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2021/05/11 | 3,920 | 17,068 | <issue_start>username_0: I ask you this question that will seem trivial but having no experience in this regard and not having found specific information I do not know what to do.
I am writing my master's thesis in Computer Engineering, and sometimes I use short concepts (for example a 10-word sentence) reworking it a... |
2021/05/11 | 560 | 2,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently looking at the rates of PhD revocations of people who were found to have plagiarized large portions of their PhD theses by [Vroniplag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VroniPlag_Wiki), and it isn't that high.
Most people that were found by sites like Vroniplag whose PhDs weren't re... |
2021/05/12 | 3,644 | 14,622 | <issue_start>username_0: The graduate teaching assistant I'm interested in taught one of my introductory courses. She needed research assistants, so I decided to join her lab. From all this we became very close. Ever since the end of that semester, we talk nonstop. It's been more than a year since I was in her class, b... |
2021/05/12 | 439 | 1,810 | <issue_start>username_0: First, I know this question has been asked already [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/148648/about-listing-papers-under-review-in-your-cv) but was never answered.
I am applying for an assistant professorship position (in CS) and due to overloaded teaching duties over the last ... |
2021/05/12 | 2,234 | 9,685 | <issue_start>username_0: In India, the faculty have a provision of consecutive holidays for at-least 15 days to 3 months based on the college. After the completion of final exams of a semester/year, these holidays are given by institution to both faculty and students before the start of a new semester/year.
Almost all... |
2021/05/12 | 1,086 | 4,382 | <issue_start>username_0: A person (30-35 y/o) has an M.A. in History and drives Uber. Now, he wants to study M.Sc. in CS/CSE in Canada for better employment.
What/how would be the **pathway** to accomplish that in the **shortest possible time period** in Canada?
Can/Must he complete/appear for General Education Devel... |
2021/05/12 | 1,523 | 6,111 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary:** Signed a contract with school A while waiting for decisions from school B. Now got offer from B, and want to back out of the signed contract with A
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What is the best strategy to back out a tenure track faculty offer and minimize its negative impact on both sides?
I am in an a... |
2021/05/12 | 513 | 2,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been struggling with the placement of a figure in my essay (using APA style if that helps). Basically, I reference it in a paragraph that is fairly close to the bottom of the page, but probably has about 5 more lines until the bottom. The problem is, I want to put the figure below the para... |
2021/05/12 | 852 | 3,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student on an F-1 visa in the United States and planning to pursue a PhD in mathematics. I've been looking into career options after graduation, and lots of people from my current undergraduate program who have gone on to complete PhD's (especially in pure math) have becom... |
2021/05/13 | 725 | 2,650 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it true that research (Ph.D...) in some fields requires more work and are harder than others ?
For example to publish an article in computer science is it more difficult than to do in telecommunications ?
Thanks.<issue_comment>username_1: H1B visas in the United States are intended for [spe... |
2021/05/13 | 393 | 1,603 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** CS Undergraduate applying for Fall 2022 session. (MS/PhD CS USA)
Knowing (and for obvious reasons) that it is "easier (higher chances)" to get into a masters program than a PhD Program:
**Question:** Should I apply for a PhD program at a lower ranked school than apply to a hig... |
2021/05/13 | 426 | 1,739 | <issue_start>username_0: Challenge: I need to read a lot of documentations and websites, but often in random order. I need to track which articles of a website, or which pages of a documentation I already read. I want to mark pages as complete after reading, and read nothing twice.
So far I found no efficient tracking... |
2021/05/13 | 299 | 1,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I was invited to give a presentation in a lunch symposium of an important national medical conference. The symposium was sponsored by a pharmaceutical company (my talk was unrelated to their product).
Would this constitute an invited talk in my cv (or keep it a secret)?<issue_comment>username_... |
2021/05/14 | 1,044 | 4,634 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a response from the editor in chief saying that he cannot recommend my manuscript for publication. But he encourages me to address all the 4 reviewers' comments and resubmit a substantial revision.
The manuscript was submitted the first time by the "second" author who used to be my ... |
2021/05/14 | 1,233 | 4,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to inquire professors regarding whether they accept masters students for graduate research assistant and I'm having trouble phrasing the email. If anyone could take a look and provide comment, that would be wonderful. Also just fyi the professor that I am applying to her field is wit... |
2021/05/14 | 810 | 3,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied to a postdoc position in Norway, this was an advertised role in an engineering department rather than a fellowship application. I had a brief email exchange with the hiring professor in advance and they thought I would be a suitable candidate and encouraged me to apply.
The ... |
2021/05/14 | 1,607 | 6,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been accused of cheating on my math final. I did not cheat. There was no "trial" and the only evidence is that (1) my hands were out of the frame, and (2) my work "looked like a machine did it." The professor gave me a zero on the final, which gave me a D in the course.
Now she is offer... |
2021/05/14 | 279 | 1,119 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a PhD program. What does mean when one requirement is "Outstanding academic record".<issue_comment>username_1: * Have you (co-)published a peer-reviewed article?
* Have you presented at a scholarly conference?
* Have you served as a research assistant?
* Have you served ... |
2021/05/14 | 736 | 3,462 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student and recently I solved an important problem in my domain. Unfortunately, the paper got rejected stating that the results are interesting but incremental.
I discussed this issue with my peers. They said that they have gone through the similar rejection scenarios.
This thing... |
2021/05/15 | 204 | 831 | <issue_start>username_0: Am I simply being impatient? It's a computer science/biomedical journal. Don't want to seem pushy, yet it seems like it shouldn't take 3 weeks to see if a manuscript is within scope and decide whether to send it for review. It's been sitting at the "with editor" status with no status updates.<i... |
2021/05/15 | 2,222 | 8,973 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I was taking my exam, and there were two questions I really had no clue on, and I was running out of time on. So I quickly went to a website and posted pictures of my exam questions and asked for answers. I immediately regretted doing so, and went to delete them, when I realized, it wasn’t ... |
2021/05/15 | 1,253 | 5,512 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that a physicist has discovered that the presence of **X** causes **Y** in a certain kind of systems. So they go a step ahead and try to work on a similar idea of **X** being the cause of **Y** in a *little* different kind of systems and it takes them months to arrive at the results.
... |
2021/05/15 | 323 | 1,310 | <issue_start>username_0: I learned from [this thread](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/3628/22560) that review articles are often written by experienced scholars, but I wonder if a graduate student can publish a tutorial as his/her first publication? For instance, [Tutorial on Variational Autoencoders](https://arxi... |
2021/05/15 | 797 | 3,513 | <issue_start>username_0: Finished my MRes recently. My supervisor has told me that their ex-PhD student (graduated a year and a half ago) had some results in their thesis that they hadn't published. He asked me to complete some additional lab work and tweak a draft paper the student had put together, then I could be lo... |
2021/05/15 | 706 | 2,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know if a research lab at a university should normally include specific roles in order to be considered a lab ?
I explain, for a newly joining Ph.D. student, i expect the lab to include a post-doc and at least other Ph.Ds, is it reasonable expectations ?
Thanks for clarifying this.<i... |
2021/05/15 | 777 | 3,471 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am in 4th year of my Ph.D. and my area of research is very big and quite active. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever written a survey paper that could summarize the important results of the last 20 years. A few survey papers that I have found till now, span ... |
2021/05/16 | 833 | 3,667 | <issue_start>username_0: My friend has taken a unusual route in academia. She first did a bachelor and PhD in electrical engineering, fully funded by her scholarship. However, she told me that she has little interest in engineering, and only did it to please her parents. Her real interest is in art history. Hence, two ... |
2021/05/16 | 1,257 | 5,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll soon be leaving the faculty position I've held for over 20 years at a private college in the United States. Do departing faculty typically keep books that might have been purchased with university funds? After all of this time, it's hard to know which books I paid for, which were given to ... |
2021/05/17 | 1,695 | 7,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in an unbeneficial situation with my PhD supervisor/advisor. At the beginning of my PhD, I've targeted non-top but reasonable venues for my papers and quickly succeeded with 3 publications. Since then, my supervisor has encouraged me to target top-10 Computer Science conferences ... |
2021/05/17 | 732 | 3,109 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it better to have a publication in a high/medium-rank journal co-authored with a very famous professor or would it be better to publish the same paper solo, in a lower-ranked journal?
I am asking this considering the fact that sometimes, writing a paper with an expert in the field opens doo... |
2021/05/17 | 1,027 | 4,526 | <issue_start>username_0: Some background first.
I recently graduated (a couple years ago) with a Master's in applied mathematics. During grad school I began working on a paper, which I continued to work on in my free time post-graduation. A complete rough draft of the paper is nearly done and is ~115 pages in length. ... |
2021/05/17 | 1,160 | 4,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoctoral researcher in physics in the USA right now (my Ph.D. is in physical chemistry). I want to move to Germany and eventually become a research professor. I am aware that one route I could take is by applying for Junior Professor positions, but my understanding is that a Habilitat... |
2021/05/17 | 2,686 | 11,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview where I was asked to tell the committee about a situation where I had a conflict with one of my previous supervisors.
I told them the truth, which is "I have never had a conflict with any of my supervisor before". But they gave me a couple of minutes to think carefully so ma... |
2021/05/18 | 1,223 | 5,013 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 2 last names due to my hispanic background. Soon, I will have to think about my very first publication (field: Medicine/Psychology). Could I use only the first last name for my publishing or will I get into legal trouble with that?
My goal is to avoid hassles after marriage, since we ar... |
2021/05/18 | 484 | 2,084 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated university (UK University) a couple of years ago with a first. My friend is currently enrolled at the same university and was struggling with an assignment I had completed and still had a copy of. I let him have a look at it to help him but he ended up copying some of it and it was ... |
2021/05/18 | 935 | 3,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student at a large public university in the US. I am working on completing my defense and trying to graduate before the end of the summer term. I found out recently, rather accidentally, that the university's official account had blocked me on social media. This is presumably becau... |
2021/05/19 | 651 | 2,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I published a paper, the code for which is uploaded in GitHub.
Is it possible to add the GitHub link as an entry in Google Scholar? If so, can the citations be monitored in the same way as regular publications?<issue_comment>username_1: Google indexes things by crawling the internet, you don't... |
2021/05/19 | 638 | 2,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got a paper published. One of the affiliations (for the 4th author, more precisely) is right but it has a misspelling in the address of his university. The right address is "University X, Street y, no.1780" but we published as "University X, Street y, no.1879". Is it problematic enou... |
2021/05/19 | 1,309 | 5,431 | <issue_start>username_0: As a Ph.D. student in Germany, what's the maximum allowed holiday time per year?
I heard of 1 month per year.
Thanks.<issue_comment>username_1: The answer will be specified in your job contract, stipend agreement or whatever source you get money from. Most PhD students in Germany are employed ... |
2021/05/19 | 485 | 2,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted an article containing several images from other publications. I made sure to give the appropriate attribution both for open access images (including stating e.g. CC BY 4.0), as well as those I asked permission for. From those sources I had to ask permission for, some had cl... |
2021/05/19 | 1,087 | 4,520 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals require authors to submit a photograph and a short biography to go along with the publication.
The question I have is: Would it strike you as weird if said biography had a gender neutral tone, using "they/them" pronouns? As in, could a non-binary author that is not out use those ... |
2021/05/19 | 1,458 | 6,157 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me start with the following remark (which surely I am not the first person to bring up). When things work as it should, to get a job one usually needs to prove that one is competent in doing that job. For instance, for teaching at any level between primary school to high school, you need to... |
2021/05/19 | 1,429 | 5,780 | <issue_start>username_0: During my childhood, I have had ADHD. My last visit with a psychologist was over a year ago and he said ADHD is gone and now is filled with anxiety. I agree that I might be anxious sometimes.
My problem is one thing: There are things, courses I do not like, and do my best to procrastinate them ... |
2021/05/19 | 1,062 | 4,013 | <issue_start>username_0: As a researcher, I often need to quote from the previous authors. Sometimes, it happens that there are spelling mistakes in the part I want to quote. I treat this as a human error and write the correct spelling. However, I am unsure how should I handle if there is some (relatively) serious erro... |
2021/05/19 | 1,333 | 5,589 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new assistant professor. My department is very weird — a combination of very different fields. An associate professor sent out invitations for her students' dissertation defense to all the faculties in my department. Should I attend them?
She is not in my research field and none of the ... |
2021/05/20 | 923 | 3,826 | <issue_start>username_0: Per title. Undergraduate tuition often costs tens of thousands of dollars per year, but postgraduates are commonly paid a stipend. Not a lot of money, but still much better than having to pay for tuition too.
Why do undergraduates pay, but postgraduates are paid? A first guess is that postgrad... |
2021/05/20 | 1,181 | 5,047 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a very objective person and I don't mind constructive criticism.
I have submitted a research paper to an IEEE journal with high reputation.
The co-authors of this paper have broad experience in this field with hundreds of peer-reviewed publications. Hence, the paper is of good quality.
I... |
2021/05/20 | 796 | 3,112 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say in a paper when I am talking about a theorem someone else proved, I state the result in the exact same way, word for word, as in their paper. Is this considered plagiarism? I would still give credit and citation to the result, just that I don't paraphrase the statement.<issue_comment>... |
2021/05/20 | 947 | 3,788 | <issue_start>username_0: My question has some similarities to [Should I omit some of my qualifications in my application materials to “surprise” with during an interview?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/36824/should-i-omit-some-of-my-qualifications-in-my-application-materials-to-surprise). However, in my ... |
2021/05/20 | 523 | 2,017 | <issue_start>username_0: For ATER positions in France, is the teaching always in French or it depends on the university? I've written to one or two departmental contacts for ATER position, but they replied that the teaching was in French, so I ask.
If I've to look for a teaching position in France at a university leve... |
2021/05/20 | 764 | 3,335 | <issue_start>username_0: Do any of the academic search engines provide a way to limit a free text search to just those papers which are cited by a particular paper? In normal google, as an analogy, you can append `site:bbc.co.uk` to your search string to only get results from the bbc.co.uk web site. I have checked the ... |
2021/05/20 | 764 | 3,280 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 3rd year physics PhD doing high energy theory.
This field has two large communities -- phenomenology and formal theory. I am interested in formal theories.
Faculties hired with either background join the theory direction of the department. Not until I had already fixed my advisor, I fo... |
2021/05/20 | 614 | 2,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working as software developer in a company. I had filed one patent and published one research paper. I want to apply for Master's in a top university (like NUS at Singapore or German universities) next year. I am working on some new IOT projects and deep learning ideas. What is more benefi... |
2021/05/20 | 783 | 3,266 | <issue_start>username_0: Many of the students I teach do not have English as their first language. Also, my English tends to fall on the British (Australian) side of the divide, and I'm teaching in US institutions. Sometimes, this has led to misunderstandings of exam questions during standard exam conditions.
The pand... |
2021/05/20 | 1,738 | 7,240 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't think I have a concrete question to ask but I want to hear other researchers' opinions. I am pretty sure that there are many researchers who went through this and others will go through it in the future unfortunately.
I am a postdoc researcher with a limited contract and aim to apply f... |
2021/05/20 | 1,656 | 6,802 | <issue_start>username_0: I have created a course independent of the community college I substitute for. I contacted the CE department about a year ago to see if my course would be something I could offer as a CE course at the college. They were excited and after several meetings my course is scheduled to begin this fal... |
2021/05/21 | 1,377 | 5,701 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been offered a place as a PhD student in an English-speaking university, however, I'm a little concerned that the department may be a bit broad and generic (not the project though; it appeals to me greatly and is specific to my interests). It's not a big university, and as a consequence ... |
2021/05/21 | 1,801 | 7,203 | <issue_start>username_0: When one encounters a journal one does not know, one way to obtain some information about it is via the journal's "aim and scope" in the journal web site.
However, I noticed that for many journals, this section provides virtually no information about the journal.
Here are two examples that I ... |
2021/05/21 | 443 | 1,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I received admission to a Ph.D. offer in the US with an assistantship that would cover my tuition and living expenses for Fall 2021. At the same time, I received a 10 days consultancy contract with the WBG to be completed by the end of June 2021. This consultancy contract may be extended based ... |
2021/05/21 | 2,173 | 9,065 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for potential PhD opportunites in engineering and I found a potential PhD supervisor. Personally, I plan on entering academia after my graduation. However, it seems that during the past 12 years, the professor had no students staying in academia after their graduation. I also found... |
2021/05/21 | 373 | 1,478 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague scholar was an editor for my latest published article, in which I heavily used her work and cited it. She then sent me one of her papers, so I could review it informally and give her my comments on it.
At one point in the paper, one of my articles could fit perfectly as a citation.... |
2021/05/21 | 1,050 | 4,486 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just completed the first year of a biological sciences PhD program and I still haven't chosen a lab for my doctoral studies since 3 of the labs I rotated in were not good fits and another had insufficient funding. I recently reached out to another professor and on May 13th we had a Zoom me... |
2021/05/21 | 509 | 2,127 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student working in the USA. My advisor has funding from a foreign (say Country X) agency. I worked on a problem that was proposed by the agency. However, I am not using their data. I am about to publish my findings. However, my advisor wants to add another one of his student's name to... |
2021/05/21 | 771 | 3,350 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student and I wrote my first paper. The term open access is a new concept for me. I already watched YouTube videos about the subject, so I now understand that you have to pay a fee to the journal to get your paper published.
The question is: can I just go for traditional publishin... |
2021/05/21 | 823 | 3,470 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor had said the midterm was 2.5 hours. This was told by all the students for weeks. The midterm comes, and there is no countdown for when submission is required, thus meaning the midterm is unlimited. I followed academic integrity and submitted at 2.5 hours; however, many students wer... |
2021/05/22 | 659 | 2,723 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student who is completing a master's degree. I am very happy working with my professor at the university. I am a good student. My professor and I have some successful projects and publications.
My sibling is looking for a Ph.D. position, and since my professor is a very re... |
2021/05/22 | 5,429 | 23,469 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the third year of my four year PhD, which is funded by the department. My supervisor a week and a half ago called a meeting with me, after an email complaining about sending off an updated version of a manuscript to a conference without full approval. During the course of this meeting, ... |
2021/05/22 | 564 | 2,431 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago I did a month lab rotation in a lab. At that time I was doing my masters and I was directly supervised by the Ph.D. student (X) of that lab. He taught me all the techniques and corrected my lab report. Then I sent it to the group leader. So basically I worked closely with the Ph... |
2021/05/22 | 380 | 1,595 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you have a well-written paper that, in your supervisor's opinion,deserves a bit more of a Tier 2 journal, but it is difficult to get published in a Tier 1 journal. Would you suggest, in general, trying the higher rank journal first, getting a rejection (likely), but also possible improv... |
2021/05/22 | 1,256 | 5,226 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been doing some research for my masterthesis. I had a supervisor for this task, who was (to my opinion) quite harsh and unhelpful in his feedback. I pursued it nevertheless, and continued on the work that I had been doing; but got somewhat annoyed.
Some time ago, he sent me a (edit: yet... |
2021/05/22 | 3,403 | 14,348 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:**
I studied Physics and Mathematics (double major) in my Bachelor, and now I'm working in the field of (theoretical) biophysics (I'm a Master's student). I have had a fair amount of research experience so far which gave me a lot of ideas about how research is being done. Most of ... |
2021/05/22 | 774 | 3,353 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a paper as a Ph.D. student, and I'm starting to feel a little bit unsure about the general approach and results. My supervisor isn't a great help here, and I thought to maybe send a preprint to a couple of authors with more expertise than me, whom I cited a lot, and ask their opinio... |
2021/05/23 | 1,057 | 4,191 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate right now, looking to apply to Grad schools. I am just confused about the kinds of degrees offered by graduate schools. Some state they have a "M.S, M.S/PhD, and PhD" programs. I have read a lot that students who quit their Ph.D in between after realizing that the program ... |
2021/05/23 | 2,054 | 8,350 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student who hopes to switch my major from engineering to Physics. Although this switch is possible, I lack several crucial foundation courses in Physics such as electrodynamics and quantum mechanics in my transcript and I hope to offset this by self-studying, either by:
*... |
2021/05/23 | 984 | 3,796 | <issue_start>username_0: Siblings contributed to a research paper. The publisher asks to fill no competing interest form. Citing the [journal in question](https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/286/supporthub/publishing/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xNjIxNzc5NjMyL2dlbi8xNjIxNzc5NjMyL3NpZC9mVUxJdGFtd0NQ... |
2021/05/23 | 1,285 | 5,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing my PhD at a famous research institution located in Europe. I am quite delayed due to COVID-related disruptions, which forced us to devote most lab equipment to vaccine development and trial assessment instead of doing some experiments I needed to validate my hypotheses.
Nonethel... |
2021/05/23 | 2,628 | 11,412 | <issue_start>username_0: Is being a poor writer a serious impediment as a researcher? I mean if you're particularly bad at writing reports and always get bad feedback as a student for your reports, does that mean my research career would never take off?
The question asks whether researchers working in teams are all re... |
2021/05/23 | 2,223 | 8,824 | <issue_start>username_0: In the last few years I have been working on a controversial topic **A** of my field. As usual, I started doing the state-of-the-art and talked with some scientists, and I discovered that the scientific community is divided in two groups:
1. ~80% of the scientists don't think **A** can work
2.... |
2021/05/24 | 1,536 | 6,198 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to pursue a graduate school "career" in theoretical condensed matter physics in the US; however, getting into a grad program as a theory student is quite difficult due to limited spacing, little funding, and high competition. Should I instead apply as an experimentalist and then switch o... |
2021/05/24 | 874 | 3,786 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a research master student in STEM field. My supervisor and I have weekly meetings. Each meeting lasts for about 15-20 minutes. Before each meeting, I will summarize the most important work I have done in a week in a powerpoint and will present my work to him in each weekly meeting. Then my... |
2021/05/24 | 741 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I read all comments for fixing my problems regarding my Google Scholar profile. When I search my name in Google, my Google Scholar profile appears in the Indonesian Language. I fixed the cookies, I changed the language to English from this link (<https://scholar.google.com/scholar_settings?hl=e... |
2021/05/24 | 1,610 | 6,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working in the UK for 8+ years, partially in academia and partially in industry, with satisfying results in both cases. I have been working fully-remote (from the UK) for the last year and I find this situation ideal for me. I am now thinking of moving back to my home country, Italy... |
2021/05/24 | 2,531 | 9,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I am nearing the end of my bachelor's degree and wish to know what my options are for continuing. Optimally, I would be able to immediately pursue a PhD, but I get conflicting information on the matter by different professors, advisors, and online sources.
The institutions I am mainly interest... |
2021/05/24 | 626 | 2,733 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an MS student in machine learning just finished my first semester at a U.S. university, and I plan to apply to PhD programs in computer science in electrical engineering or operations research for next year (also for machine learning and optimization).
I took three STEM advanced graduate ... |
2021/05/24 | 475 | 2,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I accepted a request to peer review a manuscript from a journal, but was not able to view the attached files correctly and reached out to the journal three times about this problem. They finally responded and addressed the issue, but now I am less than 3 days away from their original deadline f... |
2021/05/24 | 1,287 | 5,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I've made an internal decision to leave my doctorate program of 3.5 years. The reasons are many, but the major one is that I have realized that I don't need a doctorate to fulfill my career dreams, and that I am at a point in life where I prefer to start a family and build my marriage with my h... |
2021/05/25 | 1,613 | 6,586 | <issue_start>username_0: Quick background: I am currently pursuing two master's degrees, "Data Engineering and Analytics" from TU Munich and "Computer Linguistics" from LMU Munich. I am in my second semester and plan to finish both in 2 1/2 years. The time frame and work load seems reasonable as of now, I am having fun... |
2021/05/26 | 1,434 | 6,197 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a particular background, I studied biology and Chemistry in Highschool, some engineering in college, and I am now majoring in mathematics with a minor in computer science.
To some extent I feel like being able to do research is on my life goals bucket list. Diving into unexplored territ... |
2021/05/26 | 925 | 3,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a highly competitive (currently undergrad) student with the end goal of getting a position in academia. I’m about to graduate undergrad this summer; afterwards, I will do a Fulbright research grant, and try to apply for the top graduate schools.
Now due to the difficulties of the semester,... |
2021/05/26 | 500 | 2,046 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** CS undergrad applying for FALL 2022 CS USA PhD Programs
By the time I apply for the programs, I will be finishing 3 and a half years of coursework/labs/tests. Out of this, 2 years of coursework/labs/tests has happened through Zoom and etc.
**Main Question:** Does this bring do... |
2021/05/26 | 1,439 | 6,110 | <issue_start>username_0: I was going through the files on canvas of my course, then I saw a file called like Examination\_(coursename)\_2021 and was like "it's probably the practice". I opened it and it seemed like the actual exam, so I sent a message to course group like is this the actual exam? It seems like it is an... |
2021/05/26 | 315 | 1,342 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a paper together with people from another university. In one of our meetings, after I have mentioned that I do not have any funding from the university for open access, they suggested that we can pay the publication fee from private money.
This puzzled me, as I have never heard ... |
2021/05/26 | 661 | 2,755 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the following sentence, where the citation refers to the first part of the sentence. Because of how it appears in the formatting of my paper, and how it reads, I would like to have the citation at the end of the sentence as below. Is this acceptable in APA style formatting?
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2021/05/26 | 775 | 3,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student and the last month has been nothing short of a crucible of stress. I had to do 2 exams, wrote a 3k approval thesis, finalise my research objectives, plan the project and prepare a 30 minute presentation for a Q&A session. And I've had to write a bunch of code to pro... |
2021/05/27 | 6,934 | 30,078 | <issue_start>username_0: Climate change and mass extinctions are happening, so in my private life, I try to be as sustainable as possible. For example, I eat almost exclusively organic vegetarian food, I have no car, buy most stuff used, have a renewable energy contract and avoid flying (especially intercontinentally).... |
2021/05/27 | 636 | 2,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a non-European applying from outside of the UK. I need to come up with realistic external funding ideas for the next three years. I have a good idea of what kind of research I would like to do but there is no definite plan. Any resources to consider for funding are greatly appreciated.<iss... |
2021/05/27 | 1,633 | 6,648 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started a STEM PhD before last christmas and whilst things are going okay, I still feel like I'm not good enough and don't deserve the opportunity. I guess it's some form of imposter syndrome but it's driving me to become irrationally attached to my work because I lack confidence that it... |
2021/05/27 | 554 | 2,388 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper accepted at a X conference. I have been working on changes for the camera ready version. I have some results from experiments that I ran after the paper's initial submission.
**Questions:**
1. Can I include the results of this new experiment in the Camera Ready version?
2. Will... |
2021/05/27 | 289 | 1,289 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper was recently published and I submitted a report to my institution for a promotion. However, the research administrator asked me to provide a copy of peer review of my paper, which was reviewed in double-blind. The purpose was for the "validity" of my paper. This is strange and new to m... |
2021/05/27 | 695 | 3,070 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical and academically (or otherwise) acceptable to publish a new dataset, derived from an existing, well cited dataset?
The only novelty in this case are:
1. Newly computed features (based on published work), not currently part of the dataset
2. Data re-organisation, not existing pre... |