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2020/07/02 | 1,124 | 4,847 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I find my self reviewing papers with authors who are not very capable English writers. I am a non-native speaker myself, and I know how difficult it can be to proof-read a paper in English, in particular if you don't have access to any native English speaker. If the scientific content... |
2020/07/02 | 1,123 | 4,781 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask you about the correct behaviour when applying at different universities for different PhD positions.
Currently, I won two PhD positions and a second shortlist for a third one. The third one is the one I really want, but the interview will be held on campus and due to corona... |
2020/07/02 | 689 | 2,989 | <issue_start>username_0: During my PhD, my supervisor wasn't *very* helpful. Now I have finished my PhD but I still have plenty of ideas (*improvements*) about my PhD topic that I can transform to papers and be published.
these *ideas* are not included in my PhD thesis (just personal notes I took during my study), but... |
2020/07/03 | 1,102 | 4,390 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my friends is now living in North America. He was enrolled in a **Social Science**-related program in one of the most reputed universities in North America.
Right now, his degree is hanging in a balance as he attended and completed the semester but the department says that he hasn't. Fu... |
2020/07/03 | 566 | 2,274 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD thesis is in *French*, can I take parts from it, just *translate* them to *English* (without any *paraphrasing*) and use them in my next paper? would this cause any *plagiarism* issues?<issue_comment>username_1: In main stream higher education, your friend's beliefs would be considered u... |
2020/07/03 | 567 | 2,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I have got reviews for a Survey paper in IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials.
I have got contradictory comments from two reviewers (R-I and R-II)
The first reviewer R-I says that the tutorial part (Section III, and IV) is too lengthy and the Survey is too short (Section V). He asked me t... |
2020/07/03 | 3,803 | 15,985 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow up to my [previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/150776/is-it-ethical-to-use-already-existing-material-to-complement-teaching). Some context:
* I teach at a new Fachhochschule-type institute, where my course is 5-day, 1 hour/day course to 20+ students.... |
2020/07/03 | 1,533 | 6,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I was employed as a post-doctoral fellow at some institute, and left it a couple of years ago. When I left, it was on ok terms with my host (= person who invited me and arranged for funding for my stay) - although our relationship had not always been on the positive side, and we ended up collab... |
2020/07/03 | 1,136 | 4,590 | <issue_start>username_0: While searching for information for a course I'm teaching, I ran into [this article](https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64500411.pdf) from the US Department of the Interior describing some archaeological sites in the Southwest. It has tons of blacked out text. It doesn't seem to s... |
2020/07/04 | 682 | 2,800 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a MS student who just finished his second semester. The lab that I'm in is fairly large (around 30 people) and there are a variety of students working on different topics.
Here in my country (Korea), people usually enroll as MS/PhD integrated students (i.e., enlist with a bachelor's and ex... |
2020/07/04 | 2,737 | 11,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a job 6 months ago as a university lecturer. I was assigned two subjects with the same students. Due to COVID-19, classes are online and lectures are recorded.
From the beginning, the majority of the class was ill-mannered. They would make noise by opening microphones, opening cameras, r... |
2020/07/04 | 451 | 1,737 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any way of adding my ResearchGate preprints manually on Google Scholar? If no, will Google Scholar automatically add it to my scholar profile? Can other authors cite my ResearchGate preprints?
For the manual addition of my paper, I have performed the following steps.
For the manual a... |
2020/07/04 | 1,717 | 6,644 | <issue_start>username_0: For what I know, one finishes PhD with only 3 years in France which is rather efficient, but one may suffer if one's research interest gets changed in the mean time, because the thesis topic is locked by the funding and by the advisor right from the beginning of the PhD, which could be disturbi... |
2020/07/05 | 847 | 3,345 | <issue_start>username_0: Why did the UK throw away something that has been one of their most valuable assets in higher education?
It is a bit like a company that has successfully manufactured items which generated the lion's share of their sales for a very long time, and now saying "despite the massive hit to our inco... |
2020/07/05 | 448 | 1,782 | <issue_start>username_0: In my ID card, my complete name has the following form : FirstName MiddleName1 MiddleName2 LastName. I will give an example (created name): *<NAME>*. As you can see there is a space between *El* and *Mustafa*. Also, El is not in reality a middle name since it does not make sense if we take it a... |
2020/07/05 | 2,275 | 9,546 | <issue_start>username_0: My parents know a Professor A who knows another Professor B. Professor A has known me since I was a child. I applied for a Ph.D. position in Professor B's group and got admitted. Before admission, Professor A recommended me to Professor B orally but without writing a formal recommendation lette... |
2020/07/06 | 570 | 2,411 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who has been admitted to three universities with full funding it is almost two weeks that I am stressing over my choices, therefore I decided to post my situation here to have your thoughts as well. I have been admitted to:
1. A high-rank Canadian University in Ch... |
2020/07/06 | 3,534 | 14,671 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR:** I ghosted *(i.e. suddenly ceased communication with no explanation)* my previous supervisor for 2 weeks when I had to do some minor final job regarding to my already finished thesis work due to my stress level. He now probably thinks I am unreliable and ghosted him forever. I actuall... |
2020/07/06 | 1,645 | 6,960 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it a scientific misconduct to change a variable or a function name when citing a math paper? The standard name of a function is S, but the author called it E. I want to cite his work, while I use the standard S.<issue_comment>username_1: Some things have different letters due to their names ... |
2020/07/06 | 1,730 | 6,908 | <issue_start>username_0: Often when I am reading a newly published article, I will encounter some points that are difficult to understand. For example, some details of the methodology that I think the authors did not explain in enough detail.
I'm not sure how to write an appropriate email to ask for clarification, esp... |
2020/07/06 | 499 | 2,322 | <issue_start>username_0: We have submitted a paper to a journal and got a major revision request. We were planning to resubmit our revised manuscript very soon, however, we noticed recently that a paper was published that basically studied the exact same thing with the similar conclusions.
How likely would our paper b... |
2020/07/06 | 528 | 2,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student working with a professor I do not know very well, as a proposed supervisor, on several postdoctoral applications. The professor's mother passed away several weeks ago. Since that point, I have been working on these applications independently, but I have determined that one of... |
2020/07/07 | 3,749 | 15,270 | <issue_start>username_0: A moment ago, I happened upon <https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/99712/almost-impossible-sudoku-like-puzzle> which explicitly mentioned that this student was given a puzzle in math class that his math teachers couldn't solve. And it got me thinking: To me, it feels like a teacher lik... |
2020/07/07 | 1,908 | 7,469 | <issue_start>username_0: Short version:
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We noticed a [problematic but influential preprint](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767), wrote a [commentary paper](http://num.math.uni-goettingen.de/%7Ehchen/documents/COVID19.pdf) to criticize and rebut it, but were not able to post the comment to any pu... |
2020/07/07 | 853 | 3,822 | <issue_start>username_0: For my master thesis in clinical medicine I have collected and analyzed data for a retrospective cohort study. Now one year later, a research assistant of the group is about to submit a manuscript based on my master thesis and I have been offered shared first co-authorship with said research as... |
2020/07/07 | 1,439 | 5,201 | <issue_start>username_0: The title of the question pretty much says it all: starting Fall 2020, my university should resume face-to-face classes, requiring that
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> all faculty, staff, students, and visitors […] wear an appropriate face covering while inside campus facilities/buildings where six feet social distancin... |
2020/07/07 | 607 | 2,657 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for a PhD at a Canadian university, but I currently am in a Masters Program in the US. If I attend this new university, would I be able to choose a PhD supervisor from my current university?<issue_comment>username_1: It is very unlikely, probably impossible, that you could have ... |
2020/07/08 | 572 | 2,436 | <issue_start>username_0: So in my first year of university, I failed one class. I was really good at that subject and had great grades but because of my final exam, I have failed it. I felt discourages and thought that maybe I deserved it because I did not prepare for it as much as I could. I thought that I did okay on... |
2020/07/08 | 1,349 | 5,807 | <issue_start>username_0: Some guides say to limit the references to up to 5-6 years old.
But I've speculated as to, whether it's possible that research would become "deviated to pursuits for which in the history there existed multiple paths". I.e. since old research may suggest new research, but not all new research i... |
2020/07/08 | 371 | 1,664 | <issue_start>username_0: As a frequent long-term (more than a year) visitor (with official visitor status) to a different nearby institution, would you list it as an additional affiliation?
Much of the experimental work (the field is physics) on a project has been carried out at the other institution by myself.<issue_c... |
2020/07/08 | 483 | 2,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my second year of college and since I came in with credits from high school college credit courses and AP credits I have the opportunity to graduate a year early. I would get my bachelors in 3 years and I am in a 5 year masters program where I would get my masters degree in on... |
2020/07/08 | 1,190 | 5,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc working with the same supervisor who supervised my PhD thesis. During my PhD time, it was tacitly assumed that my work is his work too. It went as far as me doing the entire planning and execution of a paper and writing the first draft, while he later looked over the draft and ma... |
2020/07/09 | 1,134 | 4,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior in undergrad who is a physics major applying to PhD programs. I keep on hearing people saying get rec letters from PIs or contact and have a good relationship with PIs.<issue_comment>username_1: Here PI possibly means Principal Investigator. Normally, Principal Investigator is the... |
2020/07/09 | 531 | 2,246 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have a bit of a dilemma. I'm an American. I graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and worked for the past two years in the RF field. I'm heading to school this fall to get my master's. A somewhat unusual step, but I want to gently re-enter academia and improve my chances at getting... |
2020/07/09 | 474 | 2,029 | <issue_start>username_0: I just find an interesting call for a PhD position. In order to apply one has to submit, among all the standard thing as cv and transcript of records, also **contact information of two references**. I don't know what does this mean. Does it mean that I have to attach in the email also the conta... |
2020/07/09 | 303 | 1,309 | <issue_start>username_0: I've found interesting sounding reference written in Czech.
If wanting to read non-English references, then are there translators that work well for science papers?<issue_comment>username_1: Based on getting things like google translate to translate technical terms, I have to go with **NO**.
... |
2020/07/09 | 10,659 | 44,095 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering whether this was just a local phenomenon or it's the generally accepted status-quo around the globe.
Preface:
In my part of the world (German-speaking Europe), we have a terribly underfunded scientific landscape. I have to caveat that by stating that students don't have to pay ... |
2020/07/09 | 793 | 3,182 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: I submitted an article (denoted by A) on arXiv half a year ago and have replaced it several times later. Due to frequent replacements, one of my further replacements is removed, and I'm **restricted** to replace the article at most once per calendar month.
Question 1: Several days ... |
2020/07/09 | 1,197 | 5,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope I am not at the end of the road. I had flunked advanced engineering mathematics and applied mechanics during my undergrad second year. Though I scored decently in the reexamination during the subsequent semester, I never recovered from the blow to the self-esteem from flunking first and ... |
2020/07/09 | 513 | 2,027 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a BDS (dental undergraduate) student in India in final year. I am interested in psychiatry after completing my graduation.
I have heard that I could pursue an Msc in Psychology after my graduation. But, I can't find whether I could do a medical degree in psychiatry. From what I can tell, ... |
2020/07/09 | 1,059 | 4,693 | <issue_start>username_0: Here are constraints for my course (which will be delivered remotely):
1. The class size is **huge** (250+ students).
2. Lecture contents will be delivered asynchronously (with pre-recorded videos and live Q&A sessions).
3. **Synchronous** (scheduled weekly for 20 minutes), frequent, **small**... |
2020/07/10 | 5,493 | 22,369 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am considering a PhD position as it appears one opened up and I was contacted about it by a professor. I'm not desperate to get a PhD. I think it's a nice goal and I am interested in the subject but its completion is not something I am dead set on.
I have read some horror stories about ho... |
2020/07/10 | 845 | 3,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I had some Ph.D positions available to me after my undergraduation which I could not take owing to some personal reasons and instead chose to take an industrial job which basically is also research based. However, the environment is not heavily research based and the collaborative opportunities... |
2020/07/10 | 2,304 | 9,580 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently there have been a couple of questions generating discussion on the level of personal commitment required for PhD positions and what kind of personal sacrifices students should be willing to make if they want to do a PhD. I wanted to ask similar questions but as someone thinking about p... |
2020/07/10 | 1,080 | 4,177 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is based on the example of a startup.
I have come across a "company" which claims to be providing services in Quantum Computing. However, various features of this company sound fishy to me and even unethical and illegal in academia.
The company is called "[Bikash's Quantum](https://... |
2020/07/10 | 862 | 3,544 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new tenure track faculty. Last semester, I met a professor in a different college in the same university in a committee meeting. She was very nice; she said that she wanted to be my older sister. However, I felt like she was not reasonable and so I stopped talking with her about 1.5 mont... |
2020/07/11 | 466 | 2,050 | <issue_start>username_0: Are reputations earned and questions answered on Stack Exchange community considered as worthy publications?
Can they be included or considered as publications?<issue_comment>username_1: No.
In academia, only publications in traditional academic venues count as publications. Publications migh... |
2020/07/11 | 360 | 1,330 | <issue_start>username_0: Say, I have a paper written up. I wish to publish it in a reputed journal without submitting it to arXiv. The first journal(A) I submit it to rejects it. I send the paper to a 2nd journal (B) for submission. At the same time, some other group submits a paper to another journal (C) and it gets p... |
2020/07/11 | 2,044 | 8,872 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a slightly seperate question from before.
I was curious on hearing any tips from the community regarding: Preventing perfectionism when it comes to notetaking?
It can be trying to make the notes look perfect (aesthetically + information-wise it troubles me not understanding a couple o... |
2020/07/12 | 922 | 3,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a math paper and I think/hope it is ready for peer review. I am 40+ years removed from academia and have no access to 'publications' but I have learned from my many re-writes and I have tried to follow the format of a sample "Journal.tex" from the Journal of the American Mathemat... |
2020/07/12 | 716 | 3,255 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my first time that I am asked to evaluate a master thesis. I would appreciate if some one can give me some tips in this manner:
1. Should the thesis contains any new results (NEW = Something that has not been done before).
2. How thoroughly should the literature review be?
3. what difi... |
2020/07/13 | 860 | 3,476 | <issue_start>username_0: There are quite a few professors at my school that do not have a Google Scholar profile at all. I may search them in Google Scholar's search engine and hope their most recent papers come up, but I am not able to access their h-index or any of the other metrics supplied by Google Scholar. If I s... |
2020/07/13 | 762 | 3,160 | <issue_start>username_0: I was using Google Scholar to judge the rank of a researcher, but then realized I couldn't find everyone I wanted to and came across [this question which highlighted this problem](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/98208). Looking at Scorpus, which was suggested in that same answer, s... |
2020/07/14 | 1,504 | 6,355 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD in computational mechanics (field is materials science) involves writing Fortran subroutines for implementing new constitutive equations. More specifically, my research involves continuum mechanics, finite-element analysis and other numerical methods. Though theoretically I have a decent... |
2020/07/14 | 713 | 2,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm submitting my paper to Quantitative Finance (instruction to authors [here](https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rquf20)). The structure of the paper should be:
>
> Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including Ack... |
2020/07/14 | 617 | 2,683 | <issue_start>username_0: I got an invitation to review a scientific paper from a journal. I accepted the offer to review but was wondering what benefits I might get if I review a paper? Can I write it in my CV as I will be applying for a Ph.D. position soon?
Someone told me if I write it in my CV that I reviewed an art... |
2020/07/14 | 923 | 4,265 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently reviewed a manuscript submitted to a Journal. Today, I received the editor's response to the authors, which included all the reviews made by the (anonymous) reviewers.
I was particularly (and positively) impressed with the review of another reviewer for several reasons. I'd gladly a... |
2020/07/15 | 512 | 2,184 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife and I are applying to US universities for master's and PhD programmes. We both have a electrical engg. degree and are applying to the same department. However we would like to get into the same university.
Is it possible to mention this in the application? Do universities take this int... |
2020/07/15 | 493 | 1,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I have sent my manuscript to a professor of math about one month ago. This manuscript was written according to his encouragement for a joint research work. He told me that send him what I have done from my side, and then he will add additional materials from his own side. I want to send a track... |
2020/07/16 | 1,166 | 4,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated with a Ph.D. in a STEM field from a reputed university in the US. I took more time than what it normally takes to finish the Ph.D.(over 6 years), partly due to some personal, familial issues I was coping with. For the same reason, my GPA during my doctoral studies remained ... |
2020/07/16 | 1,797 | 5,166 | <issue_start>username_0: Given a DOI, how can I programmatically obtain all the author affiliations? The coding part isn't the issue, but finding a proper database/API is.
E.g. for DOI [10.1186/s12920-019-0598-0](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6936069), the author affiliations are:
>
> 1. Department of... |
2020/07/17 | 1,321 | 4,975 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had a habit of always starting with "Dear Prof. X" but have noticed professors sometimes drop the header past the first reply. For shorter emails, is it polite to omit these formalities from my end? Like "Dear Prof. X, Thanks for the information, I'll make sure to do that. Best, Me" seems ... |
2020/07/17 | 563 | 2,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently finished a paper and send it to my supervisor for review. He corrected it and before submission, he added some authors (some labmates, collaborators) who have no idea about my project. Also, he did not even ask me before adding though I worked so hard for that project. How ethic... |
2020/07/17 | 1,107 | 4,445 | <issue_start>username_0: Required information: Germany, maths, and undergraduate
**Situation:** In order to finish my undergraduate degree, I have to do one final oral exam with two professors (A & B). However, A and B **refuse** to communicate directly with each other and use me to communicate. The first exam was "po... |
2020/07/17 | 2,011 | 8,771 | <issue_start>username_0: In the past, I was only teaching graduate-level courses where I was creating the material myself. It was slides with material from various books, research papers, and my own work. Accompanied by exercises and small projects that I would build from scratch.
This year I have to teach a new under... |
2020/07/17 | 1,873 | 8,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I work as a consultant in industry where I often get to publish scientific articles on "advanced" methods with pharma. Unfortunately, there is a often a fair amount of politics in the background that serves to (mostly) diminish the quality of the manuscript. For example, authors will simply cha... |
2020/07/18 | 1,025 | 4,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that certain journals are often lauded by academics as being highly prestigious (e.g. Nature/Science/etc).
However, how important is journal prestige really? Is it absolutely life changing? Is it the difference between being taken seriously or outright dismissed by the larger community?... |
2020/07/18 | 1,107 | 4,569 | <issue_start>username_0: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pj2Bn.png)
In the [above table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_student#Destinations_of_foreign_students), we see that 4/10 countries are from the anglosphere. I am surprised to see **I... |
2020/07/18 | 961 | 4,096 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm submitting to a journal. There is a drop down menu to choose your area, and each area has a specified editor with his name readily found on the journal instructions. So the assigned editor is known. Should I refer the cover letter to the editor in chief or the editor.<issue_comment>username... |
2020/07/18 | 1,837 | 7,664 | <issue_start>username_0: While SCI/SCIE journals (journals included in the Clarivate indices of Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded) are the gold list of journals and (my guess) the truly international science community considers only the publications that are published in the SCI/SCIE journals, the... |
2020/07/18 | 638 | 2,671 | <issue_start>username_0: Soon, I'll start my last year of undergraduate studies in physics.
At my university it is possible (but not too common for undergraduates) to be employed as a teaching assistant for a first year's course. In order to get some work experience and do what I really enjoy, namely explaining physic... |
2020/07/18 | 693 | 2,893 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing to submit my first paper to an applied math journal and I am wondering how important it is to find all the typos in a paper before submission? Of course I would always strive for there not to be typos; however, I am wondering if the journal will help with editing once accepted?
... |
2020/07/18 | 909 | 3,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to break into academia by becoming a PhD student of computer science. However, I need publications and letters of recommendation in order to strengthen my application. The ordinary way of doing this, as I understand it, is to become a masters student and publish in the course of earning ... |
2020/07/19 | 1,081 | 4,833 | <issue_start>username_0: In my previous postdoc, I had completed work with my supervisor. The idea was provided to me and I did all the mathematical derivation and generating all the results. We published two conference papers, one with me as the first author, and the second one in which he was the first author. We als... |
2020/07/19 | 1,121 | 5,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently read a paper in the Journal of Empirical Finance.
I was interested in the methodology that the author was using, but in terms of the data collection, the writing was particularly brief and I struggled to replicate their results.
This could have been clarified easily by the aut... |
2020/07/19 | 724 | 3,158 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor told me that it is not required to publish my papers before submitting my thesis.
We are required (in German universities), however, to published our monograph thesis later as a book.
One of my chapters is already published as a book chapter in Routledge (it's too good an opportun... |
2020/07/19 | 822 | 3,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been hired to teach two courses as an adjunct professor in the US (my first time teaching). I would like to review syllabi previously used for these courses, simply to inform my thinking on these courses. Is this an inappropriate request? It is likely I would ask the department head's admi... |
2020/07/19 | 556 | 2,576 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, my team's abstract was accepted for a poster presentation at a conference. The abstract submitted is not a complete work. Over time, we still don't have the desired results that are worth publishing / presenting.
... what should we do in this situation?
I worry that our contribution ... |
2020/07/20 | 3,339 | 13,693 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to enter a 3-year PhD. Neither my bachelor’s nor my master’s were research-oriented nor very typical for my field, and I had to find a potential supervisor on my own. Due to my background, I also do not have a good grasp of academia’s unwritten rules.
Last year, I fortuitously met a... |
2020/07/20 | 941 | 4,128 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider a course (say machine learning). Professors attend to deal with a theoretical part and then does not involve in the coding part.
The task of handling the coding part is left to the TAs of the course.
What is the reason behind this?
I am asking this question because I personally feel... |
2020/07/20 | 425 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have been asked by a journal to review an article as a referee. I did it within 3 days, and the very next day another mail came asking me to review another article. I was reviewing it when, aft after 2 days, the editor sent me an email saying I don't need to review it anymore. What m... |
2020/07/21 | 1,000 | 3,872 | <issue_start>username_0: Based on the following posts:
[Posting master's thesis on arxiv?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/58943/posting-masters-thesis-on-arxiv)
[Should one put their Master's thesis online?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/24201/should-one-put-their-masters-thesis-online)
... |
2020/07/21 | 954 | 3,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an International Student perusing a Masters in Actuarial Science in the US. I did my Bachelors here in the US (Actuarial Science), worked for 2 years as an Actuarial Analyst in the US. I am doing my Masters now with emphasis on AI (I could not get into an AI program for Masters due to my c... |
2020/07/21 | 2,008 | 8,379 | <issue_start>username_0: Many academic positions are advertised for PhD students. Does it make sense to apply for such a position *even if you already have a PhD*, in the hope that they might also consider a post-doc instead? Why would the hiring institution *not* want a post-doc instead of a PhD student? Why would a p... |
2020/07/21 | 5,715 | 23,894 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my Bachelor's Degree in physics in the Middle East, graduating with the highest honors and an academic transcript full of A's. I was accepted to pursue my graduate studies in one of the best universities in Germany. I was able to score above the minimum required score to be admitted to th... |
2020/07/21 | 1,339 | 5,613 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's my situation: I've want to get into a master's or PhD level program in biomedical engineering. However, the college I go to does not offer a biomedical engineering degree. So, out of the options I was given and at a advice of my advisor, I decided to major in chemical engineering degree.... |
2020/07/22 | 649 | 2,734 | <issue_start>username_0: If I receive a PhD offer, is it typically considered acceptable or possible to defer the start of the PhD by, say, 2 years, for a job and then join the PhD program without having to reapply?<issue_comment>username_1: You may have to reapply as they may give the opportunity to someone else.
Rec... |
2020/07/22 | 1,484 | 6,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to see whether I can publish my undergraduate work after a decade.
**Context:**
This is to support my academic career as I am planning to apply for a PhD program (Biophysics/Chemistry/Structural biology) in the US soon. I do have an MA from a highly ranked Public Ivy (mastered out from... |
2020/07/22 | 1,778 | 7,509 | <issue_start>username_0: In my department, we typically have many more applications for MS/PhD students than we have open positions, so it is a "buyer's market" from the professor's point of view. Each student submits a relatively standard application package of grades, a resume, any awards or trophies from various aca... |
2020/07/22 | 1,589 | 6,721 | <issue_start>username_0: A little background, I'm currently studying a masters in computer science, and I've been wondering about how I should progress my career. I've found myself mostly interested in the research side of Computer Science, and I've been trying to figure out which would be the best steps moving forward... |
2020/07/22 | 847 | 3,745 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in a physics-oriented field. Over the course of my program, I have developed a postulate which leads to some contradictions with some of the tenets of my field, and I have obtained what I would consider a suitable amount of data which both supports my postulate... |
2020/07/22 | 677 | 2,115 | <issue_start>username_0: Before starting my PhD, I was enrolled in a master’s program for one year that I quit once I got accepted to my current PhD program.
What do you think I should write on my CV so as not to give a bad impression to potential employers?
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> University A, 2016 to present
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> B.Sc., Universi... |
2020/07/22 | 1,640 | 6,802 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked very hard on my PhD thesis, and I think it would be cool to have a nicely bound physical copy of it. I’m simply wondering if obtaining one is a common thing to do.<issue_comment>username_1: It's common enough that my program offered everyone 3 copies that they pay for: one each for you... |
2020/07/22 | 2,936 | 12,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my PhD. I work in an interdisciplinary field so I have 3 supervisors from different fields.
Up until now, we had 4 research meetings together and the weird thing was everytime I came up with an idea, it was immediately rejected. Although, they gave me reasons why they rejected i... |
2020/07/22 | 925 | 4,055 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if it is ethical and acceptable that a Ph.D. student receiving fund and RA from a university and a Prof collaborates on a topic with other researchers and professors (other universities)?
In this situation, should we inform our supervisors?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, it's tot... |
2020/07/22 | 787 | 3,430 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit my PhD thesis and thus my studentship will terminate. Along with my studentship, naturally, my scholarship and my stipend also will be gone.
I have some savings, but I doubt I can manage more than 3-4 months.
I need to apply to postdoc positions, and unless it is a low pr... |
2020/07/23 | 7,208 | 30,471 | <issue_start>username_0: My group (engineering) is highly multicultural and diverse. Some of my students come from adversarial ethnic/religious groups, so I made it “set in stone” that politics and religion do not belong in the lab. We respect each other and sometimes discuss cultural differences and habits politely.
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2020/07/24 | 3,702 | 15,323 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me begin by saying my Ph.D. program has been a disaster. I'm 26 and I'm finishing up year 4 in a physics Ph.D. program. I have no publications and I'm completely burnt out. I have no idea what to do.
I went into a physics Ph.D. straight out of undergrad. My advisor told me to focus on cour... |
2020/07/24 | 3,063 | 12,802 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking at moving a small online conference for around 200 ppl digital, and quotes from suppliers are all over the place. I'm sure this is because no one knows what good looks like or costs.... So, if you have run one, what are your recommendations for estimating cost?
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2020/07/24 | 608 | 2,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been applying for postdoc positions recently. Yesterday I got an offer from one professor, but I didn't reply to him whether I accept it or not. The reason is that I am waiting for another professor's reply, whose university is much better. But I am not sure the second professor can give... |