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2020/08/14 | 1,612 | 7,013 | <issue_start>username_0: On this site we often get questions along the lines of:
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> I submitted my manuscript to a journal. *X* happened. Does this indicate that my manuscript is about to be rejected/accepted?
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Here *X* is everything but a final decision letter, for example:
* a specific sequence of status... |
2020/08/14 | 4,828 | 20,570 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not very experienced as a reviewer, and I often find myself stressing over recommending rejection, even for the articles which I think are clearly low-quality and unsuitable for publication in a strong journal. I imagine how the authors might feel (especially if I suspect they are PhD stud... |
2020/08/14 | 248 | 1,136 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to the Coronavirus situation it is required to adapt teaching activities to reduce risk of infection. Several courses have laboratory assignments that require physical presence. It is therefore necessary to reduce the number of students present by utilising all room availability. Due to the... |
2020/08/14 | 3,179 | 12,916 | <issue_start>username_0: In the COVID-19 pandemic I am dealing with anxiety for the first time, and professionally floundering.
I'm usually good at prioritization, but the state of the world means emergencies, and anxiety magnifies the perception that I am the only person who can deal with them. Sometimes I am: I have... |
2020/08/14 | 262 | 1,171 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to give an example in a formal definition. My concern is, by giving an example, I am implicitly demonstrating that the definition is not precise/clear enough.
Is it acceptable to give an example in a formal definition?<issue_comment>username_1: In the definition itself, no. It jus... |
2020/08/15 | 729 | 3,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to be a rising junior (undergrad), and I plan on applying to graduate school in mathematics. Our school offers the opportunity to get a B.S./M.S. in math, or simply a math B.S. To get a B.S./M.S., I'd have to sacrifice some courses outside of math (like english, history, etc.) in ord... |
2020/08/15 | 1,030 | 4,079 | <issue_start>username_0: The program that I want to apply to isn't accepting students until next year, so that gives me plenty of time to study for the GRE. However, I also want to take it as soon as possible because 1.) As far as I know, they're only offering at home testing until Sept. 30, and I'm way too OCD to take... |
2020/08/15 | 708 | 2,898 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently working on the slides for my database lecture. During the lecture I want to talk about different tools and available programs for database management. Am I allowed to use logos on my slides? What copyright should I put? Here is an example:
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:... |
2020/08/15 | 878 | 3,901 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** Did an economics major after switching out of physics and I did a math minor in university with somewhat inconsistent math grades (A+, A-, D, C+, ... ). The reason behind my grade spread is, quite simply, a lack of consistent, deliberate, and persistent effort as an immature stu... |
2020/08/15 | 458 | 1,952 | <issue_start>username_0: When one starts a PhD, should it be based upon interest or tractability of the project? If a project fails is switching advisors a reasonable option within the same department?
I have a couple options for PhD, one is an area I am more interested in but it's a more open ended problem with poten... |
2020/08/16 | 926 | 3,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm set to start my first year as a TA at a large R1 institution. My teaching assignment consists of being a TA for an honors calculus I section. This includes holding a weekly problem solving session (in person) to about 20 students. The lecture, however, will be online. My general questions a... |
2020/08/16 | 723 | 2,792 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student, and i had submitted a paper manuscript to *Mathematics of Computation*, I choose this journal because of my supervisor, who advised me to submit my paper to this journal, but 2 weaks after the submission I received the following email.
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> Dear Professor XXX,
> ... |
2020/08/16 | 573 | 2,280 | <issue_start>username_0: After two years, six months, and 22 days, I am going to stop sending emails to Canadian professors. During these two and a half years looking for a Ph.D.studentship. The majority of my friends said that university professors are bombarded by emails from all the countries across the globe. I sai... |
2020/08/16 | 377 | 1,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper with 3 other students regarding my final year project in mechanical engineering. It was recently selected for a conference in NIT Delhi. Minimum one author is required to present and the price is pretty steep for the participation certificate.Should all of us attend the conferen... |
2020/08/16 | 886 | 3,823 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from college with a physics degree faster than my peers (because of various reasons: financial constraint and ambitions as well as near-burn-out state). My undergrad is a decent research university, not the best of the best, but many well-known researchers. I did well in most classe... |
2020/08/16 | 1,394 | 6,068 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a chemistry undergraduate student applying for master’s programs in electrical and computer engineering or computer science (ECE/CS). All my programming skills are self-taught so my professors have no idea about my program switch.
I’ve already contacted some professors and they are willin... |
2020/08/17 | 729 | 3,106 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a professor who told me during the year that he'd be happy to write me a letter of recommendation for a research degree I was contemplating applying to. I've since decided to apply.
My university (in Europe) is on break until 1 October. I emailed the professor asking for the letter three... |
2020/08/17 | 293 | 1,258 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as a project assistant in a lab in India. My role is similar to that of what a research assistant does in academia. But I'm not familiar with the use of the title 'project assistant' in the U.S or Europe. Should I specify my job role as a research assistant while applying for a PhD... |
2020/08/17 | 1,730 | 7,645 | <issue_start>username_0: Review articles generally receive more citations compared to original research articles.
In my mind, it should be the other way around, as journal guidelines generally solicit researchers to cite original research articles rather than review articles. So reviews should only be cited after thei... |
2020/08/17 | 1,624 | 7,089 | <issue_start>username_0: My university tests every student.
So they have the data.
I can understand that for privacy,
the names of the students who tested positive are not released to the public or the instructors.
But do instructors have right to know how many or if any student in his/her class tested positive?<issue_... |
2020/08/17 | 1,014 | 4,371 | <issue_start>username_0: For context, at a US-based institute there is a typical business-like policy stating intellectual property developed by faculty is owned by the institute. Likewise, faculty are required to submit disclosures of their work before public release as to not interfere with the ability to patent such... |
2020/08/18 | 492 | 2,254 | <issue_start>username_0: So far, at the institution I work at, we have taken our quizzes in a proctored environment. Either on paper or sometimes online. But under the prevailing scenario, we need to resort to some fully online method, where the students will appear in the quizzes from home.
Among other Learning Manag... |
2020/08/18 | 692 | 2,786 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on my master thesis in physics and mathematics and will finish within a few months. My supervisor told me he would like to continue with my thesis' research subject and asked me if I wanted to be a PhD student in his group. However, he doesn't have any funds at the moment... |
2020/08/18 | 294 | 1,271 | <issue_start>username_0: When students turn in papers, are they electronic? or do they turn in physical paper copies?
Perhaps there is one answer for high school students and another for college / graduate school?<issue_comment>username_1: Context: US universities. My daughter started 5 years ago now, taking her ink j... |
2020/08/18 | 560 | 2,340 | <issue_start>username_0: When I started my Master's program, my supervisor was Professor X. However, I had to leave their group after a few months, partly because we didn't get along, but also because the research topic wasn't a good fit.
Presently, my supervisor is Professor Y (who is awesome, and with whom I perform... |
2020/08/18 | 1,919 | 8,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in social science. Recently, I have been invited to present my work at a conference and a lab meeting. I'm glad about the opportunities to present my work in front of colleagues. But at the same time, I'm afraid that I won't be able to answer questions from audience and they w... |
2020/08/19 | 1,553 | 6,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to submit my thesis next month. I have 4 published SCI-indexed journals (Elsevier, Springer, IEEE transaction, World Scientific) and 2 more journals communicated (all first authors). My thesis is on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The thesis will be sent to two external ... |
2020/08/19 | 1,330 | 5,663 | <issue_start>username_0: When we put some images in a thesis, we provide a reference to its source where it’s located. If I have created my own images or pictures, how do I make it clear that they are my images and I did not copy and paste them from somewhere?.
So here is the scenario. I am comparing my application ar... |
2020/08/19 | 358 | 1,506 | <issue_start>username_0: Quite simply, I have contacted several professors in the same department, and they have all expressed an interest in supervision, and several of them have also said, "you should also consider professors X, Y..." So I ask:
Can I disclose in my correspondences that "yes, I am also in discussions... |
2020/08/19 | 804 | 3,467 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning on applying to a PhD in engineering in Germany (either by contacting a group, which I will prioritize, or through a normal application at the graduate school).
The problem I currently face is finding good referees (by good, I mean respectable h-indices, for example).
For those ac... |
2020/08/19 | 834 | 3,637 | <issue_start>username_0: My Ph.D. research in materials science and mechanics was entirely experimental with some MatLab coding to analyze the results and some image analysis through the image processing toolbox. However, in my 2 years postdoc with my Ph.D. supervisor, I am planning of carrying out computational simula... |
2020/08/20 | 1,072 | 4,612 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently doing the first year of my postdoc. My contract is coming up for renewal in a few months and my PI has asked what my plans are for next year. I told him that I was hoping to stay in his lab for at least another year, but he's told me he can't yet guarantee my contract will be rene... |
2020/08/20 | 349 | 1,521 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PhD in data mining and I want to start writing my thesis. Is there any acceptable percentage of similarities between the final thesis and the used published research to create the final thesis?
For example, one of my research papers is published by IEEE as full research paper and... |
2020/08/20 | 505 | 2,132 | <issue_start>username_0: I used many open-source packages in my research, such as `matplotlib`, `numpy`, `pandas`, `scipy`, etc. And I found this on the website of SciPy: [Citing packages in the SciPy ecosystem](https://www.scipy.org/citing.html). Should I cite every one of them in my paper? (I'd like to cite them but ... |
2020/08/20 | 383 | 1,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed my undergrad supervisor back in July asking them to write a reference letter, which they agreed to.
I had an email from the uni I am applying to yesterday stating they were yet to receive the reference letter. I then emailed the supervisor to reminded them about the reference letter ... |
2020/08/20 | 566 | 2,316 | <issue_start>username_0: It is common to write papers in the third person, using sentences such as "The author(s) did this", "the author(s) thank XYZ" etc. Is the same convention true for referee reports? I have noticed that my reports tend to be a mishmash of first and third person, with sentences like "to the best of... |
2020/08/20 | 744 | 3,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm now choosing a Ph.D. program between two schools and am struggling a lot. Please let me know your thoughts and I'll greatly appreciate any help! The two universities are very similar in reputation and compensation.
1. School 1's lab: The professor is very nice and supportive. He would supp... |
2020/08/20 | 1,858 | 7,455 | <issue_start>username_0: A bit of context. I am about to get my PhD soon and a few months ago I started applying for R&D positions1 , both in academia and in the industry. A few things to note here:
* I am interested in applying to positions in a limited number of countries (in Europe)
* The positions I applied to may... |
2020/08/21 | 432 | 1,903 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. The best result on a given dataset has no trace in the form of
research paper or any sort of analysis.
2. We have no idea whose results were those, or what method was created.
3. Some competition was held, participants uploaded their resultant output files on leader-board.
4. When the compet... |
2020/08/21 | 391 | 1,737 | <issue_start>username_0: We submitted a manuscript to a reputed journal and we are asked for a revision. One of the reviewer commented
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> *The results are rather straight forward and would be useful to the community of specialists working on optical properties of anisotropic crystals*
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What does it mean whe... |
2020/08/21 | 3,542 | 14,457 | <issue_start>username_0: Three years ago I got kicked out of graduate school in physics. I was suffering from mental illness, which led me to believe I made a huge discovery in physics. But my advisor kept saying that what I was doing is nonsense and that I should focus on something else. I just ignored him and kept wo... |
2020/08/21 | 1,221 | 4,921 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted the preprint to arXiv and the manuscript to a Physical Review journal, and someone asked me to cite their article after seeing it from arXiv.
Their paper is a review. After reading that paper, I find that it has only a weak connection with our work.
My supervisor asks me to cite i... |
2020/08/21 | 1,964 | 7,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to figure out the best way to publish my elderly father's life work. He says he would be considered a "*fringe*" scientist or an independent researcher. Should we self-publish? The subject matter would be of great interest to those interested in earth-moon systems, and the Egyptian ... |
2020/08/21 | 1,022 | 4,138 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to low enrollment, my college's administration sent out letters rescinding all non-tenure full-year appointments (against our contract, too) and replacing them with a fall 2020 appointment only. This would be my tenured year if I made it through, and spring is unknown as of now.
I just int... |
2020/08/22 | 944 | 4,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student, studying for a PhD in Electrical Engineering at UNC and just finished my first year.
My employer gave me a full scholarship to the US. So, I have a 6k monthly salary while they cover all tuition fees and medical.
I would like to take my time to finish it in 6 yea... |
2020/08/23 | 1,080 | 3,716 | <issue_start>username_0: ibid or Ibid?
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In my efforts to use footnotes for the first time in my essay, I've come across a few problems (which you might know if you've seen [Part 1 of the ibid journey](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/154183/how-does-ibid-work-in-footnot... |
2020/08/23 | 1,746 | 7,505 | <issue_start>username_0: [As more colleges stay online, students demand tuition cuts](https://apnews.com/b33f36db3569ea43ff9126a45ae5afd7)
The article talks about students demanding tuition cuts because online classes are less effective, and because lots of things they pay for are no longer relevant (such as campus tr... |
2020/08/23 | 2,676 | 11,823 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to COVID-19, I have found myself teaching a course online. I worked with the university teaching center to transition the course online, prepared an online classroom, and updated the requirements of the course to deal with asynchronous leaning. The course went along reasonably well, and at ... |
2020/08/23 | 1,466 | 6,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an UG research assistant in CV/ML on a robotics project. I was given a surveillance video by my boss, and w/o being too specific, I was asked to find a way to detect something in the video. W/o revealing myself by giving too much info, I went above and beyond and found a way to predict som... |
2020/08/24 | 928 | 4,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a paper on COVID-19 with data that goes up to the 31st of July. I would say that the interest in this paper will reduce significantly as time goes on. I submitted the paper to a fast-track process of a relatively high-profile journal on August 5. This is the second time I have su... |
2020/08/24 | 1,456 | 6,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Europe. I am going to apply for a PhD program at an Ivy league university. I am afraid that some bad marks in the master's (especially one in a relevant subject) would affect my application.
**Some background**: I completed my B.Sc. in mathematics with very g... |
2020/08/24 | 2,483 | 10,803 | <issue_start>username_0: In order to publish a research paper in a journal, one of the requirement may be the reproducibility of results.
I'm wondering, in academia, how does an un-reproducible result even exist?
Is there any classical example for it, in any branch of academia research?<issue_comment>username_1: It's... |
2020/08/24 | 845 | 3,643 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international PhD student, in the last lap of my PhD, and have a little more than a year to defend my thesis. My work is in theory, and our simulations take a lot of computing time. As we are working on wrapping up my first paper now, I want to only focus on projects which will lead to ... |
2020/08/24 | 1,972 | 8,396 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a paper, it's not that seldom, that I want to cite papers where a DOI is given but cannot be accessed (anymore). Quite frequently, the corresponding DOI is also presented within the PDF document of the paper that I want to cite, which is also not accessible (anymore).
The intentio... |
2020/08/24 | 518 | 2,082 | <issue_start>username_0: So recently, my PI submitted a paper that I and another graduate student have worked on for the past year. The graduate student and I contributed equally on this project, in creating figures, getting data, writing the manuscript, etc., and he agrees as well. However, the first authorship is goi... |
2020/08/25 | 2,315 | 10,320 | <issue_start>username_0: The *long and erroneous publishing process after a recently accepted (Open Access) paper* has led me to ask this question. I'll explain its context briefly.
We submitted a journal paper (a LaTeX manuscript including supplemental material) which after, in my domain (Computer Science) somewhat r... |
2020/08/25 | 1,315 | 5,713 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an academic in a Portuguese-speaking country, so there is some incentive for me to write in Portuguese. However, much of the literature I deal with is in English, so I would like to publish in journals from anglophone countries.
Given this state of affairs, and given that no matter how ma... |
2020/08/25 | 726 | 3,017 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title suggests, I am a Master's student with no publications. I will apply for a PhD in the USA next year so I am a bit worried that most applicants with a Master's degree have a publication. Is this (no publications in Master's) common within mathematics?<issue_comment>username_1: I can... |
2020/08/25 | 1,188 | 5,011 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 3 advisors; two are great (main prof and a daily advisor) and one ('Jill') is not. Jill invited herself to my advisor team after coming back to work from a long medical leave and she's ready to Kick! Some! Butt! in the academic arena. The problem is that her help is not very helpful beca... |
2020/08/25 | 504 | 2,288 | <issue_start>username_0: Note that I'm not talking about "visiting professor" or "visiting lecturer" positions in the US, which seem to be full-time non-tenure-track positions offered at some US universities.
What I mean is that I sometimes see people list "visiting researcher", "visiting scholar", or "visiting profes... |
2020/08/25 | 510 | 2,211 | <issue_start>username_0: I want your opinion on this issue.
I submitted a paper to Journal A. It had been with the editor for two months without being sent to peer review. So, I sent a withdrawal email to the editor. I waited for few days to get an email back, but I thought it is already done since I informed them. The... |
2020/08/25 | 189 | 772 | <issue_start>username_0: Can someone do another Masters in Canada if you already have a Masters and PhD from the UK?<issue_comment>username_1: You can study for a second masters, but funding may have different conditions.
I know several people with 2 masters and they did them for their own reasons.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_c... |
2020/08/26 | 694 | 2,981 | <issue_start>username_0: Taking relevant courses builds up confidence, exposure and depth. I managed to get my master's degree and PhD degree in computational chemistry without taking any graduate level mathematics and modeling courses.
On top of this, the only maths I had was till my 3rd year undergrad and I struggle... |
2020/08/26 | 1,115 | 4,948 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago, a PhD student I had never met sent me an email asking me for advice about their paper. I have written papers on related topics and apparently I answered a question of theirs on the relevant SE site.
The paper was interesting and I was happy to give advice. However I found a m... |
2020/08/26 | 1,023 | 4,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematics undergraduate in the USA. Recently I had a paper accepted to a math journal, and in the final steps of the process I had to fill out a “consent to publish” form, in which I had the choice of whether to transfer the copyright to the journal. My question is: given the option to... |
2020/08/26 | 268 | 1,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a fellowship in continental Europe (Spain) and have been asked what grade I received. I think in many countries it's normal to receive grades over the course of a PhD, as well as an overall grade (of the form "with distinction", "cum laude" etc.) but this isn't common in the UK... |
2020/08/26 | 1,190 | 5,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a professor, but I work at a Community College. I work with students directly (basically a tutor) and someone asked me a question that I didn't know how to respond: **Is it appropriate for professors to use COVID as a topic in their online discussion boards?**
Obviously, the whole COV... |
2020/08/26 | 1,152 | 4,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked briefly with Person A from a different university on a project in a competition. We were both PhD students. In this competition, our concept was based on combining mainly a system he developed before the competition and a device that I developed, also before the competition. Except for... |
2020/08/27 | 2,598 | 10,697 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 31 soon to be 32, I don't know what I am doing with my life. I have a PhD in computational chemistry from a top 50 world ranking university. But, it did not turn out well and took too long to complete(6years), mostly my fault. I published few papers in applied journals, but my knowledge is... |
2020/08/27 | 3,784 | 15,995 | <issue_start>username_0: I am tenured faculty at a state university in the US. Our campus bookstore is not run by the university; instead, it is owned and operated by a large, well-known corporation, and has a contractual agreement with the university to "be the official bookstore" and to operate in the center of campu... |
2020/08/27 | 809 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: What do you think would be the better choice prestige wise? Prof I'm working with gave me the choice to choose which to submit to. To be clear, the top conference is CVPR and the mediocre conference is a relatively new ACM conference.
I care about prestige because I'm applying to graduate scho... |
2020/08/27 | 840 | 3,594 | <issue_start>username_0: Most Comp Sci MS programs in the US require certain undergrad core prerequisites in order for a non-CS major undergraduate to be considered for admission (usually 4 or 5 including data structures, discrete math, computer systems, etc).
If an applicant has all but one or two of these on their t... |
2020/08/28 | 1,052 | 4,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been invited for a chat for a potential PhD position by a professor I'm interested in working with. He also wants me to give a short presentation on some experiments I've done in the past that I'm proud of. What am I supposed to expect from this? Is it going to be a real interview? My mast... |
2020/08/28 | 4,130 | 17,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working at a German university after I obtained my PhD. My professor asked me to write project proposals to get funding. One and a half years ago, I spent all my time during 6~8 months writing a DFG proposal that is supposed to be a joint effort between our university and another instituti... |
2020/08/28 | 3,682 | 15,754 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is more context:
* I understand that I have to stick to the point and so on, but I'm not asking if *you* think it's a good idea or not, so I beg you to spare me the lecture. I would like your advice to do it in the best way possible.
* My research domain is software engineering.
* The rea... |
2020/08/28 | 2,751 | 11,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a tenure-track assistant professor who started in this fall. I heard that I should not get involved in any issues or conflicts to get tenured. However, I am unsure about this situation.
I was in a romantic relationship with a professor in the school I was a graduate student in over 7 years... |
2020/08/28 | 1,332 | 6,080 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student and use GitHub to track and share code for nearly all of my research projects, most of which are largely coding-based work in the field of remote sensing.
Our lab is discussing how to best keep track of all the software related projects we do. I generally start and manage pro... |
2020/08/28 | 1,102 | 4,260 | <issue_start>username_0: During my PhD I worked on a specific topic. My thesis is published at my university website. This has been done one year ago. Today, I found that one professor (not my supervisor and not from the same institute. I do not know them personally) give a presentation on a conference about the same i... |
2020/08/29 | 3,291 | 14,372 | <issue_start>username_0: I know someone who is currently writing their master’s thesis. They will be the single author of the document. Our (German) university requires a statement that says something like: ‘I wrote all of this thesis myself unless otherwise specified’, meaning everything not cited is your own work (*E... |
2020/08/29 | 562 | 2,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a research associate position when I was at the final stage of my Ph.D. The job description matches my profile with 80%, the 20% included some scientific skills that I didn't have, but they said that they're considering applicants who are willing to learn. This was perfect for me ... |
2020/08/29 | 493 | 2,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply for a few undergraduate research internships and I recently learned LaTeX, so I am thinking of transferring my resume from Word to LaTeX. I came across LaTeX templates for a "Deedy CV" and a "Deedy Cover Letter" which apparently went viral in 2014. Admittedly, the "Deedy"... |
2020/08/30 | 1,394 | 5,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics in the UK, and now start my 4th and hopefully final year of the program.
I currently consider changing my supervisor (SV hereafter) because of an ongoing conflict. During my second year, she matched me with a former Ph.D. of hers, "co-author" or "CO" from no... |
2020/08/30 | 773 | 3,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD and when I was speaking to my potential advisor they discussed the possibility of me applying for an interdisciplinary degree that is offered by the institution as an option instead of the discipline specific degree in applied mathematics. The supervisors field is in mat... |
2020/08/30 | 579 | 2,530 | <issue_start>username_0: A famous paper has three coauthors. I wrote a note regarding that paper and want to get some feedback from them. Shall I send the note and my questions in one email to the three authors together (with two of them in cc line or also in "to" line), or is it more respectful to send three different... |
2020/08/31 | 991 | 4,276 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleague lost his job in academia due to COVID-19. He has zero income at the moment and there is little to no funding or employment opportunity in his field (invertebrate taxonomy) in his region (a developing country). He is now looking for other non-academic jobs.
But being one of the few... |
2020/08/31 | 597 | 2,540 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is specific to Canada (but you could also say North America)
So if I am a sponsored PhD student (externally from my government), and I happen to work/research on a project funded through my PhD supervisor (for example by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation), is he legally requ... |
2020/08/31 | 331 | 1,519 | <issue_start>username_0: If an author published a paper that contains errors and decides to publish an erratum, but the journal where the article was published is inactive (but its website still exists). Could the author publish the erratum in another journal?
If so, what could the author do to make the article indica... |
2020/08/31 | 1,093 | 4,571 | <issue_start>username_0: My first name (legally) consists of two names separated by a space, but I only go by the first in everyday use. I'm from Scandinavia and having a first name that is a compound of two names is not that uncommon. I also have a middle name that I rarely use.
Let's say my name is "<NAME>" in which... |
2020/08/31 | 1,081 | 4,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm sorry if there are similar posts, I had a look and couldn't find something exactly similar.
I will be starting my final year of Bachelor (in the UK), and I am going to start applying for an integrated MS/PhD in mathematics (in the US). Recently, I started thinking about going for a gap yea... |
2020/08/31 | 3,169 | 13,503 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing my Ph.D. very soon, with the only thing remaining is the thesis defence, which hopefully should go smoothly. My goal is to go into academia, so I started looking for postdoc opportunities. What I am looking for in this position is to have more publications so that I could eventua... |
2020/08/31 | 1,002 | 4,274 | <issue_start>username_0: So I founded a company as a PhD student and I want to work on company products over the summer times. Do I take a leave of absence or can I take an internship at my own company during that time?
What's the right way to do this?<issue_comment>username_1: **What are your school's policies and pr... |
2020/08/31 | 1,867 | 7,575 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I have proven several lemmas during my work that are neither original nor significant (these results were needed for applied engineering/CS research, not mathematics). I believe that if I spend enough time going through articles in minor journals/theses in theoretical CS/applied mathema... |
2020/08/31 | 553 | 2,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been involved in the recruitment process for a researcher position in Europe and I have been informed I was accepted.
However, thinking about how the interview went, I noticed that most of it focused on the evaluation of the skills and the responsibilities associated with the future job ... |
2020/09/01 | 666 | 2,649 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I learned about open access and that there are many ways in which the publishers implement it. How do I find out if a paper is Diamond/Gold/Green access?
I guess if the paper is listed in a journal but a pre-print is available on the authors' webpage/repository then it is Green access... |
2020/09/01 | 1,853 | 8,361 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I received a rejection letter from a journal editor (including some comments). However, when I checked the reviewers comments (from two reviewers), I found that their comments do not seem to be sufficient to reject the paper. Given these comments, I would have expected the decision to ... |
2020/09/01 | 647 | 2,789 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student interested in gaining research experience. I recently asked the research coordinator of our faculty if there were any opportunities to conduct research over the holidays, in preparation for graduate studies. I was told that there were no available summer ... |
2020/09/01 | 260 | 1,076 | <issue_start>username_0: What software can I use to create pdf version of my PowerPoint presentation slides? My PowerPoint slides have animations, where multiple pictures are shown on one slide. When I use export pdf from the Microsoft office software, it shows just the last animated image for a slide. I want the anima... |
2020/09/01 | 483 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a personal statement for a Ph.D. position. I had phobias of animals earlier which I overcame during my in-vivo lab experiments (for which I am really proud of). Do you think its a good idea to include that I overcame my phobia by myself?<issue_comment>username_1: It is a judgement ... |
2020/09/01 | 891 | 3,834 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering taking a position as a "junior assistant professor" in Japan. There are certain international fellowships to which I may apply, but they require that the applicant does not hold a "faculty-equivalent position". One in particular is Switzerland based.
I do plan to ask the fello... |
2020/09/01 | 3,281 | 13,483 | <issue_start>username_0: There are very well known American and British universities, which have a very good reputation in a lot of different fields. Obvious examples being Cambridge, Harvard or Princeton.
But what about the state funded German universities, how is their international reputation? Why are the German sc... |