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2021/01/03 | 939 | 3,798 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have to pick 5 to 6 colleges to apply for a Ph.D. program, how do I go about it?
If I find the work that a CS professor at let's say UC Davis to be interesting. How do I actually know if I have a realistic chance of getting in? I cannot reach out to the professor and ask him if he will le... |
2021/01/03 | 1,368 | 6,105 | <issue_start>username_0: My research field is a "hot" one. It is in modeling of additive manufacturing process. Majority of the research being carried out is experimental and some research is theoretical/computational. My research is entirely computational. Publications in my research topic don't go to top journals lik... |
2021/01/03 | 695 | 2,979 | <issue_start>username_0: I've got invited to a PhD interview in the field of computational physics. In the invitation mail I was told, among other things, that I should present my skills for about 5min. It is my first interview and I'm quite unsure how I design this part of the presentation. I thought about presenting ... |
2021/01/03 | 1,715 | 7,475 | <issue_start>username_0: On the first page of most papers the authors are listed, as well as their affiliation and email address. The given email address is usually hosted by the university. Now this looks professional and everything, though it is not always a good long-term solution, as researchers join other universi... |
2021/01/03 | 1,701 | 7,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently invited to a job interview regarding a PhD. I was told to make a short presentation of a few ideas regarding the project topic. I also have received an overview over the project aims, preliminary work etc.. I must admit that I am quite clueless what to present. In this project a ... |
2021/01/03 | 558 | 2,380 | <issue_start>username_0: I initially wrote a short manuscript (4 pages) intended for physics journal A and posted this short manuscript on arXiv. After referee feedback from journal A, I am now seeking to instead submit this manuscript to physics journal B but in a longer format (15 pages) with more comprehensive detai... |
2021/01/04 | 623 | 2,565 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have a 2 page unofficial transcripts I would like to send to Universities. One page describes marks, while the other provides the grading system. Now, since I have studied in an Indian University, I have secured 6.4/10 GPA. While this looks bad on paper, I graduated in the top 20% within m... |
2021/01/04 | 2,335 | 9,794 | <issue_start>username_0: I am peer-reviewing an article "A" and I found something interesting. The authors use a mathematical lemma (which is just an inequality) for which they cite article "B". I have used this inequality before for many years, but noticed that "B" is an article from 2019, so evidently this inequality... |
2021/01/04 | 1,920 | 7,841 | <issue_start>username_0: From USA universities, Can I request to see a reference about me?
Do they offer the **Right to Information** and request the information provided in a referee report about me to release?
I can have this service from the UK.
I ask this because my current PI congratulate me on an interview for... |
2021/01/04 | 383 | 1,676 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my papers is now in the proofreading stage. In the revision stage, I didn't add the "equal author contribution" as a foot-note. Is it possible to add that now? Can I put it in the acknowledgment section?
Note: I am not allowed to add any sign beside the authors' names.
Edit:
I was fina... |
2021/01/04 | 1,454 | 6,153 | <issue_start>username_0: A junior academic in a department I was doing research in once said to me in reference to a senior member of the department that "<NAME> no longer does research, just course design and teaching. He was involved in fascinating fundamental work in the 1960s but had a research blow-out some years ... |
2021/01/04 | 445 | 1,811 | <issue_start>username_0: Hypothetically, if I had an idea to improve an algorithm/theorem but
1. I wasn't sure it was correct, or
2. I wasn't sure it was significant or meaningful or hasn't already been published in a different form/somewhere else already or wasn't sure where to submit something like this .
is there ... |
2021/01/04 | 1,065 | 4,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious: what steps do generalist journals follow to try to ensure that every subfield (e.g., number theory, differential geometry, combinatorics, etc. for pure mathematics) is adequately represented, as the journal deems suitable?
To ask the question in a different way: a generalist jour... |
2021/01/04 | 1,230 | 5,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in a PhD program wherein I like my advisers, but unfortunately due to the following issues I have found that I might be happier applying to another university:
1. The university charges a $1200 fee during the fall and spring semesters which does not come out of our paychecks, an... |
2021/01/04 | 1,759 | 6,541 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe Tenure offers strong protections for speech in the United States (and I think Canada as well). As I understand, the UK and Europe don't have "tenure" but have something very similar, where a position is made permanent, typically after a 5-year review (as with tenure).
However, it see... |
2021/01/05 | 1,620 | 6,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I heard a lot of tips for (upcoming) researchers from top professors and researchers.
Almost all of them told that the **passion** of a candidate is one of the qualities that drive her research life.
All of them told the same fact in different ways. Some say that the **element of surprise or ... |
2021/01/05 | 442 | 1,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a research paper in which I mention Moroccan explorer [Estaban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Azemmouri) quite often. In the books I have, his name is spelled in different ways; the Wikipedia article linked above lists even more variants, though I never saw a single scholar... |
2021/01/05 | 888 | 3,813 | <issue_start>username_0: Asking this question for a friend (also motivated by this [PhD thesis: novelty at the time of proposal but not submission](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/160631/phd-thesis-novelty-at-the-time-of-proposal-but-not-submission)). Field: Neuroscience.
Initially, when the paper was wri... |
2021/01/05 | 1,320 | 5,639 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine that I make a post in which I propose a new theory or idea, but I don't write any paper about it.
Then, some years later, a researcher independently and completely unaware of my post, proposes the same theory/idea in a peer-reviewed paper.
In what circumstances could I claim co-authors... |
2021/01/05 | 3,602 | 15,791 | <issue_start>username_0: **Is there any good way to determine when it appropriate to reject a manuscript versus merely recommending major revisions?** I.e., at what point do you declare a manuscript a lost cause? I understand there are some situations where the decision is very clear. For example, if a paper has method... |
2021/01/06 | 939 | 3,933 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to match content
* of an article from a podcast source,
* of a podcast from an article source or
* of a podcast from another podcast source?
I haven't heard of any tool that can check plagiarism from/in an audio source. If such a tool does exist, how efficient and reliable is i... |
2021/01/06 | 2,467 | 9,926 | <issue_start>username_0: When colleagues that don't co-author with me and are in separate projects, writing different papers, I've noticed they don't congratulate me, when I give them exciting progress. They're around for the gossip, and are always willing to listen to gossip or bad news. But when I have exciting news ... |
2021/01/07 | 501 | 2,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be applying for math PhD, and was wondering if there is any way to find the amount of stipend I can get for each program (already checked each school's website, without avail). Are top 50 math PhD programs generally fully funded, that I shouldn't be worried about it too much?<issue_comme... |
2021/01/07 | 656 | 2,462 | <issue_start>username_0: An article I'm reading references another article as:
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> [6] <NAME> and <NAME>, CERN preprint TH 1857 (1974), Nucl. Phys. B, to be published
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It is explained in the article I'm reading that "all unexplained notation in the present paper can be found in ref. [6]", so it is quite an i... |
2021/01/07 | 702 | 2,995 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working in the industry of software engineering for 5 years so far. Lately, I am planning to take a PHD, I am interested in software architecture and quality, something that started fascinating me after experiencing failing/successful projects because of bad/good architecture mainly... |
2021/01/07 | 1,784 | 7,182 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student sponsored by a company and considering leaving after three months.
This is an opportunity offered by my supervisor because he has a good relationship with the company and the company started a meaningful project. Right after I graduated my master degree, my supervisor sugges... |
2021/01/07 | 1,141 | 4,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD graduate from department of CS. I might get an offer to join as an assistant professor at a different department (industrial design) to work in a multidisciplinary project. My question is that if I change my department or even my institution in future would it affect my rank? Will my... |
2021/01/07 | 1,608 | 6,293 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm asking about this in StackExchange Academia rather than a software-recommendation site because I have conversion problems specific to the layout of academic publications. I'm helping a student who has problems with their eyesight. They find it hard to read academic papers and books on scree... |
2021/01/07 | 660 | 2,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an interview for a postdoc position next week. The project was running for 9 months or so and they already have some preprints out. This specific position says that the researcher will work closely with the 3 PIs, so it broadens the area for me a little bit since each one has different r... |
2021/01/07 | 625 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: A grant-funded researcher wrote a manuscript that they were first author on. All co-authors were awarded time to make edits. Before getting departmental approval for submitting to publication, the grant-funded researcher started a new job. Considerable time passed before departmental approval w... |
2021/01/07 | 1,504 | 6,528 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in pursuing an area of computer security that is very likely already being studied by security professionals in industry and perhaps the military as well. Some of it is published, but I imagine some of it could also be unpublished work that companies and the military might not w... |
2021/01/08 | 1,726 | 7,347 | <issue_start>username_0: Measurement data in publications is often provided only within figures, while the original data is not available. There are some very useful tools around to digitize such data, such as the web application [WebPlotDigitizer](https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/), the app [Engauge Digitizer](ht... |
2021/01/08 | 492 | 2,083 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a paper, when I identify some area I'm uncertain of, I try to track down a good source in JSTOR, the library, etc. I am in a situation where I found there is no academic source available on the subject. Scholars studying the topic within the confines of a specific territory, I coul... |
2021/01/08 | 526 | 2,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate and have been able to have my thesis on curing psoriasis published in a peer-reviewed journal. Does it qualify me for anything?<issue_comment>username_1: This can look good on your resume, but it does depend on the quality of the journal. Even some of the worst predatory jo... |
2021/01/09 | 759 | 2,628 | <issue_start>username_0: In Microsoft Word and Mendeley, is it possible to jump to the complete reference in the bibliography section of a document using a hyperlink?
For example, using "Ctrl+Left Click" on figures or table cross-references will take to the corresponding table.<issue_comment>username_1: Microsoft Word... |
2021/01/09 | 9,298 | 39,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a TA in a US school and my professor told me to include my pronouns in the course outline. I personally would rather not for social and religious reasons.
Her argument was that I will confuse students because they do not know what my pronouns are. I find this argument not convincing since... |
2021/01/09 | 2,820 | 11,544 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview on Tuesday on a PhD topic and during the interview I was a little nervous.
I regret saying that I don’t like machine learning since the PhD topic requires using machine-learning tools. I explained that I don’t like it since I took a machine-learning course at university, and... |
2021/01/09 | 411 | 1,635 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper that is based on previous work I have done that I have published as a pre-print. I am submitting it to a conference. However it is significantly improved and different. The submission process is double-blind do I have to cite the pre-print? The idea and contribution is most... |
2021/01/10 | 486 | 2,292 | <issue_start>username_0: Do universities restrict the brand or manufacturer of computers their professors are allowed to use for work?
May a PhD advisor ban certain computer brands?
Are there any restrictions on using your own funding to buy certain brands of computers?
Corporate restricts company computers allowed ... |
2021/01/10 | 772 | 2,677 | <issue_start>username_0: `pre-colon-part: post-colon-part` is a format which is often used in titles of papers. In all of the instances I have seen, the first part is an informative phrase, a (fictitious) example of which may be
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> Optimal consensus control of drone swarms: a game-theoretic approach.
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But, ... |
2021/01/10 | 1,391 | 6,098 | <issue_start>username_0: By "main" research advisor I mean: with him, I got my most valuable research experience, greatest results and of course I invested most of my research time. Our field is Physics and I am making some achievements, but when I asked him for a recommendation letter for my PhD application, he refuse... |
2021/01/11 | 468 | 1,997 | <issue_start>username_0: One of our drafts was accepted for publication in Nov. 30, 2020. It has not been published online yet. I have not even received the first proof. Is it appropriate to push the Editor?
Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: You can ask, but "push" is probably the wrong verb. If you have a specific ne... |
2021/01/11 | 850 | 3,815 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach an advanced Engineering elective course which has a mixed audience of Junior (3rd year) and Seinor (4th year) undergrads and some Grad students. Since it is a interactive course with a lot of project based work etc. we are typically constrained to accepting not more than about 30 studen... |
2021/01/11 | 2,169 | 9,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder if it is appropriate for professors to ask their students in class to type notes (in latex whatever) for the classes they are teaching and if there is any "elegant" way for students to turn down such request of professors they are taking classes with.
There are several specific scenar... |
2021/01/12 | 835 | 2,819 | <issue_start>username_0: A journal asked me to add the "series volume no" of a book in my list of references:
[10] <NAME>,Geometry and Spectra of Compact Riemann Surfaces, Modern Birkhäuser Classics,Q11Reprint of the 1992 edition (Birkhäuser, Boston, 2010).
From "mathscinet" i get this,
```
@book {MR2742784,
AUT... |
2021/01/12 | 384 | 1,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as an editor for an edited book volume on covid-19.
I have come across a very peculiar chapter submitted by an author. In the chapter, the author discloses a personal incident where the author's father's friend passes away due to covid-19.
I am not sure what to do here i.e. wheth... |
2021/01/12 | 777 | 3,459 | <issue_start>username_0: Since reproducibility is a major principle or basic norm of scientific experiments, simulations, and computations, what would you do or what to do if the author of a published CS article does not respond to code requests?<issue_comment>username_1: Simply nothing, but trying to implement it your... |
2021/01/12 | 754 | 3,286 | <issue_start>username_0: My article was recently published after a long process of peer-review. I don't know how to introduce the new findings in mainstream science.
Can you advise me on the best way to promote my study?<issue_comment>username_1: There are plenty of options when it comes to promoting your work, both a... |
2021/01/12 | 972 | 4,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a final year project in Artificial intelligence and I need to make a facial recognition project. I'm confused how to start this project and how plagiarism works in terms of coding? No one would make a project from scratch but the thing is my coding ability in python is very limited and t... |
2021/01/12 | 580 | 2,430 | <issue_start>username_0: I reviewed a manuscript and suggested a major revision, which was done in meantime. Now that I receive the revised manuscript again, I see that the 2nd reviewer wrote only one sentence in his review to the first draft of the manuscript, although there were major issues at the theoretical, metho... |
2021/01/12 | 2,446 | 10,348 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year Ph.D. student. In the last year of my undergrad I began a research project with my then-advisor, who planned to hand me off to his former postdoc (let's call him John) who is tenured at my current institution. I believe that John is the only researcher working in this subfield... |
2021/01/12 | 388 | 1,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I have proposed a new equation and will be implementing it into a publicly available [code](https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/17954) in the thesis. I have modified the core equation of the program (the main constitutive equation, "[Johnson Cook Model](https://images.app.goo.gl/XUgxa6W2fRYqmA4... |
2021/01/12 | 271 | 1,183 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question mainly in case I haven't foreseen any potential repercussions.
The pandemic is a contentious issue, and a particular academic in my country has been outspoken with the same view as me. I'm currently a PhD student, and would just like to send an e-mail in support to said acad... |
2021/01/12 | 1,161 | 4,985 | <issue_start>username_0: There is an internship opportunity at a prestigous institution, which I consider applying for. I do not yet have a job offer for the considered time period. I need a job/internship for financial stability. I am also applying to apply for internships in a different country, where I prefer to spe... |
2021/01/13 | 1,213 | 5,068 | <issue_start>username_0: If you copy paste a diagram from a paper/book onto your own work, without permission or attribution, that's plagiarism.
What happens if you see a beautiful diagram about what you want to explain and you replicate it identically without copy pasting?
What if you don't copy it identically but i... |
2021/01/13 | 457 | 2,138 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD research was applied mechanics. I used commercial finite element analysis software to simulate thermal spray process. My research did not involve developing any weak-form formulations or any new theoretical model. I just implemented existing models and the analysis was the novelty of my ... |
2021/01/13 | 1,563 | 6,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I was involved with a research project with a group of people. Eventually, a paper was written and was accepted by a journal. I did not agree with the content of the paper and I didn't want to be listed as a co-author, but I did not want to create bad feelings between myself and the rest of the... |
2021/01/13 | 504 | 2,218 | <issue_start>username_0: This might be a silly question, I'm doing a primary education uni degree and my subject study is computing. For our assignment, we have to create a basic website from scratch using HTML. I'm completely new to coding so I'm fumbling my way through it. I want to follow a video on coding parallax ... |
2021/01/13 | 688 | 3,005 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing a fully funded PhD in a European country. I just finished my first year. The topic is ok but i dont feel very passionate about it. I dont feel i connect with the topic even though my supervisor is a nice person. the uni is depressing and i feel lonely. Both me and my partne... |
2021/01/13 | 1,213 | 5,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a young theoretical physicist who's currently enrolled in his final year of masters studies and I've started searching for doctoral programs.
I've started applying to PhD programs which have a starting date after my graduation date. So far, I've gotten zero positive feedback which is dish... |
2021/01/13 | 1,604 | 6,507 | <issue_start>username_0: Similar questions have been asked here a number of times. I am raising it again to stress some specific issues that the previous threads have not resolved in my opinion.
The question is simply, what should the stated affiliation of a co-author who is employed in the industry be, considering th... |
2021/01/13 | 603 | 2,762 | <issue_start>username_0: I occasionally review articles for a prestigious but high-throughput journal. The most recent time, I went to check on the decision of the article, and saw that a decision of minor revision had been rendered but I was not informed. Is this a quiet way the editors have chosen to take me off of f... |
2021/01/14 | 740 | 3,289 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it enough to discuss a higher mean in one set of results than another without statistical significance (as long as you are clear that significance wasn't tested)? Can this, in your experience, result in rejection by peer-reviewers?<issue_comment>username_1: Of course I can't speak for EVERY ... |
2021/01/14 | 2,166 | 9,204 | <issue_start>username_0: In reviewing a paper I notice that the result presented there can be improved. However, the improvement may not be significant enough to appear in a good journal. Therefore, to me the best situation would be to have the authors' permission and to join the paper under review.
I would like to be... |
2021/01/14 | 1,148 | 4,740 | <issue_start>username_0: I am marking tests and a student wrote down 64 instead of -64 for one of the questions. This obviously changed the entire question and they would have gotten full marks otherwise, (i.e. all their steps are correct). They also did really well on the rest of the test. I do not know how much I sho... |
2021/01/14 | 1,213 | 4,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a funded PhD in humanities and don't really enjoy what I am doing (the topic and area). I applied for another PhD and got admitted. The problem is that I need to apply for visa and wait a few months to see if I'll be granted visa.
I don't want to leave my current position before I kn... |
2021/01/14 | 1,204 | 5,209 | <issue_start>username_0: TLDR: Can a researcher include an entire paragraph from another article for which they were a co-author on a new, single-author article?
Copy-editor for an academic journal here with an issue I've never come across before. We work with Chicago-style footnotes.
I have a solo-authored article b... |
2021/01/15 | 829 | 3,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my second year at uni.
There's a professor whose group I want to get into. My question relates to what's appropriate to send in a "hey can I join" email.
For example, this man quite recently (in the last 7 months) published a paper relating surveying different search algorithm techniqu... |
2021/01/15 | 1,567 | 6,542 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the pros and cons of living in the same shared apartment building that house faculty members?
Some pros:
1. It's an opportunity to network with faculty and spend quality time together, outside of coursework and research. BBQs, coffee, dinners.
2. We get to know each other more person... |
2021/01/15 | 1,165 | 5,044 | <issue_start>username_0: EDIT: Could the downvoter please let me know if I should improve my question in some way. For clarity, I am asking whether what I describe below is considered plagarism, and if so what the approporiate course of action to take is.
I am very concerned about an assignment I submitted recently fo... |
2021/01/16 | 3,977 | 16,040 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have had this advisor for about 8 months now. Literally all students in my department talk very highly of him: his previous graduate students (master's) have gone on to have successful careers in PhD programs or are top data scientists who earn six figures.
I just took his class this fall... |
2021/01/16 | 735 | 3,112 | <issue_start>username_0: How would I credit an author's particular article who is not cited in my text but who has influenced my work? I am not referring to any kind of general mentorship or any personal connection. According to the Chicago manual current online edition in chapter 15:
"Each entry in the reference list... |
2021/01/16 | 1,642 | 6,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to share both (1) programming codes and (2) datasets related to a research project.
While I know some suitable platforms superficially, I cannot gauge their pros and cons in too much depth because I lack experience. (In addition, many of their "About Us"-pages are not overly informative... |
2021/01/16 | 741 | 3,169 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach two medium size groups (~100 each), supervise BSc and MSc dissertations, and have ~35 tutees. When applications to postgraduate programmes open, I tend to receive a number of requests for reference letters due to a combination of several students asking me to write letters for them, and... |
2021/01/16 | 7,049 | 30,473 | <issue_start>username_0: I am giving a master course with another colleague, but since I am more experienced in the subject, I took the most difficult lectures.
My lectures contain a lot of mathematical equations and require deep knowledge in *algebra*. I tried to make them as easy as possible and even made extra vide... |
2021/01/17 | 6,823 | 29,513 | <issue_start>username_0: When reviewing a manuscript as a peer reviewer and providing written feedback on a manuscript that is clearly a Reject, how does one decide how much feedback to provide? By "clear Reject," I mean poorly written, lack of novelty, experiments not satisfactory, issues with references, etc. Should ... |
2021/01/17 | 1,286 | 5,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my Engineering PhD in 2019 and started working in a small startup. Things did not work out as expected. A few months ago I signed a job offer for a postdoc at a (great) US institution. I would have started immideately but couldn't because of visa. They applied for an H1B visa with p... |
2021/01/17 | 723 | 3,186 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in mathematics, currently working from home due to the COVID crisis. Even though , yea, pure mathematicians can work from home, but I really miss the campus and the environment which drove me to be better.
Do other mathematicians think the same on this platform?<issue_co... |
2021/01/17 | 493 | 2,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a manuscript to a journal that specifies "papers must not exceed 30 double-spaced manuscript pages, including all figures and tables." My manuscript has 37 pages. The journal asks to provide a justification statement if the manuscript exceeds the length limitations. Based on pre... |
2021/01/17 | 3,900 | 16,317 | <issue_start>username_0: I guess this a question about 'career pacing'. I am currently a first-year grad student studying for a PhD in Aerospace Engineering at a research university in the US. Even though I have only been studying this field for about 5 months, I am already starting to get quite a few ideas about inter... |
2021/01/17 | 1,002 | 4,168 | <issue_start>username_0: Would doing so go against the declaration many journals require that the author has not submitted the work anywhere else?<issue_comment>username_1: It depends on the journal. If it is not found on their web site, ask them.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: You have to carefully read to be s... |
2021/01/18 | 1,237 | 5,031 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a literature review for a project and I have come across recent papers in top journals where one of the co-authors is a famous Statistician (<NAME>, 1951 – 2016). This is an example that motivated my question, but my question applies in general. Reviews in those journals usually take... |
2021/01/18 | 1,307 | 5,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having serious trouble with my previous university email account (Office365), provided by the university where I finished my master’s studies last year (I am currently pursuing a PhD at another university in a different country). The account is still active but I am no longer using it to s... |
2021/01/18 | 3,971 | 16,570 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been thinking a lot before asking this question, but now I feel it's time to seek some advice. I started my PhD a couple of months ago and now it is almost 4 months since I put my hands on this project. I joined a very small research group (I'm the only PhD) to embark on an industrial PhD ... |
2021/01/19 | 1,525 | 6,671 | <issue_start>username_0: The title to this question is the best way I can think offhand of phrasing it - but to anyone with a more widely accepted phrasing, please feel free to edit it.
Basically it's about a common experience in research where we have had all the requisite facts for some time (in some cases for years... |
2021/01/19 | 1,513 | 6,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an invitation from Neuroscience & Brain Disorders (NBD 2021) conference to present my work as an honorable speaker. My research interests are related to the topics of this conference and I have some interesting contributions, however, I am still a PhD student and I still don't have t... |
2021/01/19 | 518 | 2,255 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Assistant Professor in the USA and I was invited to be a guest editor of a Special Issue for an international peer-reviewed Journal. I was asked to find 2 other guest editors. Can I invite my PhD student to be a guest editor? Are there any reasons not to do it? I thought it would look g... |
2021/01/19 | 1,137 | 5,119 | <issue_start>username_0: With Online Learning, I have prepared recorded videos that are equivalent to lectures. Therefore, I was planning to make the module more interactive. However, it is often the case that only 15% of students watch those lectures, 35% have watched some of the recordings, 20% attend online but have... |
2021/01/19 | 805 | 3,379 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a last year PhD international student in engineering. I have written so far 3 drafts that I need feedback + approval to submit them for publication. I delivered the first draft almost 2 years ago.
My advisor is a really nice person, but he/she is lazy and he/she won't review my papers. I a... |
2021/01/19 | 867 | 3,478 | <issue_start>username_0: In the future, I'm planning to pursue a PhD in computer science. Alongside making technical contributions to the field of computer science (artificial intelligence in particular), I'd like to give my philosophical take (or two) on where the field of artificial intelligence is headed.
My questi... |
2021/01/19 | 1,079 | 4,546 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received feedback for a university-intern seminar paper where the reviewer implicitly stated, that every academic paper needs graphics.
The paper was in the field of computer science.
I am aware, that graphics can contribute towards understanding an issue, however, for this specific... |
2021/01/19 | 6,401 | 27,198 | <issue_start>username_0: When proctoring exams, I am regularly faced with the issue of students not writing their name and/or additional required information on their exam until time is up and I am collecting the exams. This happens despite reminders at the start of the exam, 10 minutes before time as well as on the ex... |
2021/01/20 | 1,079 | 4,841 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Industrial Ph.D. and the company involved in my Ph.D. provides data for my research.
I signed an NDA with the company since the data comes from proprietary source I cannot disclose.
The main problem is that when I write articles I cannot disclose anything about this data (I am in the ... |
2021/01/20 | 687 | 2,379 | <issue_start>username_0: Thanks to Google Scholar, you can follow citations of an article you are the author.
Is there any way to that for an article you are not the author?<issue_comment>username_1: Search for the paper on google scholar in the "Search" field.
In the search results, it will say "Cited by" below each ... |
2021/01/20 | 692 | 2,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied to an economics pre-doctoral RA opportunity at a North American research university. I was asked to do a 7-hour empirical exercise, which I did (took me closer to 10 hours). Unfortunately, I was not asked to proceed in the interview process.
I did ask for feedback (or just t... |
2021/01/20 | 515 | 2,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I am filling out a reference form for a student I supervised on a medium sized project who is applying for graduate studies.
The student is great, of all that I have supervised in this way they are significantly the best on a number of metrics.
They are also the only student who has ever applie... |
2021/01/20 | 1,158 | 4,735 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got hired for a TA role as an undergrad. Normally, I would refer to a professor as *Professor LastName* if I'm talking to them in a "professor" capacity, or as *Dr. LastName* if talking to them in any other capacity. However, given the closer role I will have this semester, and that many... |
2021/01/21 | 943 | 4,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently wrote an editorial article which referenced several national (UK) reports. These are typically freely available as pdf files online via institutions like the British Medical Association, the General Medical Council and so on. They are not published articles in peer reviewed journals ... |
2021/01/21 | 2,721 | 8,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been going over a few papers from the '60s, broadly in physics sub-disciplines. The image below from 1963 shows a very typical style of plot which I've come across frequently.
I'm guessing this was made by hand with some sort of template, as the letter spacing and alignment are not perfec... |
2021/01/21 | 899 | 3,696 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there some sort of unwritten rule in academia that you shouldn't mention your own name explicitly on presentation slides? I have seen this time and time again, if you cite work in the middle of the talk and it happens to be your own work, people abbreviate their names. For example, they only... |