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2020/10/28 | 878 | 4,095 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written and submitted a manuscript to a journal owned by Oxford University Press. This manuscript describes the associated source code, which is stored in a public GitHub repository. The journal has sent this manuscript to reviewers, and they have responded with some suggestions on how t... |
2020/10/28 | 440 | 1,905 | <issue_start>username_0: I was thinking about whether it would be possible to create a 3/4 year bachelors programme which goal is to teach the student to be able to read any/most scientific article? If so, do you think this programme would be valuable? What would you think the prime courses should be? I myself would be... |
2020/10/29 | 571 | 2,340 | <issue_start>username_0: Last month, I saw a job offer and applied for it. I did not hear back from them, but it is not uncommon to wait for 1-2 months before hearing back (especially with the COVID-19 situation). The deadline for applications closed on 17 Sept (offer was only open 1 week). Today, I just saw the exact ... |
2020/10/29 | 762 | 3,446 | <issue_start>username_0: **How common is it to mention that a discovery was made by accident and if it is acceptable to say that in a paper?**
We often hear historical accounts on how discoveries were made by accident, however, I never saw it mentioned in a paper. I wonder if here would be a good place to ask for exam... |
2020/10/29 | 881 | 3,780 | <issue_start>username_0: As I don't like looking up the internet and read all the materials or references and all that when doing assignment, thus I try to pay full attention during lectures and/or tutorials. Therefore, my assignments are often long and with minimal to no plagiarism detection rate as all the contents a... |
2020/10/29 | 1,416 | 5,994 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine, who I regard scientifically, just invited me to submit an article to a special issue of a journal which I consider predatory.
I consider this journal predatory because its publisher released several journals that are considered predatory in my scientific community (bioinfo... |
2020/10/30 | 1,186 | 5,314 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently given a green light by my former supervisor to conduct an analysis on individual patient data from their recently published trial for a stats class assignment (Msc). The idea was we could flip the assignment into a research letter/full manuscript if the results are interesting. I... |
2020/10/30 | 2,815 | 11,956 | <issue_start>username_0: My instructor for an undergraduate math course (a professor) has been interacting with me over WhatsApp lately, and I feel that that is very unprofessional (and uncomfortable), since I (and everyone) use instant-messaging apps for personal communication only. Moreover, from what I know, it is c... |
2020/10/30 | 1,720 | 7,212 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as a lecturer at a university. My students hate math and stats. Due to that, they hate my class. There is a group of students who are always shouting, yelling, and showing disrespectful behavior. This includes:
1. Dr., I will not let you give us the lesson, till you show us our ma... |
2020/10/30 | 3,396 | 14,027 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been doing my PhD in Computer Science for one year and a half now (Europe-based) and I feel my research is not going much far.
I choose to do this after my master studies because I actually like to do it: I like reading about new solutions, new problems and try to solve them myself. I al... |
2020/10/30 | 2,864 | 12,205 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider an "ambitious" assistant professor (junior, untenured faculty) appointed to a junior lectureship in a medicine, physical science or engineering department with the usual teaching and u/grad supervision obligations. Like all academics, he/she is entirely responsible for developing and m... |
2020/10/30 | 950 | 4,063 | <issue_start>username_0: In my first semester of Ph.D., I took a course about [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning) (ML), because I find it very fancy and interesting (however, my field of research is theoretical physics, far away from ML).
The professor who taught ML was an old and super ... |
2020/10/31 | 1,000 | 4,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now in a thesis-track Master's program and will be applying to PhD next year. Now I want to do some research projects with some of the professors who have areas of interest that I am also interested in. There are only 2 (or 3 if you count in another one who only publish 2 papers in this ar... |
2020/11/01 | 877 | 3,358 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am stuck in a very weird situation. I am a prospective PhD student, and I emailed a supervisor that works in a field of research very close to mine, and is very successful.
He replied stating that he is interested to have me in his team, and requested my papers. One of my papers is under r... |
2020/11/01 | 1,151 | 4,978 | <issue_start>username_0: In any course in university, grades will be reported on an absolute scale, such as A+, A, B+, etc. Why don't these courses also report percentiles to indicate how hard the course was? This is very similar to what the GRE does. For example, I could be in the 95th percentile, which means that I d... |
2020/11/01 | 480 | 2,108 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a job that in the call mentions that the university supports "job sharing and advancement of dual-career couples". My partner and I are applying both to that position (we have similar qualifications). Should we indicate in our respective application letters that we are interes... |
2020/11/01 | 1,075 | 4,638 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to reproduce some of the results in a paper from 2018 where the results were included in a graph but no exact values were given. There is no results table to go with the graph. I can't exactly compare what I produce with my guesses as to what the values in the graph are. They also d... |
2020/11/01 | 1,166 | 5,068 | <issue_start>username_0: This past summer, I started my undergraduate thesis project under two advisors. One of my advisors had done research on a similar topic to what my thesis project is covering and she had the data collected from their experiments. (For context, we are synthesizing anticancer molecules and testing... |
2020/11/01 | 2,214 | 9,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student. A student applying for an undergraduate institution in the US has asked me to write him a letter of recommendation. I wonder if a first year graduate student can write recommendation letters to high school graduates applying to US colleges.
This is not my main que... |
2020/11/02 | 2,622 | 10,516 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> Q: Why are the outer planets of the Solar System so much more massive than the inner planets?
>
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> A: By the central limit theorem, everything eventually appears to look like a Bell curve. Therefore planet masses increase with distance to the Sun before decreasing, and the planets at th... |
2020/11/02 | 1,715 | 6,873 | <issue_start>username_0: I just read [Ethics of awarding points for hilariously bad answers](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/158370/ethics-of-awarding-points-for-hilariously-bad-answers), and it reminded me of my Senior History exam in high school. I was confident in my knowledge and noticed that I had a l... |
2020/11/02 | 542 | 2,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a professional photographer. I have done numerous lectures at colleges and high schools about photography and photo assisting. This has always been for ex-professors or peers that have become professors. I thoroughly enjoy it and looking to branch out beyond my personal contacts to do about... |
2020/11/03 | 774 | 3,316 | <issue_start>username_0: Do Physics (STEM) graduate schools in the US check for disciplinary record if they don't ask for it in the application? The outcome of the violation doesn't appear on my transcript. Only way a graduate school can find out is if they ask my school (in US) for my academic record. I am not going t... |
2020/11/03 | 877 | 3,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I am forced to write this question as I believe it is unethical and needs to be addressed in my faculty. I suspect a faculty member in my university has the habit of writing his students' masters thesis (for free or for a fee). I believe he does it for a fee. A colleague has mentioned this befo... |
2020/11/03 | 862 | 3,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as a research assistant for a professor and I was hired to write a literature review on a rather broad topic that is well outside of my knowledge domain. I am concerned that i'll most likely create a bad product because I don't have a crystal clear idea as to what it is I am intend... |
2020/11/03 | 1,444 | 6,106 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student. A professor recently gave me an open question to think about, and after three months of working on it as a hobby, I think I have something good.
It is not an exact mathematical theorem or anything, but I have the code and some proofs in special cases.
So, I'm writing a paper and... |
2020/11/04 | 974 | 4,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student and I am more than half way through with my thesis. I was diagnosed with epilepsy 3 years ago, and in order to control my seizures I take Depakote. Now my seizures are under control, but the medicine has side effects, which hinders my productivity at times. This hindranc... |
2020/11/04 | 481 | 2,129 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I read an article on tips for PhD students to improve their scientific writing skills. There, one suggestion was to find and read the best-paper-award-papers in highly reputed conferences in your discipline and understand the writing style, the way of presenting information, flow, lang... |
2020/11/04 | 524 | 2,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying to several PhD programs in the STEM sector in Europe. Some universities invite me to submit my bachelor's thesis as an optional document for my application. I would like to do that because the thesis can give some insight about my background, even if it wasn't about anyth... |
2020/11/05 | 707 | 2,906 | <issue_start>username_0: I made a post yesterday regarding when I should send a professor a reminder regarding a LoR request. Well, he actually got back to me today and told me that (translated and paraphrased from Korean):
"(small talk) I think it would be best for you to ask someone who may know you better. I'm afra... |
2020/11/05 | 2,207 | 9,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently have a class in which at the beginning of the semester, our entire class was told it would be okay to obtain a previous version of the textbook which I did because it was significantly cheaper. However, now that we are further on in the semester, the previous version is leaving out ... |
2020/11/05 | 2,233 | 9,172 | <issue_start>username_0: I am obliged to hand in an an exposé outlining my PhD project in mathematics, including some kind of working plan. Since it is [answered here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/130253/75016) and since it can be easily found on the internet, I have some understanding about what such a working... |
2020/11/05 | 718 | 3,047 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a PhD thesis or an academic paper, you tend to be limited in how you can present results by the physical paper size, e.g. A4 for a thesis and often much tighter when targeting journals or conference proceedings.
This seems needlessly restrictive in this day and age, but perhaps th... |
2020/11/05 | 1,229 | 5,275 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you refuse to work with graduate students when they come to you and explain they want to work with you without necessarily being offered a job (e.g. a project that pays).
My advisor was very selective, he had conditions - students would need to take a course, Ace it, be in a percentage,... |
2020/11/05 | 1,025 | 4,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I have this class where we have oral exams once in two weeks. I am honestly trying my best. I am preparing for the class and I think I understand all the material. I can do all the assignments (albeit not as good as I want to but still). But I am really nervous during oral exams and class discu... |
2020/11/06 | 525 | 2,124 | <issue_start>username_0: In science, it is very common to shorten nouns with acronyms (e.g. deoxyribonucleic acid -> DNA). However, I am struggling to think of any examples of sets of adjectives that are written as an acronym.
I am writing a scientific document, in which I must describe my data in a specific way. For ... |
2020/11/06 | 761 | 2,969 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm part of the editorial committee of a small open access ecology journal that is slowly growing Currently, our journal doesn't have the means to pay for the doi service, but we found [this service](https://www.citefactor.org/page/faqs) which offers a different identifier, the EOI. We asked fo... |
2020/11/06 | 764 | 2,677 | <issue_start>username_0: To provide some background, I'm an MS student (CS - machine learning) looking to apply for PhD programs. I was looking for letter writers, and struggled to find the third.
I have the option of asking a postdoc that I've worked with or a professor who has explicitly stated that he "doesn't know... |
2020/11/06 | 1,373 | 5,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I hold a Dr. rer. nat. title from the computer science institute at a German university. I am now writing a job application that I will send to a German organization, but since it has many international employees and the advertisement itself was in English, I decided to write the application in... |
2020/11/06 | 969 | 4,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I often see outreach listed in the CVs of professors, which makes me believe that doing outreach is beneficial to advancing a professors career. What I'm wondering though is if this is only import for going from assistant professor to associate professor or if outreach can also be beneficial to... |
2020/11/06 | 936 | 3,850 | <issue_start>username_0: I am struggling with my Post-PhD career. I am still looking for positions and I getting zero response. My advisor is giving me no leads and I don't know if she's even bothered about my career prospects. She has offered me a one year postdoc position in my current lab. Apart from that, there's n... |
2020/11/07 | 359 | 1,343 | <issue_start>username_0: What's the best "bookmine" academic targeted website for PhD students to find references for their studies ?
Thanks in advance<issue_comment>username_1: In terms of how frequently it's given me the info I need, I think the champion has to be [Google Books](https://books.google.com/). (A tip: G... |
2020/11/07 | 730 | 3,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for PhD in US universities and my CGPA is lower than they ask for. But I believe my research experience is good enough to get a position. When I contacted a professor with my CV, he showed interest. Also, he asked why my CGPA was low, and if there was any specific reason for that.... |
2020/11/08 | 2,165 | 8,319 | <issue_start>username_0: All posts here on the "graduation gift" subject are about a gift from the PhD candidate to the professor (after the graduation of course). What about a gift for the student from the professor?
My student just graduated, and he really is an exquisite person, he worked more than he probably shou... |
2020/11/08 | 1,036 | 4,204 | <issue_start>username_0: So a little context. I'm a second year masters student in theoretical physics and last year I almost had a burnout. I mean that I had symptoms of burnout but it was not severe enough to be an actual burnout (luckily). What stressed me out most was the frequent deadlines. The material also got h... |
2020/11/08 | 775 | 2,976 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working on a project with a collaborator for several years. I have never met my collaborator in person but we've been a part of weekly calls and sent hundreds of emails together so I feel like at this point I know this person fairly well.
In what seems like hundreds (at least 10's)... |
2020/11/09 | 3,405 | 15,209 | <issue_start>username_0: The author's just referring to US. I don't know if Commonwealth law schools show students complete contracts and/or teach how to draft and interpret. But I'm flabberghast that you can graduate JD without actually reading a complete contract or sampling different types of contracts!
1. How "if ... |
2020/11/09 | 2,936 | 12,200 | <issue_start>username_0: If a course instructor closely follows a textbook when delivering a lecture (e.g. even listing the subsection they're discussing) could they be in violation of copyright law? What if they upload the lecture to YouTube? I'm particularly interested in the context of the United States.<issue_comme... |
2020/11/09 | 1,945 | 8,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently filling out a few PhD applications for computer science, and I have noticed a strong pattern in Statement of Purpose (SOP) guidelines that try to incentivise you to discuss your economic background, and how that shaped your life. To be clear, I am not against this, I understand h... |
2020/11/09 | 2,488 | 10,793 | <issue_start>username_0: My former PhD supervisor asked me different times to produce false results, including complete fabrication from scratch of otherwise non-existent results. I always managed to get away from that and I have never published nor submitted anything falsified. However, I still think that this must be... |
2020/11/09 | 2,069 | 9,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I m rounding the corner of my PhD and wanted to have the semblance of a plan for next steps as I close out my degree.
I came from industry so I have a grasp of the pros and cons on that front. I also have exposure to the darkside of academia as I had a front row seat to lab startup trials and ... |
2020/11/10 | 240 | 966 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to publish a publication in the web site of a journal, and when I put my .tex file (also .png files) the website gives an error and says "File will not display in proof". I think it is treated by ScholarOne.
Do you have any solution for that or may I have to contact ScholarOne?<iss... |
2020/11/10 | 1,375 | 5,794 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received two postdoc offers on the same day. I accepted one (verbally, in saying "I would like to accept this job offer", but I have signed nothing), but then some additional information came to light that I would not be happy in that role and the other was probably a better fit for ... |
2020/11/11 | 964 | 4,282 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 2nd year PhD student working on a project which involves control systems and power systems. For the next stage of my work, I have to learn about a control systems technique which I am not familiar with. It involves advanced mathematics and control systems concepts. So I picked the most w... |
2020/11/11 | 839 | 3,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning on submitting a paper to a mechanical or materials science journal. I am looking at these two journals [IJMS](https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-mechanical-sciences) (IF 4.6) and [JMST](https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-materials-science-and-tech... |
2020/11/11 | 1,485 | 6,333 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about a year into some exciting research, with some early results that many professors are interested in following the progress of. I have two advisors.
I recently learned that my graduate classmate, from a different lab, has been shopping my ideas around, interviewing with other labs at o... |
2020/11/12 | 929 | 3,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an early career researcher from India. I had earned a PhD from a top European University four years ago and then I moved to my home country early this year. I have been working on a century old problem, in the area of dielectrics, almost past five years. I believed that I had finally solve... |
2020/11/12 | 452 | 1,839 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Google Scholar profile where my conference papers are located.
Google automatically added one, while I had to manually add another.
See <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZveOfZYAAAAJ&hl=it>
I'm also inventor for a few patents that appear on Google Patent.
See <https://patents... |
2020/11/12 | 1,740 | 7,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my article earlier this year in January. After 5 months I received a "Major revision". There were 3 different reviewers and they made very relevant comments that I found very useful. I answered all the reviewers and resubmitted the article.
Months later I received a "Minor Revision... |
2020/11/12 | 1,040 | 4,576 | <issue_start>username_0: Ok guys, I know this is a weird question.
I have found that the opposite has been asked many times, however I could not find opinion in how useful would be to get a master in math **after** completing a phd in econ.
I am at an advanced state in my PhD and I do not want to give up now, because ... |
2020/11/12 | 1,068 | 4,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a resume for a doctoral application. In my current job, I am an Assistant Professor (tenured). However, besides being young, I don't have a doctorate or postdoctoral degree. I am also not a genius or a prodigy. In my country, the way you manage to be a university professor is diffe... |
2020/11/12 | 532 | 2,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing to submit applications to high ranking CS PhD programs in the US. My GRE quant score is not quite what I wanted (162V/163Q). I have strong research experience, good letters from professors I worked with, and a decent GPA (~3.6) from a top 10 undergrad CS school. However, my quant... |
2020/11/12 | 577 | 2,549 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, I would like to take Intermediate Spanish I AND Intermediate Spanish II at the same time.
Can colleges, in general, allow that? If my advisor says to me that they think it cannot be done, how can I insist and persuade them (without any illegal activity obviously)? Where do I see t... |
2020/11/13 | 682 | 2,489 | <issue_start>username_0: Is this correct to call my self "Doctor of engineering CANDIDATE" on my business card?
If it's not improper, what should I use instead of doctorate candidate?
Background:
I'm a college student in master's course and will graduate this summer, then go on to a doctoral course.
So, I'll ... |
2020/11/13 | 1,040 | 3,960 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not familiar with the UK higher education system (I'm from a EU country) and this is confusing me a lot.
A friend of mine holds a master's degree in a completely unrelated field. He is now studying in UK, doing a so-called "conversion program" in computer science. It's a 1-year program whi... |
2020/11/13 | 1,608 | 6,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to do an oral presentation for my thesis.
Normally, when presenting a paper, as the paper is a collaboration work, I always use the pronoun "we".
The thesis is written based on the papers. However, when presenting (for example, when talking about the contributions of the thesis), I ... |
2020/11/13 | 1,056 | 4,028 | <issue_start>username_0: I hear that the salaries in US are generally higher with lower taxes compared to Canada. Is this true for postdoc salaries or other academic positions? Sites such as glassdoor give roughly the same salary for postdoc which is 50000 CAD/USD. What a bout taxes, is the tax really lower in US? For ... |
2020/11/13 | 892 | 4,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD program abroad. In my application form there is a section saying "we understand that individual, family or community circumstances may have affected your previous academic record or educational experience, and that the materials you submit with your application may not b... |
2020/11/13 | 1,889 | 7,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I am confused about the USA education system.
I looked up the [Wikipedia page about K-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E2%80%9312). In particular, the figure on the right of that page.
Let's supposed I have just finished high school and I want a MSc in Computer Science.
1. It's pretty cle... |
2020/11/14 | 423 | 1,869 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose, a BSc in Computer Science student has been doing online freelancing for the last 10 years. The teachers who knew him in his undergrad school are either retired, or dead, or doesn't have any contact with him.
Where can he collect recommendation letters if he wants to get enrolled in a ... |
2020/11/14 | 1,934 | 7,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD in pure maths. Now a lot of places that I am applying to are asking for detailed lists of courses and books that I have followed for anything more advanced than calculus.
Now I am not quite sure what they mean here, because in our institute the course that was named cal... |
2020/11/14 | 2,052 | 8,282 | <issue_start>username_0: Started PhD in 2014.
Mistakes that I have committed:
1. I did my PhD in a topic that was not the area of expertise of my PhD supervisor.
2. I was doing computational work, while the past graduates on the topic were all experimentalists. So, I did not know the career prospects.
3. I did not ta... |
2020/11/14 | 2,971 | 12,852 | <issue_start>username_0: As a student, I make mistakes all the time, and stealing my idea will not face heavy retaliation. I don't mind if someone comes up with concurrent works, but I do mind if my key idea is leaked. Many graduate students in my field therefore only use pre-print services if their papers are either p... |
2020/11/15 | 655 | 2,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been out of undergraduate for several years and am applying to graduate school. However, I'm hung up on how to obtain the required letters of recommendation.
While I did exceptionally well in undergraduate, I am pretty introverted and I graduated awhile ago. I didn't cultivate deep, long-... |
2020/11/15 | 974 | 4,127 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is similar to other questions of affiliation, but I cannot find anything that quite addresses it. Perhaps this is closest: [Adding affiliation due to a 1-month visit during a salary gap](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/120450/adding-affiliation-due-to-a-1-month-visit-... |
2020/11/15 | 686 | 2,996 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to present my thesis in the next week. I am in a confusion what I should present in the final defence (1 hour). How much into detail I should go. I have successfully given my pre-synposis. I am currently thinking about the thesis defence. To me it appears I should focus on my work ra... |
2020/11/15 | 2,041 | 8,721 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for faculty jobs. As you all know, it is a stressful and frustrating experience. Many institutions explicitly state that they will not contact candidates who were not selected for an interview. It is like feeling my way around in the dark: I do not know if I was already rejected, ... |
2020/11/15 | 1,714 | 7,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started an Astronomy PhD program, which due to COVID has been all-online so far. Research and my computational methods course have been going OK, but I'm being utterly destroyed by my Galactic Dynamics course. It's clear to me that I didn't have the necessary mathematical physics backgro... |
2020/11/15 | 734 | 2,870 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my Master's in A university and then moved on to B for my Ph.D.
Covid outbreak started about the time when I was wrapping up my project, I had most of my manuscript done and was pending for iterative feedbacks from my advisor at A university. Due to COVID, my project got pushed back from... |
2020/11/15 | 1,568 | 6,083 | <issue_start>username_0: Alternative metrics for a paper, include not just the citations in other academic journals, but also all Twitter mentions, citations in Wikipedia, citations across the Stack Exchange network, etc.
The company Altmetric is one of the companies that shows the altmetrics for papers, and it has be... |
2020/11/16 | 1,465 | 6,717 | <issue_start>username_0: Three years ago, I was an undergrad majoring in Biochemistry in a major US university, and did significant research work in preparation for my thesis.
I am currently polishing a personal statement for PhD applications. To help illustrate a point, I started looking into the publication list of ... |
2020/11/16 | 975 | 4,192 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a short (say around 7-10 page long) article on theoretical machine learning and I've established the main theoretical result with a complete mathematical proof. I've also written the other parts - the abstract, introduction, acknowledgements and bibliography. However, some computer ... |
2020/11/16 | 3,813 | 15,385 | <issue_start>username_0: Since the exams this year for college is online, there is a timer. Usually, when I start an exam I click a random answer choice or what I think is right at that moment. Once I finish most of it, I go back to look it over.
I got accused of cheating since I answered the questions in 15 mins, and... |
2020/11/16 | 2,526 | 10,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed a professor at a school I am applying to, outlining my research interests, two specific projects proposals, and how they align with his research. I let him know that I am applying and I'd be interested in working together and chatting if he's taking students. He said he is taking stud... |
2020/11/17 | 720 | 2,825 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is a personal one. I feel like going in circles inside my mind, so I might as well formulate it here for my peace of mind. Apologies if it is not in the right format, or if it does create discussion rather than precise answers.
Academia is rife with bullying, and there is little ... |
2020/11/17 | 2,702 | 12,543 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the following situation. I got a class with theory an exercise once a week. The students do the exercises at home and have the opportunity to discuss them at the exercise sessions. In each session, there is a test about the exercises from the previous week (similar, but different questi... |
2020/11/17 | 2,785 | 12,815 | <issue_start>username_0: My institution moved all courses online this term. I spent a great amount of efforts:
* Pre-recording 3 hours of lectures (accompanied by 2% weekly asynchronous quizzes on Moodle)
* Holding two 1.5 hours of live Q&A sessions weekly on Zoom
However, the attendance of the Q&A sessions have been... |
2020/11/18 | 1,760 | 7,373 | <issue_start>username_0: So the title of the question is quite broad, I've seen a few of questions in the site regarding this particular topic (quite a few actually, so let me know if this is somehow a duplicate).
My problem is the following, I am working on my PhD thesis, and so far me and my supervisor have collabor... |
2020/11/18 | 714 | 3,048 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm in a very strange situation.
I got a mail that said that there is a suspicion of cheating in my Python coding exam.
It said that I and two other students have very similar answers on the test so I contacted these students and compared our exams. It is very strange because this was an ex... |
2020/11/18 | 679 | 2,660 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually it is simple: "Dear Prof. Berret...", Dear Dr. Jones...". But this time I have to write a formal letter to a person with a Masters Degree (MSc). I never met the person, can not be sure about their gender (<NAME> could be both man/woman). The person is active in academia, publishing freq... |
2020/11/18 | 785 | 3,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a TT faculty at a R3 (4 year teaching) school and I would like to go to a more research focussed place. After talking to seniors in my field, I understood that I need strong research program to be able to make the transition from R3 to R2 or R1. However, I feel it's very difficul... |
2020/11/18 | 426 | 1,765 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to Ph.D. programs in the biomedical field in the US but I have a question regarding reference letters:
Can I request a reference letter from a co-worker that has no Ph.D. (instead has been working in a research institute for many years) or a professor from my undergrad university ... |
2020/11/19 | 964 | 3,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recieved the grades for my PhD, and the defense is yet to be done.
I have a magna cum laude for the course work, and a cum laude for my dissertation. Do I have an academic career in Germany if I end up with a cum laude for the PhD?
Is there any way I can salvage a magna cum laude? The de... |
2020/11/19 | 543 | 2,416 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been doing teaching work in my field for several years while at the same time conducting and publishing research (I am from a developing country). All of these projects have been collaborative, with two being conducted alongside two different professors. Now, I feel I am ready to apply f... |
2020/11/19 | 3,232 | 12,744 | <issue_start>username_0: **Assumptions:**
* The **typical pure math PhD-bound undergraduate** goes into a pure math PhD because they are [insert reasonable prerequisites for pure math PhD, (not the focus of this question)] and they want to end up in academia.
* (With some exceptions) A pure math PhD is for people who ... |
2020/11/20 | 2,859 | 11,281 | <issue_start>username_0: For background, I'm currently enrolled in the honors college for both my majors (CS and Econ) in my university. Honors for each major means that I have to take 1-2 courses per major where the only focus is research.
While my "main" major is CS (the one I spend the most time on, will use for jo... |
2020/11/20 | 1,679 | 6,399 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider a famous *football* school in the U.S., for example [Penn State](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University#Athletics), [Michigan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan#Football), [Nebraska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nebraska_Omaha#Athl... |
2020/11/20 | 1,480 | 6,337 | <issue_start>username_0: A tenured professor at my university has hand-copied an out of print textbook in his field. His lectures consist of reading his hand-written notes from the text to his students. He does not deviate from his notes. He does not reveal the source of his notes. He often refers in class to "my notes... |
2020/11/20 | 435 | 1,859 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master (international)student in Germany, I will apply Phd in Canada or US. There will be a gap year between my graduation year and entrance year.
Now my plan to get reference letter is as follows: One letter from my thesis supervisor. Another two letters from the professor whom I took ... |
2020/11/20 | 910 | 4,124 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**: Neuroscience, India
My thesis is based on the use of machine learning for some neuroscience data. Since I do not expect the readers to be aware of machine learning details, I have written a high level summary (a few pages) before the literature review which summarizes the basic... |