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2020/04/20 | 4,083 | 16,982 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing undergrad research with a team, advised by a professor. I have a good relationship with this professor, but told us after the research started that he would be first author. I was at first just excited to do research, but the more I think about it, the more I think this isn't right.
... |
2020/04/20 | 5,248 | 21,981 | <issue_start>username_0: Amid the pandemic, a test that has traditionally been in-class is now planned to be held as follows:
1. The examiner starts a Zoom conference.
2. The students join the conference from their homes, turning their webcams and microphones on.
3. The examiner sends the students a link to a Google f... |
2020/04/21 | 709 | 2,930 | <issue_start>username_0: I've reached out to a few professors and received responses.
I'm pretty used to going to interviews for industry jobs but this is new and I feel like I have no idea what I should talk about. I'm a second year cs student.
So far, i've read 2 or 3 of their most recent research works and have a g... |
2020/04/21 | 984 | 4,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I am co-authoring a physics manuscript with some students and colleagues. The results in this has been obtained by means of a grant to which multiple people have participated.Because the main research project reported in the grant proved to be too hard, we switched to a backup project, which is... |
2020/04/21 | 519 | 2,182 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a grad student, and over the weekend, received two review requests from very good journals in my field, one of which I have already reviewed for.
I declined one because it was out of my area, but it made me wonder if, all else being equal I should prioritize reviewing for a journal I have... |
2020/04/21 | 439 | 1,792 | <issue_start>username_0: A few weeks ago I told my college professor that I'm depressed. She said I can go to her at anytime if I need help.
Then my psychologist kicked me out, because I didn't want to tell her the details of sexual abuse.
Can I ask my prof to help me find a therapist? Or would it be awkward or a bur... |
2020/04/21 | 2,007 | 8,509 | <issue_start>username_0: My understanding of major corrections in PhD dissertation is that there can be entire chapters to add to the presented dissertation. However for me it's very hard to understand how much these changes might actually impact the thesis.
Specifically to my situation, I negotiated with my superviso... |
2020/04/21 | 1,982 | 8,571 | <issue_start>username_0: We are running a journal club online due to the current COVID-19 situation. The students have to pick a paper and present it online to teachers and their peers. However, I would like to make the experience a bit more formative for the students. The main thing that is missing is an interaction a... |
2020/04/21 | 1,107 | 4,771 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just been invited, for the first time, to review an article. The request was somewhat of a surprise to me, as I'm still a PhD student and I'd always thought that reviewers were generally PhD graduates. Judging by the article's abstract, I am moderately familiar with the subject area, as my... |
2020/04/21 | 366 | 1,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a professor currently that I have previously had in a class on a different subject. Would it be appropriate to email them with a link to an article I found that relates to the previous class' subject (but not to the current one)? There are no longer office hours due to school moving onli... |
2020/04/22 | 1,104 | 4,541 | <issue_start>username_0: There have been a number of questions asked here, such as [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/31807/60607), or [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/23364/60607). The first question asked about how to find the authors of peer reviews. The second discussed the ben... |
2020/04/22 | 1,285 | 5,629 | <issue_start>username_0: In a Statistics related class, Whenever I do a group project, my group members don't know how to do anything as much as I do, and if it's a big group such a 5 person group, one person may help me write. The other person doesn't have any original ideas and will do some small tasks I tell them to... |
2020/04/22 | 790 | 3,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied for a master’s program and I fulfill all their requirements. In addition, the application fee was around 100 USD that had to be paid in advance. I got the following answer today:
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> I would like to thank you for considering XXX for your graduate study. We have very
> care... |
2020/04/22 | 1,582 | 5,899 | <issue_start>username_0: What would be the best option for an EU citizen to study for a bachelor's degree (in any developed country: UK, EU, USA, AU, NZ, Japan, China etc.), without having the money to pay for fees, bills, accomodation etc.? Is there a study program, university or institution that provides funding thro... |
2020/04/22 | 1,247 | 4,934 | <issue_start>username_0: In December of this year (2020) I'll graduate with an MA in Applied Linguistics from a US university (via distance learning/online). I have been living and working as a full-time teacher at a bilingual school in Germany since 2012 and specialize in bilingual education (English/German) with a fo... |
2020/04/23 | 1,300 | 5,728 | <issue_start>username_0: like many others I'm here to ask for advice about switching groups. I'm a third year PhD in physics. I have been working in my current lab for about a year. Prior to that, I worked on another project with a different professor for about 2 years. I want to leave my current group because I realiz... |
2020/04/23 | 932 | 3,522 | <issue_start>username_0: In an academic paper, I have written "There are **three main** arguments for why X is not Z."
I have then discussed them like this:
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> "First, .... (of medium length)
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> The second argument is that ... (a bit long)
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> The third and most important argument is that ... (longer)" \... |
2020/04/23 | 1,336 | 5,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had absolutely no luck with job hunting. After months of applications, I've only gotten two interviews (both last year, before the pandemic), and the jobs I got interviews for weren't even vaguely engineering jobs (one was just CAD doodling, the other was basically tier 3 customer service)... |
2020/04/23 | 1,570 | 6,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student in the US, about to graduate with a BS in zoology. I've just been invited to join [Phi Beta Kappa](https://www.pbk.org/) and am trying to find some more up-to-date discussions of whether or not it's worth it and I see a lot of conflicting opinions/information.
It costs $99 for m... |
2020/04/24 | 1,247 | 5,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to begin my final year as an undergraduate/masters student in mathematics (my school lets us pursue both degrees concurrently), and I will be applying to pure math PhD programs in the fall. I didn't decide to take the PhD route until somewhat recently, so I am trying to learn as much... |
2020/04/24 | 727 | 3,031 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been told by the editor that the paper does not have original contribution to literature development.
However the framework is derived from the past literature with complete citations and acknowledgements. There is no plagiarism.
The context of study, place and framework is new.
I am u... |
2020/04/24 | 950 | 3,749 | <issue_start>username_0: According to the German education system, applicants are evaluated on the basis of their immediate previous academics grades. For instance, if someone wants to do an MA, his bachelor grades are examined. Similarly, if someone wants to do a BA, his highschool grades are examined.
Now, the probl... |
2020/04/24 | 816 | 3,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I am talking with a professor to apply to a postdoc program. I sent a cold email earlier this week and we have exchanged a few emails.
In his last email he sent me some papers to read.
The thing is, I might end up sending my answer on Saturday, after I read the papers. Is this a problem? Shoul... |
2020/04/24 | 1,947 | 8,153 | <issue_start>username_0: France has a mechanism, named [CIFRE](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/133145/is-there-an-equivalent-in-another-country-of-the-french-cifre), by which a PhD student can be employed by a private company while working on their thesis. This is done in relation with a university or inst... |
2020/04/24 | 1,685 | 7,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I can't be sure, but my instinct tells me that I am about to step in a minefield. I want to seek your advice on how to handle the situation. Here is the brief story:
The background: my PhD thesis is almost ready for submission and I am now working on turning it into several publishable papers.... |
2020/04/24 | 908 | 3,814 | <issue_start>username_0: A biomedical research area is led worldwide by a certain research group in a particular famous university. They are very productive and advanced, with numerous postgraduate students worldwide, with whom they keep cooperating after their PhDs are finished. They also cooperate with other importan... |
2020/04/24 | 683 | 2,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm from Europe, for context.
Very soon I will graduate with a Computer Science Master's degree. I have a paper as a first author at one not-so-famous conference, but I also have a paper at a [NeurlIPS](https://nips.cc/) conference as the last author.
After my master's degree, I would like to... |
2020/04/24 | 3,788 | 14,791 | <issue_start>username_0: All the sciences come across as merciless to me. If you make even one statement that turns out to be false, it seems you have no chance of recovering your career. I have heard of plenty of stories of accomplished scientists and academics losing their credentials after making claims that were ei... |
2020/04/24 | 974 | 3,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I openly admit that I am financial illiterate and for most of my life neither know about nor cared about investing. I am currently doing research in a field that is tangentially, but not exactly related to financial mathematics (say physics: a lot of Brownian motions and what not going on).
W... |
2020/04/24 | 554 | 2,277 | <issue_start>username_0: For a project, I noticed really around an hour or so before my deadline was due that some of my graphs lacked units when I labeled the axes. In the interest of time, I decided to add units to the plots manually using photoshop. The deadline has now passed, and I’m worried if this is considered ... |
2020/04/25 | 1,067 | 3,951 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a job offer for a full-time contract position at a college in the US. The offer says that my salary will be $70,000/year for nine months’ employment payable over a period of twelve months. I received my offer not long ago, and although I will most likely accept the job, I didn't... |
2020/04/25 | 1,684 | 6,850 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergrad student and one of my professors is saying that we will be using Examity for the final exam.
I am concerned with downloading this software on my computer for various reasons, including security (a simple look at their [privacy policy](https://examity.com/product-privacy-poli... |
2020/04/25 | 445 | 1,864 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student , and I am in my first year, started four months ago<issue_comment>username_1: I would suggest that the easier path is to work with your advisor to find a different problem, related or not. In some ways you are lucky to learn of this now, rather than in a year.
You haven't ... |
2020/04/25 | 439 | 1,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on some project, in which I would like to find articles where they use some computer code to treat data, and the used datasets and code is totally available (github, personal website, etc). So I go to Scopus, Google Scholar, ISI Web of Science, etc, but I do not find a good strateg... |
2020/04/25 | 698 | 2,788 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of writing my PhD thesis and it happens to be during the global pandemic crisis. My submission date was supposed to be June 2020 (we are in April 2020), but my supervisor has been kind enough to extend it to September 2020 due to the current circumstances so as to give me mo... |
2020/04/25 | 570 | 2,468 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider an advanced, specialized, undergrad course. Students are divided into two sections. Each section is taught by a different professor. Both professors follow the same syllabus and textbook (or they are expected to do so to a lrage extent). Do you think they must provide the same exams (i... |
2020/04/25 | 1,120 | 4,447 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I'm doing some experimental work in an academic context. The essence of the results will likely be captured by documents such as conference/journal articles, technical reports, a M.Sc. or Ph.D. thesis, a monograph etc. For these kinds of artifacts, we have all sorts of avenues for long-... |
2020/04/25 | 472 | 2,127 | <issue_start>username_0: Postdocs are considered on regular path for tenure track position. What about a candidate that did one postdoc and then moved to an associate research scientist position instead of a second postdoc? Are there any inherent bias against these candidates who applying for regular tenure-track posit... |
2020/04/26 | 1,881 | 8,291 | <issue_start>username_0: This week I was accused of cheating on two online exams in two separate classes.
Both professors are claiming the lockdown browser recordings show "evidence" of me cheating. When I asked them what the evidence was and why I was being accused they stated that it is in the video and has been sen... |
2020/04/26 | 680 | 2,720 | <issue_start>username_0: In Germany, is it possible for a PhD student to be co-supervisor of a master thesis?<issue_comment>username_1: By and large, **yes**.
The conditions for master thesis supervision are specified in the examination regulations of the considered department. Generally, there is a big variety betwee... |
2020/04/26 | 450 | 2,059 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say an associate professor of Math makes 120k per year USD in a United States university and takes an affiliate professor position in the Quantitative Biology department. Would they get additional salary for doing so, or is it simply more responsibility for no incremental salary, kind of ... |
2020/04/26 | 1,094 | 4,854 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a result R and teams T and U.
Team T submitted into a journal result R, but not on Arxiv. Team U then submitted result R to Arxiv, without knowing about the submission of Team T. Team U also submitted to a journal after publishing on Arxiv but got rejected. Now the paper of Team T is ... |
2020/04/26 | 1,131 | 4,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I am targeting an IEEE publication that allows Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (OA) manuscript submission. [The OA fee is $2,045.](https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/ieee-signal-processing-letters/information-authors-spl)
1. If I decide not to pay the O... |
2020/04/26 | 4,209 | 17,303 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering to create a wiki/blog for most of my study notes that I have made or taken digitally.
Also, for the handwritten and rough ones I am thinking about storing them in my GitHub repository.
Is this a good idea? How do professionals in academia and PhD students organise their notes... |
2020/04/27 | 7,431 | 31,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in a sub field of computer science. There was a recent paper (2020) that was published in a reputable conference that claimed to achieve state of the art performance on a specific data set. This data set is a hot dataset, and my research group has many papers on that specific data set (i... |
2020/04/27 | 1,734 | 7,153 | <issue_start>username_0: In a comment to their answer to the question [Faculty member brought sick (feverish) child to class - is this unethical?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/143011/faculty-member-brought-sick-feverish-child-to-class-is-this-unethical/143014#143014), the user An<NAME> writes:
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> It'... |
2020/04/27 | 1,176 | 4,896 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the past 3 months due to Covid-19, many of my peers have pinged me during exams asking me for answers to questions. I, of course, turn them down (albeit after I'm done with the exam so even if I sent it they wouldn't gain much due to the limited time left). I am usually at the top of my cl... |
2020/04/27 | 1,694 | 7,013 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm taking a math class at community college. The class has three regular exams (25% of grade) and a final (25%). Normally, the professor generously grades the fifteen-question exams with partial credit, but because of the COVID-19 crisis, we have had to move everything online.
I received exce... |
2020/04/27 | 1,571 | 7,016 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to try and make this as concise as possible. I need to recap my education quickly. I finished my bachelor's in EE 2012. Between 2012-2016 I was a journalist and learned to code and started a software company. I finished a one-year CS conversion master UK 2017 and now I'm doing a CS ma... |
2020/04/28 | 601 | 2,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd always thought they were completely the same, but I saw [a twitter thread in which this was questioned](https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1254720339520753664).
I mean here "working paper" only in its scholarly sense - I'm aware that the term has other uses, for instance at the UN whe... |
2020/04/28 | 430 | 1,417 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like generate a list of all papers which cite my references, sorted by most recent. In other words I want all papers which are "2 publications away" from mine, which cite the references in my papers, but which are not references of my references. This would provide an easy way to see wh... |
2020/04/28 | 666 | 3,009 | <issue_start>username_0: I received the following rejection letter from the journal editor. It does not look like “rejection and resubmission” to me. Should I revise and resubmit? Is there any chance of acceptance?
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> ... I very much regret to inform you that your manuscript has been rejected. Below are the comments... |
2020/04/28 | 955 | 4,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper at a certain conference that has a rebuttal phase (authors are presented with initial reviews and can write a rebuttal, which will be used for the final decision). Based on the reviews, it seems that the chances for the paper being accepted are zero. The submission syst... |
2020/04/28 | 246 | 1,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my paper to World Scientific journal for a week ago. The "Editor invited" status stayed since the submission, and then it changed to "Decision in Process" directly. It seems strange. Normally “editor invited” comes after manuscript screening. Why was there no "with editor" status an... |
2020/04/28 | 582 | 2,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a bit of a pickle here.
I am in a course, and a student that I know quite well asked to collaborate with me on a project. I agreed. We started working on the project for 30 minutes, but I was the only one that continued (it took roughly 10 hours of work). Whenever I was working on the ... |
2020/04/28 | 2,472 | 9,742 | <issue_start>username_0: I have crippling anxiety around "authority figures", and I'm irrationally deathly afraid to the point where I will cry in a room when alone with them, likely due to my upbringing, namely, always being afraid of my verbally abusive, but very loving and well-intentioned, father. And so I tend to ... |
2020/04/28 | 756 | 3,164 | <issue_start>username_0: In short - wrote an article, sent the manuscript to all co-authors and asked for consent for submission and for feedback, if any. After most of the co-authors replied, I made some small tweaks to the manuscript that improved it, but I'm still waiting for consent from 2 co-authors. I sent the e-... |
2020/04/29 | 1,944 | 8,274 | <issue_start>username_0: If an article, theorem, etc. is unpublished, presumably the work is only available to people who track down the author and get a draft copy. Today we have arXiv and can find many preprints on the Internet, but people have been citing unpublished works longer than arXiv has been around. It seems... |
2020/04/29 | 775 | 2,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to quote the following quotation correctly:
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> Information is the oil of the 21st century and analytics is the internal combustion engine.
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In other papers I found out that this quote was said by <NAME> in 2011 and as source a weblink to a Gartner press release is give... |
2020/04/29 | 1,922 | 8,017 | <issue_start>username_0: Whenever I read news about some scientific breakthrough, names that come up are mostly of the group leaders, a.k.a. last authors. I believe in most cases, it is rightfully for the last author to get the credit. The first authors are usually inexperienced Ph.D. students who work under the guidan... |
2020/04/29 | 617 | 2,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm designing an introductory undergraduate course on social science which is mostly based on not-so technical textbooks and articles (little math involved). Essays will be the key form of evaluation. I want to have an idea of how much readings to give to my students per week. The credit system... |
2020/04/29 | 677 | 2,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently accepted a PhD program offer of roughly $21,000 for a year (2 semesters) of TA work. I will be attending a university in the USA, and I am studying computer science, if that affects the answer. If I drop out before going through the whole program, do I have to pay anything back? My g... |
2020/04/30 | 2,651 | 11,651 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my former students uploaded a paper we just published in a top physics journal without my name. The fraudulent paper is now appearing on the Google Scholar search results below the original paper we published in the physics journal. If people try to cite the fraudulent paper from Google ... |
2020/04/30 | 2,168 | 8,942 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it OK to take a graduate-level course at a US university while you are already dating one of the prospective TAs?
I think that the instructor should be informed. My question is about the implications of such an action.
Will anyone else beyond the instructor be informed? Can it cause any in... |
2020/04/30 | 1,027 | 3,930 | <issue_start>username_0: In the UK, Value Added Tax (VAT) is added on to prices when things are bought by consumers / end users. However, VAT can normally be reclaimed by companies with a turnover of over approx £20k, and by charities (this is highly simplified; please do not quibble unless the details are important to... |
2020/04/30 | 918 | 4,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student pursuing a B.Sc(Hons.) degree in Physics. I want to pursue an academic career in Biophysics. So, I wanted to know which subjects are required for higher studies in Biophysics. In my course, we get to choose one ancillary subject for the first two semesters, then an... |
2020/05/01 | 576 | 2,333 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing this post regarding how to approach a situation I am currently in. First, I am an undergraduate student in math who started working under a professor last Fall. Prior to the start of Spring term, he let me know that he will be going on Sabbatical until early-to-mid April. Additiona... |
2020/05/01 | 1,385 | 5,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I made an academic appeal over the marking of an essay, which was 13 words over the word limit. The mark on the word-count section was unexpected, but was not consistent with the formal university word-limit marking rubric. (I cannot change the essay anymore.) Unexpectedly, my appeal was denied... |
2020/05/01 | 5,136 | 21,287 | <issue_start>username_0: I performed some research and submitted it to a congress of biomedical sciences. Many professors told me that my research is very advanced compared to student work and that it could easily be my specialization one day.
I am an undergraduate student (sixth year veterinary science).
My mentor te... |
2020/05/01 | 385 | 1,601 | <issue_start>username_0: Once I submit an article to arXiv, it takes some time to be announced. Is there a way to share the article link before it is announced? I would like to share it with my friends/guide, so they may point out mistakes, if any, before the article is announced.<issue_comment>username_1: Until the ar... |
2020/05/01 | 1,678 | 7,022 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student who's currently in a mess regarding my work permit application. I was initially supposed to get my permit the latest by March. But now, I don't know when my application will come through. I completed my Ph.D. thesis submission in December. Now, my Ph.D. supervisor ... |
2020/05/01 | 561 | 2,572 | <issue_start>username_0: Since the beginning of the Corona Virus pandemic and the adaptation to distance learning, I have had to adapt my classes to hold exams via video calls. In previous semesters when I've had students with special accommodations (i.e. entitlement to extra time on exams), the students would generall... |
2020/05/02 | 2,179 | 9,296 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a PhD in September of the last year at a European university in the field of engineering. I was very enthusiastic about it because I really worked hard to obtain this opportunity and I won three positions in total (the one I choose in the end and other two).
The project where I am now... |
2020/05/02 | 1,337 | 3,927 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to access the following work online, but I'm having no luck finding it:
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> <NAME>. 1959. "Die Bildersprache des Demosthenes." Ph.D., Classics, Göttingen.
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Any idea where I could access it?<issue_comment>username_1: Any online resources may be unlikely for a dissertation ... |
2020/05/02 | 1,588 | 6,805 | <issue_start>username_0: My situation is like this: I have tried to obtain an MS in CS/CSE but failed. Now, I am studying an MA in Education and planning to get a Ph.D. in Education. After that, my plan is to get a Ph.D. degree in data science.
Now, why this strange plan? The answer is, STEM pays money, but STEM rese... |
2020/05/02 | 3,059 | 12,706 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been helping a fellow student through a class I'm taking this semester - sending him homeworks, helping prepare him for tests, etc. The other day we had our final, which was online, and he asked me if he could pay me to send him the solutions after I turned in my test. (The program immed... |
2020/05/02 | 1,317 | 5,470 | <issue_start>username_0: EDIT/TLDR: Professorships are hard to find so I’ve never expected one. With recent PhD admissions success, is becoming a university/liberal arts professor now realistic and how can I best meet that goal?
I was recently accepted into an astronomy PhD. To give a rough characterization it is rank... |
2020/05/02 | 666 | 2,878 | <issue_start>username_0: My first degree was in Economics and Finance. Frankly, I didn't do very well, although I did do enough to scrape a 2:1. There were a number of legitimate reasons for this underperformance, but it's still a fact.
Anyway,that was ten years ago. I am wondering whether studying a masters in one s... |
2020/05/03 | 3,878 | 16,280 | <issue_start>username_0: A throwaway account for this issue I need advice in. I am in an engineering course and had an online exam (thanks to COVID-19) with no form of protection for cheating, just an "open now, turn in within 2 hours" exam. I spent way too much time perfecting one particular question (I blame my diagn... |
2020/05/03 | 3,496 | 14,781 | <issue_start>username_0: We have the following "weird" situation in the institution that I am currently working on. We have a master´s degree in CS that requires that the students present a thesis or a research article so that ourinstitution could grant them their MSc title. The background of the situation is the follo... |
2020/05/03 | 1,018 | 4,596 | <issue_start>username_0: I took an undergraduate degree in Bachelors of Science which did not go over a lot of mathematics. I did not even take calculus. I only took up to the highest level of algebra. Is it not possible for me to get into a grad program for comp sci, or electrical engineering? How is it going to work?... |
2020/05/03 | 1,427 | 6,095 | <issue_start>username_0: My research group started a new research direction in a somewhat of a classical engineering field (which heavily relays on experiments/tests). I noticed that reviewers who review our work seem to be extra harsh with their assessment and tend to favor a direct “rejection” without clearly explain... |
2020/05/03 | 1,604 | 6,842 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper together with other people to an important journal. A couple of days ago we received the answer from the editor and the paper was rejected (I was 3rd author) with very bad comments. One of the reviewers wrote that the paper was lacking innovation or originality. Another one ... |
2020/05/03 | 2,330 | 9,490 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my TAs is accusing me of cheating.
The professor had shared a 2-question quiz through our online portal (Google Meet). One of the questions contained a 9-digit sequence. Somehow, I misread this sequence and ended up solving the problem using a different 9-digit sequence. My incorrect s... |
2020/05/04 | 1,313 | 5,498 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context:** A friend of mine is ending their first year in a community college (in France, called *IUT*, 2-year diploma) near my school, and apparently the school administration is quite lenient about cheating during exams ; I asked a few other friends of mine that are currently in second year... |
2020/05/04 | 2,071 | 7,822 | <issue_start>username_0: As fas as I see it, one way to known if certain scientific article is important or relevant, is to see how much cited it is .. For example, let's take ***<NAME>***
He's known better known for an article called:
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> Uber das Gravitationsfeld eines Massenpunktes nach der Einstein'schen
> Theo... |
2020/05/04 | 2,555 | 11,148 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine a post-pandemic world where we can travel. You’re invited to give a talk at a university. You would present your research in front of room of faculty and grad students, have numerous one-on-one meetings, and go to lunch or dinner with some folks. **Why should you go?**
As the presenter... |
2020/05/04 | 1,002 | 4,386 | <issue_start>username_0: Let us assume that a professor is handling a course on statistics for undergrads.
They conduct exams and evaluate the answers and award marks to the students.
Suppose that the professor committed some mistakes, unknowingly, during the evaluation of a student's answers in one of the exams, an... |
2020/05/05 | 683 | 2,335 | <issue_start>username_0: While most university style guides mention "List of Figures", "List of Plates", "List of Tables", I haven't found a concrete definition of what might be included as a Figure or Plate in a thesis. Majority of theses seem to use Figures to label everything that is not a table but I wanted to know... |
2020/05/05 | 577 | 2,463 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I am the only instructor for a subject.
I need to conduct an exam. I am confused between the following two approaches for designing questions.
Approach I: Questions with single line answers such as boolean answers, multiple-choice questions, etc., note that the answers to these types ... |
2020/05/05 | 2,773 | 11,828 | <issue_start>username_0: **TLDR:** *In a course where students are required to do exercises, a programming project and write a report in small groups, the lecturer announced that grading will be based on 'creativity' and how funny or interesting he thinks the results are. How can I cope with this as a student?*
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2020/05/05 | 1,039 | 4,318 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor gave a lot of feedback (in actuality they are mostly complaints) about a part of my thesis (while I have let others read my work and they were more understanding of what I wrote). There are a few helpful things but overall I found lots of her comments are related to not having a d... |
2020/05/06 | 1,931 | 8,163 | <issue_start>username_0: My master thesis advisor gave me an ill-defined question. His expertise is in mathematical optimization, but he wanted to shift to heuristic optimization so he assigned all his graduate students topics in that field although he actually doesn't know much about it.
He assigned me a problem. I ... |
2020/05/06 | 1,097 | 4,730 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with a bachelor in math/physics with a cgpa of 2.74/4.00
but didn't study many courses of abstract mathematics mostly computational math . I applied for a master's in the same Uni. and about to graduate. I had a little exposure to abstract math (some real analysis, measure theory a... |
2020/05/06 | 2,021 | 8,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working under the supervision of a Professor at a german University for a couple of years on a research project that could be published soon with me as a first author.
However I am not enrolled in any PhD program. Is it possible to get a PhD if I were to write a PhD thesis based o... |
2020/05/06 | 920 | 3,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen books of <NAME> (biogeographer) and other fine nonfiction writers, that don't use any references or footnotes/endnotes - not even bibliography. Instead, they put a "for further readings" section at the end, where they "talk" about related books, papers and articles, and they don't see... |
2020/05/06 | 1,600 | 6,495 | <issue_start>username_0: (Edited with thanks after the early comments helped gauge the perception of the post.)
### This is the situation
I came across an article published in a reputable journal in the field of physics and engineering science.
1. The first author of this article is a member of the editorial board.... |
2020/05/07 | 1,015 | 4,563 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I submitted a paper to a journal and I got the following feedback from the Editorial Office:
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> The reference lists of manuscripts submitted to our journal should include a variety of English-language journals that reflect the diversity of resources in the scholarly field of the man... |
2020/05/07 | 791 | 3,410 | <issue_start>username_0: From time to time, I see what I mention in the title. For example: "It has been suggested this figure may be in excess of 800 gazillion dollars (Smith et al. unpublished data)."
My question is why this is allowed in fields where statements usually have to be backed up by facts? Do reviewers ge... |
2020/05/07 | 703 | 3,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reviewing an article where the authors are kind of experts of a particular subject and published several similar studies in the field, some even in the same journal.
This apparently leads them to reuse part of their own content between articles, sometimes self-citing sometimes not.
E.g. t... |