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2020/10/09 | 1,149 | 4,759 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I finished my PhD level and I did an interview with a research group for a postdoc position. After my review, they asked me for some references to contact them.
I choose my supervisor and other visiting professors as references.
At this point, should I contact each of the professors ... |
2020/10/10 | 737 | 3,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 31 years old, materials engineering PhD graduate in Canada. I completed my PhD last year and failed to secure a postdoc or industry position mainly because of my poor publication record. After graduation, I published 2 papers. So now, I have 3 first author and 1 co-authored publications fr... |
2020/10/10 | 1,148 | 4,820 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a professor that has given me some early advice on developing my thesis topic, but I have not yet formally selected a thesis advisor. I was thinking about choosing to work with a different professor whose research seems slightly more aligned with the project, but I'm curious if my profes... |
2020/10/10 | 1,262 | 5,652 | <issue_start>username_0: I am peer-reviewing a postgraduate paper. I reviewed the paper and sent off my recommendations for major corrections. Now the paper has come back and the author has only implemented around half of my suggestions.
They restructured the paper as requested, but failed to add some detail when requ... |
2020/10/11 | 646 | 2,942 | <issue_start>username_0: I am taking an online class that requires a textbook to be purchased. I have found the book through my first simple search using the Google search engine. The website where I found the book seems to be foreign and not related to the original authors. Is it ethical for me to use the free version... |
2020/10/11 | 4,073 | 17,410 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my close relatives went to Australia to get a Ph.D. in computer science. PhDs in Australia are 3 years long. She couldn't complete her Ph.D. in 3 years. Then she applied for an extension and got 1 year more. However, ultimately she failed. I asked her about the issue and she preferred to... |
2020/10/11 | 759 | 3,314 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing an integrated Masters course as part of my undergraduate degree, and we have been asked to select the top 6 projects from a list of ~40 projects. We will then be allocated projects (and supervisors) based on these 6, and our previous academic performance.
Is it appropriate to ask pr... |
2020/10/11 | 533 | 2,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a graduate student (hopefully) in my final year. I am applying to the NSF postdoc program in mathematics. As part of this application, I need to fill out an application form and a biographical sketches form.
On my Biographical sketches, I listed that I am expecting to receive my... |
2020/10/11 | 3,190 | 12,989 | <issue_start>username_0: In academia, there are sometimes sort of "feuds" between different researchers. For example, one such situation is described here: <https://www.quora.com/Mathematicians-What-is-the-story-behind-the-feud-between-Shing-Tung-Yau-and-Gang-Tian?share=1>
Lately, something like this has affected me. ... |
2020/10/11 | 613 | 2,407 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am a single individual and do not have access to any university schemes related to my issue.
I would like to be able to use my wacom device (an pen that allows me to write down on the computer) so that I am able to handwrite equations etc to my students.
I also need to be able to confere... |
2020/10/11 | 886 | 3,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I help organize a workshop in a conference on machine learning where the conference doesn't publish proceedings for the workshops: the workshops have to do it themselves if they want to.
What are the steps to find a publisher and strike a deal to publish the proceedings of a workshop? (where t... |
2020/10/12 | 1,228 | 5,199 | <issue_start>username_0: In normal years, when I teach in a physical classroom, I teach in sessions of ~90 minutes, with ~30 minutes break.
This year, all teaching is done via Zoom (in real-time), and I wonder whether I should split each lesson into a larger number of shorter sessions, for example, split each 90+30 ses... |
2020/10/12 | 728 | 3,296 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working as a research assistant at a University and one of my tasks is to supervise the Master Thesis projects of students in our lab. Most of the projects I manage are related to Embedded Systems and Automation applications.
As part of my supervision, normally I dedicate an hou... |
2020/10/12 | 450 | 1,954 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing research paper, I am often stuck and spend a lot of time working on the introduction. Most of my time spent is staring at a blank page... The introduction takes me significantly longer to write than any other part of a paper.
How can I speed up the writing process for the introduc... |
2020/10/12 | 564 | 2,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to submit a paper on arXiv, but I can't figure out how to enter my name with accents.
It's supposed to say "Dörr", but arXiv turns it into this:
[Image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tHuzq.png)
I tried to enter the UTF character directly and also tried to use the latex syntax for accent... |
2020/10/13 | 794 | 3,265 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently a manuscript from my Masters by research thesis has been accepted in a Q1 journal with Impact factor nearly 4. At the beginning of the manuscript submission, I requested my advisers to be the coauthors of my article but they denied my request. Is that ethically ok to publish the accept... |
2020/10/13 | 636 | 2,593 | <issue_start>username_0: Last 11 months have been a roller coaster. Towards the end of my PhD last year, I applied to few places, did not get any offers. My PhD advisor offered me a interim postdoc to support myself while I searched for other positions.
To begin my postdoc, I had to get my work permit. So, I decided n... |
2020/10/13 | 698 | 2,937 | <issue_start>username_0: After 2nd round of review (R1) for almost 2 months, I received a sharp rejection letter for my manuscript (in biology) submitted in a certain journal for language-use concerns and formatting issues. Nearly 80% of the comments raised by reviewer #1 and the editor (I think they are one person in ... |
2020/10/13 | 1,252 | 5,462 | <issue_start>username_0: Work-life balance is more challenging for faculty than ever under COVID-19. What are equitable, privacy sensitive ways to telegraph needs at the individual level? What are acceptable accommodations to suggest?
To be clear, I am looking for strategies for individuals. If you are underwater from... |
2020/10/13 | 917 | 4,076 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short, a long time ago (2 years) I had a research project, that for various reasons was not completed. Some months ago I came back to it and started trying new methods, state-of-the-art algorithms, some battle tested for decades, and some novel ones that came in the past few years (a... |
2020/10/14 | 1,540 | 6,407 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a graduate math program in the US, and the professor is teaching via online lectures. The proof she provideed for one of the theorems is a little bit tricky to understand. I think I found a proof that, though is about the same length, I think is much simpler. Could it be considered inap... |
2020/10/14 | 847 | 3,577 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year PhD student working in math.
I find that in most discussions with postdocs or even my own supervisor, the pace of the discussion is too fast. The other party invariably seems to think faster and go through to the next step before I have fully processed the current step. I us... |
2020/10/14 | 1,487 | 6,499 | <issue_start>username_0: In my institute, there was no online (or otherwise) platform exclusively available for the current and graduated PhD students. So I created a Facebook group with a vision that the group will allow sharing and dissemination of:
* Useful information such as conference calls, seminars, webinars, ... |
2020/10/14 | 528 | 2,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I am relatively new to the writing process. I wrote my first manuscript in APA style and found it time consuming while changing it to the Chicago manual style. I am aware that most journals have their own specific journal styles that we have to follow despite the reference style being the same.... |
2020/10/14 | 637 | 2,863 | <issue_start>username_0: So as the title says I got the opportunity to publish my article right around the time my article has already been accepted by other **student** journal.
My question now is - is it acceptable to publish an article in both journals, with informing the editorial board first, if in the case of st... |
2020/10/14 | 686 | 2,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if I can cite an unpublished thesis (Ph.D or Master) in a research paper. If so, how do I do it? Should I also include a link to the thesis?<issue_comment>username_1: Assuming it isn't formally published, then the citation would probably include the university instead of the publisher.... |
2020/10/14 | 547 | 2,086 | <issue_start>username_0: Is referencing a question on research level from StackExchange in the footnote of a thesis appropriate?<issue_comment>username_1: It's not in Academia.SE answers, but check this out:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zY0g9.png)
So... |
2020/10/15 | 903 | 3,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I had recently e-mailed a professor asking for opportunities in his lab. He responded as follows -[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xMuXi.png)
Email content:
>
> Dear [redacted]
>
>
> Thanks for your interest in my lab. My lab is planning to hire mul... |
2020/10/15 | 541 | 2,376 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a high school student (legally old enough to work) looking for opportunities to work with professors in political theory. The way research is done is quite different from many folks in STEM, so how could I be of use to a professor while deepening my own passion for the field?
COVID has de... |
2020/10/15 | 3,677 | 14,835 | <issue_start>username_0: In a project-based class the submission is in teams of 2 (self-assigned teams).
In most teams, the grade is the same for both members.
However, in some teams, I suspect that most of the work was done by one member, while the other was a "free rider". The suspicions are based on GitHub commits a... |
2020/10/15 | 3,635 | 14,577 | <issue_start>username_0: In answering [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/157605/is-it-possible-acceptable-to-publish-the-same-article-in-2-journals-if-one-is-u/), I wondered:
Many fields are now beginning to embrace preprint servers such as arXiv. Typically, authors upload a manuscript to the... |
2020/10/15 | 700 | 3,135 | <issue_start>username_0: Some postdoc applications specifically mention who the principal investigator. However, other positions don't have a PI; the postdoc is being hired to join the research group in general and, while there's an expectation the candidate will collaborate with group members, there's nobody who is go... |
2020/10/15 | 804 | 3,029 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, let's say I am an early stage researcher named <NAME> (1. A fake double barrel name. 2. No hyphen between the surnames). I'm finding that people are citing my work as '<NAME>hen' or 'S Cohen et al'.
An issue is that I don't identify as a 'Cohen', I identify as a 'Baron Cohen'.
Is... |
2020/10/15 | 5,629 | 23,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an American high schooler considering what to do in university. I am immensely interested in theoretical physics, and I would quite like to become a professor in the subject (I've self-studied quite a bit of it; while I'm no master, I can still do enough to have a decent bit of reputation ... |
2020/10/15 | 623 | 2,779 | <issue_start>username_0: Is that proper to get messages about your work (almost critique no constructive feedback) at the early dawn, I freaked out from my sleepings not the first time to expose that besides the high pressure to get results as soon as possible. I feel my body is exhausted and sick and sometimes crying,... |
2020/10/15 | 718 | 3,160 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed that in some fields, it is common to indicate in your CV (with italics, asterisks, or other symbols) if a coauthor is an undergraduate student. I have even seen similar practices for indicating grad student coauthors. I can imagine three reasons for doing this:
1. Emphasize one'... |
2020/10/15 | 747 | 3,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I sometimes come across ArXiv papers where the authors claim the source code for the project discussed can be obtained, but on checking the link provided the source code comprises no more than a place holder. So the code is not available, and on subsequent checking months later (in case the aut... |
2020/10/15 | 1,771 | 7,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published in journal X and given them the rights to my work. In the "Author's Rights" clause, it says that I am allowed to post my work to pre-print servers (in the form immediately prior to publishing and sticking the copyright on) such as arXiv.
I am also allowed to distribute the cop... |
2020/10/15 | 813 | 3,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote an email recently to the author of a book. I'm working on the master's degree in Hungary, the author is a professor in Canada. I'm not a native English speaker. My letter looked like the following:
>
> Dear Dr. [professor's full name],
>
>
> [body of the email including an introduct... |
2020/10/16 | 435 | 1,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working as a research assistant in a mechatronics lab. My research and work is largely based on designing circuits, robotics and programming. My PI also works on mechatronics. But I've also worked with two other professors. For one of them, I had to develop circuits for electrochemical stud... |
2020/10/16 | 472 | 1,995 | <issue_start>username_0: So [CORE](http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/) is the de facto standard benchmark to check the quality of a computer science conference.
However, there are some premier events that are not covered by this ranking.
For instance, I'm quite puzzled with the [IEEE International Conference on Soft... |
2020/10/16 | 351 | 1,560 | <issue_start>username_0: Novice here. I am looking to submit a manuscript to a journal, *Monthly Review.* The journal website does not specify any template whatsoever except for the instruction to use Chicago Style, 16th edition for referencing. Should I include an abstract and a title page with a short bio in the subm... |
2020/10/16 | 539 | 2,227 | <issue_start>username_0: My manuscript has got accepted and published online as "in press" in an Elsevier journal.
I noticed that it is an open access journal late after its acceptance.
I have not signed any forms yet, but the "in press" manuscript is online.
I cannot afford the cost and asked for a waiver. They declin... |
2020/10/16 | 603 | 2,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a master's degree in theoretical physics in Europe. After the end of the master, I want to pursue research in the area A. In fact, I've already come in contact with a professor that works in the area A in a different country.
The problem is, I'm struggling to find an advisor for a po... |
2020/10/17 | 774 | 3,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in process of applying to open postdoc positions.
As a global regulation, universities require for me to provide research statements as well as cover letters.
Many articles in the web advise to avoid technical language. This is understandable, because the person who is reading t... |
2020/10/17 | 548 | 2,436 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I submit a paper to a conference if I have presented it at another conference earlier but it wasn't published in proceedings?
Last year I submitted my work to a conference and it was accepted as a long paper, so I thought it was going to be published in the proceedings, but it seems they h... |
2020/10/17 | 790 | 3,157 | <issue_start>username_0: My question in about the general situation in the US universities related to the two body problem.
My impression from what I have heard is that most of American universities are located in small university towns where there are very few other job places. So for spouses of university employees ... |
2020/10/17 | 559 | 2,193 | <issue_start>username_0: We have a project to do with them but I don't have the time and am not sure if this email is appropriate for them. What do you think? I would greatly appreciate your advice.
Here is what I am thinking of sending them.
*Hello guys,
Hope you having a good weekend
I’m writing to you to let... |
2020/10/18 | 827 | 3,499 | <issue_start>username_0: For the [National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program](https://www.nsfgrfp.org/) (NSF GRFP) application they ask:
>
> Other serious disability related to a physical, mental, or emotional
> condition is included in my disability
>
> (Please specify. Cannot exceed 255 cha... |
2020/10/18 | 1,082 | 4,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in an university where the teaching language is not English, but where research can be carried out in the language of choice of the director (which is generally English since most graduate students do not speak the official language of the university).
Although the university offers lin... |
2020/10/18 | 1,212 | 5,114 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Indian, currently in 12th standard and I am pretty sure next year I am going to be in a decent UNI for my bachelor's in physics. I have read a lot about undergraduate research in Western colleges but I am not very sure about that here in India, as I have heard that a very small amount o... |
2020/10/18 | 544 | 2,354 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine had failed core courses during his master's program. He had to retake the exams and passed them with minimum grade. However, his research output was good and he was able to publish a journal paper (first author, IF~4).
Now he has been accepted for a PhD in Canada on the same t... |
2020/10/18 | 663 | 2,839 | <issue_start>username_0: I am learning a new numerical modeling technique (molecular dynamics) that requires learning graduate level maths and physics concepts. I am learning from youTube videos and books. However, I am getting all overwhelmed and am retaining nothing.
I am feeling disappointed because I am not able t... |
2020/10/19 | 717 | 2,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I like exactly this format:
```
Knowledge -> Task -> Knowledge -> Task
```
And the knowledge is required to do the following task. Not more. Not less. Therefore you know that the task is solvable and you do have enough knowledge. In other words:
```
Knowledge1 -> Task(requires only Knowledg... |
2020/10/19 | 1,065 | 4,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my PhD earlier this year. I have been productive during my PhD, published 4 papers during my 5.5 years duration in decent journals. My advisor was not an expert in my area of research, so my research ideas, methodology and analysis were completely isolated endeavour. This helped me become... |
2020/10/19 | 439 | 1,861 | <issue_start>username_0: We did an experiment and the results unexpectedly support a famous theory. I am not entirely sure how to write the full paper or sell the results because I am not too familiar with that theory. And I don't know which journals welcome that theory. I think chatting with that theorist will surely ... |
2020/10/19 | 2,469 | 10,588 | <issue_start>username_0: The paper I just got to review consists of Theorem A and its Corollary B, the latter settling a major open problem in the field, it is said.
Unfortunately, the problem is not open, it was done in an obscure paper half a century ago (a not uncommon mistake, I must stress this doesn't imply or s... |
2020/10/19 | 2,506 | 10,566 | <issue_start>username_0: There's an [interesting question](https://law.stackexchange.com/q/15986/10458) over at Law.SE on the possibility of suing a university over what the OP saw as unfair disciplinary practices. I have often wondered...
**Is there a type of professional or professional practice related to advising ... |
2020/10/19 | 1,740 | 7,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently invited to write a letter of recommendation for a colleague applying for a tenure-track position at UCSD. The email said:
>
> Although a candidate may request to see the contents of letters of evaluation in accordance with California law and University policy, your identity wil... |
2020/10/20 | 1,813 | 7,792 | <issue_start>username_0: We are all aware that the *h-index* of a researcher is the metric for evaluating the cumulative impact of his/her research publications. I am asking the question regarding a doubt that arises when we compare researchers based on the h-index.
I come from a background of theoretical physics wher... |
2020/10/20 | 1,118 | 4,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I made a huge mistake while doing my Ph.D. I did my Ph.D. on a topic that I was excited about but did not feel confident in. And lo behold, I got a Ph.D. in 5.5 years with skillset, which is not at par with the requirements of the openings in my area of research (computational modelling of the ... |
2020/10/20 | 631 | 2,520 | <issue_start>username_0: Question as in the title. If I have got a Bibtex entry such as
```
smith2019apples
```
can I change it to, say,
```
smith2019pie
```
?<issue_comment>username_1: It is unlikely that this is specifically documented anywhere, but the answer is almost certainly no.
Article entries in Google ... |
2020/10/20 | 3,818 | 15,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I periodically get requests from students to know their "grade so far". From what I can tell, this is becoming more prevalent, and more encouraged by administrators. And there is a box for "Total Grade" in our LMS, turned on by default, which I have to manually disable.
I feel that telling the... |
2020/10/20 | 1,656 | 6,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder what is the best strategy to follow to respond to students who book an appointment with you and do not show up. It is just so un-nice when this happens.
I do not want the student to be upset but at the same time to honour his/her bookings.<issue_comment>username_1: It is perfectly rea... |
2020/10/20 | 1,191 | 5,564 | <issue_start>username_0: My post is more related to private research than academic research, but as I think they could be strongly related, I thought this would be the most appropriate place to ask.
I have recently started working for a small startup in Brazil, where we conduct intensive research to develop a product.... |
2020/10/21 | 978 | 4,051 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed to a professor about a research question. In most cases I reply to them asap. In some scenarios I think I cannot do this asap because:
1. He asked me a very difficult question that takes a long time to get an answer.
2. I don't have any further questions for now. But I might have the... |
2020/10/21 | 645 | 3,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my research work for a conference in data science, after two months of review it got weak rejection. So I decided to submit it to another conference (the submission was closed so I contacted the chair asking them if it possible and they reopened the submission system for me bec... |
2020/10/21 | 1,466 | 6,027 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many websites who let people anonymously attack studies just to disparage the authors. An example is Pubpeer (I confess that I had never heard of it before being warned by a colleague).
If I have my work attacked on a swindler website that protects the accuser's identity while exposi... |
2020/10/21 | 4,979 | 21,446 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a 101 philosophy class in an online format. Each week we have over 100 dense pages of a textbook to read as our sole source of information for the class. The teacher does not do any teaching and relies on the textbook.
Obviously a textbook is beneficial but especially for a 101 class, ... |
2020/10/22 | 731 | 3,081 | <issue_start>username_0: From an outsider/student's view, STEM professors are:
1. not taking courses
2. mostly not doing things outside of their research comfort zones
3. not (?) studying up much except for their research, certainly not doing exercises from the back of a book and looking up solutions somewhere
4. some... |
2020/10/22 | 569 | 2,217 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard various occasions where students with mediocre bachelor's degree grades, but superb master's degree grades, get rejected by PhD programs due to their poor bachelor's degree grades.
What could be the rationale behind focusing on the now likely outdated bachelor's degree grades when m... |
2020/10/22 | 1,302 | 5,240 | <issue_start>username_0: (Apologies if this isn't the place to ask, as I'm not a college student or independent researcher).
I am a secondary school student in Ireland currently working on a large project for a history class and the topic I have chosen is relatively obscure. The most thorough of the few books written ... |
2020/10/22 | 1,100 | 4,605 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematics student in a French university.
But I have studied many other subjects on my own with university books.
So I would like to have a diploma or an exam that proves that I have a certain level in these subjects.
I had thought about the CAPES or the agrégation exam but I don't wa... |
2020/10/22 | 520 | 2,226 | <issue_start>username_0: Because of multiple factors including depression, attention deficiency, laziness and immaturity I've managed to accumulate 14 F's during the first two years of my computer science education. I'm finishing a semester late and I'm currently on my last semester. For context, I come from relatively... |
2020/10/22 | 863 | 3,605 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title says. To put the contributions (explicitly) on the abstract:
1. Is considered good practice
2. Irrelevant as long as you correctly describe your paper? Source [Research Guides](https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/abstract)
3. No, explicitly mentioning the contributions is not c... |
2020/10/22 | 3,061 | 12,780 | <issue_start>username_0: I am contemplating pursuing a bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering or System Engineering. Not to look for a job with it but just to expand my knowledge. I have a reasonable income as a programmer.
I have a certification in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cit... |
2020/10/22 | 1,527 | 6,093 | <issue_start>username_0: A large part of the work in writing a paper in my field (theoretical CS and economics) is writing the introduction, the problem description, the motivation, and the related work. A large part of this writeup repeats in different articles studying a similar problem; thus there is a waste of effo... |
2020/10/23 | 1,094 | 4,562 | <issue_start>username_0: In my first few years of university I had very uneven grades because traditional classrooms just didn't work for me. My GPA was probably around a 2.8-2.9. I was able to turn my grades around by *not* attending lectures at all. My GPA for these last two years of undergrad was a 3.5, and my GPA i... |
2020/10/23 | 1,299 | 5,466 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my first post in this community, which stems from desperation and what I could only refer to as a state of hopelessness.
I completed my PhD in August and have been looking for postdoctoral positions in my field of research ever since. I have obtained my PhD from a top UK university (no... |
2020/10/24 | 228 | 828 | <issue_start>username_0: In certain postdoc positions, the eligibility criteria says, "candidate's PhD has received their PhD within last 4 years."
So, if I defended on December 2019 and got my degree (convocation) on May 2020. Started postdoc from June 2020. So will my 4 years from now will be calculated on the basis... |
2020/10/24 | 383 | 1,448 | <issue_start>username_0: A few days ago I saw an advertisement that claimed that they could write and publish Q1-Q4 (Q: Quartile) Research paper (with various prices e.g. 200$-500$) in less than 6 months and sell it to anyone (as the author of that paper) who wants a Research paper like last year PhD students, academic... |
2020/10/25 | 1,084 | 4,803 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine is an experienced researcher in early career. We are surprised to learn that she never get invited to referee for any journal. I once rejected a referee request and referred the editor to her because the manuscript matches better with her expertise, but still, she did not get i... |
2020/10/25 | 482 | 2,060 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in submitting an article to a journal that has previously identified misconduct from me. The misconduct occurred several years ago and was caused by a disability.
How should I proceed if I am to submit an article to this journal?<issue_comment>username_1: If you have done thing... |
2020/10/25 | 1,739 | 7,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I am half way thorough my second year as a posdoc and I have a reasonable production (4 published papers in good journals and two other under review). I also have several ongoing/potential research projects and I am finding it hard to figure out how to manage my time and energy regarding them.
... |
2020/10/26 | 1,454 | 5,887 | <issue_start>username_0: For a research paper in my course we had to come up with a topic proposal.
When I talked with my professor about my topic he did not seem interested in my proposal and only talked about a topic of his interest, in which I am totally inexperienced and not really interested in. He didn´t even com... |
2020/10/26 | 392 | 1,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I had submitted a paper in a journal, and had got a request for major revision. The changes are mostly related to the experiments, and some language issues. However, while trying to fix those, I stumbled a much better (theoretical) solution to the same problem. Should I include this improved so... |
2020/10/26 | 484 | 2,079 | <issue_start>username_0: Some entities, when carrying out research, do not strictly require Institutional review board (IRB) approval (or may be doing the whole thing in a place where IRB does not exist).
If we believe that a piece of contribution has ethical concerns that may fail an IRB inspection but see no IRB req... |
2020/10/26 | 521 | 2,031 | <issue_start>username_0: I've undertaken some novel work as part of my undergraduate thesis and have been advised that this work goes sufficiently beyond the brief of an undergrad thesis and is novel enough to submit for publication. Since this will be my first paper and my supervisor is a subject matter expert, we've ... |
2020/10/26 | 1,852 | 7,543 | <issue_start>username_0: I am enrolled in an upper level STEM class.
My teacher has recently announced that we have a "downloadable" midterm. The midterm is not officially timed, and we have a week to submit it, and there is no way the teacher can track how much time we have used. Now, in class and in a clarification ... |
2020/10/26 | 783 | 3,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student and I received admit from X university (USA) for PhD in computer science.
I reached out to all the professors who match my research interest and only one of them responded. Now when I am supposed to fly in a month he has notified me that he doesn’t want to commit ... |
2020/10/26 | 774 | 3,389 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the second year of a post-doc, and currently participating in my first experience as a peer-reviewer (my lab PI recommended me to the editor because he's too busy to do it right now). I noticed a section of the Methods that seems to be completely out of place. It describes statistical an... |
2020/10/27 | 425 | 1,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I handed in my masters dissertation a few weeks ago and I’ve now discovered a referencing mistake in my literature review. A medical publication I’d been citing has had a number of updates over the years and instead of citing the earlier year (2009) I’ve cited 2018. I could kick myself. I’m ver... |
2020/10/27 | 204 | 830 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student considering tutoring another student in a challenging graduate level statistics course. What is a reasonable hourly rate to charge? This is a public university in the United States.
Thanks.<issue_comment>username_1: Personally, under such a circumstance, I think it is f... |
2020/10/27 | 2,694 | 11,067 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if it would be okay for a full-time PhD student (in biology) to pursue a part-time degree in an unrelated subject.
I had an undergrad experience that was pretty "focused", which was great in that it gave me decent training for graduate school, but also meant I never really got ... |
2020/10/27 | 839 | 3,617 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a sophomore undergraduate studying CS and I look forward to getting into research in future. Is there any advantage of being a student member of societies like ACM, IEEE, etc? I think it might help me expose myself more in the area of Computer Science and research in general but I'm still n... |
2020/10/27 | 1,695 | 7,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received an email from a lecturer I do not know and have never had contact with, asking for my course materials.
On the one hand, sharing my course materials has almost no cost for me, and I have shared them before either "in house" (with lecturers in my department) or with close collea... |
2020/10/27 | 674 | 2,748 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently taking an online course (at a university in the US) in which once a week I am in the same virtual meeting room as two professors, one male and one female, with the same last name. I am unsure in how I should go about directly addressing one of them when I typically address all my... |
2020/10/28 | 1,967 | 8,776 | <issue_start>username_0: As a postdoc in a theoretical STEM field, I have had many wonderful collaborations where all authors contribute non-trivially to the final product. However, there was also many "unbalanced" collaborations: where one author does 90% of the work for example. I am not talking about a situation in ... |
2020/10/28 | 463 | 1,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a new paper where I am proposing methodological improvements to neural network training. I have simulation data and empirical results in financial markets to back up my algorithm. I am now looking for a journal to which to submit my paper. Initially, I have thought of submitting ... |
2020/10/28 | 564 | 2,356 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that applying to competitive pure math PhD programs in mathematics in the US/UK definitely requires good grades (A or above) in most math courses - but I'm wondering how **bad is it** if I have one or two B's or C's? Are there other factors that can help me shadow my *not-so-good* ... |