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2020/06/13 | 614 | 2,592 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my pHD in 2007. After that I worked on several univeristies as post doc and postdoctoral associates. I mentored students, did TA, wrote proposals, and worked with industrial collaboration projects.
What is my possibility to become a tenure faculty ?<issue_comment>username_1: You can cert... |
2020/06/13 | 366 | 1,596 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose someone has a math bachelors with a developing interest in AI research but has not taken a single computer science course.
Is it advisable to "start over" and try to be admitted to a masters program in computer science, perhaps by taking prerequisite courses as a non degree student som... |
2020/06/13 | 668 | 2,789 | <issue_start>username_0: Maybe a dumb question, but for example: say I'm doing a PhD in Theoretical Physics (I'm not) but I need to have taken certain undergrad math courses to understand the material, which I never took in undergrad. Do grad students ever end up in undergrad classes for this reason, or do they just le... |
2020/06/13 | 1,206 | 5,455 | <issue_start>username_0: Professional compulsory activities I am referring here falls into the following two classes:
1. The activities that need to be done very quickly.
2. Activities given by supervisor to participate in a voluntary activity.
I frequently encounter the professional compulsory activities. Former are... |
2020/06/13 | 938 | 4,141 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is whether preprints continue to exist after the information contained in them gets published in a journal. It would be confusing to have two sources for the same information (the preprint and the official publication), so I am assuming that preprints are taken down by the authors a... |
2020/06/13 | 3,510 | 13,958 | <issue_start>username_0: Pursuing an academic career involves risk, including financial risk. My question is: what factors should one consider when deciding whether these financial risks are worth it in one's personal situation?
As an example, consider my situation:
* I am 38, have a liberal arts degree, and am consi... |
2020/06/14 | 2,059 | 9,002 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got reviews back on a grant proposal.
On the whole the reviews were positive, but one reviewer criticised us because the five PIs are all male.
The proposed project arises naturally out of a couple of strands of work that we’ve been doing recently. The PIs are the people who’ve been inv... |
2020/06/14 | 3,517 | 14,694 | <issue_start>username_0: I have one postdoc hired on a H2020 project for 18 months. Fortunately, she worked rather well and all her tasks are going to finish soon (11th month of the project). I would like to reallocate her to other projects my group is working on now, and which fall a bit outside of the initial H2020 p... |
2020/06/14 | 3,309 | 14,527 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student at an American university, and I have been assigned to teach an online math class. I have noticed that there are many lecture videos available on Youtube made by actual professors, and since I am a first-time lecturer, their videos are superior to anything I could make.
... |
2020/06/14 | 831 | 3,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I did not get along well with my former PhD advisor. I was able to defend and graduate; however, I have learned that my advisor was giving bad recommendation letters. No wonder why all of my postdoctoral applications were unsuccessful even though I have good academic standing. Since we had seve... |
2020/06/15 | 1,660 | 7,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked to be a referee of a PhD thesis.
The thesis is completely based on several papers published in journals.
All the papers have, besides the PhD student, other authors (different authors for different papers).
Also, the field of study is Mathematics,
so the order of authors is Alphabet... |
2020/06/15 | 800 | 2,952 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an accepted paper which is now in the proof stage. Throughout the paper we define various acronyms, since we use these terms lots of times. For example:
These two acronyms are introduced in the first section:
>
> A Bayesian network (BN) is a well known machine learning technique for (... |
2020/06/15 | 574 | 2,238 | <issue_start>username_0: I have this problem that I write:
"Image segmentation methods include region growing, region modelling and mathematical morphology"
These I can discover to exist in papers on image segmenting by doing a Google search. But I find it difficult to find a source that I could cite as for a "defini... |
2020/06/15 | 661 | 2,586 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to submit and present well documented research reports of mine to a panel of experts. It is well known that there is a custom of including dedication page to any significant reports.
I want to include the statements like
>
> *Dedicated to god <-name->*
>
>
>
My colleagues are caut... |
2020/06/16 | 652 | 2,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I lost my Dad while waiting for the examiners reports of my thesis. In my final copy I would like to include a dedication page to him (in addition to the general acknowledgements page), but I'm not really sure what to say. I know I would like something really short, but more than "I dedicate th... |
2020/06/16 | 786 | 3,162 | <issue_start>username_0: When there's a weekly seminar in a STEM department that professors and grad students attend, how are these speakers given slots?
Are they invited? By whom?
Can they apply to speak at some weekly seminar, e.g. apply to give a math talk at Harvard?
Do the seminar speakers then get their airfar... |
2020/06/16 | 1,647 | 7,393 | <issue_start>username_0: I had reviewed a manuscript two months ago.
Though the manuscript was interesting and well written there were some minor flaws.
I had pointed to the author the flaws and asked them to correct them.
I had also mentioned three papers, which I co-authored, and which I feel should be cited in the... |
2020/06/16 | 2,390 | 10,047 | <issue_start>username_0: After a PhD in pure mathematic, I wanted to do work in applied areas where I could bring in my pure math expertise. So I did two postdocs in computational medical imaging where I could apply my pure math knowledge coupled with machine learning (which I also liked because of my pure math backgro... |
2020/06/16 | 4,754 | 18,750 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student (PhD) in a STEM program. A fellow lab mate of mine asked me to review a chapter (basically the background/history of their project) of their graduate thesis a couple months ago. It was during my finals, I had conference papers due, along with the pandemic shutting everyt... |
2020/06/16 | 787 | 3,510 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to COVID-19, I'm working from home, and I'm going to give a presentation from home. I wonder if some of good practices when giving presentation directly are still good? For example: do not put too many words in the slides => but now the audiences only have the slides to stare at, should I p... |
2020/06/16 | 502 | 2,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw some Ph.D. positions from a particular university. Most of the projects align well with my interest. So before applying, I want to write the professors some queries (e.g. just to know what he is expecting in the candidate or even I am eligible or my profile meeting his expectations or not... |
2020/06/17 | 943 | 4,031 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science, is there any difference in usage of the terms: theoretical, mathematical?
If yes, which is more broader?
Context: If my supervisor says *focus on theoretical aspects of the paper* and *focus on mathematical aspects of the paper*. Should I interpret as same?<issue_comment>... |
2020/06/17 | 5,234 | 22,065 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote an exam a couple of months ago and I recently received an email accusing me of academic misconduct. I had just finished my first year of university and this is the first time that I am receiving a letter of this kind.
One of the long answers that I had written matched an answer that wa... |
2020/06/17 | 745 | 3,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I defended my Ph.D. in December last year. I was supposed to start my Postdoc position (with my Ph.D. supervisor) from March but the immigration documents got delayed by over 3 months because of the lockdowns. Earlier my appointment was decided for a year from March 2020 to February 2021. But a... |
2020/06/17 | 663 | 2,815 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there an easy way to check for the "popularity" (or more particularly, "appealing to experts") or citations of some reference?
That is, when I find some reference and want to check how "good" it is w/o having to read the thing.
Some confusions:
* There can be quality papers with low citat... |
2020/06/17 | 1,290 | 5,743 | <issue_start>username_0: I and my team members worked on a machine learning paper to predict pass and fail on a standard academic test. The paper was submitted to a reputable journal. The first review came-back with a lot of encouragement but with few suggestions which made us change the methodology of our work especia... |
2020/06/17 | 913 | 3,260 | <issue_start>username_0: Edit: I found the answer. In the preface to the english edition it says
>
> This book is a translation from the orginal Chinese text of notes based
> on a six-week course on algebraic curves and Riemann surfaces taught at
> Beijing University in 1982.
>
>
>
However, in the English Transla... |
2020/06/17 | 1,231 | 5,237 | <issue_start>username_0: How much help can one expect from their PhD advisor to get a job (academic or industry)? Is it true that graduates often get positions just by having their advisor make a "phone call"?<issue_comment>username_1: **I think it's reasonable to expect a PhD advisor to *make introductions* but not to... |
2020/06/18 | 251 | 1,063 | <issue_start>username_0: I have my PhD defense coming up and understand that I'll be asked if I have any questions for the examination committee, like asking for advice on turning chapters into publications.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm completely stumped!
FYI the defense includes just myself and a small exa... |
2020/06/18 | 585 | 2,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to publish an educational article about some non-standard approach to Lagrangian Mechanics, but the problem is that I have written it in my country language (not in English) so I want to know if there is any journal which accepts academical papers, I shall surely convert it into English ... |
2020/06/18 | 2,002 | 8,391 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a current undergraduate who has been involved in a research lab for the past 3 years. Not too long after joining, I was asked to be a co-author on a paper that was already written. My PI wanted me to be recognized on a publication so I could add it to my CV, but I did not contribute or eve... |
2020/06/18 | 997 | 4,083 | <issue_start>username_0: My son took an Undergraduate Thesis course this year, and he could not submit his thesis at the end of the school year. Even he has graduated now, he cannot submit his thesis. His advisor insisted that he should finish his current project, then submit the thesis. He got a temporary 80% on his t... |
2020/06/18 | 1,595 | 6,636 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm starting a grad school and I'm used to start my emails to all my professors with "Dear Professor Smith", even though they respond with their first name at the end of their emails ("Best, John").
I noticed that the guys I'm starting the studies with are using "Hi John" in their emails. I do... |
2020/06/18 | 2,323 | 9,670 | <issue_start>username_0: I found proof for an open math problem. I know it likely has flaws, but I can't catch any and I'd like to put the proof out for revision. But without losing the credit for it, in case it turns out to be correct.
The thing is I'm just a math student and I have no experience publishing math pape... |
2020/06/18 | 2,064 | 8,600 | <issue_start>username_0: In a research paper scientific experiments are carried out and their results recorded. Anybody can just fabricate experiment data saying they did an experiment and these were the results. The only way you'd know if it was true is if other non related people repeated the experiments and found th... |
2020/06/19 | 735 | 3,083 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to go to grad school for Applied mathematics, and I have a high GPA in my undergraduate of 3.56 in Applied Mathematics. I wanted to take the GRE. However, they are very costly around $200, which I am not sure if it is worth paying that much to take the GRE. I plan on applying for Graduat... |
2020/06/19 | 789 | 3,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied to some post-doc positions at well-ranked universities whose number of candidates is usually not so large (ca. 15, at most 50). Usually, the recruitment process consists of a formal interview, and sometimes, a pre-informal one where candidates are first "filtered".
I'm not a... |
2020/06/19 | 861 | 3,759 | <issue_start>username_0: After writing a review paper on a specific topic, is it common to write a book to expand the review paper in a more pedagogical way, and to include more subtopics/content? Also, since published papers cannot be "updated", would it be useful to have a book which takes into account new research d... |
2020/06/19 | 506 | 2,162 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, I applied for a tenure track professorship in Germany, and was invited to an interview. Due to the current circumstances, the interview will now take place online (via Zoom).
Having participated in a few "offline" interviews, what I have been told about the structure and content... |
2020/06/19 | 552 | 2,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted one of my work in a good journal (impact factor 6) and I got rejection after a few weeks. Though I was pretty sure that I covered all the experiments or stuff they can ask for. The reply mail did not show any cause. They just regretted that they cant publish my work. What can b... |
2020/06/20 | 943 | 4,648 | <issue_start>username_0: There are opportunity costs associated with spending time on writing a critical analysis of the literature and submitting that review article to a journal as opposed to conducting research (although the two aren't mutually exclusive). As a PhD student, is it worth spending the time to write and... |
2020/06/20 | 868 | 3,647 | <issue_start>username_0: As background, I have a MSc in Chemical Engineering, and I am currently teaching in one of the first *Fachhochschule*-type institutes that have been established in my country. This institute stands as the middle ground between high school and university or industry, and I have been appointed as... |
2020/06/20 | 868 | 3,929 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my MS by research under a supervisor. There was considerable delay in completing because my supervisor suddenly lost interest in research midway through my program. I had sent him a research paper for his comments but even after several reminders, he did not show interest in looking... |
2020/06/21 | 215 | 935 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field, conferences are rarely peer reviewed. The usual categories of peer review are journals and grants. If I peer review for conference proceedings, should I list that in my CV under journal peer reviewing, or should I create a new category?<issue_comment>username_1: Maybe you can go wi... |
2020/06/21 | 301 | 1,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm helping to hold a workshop sort of thing to help students learn how to read/write research papers, but as I am a sophomore and haven't read too many papers myself, I can't find anything that is easily comprehensible for the students. Anything that is not too long and does not have too much ... |
2020/06/21 | 1,553 | 5,855 | <issue_start>username_0: In papers, the symbols explained in an equation are usually explained like this:
>
> *δ*(t) = tan⁻¹〖*ke*(*t*) / *v*f(*t*)〗,
>
> where *δ*(*t*) is the steering angle, *e*(*t*) is the closest point between the path and the vehicle, *v*(*t*) is the vehicle’s velocity and *k* is the gain para... |
2020/06/22 | 526 | 2,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 2nd-year PhD student. I have published two conference papers, and now I want to upload a copy to arXiv. I am aware it is common (flexible) for researchers in some areas (e.g. machine learning) to upload their papers on arXiv; However, it is uncommon in my research area/targeted publicati... |
2020/06/22 | 1,004 | 4,230 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to finish my PhD at a US university and am starting to apply for jobs and postdocs in physics and computer science. Throughout my PhD, I maintained a good relationship with my PhD supervisor. However, in the last year and a half, he has made social (not academic) comments that were v... |
2020/06/22 | 743 | 3,080 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: math master's thesis.
I get that I need to show up and be able to have a discussion and answer questions, etc. That's all fine and good.
But in my uni, 70 % of the thesis defence consist of my own presentation. Then maybe 25 % of the time is alloted for questions, and 5 % for grading... |
2020/06/22 | 1,660 | 7,303 | <issue_start>username_0: At my university in the UK, candidates doing a full time PhD (3 years) have to submit a 1st year report which includes literature review, the "gaps" that will be tackled by the doctoral work, expected outcomes, research methodology, Gantt diagram of the future work, the completed training plan,... |
2020/06/22 | 6,026 | 25,881 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine is a non-tenured teaching-track faculty
in a neighboring university.
We work together frequently through our joint outreach and REU projects.
He is currently teaching a summer course in mathematics (pre-calculus algebra) with a compressed schedule from mid May to early July... |
2020/06/23 | 996 | 3,670 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen some confusing information online. I am looking into postdoc positions at Caltech (Pasadena, CA). From my understanding, the annual salaries are somewhere in the 55k - 60 k range. What kind of taxes apply, though? I've seen conflicting information, and am quite confused.
[Here](htt... |
2020/06/23 | 3,068 | 13,109 | <issue_start>username_0: With advancements in the internet and technology, I think that I can learn anything from internet with requirements of time and interest. I am very interested in quantum computing technology, but after finishing the learning process, I should do some research to find new things in that field. I... |
2020/06/23 | 641 | 2,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I managed to get a tenure-track academic job in the last month. While I'm thrilled and relieved to have secured employment, I feel somewhat guilty about it. The current employment situation is dire, due to the Covid-19 pandemic (it wasn't great before...). Many of my friends and colleagues are ... |
2020/06/23 | 1,643 | 6,697 | <issue_start>username_0: There are usually two types of cut-offs in entrance exams that decide who will and who won't be able to attend the particular institution.
They are :
* Rank based
* Marks based
In a rank based cut-off system, students with a rank above a specified rank can attend the institution.
In a marks... |
2020/06/23 | 1,510 | 6,237 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for professional help to verify some results I am working on and maintaining in a write-up. However, I can't get anyone for free since I was forced to leave my old university, Case Western Reserve, (due to disagreements) and I don't know if I can find an online program that assists... |
2020/06/23 | 1,040 | 4,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering on how to interpret these types of "reviews". As per [the guidelines](https://mathscinet.ams.org/mresubs/guide-reviewers.html) of Math reviews
>
> Two other treatments of items are possible, but should be used sparingly. You may recommend that the item be listed without a publi... |
2020/06/23 | 469 | 1,702 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw in some applications that some researchers state that their papers are in top 10% most cited articles, but they never state how they calculated this. I have tried Web of Knowledge and there are some metrics there, but the don't really match the text from those applications. For instance, ... |
2020/06/24 | 2,172 | 9,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an oral agreement with a supervisor that I was to complete research work for him. We established how many hours I was to work, and my hourly rate, when the work was to be done, etc. I completed the work, sent it off to him, he gave me some feedback and asked me to correct some citations a... |
2020/06/24 | 529 | 2,256 | <issue_start>username_0: Is asking for the syllabus before class frowned upon?
I usually ask because I'm trying to figure out what we're going to do and whether I have interest in the subject.<issue_comment>username_1: It should be perfectly acceptable (nearly) everywhere. You may not get it, for a variety of reasons, ... |
2020/06/24 | 359 | 1,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I have my own publications on Zotero, and would like a convenient way to export these references directly to my resume/CV so I only have to update them once. Is there a CSL style that can generate resume-style publication lists? They should appear in the following format and be sorted in revers... |
2020/06/25 | 1,606 | 5,691 | <issue_start>username_0: A "video poster presentation" sounds like a logical impossibility, but now that conferences are online, they seem to be a thing. What makes one effective? How is this different from a recorded conference talk? What makes for good content?<issue_comment>username_1: First, this answer isn't based... |
2020/06/25 | 1,017 | 4,394 | <issue_start>username_0: During my PhD (field of machine learning) I've been working in collecting a very large dataset. The whole work took more or less 1 year. I had the idea, collected most of the data and wrote all the software for data collection and data annotation. I acknowledge I had help from other people sett... |
2020/06/25 | 2,379 | 9,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I am average student completed my under-grad and grad studies successfully. I am doing PhD since mid 2015 (~7 years now).
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I was a hard-working student. I was a self-motivated student always wanted to do PhD and stay in Academia. I was hoping somehow my work will help to people.
If I comp... |
2020/06/25 | 3,154 | 12,809 | <issue_start>username_0: A few days ago, I was notified of my degree award, and my imposter syndrome kicked in - trying to see if I've done anything to not warrant earning it. I found myself looking through good academic practice guidelines and noticed something I'd previously overlooked -- that it was considered exam ... |
2020/06/26 | 1,290 | 5,249 | <issue_start>username_0: Do grad school admissions (particularly for Arts) care about how many classes you've taken per semester during your senior years?
For example, I'm (potentially) finishing my undergraduate studies with a 3-class semester. However, during this time I'll also be volunteering in classrooms for exp... |
2020/06/26 | 326 | 1,384 | <issue_start>username_0: The prof is quite famous (lots of publications and even a Wiki page). His doctoral advisor is also quite famous (still is part of the faculty of the university that I want to apply to). Would a recommendation letter have a significant impact on my application?
Alternatively I can get a letter ... |
2020/06/26 | 415 | 1,823 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is that do most people keep in touch with their doctoral advisors after they graduate? Do doctoral advisors forget their PhD students after the students get their degree?
I am mainly asking about math/physics if that makes a difference.<issue_comment>username_1: I very much doubt a... |
2020/06/26 | 1,646 | 7,041 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to review a paper for a journal that is on some work related to a paper I published 2-3 years ago.
The authors do not cite or compare our work although they try to solve the same problem.
In particular they use a similar fairly innovative way for the field to treat the input data, as we... |
2020/06/26 | 822 | 3,549 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in an institution wherein most of the academic body in my department (Electrical Engineering) have a rather poor (and that's putting mildly) mastery of English.
My concern is if I miraculously manage to get a letter of recommendation from one of them, will the admission committe... |
2020/06/26 | 518 | 1,951 | <issue_start>username_0: This is similar to the [question here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/29535/is-it-okay-to-directly-address-your-reader-when-writing-a-scientific-paper/29549#29549), but my question is different because I'm not asking about ever using "you" in my writing.
I quite like using the tu... |
2020/06/26 | 409 | 1,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I did an REU research program in my undergraduate college career. However, I had a bad experience because my mentor was not helpful and was very condescending person. I was told too that you worked closely with a mentor or grad student before I even started the program, which obviously did not ... |
2020/06/26 | 289 | 1,258 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted two articles to a journal. One of them got accepted within 10 days, but the status for the other one has been "Awaiting AE assignment" for 15 days now. The journal says on average they take 30 days to make a decision on a paper. Should I contact the journal about the status and... |
2020/06/27 | 529 | 2,439 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated from a master's degree while working on an interesting but niche intersection of machine learning and biology. This area is of my personal interest and I believe it can impact the world in the future but it is not readily marketable. Therefore, I decided to choose a positio... |
2020/06/27 | 1,262 | 5,308 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the original poster from [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/151006/realizing-possible-academic-misconduct-after-degree-award) on a new account. I tried registering the account, but for some reason it made me have a fresh account with no rep and did not acknowledge... |
2020/06/27 | 1,439 | 6,595 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been doing some looking around to try and learn a little bit more about what applied mathematicians work on in a more general sense and think that I could benefit from a question posted here. Research in applied mathematics seems to be something like a 'jack of all trades' type of discip... |
2020/06/27 | 1,252 | 4,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a student in high school, who plans on going to university.
As of now, I am planning to pursue my bachelors degree in mathematics in the UK and then go on to do a PhD in computer science in the states.
As long as I have been alive I have always loved doing maths and physics. Bu... |
2020/06/27 | 1,070 | 4,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a summer school and received a scholarship to attend. In the meantime, I am planning on applying for a Masters, in a field related to summer school, before attending the summer school. Is it acceptable to put the scholarship in the CV?
What would be the appropriate place to put t... |
2020/06/28 | 2,024 | 8,303 | <issue_start>username_0: It came to my awareness a case of nepotism in my academic network.
It concerns a professor and a former female student of him. The professor and the student had relationship while she was conducting her Master thesis under his supervision. For the year she was writing her thesis, the professor... |
2020/06/28 | 5,100 | 21,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in a Computer Science department, doing research of a mathematical nature. Some of my research problems drifted from my advisor's area of expertise, so I reached out to a researcher from my department about it (who is a world expert in this field). This professor is well-know... |
2020/06/28 | 633 | 2,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a PhD thesis in literature. I have covered all areas in about 120 pages. Does the length of a PhD thesis matter even if it has covered all the areas mentioned in the synopsis?<issue_comment>username_1: If it satisfies your advisor and the committee it is fine. A 1 page dissertation... |
2020/06/28 | 1,320 | 5,434 | <issue_start>username_0: **tl;dr:** I am considering leaving my current PhD program ABD, after four years, several publications and a strained relationship with my bully advisor. How, when and do I explain why I'm leaving if I apply to other PhD programs (in different European countries) and would it be considered a re... |
2020/06/28 | 606 | 2,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a computational materials science researcher. I model additive manufacturing process using continuum modeling methods. Almost everyone who works in my field are part experimentalists and partly into computational modeling. Though with an experimental master's background, my PhD research wa... |
2020/06/28 | 346 | 1,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I can't tell if this is trying to overrate my own publication, or that the achievement is worth "showboating" it to the degree that I've described in the title.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, it is probably worth it. It makes it easy to find in a quick scan of the CV. Many of the readers will w... |
2020/06/28 | 1,163 | 5,179 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to a coursework + thesis masters programme and am wondering how specific do I have to be when mentioning my research interests in my email to a potential advisor. I have applied to another programme before and I think I was too specific when I spoke to the prof. He rejected me imme... |
2020/06/28 | 1,202 | 5,379 | <issue_start>username_0: Scenario:
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You catch a student cheating on a graded assessment. While you are required to report them to a student-affairs administrator, it is up to you, the instructor, how to grade the student on the assessment.
The most common response seems to be to give the student a zero on th... |
2020/06/28 | 2,005 | 6,633 | <issue_start>username_0: The *h*-index is often used to measure a 'quality' of a scholar, and it is also often criticized as a lousy measure, since there is more into quality than just the number of papers and citations.
What are some examples of arguably great and famous scientists with low *h*-index?<issue_comment>u... |
2020/06/29 | 738 | 3,277 | <issue_start>username_0: Has someone here an opinion or already experience (and recommendations) with online preparation courses for writing ERC grant proposals, or for other kinds of funding?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, but this is strongly dependent on the course. For example, will the teachers give you personaliz... |
2020/06/29 | 1,474 | 6,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a paper ready for journal publication, but decided to break it into 2 conference papers and submitted them to a conference.
Now, one of them is accepted but the other one is rejected! The thing is, the 2 papers are related and I think they should be published together. The paper which is... |
2020/06/29 | 614 | 2,888 | <issue_start>username_0: My performance in my bachelor's degree was adversely affected by some medical extenuating circumstances (related to physical injuries). I am currently in a master's program and my performance is much better. Should I mention these extenuating circumstances in my PhD applications and should I in... |
2020/06/29 | 465 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently my MA gpa is a 70/100 and I'm studying in the UK. I just received the grade of my latest assignment, that is a 68. That means that my gpa is now bellow 70. However, the university is giving me the option of an ungraded pass for this assignment, so that my gpa will not be affected. If ... |
2020/06/29 | 652 | 2,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I've looked at some CV's from colleagues and superiors that I've worked with in academia, and one interesting thing I've noticed is that most of them don't mention if they've graduated with distinction (cum laude, first class etc), but for me it's crucial to mention. At what point is it not nec... |
2020/06/29 | 1,903 | 7,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a tenure-track researcher in STEM fields. On June 9th, I was told that all meetings scheduled next day were cancelled so that we can be a part of #ShutDownSTEM. I was not aware of it, and I actually thought it was a joke1 (I purposely isolated myself from real-world news).
So I kept all th... |
2020/06/30 | 600 | 2,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question about publishing. If I publish a paper in a journal that does not specify any type of license used, and I am never asked to transfer the copyright.
Apart from this, the journal defines itself as "open" and there is no copyright notice of any kind in the journal's articles.
I... |
2020/06/30 | 733 | 3,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working for a Computer Science researcher as an undergraduate. I worked for them last semester and have continued into the semester. However, I am having a bit of trouble lately because I feel like I haven't been as helpful as I could be and at times feel like a burden when I ask... |
2020/07/01 | 928 | 4,146 | <issue_start>username_0: So far, that is the only information given to me by the journal. I have no idea if all 18 reviewers were invited at the same time, or if one at a time. In either cause, is this a bad sign, something like a looming possibility that the editor might eventually reject my manuscript if they can't f... |
2020/07/01 | 605 | 2,674 | <issue_start>username_0: Our lab performed 3D scans of materials (e.g. metals, rocks etc.) produced by other institutions and universities. But I am also interested in other analyses.
I was wondering who has the copyright on the data, the one who acquired the data (the person who performed the analyses, collecting the... |
2020/07/01 | 770 | 2,384 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, what would this be for July 1st, 2020, in New York (Eastern Time)?
Is UTC-12 the same as AoE ("Anywhere on Earth")?<issue_comment>username_1: UTC-12 means that it's 12 hours behind UTC. That's the maximum distance in our 24 hour day clock. So UTC-12 is the timezone where calendars... |
2020/07/02 | 1,275 | 5,374 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD thesis consisted of two published papers and one submitted paper embedded in some additional framing. For completion of my PhD, I had to upload my thesis to the servers of our academic library, where it is now publicly available.
However, afterwards, the third paper from the thesis was ... |
2020/07/02 | 1,797 | 7,486 | <issue_start>username_0: Many apologies if this is not in line with the questions for this site, but I am seeking some advice for the following problem.
I have finished an integrated masters degree and applied to PhD positions this year. There was one I wasn't entirely convinced by when applying, but the prospective s... |