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2020/03/12 | 1,000 | 4,072 | <issue_start>username_0: As per the title, I quit my second Ph.D. after 10 months, having quit my first after one year.
My first supervisor was narcissistic and a sociopath. (Nonetheless, I received prizes for my research.) After one year I left.
I took a lab position, in an isolated country, whilst seeking a secon... |
2020/03/12 | 768 | 3,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the author and teacher of an online introductory course at my community college. Each chapter in my class is designed to take one week to complete, where the assignments are due at the end of the week. The students have the option to get ahead of the rest of the class by a couple of weeks,... |
2020/03/12 | 465 | 1,960 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question for anyone who might be a department chair or on a search committee. What does it mean if you get invited for a second on-campus interview? I have already been there once for a standard on campus interview. For context, this is for a tenure track assistant professor position i... |
2020/03/13 | 2,580 | 9,407 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question I plan to self answer, but answers from others are very welcome too.
This term, I am teaching group and Galois theory. This is a heavily [inquiry based learning (IBL)](http://www.inquirybasedlearning.org) course, where almost all the time is spent on group problem solving. Y... |
2020/03/13 | 363 | 1,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently accepted by a college or university. I was planning on graduating from high school soon and then enrolling in college. My high school has just announced that it will be closed for a reason such as the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic. Will I still be able to start college?
(Questio... |
2020/03/14 | 1,218 | 5,032 | <issue_start>username_0: Does any one have an experience with a hearing impaired student undertaking an oral defense of graduate thesis? I have a colleague in my graduate program who is profoundly impaired in both ears (to the point that hearing aid is absolutely useless). He would be defending his thesis this coming J... |
2020/03/14 | 1,005 | 4,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know if this is the right question to ask, but I have been seriously reconsidering whether I want to continue with my PhD. I am currently a first year graduate student in mathematics (PhD track). I had wanted to get a PhD in mathematics since I was a freshman in college. I got into my t... |
2020/03/15 | 2,617 | 11,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an associate professor in a department, mostly focusing on progressive topics related to spatial applications of artificial intelligence.
Besides my research projects, I have innovative and novel ideas, with I just don't have time to deal. If students interested to work with me, I used to... |
2020/03/15 | 861 | 3,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently came across a book written by two senior scholars in my field (anthropology), who cite a paper I published with a colleague two years ago. They cite us quite favorably and in most places they cite us correctly. However, there are two passages which they have copied verbatim from our ... |
2020/03/15 | 2,529 | 10,491 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my good friends is a history professor at a local college; in order to preserve anonymity I will not specify which one, but it is a conservative Christian private school in my state. We were discussing some of his curriculum and he mentioned that he is feeling nervous about one of his li... |
2020/03/16 | 447 | 1,888 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an on campus visit for assistant professor position in CS department. The search committee sent me an email that they will soon send a topic for teaching demo. I am thinking of asking her to give a teaching demo about a specific topic. Is that proper to ask?<issue_comment>username_1: If ... |
2020/03/16 | 619 | 2,744 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now doing my Ph.D. in Europe and I think I am not a good fit for my research group. It is not possible to change to other research groups in Europe and I was planning to drop out of my program and then reapply to some other group working on a different topic. I need some advice on whether ... |
2020/03/16 | 1,070 | 4,166 | <issue_start>username_0: More detail: After a failure of communication, I turned down other funded offers to accept an unfunded PhD. I had some money saved and tried it out anyway, but after *one month* quit and went with a previous offer (after telling them I'd made a bad decision)!
I worked for 3 months specifying m... |
2020/03/16 | 1,137 | 4,234 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading '*The life and letters of <NAME>*' from [Gutenberg Project](http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2087/2087-h/2087-h.htm) ebook. I want to cite some quotes from this book in academic article. How can I cite it?
Project [FAQs](https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Permission_How-To) su... |
2020/03/16 | 1,912 | 7,824 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I received a rejection by the editor of SCI Expanded journal (which I consider to be a legitimate journal):
The reviewer's comments (just a few days after I submitted the manuscript):
>
> Sorry, this paper lacks novelty, is not well written, and will not be considered due to overwhe... |
2020/03/17 | 3,046 | 13,016 | <issue_start>username_0: There has been a lot of talk about online teaching in relation to covid-19 and campus shutdowns.
This question isn't about that though: my question is about what ways online examinations should be treated in counterpoint to written examinations.
I'm going to be transferring my course's writt... |
2020/03/17 | 2,499 | 10,635 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the most common things I think any students has seen is walking into the office of a professor to a miniature library of textbooks and books geared towards disseminating research to researchers and practitioners. I am wondering how often these books might be paid for out of pocket or if ... |
2020/03/18 | 591 | 2,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a faculty position and did a video interview. It was supposed that they let me know if I have been selected for campus or not. In the middle of the interview with other candidates, this COVID-19 happened and I am not sure what strategy they will take as the target university has c... |
2020/03/18 | 532 | 2,341 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a MSc student (second year) in a math department in Europe and I have to check and correct the exercise sheets of the students of the first year of Master degree attending a course this semester. Those points can add up to **+2** extra points in the final mark.
These exercise are taken from... |
2020/03/18 | 832 | 3,481 | <issue_start>username_0: One question we often get on this site in one form or the other is: [Is my paper under review (or similar) for too long and if yes, how should I react?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/88355/7734) Now, suppose I have gone through all the steps to answer this question in a normal situation:... |
2020/03/18 | 1,562 | 6,193 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Master's student in epidemiology. It's an insane time in our field right now. Of course, I find what's going on fascinating (that's why I am in this field), but extremely stressful as well.
I have 2 advisors. My primary advisor is not working on COVID-19 related stuff. So, although she... |
2020/03/18 | 1,252 | 5,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a masters student in Germany.
On the contrary to how most people's thesis work turns out, mine looks like it is quite far from what I planned to gain expertise in, in that it seems like it is an oversimplified topic. I was looking to work with machine learning as a center point of focus (... |
2020/03/19 | 721 | 3,047 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering how much Covid-19 affected scientific productivity, if it affected productivity negatively at all (c.f. Newton actually did a lot of his most important work while the University of Cambridge was closed due to plague).
I'm using the rate at which papers are published on arXiv as a... |
2020/03/19 | 743 | 3,316 | <issue_start>username_0: When you are doing a second round review, do you read other reviewers' comments? Why?
It seems to me that all I need to do is seeing whether the author/s satisfied my comments and whether I find any more problems in the current version of their manuscript.<issue_comment>username_1: It is probab... |
2020/03/19 | 1,395 | 5,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m sorry for asking a dumb question I already know the answer to, but I’m asking it because I feel desperate and need someone to talk sense into me.
Some background:
I’m a fifth-year PhD student, with no real graduation in sight. I’m in one of the most packed and competitive subfields I know ... |
2020/03/20 | 456 | 1,756 | <issue_start>username_0: I found some websites for free graphics like icons. But, they require attribution. to the website. Is there any website that provide free graphics for research purpose without the need of attribution?<issue_comment>username_1: Pixabay.com and select Vector Graphics and use the search bar.
Rawp... |
2020/03/20 | 476 | 1,820 | <issue_start>username_0: Could you please recommend a **good free** software for recoding my screen. I want to record a lecture and upload it to YouTube. I am looking for a software that can allow me to **pause** while recording. I want to record the screen and my voice with high quality.<issue_comment>username_1: Pixa... |
2020/03/20 | 697 | 3,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a review paper. I'm in the field of computer science.
There are many related papers in my research area. Some are good, some are not.
I'm planning to include only Q1-papers based on [Journal Citation Reports](https://jcr.clarivate.com/)
But, does this enough for the paper?
Shou... |
2020/03/20 | 771 | 3,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a systematic literature review and the problem is that in my subject there are multiple cases of previous work re-publishing or self-plagiarism: the same authors write multiple (2-3) papers on the same topic with almost no changes. I wonder how to deal with it. I am reviewing a the... |
2020/03/20 | 1,167 | 4,851 | <issue_start>username_0: I joined graduate school in the US with interests in theoretical chemistry/chemical physics. Though I was enrolled for a PhD in chemistry, I was taking classes in physics for an entire year. This made me realize that I was more interested in physics related research than my current work in theo... |
2020/03/20 | 667 | 2,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I am amateur mathematician with some formal training but am not a student and did not get some college degree, but, much of the time (really really too much) I think about mathematics and mathematical tasks and problems and I expand my knowledge of and about mathematics.
Sometimes I am solving... |
2020/03/20 | 2,110 | 8,414 | <issue_start>username_0: It looks like I may completely write a paper while in coronavirus-related quarantine. Would it be appropriate to thank my local government in the acknowledgements? If I'm honest with myself, I don't think I would have been able to do this with such focus and efficiency if all other aspects of m... |
2020/03/20 | 2,995 | 12,307 | <issue_start>username_0: So a little bit of background first. I work in research and while i am fairly new to the profession ( going to be 10 months soon ), i am nearing the completion of a Conference paper.
This is my first **serious** attempt at an academic write-up and i have good reason to believe that the paper ... |
2020/03/20 | 751 | 3,086 | <issue_start>username_0: Of course, the bread-and-butter of an academic CV are degrees and publications, and citation index is a primary means of judging the value of said publications, but it's also common for academics to give out acknowledgements to people who contributed to a paper, but not in a way deserving of a ... |
2020/03/20 | 1,356 | 5,977 | <issue_start>username_0: My university, like many others, has recently moved to remote teaching in response to the corona virus situation. In my department, the faculty have taken the lead on finding and adopting solutions to the difficulties posed by the transition. I am a postdoc and not directly involved in a lot of... |
2020/03/21 | 1,840 | 7,683 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in a job in the US (on STEM OPT). I had a postdoc offer from a large US university that was supposed to start April 16. I signed an offer letter for a two year contract. We were in the process of deciding which visa to apply for (H1/J1).
Today I got an email from the PI (HR cop... |
2020/03/21 | 496 | 1,909 | <issue_start>username_0: The following research paper is written in a story-telling manner:
* [One Mentor-teacher's Personal Narrative of Collaborative Research on the Teaching Practicum](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0965079940020303)
What is the name of this style of research paper writing?<issue_comm... |
2020/03/21 | 1,353 | 5,812 | <issue_start>username_0: In September 2016 I saw a PhD advertisement in a forum. I emailed the advertiser and he sent me a half-baked draft of a research project and told me that if I want this position I would need a first-author publication and therefore I should make that draft publishable. I did that and sent the d... |
2020/03/21 | 1,181 | 5,264 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the space of a now concluding 20 week long project, my appointed supervisor has made a number of questionable decisions that appear to have negatively affected my work and solidified her grip over any avenues of complaint i can make.
One of the more recent incidents included her refusal t... |
2020/03/21 | 996 | 4,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading IEEE's policy on uploading a conference paper to other venues such as arxiv. Here is the current policy: <https://conferences.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/get-published/post-your-paper/>.
What is confusing me is that IEEE differentiates between preprint and author-submitted paper, whe... |
2020/03/22 | 4,821 | 20,320 | <issue_start>username_0: Both my girlfriend and I (both white) applied to the same PhD programs in mathematics. Most of these schools are AMS Group I and some Group II.
I got denied by a majority of these programs while she got accepted to a majority of them. I sincerely do believe my profile is stronger (see compari... |
2020/03/22 | 445 | 1,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planning on doing some reading projects that lie a little above the undergraduate curriculum. To be more specific, I'm a physics major and I plan on doing reading projects in a few advanced physics topics (eg. Feynman path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and... |
2020/03/22 | 446 | 1,908 | <issue_start>username_0: I will have a postdoc interview soon. They asked me to introduce myself, what I am passionate about and interested in for a 30-minute. They did not specify if I should prepare a PowerPoint slideshow. Given pandemic circumstances, it is going to be a video interview. On one hand, if I prepare an... |
2020/03/22 | 1,518 | 6,927 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago, I submitted a paper to the top journal in my field. I just received a major revision decision. There was an enormous amount of comments from the four reviewers on many different aspects but all of them specifically doubt if the proposed system advances the state of the art or ... |
2020/03/22 | 456 | 1,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a STEM teaching assistant. I know some professors were using physical class materials in engineering classes. How do you think they should respond to COVID-19-forced online education and still ensure the quality of their classes?
It is a purposefully broad question. I was curious to hear ... |
2020/03/23 | 643 | 2,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a large figure with a long caption of 300 words, and they really don't fit into one A4 page. Can I enlarge the figure to fit in the first page and let the caption run to the next page?<issue_comment>username_1: Let the copy editor deal with this. That is, after all, their job.
Upvotes: 4... |
2020/03/23 | 1,070 | 4,582 | <issue_start>username_0: I will soon graduate with a data science MSc and am specializing in AI/machine learning, in which I would like to do research. I can read, understand and apply research papers pretty well, but I don't feel like I have the background to actually *do* research. When an author derives something, I... |
2020/03/23 | 350 | 1,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of submitting a paper on arxiv and I would like to know if there is anyone who knows if the part in gray in the following picture gets automatically added on the paper or I should take care of it.
[](https... |
2020/03/23 | 1,700 | 6,868 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked to peer-review a manuscript for journal X (field of psychology). I recognised the author name as someone I've reviewed a past paper for last year, in journal Y. The topic of his research is still of interest to me, and before accepting, I wanted to see how their now-published ... |
2020/03/23 | 500 | 2,008 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Second year math undergrad with another year left. I want to continue my academics further. Really interested in theoretical physics and Applied mathematics. Can I get into a theoretical physics Phd with math undergrad degree if I ace Physics GRE?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes (you might ... |
2020/03/23 | 344 | 1,308 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to record lectures. My lectures will be slides or notepad with voice-over.
I am interested in a simple to use video editing software. The major things I need to do is
* Cutting out a few seconds
* Freezing the video for a few seconds
* Speeding up or slowing down certain parts
... |
2020/03/24 | 360 | 1,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published a paper in a conference proceedings of an IEEE conference. The paper has been published since December of last year. Unfortunately, I found some spelling mistakes in the text. Is there a way, how I can correct them? Does anyone have experience with IEEE. On the web I only found... |
2020/03/24 | 776 | 3,119 | <issue_start>username_0: The chair of my department has very generously offered to try and secure funding for some of the part-time and adjunct professors working in the department as compensation for adapting our originally in-person courses to an online format (this is in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic). I ... |
2020/03/25 | 1,050 | 4,618 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a tenure track assistant professor in a relatively small university (approx. 6000 students). Without giving too much identifiable details, I'll just way that a student was unhappy with some aspect of the course (e.g. grading scales) and filed a complaint directly to the department chair an... |
2020/03/25 | 1,529 | 6,816 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm taking a graduate course online this semester, and have noticed a few things:
1. Professor has assigned us a mid-term, a final, and a research paper as the coursework for the class. These are the only grades we will receive this semester from this course.
2. Each week, he assigns us a chap... |
2020/03/25 | 223 | 982 | <issue_start>username_0: My manuscript rejected by the editor of Journal A (MDPI publisher). Then I submit my manuscript to Journal B (MDPI publisher), it rejected again by the editor of Journal B. My question is editor of Journal B is able to see Journal A editor`s decision? Simply different journal editors in the sam... |
2020/03/25 | 762 | 3,378 | <issue_start>username_0: The editor of a journal asked me “Please confirm the title of XXX XX, Mr. or Dr.?” His title is Mr., as the manuscript was written by two students alone, without a supervisor or anyone with the title Dr.
I replied with this information to the editor’s email. After 10 minutes I got a kind email... |
2020/03/25 | 1,248 | 5,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a funded PhD offer from a R1 university in texas but its ranked in the 180s based on USNews, the advisor and myself click very well, he is nice, open-minded, and a young motivated and driven advisor always searching for new collaborations and the research area is in my area of interest. ... |
2020/03/25 | 2,793 | 11,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my PhD-thesis in economics at a fairly small university.
Accordingly, there are relatively few scientists in my department.
I am planning to write a research paper on a specific topic that nobody else at my university is researching.
However, I think that it makes sense to write thi... |
2020/03/25 | 284 | 1,237 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you usually name the chapter of a cumulative dissertation (PhD thesis) that describes the research? A cumulative dissertation basically has two part: One part includes (published) research papers and the other part is an explanatory chapter that motivates the research and summarizes the ... |
2020/03/26 | 3,129 | 13,120 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm relatively close to someone who is currently attending an [Ivy League](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ivy_League#Proper_noun) graduate program. He believes he has it all made in life and yet here he is paying one of my friends to do his coding assignments and projects.
It is an online prog... |
2020/03/26 | 689 | 3,142 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently invited to give a seminar talk at another institution. Ordinarily I would have travelled there for the day and given my talk in person. However, due to the travel restrictions imposed by the UK government in the wake of the coronavirus, I will instead be giving my talk via video ... |
2020/03/26 | 844 | 3,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the first quarter of the second year of my PhD. I learned to code as a hobby and have been quite passionate about analytical stuff. I got taken for a PhD basic research project which required a candidate with both wet lab and coding abilities, to be able to apply various programmatic to... |
2020/03/26 | 1,742 | 7,179 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D. student and I have been studying one paper and had some doubt in one point. More specifically the author defines a concept in a way which is a little bit different from other texts I've read before and I'm failing to understand why it is the same thing. I believe I would benefit fro... |
2020/03/26 | 495 | 2,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a CS PhD student in my final year in North America and I will be applying for academia jobs starting Fall 2020. As far as I know, there will be some sort of background check during the hiring process.
As for my past background, I had an incident during my undergraduate year where I submi... |
2020/03/26 | 994 | 4,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm submitting an article to an Elsevier journal, but I'm hesitant about the file format I should choose as the first submission. According to this journal:
>
> Your Paper Your Way
>
>
> We now differentiate between the requirements for new and revised
> submissions. You may choose to subm... |
2020/03/27 | 4,420 | 18,777 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to finish my PhD, which means I have to write a lot. I am also a non-native English speaker, so my English sucks a lot, especially when it comes to formal writing. In contrast, my adviser is a very good writer and good writing is very important to him.
Whenever I write anything, fro... |
2020/03/27 | 768 | 3,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not know if this the suitable forum for this question but I would like to give it a try.
In my thesis I have several very long tables that cover almost one page. Because of this I am getting into the problem of pagebreaks within the tables. I would like to know what you would consider to... |
2020/03/27 | 1,363 | 5,761 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a cumulative dissertation which is based on several published papers. I am supposed to shortly (one page) summarize each of the papers. These summaries come before the actual papers in the thesis.
Now for me the question about the correct tense in these summaries comes u... |
2020/03/27 | 816 | 3,680 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a research group publishes an article after thorough data analysis, statistics based on repeatability and reproducibility of experimental data. Now I consider three cases:
a). Published article had erroneous uncertainties associated with measured data
b). Published article had errone... |
2020/03/27 | 1,042 | 4,601 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to coronavirus, many places have been forced to shift to remote online exams. Have any schools issued guidance about the acceptability of proctoring online exams by requiring students to use a webcam to share a video of themselves taking the exam? For instance, one could have students join ... |
2020/03/27 | 789 | 3,247 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, it is possible that the economy will enter a recession. As more people will want to get into grad school, will it be more difficult to get a Ph.D. position?<issue_comment>username_1: An article in the [Chronicle of Higher Education](https://www.chronicle.com/art... |
2020/03/27 | 446 | 1,983 | <issue_start>username_0: This question deals with PhD programs which guarantee their students funding via teaching assistantships in the US.
In order to have more time for themselves (e.g., for PhD research, or for working a higher-paying part-time job), are PhD students normally allowed to decline teaching assistants... |
2020/03/27 | 885 | 3,641 | <issue_start>username_0: With covid19 continues to spread, this might affect the universities in the next semesters as the number of students might drop and many universities are offering cheap online degrees compared with the expensive traditional degrees. Who can lose a job due to covid19 in academia? Instructors wit... |
2020/03/27 | 1,493 | 6,657 | <issue_start>username_0: I started grad school last September, and so far have been primarily busy with courses, but have been trying to do a little research on the side whenever I can. I recently finished all my courses though, and now I'm expected to dive into research.
My advisor hasn't assigned me a project and ex... |
2020/03/28 | 386 | 1,521 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my IB Extended Essay in physics. I wonder how I can define variables in a formal way. I originally used a triple bar (e.g. "F≡buoyant force"). However, I'm not sure if this is formal or even correct. What is an academic and formal way to define variables?<issue_comment>use... |
2020/03/28 | 409 | 1,749 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in India.
Currently due to the coronavirus pandemic, all colleges have been shut down and the country has gone in lockdown. As a result, my final year project work on electrocoagulation has come to a standstill.
The apparatus and the materials took time to arrive, and when they finally d... |
2020/03/29 | 1,181 | 4,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I am at the verge of completing my PhD in South Africa, and I started applying for Post PhD positions around the world. However, I am a little bit disturbed by all the therminology of academic titles which differs a lot from a country to another? So,
Is a Research Assistant/Associate in the Un... |
2020/03/29 | 901 | 3,864 | <issue_start>username_0: In my senior year. I have put so much effort in writing my thesis and my supervisor didn't even read what I have done or even bothered to do his work, I wrote my thesis in a topic in mathematical analysis. I think it is interesting to read, no new results but, there are many undergraduate publi... |
2020/03/29 | 977 | 3,949 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting a PhD abroad, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic I cannot leave my country at the moment. My advisor has agreed that I can work remotely (starting later is not an option). While we can Skype and most of my work can be done online, I am concerned that having no access to the departme... |
2020/03/29 | 723 | 2,305 | <issue_start>username_0: I emails professor A about a chance to study with him, and he answers that he's on leave next academic year so not accepting new students, and I might want to check professor B. Should I mention to B that A refers her to me?
More specifically, I think that A is best suited for me. Should I be ... |
2020/03/29 | 2,864 | 11,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I am PI of a research group and in different projects regarding sample analyses, it looks like we will be able to license 4 patents to 4 different companies. I can tell you this success was not neither expected nor planned. And now the problems come; the money we receive from each patent, how t... |
2020/03/29 | 1,102 | 4,722 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in my undergraduate junior year studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada. I'm hoping to apply for Top 10 US grad schools in mechanical engineering in about 18 months. In response to the worldwide COVID-19 health crisis, our institution has (as have m... |
2020/03/29 | 881 | 3,921 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I've developed a model for some process X. Using my model I can investigate (a) the effect of changing a underlying assumption used in other literature; and (b) the effect of a different equation for calculating some part of X. The assumption and different equation are not at all rela... |
2020/03/30 | 1,277 | 5,440 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote an email to my potential advisor, politely declining an offer for a PhD position. And he has replied saying that he's sad to hear that, and asking if there's anything he can do to convince me otherwise. How do I reply to this?<issue_comment>username_1: Well, he wanted to have you and is... |
2020/03/30 | 1,096 | 4,344 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing the abstract of my bachelor’s thesis and need to refer to a German research project. The abbreviation of it refers to a German spelling – so I can’t write it out. The English translation wouldn’t explain the acronym and is super long.
Is it possible to use a footnote for this? Even ... |
2020/03/30 | 1,509 | 6,621 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a freshman at an American university double majoring in CS and Econ. There is one professor in my university that I am looking to work with, as his main research focus is algorithmic game theory, something that for obvious reasons holds great interest to me.
However, I do recogn... |
2020/03/31 | 4,080 | 17,189 | <issue_start>username_0: My postdoctoral adviser has a colleague (another professor) who she collaborated with occasionally. This professor has data that I was interested in. Together with my advisor, the three of us started a project for which I did all the modeling.
We have not finished the project yet, but the 'ot... |
2020/03/31 | 1,095 | 4,660 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently when a lot of traditionally taught courses are converted to online and remote education - what does science say about the effectiveness of that compared to the traditional classroom situation?
I am taking a language course and just had my first online (MS Teams) session and thought i... |
2020/03/31 | 2,110 | 8,706 | <issue_start>username_0: I earned my B.A. in the U.S. but felt unprepared to go right into a PhD program due to the (extremely) limited math courses offered at my undergrad institution so I went into a masters program. I ended up doing really well (3.9GPA) and gained a lot of confidence and expanded my knowledge. A cou... |
2020/03/31 | 837 | 3,818 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on an engineering problem for which I have developed a new and quite effective solution. My research field is electronics (if that matters).
The problem is quite complex as it revolves about using a single circuit configuration for multiple voltage ranges (conversion of ... |
2020/04/01 | 1,316 | 5,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently out of academia but I would like to return to university and start as a
postdoc.
It is more than 5 years ago when I finished my PhD in mathematics (algebraic geometry)
at a very weak British university. Despite my efforts, I was not able to find a postdoc
position. From the ... |
2020/04/01 | 812 | 3,536 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student, and looking to apply to grad schools in the future. In response to COVID-19, my school is offering the ability between choosing the letter grade earned to appear on the transcript, or a pass if you earned over a C, for each individual class.
I'm wonder... |
2020/04/01 | 1,071 | 4,877 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in statistics at a Canadian University and I have a desktop computer in my office which has software installed that I have used for my research. The software is proprietary and the license is for a local machine so I can not access it remotely (via ssh or otherwise).
Du... |
2020/04/01 | 539 | 2,250 | <issue_start>username_0: Several years ago an academic publisher I worked for were setting up a new journal. We approached the prospective editor-in-chief, lined up some plans for the first issues, signed a contract, and paid him the first installment of his honorarium. Then he ceased being contactable. We knew he's st... |
2020/04/02 | 691 | 2,779 | <issue_start>username_0: My friend who is a senior lecturer says it is wrong to submit a paper with acknowledgements and you should add them once the paper is accepted, not to interfere with the review process. Is this correct?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> Is it fine to submit a paper with acknowledgements in it?
>
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2020/04/02 | 312 | 1,267 | <issue_start>username_0: To prepare the lecture material. I use the book, my own slides, but I also take a few slides from MIT or other top universities open courses.
What is the best way to give credit?
I must provide source information on each slide?
Or Is it better to enlist all the resources/citations i... |
2020/04/02 | 899 | 3,611 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I have applied to a Research Assistantship based Master's at a Canadian University. I have offers pending from other universities and would like to ask the professor if I am being considered. This is the email I wrote:
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> I hope you are safe and doing great.
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> Currently, I have rec... |
2020/04/02 | 1,530 | 6,911 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a master student working in robotics. In my research project, I have been building up a systematic framework for my research problem. I have collected a dataset in the process and experiment with it using some advanced algorithms I have proposed. And the paper 1 I have written ad... |
2020/04/02 | 892 | 3,600 | <issue_start>username_0: Twice now, I've read a paper written by a prominent researcher and some other "younger" researchers, e.g. instead of being superstars they're merely professors, I guess. In the text, he is referred to as the "senior author", e.g. in sentences that read like "In [4], the senior proved this resul... |