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"Acknowledging funds from an award tied to a specific individual",
"I am organizing a conference at a major University. Much of the funding for the conference has come from the an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award received by a particular scholar. He controls the funds tied to the award and has chosen to give some funding to support the conference. Should this be acknowledged on the advertising material associated with the conference? What wording should I use, if so? It looks strange to me to include the name of the academic, viz. \"This conference has been made possible by Prof. X\", but if I simply say \"This conference has been made possible by the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\", this gives the impression that they directly funded the conference, which is not the case.\n\nAdvice is appreciated!"
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"conference",
"funding"
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"Citing a Book Chapter where the book is not yet published, and the bibliographic details are not known",
"I'm trying to reference a book chapter (I have the title for this). But the book's title is not yet confirmed and neither is the order of the chapters, or the size of the book (meaning page numbers are not gonna be fixed to the A4 manuscript).\n\nHow would I go about citing this?\n\nI have the chapter title, chapter author, publisher, location. That's it.\n\nAny advice?"
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"citations",
"citation-style"
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"Is it possible to switch between Ph.D. departments at the same university?",
"I recently asked about the ethicality of staying in a Ph.D. program (first-year) while attempting to transfer to a different university that I had declined previously. Unfortunately, the funding was cut short for said program and I did not get off the wait list for funding. \n\nThe main reason I wanted to transfer was due to the fact that I wanted to focus on a more applied math program as opposed to the current program I am in that focuses on bioinformatics/biology. Since the transfer/funding did not work out, I was curious if I could possibly transfer from the Ph.D. I am currently in to the math Ph.D. program. They are both under the same college of sciences. I did my undergrad in both math and cell/molecular biology and I believed I could incorporate enough math but if possible I’d like to just get the applied math Ph.D. and apply it to biology instead of the other way around. \n\nMy two options are either to stay in my program and recruit many math committee members or to outright move to the math department. I don’t particularly want to ask my own department yet because I don’t want to be looked down upon or lose any funding because I do want to stay here and will happily finish (eventually) by incorporating more math based individuals.\n\nI was wondering if this has been done before or if anyone has any advice on how to go about this? Obviously I’d like my funding to carry over and I believe since they’re in the same college of sciences it may be doable. I’m worried that I’ll be criticized or judged for wanting to do this or lose my funding. Since my first option of going to the other program at a different university didn’t workout and I didn’t hear about it till a week ago, I was unable to really follow this second option."
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"phd",
"graduate-school"
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"Do citations of an edited volume of which I wrote one chapter count towards my own bibliometric indicators?",
"I recently noticed that an edited volume of which I wrote one of the chapters is picking up quite some citations. Since the citations are of the entire edited volume, naming only the editors of the book, I wonder whether these citations also \"count\" for me?\n\nI am wondering if those citations of the entire book can be added to my total citation count (and calculation of H-index etc)?"
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"citations",
"books",
"bibliometrics"
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"Should I put an experimental experience from master' degree as a skillset in my CV after a computational PhD?",
"I am applying for mechanical engineering and materials engineering postdoc positions. I mostly apply for computational research positions but sometimes I apply where they are looking for experimentalists with some computational experience as well. Can I mention the following as a skillset in the CV without being misleading?\nMy PhD was in computational materials science where I did not do any experiments. However in 2013, I completed master's degree where I had done quite a significant amount of experimental work. I did scanning electron microscopy, xray diffraction experiments and mechanical testing. I did not do those during my PhD. I remember how to analyze the results, but I don't remember how to operate the machines anymore.\nUnder such scenario, should I mention experimental methods as an experience in my CV?\nCurrently, I mentioned these in following way:\n> Research Skills\n> Computational: Experienced in nonlinear Finite Element Analysis (FEA)....blah blah blah\n> • Tools: Python, Fortran, blah blah\n> • Packages: Scikit-Learn, blah blah\n> \n> Experimental: Proficient in metallurgical polishing and mechanical testing; Experienced in materials-characterization methods: Scanning\n> Electron Microscopy, Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)."
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"application",
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"cv"
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"US/UK titles vs LATAM ones (Venezuela)",
"I'm from Venezuela, and of course I got all my education in that country. I need help with converting degree titles into their US/UK equivalents.\n\nFor example, in the US/UK you have the B.Sc. grade, and I understand it goes after high school (if I'm correct). Here, Bachelor means graduated from high school. \n\nWhen you go to university, here we can become technicians (3 years post school), or get a \"long scholarship title\" (up to 7 years) like engineer, lawyer or surgeon. \n\nAfter that you can get up to 3 different grades: Specialist (???), Magister (Master) and Doctor (PhD) (2 years each, and all require to do a thesis) or just get a Diploma (a short (1 year or less) course, without thesis).\n\nWhat is the equivalent of the Specialist title in the US/UK? \n\nI did specialization; I'm more than an engineer, but not a Master. What title should I add if I translate it into English nomenclature?\n\nThanks in advance for your answers :)\n\nPS: I did the post-degree on informatic"
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"When mentioning a website, parenthesis or reference?",
"In terms of IEEE style(IEEEtran) and ACM style(ACMsmall), respectively.\nFor example, when I mention Stack Overflow, should it be Stack Overflow [1] or Stack Overflow (www.stackoverflow.com)"
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"citations",
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"acm"
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"Is the new ACM 2012 taxonomy usable/in use?",
"I've wasted about an hour trying to figure out how I'm supposed to categorise an ACM article using the new 2012 taxonomy here, and how I'm supposed to represent those categories in my article.\n\nOn the plus side, the 2012 taxonomy has some perfectly apt categories for my paper (unlike the previous 1998 version).\n\nOn the minus side, the instructions are abysmal with respect to how it should be used, it seems to be completely incompatible with the standard TeX macros provided with standard sig-* templates, and not only do the TeX macros provided by this interactive system not work (\\begin{CCSXML} and \\ccsdesc), they don't even seem to even exist (at least Google turns up little if anything).\n\nIs anyone actually using this new 2012 taxonomy and if so, is there any good guide on how to use it with a standard LaTeX sig-* template?\n\n(Otherwise I think I'll just go back to the 1998 version ... as weird and archaic and seemingly useless as it is, at least it's a straightforward way to fill in those pointlessly mandatory category fields. Grrr.)"
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"acm"
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"What to do about a citation that may be wrong",
"I am writing a paper and I needed to cite some fact. I had difficulties finding something that I could cite. I have found a paper that also cites this fact and they cite some other paper without further explanation. I have gone through this paper that they are citing and I cannot find how the fact that I want could follow from it. It seems somewhat relevant but going through all the theorems, none of them seems like they could imply what they claim. I do not have a deep understanding of that paper and it seems it would be rather difficult for me to carefully read the whole thing.\nI suspect that this result should be somewhere in the literature but cannot find it.\nI have emailed the authors but did not get a response yet. I have contacted the corresponding author who forwarded my email to another co-author so I know they have received my email.\nAt the same time, it is not too difficult for me to prove the claim myself. Therefore, I need the citation only to give credit to the original author and to make my paper a little shorter (not very important as there is no strict page limit where I intend to submit).\nWhat should I do if the authors do not respond before the conference deadline? I can think of the following:\n\nSay something along the lines of "paper A cites paper B but it is not clear how the fact follows from B. For completeness, we provide a proof here"\nIgnore that paper, as I was not able to determine whether the citation is correct. Do not claim my proof to be original but rather say I was not able to find any reference but I suspect that it has been proven before.\nJust cite the paper they cite\n\nOf these, (3) is clearly not good. Is it OK to choose (2)? Should I contact the authors once more before the conference deadline and inform them about what I intend to do?"
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"How to provide an anonymous copy of work online?",
"It may seem odd, but I need to put an anonymous part of my work (an algorithm) online.\n\nWell, it should be available online as I want to refer to it in a single-blind submission (but not as the contributions), and it should be anonymous as I want to introduce it (as the contribution) in another conference submission (with double-blind review). Since the submission deadlines are close to each other I want to handle it like this.\n\nIs there a way to put it online with anonymous author names (arXiv does not allow it) so it could also be searchable via google?\n\nI will remove it or update it with full names after the paper review process is finished."
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"publications",
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"online-publication",
"anonymity"
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"Some postdoc positions do not have deadlines, but will open until filled. What is happening?",
"I am currently searching for postdoc positions for my first time. Many postdoc positions have definite deadlines, but others don't. Surprisingly, some prestigious institutes list postdoc positions for a long time but they are still waiting for applicants. My belief is that prestigious institutes would quickly receive a lot of applications, so that the positions ought to be taken very soon, but this appears to not be the case. What is happening?"
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"application",
"job-search",
"university",
"postdocs"
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"In US, is it possible to have a non-tenure position for the whole career",
"As it is very competitive to have tenure, I wonder if there is any case that someone holds a non-tenure position (e.g. associate professor) until the end of his/her career, i.e. until the retirement. If there is, is it a normal practice?"
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"How can I progress with researching/working with profs with a bad transcript?",
"I've been asking a lot of questions on here lately (my apologies to the admin for that), but I've become very worried about my future as I've had a terrible semester. \n\nI'm a second year student currently studying mathematics at a Canadian university and as of now, I have two Cs (one in a math course) and an F on my transcript (thankfully, from a non math course). I'm very worried about how this will hurt my application to grad school (in terms of getting research experience and my transcript itself), particularly as a MSc candidate. I know I have a lot of time to make up for my mistakes (academically) this semester, but the way I see it, I'm pretty much out of options until maybe next year when my GPA (currently sitting at ~3.4-3.45) goes up, considering a lot of research opportunities at my school are based on GPA. \n\nI am very interested in pursuing research in some areas of pure mathematics. However, like I mentioned earlier, I know for a fact my school operates research grants and applications based on GPA and seniority, thus because I: \n\n\nAm a second year student and do not have many higher level maths courses under my belt and; \nHave a mediocre GPA and;\nHave received lower marks for second year courses rather than first...\n\n\nit is highly likely I will get rejected by the professors at my school and not get the grant. \n\nMy question now is what else can I do to help me gain experience/skills/contacts within the department at my school? My lackluster grades were a result of poor time management and I know I can do better. When I asked a similar question, I was recommended to seek professors to do informal reading with. I am still planning on doing that, however, is there anything else that I can do? I was hoping to ask one of my profs, but I ended up doing much worse in his course than I expected, so I don't know if contacting him would be reasonable anymore? \n\nAnyway, this is a question mostly to see what I can do to redeem myself more than anything. I still have two more maths courses this coming semester I have the chance to do well in, and so far this C would be my lowest maths-related mark yet. Hopefully that doesn't completely take my out of the running. \n\nThanks in advance for all your help."
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"Should correlation tables be half or full matrices?",
"With a table showing correlations between several variables, one must choose whether to show values in only ~half the cells (and if so, then choose above or below the diagonal) or all the cells. Since correlation is a symmetric measure, the same amount of information is conveyed with both options. \n\nFilling the whole matrix might make it easier for people to find a particular value, because they can think of either one as primary and look for it in either part of the matrix. However, filling the whole matrix might make the presentation more overwhelming to a reader (\"wow, that's a lot of numbers\") while the half matrix might seem more elegant. \n\nHas there been any work done looking at which is more effective for communication?\nAre there widely used style guides in certain fields that answer this question, which might provide a starting point for a field which lacks such a guide?\n\nRelated: https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/79256/36320"
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"What should the purpose of a draft of a research paper be?",
"When writing a research paper draft, what should be the purpose? Is the goal to write the draft with the aim of producing a finished product but expecting that it may need changes? Or is the draft more of a glorified outline that shows the path in which the author is going to take?\n\nI'm referring to the objective/intent of the draft writing. For example, writing the draft with the goal of creating a near completed product (assuming there will be edits) versus writing the draft as a mere outline of the \"plan\" you want to take."
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"Using Google Scholar for meta-analysis",
"I'm working on a meta-analysis proposal/protocol, and one of the databases I would like to use is Google Scholar because of an anticipated scarcity in papers on the topic of my meta-analysis, and I'm thinking using Google Scholar would increase my yield. Of course, it applies that I vet the papers I select, and thoroughly assess for bias.\n\nIf one is thinking of publishing their meta-analysis, would editors take using Google Scholar badly?"
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"Should I charge entry for a public lecture?",
"I am a research scientist, and as part of my role I am expected to perform some form of public outreach and engagement. I enjoy outreach activities and giving public lectures. \n\nI have a suspicion that free public lectures are usually poorly attended. I suspect that the attitude is one of \"Well, it's free and you get what you pay for\". Certainly the quality of artistic performances that I've seen is strongly correlated with entrance fee. \n\nWhile it is a reasonable expectation that my Faculty would pay for the costs of lecture room hire, advertising, possibly even tea and biscuits, I wonder if there is an advantage of charging a nominal fee to attend, to overcome the low-quality perception of a free lecture."
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"Does some degree of stubbornness help for a researcher?",
"Doing research requires exploring a tree of different ideas and then, upon failures, tracking back to some extent, up to giving up on the whole project and changing topics (or even quitting your PhD). You might err on both sides: change approach too much, give up too early, or too late. (See for instance this answer or Half good and some not good results in a research paper?). Most importantly, though, often you won't know that you'll actually succeed until you did, and things might look bleak until then.\n\nDoes some degree of stubbornness help being a researcher (I couldn't extract an answer so easily from 2)? Lacking that, do you know any metaheuristics to approach this decision?\n\nEDIT: I read this idea off the mention of \"stubbornness and self-delusion\" in this rant - and I've observed this trait in at least some researchers.\n\nEDIT 2: an answer suggested that I talk about persistence instead. And probably that's the right compromise and what you actually should have. But I prefer the more provocative phrasing, also because I've anecdotical experiences of stubbornness as a \"professional risk\" of the profession."
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"Is it professional for a professor to ask \"surprise\" questions on a test?",
"To clarify, I am asking if it's professional to ask questions that while relevant to the subject/course, and are related to the topic, but have not been discussed in class, assigned as homework, reading, etc. and are also not related to any prerequisite class that the students should already know. I am also not asking about \"gotcha\" questions where it's a quick \"know it or not\" fact, but rather an entire procedure, proof, or concept of some sort. \n\nFor example in class, using a formula from the textbook to solve problems, but on the exam asking for a proof of the formula that has been used.\n\nAnother example - in a foreign language class, asking about a never-before-seen word that may be related to some other, studied words or that has a similar sound/meaning in the native language.\n\nDo such questions \"make students think out of the box\", or are they more likely to discourage students when they struggle with them? While in the real world there may be many problems similar to this where the problem is completely new, is this something that should be taught in an unrelated class? \n\nDoes it matter if the test in question will be graded on a curve where even if a student doesn't answer the question correctly at all, they could still get a good grade?\n\nP.S. - this question was prompted by the comments in this answer"
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"Politely decline an offer that I sort-of accepted",
"I applied to several post-grad programs at Australian Universities. I got an offer from one (University A) very quickly, conditional on completion of my undergraduate degree. It had a lapse date of January 1. During the Christmas break I emailed University A letting them know that I had completed my undergraduate degree but would not be able to get a transcript to them before January 1. I said \"Is there anything I can send in the meantime [while waiting for official transcript] that would be sufficient to prove I have met the conditions of the offer and can accept it?\" Since then I got another offer from a different university (University B) that suits me better and I plan to accept this offer. \n\nToday (January 6) I finally got a reply from University A saying \"I can confirm you have successfully accepted your offer...\". I realize I may have implied that I was going to accept the offer in my email, but the situation changed and I no longer want to accept the offer from University A, since University B is a much better option for me for various reasons.\n\nHow can I professionally and politely decline the offer to University A?"
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"How to title a report on a project that is not final",
"I thought about posting this in English.SE, but since it occurs in a university setting, I decided to post here - hopefully it's on-topic. \n\nI have been working on a project that is being transitioned to another group member so she could take over the project. The project involves the design, development, and application of \"Model X\". I have done some useful work on it, but some work still needs to be done to complete it. I'm putting together a documentation package to describe what I've done so far, the design of \"Model X\", and how to use the code I've written thus far.\n\nThis report is internal to the group (whether this will be part of something that is published in the future, I do not know). I hesitate to title the report \"Model X\" because it's not, and might not be close to, being the final model. How should I title the transition report?\n\nSome options I have thought of:\n\"Current status of Model X\" - but this seems like an email subject\n\"Incomplete Model X: Design and Usage\" - this sounds a bit degrading\n\nWhat would you suggest? And are there in fact accepted titles for this kind of report?"
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"Switch to Physics from CS Career",
"I've been considering a career change for awhile and recently discovered the Two-Slit Experiment, which, to put it frankly, blew my mind. I then started some hefty reading and investigation into all things Quantum (Bell, entanglement, QIT), which has led me here.\n\nI have 20 years experience in IT working as a programmer, having graduated with a Bachelor in Computer Science back in the early 90s. As mentioned, I have been considering a career change for some time (having become quite burned out in this industry), and have found something that has piqued my interest more than anything else. I am not yet sure which area of \"Quantum\" I will be most drawn to, possibly Quantum Information Theory/Science.\n\nI am aware that there is a significant amount of Maths and Physics pre-requisites involved. It seems likely, given that I have not done any Maths or Physics study probably since I was doing my CS undergrad, that I will need to start over with an undergrad in Science/Physics in order to get the fundamentals.\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n\nWhat is the ideal path of education to get to QIT/QIS or QM?\nIs the path to QIT/QIS also via the Physics route? Can I leverage my CS background?\nResources (books, online courses, etc) that would help with the transition from CS-type thinking to Physics/Maths-type thinking.\nI'm considering Astrophysics as a minor (due to interest), but wondering whether it would be useful and complementary to Quantum Theory.\n\n\nApologies if this encompasses elements too broad or off-topic, I'm trying to get a better understanding on what is to come following this path. Thanks in advance."
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"What does \"Revise\" mean?",
"I submitted a paper in a respected journal (Elsevier) in my field (Biology/Ecology). After 2 months, the review of the paper is out. I was expecting it to \"Major Revision\", \"Accepted with Minor Revision\" or \"Reject\" but it was not clearly stated in the decision letter what is really the verdict on my paper but instead it says \"Revise\" and Reviewers have now commented on your paper. You will see that they are advising that you revise your manuscript. If you are prepared to undertake the work required, I would be pleased to reconsider the revised paper for publication.\n\nAlthough the reviewer's comments were positive (+constructive), minimal, some were clarifications and suggestions on what to add. But I'm still confused about what is the decision."
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"Can an author refer to work they did jointly using the first person?",
"I wrote a paper with a collaborator. The collaborator wrote a followup paper where they referred to their work in that paper in the first person, i.e. \"in a previous paper, I presented the idea that...\". To be clear, that particular idea really was their idea, not mine. \n\nIs this acceptable, or should they have instead said \"we presented the idea that...\"? Does it differ between different fields, such as computer science, mathematics, physics, and economics?"
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"When no program is available in your country and all attempts to join foreign ones failed",
"Here's my problem. I'm a high-school student, from Africa, I will now have completed my last year there; However, the only choice available to me, in my country, are either engineering schools or medical schools. But my interests lie elsewhere, since I want to become a theoretical physicist, and that's obviously not possible with these two options. I've looked at foreign programs, in particular, undergraduate programs. I know beforehand that getting full scholarships is extremely difficult, but I thought that it would be a good idea to at least try. According to my limited knowledge on the exact procedures that are a necessity to get into a foreign university (either the US, or the UK, I didn't look yet at other possibilities), but one should make an application before applying for a scholarship. And to do so, one has to fit certain requirements, amongst whom are a set of standarized tests, the SAT/A Levels. I've spent nearly 5 months, going to the British and US councils, asking many institutions, but none offered the possibility to take either of these tests.\n\nI now have exactly zero idea on how to proceed, which kind of gets depressing, and I'm worried that with the advance of my age, I may not reach my goal.\n\n(Sorry in advance if this question possibly violates Academia.SE policies, but in case it gets closed, I ask the interested persons who want to provide some help [even an infenitesimal one] to send me an email which you can find in my profile)"
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"Why don't graduate math texts have solutions to their exercises?",
"I study mathematics and sometimes I have seen book that contains problems but not their solutions. Why are there no solutions available anywhere?\n\nFor example, the books I have read are:\n\n\nNeukirch: Algebraic number theory,\nLang: Algebra,\nLiu: Algebraic geometry and arithmetic curves."
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"Can I use downloaded PDF English Language Course Books for teaching my students?",
"I am an English language teacher about to start private online teaching. A friend pointed me to the academia website as it provides old editions of English File student course books to download for free. Can I simply download them and ask my students to download them and then run classes using them? I'm assuming that there must be copyright laws prohibiting this, but then why would the books be available for free download?"
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"Does PhD subject area matter if one will research in multiple areas later?",
"Since the purpose of a PhD is to learn proper research skills, which should be applicable to any subject area, and since people can publish in subject areas unrelated to their dissertation, does it really matter which subject one chooses to research for their PhD?\n\nClearly, there are issues of motivation (if someone gets bored, it will be difficult to put in the effort required to complete the program) but if someone is interested in education/pedagogy, finance, leadership, and other areas, does the initial research area matter?\n\nIf someone gets a PhD in education/pedagogy and later wants to do more research in the area of finance, will the fact that the PhD was done in a different area introduce problems later?"
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"How important is it to cite the URL in bibliographies?",
"We use MHRA Author-Date for citations, and the information about MHRA Author-Date online is usually contradictory and unhelpful. The guide I've always referred to from my university only specifies including a URL for electronic journals, as so:\n\n\n\nBut realistically, every journal I access will be online. I don't have print copies of the ones I need. Is it important to include a URL for every journal I access? I almost never see URLs given in real academic papers, so I'm trying to determine whether this is something I should include in my own work.\n\nI haven't previously been penalised for not including URLs, but I'd like to know the general consensus on when you should include URLs in citations."
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"Is it possible to become an independent researcher with a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering",
"Dear Fellow Researchers,\n\nI got my PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from a EU university some time ago. I've got a good cv in terms of publications, peer-review work, participation in R&D projects, conferences, etc.\n\nI think I've got some good ideas for research and development projects. However, in a Post-Doctoral position, I am very likely to be working on already approved projects, not my own ones.\n\nSo my question is: Is it possible to become an independent researcher? \nAll I need is to be able to apply for research funding. Is it possible? I can create a company or whatever is needed to get an affiliation, if that is needed.\n\nWhat funding organizations would accept proposals in the field of Mechanical Engineering for those not currently working at a University/Research Centre? I am looking for EU funding organizations, but I am willing to accept those in the USA/CA/AU.\n\nAny help appreciated,\nBest Regards,\nKing Baboon"
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"Prospective supervisor stopped replying me before the application deadline",
"A professor agreed on helping me with applying for a postdoctoral fellowship. \nHowever, after I wrote the application materials and send to him, he stopped replying to me. It is really just several days before the deadline now. And I started to feel frustrated. I don't know what I have possibly done wrong.\nJust thinking that I had already ask my professors for writing recommendations and I had devoted much time in proposing and writing the applications. I really don't want to waste them.\nShould I make a phone call to ask is there anything wrong? \nWhat would you suggest me to do?\n\nThanks!!"
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"Effect of a guest semester in graduate school admissions in Mathematics?",
"I go to an Asian undergraduate school. It is probably the third best place to do undergraduate mathematics in my country. Which means it is basically unknown to graduate admissions committees in top 6 schools in the US. Still, alumni of my school have gone to Chicago, Michigan, Maryland, UCLA, Northwestern etc. There is another school in my country. This is very well known abroad and their alumni have gone in the best of graduate programs. There is an exchange program between this and my school. I can do a semester or two in this school in my 4th year (Mine is 5 year integrated BS-MS course.)\n\nHowever I am unsure how graduate schools - especially top 6 - would view this. \n\nI have some evidence that this won't have a drastic effect on my application.\n\nThe other school also has a MSc program in Math. Every year few people get top grades in that. But no one of them get good PhD positions. Apparently only BSc graduates get amazing offers.\n\nIf I take the most advanced graduate courses in two semesters in that school will I be comparable to their BSc graduates who go to top programs and how would faculty there view this ?"
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"What level of knowledge and expertise is usually expected from someone just entering a PhD in computer science?",
"If someone has bad grades and limited programming experience, can they afford to rely on their first year of coursework to come up to speed with the field? Or is it a better idea to take some time off before starting your PhD and improve your skills?"
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"Is it better to use reference letters that show variety, or two letters from the same job that better fit the program I'm applying to?",
"I am an undergraduate student getting ready to apply for graduate school in a few months. I have worked in two jobs in Physics (my desired field), one in experimental and one theoretical. At each job I have at least two people willing to provide reference letters, and I believe all of them would be good references.\n\nMany of the graduate application websites indicated that 2 (or more) letters of reference are required.\n\nWhen I apply to one of these programs is it better to double down and use 2 letters that apply to the same program (ie, use 2 references from experimental group when applying to an experimental graduate program)? Or would it be better to have a bit of variety (ie, one letter from each group, regardless of whether I am applying to experimental or theoretical)?\n\nI'm leaning towards the variety, because I think that two letters from the same job would end up having the said the same thing, whereas the variety gives the university an idea of my breadth of knowledge."
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"graduate-admissions",
"recommendation-letter"
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[
"Supervisor partially putting themselves as first author even though I've done most of the work and written most of the paper",
"I've completed a project in computational physics. 100% of the code and running of the code completed by me and the introduction, theory and code description in the paper written by me. Results section written by supervisor with some feedback from me.\n\nWhen we put the latex together I was listed as first author on the paper, since, as my supervisor stated, I did 95% of the work. However, when the paper was submitted my supervisor listed themselves as first and corresponding author in the online submission fields (I was still first in the author list of the submitted paper - ie. in the actual latex document).\n\nWhen I pointed this out to the supervisor they denied it, so I logged in to the journal account and sent a screen grab showing the status, They said that they must have made a mistake and would correct later when resubmitting (flagged for some missing documents).\n\nLater on I got an email from my supervisor stating that they had submitted the documents but 'forgotten' to correct the author status but not to worry because I'm listed first in the submitted latex paper.\n\nI'm not sure what to think here. Perhaps my supervisor is correct and it will make no difference (since I'm listed first in the latex paper) and is just winding me up. Either that or not I feel that I need to push back here, somehow without damaging the relationship.\n\nAddition: I think perhaps the author list inputted in the online fields may be used for citations but the paper itself will have me as first author. So perhaps my supervisor wants their name to be that cited?"
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"authorship"
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[
"Move Mendeley's Database to Another Computer",
"How can I transfer a mendeley database (including attached PDF files) from a computer to an another one which does not has access to the internet?\n\nThnaks\n\nEdit:\n\nThis software requires log-in via your internet-based account in its first run, and as i found, it uses sqllite for database handling, and requires some tricks when moving the database from one computer to another. But, as you have logged-in, for next times there is no need to enter username & password."
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"reference-managers"
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[
"Should I include my thesis supervisor as an author for new derived work?",
"I would like to make a variation of one question already answered here.\n\nI have also submitted my Master thesis manuscript to the university library and I have verified that there is no conflict of interest if I publish a summarized version in a journal (in fact, the university urge me to do so to gain visibility). The thesis was based on a previous paper I have published along with my supervisor and one colleague. For that paper I didn't participate in the creation of the algorithm because my role was testing and finishing paper's drafting. How ever, during the thesis, I added original algorithms to cover some existent deficiencies and the supervisor merely limited himself to check typographical errors and confirm the quality of the results. \n\nOne of the thesis evaluation committee's member suggested me to improve the quality of the evaluation parameters by using a state-of-the-art method I didn't consider before, so I am thinking to add the new method (and the obtained results) to the submission of the next paper.\n\nSince I finished the Master program (some months ago) I haven't mentioned to my supervisor that I am considering to make a new submission, in fact, he is involved with new master candidates and projects, and I am working full-time in industry. Should I still mention him the idea of submiting a new paper or adding him as a contributor?\n\nNote: the first paper was published while I was working as a lab assistant in university A, and I completed the thesis in university B. University A's legal office was fine to let me continue with my thesis as long as I were using a different implementation on a different language (which I did), so I don't see any problem on that aspect. My thesis supervisor is still a professor in both universities."
] |
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"publications",
"thesis",
"journals",
"paper-submission"
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[
"How to abbreviate the name of a university when there is no official abbreviation?",
"Given that I must address a university by abbreviation, say call the University of X simply X, for some given X, and that there is no official abbreviation for the name of this university, what is a safe strategy to call this university?"
] |
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"university"
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[
"Do any British universities still offer degree registration from afar to those who study alone, without tuition?",
"Forty years ago, London University was still offering degree registration to \"external\" students, who might be living anywhere in the world. To prepare themselves for the London exams, many studied at local institutions; but it was also acceptable for external students not to study at any institution but to study \"privately\". Some of these \"private\" students had private tutors, while others studied wholly on their own, without any tuition, and after being registered for the required period of time they presented themselves in a London or London-accredited examination room and sat the exam papers. Fees were paid both for registration and examination. For many decades, the availability of degree examinations to private students was considered one of the special features of London University.\n\nI am not asking for recommendations, but are there any British universities nowadays that register and examine students who study wholly on their own?\n\nNote that I am not asking about degrees by \"distance learning\" in which coursework is required and tuition bought from and given by the degree-awarding institution, or by an institution accredited by it, although it is possible that the kind of degree registration I am asking about might be considered a sub-category of distance learning."
] |
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"university",
"united-kingdom"
] |
[
"Where can I find a data set on trust in the Internet?",
"I looked everywhere for a data set on trust in the Internet of things and I found nothing...\n\nThe articles I read didn't mention the data set used or the data set was not a public one.\n\nI even emailed two publishers for the data set and they didn't help me."
] |
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"publications",
"thesis"
] |
[
"Professor says he won't report my cheating if I admit it in writing. Is it a trap?",
"I cheated on a homework assignment. The professor found out. I am afraid of what is going to happen. I know I should face the consequences. I am thinking about just withdrawing from my PhD program now, before his complaint gets to the dean. \n\nHe said that he would not report if I write an email admitting it and saying that I would never do it again. But this seems a way to get me admitting it with proof. I already admitted in front of him. I don’t know why he needs an email saying that. \n\nShould I provide this e-mail? Is it a trap?"
] |
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"professors",
"cheating"
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[
"The role of a good collaborator",
"I'm midway through a PhD in Physics in the United States. In my short time in academia so far, I've had several distinct kinds of collaborations. I've collaborated with peers who are working on understanding a new area together, with folks in other department who are doing applied work, and of course with my advisor.\nEach collaboration has had its own unique structure. For example, in some of the applied work, my collaborators were interested in learning more about the details of my area, and in others my collaborators were just interested in getting results from me to plug in to their work. In some of the work with peers, each of us handled a distinct aspect of the work (and we understood little of the each other's aspect); in others, we worked together on the same problems and batted ideas back and forth.\nMany of the collaborations have had the same kind of issue for me, though. Sometimes I feel like my collaborators owe me a certain amount of attention. (For simplicity, please consider that the collaborator is at the same level of seniority as me.) For example, once I was on the verge of a "breakthrough" and talking through it with someone would have made a big difference, but my collaborator didn't want to engage. For another example, once I was very confused about a particular question in an applied collaborator's area that was relevant to our project and they brushed me off when I asked for help.\nAlmost every collaboration I've had would have been improved in my eyes if my collaborators were more generous with each other. However, I know that there must be a line. The famous Hardy-Littlewood rules have an Axiom 2 which states that "There was no obligation to reply, or even to read, any letter one sent to the other". Clearly, other established researchers could feel differently than me.\nMy question is intended to elicit responses which flesh out the role of a collaborator, with a particular eye towards interactions with others on the team. When a researcher (student or established) agrees to be a collaborator with someone, what responsibilities are implicit in that?"
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"research-process",
"united-states",
"collaboration",
"responsibilities"
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[
"Where to upload a reprint (post-print) of my publication?",
"I used to self-archive papers on my homepage in the institute where I was doing phd. I just noticed that my homepage and the reprints were removed -- that's normal, I'm not working in that institute anymore.\n\nI can legally self-archive these papers. For example, J. Appl. Cryst. allows authors to post reprints\n\n\n on their own personal website, on their employer's website/repository\n and on free public servers in their subject area.\n\n\nWhat are the best \"free public servers\" to upload electronic reprints?\n(IIUC arXiv is for pre-prints rather than post-prints)."
] |
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"publications",
"online-resource",
"repository"
] |
[
"How to automatically link LaTeX .bib references to a set of pdf full-text articles?",
"I have a huge collection of PDFs of research papers. Many of these have valuable annotations. I also have a huge .bib file containing citations for these and many other works. Is there a reference manager software where I could import the .bib file and the collection of PDFs and somehow the entries in the .bib file could be magically linked to the corresponding PDFs? I would then like to use that tool to access my PDFs (of research papers).\nI think this was a feature request for mendeley long back\nhttp://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-general/suggestions/80946-automatically-find-pdfs-link-them-to-imported-me .\nAs of today, I don't think that it has been implemented.\nI tried Quiqqa (http://www.qiqqa.com/) , but had no luck."
] |
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"productivity",
"reference-managers",
"latex",
"bibtex"
] |
[
"Who funded research before 1800?",
"The Von Humboldt model of a university came about in the early 1800's. Von Humboldt's thought that the fundamental purpose of the university was to promote scientific inquiry and to unify teaching and research. This idea implies, of course, that the purpose of a university is to create new knowledge\n\nHowever, a previous SE question touches upon the idea that the initial goal of a university was not to discover new knowledge (as was Humboldt's view) but to transmit older knowledge. \n\nWith these ideas as context, where exactly were scientific advancements pursued prior to the Von Humboldt model?"
] |
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"funding",
"academic-history"
] |
[
"Can I use my university email address for job applications?",
"I just started a postdoc position in England, but I have a personal problem with the place. I want to apply for another postdoc position in other cities.\n\nAm I officially allowed to use the university email to contact other professors for finding possible postdoc position? Because, it is not an official use related to my job, but personal.\n\nI wish to use my university email, as it can attract more attention, as I am already working in England. Many Indians send email to professors, and they do not read them carefully."
] |
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"postdocs",
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[
"Is it less valuable to participate in a paper with a lot of co-authors?",
"My question is specific to computer science area since in departments like medicine and physics, good quality work usually is a result of big team of researchers.\n\nNot arguing that publish or perish is a fact in academia, I believe there might be some nuances that make an adacemician more or less valuable in terms of preferrability, credibility and reputability.\n\nPublishing quality papers is always a big plus. However, suppose that there are two papers (call them A and B) where A's significance is 8/10 with seven authors whereas B's significance is 6/10 with two authors. And suppose that two people (call them X and Y) have 20 publications each.\nX has a lot of instances of A in their CV, and Y has a lot of instances of B.\n\nAssuming that every other parameter is identical (their references, their universities, their field of studies, etc.), which one is more credible? Which one's reference is more valuable? And which one of them is closer to get a the only position in a university, if applied simultanously?"
] |
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"publications",
"computer-science"
] |
[
"How to interpret \"I think you should apply broadly\" from a prospective PhD supervisor?",
"What does it mean, that a professor says: "I think it would be great to have you at X university, and your suggested dissertation topic is a great idea, But, I think you should apply broadly, not just to my university" ?\nI mean, does that imply he's really into accepting you? Is there any hidden subtext here?"
] |
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"graduate-admissions"
] |
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"Running out of Algebraic Symbols",
"I'm currently writing my thesis in computer science. My work contains a large amount of equations to do with linear algebra, data transformations and calculus. On receiving feedback on my first draft from my supervisor, he has told me that I am reusing symbols all over the place. So I am going back over things, but I'm finding that I'm running out of both English and Greek characters and I'm having to constantly search back through the text to see if the symbol I want to use has already been defined. For example:\n\nTake two vectors X and Y with lengths m and n respectively.\n\n\nAll of these symbols have previously been used. So my question is, once a symbol has been defined once, can it not be reused for the whole thesis, and how then should I deal with this problem. \n\nThanks."
] |
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"thesis",
"writing",
"mathematics",
"computer-science"
] |
[
"How many major revisions are allowed when publishing with Elsevier?",
"I submitted my paper to one of the Elsevier journals in the field of molecular biology and evolution, I've got one major revision back; I fixed the comments, and sent it back to the journal.\n\nIt is still \"under review\" for 1.5 months.\n\nWhat I want to know is \n\n\nIs it possible that this review comes out with another major revision?\nhow many major revisions can I get?\nwhat are usually the time frames for the second round of reviews?"
] |
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"publications",
"elsevier"
] |
[
"What are RTD-b positions in Italy?",
"I recently saw in an ad that an Italian university invites applications to \"Senior researchers (RTD-b, tenure track).\" What are RTD-b positions? Since they are said to be tenure track, I guess they correspond to assistant professors in the US system? Are RTD-b position holders expected to do independent research and advise PhD students as assistant professors do? How much teaching load do they usually have? What is their career path after getting tenured?"
] |
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"italy"
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"my first authorship paper from my PhD was changed at last minute to a co-authorship... is it gonna affect in any way my career?",
"I recently finished my PhD in Developmental Biology in the US, but I left a couple of experiments completed prior to finishing the paper. (This paper was developed during the course of my PhD and has had numerous changes).\n\nI have since finished my PhD and my supervisor started to take my paper and made decisions on it. He never once asked me for my Drosophila collection, and we never ever discussed the paper and how we could finish it. I became depressed as he treated like I am stupid, even though the paper was almost done and it was worthy of a high-impact journal... He never seemed to trust in my capabilities. \n\nI have since realised that he found a new grad student to finish those experiments (that I could perfectly have done faster and in a much shorter time)... and now (almost a year later) my paper was submitted. Unfortunately, he decided to make the other PhD student the second first co-author of my paper. \n\nI would like to hear some opinions as I don't know what to do. \nIs this going to impact my future career? \nI also don't understand how someone that knows deep inside that I am the first author of a paper can do this?"
] |
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"authorship"
] |
[
"How to reference studies mentioned in a paper without having to read the original papers?",
"I'm review the literature at the moment. Now I'm reading a paper that mention other studies. How can I reference them without reading the original papers?"
] |
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"writing",
"citations",
"literature-review"
] |
[
"Can someone become a doctor or work in health sector by completing a PhD degree in Philosophy in Medicine?",
"three-year Ph.D. in Philosophy, in association with Philosophy & Medicine Project\n\nIf someone completes this Ph.D. degree, can he either become a doctor or work in a hospital/clinic or health sector?\nI mean, is there any option/possibility/potential?"
] |
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"phd",
"medicine",
"philosophy"
] |
[
"What to do after PhD?",
"I obtained a PhD in Microbiology. I have some papers and a competitive CV. I would like to continue in Academia or to try industry. \n\nIs the normal path to find a postdoc job in naturejobs.com? I'm overwhelmed by the high number of jobs that are being offered, I just need one!"
] |
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"phd",
"postdocs"
] |
[
"Must I reference resources for definitions I express with my own words?",
"I am writing a master thesis. When must I cite a resource I used ? Most of the time, I read a definition in a given book and express it in my own words: must I mention the book in question for this particular case ?"
] |
[
"citations"
] |
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"'Scholarly' alternatives to Goodreads",
"As you can read on Wikipedia, \n\n\n Goodreads is an Amazon company and \"social cataloging\" website founded\n in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, a\n software engineer and entrepreneur, and Elizabeth Chandler. The\n website allows individuals to freely search Goodreads' extensive\n user-populated database of books, annotations, and reviews. Users can\n sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading\n lists. [...] On the Goodreads website, users can add books to their\n personal bookshelves, rate and review books, see what their friends\n are reading, participate in discussion boards and groups on a variety\n of topics, and get suggestions for future reading choices based on\n their reviews of previously read books.\n\n\nMy question is: \n\n\n Is there a scholarly alternative to Goodreads, that is, a website\n where you can shelf papers, journal articles, scholarly websites, and\n preprints as well as books?"
] |
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"publications",
"networking",
"reference-managers"
] |
[
"How to gracefully exit my postdoc position with 1 year left in contract",
"This is my 2nd year in the lab with 1 year remaining in the contract. The PI is a nice guy and well-funded, but he has completely shifted his focus to his business and clinic trials. For example, I just waited a month for him to start revising my manuscript. I'm unable to get any instructions or ideas from him. Now I've finished the only paper and have no promising project in hand, I want to quit and find a new postdoc. But I don't know how to ask my PI for a reference letter. What should I do to avoid burning the bridge? I think he even expects me to extend the contract for another 2 years. I don't have any job offer yet, but I feel like I should tell my PI before sending out resumes."
] |
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"postdocs",
"contract"
] |
[
"Does it make sense to publish papers/ theses online?",
"I've left academia for business some time ago. However, it occurred to me that I could publish some of my old final papers/ theses online as online books. \n\nI have all the copyrights. \n\nThe theses are good and I could probably publish the most recent ones in \"traditional\" publishing houses, but with my new job, I don't really have time for several rounds of corrections and re-writing of old papers.\n\nThese are papers with implications for the practice and on topics \"general public\" may find interesting. What I mean in this post is, obviously, not \"scientific publishing\" online, but non-fiction publications directed at general public.\n\nMy goal is to earn a bit with the texts. I don't really need a list of publications for my current career, although it's never a bad thing to have some publications I guess, so if the publishing \"channel\" is not completely ridiculous it's even better.\n\nHave you had any experience with self-publishing online? Does it make sense? Or is it useless work? \n\nEdit I don't see much point in discussing whether the papers are interesting/ valuable/ up-to-date or not and I'm a bit surprised that this topic has been raised at all. (Because I would expect a bit more scepticism concerning making assumptions on details not mentioned in the initial post from academics). Instead, I would find it interesting to hear from someone who actually has had some experience with self-publishing their work/ academic work online. That's the point of my post."
] |
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"publications",
"online-publication"
] |
[
"Can a reviewer suggest literature for improving the language?",
"I am working on my PhD now for 1.5 years and was recently asked by my supervisor to assist him with a review. The reviewed paper was also written by a non-native speaker.\n\nFor my first publication I bought a book on English writing skills for research papers, which was very helpful for me.\n\nCan I suggest this book to the author of the paper I got for review, so he can improve his English? I do not want to critize him, only to give him an advice I also give my colleagues.\nI am not sure if this exceeds my responsibility."
] |
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"publications",
"peer-review"
] |
[
"Once I accepted a postdoc offer with \"A\", is it ok to accept an invitation to present with group \"B\"?",
"Details are very important here: \n\nI interviewed for postdoc positions at 2 labs (same university), and received offers from both. \n\nI accepted the offer from lab \"A\", and when I declined the offer from \"B\", the PI told me that they were sorry about my decision, and that they would still like to invite me make a presentation for their lab. I thanked him for the invitation and agreed to make the presentation. \n\nThe two groups (\"A\" and \"B\") do not interact (they work on different fields), so this is essentially a matter of etiquette. \n\nIs it ok if I make the aforementioned presentation now that I started my appointment with \"A\"? Should I inform the PI of \"A\" that I will go present with group \"B\"? Or should I just decline the invitation to present?"
] |
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"etiquette",
"postdocs"
] |
[
"Are there examples of classes with students publishing their reports instead of just turning them into TA & Professor?",
"Am interested in learning more about student publishing. Is there a list of courses where students are publishing their work instead of just turning them into their TA and professor?"
] |
[
"publications",
"teaching"
] |
[
"What If the announcement for a Tenure-Track position in a research-intensive university does not request a research statement?",
"If a TT position is announced in a medical-related field in a research-intensive university, and they request to apply using 1) a letter of interest and 2) a CV (No research statement is required). They say the candidate's time would be divided between research 60%, teaching 20%, and service 20%. Would you still submit a research statement or would you just include in the letter of interest more details about your current and future research (this might require making the letter little longer ~3 pages)?"
] |
[
"career-path",
"statement-of-purpose",
"tenure-track",
"faculty-application"
] |
[
"Response to project proposal feedback",
"I have recently submitted a project proposal for the final project of one of my graduate courses.\n\nThe unit lecturer who marked my proposal is in his 70s and he has once stated in class that he's an engineer for so long that he knows everything better than us and there is very little that we can outsmart him. (Maybe not exactly with these words but something very similar.) Although I am not very comfortable with the way he said it, he is not entirely wrong as he is a well-known professor with a lot of experience.\n\nHe marked me down in 2 sections and his comments are quite controversial. \n\nThe 1st section is the historical background of the product I have proposed. He is the history himself I give him that but my writing was based on a research and I didn't made up a random historical background. I even cited the books I have used while writing that section. The books that I have used are highly reputable in my field of study.\n\nThe 2nd section I got marked down is about the assumptions I made to simplify the design while running computer simulations. Mid/small scaled robot arms often use \"servo\" motors and these motors are capable of rotating 180 degrees and some can be modified to rotate 360 degrees. I have got several datasheets to verify this information. Yet, the lecturer commented \"All servo motors rotate 360 degrees.\" which is clearly not the case.\n\nI will email him to respond his comments but I sometimes have trouble with expressing my ideas without being annoying/impolite and hence I need your advice on how to structure my email. I don't want him to get annoyed and start picking up on me in the upcoming submissions.\n\nI am a person who gets motivated by the marks I receive. At the beginning I was very excited about this project and the way my proposal was marked discouraged me. I don't think it received the mark I have deserved. Consequently, I don't feel motivated anymore. Some of the proposal (from other students) are marked by the unit TA and he is a very fair guy. Although both the unit lecturer and the TA mark based on the same marking rubric, I bet I could get 10 more points if TA was marking me."
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"graduate-school",
"email",
"interpersonal-issues"
] |
[
"Is it possible for an undergraduate to get involved in an independent research project unrelated to his/her concentration?",
"Assume that I am an computer science undergraduate, and I am interested in how studying distractions influence exam scores in the long run, i.e. do you gain a tolerance by studying with distractions eventually?\n\nIf I had done significant investigation in this area and found that there were no previous research on such a matter, is it possible for me to get this project started, although I have no experience in the related field (in this particular example, cognitive sciences)? \n\nIf so, how?"
] |
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"research-process",
"research-undergraduate"
] |
[
"How can I assess the quality of a paper outside my field?",
"As per the title, I would like to determine whether a paper cited by a student comes from a reputable source or not, given that the paper's content lies outside my field. My first thought was to check the journal's website, as well as doing a Google Scholar search to see whether papers in other reputable journals cite papers from this one.\n\nThe particular case I am concerned with is a Psychology paper, appearing in AllPsych Journal [sic]. All the journal's webpage says is that:\n\n\n The educational articles and papers published in AllPsych Journal are written by mental health professionals, psychology students, psychology instructors, and other authors outside the field of psychology. * They represent problems, solutions, and suggestions about everyday life and its relation to psychology. For submission consideration, please contact us via our feedback form.\n\n\nThis seems dubious to me, but nonetheless, a Google Scholar search suggests that some reputable looking publications have cited works appearing in this journal.\n\nI suppose I have two questions then:\n\n\nAre there any other techniques I can use to assess the quality of journals outside my field for this purpose. Ideally these should take relatively little time.\nIs this specific journal considered reputable in psychology?"
] |
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"citations",
"disreputable-publishers",
"psychology"
] |
[
"politely refusing authorship opportunity?",
"I (a grad student) first-authored a paper with my ex-PI and some colleagues. The paper was rejected from a journal. Meanwhile, this ex-PI also bullied me, did something else that was hurtful, and did not provide helpful feedback on the paper. The ex-PI is now asking if I want to re-submit. Can I politely refuse? If so, how?"
] |
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"graduate-school",
"authorship"
] |
[
"Is it acceptable to ask for course notes ahead of time?",
"I am taking a course in Computer Science next semester (it is currently a vacation period for my university) and I would like to email my future lecturer and ask them for the set of course notes for this course (and ask if they have any suggestions for further reading on the topic) so that I may read them ahead of time as I'm quite interested at the moment to learn more about the topic.\n\nWould this be viewed in any way as me giving myself an unfair advantage (specifically as I am asking for the course notes which will contain content yet to be taught in the course), or could it be viewed negatively by my future lecturer?"
] |
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"ethics",
"etiquette",
"computer-science",
"email",
"coursework"
] |
[
"General considerations about sharing referee reports",
"I have occasionally noticed that an author chooses to share publicly referee reports from a journal, usually because they are feeling aggrieved about a rejection. I also know that now and then people do share reports with (a few) close colleagues or friends.\n\nWhat is generally considered good/bad conduct regarding sharing reports? I would hesitate to share my reports widely, mainly because I associate that behavior with cranks (as it seems to be cranks who publish them) and would worry that it might come across as sour grapes and unprofessional.\n\nAre there any clearer guidelines or reasons why we should keep the reports private? Is it considered a breach of confidence of the anonymous referee? Speaking generally, the reports are obviously a vital part of our scientific process, so it is strange that they so rarely see the light of day. Are there arguments within e.g. the open science movement to make all reviews publicly available?"
] |
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"peer-review",
"ethics",
"privacy"
] |
[
"Postdoc application email with PI",
"I came across an advertisement for a postdoc position at a US school. While I have a PhD from a (different) US school, currently I am in India (my home country). I had contacted the PI to check with her to see if visa support is available for this position. She replied saying that she will support my visa if the fit is right. She also gave me a small problem to work on and asked me to return my solutions in a week. I did. It's been two weeks since and I haven't heard anything back. \n\nWhile I realize that there could be any number of reasons for not replying (such as she's busy, or no longer interested or waiting for more people to apply), a simple reply confirming the receipt of my solutions would help.\n\nIf anybody has any ideas as to what to make of this situation, please do share."
] |
[
"application",
"job-search",
"postdocs",
"visa"
] |
[
"Paper with a spelling mistake in author affiliation in publication",
"I published a paper late 2016. Recently I noticed that the published manuscript has a typo error in one of the authors affiliation. But it got indexed correctly on all databases under that author. Will it be good to contact the journal now to rectify the mistake or should I not care about that much as anyway it got indexed correctly? If I contact the journal almost after an year, will it affect the reputation of the authors? Also one of the student is going to use this paper for his PhD thesis. Considering this fact should, what is the best strategy to handle this ? Any recommendations?"
] |
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"publications",
"journals",
"authorship",
"errors-erratum"
] |
[
"Do presentations given during interviews count as invited talks?",
"I am in the process of interviewing for faculty positions and trying to keep my CV up to date as I go. Should I include research (or teaching) presentations given during on-campus interviews as invited talks? Or are they considered just a part of the interview process and better left off the CV?"
] |
[
"cv",
"interview"
] |
[
"Problem in citation link in Google scholar",
"I have uploaded a paper in eprint site. In my Google scholar, the citation of my paper is addressed by the semanticscholar.org site. \n\nMy problem is that, I have revised my paper in eprint site, but in Google scholar, researchers can not access to this revision of paper, since semanticscholar.org did not update my paper to the new revision of paper. I contacted with the support system of semanticscholar.org, but after one month no change is happen. Moreover, when I search the title of paper in my Google scholar, Google just present the semanticscholar link of my paper and dose not show its eprint link.\n\nMy Question: Is there a way to add the paper in my Google scholar with the its eprint link.\n\nThanks for any suggestions."
] |
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"google-scholar"
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[
"Need advice on options for strong recommendations to Top CS programs",
"I am considering applying to competitive PhD programs this year, but I am not certain who/how to ask for strong recommendation letters. I am not even sure the following experiences will yield strong recommendations or if they indicate that I am unfit for the programs.\nI have the following people in mind already:\n\nA mentor I did a research internship with at a top CS school in a very well-known CS lab (PI with h-index 100+). During the internship, I think I did great work in the computer vision/deep learning space, considering it was my first experience in that, and we came close to finishing in 2 months and potentially publishing. After this, however, it went kind of downhill. I couldn't commit to finishing because I started school, but I essentially said I would but never kept my word, several times. Surely, this wouldn't look good. I still feel this mentor is supportive of me, but I don't know how the following experiences after that summer will impact my recommendation.\n\nA professor at my school who I worked with briefly, also in the AI/ML space. I haven't published with them, but they are very committed to my success, were willing to take me in as a PhD student in their lab, and I feel confident they will give me a strong recommendation. They publish yearly and their lab is growing. h-index ~30s\n\n\nI am only not certain of who to ask for the 3rd recommendation.\nI have these options:\n3-1) Renown researchers from an internship experience from freshman year at an Ivy League school. This was more using applied CS for the biological sciences, but these researchers are very well known. They've published in Nature, etc. Thing is, I don't think I left a particularly strong impression on them as a freshman. I didn't contribute anything extraordinary and even when I asked to extend the work into the year, I sensed they were a bit hesitant about it. One of these researchers did, however, provide me a recommendation for one of the future internships I got. This was years ago, and I have not been in touch with them since.\n3-2) Manager/co-worker from my industry research internship. This was 2 years back. This manager essentially made it known to me that I was a stronger software engineer than a researcher. Neither the manager nor the co-worker are particularly well-known research scientists, but the company itself is. The work was in the NLP/AI space.\n3-3) Another CS professor who was supposed to be doing joint work with me and 1) but never really got around to it. This person is Dean of the department at my former university now, but considering we never worked closely together, he wouldn't have much to comment on other than to iterate the work I did with 1). h-index ~30s\nOut of the options for the 3rd recommendation, 3-1, 3-2, and 3-3 -- who should I ask? After all of this, I'm pretty much not sure if I should even pursue PhD, but I don't know if that's my impostor syndrome talking. I graduated with a 3.9, a great CV, and all these great research experiences. I am an underrepresented minority and my school wasn't particularly well known.\nAny advice would be much appreciated"
] |
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"graduate-school",
"recommendation-letter",
"professors"
] |
[
"Primary Investigator gets really nervous around me?",
"My new Primary Investigator, who is well respected in her field, gets really nervous when talking to me for some reason. We are the same gender and both married so it's not a problem of that sort... This does not seem to happen with any other student, who she has a really good relationship with, but when talking to me, sometimes (not all the time) she really fumbles for words. This then makes me start to get nervous and our interactions sometimes become awkward. How should I improve our relationship so I can communicate effectively with my advisor?"
] |
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"graduate-school",
"interpersonal-issues",
"communication"
] |
[
"is it okay for a paper to be in conference proceedings but not on IEEE Xplore?",
"A conference says on its call for papers website that: \"papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings (if the authors wish to do so), but they will not be uploaded to IEEE Xplore.\" -- What does this mean exactly? If I agree for it to be in the proceedings then will I be able to find it using the ISBN of the conference? Will it have a DOI (I highly doubt, but still wanted to know)? \n\nThank you in advance. I appreciate your time and consideration."
] |
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"publications",
"conference",
"ieee",
"indexing"
] |
[
"Pursuing a Second Master's Degree(Part Time) : pros and cons",
"I am currently working in a manufacturing company as a software developer and have just completed my masters in control and automation in 2011 with my bachelors in \"Electrical and Electronics\". My main reason for doing my first masters is to change to my domain from IT where I was working as a programmer for 1.5 yrs. Now I am thinking of doing a second master's degree in mechatronics, because I am short of some knowledge in the electrical and automation field which I think is must for me to become an expert in the factory automation field. \n\nEven though I feel it will be helpful for my personal career and reputation. \nI find some doubts whether a person having a double degree is welcomed in the job market or not. Also Frankly, In my opinion, I used to think that who are having many degrees as people who run away from real-world jobs and are not as competent as those who have years of experience. Another thing is I also want to do MBA after 5 or 6 years. So, can someone tell me what are the pros and cons of having multiple degrees?"
] |
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"masters",
"career-path",
"part-time"
] |
[
"Is it common to buy a gift for a supervisor when he invited me to a dinner?",
"I am an international student. I have just started my master degree in Canada and I have been invited to a group dinner by my supervisor.\nThis situation and culture are quite new to me; I have not had this experience before. How should I act? Should I buy a gift or something? \n And if so, what sort of gift seems appropriate?"
] |
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"etiquette",
"professors",
"canada"
] |
[
"Student contribution/Citizen science?",
"I'm a student who, due to circumstances beyond my control, is having to take a gap year.\nI want this gap year to be productive, however! And would love to engage in citizen science projects/activities. However, given where I live, the citizen science projects and open-lab type spaces are non-existent.\n\nCould I perhaps:\n\n\n Read a bunch of research papers on a common topic and synthesise a review paper? Do journals publish review papers written by non-academics/amateurs?\n I certainly enjoy reading review papers: What sorts of criteria are review papers assessed on for publishing? (I assume that the style and format and referencing follow their preference/convention is a necessity for publishing. But what else?)\n\n\nIn doing so, I'd learn about a topic, how to write a review paper and perhaps being published could be an advantage when I look for research internships in the future?\n\nDoes anyone have any other potential endeavours to suggest?\nI've already shadowed & volunteered in hospitals & performed a few lab experiments. I'm currently looking for something that I could do to genuinely contribute to science and use this gap year as a learning experience.\n\nThank you!\njxs"
] |
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"science",
"independent-study"
] |
[
"How to find PhD co-supervisor?",
"I am looking for a co-supervisor to assist me during my research journey based on online / remote supervision.\nDoes anyone knows how I can make an ad or search for such a thing? \n\n\n\nI would prefer to find him myself and to avoid my supervisor assistant since I know that he would not be helpful to do so. \n\nDo you know nay website that I can find some ?"
] |
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"phd",
"supervision",
"business-school"
] |
[
"What is the purpose of having grades?",
"What is the idea behind giving a student a grade? It might sound like a funny question but I'm serious. \n\nI ask because in my previous question about disputing a mark, it's hard for me to decide how many marks and how much effort I should put into having a mark changed. If the purpose of going to school is to learn (something presumably you don't already know) then how do marks fit into the equation?\n\nGiven some of the answers and comments on the question I'm curious, how did this mentality that marks are non-negotiable arise? There seems to be the belief the prof has a totalitarian rule over the students. This doesn't make sense, especially considering how commercialized some schools have become. In any other area of business if a client pays (e.g. a student pays tuition) and is dissatisfied or has a concern about a service, then the company would work with them and either explain or change some part of the contract. How is it with teachers they get away with simply saying \"that's the right mark\"? (I know that's rather a facetious example but hopefully the point is clear). I'm certainly not suggesting one can or should be able to buy grades: rather I meant in business there seems to be a certain level of diplomacy which doesn't exist between students and teachers. For example in the question linked to it was mentioned that even if the wording to a question is vague, if there had been examples in class of a similar question then it should be known what is being asked for. This wouldn't happen in business. If a client said they wanted x, they're not going to pay for y; conversely if they had asked for x and wanted y, they're not going to sue the company. \n\nIt may be relevant to note that where I go to school, costs quite a bit of money (and it's a public university).\n\nAfter reading this several months latter, I hope my tone didn't come across as too harsh."
] |
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"teaching",
"grades"
] |
[
"Does anyone know how long the peer review process usually takes in the human-computer interaction journal",
"Does anyone know how long the peer review process usually takes in the human-computer interaction journal (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hhci20/current)?\nI couldn't find any information in their website"
] |
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"publications",
"journals",
"journal-workflow"
] |
[
"What to do when you do not get an answer after 1 year",
"I am in the situation where I submitted an article 1 year and 4 months ago. I already asked to editors about the status nearly five months ago and they replied they are still waiting for the referee answer and that they were going to ask to expedite the process.\n\nI didn’t receive other news since them, and I don’t know if it will be time to contact them again. Would it be considered impolite? What is your suggestion?"
] |
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"peer-review",
"paper-submission"
] |
[
"What images published in arXiv papers can I include in my education material?",
"I am going to give a course at my company and I'm looking online for images that I can use in my education material.\n\nSince many of the most interesting images suitable for this education exist in papers published on arXiv, how do I know which of the images found in arXiv papers I can use and which I can't? How do I know how these images are licenced?\n\nI often see images published in arXiv papers that are later used in presentations given by other people and/or republished in other's research papers, sometimes without any credit given to the creators of the images and almost always without a link to any license (in fact I can't remember ever seeing such a link, but maybe I have just not paid attention). Under what circumstances is that okay?\n\nA related question is, how does fair use come into all of this since we're talking about education material?"
] |
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"arxiv",
"graphics",
"license"
] |
[
"How can I do better research when the experimental design is lacking?",
"I would like to do first-class research. However, how do I actually accomplish that when my supervisors design not-so-great experiments and I don't have the resources to do more independent work?\n\nIn many fields (e.g. psychology, neuroscience), graduate students work in a group (i.e. lab) studying topics that their advisor finds interesting. Each student might have their own thesis topic, but all of the work is focused on the same big question or general research topic.\n\nTypically the data collection is mostly dictated by the senior researchers, as it is very expensive. Once it is collected, the lab might spend several years analyzing it, especially in bigger projects. This means that the potential of a project is mostly determined by the experimental design. If there is something wrong with it, not much can be done afterwards and the results must still be published.\n\nSo what can a young researcher do in these fields if the experimental designs (decided on by the advisor or other senior researchers) are lacking? Especially if I have done most of what I think is possible post-hoc (e.g. with the statistics)?"
] |
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"research-process",
"supervision",
"experiment-design"
] |
[
"Should I put a disclaimer on the first page of my thesis after making some corrections which are not allowed by the university?",
"My university doesn't let me make any corrections to my PhD thesis manuscript after defending it because all the members of the jury signed that no corrections are necessary. Not even typos.\nMy supervisor is insisting I make the corrections we mentioned during my defense because he finds them necessary and to leave a few copies in the lab's library.\nHowever, since this is not technically allowed. I'm thinking of putting a disclaimer on the first page, something like: "This is a private copy"."
] |
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"phd",
"thesis",
"etiquette",
"thesis-committee"
] |
[
"What to do when I think a published paper displays academic misconduct?",
"In a paper published recently in a math journal, the main result is presented as being new, but in fact it is not new, and I'm sure that the authors knew this before submitting the paper. I have informed the journal editor who handled this paper, who told me he would forward my message to the managing editor. I have not heard anything since then. What else can (or should) I do?\n\nFor what it's worth, I am a tenured professor.\n\nIn more detail, there was a previous paper [A] which proved a certain result (1). The proof given in [A] actually proves a stronger result (2) which has a messy statement, and notes that (2) implies (1) (where (1) has a simple statement). The main result (3) of the recent paper [B] implies (1), but is implied by (2). Moreover, the proof in [B] is identical to the proof in [A] (and the authors of [B] say this in their paper), except that the proof in [B] uses a stronger auxiliary result at one step. So the authors of [B] must have been aware of the stronger result (2) proved in [A], but they do not mention (2) in their paper, and certainly do not mention that their main result follows immediately from (2). To me, this shows that the authors of [B] published their paper under false pretenses, by intentionally misrepresenting prior work. In addition, the auxiliary result mentioned above is presented as a new result in [B], even though it has been published several times and also the authors of [B] were fully aware of this fact, since they had written previous papers citing an essentially identical result from a paper [C]. Even beyond this, the paper [C] contains a result which is stronger than (1), (2), or (3), although the authors of [B] do not mention this.\n\nIf people think I am overreacting, I would be happy to hear this. It's possible that my views of proper academic behavior are not standard ones. I don't have a fully articulated philosophy about these things, I just feel like the authors did something wrong and should not benefit from doing it.\n\nAdded later: The situation has been resolved. The journal's editor informed me that, after inspecting the documentation I sent him, he has decided to require the authors to withdraw their paper from the journal. I don't know the logistics of this, but to me it seems like the appropriate outcome."
] |
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"publications",
"ethics"
] |
[
"Why are conference papers so important in computer science (CS)?",
"From my understanding many CS conferences are highly selective and the papers are peer-reviewed. The CS field also seems to publish traditional journal articles. I do not understand the difference between the two and in particular I am curious about the advantages of having two different publication streams. The type of things I am curious about are:\n\n\nWhat is the difference between a paper published in a top CS conference and a top specialist journal?\nIs one more prestigious than another and if so how do they line up?\nWhy not just publish conference papers as a special issues of a journal?"
] |
[
"publications",
"conference",
"computer-science",
"reputation"
] |
[
"Should I ask for permission to write an expository post about someone else's research?",
"I am a math PhD student in North America about to enter my second year. Last week I attended a conference and was interested in a research presentation by a professor at another school. The presentation was about some of his current (unpublished) methods and results to attack a problem in combinatorics. I am thinking of writing an expository post about his talk in my personal blog.\n\nQuestion: Should I contact the professor to ask for permission to write about his research? My concern is that he hasn't published the results and so might not want to put them in public yet. I have seen people writing expository posts about talks or papers that they read or hear about (for example here), but I'm not sure if they need permission from the original author(s) to do so."
] |
[
"mathematics",
"ethics",
"etiquette",
"blog"
] |
[
"What is the meaning of \"Complete and Send Review\" in Elsevier journal under History tab",
"What is the meaning of the \"Complete and Send Review\" status in the History tab of an Elsevier journal?"
] |
[
"peer-review",
"elsevier",
"journal-workflow"
] |
[
"Can I ask potential advisor what topics he is currently most interested in?",
"Can I ask potential advisor what topics he is currently most interested in? I am looking for a topic at the moment, so I'm still searching, and there is one advisor who I'd like to work with. His general topic is also what I want to do in my PhD, but I don't know yet what the exact topic might be. I thought of asking him what he is most interested in at the moment, and see if there might be a fit, or will this shine a bad light on me and my interests?"
] |
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"graduate-admissions",
"graduate-school",
"thesis",
"advisor",
"research-topic"
] |
[
"Link which explains how to format a letter to Nature",
"I need to write a letter to Nature and a friend of mine said that Nature wants the Author to follow a very precise format. \n\nHe said that the explanation of the structure of the format is an example of a letter in which: there were different colours for the different sections, it also explained what to write in each section and which words use/don't use etc\n\nDoes anybody know the link where I can find such information?"
] |
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"publications",
"writing",
"formatting"
] |
[
"Reneging a postdoctoral offer from Canada due to Canadian work permit delays",
"I was recently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the United States. My supervisor was in close collaboration with another professor in Canada and therefore I expressed interest in joining the team in Canada with which both professors responded positively. \n\nI should mention here that I am a foreigner to both countries. Therefore, I had to apply for a work permit to move to Canada from the US. In addition, I require a full-job to remain in valid status in the US. \n\nI applied for a Canadian work permit based on the job offer as early as I could---which was only three weeks before the tentative start date on the official letter. The processing times estimate on the Canadian website for such a process were two weeks at the time. Happily, I resigned from my US job to finalize my move and get ready for the visa. \n\nUnfortunately, the visa has not yet arrived for another 4 weeks and my US status will expire soon unless I'm hired immediately. Therefore, I applied for a local postdoc position and received another offer. My previous supervisor in the US would not be able to re-hire me immediately and the current offer is the best option so far. \n\nMy question is as follows: I understand the resigning was a mistake in the first place. However, Is it justifiable, professionally and ethically, to accept another position in the US? The position in Canada is ideal to me, but unfortunately, I have to commit to the US position for about a year if I sign."
] |
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"ethics"
] |
[
"Is it possible to restart a PhD due to issues with supervisor (and should I do it)?",
"I am a PhD student in Europe and I am in the state of permanent crisis because of my PhD supervisor. He is a very nice person, who is very active with public engagement, very successful at grant applications and all that. But the problem is, it turns out he does not know the subject. Now I realize this is a very arrogant thing to say. However, for a very long time I refused to believe it and thought that there was some problem with me. Now all evidence (corroborated by others) shows that he really is incompetent. He somehow manages to pull it off, getting on other people's papers and so on.\n\nThe fact that this takes place in Europe is significant: I had to choose someone from the start of my PhD and the time is extremely limited. Also, I am not sure, but I have an impression that you will not be able to get funded, if you quit your PhD and start over. Is this so? Also, there is a very small number of people doing similar things around and none in the same institution. Additionally, it seems very likely, that no one would support a rebellion (i.e. switching a supervisor), because of politics.\n\nI have a very good track record, I finished at a top American university with very high grades, and most importantly I do want to do research. So this situation makes me very unhappy. I can't see any way out, but maybe there is someone who can? I will consider changing the field somewhat (but not too radically) and starting over, but it seems like the funding will most definitely not be available. Or maybe it will?"
] |
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"phd",
"graduate-school",
"advisor",
"europe",
"supervision"
] |
[
"Received no confirmation from editor of article receipt",
"I submitted an article to an academic journal about a week ago (not through a website but directly to an editor's email) but received no confirmation of receipt. What is proper protocol -- time wise etc. -- for sending a followup email asking for confirmation of receipt?"
] |
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"publications",
"journals",
"email",
"editors"
] |
[
"Is it ok to ask ex-dissertation supervisor for any future funded phds",
"Following a computer science degree I would love to follow a phd research.\nThe problem is that all funded phds that are advertised from the specific university do not meet my desired criteria, i.e. research projects that target the improvement of the quality of life of vulnerable groups of people.\n\nI know that my ex bachelor dissertation supervisor used do research and observe researches of my desired criteria. \n\nWould it be ok asking him through email whether such oportunities exist? Or would that be just a waste of his time?"
] |
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"phd",
"united-kingdom"
] |
[
"In Sweden, can a supervisor ask his PhD student to provide a private future work list of his thesis?",
"Recently, I faced a new academic phenomenon that a high level researcher informed me about. I am writing a potential reasoning of the phenomenon:\n\nFrom a legal point of view, PhD is similar to a transaction in which a PhD student produces an innovative content for the University and, in return, the University will give the student a PhD degree. Thus, it may be concluded that whatever the student produces in these years in direction of his thesis is for University.\nMoreover, one of the important aspects of a successful research is the potential growth that a research can have (future work). A part of the future work is written inside the thesis; however, many times this part is not such detailed. \n\nNow, suppose that a supervisor wants to take advantage of the future potency of work of the PhD student for the future PhD students of the same University (assuming that the University has the intellectual property of whatever he has produced in direction of his thesis).\nIn this regard, the supervisor may decide to ask him provide a detailed future work list with explanations as a private/inter-lab document so that the next students follow this direction.\nIs this request legal (based on the Swedish regulations) from a supervisor to his student?"
] |
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"phd",
"thesis",
"supervision",
"intellectual-property",
"sweden"
] |
[
"How do I ask professors to give feedback on my online articles that are based on their work?",
"I am working on a website that contains a list of free courses. My aim is to promote our field (semidefinite programming).\nEach course consists of a number of articles.\nEach article is built using different resources (books, posts, talks). Those resources are listed in each article.\nI strongly believe that participation could improve the work.\nFor each article, I want to send emails to the professors whose works were used and ask them to give a read the article, check and suggest small improvements if necessary. I will not ask them to write. The participation could be done by mail, github or comments on the website. I will also keep a list of all the participants as a reward to every person who agreed to help (I am trying to find another way to be grateful to participation but).\nHowever, I don't want to feel spammy. Any suggestions on doing that in a good way?\nPS: my work is not sponsored by any organization."
] |
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"email",
"communication"
] |
[
"What are the incentives for universities to recruit athletic student",
"Is there any special incentive for universities to have many athletic students? I am speaking based on my personal observation on North American universities.\n\nI often hear that universities look for students that are \"well-rounded\", but I do not believe that alone explains the numerous special early offers given to athletic students. This phenomenon, combined with some acknowledged cynicism, led me to this question."
] |
[
"university",
"undergraduate",
"college-athletics"
] |
[
"Can bad students be good scientists?",
"I recently moved from an undeveloped country to Europe, and I am currently a PhD student.\n\nIn my hometown, the education system is very bad, and almost everyone with some patience can get any degree. However, things do not work like this in Europe.\n\nI have always been a bad student, and I suck at exams (both written and oral). Although I am capable of presenting my own work in an understandable fashion, when it comes to study on some topic -- that is not very related to my field of study, and learn that topic thoroughly, I fail. \n\nUnlike the education system in my country, here, the tolerance for mediocre mistakes is close to zero. And I do make mistakes very often given limited time to evaluate my own statements/claims/proofs. My exam paper is always a mess compared to my technical reports. Because I get to write the report over on over again with an access to every term, definition, and counterexample.\n\nBack in my country, I was the one-eyed king in the land of blind. Extraordinary researcher, and very good student. Here, everyone has both eyes with eagle vision. My research skills obviously do not shine, and if you consider my studentship, I am just a dead duck.\n\nI do love to conduct research, and not only looking at its butt when it walks by. However, I am pretty doubtful if I can be a good scientist given my current achievements in the courses I take.\n\nShould I go with the philosophy \n\n\n a fault confessed is half \n\n\nor should I go with \n\n\n finish what you have started\n\n\nbased on your experiences?"
] |
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"phd",
"career-path"
] |
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