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2021/07/07 | 3,618 | 15,260 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know how to behave as a new PhD student towards the other people in my group. I started my PhD at the begining of Covid in February 2020.
One week after I met the people in our group, our research center was closed. During the last year, only me and my advisor came to the research cente... |
2021/07/07 | 1,341 | 5,906 | <issue_start>username_0: Me and my advisor have weekly meetings. But this week, I didn't have much progress so we won't have much to discuss. I want to cancel the meeting. How to gracefully express that "I don't have much progress this week" without giving him/her the impression that "I didn't work much"(which is true)... |
2021/07/07 | 593 | 2,394 | <issue_start>username_0: During my childhood, I use to listen the news with the phrases such as:
>
> Dr. *scientist*, professor of *physics* at *university of Stanford* invented/discovered the
> phenomenon..........
>
>
>
The italics used here are dummy values and can be replaced according to the person, place, t... |
2021/07/08 | 2,383 | 10,478 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a large public university in Washington state. Until recently, many buildings on campus have been closed, masks have been required, etc. Campus is now opening up, and vaccination is required for students and employees unless they have medical, religions, or philosophical reasons for n... |
2021/07/08 | 1,167 | 4,898 | <issue_start>username_0: What is wrong with me? I studied hard and get so low marks? What am I missing?
I thought I would score 70/80 in COA subject but I got only 49/80. It is a subject where I would even pass if I went to the exam today. I don't understand why is this happening to me. In class 11,12, I would easily ... |
2021/07/08 | 1,392 | 5,444 | <issue_start>username_0: Are UK universities allowed to require their students to have the Covid-vaccination prior to attending physical teaching? Have any announced the intention to do so for the next term? Would an allowance for "religious or philosophical" objections need to be made?<issue_comment>username_1: I cann... |
2021/07/08 | 691 | 2,987 | <issue_start>username_0: I am most active on the statistics stack exchange (Crossvalidated). I run into the occasional graduate level student who's in completely over their head. I feel like I can "sniff" questions as being essentially reframed homework problems for large projects or theses where they haven't any idea ... |
2021/07/08 | 1,084 | 4,590 | <issue_start>username_0: I have information that I found on YouTube, and when I searched for it on Google, I did not find it in any book, not even in an article, and nor in Google Scholar. Can I mention this information without a reference?
I am afraid that it will have a reference without my knowledge.<issue_comment>... |
2021/07/08 | 650 | 2,831 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I wrote a paper and submit it to a journal. Currently it's under review.
Later, after checking the preprint over and over, I noticed typos (for example instead of considering $\mathbb{N}^\*$ I wrote $\mathbb{N}$) and I made modifications (not significant): grammar errors, improving th... |
2021/07/09 | 983 | 4,019 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my PhD in three weeks in Denmark. In Denmark, it is usual that PhD students are formally employees of the university but also have student status. I have received recently my employee contract electronically through a trusted website (not email, but a governmental portal, with ver... |
2021/07/09 | 967 | 3,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be giving a presentation in an (online only) academic conference shortly.
**Question:
Would it be unprofessional to use emoji in my conference presentation slides?**
Here's how I think about this issue:
* I've noticed in my personal life that almost everyone uses emoji when messaging / ... |
2021/07/09 | 545 | 2,177 | <issue_start>username_0: Do you paraphrase in a literature review or just copy stuff and add credits at the end.
for example if I needed to use the following sentence :
>
> By applying advanced and predictive analytics up front, companies can build R&D plans they can stick to, for shorter lead times and better cost ... |
2021/07/09 | 760 | 3,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an international student currently studying in a community college in the United States. I'm applying to a Japanese university and they require me to send them two recommendation letters from my professors directly via postal mail to Japan.
Do the professors have to pay to mail the letters... |
2021/07/10 | 1,015 | 3,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I often receive e-mail (typically inquiring about studying with me as a graduate students) from students, especially foreign students, whose gender/pronouns I can't easily tell (they haven't specified). (For people from the Americas and Europe I can usually guess reasonably reliably, but I get ... |
2021/07/10 | 729 | 3,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I searched the site and couldn't find any information on this topic so I thought I would ask myself.
I have been at work for quite a while now and am fortunate that they have offered to support me while I pursue a Physics PhD in the United States. This would mean that I would not need financia... |
2021/07/11 | 1,556 | 7,012 | <issue_start>username_0: As there are different students with different educational and economical backgrounds in the classroom, I would like to know how a professor can deal with those differences. For example, undermotivated students or those whose knowledge is very weak on the mathematical courses - what is the best... |
2021/07/11 | 547 | 2,601 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the feedback I received after my PhD interview failure was that " there is not enough evidence of ability to operationalize the research". So how can I clarify my capability of carrying out a research for my next interview. During my failed interview, I was ask to talk about my prior res... |
2021/07/11 | 367 | 1,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my bachelors degree in the field of wood and paper science engineering and got my masters degree in the field of industrial engineering. I have more than 15 years of experience in the field of industrial engineering (planning, production planning, mathematical modeling, and multi criteria... |
2021/07/11 | 687 | 3,028 | <issue_start>username_0: I haven't had access to physical books since university libraries have been closed. How do I address this in interviews, and will people dismiss my file because of this?<issue_comment>username_1: You need to be prepared to offer a lot more detail. Most academics have no need for entering a libr... |
2021/07/12 | 869 | 3,653 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that an early career researcher received a job offer from a country that the researcher really doesn't want to go to, because of political or other personal reasons (concern for safety, homophobia, etc.) Would researchers understand that researcher's decision? Would the researcher have ... |
2021/07/12 | 613 | 2,534 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** CS undergrad applying to CS PhD Programs FALL 2022 USA. I have two different CVs.
**4 Page CV:**
* Contains 3 bullet points for every internship
* 2 extra projects
* Separately spaced headings for talk (just one), awards, papers (working, workshop, journal, conference).
* Sepa... |
2021/07/13 | 1,102 | 4,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I watched a lecture answering the question "How did Native Americans arrive in North America?" During the presentation, the presenter put up a slide showing the "5 major scholars" working on answering that question, and which theories each scholar supported.
Were it not for those slides, looki... |
2021/07/13 | 1,438 | 6,543 | <issue_start>username_0: A person I care about has problems with depression and anxiety and is starting a PhD soon. She has some questions I was not able to answer, so I was hoping you could give some advice. It is in a developed European country. I do not want to specify the country for fear of doxing her.
She was su... |
2021/07/13 | 953 | 4,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a PhD interview (bioinformatics) a month ago. I was a master student during the time the interview happened and I am still a student.
During the interview I was asked when I officially want to submit my thesis as this is important to start doing the PhD. I told them the date I planned to... |
2021/07/13 | 677 | 2,962 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I get selected for an American/Canadian University for a masters in computer science as an international student for fall 2022 , but I decline to join the university due to some personal reasons. Will the university save my application details?
Could they deny me admission if I re-appl... |
2021/07/13 | 537 | 2,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got a desk rejection for a paper submitted to a journal. It was about as generic as a desk rejection form response can get: an "outside the scope of this journal" response; no personalized feedback at all. I was wondering whether to send a brief, polite thank-you.
I have searched ar... |
2021/07/14 | 1,405 | 5,695 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a grad student pursuing to Master's degree. My major is **Applied Mathematics**. Here I call my advisor **<NAME>**. (Not the real name)
The branch of math that Mr. Iggy researches is Algebraic Topology. As such, the undergraduate courses he opens include Algebra (I and II) and Topology (I ... |
2021/07/14 | 861 | 3,618 | <issue_start>username_0: If a journal requires an acknowledgement section, but you have nothing to acknowledge, how is this put best?
"The authors have nothing to acknowledge."? This sounds a bit arrogant to me.
The [formatting instructions say](https://www.nature.com/documents/ncomms-formatting-instructions.pdf): "M... |
2021/07/14 | 920 | 3,831 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to one of the IEEE transaction journals and got an “Immediate Reject” (how it is stated in ScholarOne system) from the EiC. The motivation behind this decision included language issues (unfixed typos) and serious concerns about the level of novelty in the research (for illus... |
2021/07/14 | 1,450 | 6,044 | <issue_start>username_0: I was never a big fan of live online (research and technical) presentations, lectures or seminars. I'd use pre-recorded online materials when looking into a topic myself, but I was never able to immerse myself to a live online lecture anywhere close to the level of an live in-person lecture.
A... |
2021/07/14 | 1,796 | 7,789 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked at an institution on a project for 5 years. The type of project I worked on usually results in a single published paper at the end of it. However, I left the institution before the project's end.
I now find out the PI has published the paper (2 years after my departure) with a long li... |
2021/07/14 | 1,337 | 5,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in biosciences the U.K. and I am almost about to finish. I have a great relationship with my supervisor and overall they have supported me very well.
However, there are some things I think that he could have done which would have improved the experience; for example, going t... |
2021/07/14 | 1,327 | 5,879 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:**
I am writing a paper analysing various organisations that I need to de-identify.
For my analysis I need to cite three types of sources:
1. Publicly available published works that identify the organisations (e.g. reports by the organisation, peer reviewed works that assess the... |
2021/07/15 | 1,152 | 4,954 | <issue_start>username_0: My sister's studying at a UK university remotely because of COVID. Each course has an internal online Q&A forum for students to ask questions, and instructors or students to answer. I don't want to divulge any more detail for the purpose of confidentiality.
The issue is that 2 particularly hot... |
2021/07/15 | 1,245 | 5,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing a paper 'X' that is heavily built on an existing paper 'Y'. The paper Y is available on arXiv; however, it has not been peer-reviewed yet. It is only 4 months since it has been available on arXiv.
As a reviewer, is that my responsibility to verify the claims made in paper Y? or ... |
2021/07/15 | 612 | 2,668 | <issue_start>username_0: There's an unpublished paper I'd like to include in my CV list that I haven't yet submitted for publication (because I'm waiting for a conference that will open submissions later this year).
Is there an appropriate phrase intermediary to "Draft in Progress" and "Under Review" that I can use in... |
2021/07/15 | 1,323 | 5,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Arab, and I am not fluent in English, not even my mother tongue, and I am sure that my scientific research will have many serious linguistic errors. Can the magazine accept the research or ask me to amend the research despite the many errors in the language<issue_comment>username_1: In ... |
2021/07/16 | 765 | 3,118 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a very bad undergraduate percentage (BSc maths, 58.3%) and from a no-name university. Mostly because I was not interested in pure mathematics and gave all my time to CS components of the course. However, I worked hard and got admitted to one of the best research institute in India (CMI) ... |
2021/07/16 | 1,777 | 6,744 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD student. I have been invited to give a talk at a student society in my own university (so no travel costs, etc). I am wondering whether I should ask for a small fee when giving the talk. Some points:
* I have been an organiser at other student societies, and generally we ... |
2021/07/16 | 1,642 | 6,314 | <issue_start>username_0: In his book “Good work if you can get it: How to succeed in academia”, <NAME> advises aspiring academics against dating other PhD students while on graduate school.
Of course, I know that everyone is free to love anyone.
I’m not in a situation where I am deciding whether to date a particular Ph... |
2021/07/16 | 397 | 1,645 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduating PhD student. I received a postdoc offer informally saying that I have been accepted. In reply I told them that I am looking forward to a formal offer letter. Will it be interpreted as my acceptance by the PI? I am still waiting for some results, however I can't provide a timel... |
2021/07/16 | 1,349 | 5,947 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been doing my master thesis in Germany for the last six months and submitted my thesis this week. I kept in touch with the supervisor while I was writing the thesis and the result was satisfactory to him.
But as I was preparing the slides for my defense today, I suddenly received an ema... |
2021/07/16 | 414 | 1,765 | <issue_start>username_0: I know there are a lot of high-quality journals where I may submit my **serious** research articles. But suppose I have a finding, an observation, a conjecture, a pattern, a poem, an anecdote related to mathematics. Is there a journal that would publish a thing like that?<issue_comment>username... |
2021/07/16 | 844 | 3,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to pure math phd programs, and looking to study algebraic geometry. I have one very strong letter from a professor who supervised some algebraic geometry research I did. I am not sure about the other two letters. I think I may be able to get a decent letter from a math professor w... |
2021/07/16 | 1,264 | 5,601 | <issue_start>username_0: I am conducting research with a Ph.D. scholar under a supervisor, who is, in some sense, heading this group. The Ph.D. scholar and the supervisor have two articles undergoing a second round of review. The comments received in the first round of review were fairly straightforward to address, acc... |
2021/07/16 | 1,677 | 6,786 | <issue_start>username_0: In the recent years I have observed more often some existing limits on the age of a person pursuing an academic career and in the postdoc years spent after the PhD. For example, it is very common to read an academic job opening where the applicant must be under the age of 35 and at maximum must... |
2021/07/17 | 669 | 2,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student who started to collaborate with a postdoc last year on a research project which we both came up with. During the past year we had several discussions about this project. I mostly did the calculations and proofs and he focused more on giving general advice and comments on... |
2021/07/17 | 515 | 2,175 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student and am updating my CV for my upcoming postdoc search. While doing so, I found that it looks nicer (format-wise) with just the names of the projects, service activities, awards, etc., than it did with a 1-2 sentence description over 2-3 lines.
I could remove the descript... |
2021/07/17 | 643 | 2,723 | <issue_start>username_0: Three years ago, I submited my paper to a journal. On their website there was an impact factor. After submitting my work, I discovered that the stated impact factor is not official and the journal does not exist on the PubMed database. So, I decided to withdraw my article from the journal. The ... |
2021/07/18 | 709 | 3,025 | <issue_start>username_0: As a student, you would like to stay in touch with and participate in conferences, present papers and get the proceedings published. However, as I have come to notice, such conferences ask for hefty sums as fees for this.
How to deal with this?
And what about the online conferences?<issue_com... |
2021/07/18 | 422 | 1,808 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it required to cite the source(s) in the cited works list if you mention a known theory like for example Maslow pyramide of needs?<issue_comment>username_1: You don't need to cite things that are "common knowledge". But this depends to a pretty big extent on the audience. If you were writing... |
2021/07/18 | 654 | 2,756 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD letter includes the follow line:
>
> Note that your offer of admission is contingent upon your satisfaction of all local, state and federal laws.
>
>
>
My question is: I don't have an issue with this contingency per se, but is that standard language to include, or am I being single... |
2021/07/18 | 2,397 | 9,787 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the last year, I conducted research under two professors A and B on two topics A and B. In the last few months, I have come up with an idea that uses concepts from topic A to present a solution to a problem in B, i.e. the idea could be called **"Solution to B using A".** As far as I can te... |
2021/07/18 | 1,026 | 4,403 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's consider the following situation:
Author A submits a paper to a journal. Referee B writes a critical referee report and recommends rejection. Author A then resubmits the same paper to another journal managed by Editor C with no edits made. As luck has it, Editor C asks Referee B to refer... |
2021/07/19 | 1,192 | 5,159 | <issue_start>username_0: I did an undergraduate degree in one engineering discipline (electrical), and a course based masters in the same discipline of engineering (electrical) and another course based masters in another discipline of engineering (civil).
The undergraduate GPA is very poor, but the masters GPAs were b... |
2021/07/20 | 1,070 | 4,840 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a journal that says the time to first decision is generally X months, and that there are strict deadlines for reviewers to complete their review. After X months were up, I used the journal's internal submission system (Editorial Manager) to send a direct message to t... |
2021/07/20 | 550 | 1,847 | <issue_start>username_0: Regarding publishing a paper on mathematics, are very short notes, say a page or two or even half a page, publishable in mathematics?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, see for example [this question](https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/3099/what-is-the-shortest-paper-in-the-history-of-mathemat... |
2021/07/20 | 595 | 2,037 | <issue_start>username_0: If I make a formal complaint against my PhD supervisor, where I have evidence of them failing to comply with university policy in Australia, is it reasonable to be afraid that they could essentially try to "blacklist" me (or any other repercussion), as I'm in a close-knit field? Are formal comp... |
2021/07/20 | 1,507 | 6,705 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the role of a graduate coordinator or graduate chair (I have seen faculty called both) of a department in admissions ? Do they make the final decision or have the final say in all decisions ? How much power do they have in admissions ? This is in North America. The graduate coordinator ... |
2021/07/20 | 653 | 2,749 | <issue_start>username_0: I think I heard somewhere that in the USA, a tenureship at a university requires 8 years to obtain.
Is there any way someone can fast-track this process? I.e. can this time period be cut shorter?<issue_comment>username_1: Actually, the probation period is usually 6-7 years, with perhaps a mid-... |
2021/07/21 | 1,048 | 4,288 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in a position that is advertised at the Assistant level but I already have been promoted to Associate at the same university but in a different department. In theory, if I were chosen, is it legal for the University to hire me in the new position at my current Associate rank eve... |
2021/07/21 | 4,797 | 19,306 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach a module in an electrical engineering MSc programme in the UK for which the students are given a technical project that carries 25% of the total marks. The project is a group assignment and the students work in teams of 3-4 members.
This year, four out of six teams submitted identical ... |
2021/07/21 | 2,351 | 10,068 | <issue_start>username_0: I have not been having a good time in my personal life over the last ~9 months, and I’m currently having therapy (fortnightly) and taking antidepressants. I don’t have a depression diagnosis but I have symptoms of them. I can still study and be productive in my academic work, which I’m very exc... |
2021/07/21 | 2,479 | 10,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I have started an academic book club but I somewhat have a hard time with it. We are reading a slightly complicated text, so I decided to do a slow-paced reading; but up until now, only one person attended each session. Others seemed to have drifted off, or to be too busy to attend regularly.
S... |
2021/07/21 | 985 | 4,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new tenure-track faculty (just completed my first year). Recently, I realized that two groups of senior faculty members have been spreading rumors about me: one group walked around saying that I lied about the PhD program I graduated from (I never said such a thing); the other group walk... |
2021/07/21 | 435 | 1,880 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently living abroad in japan and looking to start college online from an American university. The problem is that any biotech course I'm interested in requires a lab portion to be done physically. So is there anyway to complete a lab assignment, specifically a biology based one, at a fo... |
2021/07/21 | 806 | 3,416 | <issue_start>username_0: For my master thesis, I worked on a topic that was new both for me, and my supervising professor. Because of that, we missed a well-known paper of our field, and I basically rediscovered the same idea.
We tried to publish it in two conferences, but it was rejected both times (unfortunately, no... |
2021/07/21 | 699 | 2,927 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a masters student and will get my degree this December having spent 1 summer, 2 spring, and 3 fall semesters to get it. I switched from non-thesis to thesis late in this process which is why I am making up for lost time in the lab and taking so long.
My question is related to my search fo... |
2021/07/21 | 974 | 3,770 | <issue_start>username_0: I have [just learned](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9454/capitalisation-of-section-and-chapter-in-a-ph-d-thesis) to capitalize "Chapter" and "Section" when referring to specific chapters or sections.
Is this also the case for "Ref." as in
"As shown in Ref. [12], ..." or
"The a... |
2021/07/21 | 417 | 1,792 | <issue_start>username_0: As my first time submitting a book proposal, it is required to indicate the amount of time expected to deliver the first draft of the book. I am not sure what to say because I have no idea about what the editors would consider enough time to write a book of 60k words. As I would really apprecia... |
2021/07/22 | 759 | 3,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got a job at a new institution, and recently one of my papers is accepted for publication. At this juncture you are allowed to change your institution on the paper. However, all of the work was done while at my previous institution where I was a postdoc, so I feel like the paper shou... |
2021/07/22 | 1,360 | 5,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking this question simply out of curiosity. I have reviewed around 4-5 papers of double-blind conferences. One pattern that I have found in common is that when authors use techniques/results from their previously published works, they do not properly cite that particular section/theorem ... |
2021/07/22 | 1,887 | 8,008 | <issue_start>username_0: The background is mathematics.
There are a few results I think are highly likely to be true, but proving them would take up some length, and they are not central to the paper I am writing.
They also are not important enough to become an independent paper, so it is unlikely someone will come an... |
2021/07/22 | 1,519 | 6,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I am expected to finish my Ph.D. by the end of the year and I am seriously considering going for a second one. After finishing my master's in Biomedical Engineering, I became interested in Machine Learning and self-taught myself until I eventually landed a Ph.D. project in healthcare. At the ri... |
2021/07/22 | 1,552 | 6,441 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many posts here with situation specific asks for advice on *should* one obtain a PhD, try a different PhD program, etc.
As someone who recently finished a PhD, I have been asked by students, friends, younger folks, this very question:
>
> "Should I get a PhD? What do you think?"
> ... |
2021/07/22 | 1,486 | 6,196 | <issue_start>username_0: Three months earlier, I published a preprint version of my paper and it appeared immediately on my Google Scholar account.
Recently, I published my paper in a journal. However, this citation/version has not been on Google Scholar. Thus, only the old preprint version is available on my profile.... |
2021/07/22 | 557 | 2,311 | <issue_start>username_0: This post does not include me, but recently, it came to the attention of many on a social media platform that a recently graduated doctor had made a claim that "the dean of faculty of medicine" is "forcing" people into putting the dean's son's name on their studies. The dean's son, who is under... |
2021/07/22 | 2,135 | 9,004 | <issue_start>username_0: Very brief of the situations that happened from Jan 2021 : Living in a 3rd world country. I completed my masters in math in Jun 2020. Then I wanted to study some additional topics before applying in Europe. So, took 1 year break and went home. Studied fine till Jan 2021, then constant verbal ab... |
2021/07/22 | 785 | 3,365 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if anyone knows, thinks or has measured whether putting a paper on arXiv before submitting to a journal has any impact on the paper reviewing process and on it being accepted or rejected?
I do know why to put it on arXiv. There are plenty of reasons for that and it has been disc... |
2021/07/22 | 813 | 3,516 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it true that in *most* peer-reviewed journals the editorial office can decide to publish a paper without at least one reviewer approving some version to be published as is? I am asking whether they technically have the right to do so in some kind of exceptional situation. Say, for instance, ... |
2021/07/22 | 1,456 | 6,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just had a paper rejected by a certain math journal -- nothing new so far, but the journal made a (rather unusual?) offer in the rejection email, and I'm not sure what to make of it.
They said that, if I want to, they can disclose the identity of the referee to the next journal I submit t... |
2021/07/22 | 482 | 2,203 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems like the review process rigor does not vary much at reputable journals. Is a low acceptance rate therefore due to lots of desk rejects?<issue_comment>username_1: My anecdotal impression is that while both phases are important and certainly the top journals have higher rates of desk rej... |
2021/07/23 | 773 | 3,238 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student in mathematics. One day I was having some conversation with my supervisor and we got to a point where he casually mentioned about his other students and said that one of his student is quite "weak" and one of his other student is "strong". Since then I've been wonde... |
2021/07/23 | 663 | 2,788 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked on a research project about a year ago while working as a full-time RA/technician and some colleagues before leaving after my contract ended. We are currently finishing a manuscript for publication, in which I am a junior co-author.
I currently am not in a research position but am an ... |
2021/07/23 | 1,135 | 5,014 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergrad junior majoring in physics and mathematics and will likely apply for a high energy experiment or observational cosmology PhD programme after graduation. I have heard quite a few times that many people who studied physics and mathematics in undergrad wished they had s... |
2021/07/23 | 571 | 2,182 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an edited volume proposal to a series editor, and she replied, starting her email with: "Dear [my first name] (if I may?)". She also signed with her first name.
I'm fine with first-name basis, so I would certainly say that she may.
Now my question is, should I address her by first name ... |
2021/07/24 | 980 | 3,651 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply for a Ph.D. grant. I have two options, one in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the other one in Stuttgart, Germany.
The one in Amsterdam is 38h per week. The remuneration is
`€2,395 to € 4,402 gross per month` and a favorable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-... |
2021/07/24 | 2,135 | 9,050 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a paper, there are inevitably mistakes. Many of these can be caught by careful revision, and the more time spend revising, the more mistakes which will be caught. However, clearly a draft should be submitted at some point.
**How should one determine this cutoff point?** How much d... |
2021/07/24 | 850 | 3,914 | <issue_start>username_0: Does it ever happen that some form of consensus (tacitely, maybe) forms by which people in a field that *"X is doing exceptional work these days, let's not ask them any refereeing for a couple years"*, with the understanding that it is beneficial for the whole field to let these individuals fin... |
2021/07/25 | 1,134 | 4,875 | <issue_start>username_0: If a student receives a scholarship for their (B.Sc. or M.Sc.) studies, but at the same time works on a project that is totally unrelated to their studies voluntarily and receives no funding for the project from any entity, should this student acknowledge the scholarship in the paper?
To make ... |
2021/07/25 | 396 | 1,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for an informal(?) internship at my school and the employer asked if I knew any faculty or staff members well enough to write me a recommendation. I have only just completed freshmen year and don't really know any of the teachers well and long enough that I'd be comforta... |
2021/07/25 | 1,003 | 4,076 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is aimed at the countries where the graduate program admission decisions are normally made at the department level; the primary sources of funding are TAs/RAs and there is at least one year of coursework prior to the transition to full-time research (e.g., the US).
It is likely t... |
2021/07/25 | 1,692 | 7,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found that most top US CS PhD programs **don't require** a personal statement (PS). **Only a few schools** put the PS into their application checklist.
As for the requirement of PS, take an [example](https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/personal-statement/) from UC Berkely, the pe... |
2021/07/25 | 888 | 3,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in pure math. It seems like "postdoc mentors" are common nowadays in U.S. universities. The idea is that you do a postdoc under the supervision of someone whom you can write papers with. My impression though is that a lot of mathematicians didn't have postdoc mentors. Would it be a bad sign... |
2021/07/26 | 3,552 | 15,402 | <issue_start>username_0: I have come across a [published dataset](https://doi.org/10.15146/5xcp-0d46) which comes with a note saying that: (1) the authors of the dataset would like to be informed of any papers that use it (2) they might request co-authorship depending on how much the paper depends on the data.
I am fe... |
2021/07/26 | 413 | 1,838 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my manuscript to a single blind high quality journal. My idea is novel and based on an idea published in their journal. After two weeks, it got desk rejected because the data seems not interested (there is no restriction on the used data by the journal)! I have sent it to anoth... |
2021/07/26 | 753 | 3,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a current PhD student in a STEM field who does work in areas that mostly concern social good. That is, my work's outcomes would at first glance mostly help uncover a new societal issue or inform legislation (e.g., consumer protection).
I am considering what different academic paths would ... |
2021/07/26 | 392 | 1,727 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that another author has defined a proposition in a published paper. For the purposes of my own paper, I would like to use that proposition. However, I would have to re-define the proposition (e.g., simple algebraic manipulation). Is it okay for me to call this a proposition in my own wo... |
2021/07/26 | 1,792 | 7,764 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a sociology PhD student in the EU. Back in September, I started teaching a recitation class. My MSc is from another institution (which is also in another country – I moved from Finland to France...) and so I taught the recitation more or less how I was used to from my previous institution (... |
2021/07/26 | 727 | 3,346 | <issue_start>username_0: To maximise discoverability of my manuscript, should I avoid repeating words that occur in the abstract or title in the keywords?
I have a feeling that common academic search engines don't really differentiate between the title/abstract/keywords.
So should I "waste" some of my precious free tex... |