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2020/05/07 | 682 | 2,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had experiences where some reviewers comment something along the line with:
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> Why didn't you cite [x]. They solved a similar (but not strictly
> applicable) variation of your problem.
>
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Now most of the times, I have read [x]'s abstract and conclusion + skimmed it, but I chose ... |
2020/05/07 | 451 | 1,873 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in Post-doctoral degree in mathematics in France or in general in Europe after my PhD.
Do the universities or laboratories or organizations provide housing facility ?
Can you suggest me how is it possible ?<issue_comment>username_1: This depends what you mean by “provide” but ... |
2020/05/08 | 6,162 | 25,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently accused of unfair grading by a student. The accusation is meritless, and it didn't take long to prove that I didn't do anything wrong. No damage, but a lot of time wasted.
Later, I learned through the grapevine that I was among a long list of victims. Indeed, in just one year, t... |
2020/05/08 | 5,482 | 23,176 | <issue_start>username_0: There have been a number of other questions about grading oral exams, or about which countries use them, etc., but for those of us who come from places that don't traditionally use oral exams, how do you go about, for lack of a better term, write them? Given the amount of online transitioning f... |
2020/05/08 | 705 | 3,268 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published a review paper a few years ago in an important journal which was recently (last month) cited by a review paper related to the topic (published in another journal).
However, a significant part of that new paper (basically an entire section of a few pages) is extremely similar t... |
2020/05/08 | 2,217 | 9,428 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor has a bad reputation of forcing their name on papers at the final stage of research. The advisor is literally contributing zero or close to zero to my project, nothing more than- or maybe less than- very basic supervision tasks, like giving some comments on a written text.
This i... |
2020/05/08 | 478 | 2,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on research that should be sent to publishing in the next couple of weeks.
The research is done by me and a friend of mine; we are both under the same professor. This started as an attempt to improve on another paper which I'm the third writer on, but it quickly turned into a new id... |
2020/05/08 | 519 | 1,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I have always wanted to know the answer to this question (sorry if it's silly):
If a professor or lecturer answers a question or gives advice when replying to an email I sent them, in general, do they prefer if I send them a one-line email saying 'thank you!' or no email at all? If I send a on... |
2020/05/09 | 629 | 2,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard stories that graduate schools revoke their offers because of various reasons, such as lying in the application and some other serious misconducts.
As the title suggests, can the opposite happen? And can you recall any such events? If you have, why did they happen?<issue_comment>u... |
2020/05/09 | 1,321 | 5,733 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited as a special issue guest editor. The journal is genuine (I have both published and reviewed there multiple times) but not very prestigious and sometimes seen as "easy" to get into. So far the special issue has a title and a deadline, but the scope is yet to be defined by the... |
2020/05/09 | 551 | 2,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently about to finish my BA thesis, and my topic is bullying. I have read several books, studies, and such that can be connected to my topic. I finished the literature review, but haven't touched it since. However, when I recently re-read it and looked at the sources, I have found that ... |
2020/05/09 | 631 | 2,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an MS student in France. It is commonplace here to seek out professors from other universities or scientists at research centres to do the MS thesis under them, which is usually during the final semester. So, I reached out to a professor at a US university to carry out my thesis under him.... |
2020/05/09 | 426 | 1,850 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in the research group of one of the professors in my college. My professor forwards me emails which he receives regarding some webinars/seminars being organized in college/companies or articles related to our work. However, those emails are forwarded and don't contain any message persona... |
2020/05/10 | 666 | 2,809 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if it's too late to ask the faculty about the availability of a summer research internship position? When would be the best time for this?
More information as requested:
* I am looking for the positions in the US from May 25th onwards.
* I am also a graduate student and I'm thi... |
2020/05/10 | 5,873 | 23,929 | <issue_start>username_0: My thesis advisor expects me to 1) write the paper rebuttal and 2) finish any remaining experiments by coming in on the weekends, for free. I am now working full-time in industry, and no longer being paid by him. Is this ethical?
Part 2 of my question:
I would be happy to do this if it had bee... |
2020/05/10 | 1,450 | 6,590 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been applying to doctoral positions in mathematics with a strong background. BSc and MSc in math, and a MSc in computational math/engineering. I've got research experience in my field and connected fields, a paper in preprint and more to come (with novel results), solid references, teachin... |
2020/05/10 | 1,005 | 4,135 | <issue_start>username_0: As I wrote few days ago, maybe someone remembers, I am waiting for a date to be set up and to present my scientific research on the Congress.
I have never done this before, they give me 7mins to show my introduction, aim, material and methods, results, discussion, conclusion and literature.
The... |
2020/05/10 | 2,702 | 11,531 | <issue_start>username_0: I think this question holds for any kind of class, but if it actually makes a difference, it's a graduate level class.
Today I was drafting an email asking about uncertainties in a paper I'm supposed to do a presentation on.
When posing the questions, I added what I think is the solution to ... |
2020/05/11 | 1,021 | 4,148 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I was informed by my PI that the lab was too busy to take on undergrad students. I said that I understood and found another lab that I was interested in to join.
However, I had been working on a project for a year before I left, and didn't get around to sending them any data/notes r... |
2020/05/11 | 1,353 | 5,216 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a master's degree in the UK, titled MSc Advanced Materials Engineering.
I would like to know if it would be correct to put MSc (Eng) as a post-nominal?
There is no clear guidance. By using just MSc in a post-nominal it is of course not implicit that the qualification is in an engineeri... |
2020/05/11 | 1,340 | 5,474 | <issue_start>username_0: For the sake of context, I have been accepted by a UK university for my undergraduate degree (Maths and Philosophy at Oxford), and shall be beginning my degree this fall.
My issue is this - after having looked into the course contents for English, I have been considering changing my degree sub... |
2020/05/12 | 2,061 | 8,594 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year we started organizing a conference in one of the European countries in September 2020. Everything was fixed and we had a number of registered people. As you all may know, due to the pandemic outbreak, many conferences in Europe were canceled. Since our conference was scheduled for Sep... |
2020/05/12 | 1,158 | 4,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in the area of CS/math. My dream (for a long time) is to develop an academic career, and I work really hard (like any of us) to achieve that.
This semester I am taking a class which is semi relevant to my area. This class made me feel like a complete idiot. I have been spen... |
2020/05/12 | 837 | 3,548 | <issue_start>username_0: My initial reaction would be that it would be highly inappropriate to attend someone's defense unless explicitly invited, and you should never ask someone for and invitation to anything. It should be something very private.
However, it referred to as a "*Final Public Oral Examination*" and the... |
2020/05/12 | 345 | 1,348 | <issue_start>username_0: How to find and check providers of fake Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers? What are the consequences of using fake DOI numbers? How can I know is DOI number actually fake?<issue_comment>username_1: Attempt to resolve the DOI digitally. If the number doesn’t resolve then it doesn’t current... |
2020/05/13 | 804 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: In university courses, is it possible or good habit to ask help for homework exercises one can't solve? I mean, someone might think it is cheating but on the other hand, should a student be stuck in some particular problem for days?
The course I take is about version control on git and there ... |
2020/05/13 | 973 | 3,576 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having a hard time creating citations for new literature.
I get a new work (either electronic or printed) and I want to incorporate its citation to my library by means of a citation file (no matter if `.bib`, `.ris`, or whatever). And then I spend *a lot of time* in Internet looking for an... |
2020/05/13 | 1,718 | 6,866 | <issue_start>username_0: During an interview recently Dr. Fauci, the top doctor in the US, called himself "a scientist, and a physician". It appears that he only has an MD, but is an immunologist and a highly cited researcher. This is not a special case, there are many examples of labs run by a researcher with only an ... |
2020/05/13 | 360 | 1,529 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a high school to undergraduate level introduction written for methods and applications of a particular science topic (~5000 words with tables and schematic, like a book chapter).
My goal is to get people especially students interested in this particular topic. My homepage does not have... |
2020/05/13 | 373 | 1,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been publishing in the past with a certain abbreviation of my name which I am unsatisfied due to draconian rules in my previous institution which wrote my name in the following way: <NAME>. Z. lastname2.
Being my name composed of the following nouns: firstname1 firstname2 lastname1 last... |
2020/05/13 | 2,551 | 11,141 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a PhD and I have two people listed down as my supervisors for the project, who I will call supervisors A and B. I get on really well with supervisor A, he makes constructive suggestions in a constructive way, and I always come out of meetings with him feeling better about my work. In ... |
2020/05/13 | 824 | 3,583 | <issue_start>username_0: Hello I have a question regarding video during exams.
My professor is hosting an exam using Zoom, and I was wondering if there was any basis for refusing to use the camera during the exam. Each student will be able to see each other unlike a [previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.c... |
2020/05/14 | 856 | 3,830 | <issue_start>username_0: Authors are often asked to suggest reviewers for their article. In my own experience, the principal domain experts I can suggest are often the authors whose work I have cited, but suggesting them might present a conflict of interest.
**As an author, should I suggest my sources as reviewers?**<... |
2020/05/14 | 3,161 | 12,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I often edit a manuscript draft with co-authors by sending drafts of a document back and forth via email. Depending on who I am working with, cloud-based solutions to working collaboratively are not always an option.
After some back and forth a lot of interim drafts begin floating around, so ... |
2020/05/14 | 790 | 3,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for an academic position and have been shortlisted. My one potential major stumbling block is in terms of publications. I have a number of them, but none of them are A grade publications. More worrying though, I have virtually no citations. These publications range in age from 6 m... |
2020/05/14 | 882 | 3,502 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new University student, in software engineering program.
I was FALSLY accused in plagiarism in my second semester and it resulted in a 0 on the assignment of course. I believe a student copied my code while on an online study group I initiated, but because I was pregnant and gave birth a c... |
2020/05/15 | 1,615 | 6,770 | <issue_start>username_0: As a math postdoc, I received my first invitation to referee a journal article today, and I accepted the invitation. I've already read a preprint of the submitted article (which has been available on arXiv for a few months and coincides with the submitted version) in great detail some time ago ... |
2020/05/15 | 2,903 | 12,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found some information online regarding the differences between going for a PhD with an employment contract or a stipend, in Germany. The differences are mostly related to the time you can research stuff not exactly in line with your thesis, social safety and mandatory working hours. The... |
2020/05/15 | 1,122 | 4,644 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be graduating this Fall with my undergrad (GPA: 3.66) and am planning to go to grad school in math. Given my early history of poor grades (2 Ds, 1 F), I am planning on only applying to the masters programs. Ideally, I would like to get admitted to my current university's masters program ... |
2020/05/15 | 1,771 | 7,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a post-doc in the UK. Today, In online lab meeting, my boss said that the name of my two postdocs are in two different grants and our technician is in both but he did not take me into account as his postdoc. He then asked me, are you going back to your country? I told no please don't kill ... |
2020/05/16 | 1,518 | 6,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a grad student and one course I'm taking is graded by another grad student. Today, nearly halfway through the term, we finally got feedback on all our previously submitted homework dating back to the beginning of the term. I've done everything correctly, but the grader has frequently marked... |
2020/05/16 | 1,010 | 4,387 | <issue_start>username_0: I work for a technology company and our company is interested in inviting some professors to review some of our recent technological innovation. It'd be more like writing an endorsement, or a preface for a book (and of course the professor needs to be comfortable with our work), so we can promo... |
2020/05/16 | 994 | 4,193 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a sophomore at a public university in the U.S. I'm thinking of taking a year off before my junior year, but I'm worried I'll have to explain the gap in my transcript when I apply to math grad school down the road. How concerned do I need to be about this?
The real reason I don't want to "g... |
2020/05/16 | 1,728 | 7,233 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had discussions with professors in conjunction with my postgraduate application. Many were very skeptical at the fact that I completed one BSc and two MSc within 4 years. This would normally take at least 5-6 years in my country. I explained that I did it because I was very interested in m... |
2020/05/16 | 855 | 3,753 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to do research with one of a few professors within a certain group in my (American) university's Computer Science department. [I'm having some trouble contacting them](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/147052), but I'd like to understand what I can do, as an undergraduate st... |
2020/05/16 | 1,016 | 4,339 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working on some independent research for a few years now, and I'm finally at the point where I'm seriously considering publishing a Computer Science/Mathematical Algorithm in an Academic Journal.
I presently work as a Software Development Engineer at a major tech firm. I have neve... |
2020/05/17 | 1,120 | 5,069 | <issue_start>username_0: In my area (computer science), many researchers have employed some algorithms to solve the problem where most of them used their own private datasets.
I collected several public datasets and have benchmarked the performance (the accuracy) of the state-of-the-art algorithms on several public da... |
2020/05/17 | 390 | 1,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm submitting the extended version of my published conference paper to a journal that has a special issue specifically related to that conference.
Besides adding 30% of more material to the article (as the computer science routine), do I have to change the article name?
On one hand, everythin... |
2020/05/17 | 8,306 | 35,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student who teaches their own class. I have a supervisor who I report to for everything, including final grades. We have a meeting every semester at the end to review our final grades and for my supervisor to see that I did everything correctly.
In my second semester, my superv... |
2020/05/17 | 577 | 2,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for a PhD position in Computer Science in a particular subarea (in Europe). Now I've been observing the PhD vacancies for quite a while. The number of PhD vacancies in the subarea (together with some personal criteria) is about one vacancy per two weeks. Given the infrequent num... |
2020/05/17 | 1,562 | 6,839 | <issue_start>username_0: Universities require a doctorate degree to apply for a faculty position which involves both teaching and research. Even if the professor did not receive any formal training in pedagogy, it is expected that they will pick up a few things over time.
If a graduate student who does not have a doc... |
2020/05/17 | 1,700 | 7,424 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for tools to create a data dictionary for my project's data. We have a large database of many variables, and I would like to create a data dictionary that describes what each variable means so that I can share it with collaborators and other researchers (including on the [Open Scien... |
2020/05/18 | 784 | 3,333 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm currently finishing up my master's thesis and my supervisor seems to be happy with my work. The subject of PhD came up a couple of times during meetings and while I did say that I think it would be nice to do a PhD, I also said that I'm still thinking about it and considering other caree... |
2020/05/18 | 377 | 1,655 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just finished my initial proposal and I currently work on the motivation letter. The Politecnico di Milano deadline for Ph.D. is next Friday, May 29,2020. My referee and former supervisor is so quick, when I ask him to respond the email sent by universities, he responds within a few hour... |
2020/05/18 | 621 | 2,616 | <issue_start>username_0: Prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, I attended a generously-funded research meeting that included a hotel stay, free dinners and bar drinks. There was a dedicated bar section just for us.
I always wondered: At these funded events, should I tip the bartenders and hotel staff, or can I assume that ... |
2020/05/19 | 1,806 | 7,618 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a situation where I do not know how to tell my mentor I am not comfortable with a research fellow on our paper as an author. I came across a "call to submission" for a paper, in essence, there is a special edition of a journal over a specific topic. I wrote the complete manuscript think... |
2020/05/19 | 2,267 | 9,604 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read this question posed a lot for **math and science doctoral degree**, but my question pertains to pursuing a **social sciences doctoral degree**. I'm currently working as a Management Analyst in local government. I've decided to pursue a PhD in Psychology at a nearby university. Being... |
2020/05/19 | 811 | 3,586 | <issue_start>username_0: I often face the following situation:
I am reading a technical paper, and I can't figure out a calculation shown in the paper, whose details are not given. There is no reference in the paper about the exact calculations. It is not possible to get an answer from the author(s), either they are d... |
2020/05/19 | 2,150 | 9,764 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is clear:
Do reviewers go over the calculations (i.e do the calculations themselves) in the paper? For example, it can be the derivation of an equation, or some numerical calculations.
**Edit:**
What I am trying to understand is that if I am reading a paper and seeing some deriv... |
2020/05/19 | 853 | 3,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and today, a PRL paper has been published in which a part of its main section reports the same results as our arXiv preprint, that was submitted also to PRL (and to arXiv) at the end of 2019. They submitted their work after ours; however, our paper is still under review since... |
2020/05/20 | 632 | 2,573 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a manuscript to a Taylor & Francis journal. Three days later they asked me to remove author identifying information from the anonymous manuscript before they could send it for review, I think they were referring to a self-citation. I resubmitted the manuscript 2 weeks later, and thi... |
2020/05/20 | 726 | 2,882 | <issue_start>username_0: We have received a set of reviews for an article that we had submitted to a journal. The decision by the journal editor is a *Major Revision*. That means, there is a possibility that the article could still be *rejected*.
Two of the reviewers (out of 3) have commented that the data and code to... |
2020/05/20 | 2,775 | 11,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I should defend my PhD in the UK near the end of the year.
Unfortunately I fell into the class of horribly supervised PhD students - with an ill-defined research project and an absent supervisor who steered me into so many different topics of my field that I'm convinced my results chapters lac... |
2020/05/20 | 2,053 | 8,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in a pretty large lab, and have come from a more theoretical background than the other members, so sometimes they ask me to help out with theoretical parts of projects. Generally I like this, but a postdoc recently asked me to help out with his project, and I tried to help but... |
2020/05/20 | 1,537 | 6,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently defended my PhD thesis and was awarded a pass with some minor corrections. I am due to submit the final version of my thesis very soon.
The examiners were both very happy with my thesis, which explains the final verdict. However, as the saying goes, no one understands a thesis bette... |
2020/05/20 | 2,362 | 9,710 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: I have a (IMO, very interesting, and rather significant) mathematical conjecture. I communicated this conjecture to a professor at my university; he is a respected expert in the topic. He says he has not seen something like my conjecture before, that it is very interesting, and that he... |
2020/05/20 | 737 | 3,059 | <issue_start>username_0: My first semester of college was extremely rough GPA wise. I am an otherwise almost straight 4.0 student (up to -0.02), but my first semester of college I got a 3.46 because of both adjusting to a new environment and an extraordinary amount of personal/familial issues that came up simultaneousl... |
2020/05/21 | 855 | 3,569 | <issue_start>username_0: I was taught cursive in elementary school but was discouraged from using cursive by an English teacher in in a non English speaking country. At least I took his/her comment that “not many people use cursive these days” as a sign not to use cursive. Later I practiced and adopted a “connected pri... |
2020/05/21 | 529 | 2,425 | <issue_start>username_0: My Computer Science department uses a three-course sequence (A, B, C) in which A is optional. Because both A and B are on-ramps, their contents overlap a good deal, and students who take the slower, gentler approach see several of same topics twice.
My colleagues and I have diverse views on th... |
2020/05/21 | 822 | 3,028 | <issue_start>username_0: I am talking about academia and research.
Suppose, a person doesn't have either professional or academic credentials or experiences. Suddenly he decides to study engineering because he wants to change his stagnation both financially and socially. So, he enrolls in BSc in an engineering program... |
2020/05/21 | 1,170 | 5,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I am towards the end of the first year of my PhD where most of my time went towards doing courses and a small research project in our lab. I plan to continue in academia after my PhD and aspire to get a good faculty position sometime in the future. Is there a stark difference in the way one sho... |
2020/05/21 | 1,421 | 6,305 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad at the University of Maryland College Park who just finished a computer science bachelors a few days ago. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how much I liked theory (algorithms, combinatorics, graph theory) and math until this past semester. As a result, I plan to work for a few y... |
2020/05/21 | 780 | 3,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper where I am using the same dataset that was used in the previous work which I co-authored. I have written the data and the methodology part of that paper. In the new paper I am using the same dataset but a different approach and different methodology.
When reusing the data... |
2020/05/21 | 1,372 | 6,063 | <issue_start>username_0: For context, I am a graduate student in my academic department — agricultural economics. I wanted to bring up the idea to the Department Chair that introducing some applications like JupyterLab, GitHub, and R to our future graduate students could be a great move to not only support the move to... |
2020/05/22 | 3,579 | 14,810 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering doing a PhD in Software Engineering and Information Technology.
Associated with a particular concept of interest (immersion), got many ideas running through my mind that having them explored would bring, at my sight, both business and educational value. So, the ideas:
* Consol... |
2020/05/22 | 1,691 | 6,928 | <issue_start>username_0: TA (a PhD student) of one of my classes was looking for an undergrad to join in one of his projects. This was not directly related to the field I want to work in grad school, but there is no group or faculty in my preferred area, so I wanted to join in anyways (because it is another area I enjo... |
2020/05/22 | 882 | 3,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I am citing a figure I have taken from a journal. In my figure legend do I only include the number citation or do I need to state the figure is taken from somewhere else?
i.e Figure shows a cat [1]
*or*
Figure shows a cat. Taken from [1]
Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: I think the most a... |
2020/05/23 | 635 | 2,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted two papers in a top-tier applied mathematics journal. The first one is a short paper and the second one is a full paper. After 7 months the short paper and after 8 month the full paper got major revision. For the short paper I submitted the revised paper after 5 months. Finally... |
2020/05/23 | 1,846 | 6,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done a Bachelor's (4 years) and my GPA is quite low. But I have research experiences (more than 3 years) and few publications in some good journals. I want to do a Ph.D. in biology or a related field. Is it possible to get a position (e.g. in the USA or Europe) when research experience i... |
2020/05/23 | 581 | 2,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m now writing a masters thesis in mathematics. I’d like to introduce basic definitions and theorems in the beginning. By basic I mean truly basic, like the definition of a connected graph and the theorem about Eulerian paths (such a path exists if and only if even degrees).
The lecture note... |
2020/05/23 | 851 | 3,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a graduate student in Theoretical chemistry/Chemical Physics at one of the higher-ranked R1 universities in the US. After a year of taking graduate-level courses in Physics, I have realized that an academic career in theoretical physics is something that I really want to pursue. ... |
2020/05/23 | 2,226 | 9,027 | <issue_start>username_0: An article claiming to solve a great long-standing mathematical open problem was published in a conference proceedings, and was refereed on MathSciNet positively, i.e. the reviewer makes an impression that the proof is valid. However, some details hint that this may not be the case:
1. the res... |
2020/05/23 | 700 | 2,317 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a postdoc position at age 34 years in China. My documents are verified and I got the invitation letter. My employer applied for a work permit which is in process. I am waiting for that to apply for Z visa. But it is delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and travel ban. If it is delayed fur... |
2020/05/24 | 857 | 3,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for a second round of 100% rejections and needless to say I am not feeling great about it. What I am especially angry/frustrated about is that neat little sentence every rejection letter has:
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> We recommend getting more research experience and trying again next year
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2020/05/24 | 1,178 | 4,645 | <issue_start>username_0: Many positions in academia are precarious, when it comes to employment common behavior in academia would never be acceptable in industry. This applies equally to PhD students as well as to junior academics:
1. PhD students are not guaranteed employment at university
after working there for 5 y... |
2020/05/24 | 1,563 | 5,937 | <issue_start>username_0: Perhaps a bit of background on myself is useful in this case. I've obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in pure mathematics and applied mathematics, respectively. Although I would like to do a PhD on a topic that is somewhat related to these fields, I suspect I will not be able to obtain a... |
2020/05/24 | 571 | 2,457 | <issue_start>username_0: Hi Google Scholar changes my profile into Thai language, how do I change it back? My Google account language is English. I contacted Google several times but never got any response: Google seems don't have any client service, disappointed...
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Thank you very much @Anton @GoodDeeds @ <NAME>.... |
2020/05/24 | 456 | 1,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my paper's (social science) methodology part and it consists of several steps that I express mathematically. However, I have a feeling that one of the steps might be better explained if I also add some kind of an example to it right after formulas.
How acceptable is it in academia?... |
2020/05/24 | 1,242 | 5,437 | <issue_start>username_0: Many conferences in my field use two-phase reviewing: in the first phase, 2-3 reviewers review the paper; their reviews are made available to the authors; the authors are given a chance to respond; and then in the second phase, the reviewers read the authors' response and the program chairs mig... |
2020/05/24 | 538 | 2,508 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I have submitted a manuscript for publication consideration into a journal (impact factor: 2). However, I realized that in the final PDF proof the cover letter is missing.
I think I have forgotten to include it.
Does this mean that the article would be rejected or will not be proc... |
2020/05/25 | 806 | 3,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I have started my 1 year postdoc in math three months ago, of course after 1 month the university was closed and I have to work at home, due to Corona Virus. Recently, I want to apply for another postdoc position in another country. One of the required documents is a letter of recommendation fr... |
2020/05/25 | 2,655 | 10,947 | <issue_start>username_0: After experiencing a lot of stress during my last undergraduate semester (and an episode of depression), I lashed out at a professor. I had made several rather foolish attempts to impress her and then "freaked out" and wrote to the Department Chair, complaining not only about the unanswered ema... |
2020/05/25 | 1,903 | 8,175 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc supervising a PhD student in Computer Science.
Unfortunately, I have a lot on my plate and I cannot help him with the solution of the technical problems (they require a lot of time to solve them). The PhD student often gives me some tasks and I execute them to help him go forwa... |
2020/05/25 | 1,889 | 8,117 | <issue_start>username_0: After graduating in February, I was waiting for my work permit to start my one-year postdoc position. Finally, after 2 months delay (due to COVID-19), I have got my permit today and now I can start the paperwork to have my position finalized. However, now my postdoc advisor informed me that the... |
2020/05/25 | 419 | 1,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed that sometimes when you submit an article to a journal it will ask if there is someone in particular who you do not want to referee the paper.
I was wondering what the reason for this option was. Is it simply to avoid a conflict of interest or if you really do not get on with th... |
2020/05/26 | 1,028 | 4,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that has never been submitted elsewhere. Now my advisor thinks that this Elsevier journal called *Chaos, Solitons and Fractals* (CSF) is a good fit. A cursory search shows that this journal has had [a history of misconduct involving the chief editor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... |
2020/05/26 | 568 | 2,610 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it professional enough to share personal worries with your research team and your supervisor where you are pursuing doctoral studies away from home and your hometown has been affected by a natural disaster like a tornado or a super cyclone in the context of your reduced productivity and less... |
2020/05/26 | 1,187 | 4,846 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed an internship at a company. During the internship I worked on a generic and publically well-known problem statement and delivered its solution to the company.
After the internship, I wrote a research paper under the guidance of my college professor on a similar problem statement (a... |
2020/05/26 | 2,086 | 9,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I pay close attention to how my rating scores/comments are like on the RateMyProfessor website. Very rarely I reported inappropriate comments (which violated site guidelines) for removals, and the average score has been decent (4.8).
Since last week, after I reported a comment (with improper ... |
2020/05/26 | 887 | 3,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using one-sample log-rank test in my paper. I use the implementation from this website <http://www.ms.uky.edu/~mai/splus/LogRank1.r>. I wonder whether I should cite this and how I can cite a function on a website in Latex.<issue_comment>username_1: If you use a script written by someone el... |