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2021/05/27 | 1,071 | 4,645 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student. I have received a MS admit (Fall 2021) from X University (USA) in Y department (STEM). My initial application to this university was for PhD, but I got a reject for PhD and they offered MS (thesis) instead.
The fees of X University are very costly for me. X Unive... |
2021/05/28 | 1,016 | 4,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that a somewhat similar question has been asked before, but my parameters here are slightly different. Essentially, I have been emailing a professor since early April about joining their lab. They have responded and inquired what sort of projects I would be interested in. They also... |
2021/05/28 | 1,251 | 5,609 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach in a university to Masters students in Science. I have taught courses from Physics, Statistics, Mathematics and Computation, and every time I finish teaching a course, I find myself unsatisfied. It is difficult to articulate what exactly I feel unsatisfied with, but it is probably a com... |
2021/05/28 | 1,078 | 4,785 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently finished my undergraduate studies and I plan to apply to PhD programs in the near future. In the mean time I will be starting a masters to get additional research experience and take some advanced courses in my field of interest. I plan to go into Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) and ... |
2021/05/28 | 887 | 3,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at a U.S. university and after taking Professor X's class this Spring, he has agreed to be my advisor. About a month ago, Professor X asked me to read a particular recent paper of his and prove a conjecture.
I have been reading his paper, and I can und... |
2021/05/28 | 465 | 2,077 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for various postdoc grants at the moment. They all have some section concerning Prizes and Awards. While I understand that this obviously includes things like 'best poster presentation' or 'best dissertation', I wonder whether competitive travel grants fall under this category? Of... |
2021/05/28 | 314 | 1,319 | <issue_start>username_0: I majored in math and minored in CS. My grades are excellent and I have coursework in all the core areas of CS except for Computer Systems/Computer Organization/Computer Architecture.
Is this going to really hurt me in admissions to (self-funded, US-based, terminal, thesis-based) MS CS program... |
2021/05/29 | 7,891 | 33,098 | <issue_start>username_0: If you take a look at the various questions on Academia Stack Exchange where abusive, rude, or unpleasant situations are presented, I feel there's often a culture of dismissal. Many comments and answers always try to play devil's advocate, for example:
* Trying to find a reason why a superviso... |
2021/05/29 | 841 | 3,216 | <issue_start>username_0: I was checking [a paper](https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article/doi/10.1162/artl_a_00336/101872/The-Impossibility-of-Automating-Ambiguity) that was posted on Twitter where everyone seemed to be so enthusiastic about, so I had a short check on it. Here is the first line:
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> Post-Cartesian framew... |
2021/05/29 | 777 | 3,062 | <issue_start>username_0: My university requires that I upload my PhD thesis to ProQuest. ProQuest charges $95 for "open-access" publishing, while "traditional" publishing is free. I want to confirm my understanding here. "Open access" in this context really just means that ProQuest will make the PDF available in perpet... |
2021/05/30 | 2,273 | 10,168 | <issue_start>username_0: The potential benefit to society of good research, and the potential costs of acting on bad research, seem to be extremely high in both directions.
Why is it the norm to simply peer review research, including the methodology, but ***not*** the norm to have the actual data collection and experi... |
2021/05/30 | 799 | 3,279 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** Due to COVID-19 pandemic I'm doing my summer internship on Mathematics in online mode.
I'm not sure whether this will make my resume stronger. Is it possible to get good recommendation letter form this online internship or will it be frowned upon during the PhD admission as an ... |
2021/05/30 | 270 | 964 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the actual meaning of a graduate program? Is it Masters? Or Ph.D. or Both? Does the definition vary from country to country?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> What is the actual meaning of a graduate program? Is it Masters? Or Ph.D. or Both?
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Both.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>userna... |
2021/05/30 | 1,628 | 6,999 | <issue_start>username_0: My collaborator and I submitted an article to a special issue of a journal.
He did most of the writing of the article,
while I did the technical work such as running simulations, generating plots,
and typesetting the article in LaTeX.
After two revisions, the article has been accepted with maj... |
2021/05/30 | 1,281 | 5,186 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a postdoc interview invitation at a prestigious group under a reputed PI. The professor works in a loosely related field "X" and is looking for people with expertise in the field. I have just started to work on "X" (since March 2021) and am planning to do more dedicated work on the "... |
2021/05/31 | 549 | 2,129 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit my third first author paper in the field of chemistry. Every journal we submitted to required to submit a graphical abstract along with the paper.
I have some basic Photoshop skills and used it to make the graphical abstracts. But I'm not happy with my graphical work, some... |
2021/05/31 | 740 | 3,113 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I had a Java exam at university. Usually how I prep for this kind of programming exam is studying with my best friend. We were studying object oriented programming using lists, double linked lists etc.
There were three tasks on the exam, the first one was about linked lists, the other... |
2021/05/31 | 3,730 | 16,265 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in a PhD project which will be supervised by somebody who has never supervised a PhD student before. In fact, this research group is not yet completely established. On their website they mention that this research group is starting to work in this new department very soon (*the ... |
2021/05/31 | 858 | 3,628 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finishing my first year at university of Computer Science and IT, it has been a good journey so far and I have passed nine out of eleven subjects, two are left to be finished in August.
I do not feel like I have learned anything except mathematical problems in programming that d... |
2021/06/01 | 374 | 1,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I will graduate with a BS in math in fall 2021 after 2.5 years, so I wish to enter a top math graduate program the next semester. However, after some Googling, it appears that there's no info about whether the top graduate math programs even have spring admissions. The closest I saw was a simil... |
2021/06/01 | 1,601 | 6,904 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in math. From time to time, I have some simple questions, which I believe most graduate students know in their field. So, I email specialists to ask them. I sometimes noticed that people don't react well to my questions which means I should have known the answer.
My friend sugge... |
2021/06/01 | 1,847 | 7,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new in the field of writing papers and publishing them. This is my first work. While writing my paper, I thought it would be great to explain some concepts I have used in this paper beforehand. I am also planning to include images of "how the thing works". Can I take an image from Wikipedi... |
2021/06/01 | 1,745 | 7,701 | <issue_start>username_0: I was in a research group for my MSc. dissertation (computational work) during which I developed quite a bit of code that went on being used in a publication which I co-authored (no code was published at the time - I know how much of a bad practice this is, it was not dependent on me).
Now, wi... |
2021/06/02 | 816 | 3,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask for advice regarding the search for postdoc.
First a bit of background. I got my 3-years PhD in February in mathematics (applied math + numerical analysis). I am disappointed because I did not do anything important: I studied a specific numerical method with a code that was... |
2021/06/02 | 437 | 1,842 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper in theoretical computer science about two closely related problems A and B and a variant of A which I call A'.
I am now planning to order the results as follows:
1. Solution to problem A
2. Solution to problem A'
3. Note that solution for A' implies a solution for B (very ... |
2021/06/02 | 1,184 | 5,030 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a machine learning researcher, and my field is beginning to embrace the massive, multi-institution collaborations that have become common in other sciences. For example, I am a coauthor on [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12028), which has 52 authors. I am also involved in on-going ... |
2021/06/02 | 1,117 | 4,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a graduate TA and my duties include preparing tutorials for an undergrad course, we are supposed to prepare the sessions based on the material sent to us by the professor.
The problem is that the professor has been emailing the material 1 hour before my tutorial starts for three... |
2021/06/02 | 704 | 3,151 | <issue_start>username_0: **TLDR:** Please advise how a tech professional/working student may go about referencing co-authorship on manuscripts that were submitted to academic publications in a resume or online portfolio?
*Background:* I'm a final year BSc student at one of the major NYC schools working in a data analy... |
2021/06/02 | 990 | 3,666 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new in the field of writing papers and publishing them. This is my first work. While writing my paper, I am using a paragraph from an [external website](https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/replay-attack).
This is the paragraph that I am using
>
> A replay attack occurs... |
2021/06/02 | 433 | 1,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a great relationship with one of my professors(at least I think), and a few weeks ago we discussed the possibility of doing a research project together this summer. However, he never replies to my emails again after the semester ends(2 weeks already, I sent one email and a follow-up, and... |
2021/06/03 | 756 | 3,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe I solved an open problem in my field, but the method I used is elementary, is the result still publishable?
To make it more specific, I found a problem and solved it. The method I used is neither advanced nor new. It seems that no one is trying to solve it, except one famous person i... |
2021/06/03 | 648 | 2,523 | <issue_start>username_0: So this question is heavily related to the questions [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7797/what-do-you-do-when-you-find-yourselves-with-an-unreadable-inaccessible-paper) and [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12334/access-to-journals-for-individuals-outside-o... |
2021/06/03 | 2,114 | 9,079 | <issue_start>username_0: May I ask if it is a good practice for PhD students in STEM to have supervisors with no expertise in the students' field? I wonder to what extent should a PhD supervisor in the STEM knows about his/her students' research. In addition, I know some PhD supervisors with quite different fields (eve... |
2021/06/03 | 406 | 1,738 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the process of writing a research paper about linguistics. I wrote a program in python in order to be able to sift through the data and sort it out in a meaningful way (not statistically just take a bunch of words in a word document and create an excel with all the words in th... |
2021/06/04 | 1,014 | 4,235 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it a conflict of interest if an examiner of a graduate thesis is a coauthor of a paper/papers with the supervisor of the thesis? Do you think that this would sway a positive or negative result or bias?<issue_comment>username_1: No, it can be unavoidable.
You haven't named a country, but in ... |
2021/06/04 | 309 | 1,359 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a few courses on Coursera and youtube, while watching the lectures I usually take some notes, adding extra explanations and examples on things that I found difficult to understand. Now, I am thinking that I can clean them up a little and post them on my website, but I don't know if t... |
2021/06/04 | 2,854 | 11,628 | <issue_start>username_0: Which software do learned professionals use - LaTeX or Google Docs or Word or any other software to write their books (especially engineering level scientific textbooks)?
Points to consider:
* Could have diagrams, images, tables, graphs at quarter or half or complete page or in-between the te... |
2021/06/05 | 351 | 1,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in citing a paper. This paper has ~30 citations from others, which is respectable and indicates that a fair number of people have also found it worth discussing. However, a fairly prominent citation discussed in this paper is of an (in my opinion) low quality article from an und... |
2021/06/05 | 919 | 3,964 | <issue_start>username_0: I came back to school after a long break (5+ years) and jumped right back into higher level courses (junior and senior level courses). First thing I noticed was that a professor did not lecture or hold any office hours, instead a hired part-time lecturer, who had another full time job, filled t... |
2021/06/05 | 691 | 3,086 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a manuscript to a journal and recently I received the reviews. We have many reviewers assigned to the review process. One of the reviewers is asking us to perform some calculations that are beyond our knowledge. None of the co-authors know how to carry out such computations. All the... |
2021/06/06 | 1,696 | 7,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to send emails to potential PhD supervisor. In order to show my initiative to understand their research, I am thinking of writing a precis of their recent papers and attaching it with the email. I would include the following elements in the precis:
1. background problems to be solve... |
2021/06/06 | 1,613 | 6,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a final year undergraduate student. When I opened Gmail today there was an email regarding some conference and instructions on how to submit a paper to it. I never get emails like this, so I was curious. The sender was a professor in my department. And the mail was sent to `lect<EMAIL>@[uni... |
2021/06/06 | 592 | 2,551 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually when I send a manuscript to a journal, in about 1 or 2 days, the status changes to "with editor" and after a maximum of 3 weeks the status changes to "with referee". This is the first time that a journal already spent two weeks until now to evaluate the paper for suitability before assi... |
2021/06/06 | 711 | 3,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I proposed to work on a problem in the proposal, but one of the referees thought that the problem had already been solved in some previous papers. However, the papers they cited do not solve the proposed problem, not even close. This has been confirmed by my colleagues.
The referee themselves ... |
2021/06/06 | 1,747 | 7,347 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a teaching position with a special focus on data science and artificial intelligence, these are the instructions for a presentation I will make:
>
> Assume that the audience is a class of 200 Computer Science stage 2
> Undergraduate students in their fifth week of term (i.e. mid... |
2021/06/06 | 1,444 | 6,292 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to understand if there could be disadvantages to submitting applications to several graduate programs within a single university system (e.g. Texas A&M, University of California, etc)? May there be any cross-communication between different campuses/universities within a system during t... |
2021/06/06 | 3,446 | 14,290 | <issue_start>username_0: To begin with, suppose I want to get up-to-date with the content of *Journal of Financial Economics*. The specific journal has published several volumes in the period 1974-2020. So far, I 've considered strategies as the following:
* The linear brute-force approach is the first to come to mind... |
2021/06/06 | 490 | 1,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm European and I'm about to accept a tenure-track position in the US where I will come up for tenure review after 2 years (i.e. get tenure after 3), as I have already spent a number of years in a comparable position.
While negotiating, I was warned that I must obtain permanent residency in t... |
2021/06/07 | 3,700 | 16,008 | <issue_start>username_0: I know this individual who has lied on their medical school application by not disclosing a disciplinary action that they received and is now about to matriculate. They explicitly told me this, in writing. Further, I know from being in the same classes that they cheated in many classes, includi... |
2021/06/07 | 354 | 1,455 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** CS undergrad applying to CS PhD FALL 2022
I am working on a project but don't think I will be able to publish it before I send out my admits. I am planning to just attach a draft on my CV.
**Question:**
1. Is this something one should do?
2. Or should I just mention it withou... |
2021/06/07 | 358 | 1,561 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite the author of [nearest centroid classifier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_centroid_classifier). However, I can find neither the author nor the time when this technique was used first.
Of course, I may cite the many book chapters which explain extensively this technique. ... |
2021/06/07 | 880 | 3,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm at the end of my 2nd PhD. I dropped out of my first one after three years of abuse -- real abuse -- at the hands of a project postdoc. He would shout at me over anything and was sometimes physically violent. My supervisors wouldn't help me and I eventually dropped out with PTSD (not just be... |
2021/06/07 | 830 | 3,428 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and will give a "virtual poster presentation" at a conference this summer. It seems like the standard templates for academic posters are not appropriate here, because:
* it will likely be viewed on a much smaller screen than the standard poster-paper size
* although I imagin... |
2021/06/07 | 1,425 | 6,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year undergraduate student and in autumn I'll be starting my third year and after that there is the final fourth. I've come accross someone's lecture notes on eBay. The same uni. It's several years old so some stuff will have changed. It's not the ones we would receive from the le... |
2021/06/07 | 269 | 1,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know what does "a revised version of this preprint was accepted for the journal ESD." mean? Does it mean that there is 100 percent chance that the revised version of this paper will accepted and the final paper will also be accepted? Or there is a chance of getting the paper rej... |
2021/06/07 | 875 | 3,691 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in theoretical Physics and there is one particular field in which I'm extremely interested in for a while. This field of research is somewhat new, but seems to be very promising, with lots of relevant researchers directing their efforts towards it.
I'm very interested in doin... |
2021/06/08 | 2,021 | 8,266 | <issue_start>username_0: Multiple users on this site have stated that only around 1 in 10 (or maybe an even smaller ratio) PhD students are able to successfully continue in academia, beginning with an Assistant Professor position and working their way up towards tenure. (I am unable to find links for this, but I have r... |
2021/06/08 | 720 | 2,952 | <issue_start>username_0: I've got a little less than a year left in my PhD and I intend to search for a job this fall/winter. The question is to where should I direct my efforts -- academia/research or industry? At the very least, I've narrowed it down to either a US national lab postdoc or an industry job. My field is... |
2021/06/09 | 258 | 1,073 | <issue_start>username_0: I am nominally in a Professor X's lab, but I work with and communicate with his PhD Student Y most of the time. Would it be looked down upon for Y to write me a LoR for grad school, since even though he knows me better, he is only a grad student/would be a fresh PhD by the time I get around to ... |
2021/06/09 | 2,782 | 11,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished my first Ph.D. interview, but the one who interviewed me is a fellow student. Next week, another fellow student will also interview me. I am just really confused. Is this a sign that I get a rejection, because normally the professor will be the one to do the interview, not the P... |
2021/06/09 | 932 | 3,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year PhD student in management, and I've recently started working on my dissertation.
The topic I got assigned is a fast-growing one.
Nonetheless, I initially managed to ensure the novelty of my work by highlighting the fact that the extant literature has largely overlooked a cla... |
2021/06/09 | 1,670 | 7,101 | <issue_start>username_0: Many philosophy journals have begun to use an alternative to accepting or rejecting a manuscript: offering the author the option of transferring the manuscript together with the reviewer reports to another journal. This seems like an excellent idea when the only problem with a manuscript is a b... |
2021/06/09 | 661 | 2,888 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have finished my big project, which is basically PDP8 Computer simulation made in C.
I was thinking about uploading it to Github because I hope it may help me get a job in future after I show my big projects to the owner of a company I am trying to work for.
Considering I am at the... |
2021/06/09 | 445 | 1,966 | <issue_start>username_0: I received this message form the editor "Thanks for note. We have tried 11 potential reviewers to date and have one review at hand and another that is promised. We will be in touch once the second review is acquired".
What this meant? May be he rejected the submission if can't find the second r... |
2021/06/09 | 503 | 2,108 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master's student, I started my degree in 2018. I wrote my thesis and sent it to both my main supervisor and co-supervisor a month ago and ask them to read but my main prof did not have time to read it. My co-supervisor reviewed it and he sent his feedbacks privately without including the... |
2021/06/10 | 410 | 1,778 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it okay to send my MA thesis for an internship I'm seeking to apply for (they asked for it among other documents) even if the thesis is not published yet?<issue_comment>username_1: **Send it along**
If they asked for it send it along. They aren't publishing it (right). While your thesis wil... |
2021/06/10 | 2,479 | 11,176 | <issue_start>username_0: We are a small group of researchers and we meet 6 times a year as a whole group. During these meetings, lab members talk about the current status of their projects. However, from my point of view, these presentations are always a bit too shiny or perfect, instead of talking about one's own inse... |
2021/06/10 | 442 | 1,873 | <issue_start>username_0: When you apply for funds from a research council for a postdoc position, and the potential host is a university/organization that you don't know, do you share your research proposal with the PI of that university/organization beforehand?
I want to avoid plagiarism, so I'm planning to have a qu... |
2021/06/10 | 835 | 3,705 | <issue_start>username_0: Not sure if this question is a bit weird... I'm still a young researcher. I was wondering if it is okay to co-author papers with one's friends who are also doing research in a close field to one's research.
Having friends who conduct research (even if it is at another institution) that is clos... |
2021/06/10 | 675 | 2,988 | <issue_start>username_0: I sometimes get asked to give recommendations / opinions about students by potential employers or third party HR Firms.
Is it acceptable to share the opinions with the students once I provide them? What is the typical recommendation about this?
Mostly the companies promise they will treat the... |
2021/06/10 | 794 | 3,416 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know
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> **Question:** Do all research grants (funds) for (under)graduate students lead to high quality (Q1 or Q2) research papers?
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How do institutions trust (under)graduate students so that they do not misuse this grants? How they choose from many talented students?
I am... |
2021/06/10 | 599 | 2,483 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a physics-majored undergrad student studying in the U.S. and I'm looking for some graduate programs in the UK. In my university, most graduate students are directly enrolled in the Ph.D. programs after completing their Bachelor's degree, but I'm not sure if this works the same in the UK. If... |
2021/06/10 | 1,471 | 5,359 | <issue_start>username_0: [[This post has been retitled once and edited twice. This is the second edit. The original post had a sample reference that was faulty for purposes of having the question answered. For this edit, I added a "good" example of a reference and explained the difference between the examples. I felt t... |
2021/06/10 | 915 | 3,841 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently hold a TT position at school A. My spouse's job (not in academia) is at a 4 hours commute from school A. We underestimated the hassle it would bring when I accepted the position at School A. Now, there is an opening at school B which is very close to my spouse's workplace. Since the... |
2021/06/11 | 789 | 3,274 | <issue_start>username_0: During my master's work, when I was trying to solve the problem the advisor assigned to me, I solved another problem. I got an idea and it worked, I tried to talk to him about it, he refused. So, I went to present it in a prestigious conference and now I will send it to a journal. Now, the advi... |
2021/06/11 | 1,557 | 6,651 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an article for publication in a journal, and I couldn't find the answer here on Stack Exchange or in the journal guidelines. The field in question is electrical engineering.
As I'm writing my introduction, I would like to tackle different parts of the problematic in a very clear w... |
2021/06/11 | 1,671 | 7,080 | <issue_start>username_0: How does an exchange student go to another country for a year when the language of education is different? Doesn't the exchange student attend any lecture or course during the visit?
Except for negligible exceptions, the language of education is the local language, and almost every country has... |
2021/06/11 | 1,200 | 5,115 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a small study project at university Z if someone did it and wrote a report, will be award an extra certificate. The project can be done as group work. The project was started with 2 person X and Y. Student x wrote the required codes in one programming language. Due to many troubles, it... |
2021/06/11 | 1,778 | 7,576 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering generally how can I identify the authorship of a paper? Some papers might have specific signs such as an asterisk or a dagger after an author's name, but for those who don't have any signs, is the name with first authorship usually listed at first also? Here's an example I found o... |
2021/06/12 | 225 | 976 | <issue_start>username_0: Elsevier launched new NeuroImage: Report as a companion journal to NeuroImage. What does companion mean here in terms of publishing content, cite-score and impact factors.<issue_comment>username_1: Companion journals are separate journals on the same topic. The content and bibliometrics, includ... |
2021/06/12 | 783 | 3,406 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a Ph.D. in a university in New Zealand. I started 3 months ago and am about two years away from finishing. Since they do not issue visas (due to the pandemic), I had to start online and paid one year of tuition. For the next year, it looks like I will have to do the same thing.
Now ... |
2021/06/12 | 774 | 3,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an incoming freshman to college. I am majoring in physics and math with the intention of one day becoming a professor specializing in theoretical physics. My question is: how should I go about deciding what exactly is my passion for research? Something I wouldn't mind spending so much time... |
2021/06/12 | 2,927 | 12,962 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a bit of a tricky situation and I'm not sure how to proceed forwards in accomplishing my goals. I think I am a bit of an information addict especially in regards to physics. I can't stop reading about the fundamentals of reality and it gives my life an insane amount of meaning. However i... |
2021/06/13 | 1,240 | 5,245 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a leader of my undergraduate thesis team and we have 3 members. My team performance is lower than every others team in my class (i.e, they will need more time to complete a task than anyone).
Because of that reason, when working with them, I don't rush them or set too many deadlines, inst... |
2021/06/13 | 437 | 1,878 | <issue_start>username_0: In industry, when someone is hired, it's typical for the employer to pay for the flight costs of the new employee. But when grad students and postdocs are moving to different countries, typically they have to pay with their own money. Why is this the norm in academia and not industry?<issue_com... |
2021/06/13 | 3,850 | 15,891 | <issue_start>username_0: How do people pay for a Bsc without taking massive loans? Is there enough time in a waking day to both study and financially support yourself with a job that is relevant to your field of study? Is it possible to 'slow down' the degree to allow more work hours?
EDIT: In the united states, as a ... |
2021/06/13 | 1,045 | 4,686 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done about one year and nine months of my PhD (in the UK) and have got a paper published, one waiting to be submitted, and another reasonably-sized project completed. I have written up three chapters of my thesis corresponding to the previous three papers/projects. For the past three mon... |
2021/06/13 | 1,705 | 6,872 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student in math, but this question is already bugging me, because I am about to start an undergraduate research project that will likely become my Masters degree as well.
I learned Algebra on my own, and really seemed to enjoy Galois theory. I've even made an in... |
2021/06/13 | 1,248 | 5,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently finishing up my undergraduate degree and I will soon start to apply for graduate school. I'm gonna apply to some schools in Europe (mainly Germany), but one thing I'm very worried about is funding. As I understand, European universities do not offer TA positions for international ... |
2021/06/14 | 779 | 3,320 | <issue_start>username_0: So I recently did my PhD project approval which is the process where I agree my objectives with my supervisor and present a short overview to a review panel.
All that went well and my project has been approved and I can finally make a start on the work I need to do. I'm feeling a bit swamped a... |
2021/06/14 | 735 | 3,114 | <issue_start>username_0: The research area is related to **CS/Bioinformatics** and **Biology/Biochemistry**. The possibility of cooperation is between the Faculty of CS&Math and the Faculty of Chemistry.
If I complete a Ph.D. from an interdisciplinary doctoral school, can I work as a professor in CS/CSE?
What is the ... |
2021/06/14 | 3,256 | 12,233 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a paper on the *Front de Liberation du Quebec*; a homegrown Quebec terrorist organisation in the 1960s. As research, I've extensively studied a book by one of the intellectual leaders of the organisation <NAME> called 'White (n-word)s of America'. Given the rather alarming title, ho... |
2021/06/14 | 4,937 | 20,513 | <issue_start>username_0: It has happened in many instances in my education that my male advisors or professors get very uncomfortable around me and some refuse to take me as their student. They tell me that in a decent way, but it is not on the basis of competence since I am always at the top of the class and my CV is ... |
2021/06/14 | 425 | 1,892 | <issue_start>username_0: Do I write my undergrad institution as my affiliation or no affiliation, or my company or both?<issue_comment>username_1: How did you get the position at this company? Is this through a partnership with a professor at your university or is it a job that you got on your own?
There are many fact... |
2021/06/14 | 669 | 2,672 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my essay via Turnitin. Subsequently a similarity report was generated where all similar bits in my work were flagged up with the work of others. There is one bit flagged up where I did not cite. Is it considered plagiarism?
This is what I wrote:
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> This theory is applicable... |
2021/06/15 | 541 | 2,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a high school student and in grade 9 and 10 I conducted research for my science fair project at a recognized university under the mentorship of a professor and his PhD student. I designed and carried out experiments in the university lab during this time as part of my research. I think thi... |
2021/06/15 | 4,710 | 20,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm attending a graduate lecture at a university in Europe. Two lecturers, both PhD students, are giving their first lecture. One of the PhD students is senior and another just recently enrolled in the PhD program. Technically, I'm not so sure if it is legal or acceptable (within EU education s... |
2021/06/15 | 902 | 3,772 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been involved with the Quantum Optics group in my institution. I have a lot of interest in Circuit-QED and thus is (broadly) the topic for my Master's thesis. Now, I have always been inclined towards experiments, and would like my PhD to be in experimental physics as well.
Now, the reas... |
2021/06/15 | 730 | 3,188 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Msc student planning to apply to a Phd program and need reference letters for that. But when I applied to Phd programmes and asked my supervisor to give me reference letters, after the 4th reference he told me (in front of my colleagues) that it is a shame that he gave me so many referen... |
2021/06/15 | 382 | 1,683 | <issue_start>username_0: Initially, it took a very long time for the editor to finally screen the article and invite reviewers. My concern is that some reviewers will decline to review, and the editor will not invite new ones quickly at all...it seems like they check in the system very infrequently (once every month or... |