment>username_1: If you need funding support, just say so. You don't need to go into a lot of detail about why. It is probably more import... |
2020/03/02 | 3,307 | 14,163 | <issue_start>username_0: Referee comments for my paper have just arrived: while one makes some circumstantial and useful observations, the other asks me to add a plot:
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> The paper still does not contain a single plot. I encourage the author to present some of their results in graphical form, which will greatly enha... |
2020/03/02 | 774 | 3,359 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply to CS PhD programs this year. Just a litte background: I did my BS and (non thesis) MS in EE/ECE at the same school. During my BS I did two semesters of undergrad research that went fine and gave me valuable experience.
During the second (last) semester of my MS I took on for-... |
2020/03/02 | 1,555 | 6,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be starting as an Assistant Professor this fall (in the US). My official start date is one week before the start of classes. This means I will need to develop the course during the summer, before I have officially started my position. I asked the department if there was compensation for ... |
2020/03/02 | 435 | 1,978 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's assume that a journal editor has been allocated a submission, started reviewing it himself, but stopped responding to the managing editor (= you) despite a long time since the authors had sent the submission (a little less than 3 years). The submission is longer than each of the papers ac... |
2020/03/02 | 508 | 2,226 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a grant to the National Science Foundation of the United States of America.
The grant is to fund our research in numerical methods for fashion. I want to conduct a survey where I show two images to a human subject. One of the images shows the original dress and the other one s... |
2020/03/02 | 583 | 2,538 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's assume that a journal editor has been allocated a submission, started reviewing it himself, but stopped responding to the managing editor (= you) despite a long time since the authors had sent the submission (a little less than 3 years). The submission is longer than each of the papers ac... |
2020/03/02 | 376 | 1,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to a faculty position at a university (a small state school) near my hometown and I just received an email invitation for a Skype interview later this week. Coincidentally, I am visiting my parents' house this week, which is about a 20 minute drive from the institution offering the in... |
2020/03/02 | 576 | 2,596 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible for a faculty to take leave for 1 or 2 years to go and learn some new technologies in order to broaden their research area into a more interdisciplinary area?
Imagine you are working on statistical and computational modelling of cellular dynamics, now you want to go and learn exp... |
2020/03/03 | 3,241 | 13,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen questions about people changing their last names due to marriage but not for trans people. However, for them, it can be much more harmful (and wrong) to always carry their old names forever, although all other kinds of public records can be changed. Moreover, they should not be forc... |
2020/03/03 | 2,617 | 11,313 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary: A co-author on a manuscript under review hasn't really done anything. Should I remove their name (with or without notice), keep their name and tell them it's unfair, or do nothing.**
Some time ago I met someone at a conference who works on similar topics. We had a nice conversation.... |
2020/03/03 | 2,520 | 10,929 | <issue_start>username_0: I will have a draft of a new textbook ready for the fall semester. It is an engineering class.
I very much want feedback from the students concerning the quality and usefulness of the material.
What are the best practices for getting this feedback from students? Is it ethical to give a grade ... |
2020/03/03 | 764 | 3,173 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently studying undergraduate school in Europe and am toying with idea of applying to a U.S. collage for graduate school.
So I‘ve read a bit online about GPA requirements and there it says that one should have a score of at least 3.0. My current GPA would be way below that and I‘m not... |
2020/03/03 | 617 | 2,859 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to two courses viz - Mathematical Physics MSc and Theoretical Physics MSc at the University of Edinburgh. I'm currently a final year bachelors student. From what I can gather post a decent amount of research, the two courses differ in the allocation of compulsory math courses. I've... |
2020/03/03 | 6,004 | 21,869 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about [this](https://www.quora.com/Which-PhD-programs-in-Germany-would-you-recommend/answer/Carlos-Paul) apparently well-received answer on Quora:
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> Q: Which PhD programs in Germany would you recommend?
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> A: NONE...The German Ph.D. system is feudal and archaic. At the t... |
2020/03/03 | 1,491 | 6,470 | <issue_start>username_0: My current computer science postdoc ends in the summer. I'm planning to leave academia after that. For the purpose of this question, because reasons I won't go into, we may assume I will never return to academia.
One of the peculiarities of the field of computer science is that research has no... |
2020/03/03 | 1,123 | 4,619 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated from my PhD program. To put things into prespective I need to mention that I, unfortunately, don’t have a good relationship with my adviser. I currently have one under review paper with my adviser. We received the reviewers’ comments for this paper. However, I don’t have ti... |
2020/03/03 | 936 | 4,014 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read several questions for this topic, and haven't found one which is comprehensive enough for me and has all this factors that are unique to my case. I have won a special grant from an educational fund and now I can do a self-funded research internship in US. I am a third year undergrad... |
2020/03/04 | 817 | 3,424 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my PhD on topic X, and my PhD advisor is an expert on X and on Y. For a problem I have come across in my postdoc, I think that Y would be a good approach. There is no one I am currently working with that I could ask about Y, so I would like to send my PhD advisor an email asking for liter... |
2020/03/04 | 1,447 | 5,856 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to CS masters programs in the US, and I have recently received an offer from a top-15 institution.
The program is unfunded, and I want to wait for decisions from other programs I applied to, some of which are funded.
However, the institution is telling me that they are only giving ... |
2020/03/04 | 942 | 3,874 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if there is a deadline for submission to a journal? So far, I only know that submission to conferences has a deadline, but I'm not sure about journals.
I've looked at several journals of Elsevier, IEEE, and Springer, and I cannot find any information about the deadlines. I did some s... |
2020/03/04 | 1,532 | 6,203 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that some consider certain activities of Sci-hub to violate the law in some jurisdictions. Many of the previous questions and opinions related to Sci-hub have focused on these legal aspects (and they are certainly important to consider).
However, I am wondering what are the main harms ... |
2020/03/04 | 1,207 | 5,032 | <issue_start>username_0: In January, I started my third year of a computer science PhD. My goal has always been to balance "X" and computer science ("X" being a non-engineering subject), and I thought I could do that at my current institution while officially getting my computer science degree. Unfortunately, I underes... |
2020/03/04 | 510 | 2,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to seek some ideas about what kind of topics I can talk about during the dinner or lunch time during my upcoming on-site faculty interview. I will have a dinner with the searching committee, department head, and other faculty members in the department. What typical topics I can pick up t... |
2020/03/04 | 649 | 2,678 | <issue_start>username_0: So I met with a potential supervisor at an Open day and she seemed very excited at my research interest as it aligns with hers. She said she is recruiting students for Fall 2020 and she would want me on her team but wants to contact my references and will then get back to me. I know she contact... |
2020/03/05 | 1,467 | 6,595 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a teaching assistant (TA) in a second-year undergraduate course and have just received the results of my students' multiple choice midterm exam, which were marked by an optical marking ("Scantron") machine. The students are required to print their name in pencil, and are also asked to fill... |
2020/03/05 | 798 | 3,239 | <issue_start>username_0: As a faculty member, it can happen that a student tells you that they are intending to commit a crime (while also attempting to swear you to secrecy). This might be something as simple as buying illegal drugs but it may also be something more serious.
It seems you might have three sources of r... |
2020/03/05 | 804 | 3,356 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my PhD in mechanical engineering last year. It took me 5.5 years to complete it. I already held a master's degree previously albeit in a different research area. The main reason was my inability to understand the topic, develop ideas and carry out focused work during the first 2 yea... |
2020/03/05 | 1,718 | 7,458 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an organizer for a graduate student conference in Mathematics occurring in April. My co-organizers and I are debating on a plan for what to do if the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States worsens. Right now, most of the participants are from states with no confirmed cases of the coronavir... |
2020/03/06 | 2,897 | 12,202 | <issue_start>username_0: For my bachelor thesis in theoretical CS I paid someone to
* fix some weird LaTeX issues I had
* make some figures in LaTeX for which I provided exact (!) hand-drawn pictures
* adjust the document class/template (font size, margins, …) to university standards
In particular, all the text, form... |
2020/03/06 | 3,228 | 13,256 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently teaching a basic R programming course with about 80 students.
Under normal circumstances,
a core course assessment component is a programming exam,
which is done in the computer lab using the lab computers.
I will arrange for the Internet to be cut off,
and we will have exam invi... |
2020/03/06 | 1,754 | 7,481 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm from the top math university in my country (it's not really world class but on average one guy from every other batch in my uni goes to Harvard/MIT/Princeton/UChicago/Stanford/UMichigan for PhD).
I'm in my second year and I'm broadly interested in number theory and geometric analysis, but... |
2020/03/07 | 1,398 | 6,116 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished my Bachelor's thesis in math and I am about to be having my bachelor thesis defense (colloquium). The topic I've covered in my thesis is highly theoretical (differential- and algebraic topology) but also quite geometrical, i.e. I've added quite a lot of illustrations into my... |
2020/03/07 | 767 | 3,003 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR:** I told a professor something fundamental about a friends' work that is absolutely wrong, and I should have known, but I was drunk. Will it help the situation if I clarify and apologize via e-mail?
Yesterday evening I attended a festivity at my old university. I got drunk and talked... |
2020/03/07 | 1,543 | 6,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I know this is a topic that some people have strong opinions about, but a toxic culture is developing in my department whereby several postdocs have convinced themselves that they are being mistreated because of extremely small -- often imaginary -- confrontations.
For example, a postdoc encou... |
2020/03/07 | 1,108 | 4,898 | <issue_start>username_0: I failed an exam last year and now I am retaking it but in a different format.
Everytime I sit in front of my laptop to write the assignment I have anxiety. My anxiety is mainly caused by the fear I have to fail the exam or the fear to make the things wrong. The anxiety probably depends also o... |
2020/03/08 | 841 | 3,614 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper met acceptance (through email notification from editor) with one reviewer requiring a minor change which is not minor according to my perception and would revise all my figures and results. The detail is:
Editor’s comments:
*Your manuscript entitled "xxxxxxxxxxxx" has been accepted f... |
2020/03/08 | 890 | 3,626 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student, close to finishing up. **I am looking for a post doc position** and have been in talks with multiple professors in various universities. However, **most of them want me to visit their lab** for a talk or a presentation, without having directly confirmed anything. Although ... |
2020/03/08 | 1,044 | 4,398 | <issue_start>username_0: Some of the students in my class take a class with another member of faculty. That other, tenured, member of faculty has taken to abusing individual students in front of the whole class. This abuse takes the form of calling them "dumb" and "racist", and threatening to "report" them (whatever th... |
2020/03/08 | 1,401 | 5,800 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to take a break from industry (software) and want to work under a professor/lab on a research project for 3-6 months, computer science/computing related. I was wondering if people could give me some advice on how to go about achieving this arrangement - success tips, what not to d... |
2020/03/09 | 1,804 | 7,234 | <issue_start>username_0: A PhD candidate has damaged possessions of a flatmate in non-university housing by purposely dropping their laptop and keying their car.
Is it acceptable to report such behavior to the university of the PhD candidate?
**Clarification:**
This has obviously been already reported to the police. ... |
2020/03/09 | 414 | 1,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in computer engineering and I have recently finished writing and editing a paper under the supervision of my professor. Now it is ready to be submitted to a journal. We have chosen an Elsevier journal. Since my professor seems to be busy, I've decided to submit the paper mysel... |
2020/03/09 | 2,586 | 10,779 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my master's degree (Computer Science) a short time ago, and I don't currently plan to continue my academic studies.
My adviser asked me for the source code of the application I developed for my final paper (and for which I received a perfect score) in order for one of students they ... |
2020/03/09 | 245 | 1,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to be able to live-stream presentations online in case my school closes. My presentations are in power point. Ideally I would like to share my screen so I can use other software simultaneously. Finally I would like student to be able to ask questions from home and be heard by every... |
2020/03/09 | 350 | 1,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm submitting a paper to an Elsevier journal. One of the submission steps says that:
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> Please enter any comments you would like to send to the Journal
> Office.
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What does it mean? What should I exactly enter as a comment? I thought it means the cover letter, but it seems that I ... |
2020/03/10 | 2,502 | 10,120 | <issue_start>username_0: [What To Do When The Trisector Comes](http://web.mst.edu/~lmhall/WhatToDoWhenTrisectorComes.pdf) claims that most [cranks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_(person)) (for lack of a better word) are old men (*trisector* refers to a specific type of crank):
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2020/03/10 | 813 | 3,671 | <issue_start>username_0: Would Nature, Science or other leading academic journals prioritize publishing work on COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has caused more than 3k deaths so far? If so, has this happened before in the past, during another crisis?<issue_comment>username_1: Absolutely. Journals are ways of disse... |
2020/03/10 | 911 | 3,828 | <issue_start>username_0: Most journals require to make data available at the time of publication (repository / upon request or similar). But for how long does the data need to be kept (field of on (bio)medicine)? This would especially be interesting in relation to the scientific wish to keep the data forever vs the *Ge... |
2020/03/10 | 1,013 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: As in many other universities, due to the coronavirus outbreak now we are supposed to do our teaching online in videoconference style. Our university suggests using either Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, but I am not so keen on using a service run by one of these data-collecting behemoths where... |
2020/03/10 | 767 | 3,178 | <issue_start>username_0: A great many top US physics PhD programs have canceled their open houses with no plan to reschedule.
Some are intended on running "virtual open houses." Other's are just sending links to information that could be found on the internet regarding their program.
Is the April 15th requirement of ... |
2020/03/10 | 960 | 4,135 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to give an on-campus job talk for a tenure-track assistant professor position. According to the searching chair, my talk will include teaching, research, and service philosophy, and other attributes that show me as a good match for the position. The time slot allocated for the presen... |
2020/03/10 | 453 | 1,729 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. candidate. Here I have a question, and I really want to hear what you would suggest.
Recently I did some literature studies, and I read a researcher's Ph.D. dissertation. She is kinda a pioneer in my research area, therefore I read her dissertation really carefully. However, I fou... |
2020/03/05 | 988 | 4,096 | <issue_start>username_0: **Short version:** Is it better to switch focus as a postdoc or wait until after tenure?
**Details:** I'm a PhD student in math (combinatorics) graduating next year. Let's suppose that I'm a strong candidate for research-oriented, tenure-track positions in math, but my long-term research progr... |
2020/03/11 | 1,436 | 6,180 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD in applied mathematics from a top university. I didn't realise it at the time because I was so focussed on my research, but it seems my research area (numerical analysis of PDEs) is actually very niche in terms of real-world problems in industry.
All the job listings I see are loo... |
2020/03/11 | 568 | 2,287 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a masters student from India applying for a PhD in the US.
I emailed a potential adviser at Harvard University an unpublished paper I have been working on for some time.
The application in the end did not work out but the adviser was enthusiastic about the paper and said I wasn't admitt... |
2020/03/11 | 2,094 | 9,495 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a senior TA helping out my instructor with restructuring the course in light of the coronavirus causing in-class cancellations at our university. We have tools allowing our students to do their programming labs online, and therefore our class can still run, but we still have a lab practical... |
2020/03/11 | 928 | 3,756 | <issue_start>username_0: I was invited to give a talk at an important conference, which has now been canceled due to coronavirus. Can I still list the fact that I was invited on my CV, with a parenthetical note? It's not the same as if I turned down an invitation or failed to show up. Obviously this is not really that ... |
2020/03/12 | 2,769 | 11,680 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Overview
I am a physics PhD student, currently in my fourth year, in a US university. During the last couple of years, I have been experiencing a decrease on the respect I have for my advisor, for a series of reasons. Besides all the stuff related to his role as a teacher in our institutio... |