date stringlengths 10 10 | nb_tokens int64 60 629k | text_size int64 234 1.02M | content stringlengths 234 1.02M |
|---|---|---|---|
2021/02/12 | 1,169 | 4,994 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently had a postdoc interview (at a research institution) in which I wasn't selected. After receiving the interview outcome, I decided to directly email the panel a few weeks later asking for a feedback. One of the professors replied and invited me for a chat the following week. He said th... |
2021/02/12 | 490 | 2,025 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently an undergraduate in computer science, I am pursuing an Ms+PhD program in oceanography at some top US universities.
I recently got feedback from a PI that I had an interview with before applying, who told me that my "application was ranked highly" and "[they] are currently figuring ou... |
2021/02/13 | 1,208 | 5,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I helped my PhD supervisor to secure a funding for an 18-month project in 2019. My supervisor got the grant in April 2020 and she asked me to consider doing a postdoc under the project. I was not very keen to continue doing lab research activity, yet I still agreed to take up the postdoc becaus... |
2021/02/13 | 1,696 | 7,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a TA for a freshman course in the humanities at a US university. Due to pandemic restrictions, the class is entirely online and the medium through which students learn is Canvas. Lectures are pre-recorded by the instructor and posted to the course site, as are any reading documents or assi... |
2021/02/14 | 562 | 2,591 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a good academic word for verifiable by scientific data or experiments?
Is *empirical data* a suitable word for that?
P.S EDIT: my question is what is A single word for "derived through experimental data" (opposite to derived through observation)
I mean that word should explain that i... |
2021/02/14 | 392 | 1,679 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my article to a Scopus-indexed conference. A month later, they informed me that my paper was accepted and that all that was left to do was paying registration fees and present the paper in order to get it published. However, when I discussed this with my supervisor, he told me that ... |
2021/02/14 | 358 | 1,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking into sending out applications for M.Eng in Aerospace in Canada. I was wondering if it is necessary for me to contact a professor before applying as M.Eng is mostly project based and not research based course. And if I have to contact a professor, what is the best way to frame an em... |
2021/02/14 | 2,488 | 10,462 | <issue_start>username_0: From what I understand pre-prints have been common in some fields for many years because of some practical obvious reasons, for example very long lag time from submission to publication.
However, it is clear that publishing in pre-prints is becoming more and more popular across many fields wit... |
2021/02/15 | 1,685 | 7,283 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you are an independent researcher, with no affiliation and no famous co-author. Assume that you have authored a paper, which you believe is decently written and reports a method that is at least comparable with state of the art. Some reviewers at a reputable journal read it and acknowledge ... |
2021/02/15 | 857 | 3,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a review article on common failure modes for a certain technology and to illustrate the different failures, I want to include a range of images from other publications. I have either obtained the permission to use the images or am using images from open access articles with a creat... |
2021/02/15 | 404 | 1,469 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in Iraq and my postdoc application for a Dutch position has been accepted. Now, the PI has sent me an email:
>
> Dear XXX,
>
>
> Ms YYY (in Cc) and Ms ZZZ will now start the procedure of your
> appointment. Please let us know from which date you can be available.
> Note that it may t... |
2021/02/15 | 839 | 3,497 | <issue_start>username_0: Eastern Europe is composed of the former Warsaw Pact, plus the European part of Russia (e.g. St. Petersburg).
I believe Eastern Europe's higher education is influenced by the former USSR. On the other hand, there has always been a political tussle between the USA and Russia. Therefore, there s... |
2021/02/16 | 2,322 | 9,965 | <issue_start>username_0: For background, I'm a first year PhD student in a mathematics program. Basically, I can't tell if I'm "where I should be".
As an undergrad, I read before class and lecture felt like a nice review. As a grad student, I can read before class, spend an hour or two pouring over a few pages, unders... |
2021/02/16 | 919 | 4,014 | <issue_start>username_0: Most universities around the world are now requesting their lecturers to record lectures and post them on a repository. In my university, we use Moodle to store and share video recordings.
My question is: what are the copyirights of my uploaded videos (say in UK and/or USA)? Do I have any righ... |
2021/02/16 | 1,175 | 4,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a second year student at an American mid-ranked liberal arts college, majoring in philosophy with hopes to attend a PHD program in philosophy (in the US) and become a philosophy professor.
I have read all the advice I can find on graduating a year early, and there is some confli... |
2021/02/16 | 836 | 3,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my Master's thesis last December (2020), and it just been accepted (so in 2021), and the university will probably take many (maybe even 6) months before they actually give me the diploma (bureaucracy).
On CVs and scholarship applications, what date should I be writing? I am somewha... |
2021/02/17 | 2,141 | 9,150 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I received this comment from an Elsevier editor "The manuscript does not reach the required quality standard of this journal.". Since then have been found some answers but also raise additional questions. Like the one I making here. (You can browse the initial question following this l... |
2021/02/17 | 745 | 3,194 | <issue_start>username_0: Considering situations where an individual academic track record is to be evaluated - whether by grant panel, job interview panel, promotion panel etc.
If the individual were to make a statement along the lines of
>
> Prior to [date] I was suffering from an undiagnosed long
> term health con... |
2021/02/17 | 499 | 2,137 | <issue_start>username_0: On their CV, how should an associate professor go about making a bullet point accomplishment that they "designed / wrote / created / produced" student exams? that is, devised several pages of questions (and corresponding answers) meant to test students' knowledge about the subject or sub-field.... |
2021/02/17 | 1,028 | 4,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a postdoc interview at the end of the month. I found a researcher's profile that's been working on the same research project I applied for. I am thinking of sending her an email or a LinkedIn message (I've already connected with her). But I don't know if that's ethical to do that or not,... |
2021/02/17 | 726 | 2,870 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now in panic. One of my paper got accepted by journal. However, I am stuck with the copyright from two figures I have used in my research paper. These two figures ( these two from open access internet source and free to the public). I just simply thought that I will acknowledge/reference t... |
2021/02/17 | 505 | 1,811 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted paper to a journal of Elsevier. Now it has been 1 month from submission with status: "with editor".
Is this normal? And should I contact the journal to ask about the long time of that status?<issue_comment>username_1: Normally, this is something you would normally arrange before the... |
2021/02/17 | 668 | 2,811 | <issue_start>username_0: 29 year old male, considering applying for PHD programs that begin 2021 or else 2022.
Have I left it too late to apply for a PHD that begins in 2021? I know this question is fairly general, but it seems that in the U.S, deadlines for most PHD programs have passed. I'm curious if it's the same ... |
2021/02/17 | 1,251 | 5,080 | <issue_start>username_0: I have dropped out of 2 MSc in CSE programs because of my health issues and lack of proper math background.
You can check the full story from my previous question.
* [What should I do now to go ahead and restart my aspirations to become an appropriate candidate for a Ph.D. program?](https://a... |
2021/02/18 | 1,407 | 6,013 | <issue_start>username_0: About my background:
I finished my master's six months ago with a `cum laude` in Europe (A tier 1 university) and my research was very theoretical and I did invest a lot of thought into it. I like it a lot. Even though it was challenging, I was motivated. Therefore, I like to research a lot, I... |
2021/02/18 | 1,111 | 4,628 | <issue_start>username_0: My Master's thesis is due in a week and I am currently writing up all of my results. To my horror, I have just found a paper that seems to explore virtually the same concept as I do, although they appear to generate results that differ slightly from my own. How should I treat this? In my defens... |
2021/02/18 | 695 | 3,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm International Student applying for technical courses to universities in the UK and the USA, this might seem like a frequently asked question but I'm genuinely curious in knowing whether a Statement of Purpose (SOP) does carry any weightage when you meet the minimum requirements for Graduate... |
2021/02/18 | 774 | 3,384 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider that a paper is published in a journal. It contains some insignificant errors which are not worth asking for an erratum. I was wondering in such a case would it be acceptable to fix those errors in the preprint version (for example on arXiv.org)? Since in this case it will be sort of a... |
2021/02/18 | 853 | 3,696 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I want to be a college professor, but the field I am interested in is known for having an unbelievably bad job market (worse than usual). We're talking people coming out of top 5 programs not being able to find jobs at liberal arts colleges. To add, let's say I would prefer to be work... |
2021/02/19 | 2,374 | 9,925 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently halfway through my first postdoc (a two-year position). I have a Ph.D. in physics, published 3 papers during it, and since this postdoc is in a slightly different field, I still haven't published anything.
I am moderately comfortable in my original field, meaning that if I work ... |
2021/02/19 | 530 | 1,962 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to add this plot to my article but it has lots of colors which I'm not in favor of. This figure represents a continuous value as a function of the number of sources that has been calculated for two different categorical parameters (prior knowledge and number of voxels). I appreciat... |
2021/02/19 | 1,357 | 5,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my masters in mathematics in my home country in June 2020. I didn't had success in 4th semester of my masters with PhD Applications. So, I thought I would try next year in both my home country and abroad (Europe). I didn't apply earlier to any of my home country's universities.
So,... |
2021/02/19 | 1,472 | 6,367 | <issue_start>username_0: *Edit: I rewrote the question based on the [associated discussion on meta](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4871/93566)*.
Context
-------
Google created a ["knowledge panel"](https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9163198?hl=en) about me which appears when my name is search... |
2021/02/19 | 701 | 3,081 | <issue_start>username_0: To be specific, my application field is physics. And I am from a country where students are aggressive on standardized tests like gre's since we put much emphasis on training for these tests. I was talking with peers about whether to send my Physics GRE score to my target physics schools which ... |
2021/02/19 | 330 | 1,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I've received an offer from university A and I'm waiting for a decision from university B (both prestigious).
Would it be sensible to inform university B about my offer from university A and tell them that I would still be interested in their program, or would university B think that I would p... |
2021/02/20 | 1,030 | 4,653 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD supervisor discourages me from initiating a collaboration with people outside of our group. He never explicitly told me that I could not do it, but I can realize it from his reactions (e.g., digressing the conversation, asking me to wait for now, or suggesting me to talk to someone in th... |
2021/02/20 | 1,107 | 3,968 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming you add one master's degree (*Master of Science*) like that:
```
FirstName LastName, M.Sc.
```
What is a proper way to add two independent1 master's degrees (both *Master of Science*)? Do you just add them both to the end?
```
FirstName LastName, M.Sc., M.Sc.
```
1 independent: D... |
2021/02/20 | 1,816 | 6,688 | <issue_start>username_0: Do research papers have a Public Domain Expiration Date? simmilar of what happens to literature books
For example, let's consider a research paper of <NAME>: ***XVIII.—Experiments on Colour, as perceived by the Eye, with Remarks on Colour-Blindness***, it is stored in here: [link to www.cambri... |
2021/02/21 | 1,406 | 5,580 | <issue_start>username_0: (Preface: I'm just an undergraduate, so none of this actually matters; it just seemed an interesting case study.)
About years ago, a lab published a very unexpected result (in, I should add, a predatory journal).
Last year, another lab produced some evidence to support the paper (in, I should... |
2021/02/21 | 820 | 3,490 | <issue_start>username_0: Some background on me:
I graduated in 2020 with my BS in Accounting with a minor in Mathematical Sciences from a non-special public university. I decided I wanted to make an educational career change with only 1.5 years of undergrad schooling left. Mathematics courses I took in that time were c... |
2021/02/21 | 2,651 | 11,263 | <issue_start>username_0: Last week, I had a postdoc interview for a "senior" role. They call it senior because they've asked me to lead on a (perhaps the) research problem. For the interview, they asked me to prepare a 10 minutes presentation where I propose a research plan. My presentation focused on a particular case... |
2021/02/21 | 549 | 2,275 | <issue_start>username_0: With the pandemic going on, most schools have either decided to make both GRE and its subject tests optional. In all likelihood, would there be a big chance that this is the finishing hammer for the GRE, and make a lot of institutions move away from it?<issue_comment>username_1: This will vary ... |
2021/02/21 | 385 | 1,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a computer science paper, and as part of what I did, I have a set of tests I used to evaluate my results against existing methods.
In terms of preliminary raw data, I have tables of hundreds of values of which I then take statistical parameters (e.g. mean and standard deviation).
... |
2021/02/22 | 678 | 3,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a review from a reputed Elsevier journal. There're three reviewers, one decided recommend acceptation, other recommended a minor revision and the last one recommended a major revision.
Overall, is it a major or minor revision then?<issue_comment>username_1: It's up to the editor to make ... |
2021/02/22 | 2,334 | 9,922 | <issue_start>username_0: A master's student did research under an advisor. As part of the research, the student had collected and processed a lot of data and finally *published the thesis as well*. After a few years, the advisor took a small portion of said data from the master's thesis and published a paper. The stude... |
2021/02/22 | 837 | 3,224 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been sending emails (in English) to the "visitor's program" of an institute in Germany. Initially, only one person used to reply to these emails, and I addressed this person.
Recently, two more people started replying from the same account (and they seem to reply in some random order). ... |
2021/02/22 | 1,828 | 7,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a second year computer science PhD student. I switched research areas during my third semester and did an independent study with Professor X. He basically gave me a bunch of papers and textbooks to read so I could get up to speed on the field and told me to ask questions as they come up. Th... |
2021/02/23 | 1,683 | 7,199 | <issue_start>username_0: Several years ago, I did a summer project as an undergrad with a PI not at my undergrad institution (I'm in grad school now). Now, the project is finished and he wants to publish it with data that I've gathered.
The problem is, after checking my data, that the spreadsheets that I used to calcu... |
2021/02/23 | 519 | 2,193 | <issue_start>username_0: So here is my situation: I am applying for a PhD for Fall 2022. Not too long I found ago that my ex boyfriend had used my name online to post all kinds of crap. This includes revenge porn, as well as racist and anti-semitic comments. I have filed police reports, but all of this is still attache... |
2021/02/23 | 436 | 1,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a Springer conference and it has been published. The publisher will charge 24.95$ to anyone who would eventually download my paper and 201 copies of my research sold by Springer official site.
**How much percentage royalty do I get from Springer (as the paper's auth... |
2021/02/23 | 1,325 | 4,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I wish to cite a research paper by <NAME> from 1928 that is titled (very) slightly differently in the front/back matter of the journal versus the first page of the article: in the [front](https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKWG01:022157001:00007)/[back](https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKWG... |
2021/02/23 | 1,506 | 6,335 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a graduate student who's currently working on an experiment involving some animals. I have two separate places where I keep my animals, and one of them is in a locked section of a lab (which is only accessible by myself, my PI, and a few other investigators).
A few weeks ago when I came in... |
2021/02/23 | 931 | 3,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I am taking a math course this semester and the problems that are given to us on a weekly basis require less than half a page to solve. The path to the proof is relatively straightforward, using the things we learned in class. However, my professor is accusing me of cheating because my proofs l... |
2021/02/24 | 850 | 3,538 | <issue_start>username_0: I uploaded my thesis to a Turnitin ID which my friend got from some other university than where I am studying. Due to some reason, my thesis got uploaded to Turnitin repository and the university is very far away from my home. I made a blunder mistake.
Now I have to make my thesis submission t... |
2021/02/24 | 490 | 2,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year Ph.D. student/ RA from a university in country A. I had no problem with my laboratory or supervisor; however, as I could not speak the country language and was not able to find a post-doc position due to COVID, I applied for another Ph.D. positions in the same field in an Eng... |
2021/02/24 | 765 | 2,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I never saw a paper published in a journal of (pure) math with more than six authors. Is it a rule?
(see [this one](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10468-019-09873-9))<issue_comment>username_1: **No**: Authorship is governed by the number of contributing mathematicians, rather than some arbitrary l... |
2021/02/24 | 2,393 | 10,387 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday I applied to a bunch of internships and sent my professor a request for a recommendation letter. He denied me the request, and sent my request email, along with his reply, to everyone in the lab. He wrote that he didn't understand why I would apply for a research internship in (our re... |
2021/02/24 | 706 | 3,188 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the minor and major concerns that the reviewer should be concerned about and what improvement suggestions should they take in mind when reviewing a survey/review paper?
Are their duties for checking the language of the writing? Are they to check for the figures are in sufficient resol... |
2021/02/24 | 536 | 2,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I apologize if this is specific to the field or professor, I'm still figuring out academia.StackExchange. Just flag me if it's a bad question. If it matters, I'm studying Electrical and Computer Engineering.
I've recently been accepted to some Ph.D. programs. I also happen to have no internshi... |
2021/02/25 | 1,802 | 7,934 | <issue_start>username_0: My research, which in my opinion, is quite important, has unfortunately been getting noticed by people who has previously ignored them and systematically avoided to cite them.
This is not ideal for me! Because I want to remain as virtually anonymous for as long as possible so I don't get scoop... |
2021/02/25 | 1,181 | 5,178 | <issue_start>username_0: Is doing well in the standard core undergraduate math courses (complex analysis up to the Riemann mapping theorem, abstract algebra including Galois theory, point-set topology, and algebraic topology, as well as integration on real manifolds and Stokes' theorem) good enough to get into a top-20... |
2021/02/25 | 1,750 | 7,652 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student enrolled in one of the top universities. I was working on a research problem. And, it turns out that my results are not of as high quality as one would expect from a student from my university. I am planning to submit the paper to a low-tier conference and if submitted, thi... |
2021/02/25 | 1,875 | 7,792 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I'm on the dreaded waitlist (PoI says I am "near the very top" of the list) for my top choice PhD program and naturally I've spent the past couple days driving myself nuts trying to game the process out.
As I understand it there are two general approaches a grad adcom might take: 1) making... |
2021/02/25 | 730 | 3,337 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an undergraduate student who has been working in my lab for quite some time, doing relatively advanced work and has even been able to mentor other students in getting up to speed in the workings of the lab and the methods we use. I never had this student in a class, but they approached m... |
2021/02/25 | 647 | 2,758 | <issue_start>username_0: How would you respond if an advisor writes a chapter of your thesis for you and asks you to rewrite what they wrote? Something seems wrong but I can't pinpoint it. It seems like a grey area. What are the potential plagiarism implications if I do this? And how can a student rewrite it any better... |
2021/02/26 | 941 | 4,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing up my PhD thesis and have the following issue. I wrote a paper during the PhD thesis, the result of which was developed further by third parties without my involvement. From the perspective of my published paper, this new result lies in the future and is of course not men... |
2021/02/26 | 1,261 | 5,439 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student with only two papers published in peer-reviewed journals all within the same journal.
One of them was published due to a deal between a conference I was in and the publisher. The other one is a critique of a paper that was published there, hence it makes sense to be on the sa... |
2021/02/26 | 818 | 3,624 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently learned about the National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom (UK NARIC). It's a UK agency that assesses international academic qualifications.
According to UK NARIC, a Master's degree from my country is at best equivalent to a British Bachelor's Degree with Honou... |
2021/02/26 | 913 | 3,906 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the early stages of my career (post PhD) and I would like to referee papers to (1) get the experience and (2) be exposed to unpublished writing to learn to improve upon my own writing.
How do you become a referee? Can you register?
Edit: I'm not asking about reviewing.<issue_comment>u... |
2021/02/26 | 612 | 2,501 | <issue_start>username_0: This fall I started a tenure track position. They offered me a very good start-up package. Half of it was state money for buying equipment and the other half was for course release, research assistants, travel and etc. Also I had a promise for spouse support and that had huge impact on acceptin... |
2021/02/27 | 1,063 | 4,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach a language course on 1st year BA level. The students should be able to translate basic sentences, and this is to be tested in a written exam. I'm looking for resources on how to design the exam. I have already made an assessment matrix and determined the weight of the translation exerci... |
2021/02/27 | 380 | 1,628 | <issue_start>username_0: Is publishing in open access journal a good impression ? I mean publishing in such journals (where one has to pay money), will it be valuable compared to other journals ?<issue_comment>username_1: For academic reputation purposes, publishing in a *reputable* open access journal is fine. I'm ass... |
2021/02/27 | 7,298 | 28,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing this from the perspective of a mathematician. I am wondering whether there is any research on the standard mode of instruction.
Mathematics lectures, at least in my home country, typically work as follows: the prof starts writing on the blackboard (or whiteboard) while telling abo... |
2021/02/28 | 581 | 2,452 | <issue_start>username_0: I made a huge mistake of working in a field different than my advisor's expertise. My PhD research was in computational modeling of 3D printing process using finite element analysis.
While my advisor's expertise is in density functional theory and molecular dynamics simulations. She works on b... |
2021/02/28 | 379 | 1,675 | <issue_start>username_0: I am willing to apply for advertised PHD position in Sweden. In the instructions to apply they have mentioned about the required documents which include CV, cover letter, transcripts. I have two questions regarding this
1. They have not asked for a separate statement of purpose (SOP). So, shou... |
2021/02/28 | 515 | 2,209 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as a researcher in a research lab, and I want to apply for a Ph.D. position. I have read that most of the professors read emails sent through professional email-id only. But my current professional email id is restricted to be used in the research lab only. What should I do to make... |
2021/02/28 | 1,827 | 7,612 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from my MSc two and a half years ago, so I have been outside of the University environment for a while.
I have recently started working on some novel machine learning techniques. Writing an article by myself and submitting it to a prestigious journal is no joke. I'm wondering: how ... |
2021/02/28 | 1,943 | 8,032 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm a first year PhD student in the UK working on an applied mathematics project. Excluding weekends I put in about 37/40 hours a week of work which leaves me pretty tired to say the least.
Normally I'll also work on weekends to keep the momentum going but lately I've been feeling really bu... |
2021/02/28 | 353 | 1,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading a review paper which cited another paper, however for the life of me I cannot seem to find any hits on the cited paper. The author, title and journal return nothing on the usual sources (Google mainly). What is the best course of action to go about finding such a paper?
The citat... |
2021/02/28 | 829 | 3,685 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematician but want to do a PhD in mathematical physics focusing on gauge-gravity duality and more generally quantum gravity, what is the most appropriate PhD choice to do research in this field, is it an astrophysics (cosmology) PhD or a particle physics one?
I am looking for a prog... |
2021/02/28 | 812 | 3,439 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a post which asks me
you ever part of government entity like federal/state/local government entities including publicly funded universities.
I was a research assistant with fellowship in a department under the state university.
So is this an Yes?
There is question here: [A... |
2021/03/01 | 766 | 3,029 | <issue_start>username_0: [U.S. doubles down on protecting university research from China](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-universities/u-s-doubles-down-on-protecting-university-research-from-china-idUSKCN2AT0WB)
Apparently the US is taking action to "prevent sensitive technology from being stolen by the C... |
2021/03/01 | 812 | 3,450 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked on an idea and got new results. I came across a very prestigious conference that calls for poster abstracts. I sent mine and it was accepted for a poster presentation.
Should I present it there or it is better to publish it as a paper first?
What are the pros and cons of submitting m... |
2021/03/01 | 1,285 | 5,458 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a long list of stories about the issues with my PhD supervisor here in Academia.SE (see it [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/98164/alone-programmer?tab=questions) but these are not the only ones). So, I'm not going to repeat why I'm leaving my current research group. Las... |
2021/03/01 | 1,523 | 6,395 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently found that the largest share of students in program X at my school do not need to take classes on topic ABC, even though topic ABC is considered as critical and fundamental by virtually everybody in the field. (Think of physics but no mechanics class)
In fact, I can't believe anybod... |
2021/03/02 | 1,865 | 8,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student taking a course sequence with my Ph.D. advisor. The first class of the sequence went really well, however, the second class is not going as well. The most notable instance is I copied down a problem incorrectly from the homework prompt. This is the firs... |
2021/03/02 | 671 | 3,083 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the past few years, I have written a lot of job applications for permanent academic positions. None of these have been successful. I have been interviewed a few times, but mostly I have received either no reply or a very standard rejection letter.
A handful of the rejection letters contai... |
2021/03/02 | 654 | 2,534 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to write a paper. We have done certain experiments and results from it are good. So, I feel that if our idea can be implemented in other sites, it can benefit those sites. Now my question is simple, how can I write in scientific context that the results of my study is useful to othe... |
2021/03/02 | 921 | 4,010 | <issue_start>username_0: When choosing a research topic, many researchers (in the field of psychology, in my case) often choose to study a topic they find interesting or have experience in. Does this introduce more potential for bias in their work?
I have done this myself. I am doing research into an area that I also ... |
2021/03/02 | 1,328 | 5,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that a 'Chair' is a traditional title of a professor in the UK.
Nowadays, what is the difference, if any, between a Chair and a Professor in the UK?<issue_comment>username_1: It is the difference between the role or job and the person who is doing that job.
The person has achieve... |
2021/03/02 | 1,412 | 6,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a three-part question:
***First***, if I am the first author of a research manuscript, as previously discussed with, and agreed by, both the second author and corresponding author(s), then due to some concerns about the paper content, **am I legally allowed to unilaterally decide to del... |
2021/03/02 | 3,738 | 15,897 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year PhD student studying at a prestigious university in the UK. My main supervisor recruited me 2 years ago just because he is interested in my field and hopes to develop a new direction for his research center. I have 3 supervisors but none of them has expertise in my current fi... |
2021/03/02 | 3,661 | 15,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked before as a freelancer writer where I would review some tech products (phones, websites, online services... etc) and post them on YouTube (channels which I do not control), and both my voice and picture were appearing in these videos.
Now that I graduated from my Masters program, I wa... |
2021/03/02 | 1,240 | 4,677 | <issue_start>username_0: In France, the following are two of the main ways people get promoted in academic positions:
1. Maître de Conférences (assistant professor whose responsibilities include teaching as well as research) -> professeur (professor)
and
2. Chargé de recherche (in charge of research) -> Directeur de... |
2021/03/02 | 1,674 | 6,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year social sciences PhD student in the UK. A professor reached out to me and asked if I am interested in a three-day consultant work for their project and if so, what my day rate is. I am definitely interested in the opportunity but I am not sure how much the day rate is as I have... |
2021/03/02 | 789 | 3,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview with a potential Ph.D. supervisor, and along the way, he asked whether I am intending to apply to other similar Ph.D. programs? I said: *Yes, but that's because I don't know how admissions work.*
Was that a good answer? What is supposed to be done in such situations?
Also, ... |
2021/03/03 | 451 | 1,928 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a phd candidate in education. My doctoral program takes 3 years. However, I have worked very hard and got several publications that sole-authored. My supervisor thinks that I can finish my phd in 2 years and a few months, but I am not sure about this move. Most of eminent scholars that I l... |
2021/03/03 | 638 | 2,575 | <issue_start>username_0: Where can I find a professor to review my doctoral thesis? My current professor has a turnaround of 5 to 6 weeks before getting back to me with suggested revisions. I was hoping to hire someone to give me quicker feedback and reduce the time my professor needs to review my doc.<issue_comment>us... |
2021/03/03 | 1,051 | 4,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a conference paper (an IEEE conf, if that matters) in which I include a piece of code. Pertaining to the license of the code, should I, at the beginning of the code, write something like
```
-- Author: <NAME>, 2021.
-- License: MIT License. ------> this
-- Below is code... |
2021/03/03 | 806 | 3,284 | <issue_start>username_0: Good Day - I am writing a review paper of some techniques, which involve mathematical models. The authors utilize some equations to represent their model comprised of different components. Since I need to explain their methodology, its not possible to do it without referring to their equations.... |