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[ "At the age of 27 is it worth changing graduate schools and starting again?", "I am interested in areas of theoretical physics/mathematics which simply don't exist in my institute. I tried 2 or 3 different groups here which were not in my interest (but I felt I had some transferable skills) and it didn't work out." ]

[ "career-path", "age" ]

[ "Should I upload my conference paper to extended (but entirely novel) Journal submission?", "I am submitting my journal article to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.\nThis is a completely new work. However, initial results have been submitted \nto IEEE Globecom 2018 (the result will be announced on July 15th).\n\nMy question is, should I upload my conference paper to the journal submission?" ]

[ "paper-submission", "extended-paper" ]

[ "How does a graduate program's admissions committee operate?", "How does a typical graduate program's admissions committee operate? (In the US --- I understand that in Europe admissions are often structured differently.)\n\nMy mental model at the moment is several professors sitting in a conference room with a stack of printed applications and a few piles: accept, maybe, and reject. Three or so professors will read an application and then make a decision. If the volume of applications is large enough, multiple meetings might be required. This is purely my imagination --- I don't know how accurate this model is.\n\nOf course, I'm sure that how admissions are handled depends greatly on the school, program, and department. I'm interested in a few data points to get a rough idea of what the average is.\n\nA few more specific related questions:\n\n\nHow much time does a typical committee spend on each application? I suspect there's a distribution. Obviously unqualified applicants will probably have their applications tossed into the reject pile pretty quickly. Qualified applicants' applications might receive more attention.\nDo admissions committees look online for more information about an applicant? I've read some professors (in CS --- not my field) will look at a student's research/project website, but I have no idea how common this is." ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "How many courses should I take in my PhD", "I finished my masters at University X and I am continuing my PhD in the same university which allows me to transfer up to 20 credit hours of my masters coursework to my PhD course requirements which is 27 credit hours. So now I only need to finish 7 credit hours and I will be done with the PhD course requirement. I heard from couple of friends that I should take more courses because finishing my PhD with a small number of courses might potentially hurt my future by making my PhD less in value. If this is true, how many courses should I take to make a good PhD courses count?\n\nI am interested in both industrial and postdoctoral positions after I finish my PhD." ]

[ "phd", "career-path", "computer-science", "united-states", "coursework" ]

[ "Is it unprofessional to use graphics from Wikipedia in a poster?", "Is it an acceptable practice to use simple graphics found on Wikipedia (and hence in Wikimedia Commons) in a conference poster? \n\nFrom the legal point of view, this seems to be fine, as long as the image is properly attributed. Presumably it should suffice to mention the source in acknowledgements section. Or am I missing something?\n\nHow would this be perceived? Would it come across as unprofessional? The poster I am preparing is for an interdisciplinary and not too formal event, and the graphic I'd like to add is meant to illustrate a basic mathematical notion. (However, more general answers are very welcome.)" ]

[ "copyright", "graphics", "poster", "wikipedia" ]

[ "Are P-hacking and hypothesising after results are known considered misconduct in academia?", "This question is inspired by a comment to another question where I asked for help on how to argue against P-hacking and hypothesising after results are known (Harking). Someone questioned the classification of these two behaviours as misconduct, and my general experience (around my close academic circle) is that many see these two activities as part of the way we do science.\n\nHere is what I refer to by P-hacking and Harking.\n\nP-hacking is when someone collects more data, changes the specification of a statistical model, change the analysis sample, or does other changes to the study until the results become statistically significant. Many of these things can be done with a justification, but the p-hacker (p-fisher) does them solely with the intent of obtaining a significant result. In doing so, he or she risks capitalising on statistical error (type 1 error) and publishing results that are basically a false positive.\n\nHarking is when someone generates a scientific hypothesis about the data after seeing the data. It would be innocuous if the researcher acknowledged the exploratory nature of the study and sought to confirm the findings in another set of data (or if he or she used cross validation techniques). It becomes a problem when researchers pretend that they had the hypothesis a priori and that the study was done to confirm it, hiding the exploratory nature of the study and conferring more strength to the results than they actually have.\n\nI am not asking for opinions on whether these things should or should not be considered misconduct. Rather, I would like to know the overall position of scientists in fields where statistics are used. I know of no survey on how scientists view these two behaviours, but I welcome answers that include such data." ]

[ "ethics", "methodology", "statistics", "research-misconduct" ]

[ "\"Will be recommended for publication in IEEE Xplore.\" What does it mean?", "\"All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be recommended for publication in IEEE Xplore.\" The quote was taken from a conference site. Does this mean that accepted paper will definitely be published in IEEE Xplore once accepted, or does that mean that there is a chance only?" ]

[ "publications", "conference", "ieee" ]

[ "Can a professor ask for money directly from students to print out handouts for class?", "I'm currently taking a class that doesn't have a required textbook, which is why I took it. My professor is now saying that due to her scanning and printing out handouts for use we are each required to give her $15. I'm confused by this because isn't the money supposed to go through my university, as a fee for the class, rather than through her? I just want to know if she's allowed to do this" ]

[ "united-states", "professors", "students" ]

[ "Why would a student go to a lecture at all if everything was in the book already?", "Why would a student go to a lecture at all if everything was in the\n book already? The lectures make sense if and only if the lecturer\n tells more than in the book(s) and in more detail (or at least, in a\n better/more clear way). [not my comment]\n\n\nEspecially in light of the Internet in general, what is the added value of a lecture over a (hypertext)book?\n\nReasons I can think of:\n\n\nspoken word might stick better, because our language is not primarily based on text,\nthe possibility to ask for clarification,\nsome material might not translate well to media\n\n\nI dislike those arguments, because a huge class can neither run at a comfortable speed for all at once nor answer everyone's questions. The expectation seems to be that the students should be homogeneous and everyone nonconforming should be filtered out.\n\n\npersonal contact affects us on a deeper level, role models are important\n\n\nDepending on the class size, even that is doubtful.\n\n\nto form communities,\n\n\nwhich would substitute or supplement the professors, but obviously at a different rate.\n\nThis is a trick question, because it depends on the style of the lecture. In my experience the lecturer is acting as a medium and I'm watching them half the time writing on the board, or someone is asking obvious or distracting questions." ]

[ "undergraduate", "coursework", "attendance", "curriculum" ]

[ "MAster's Thesis: How to find the way collaborate and consult multiple people about my work", "I am having couple issues here. First I am an International student and English is my third language. I am very shy and having tough times approaching people for help. I am writing my Master's thesis (in Art History) and I am still in the beginning and while I struggle in formulating my thesis and question, I know what is my topic going to be about. There were two academics who have written about this topic and I do not know how to connect with them and perhaps ask for a help with literature or advice and perhaps discuss my topic for ideas. My thesis advisor hasn't been responsive to my emails and last semester she was on sabbatical which slows me down significantly. But he is a wonderful advisor and have given me great direction regarding the topic and what arguments would have been possible to discuss. \n\nI would welcome any suggestions on how best to approach a professor/ academic from a different university/ organization to help me with literature choices, give me a feedback on my topic choice, and with general help to work on a research topic." ]

[ "research-process", "thesis", "masters", "advisor", "writing" ]

[ "How should you respond to your teacher who cannot help you with a recommendation?", "I had a meeting with my former teacher in my former school.\nWhile we were enjoying our tea and pan cake, I saw Prof. Nickname, and we invited him to join us. An hour later, after the tea, Prof. Nickname left first and was walking back to his office. I ran after him and asked if he had time to write a recommendation letter for me, and he told me that he was busy with his teaching and could not write the letter for me. I could see on his face that he felt so sorry about it, and I wanted to comfort him but I did not know what I should say. Given that situation, how would you comfort your teacher who could not help you with a recommendation?" ]

[ "etiquette", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "zotero: can I manually change a citation style", "I'm in the humanities, and I'm currently using zotero to cite primary and secondary materials in my dissertation. I apply the Chicago Manual Style, and don't have any issues with secondary sources.\n\nI do have problems with primary documents. I use archival materials, so the standard practice in my field goes something like this:\n\n\"name document\", archive, x, y, z, page. \n\nHowever, zotero puts the archive at the end:\n\n\"name\", x, y, z, page, archive. \n\nIs there a way to change the citation code in zotero to correct it(while keeping the CM style)? \n\nOr do I change everything manually (and risk messing up the footnotes)?\n\nThanks!" ]

[ "citations", "citation-style", "software", "humanities" ]

[ "How to get on my PhD supervisor's case without becoming a nuisance?", "So my PhD supervisor is very senior in the university. This has its advantages but unfortunately this also means he's very busy most of the time, especially now that it's summer and he's been away on holiday a few times. By and large this isn't a problem; I'm quite happy to get on with my work without much supervision. \n\nThe problem I'm now having is administrative. I have a progress evaluation report due and the deadline is nearing (I've already had the deadline extended once). I've completed my section and am awaiting his comments before I can submit (formal procedure). Further, I may need to be moving to another city in ~4 weeks time to work with a partner organisation for 6 months but I do not yet know for certain and my supervisor keeps putting the issue off (this has been the case for the last 4 months).\n\nIt's come to the point where these issues are critical, I fear missing the progress report deadline and I need to know where I'll be living at the end of next month so I can sort accommodation.\n\nI've tried sending a reminder email but have received no response. Also, I walked past my supervisor and greeted him but he seemed not to notice me. To make things worse, I don't have the relationship where I can just turn up to his office without an appointment.\n\nI don't really know who I can speak to about this as I work alongside very few people and I don't know what options are available to me save flooding his inbox with emails.\n\nWhat can I do to press these matters and how can I do it so as not to become a nuisance to him?" ]

[ "phd", "supervision", "administration" ]

[ "why is the impact factor of mathematical journals \"often\" lower than the impact factor of journals in other disciplines", "I was always wondering why is the impact factor of mathematical journals \"often\" lower than the impact factor of journals in other disciplines? I come up with some guesses that I would like to know your opinion about them.\n\n\nMathematics papers are so hard to read and follow (or so specialized) that only a few people can read and apply their results.\nThere are relatively a large number of subfields and branches of mathematics and only a few people are working in each branch. \nThe number of journals and papers in mathematics (divided by the number of active mathematicians) is relatively higher than other disciplines. \nA mixture of these.\n\n\nPlease, share your insights about this issue." ]

[ "journals", "mathematics", "impact-factor" ]

[ "Can a Guest Lecturer be my Referee?", "I have a guest lecturer who taught me one module for one semester and graded my work. He is willing to be my referee. Would he be counted as an acceptable referee if I were applying to be admitted for a PhD (graduate admission)?\n\nEdit: I would like to mention that I asked because I was just worried because I don't know if it's standard practice to accept such referees even if they have taught me for one full semester, and some bureaucrats who may act as gatekeepers to academic staff might err on the side of caution almost to the point of inflexibility." ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Receiving a reviewer comments of the wrong paper from editor", "I have received a revesion in which one reviewer comments is related to my paper but the other reviewer comment is not related it is may be mistakenly copy other paper coments.\nWhat can i do now?\nIs there any reply template to editor." ]

[ "peer-review" ]

[ "Why do professors list current position of their students on their webpages?", "I see that most professors list their former Ph.D students and their \ncurrent positions on their web page. Is it a kind of advertisement? If so, why? If not, why not?" ]

[ "professors", "students", "academic-life", "website" ]

[ "What does \"the manuscript has been removed from your Associate Editor Center\" mean?", "I received the following email:\n\n\n Dear Prof. X:\n You are no longer assigned to manage the review of Manuscript ID #####. The manuscript has been removed from your Associate Editor Center.\n\n\nWhat does it mean? I sent the paper 2 months ago and just today I got the email above. Do I have to wait long as a new editor will check the manuscript?" ]

[ "publications", "editors" ]

[ "Feeling pressured to publish thesis results by advisor I don't want to work with anymore", "A couple of months ago I finished my masters in computer science. A few days a go the following happened.\n\nMy main supervisor wrote an abstract of results from my thesis. He put me as the first author along with the two others, and himself.Then he sent a group email informing that the abstract is going to be submitted to a conference. In the email he refers to a previous agreement to submit a paper to this conference.\n\n\n\nI have three issues.\n\n\nI don't remember agreeing to submitting the results anywhere. We did talk about trying to publish the results and I was, at the time, very positive to the idea, but I always understood that we were going to \"get back to it\" at some point.\nI don't want to work on this any more (Nor do I want want my name put on any thing.). There is a reason I didn't apply for any phd position, despite encouragement. Academia stresses me out. I have a job now and am very pleased with that. \nHis first draft of the abstract was either written to be misleading (over-emphasising a connection to a much cooler subject), or he doesn't understand the context of the results, which makes me feel uncomfortable.\n\n\n\n\nI feel pressured to let them write a paper about the results and put my name on it.. but I'm worried they will misrepresent things and do a bad job. I don't want my name on something I didn't actually write.. even if the results are mine. \n\nAm I making a big deal out of nothing? Or should/can I put the breaks on the process?" ]

[ "publications", "masters", "advisor", "ethics", "etiquette" ]

[ "How important is it for your website to have a unique domain when applying for academic jobs?", "I am a PhD mathematics student in the United States, and I plan to apply for jobs at liberal arts institutions over the upcoming months.\n\nI currently have a personal website on Weebly.com, which is a service that offers free web-hosting. The URL they've assigned me is myname.weebly.com.\n\nWould potential employers consider this URL unprofessional? It would be printed on my CV and business cards, possibly other places as well. I can pay Weebly $8/month to have a custom URL, but I'd rather not do that if no one would care. If it makes any difference, I know that myname.com is currently available through Weebly." ]

[ "etiquette", "job-search", "website" ]

[ "Suggestions for writing short papers?", "I came out recently with a publishable idea. I analysed it theoretically, and now I need to simulate it - which will take huge amount of time apparently. I wanted to publish the idea, but I can't wait until the simulation is over. My professor suggested to go for a letter journal (each paper has a limit of 4 pages). This is the first time I write a letter paper, and it does not seem easy at all. \n\nAny suggestions or advices to keep the content within the limit of 4 pages without overcomplicating the paper? \n\nI wish this is not a vague question, or too specific. \n\nEDIT: my field is computer science, but the journal is managed by electrical engineers (IEEE Communications Letters - if it is Ok to name it)." ]

[ "writing" ]

[ "How do I politely and tactfully tell my advisor that I would like more consistency in meetings?", "I am a PhD student. My advisor is great, but like all academics is very busy (administrative duties, other students, research...).\n\nWhat happens almost every time I try to have a meeting, since the beginning of my PhD, is the following:\n\n\nWe set some date, say Thursday at 10AM.\nHe isn't in his office at 10.\nAt 10:30 he arrives.\nIt turns out Thursday isn’t great, actually, so let’s meet Monday instead.\nComes Monday morning, and the meeting is postponed to Monday evening, and then to Tuesday.\nBut Tuesday is a busy day too, so let's say Thursday at 10?\nBut at 10 there are emails to be sent, and more meetings, so let's say 5.\nAt 5 he isn't in his office, but at 6 we can meet, meaning I come to his office, sit, and wait sometimes half an hour until he's done writing emails, calling people...\nThen we can finally start talking. Six days after the initial meeting was set, at 6:30PM.\n\n\nI think over the past three months I’ve been able to have a total of five to six hours of meeting with my advisor.\n\nWriting all this, I realize I’m a bit upset, and I’m afraid it’s going to show if I try to talk to him about it. Because let’s be honest, I don’t want to continue like this. I cannot plan my work day, sometimes I have questions that could be answered immediately but I have to wait weeks, and it’s just generally an unpleasant experience. (And while I know some people are able to work very late into the night, I basically become useless after 6PM on a normal day...)\n\nOf course the long-term solution is to become an independent researcher and not rely on meeting with my advisor. After all, I won’t have an advisor all my life. But right now, I’m not quite there yet. How should I approach my advisor about this, without sounding selfish or upset?\n\n\n\nTo clarify: yes, whenever I have questions I try to exhaust all possibilities before asking my advisor: internet, my advisor's other students, other people in my lab (though this is a very specialized field, few people can help me if this is about my research). But for some questions, either I am not able to find an answer elsewhere, or there is no alternative to asking my advisor, e.g. \"do you think I should go to this workshop\", \"where do you think I should submit this paper\", \"is my abstract ready to go\", \"I found this and it looks promising, should I continue in this direction or stick to the original plan\"..." ]

[ "advisor", "interpersonal-issues", "communication", "time-management" ]

[ "The hiring process for a postdoc position in the US", "I need a piece of advice.\nI found an interesting postdoc position one month ago. I applied all required documents (CV and cover letter) and 4-5 days later I was interviewed by the group (including head). A few days later I was asked to prepare the research highlights and I did that. One week later they asked me to apply for the position via the university website if I am interested in the position, and also requested recommendation letters from possible referees. All letters were provided as I know, and they are positive. Moreover, I know I well match to that position. Of course, I do not exclude other possible existing candidates for the position and I can be not the first among them, of course. So, one month passed from the interview.\nI haven't experience in the application process for a postdoc position in the US and this is for the first time for me. Thus, the evaluation and hiring process for a postdoc position is a bit unclear for me. I am not sure that a direct request to the lab head for clarifying the situation is a good idea because in this case, I can look like a hysteric or in need person, and I don't want that due to obvious reasons. I do not exclude that they must prepare for the position a justification or something like and this also needs time.\nIn accordance with the above, I need a piece of advice. What should I do? Is the situation normal or I'm screwed? What should I choose as a strategy (wait or write)?" ]

[ "postdocs", "job-search", "interview" ]

[ "What are the masters funded opportunities for a British citizen living abroad?", "Since I have been living in Pakistan for the past 6 years (completed my Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from here), I find myself not eligible for most academic scholarships in the UK.\n\n\nFor international students, the scholarship criteria usually states that I should not be a British Citizen \nFor British students, the scholarship criteria usually states that I should have been nominally residing in the UK to be eligible for the scholarship or even for standard UK/EU student fees\n\n\nSo I am at the worst of both ends! What do I do? \n\nI am looking for an opportunity preferably in the UK but would be willing to go elsewhere" ]

[ "masters", "funding", "international-students" ]

[ "Can a postdoc write a letter for someone applying for a postdoc?", "I'm a PhD student currently applying for postdocs and while I have secured my first and second letters of recommendation from faculty, the professor that had agreed to write me my third has unfortunately passed away recently.\n\nI don't have a fourth professor sufficiently familiar with my research to write a strong recommendation letter. If I were to ask one, it would be one of those \"good but also kinda filler\" letters written by someone who knows me but doesn't know me.\n\nAlternatively, I could ask a postdoc I worked closely on several projects for a letter. He would be able to write a strong letter, but of course that's still not ideal because he's a \"mere\" postdoc.\n\nWhich one would you recommend? A good letter written by a professor mostly as a favor, or a strong one written by a postdoc?\n\n(There are similar questions on this site, but those concern Master students requesting letters from a postdoc when applying to a PhD position. Since a postdoc is still above a PhD student, the context is different, so the answers there don't necessarily apply here.)\n\nEDIT: I'm applying for postdocs in Europe and North America." ]

[ "postdocs", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "Should I withdraw my paper if I find another paper published with the same idea?", "I submitted a paper and it is currently under review (submitted on 10th March and conference is on 15th October, I'll be notified on 15th July). However, now, in May, I see a paper has just published dealing with the same problem as mine. They indicate that their solution is better than mine. If my paper is accepted, do I have to withdraw it, as it seems to be out of date?" ]

[ "publications", "withdraw" ]

[ "Doubts about publishing priority", "My doubt is this: if I first publish with a serious academic publisher a small book which gives an overall view of my philosophy of science proposal, could I legitimately try to publish afterwards some journal articles detailing the main specific theoretical questions touched upon in the book, or would it be a no-no and considered by the potential journals a form of double submission or attemp to publish non original content?\n\nMore specifically, I could distinguish two cases:\n\na) I try to submit the material to be published as a book, but I am still waiting for a response from the publisher. At the same time, I try to submit to various different journals (by the same publisher or not) some papers which describe in more detail some of the fundamental questions which are touched upon in a more coarse manner in the book.\n\nb) The book has been already published and only aftwerwards I try to submit the detailed papers.\n\nWould the above be legitimate practices? Or should I try only publish articles detailing questions and proposals not already touched in another publication of mine? Consider that the articles would surely add detail to the questions touched upon in the book, but that the basic lines of the arguments would be more or less the same.\n\nI recently achieved a PhD in Philosophy of Science, and I am still not very expert in the topic of academic publications, so this is probably a naive doubt. I tried to ask my PhD supervisor but I'm not quite convinced by his answers.\n\nThanks in advance" ]

[ "journals", "books", "philosophy" ]

[ "Submitting paper to journals and/or conferences in different fields", "I know there have been numerous questions on this site discussing the submission of papers to a conference and a journal (simultaneously and subsequently), but I'm curious about a slightly different scenario. Perhaps this is a duplicate but I couldn't find any answers already posted.\n\nIf I'm working in a field where there is cross-disciplinary work, is it okay to submit a paper to a journal or conference in each field? For example, a submitting to a medical journal for a novel medical application and a computer science conference for a novel algorithm? Obviously in one the focus would be more on the application of the approach while the other would focus on the \"how\", but the basic experiment/research and probably most of the content would be the same for both." ]

[ "journals", "conference", "paper-submission" ]

[ "Peer review in Computer Science Journals", "I work on both in the area of pure Computer Science and in the area of Computational Chemistry/Biology.\n\nTill now I have submitted papers to well known venues(journals) of both these fields. I don't understand the following situations after paper submission in both these fields:\n\n\nSubmitted papers in non-CS journals follow a quick review procedure i.e. submission - editor assignment - reviewer invited - under review - review completed - [...] Turnaround : 3 months\nBut, for pure CS Journals, every step is late except the first step which is obvious. Turnaround: 10-12 months\n\n\nWhat can we infer given such situations in peer review world?\n\nNote: I am talking about majority of journals in both these mentioned fields." ]

[ "journals", "peer-review", "computer-science", "science", "journal-workflow" ]

[ "Can I invite my phd student to be a guest editor of a special Issue of a Journal I am guest editor as well?", "I am an Assistant Professor in the USA and I was invited to be a guest editor of a Special Issue for an international peer-reviewed Journal. I was asked to find 2 other guest editors. Can I invite my PhD student to be a guest editor? Are there any reasons not to do it? I thought it would look good on his CV. I will handle most of the papers, I will give him just 2-3 papers to handle so it won't take too much of his time. He has 2 papers published as first name on this topic." ]

[ "editors" ]

[ "Showing proficiency in a subject without taking a course", "I want to communicate to graduate admissions committees that I know the equivalent of a standard course in machine learning as a result of my self-study. If possible, I would like to avoid taking the machine learning course at my home university to prove this.\n\nIs there any way I can show my proficiency in the subject matter? There are no proficiency tests in my college for this course.\n\nI have a few ideas:\n\n\nI could blog about machine learning\nI could post solutions to exercises from a machine learning textbook\nI could make a project that uses machine learning\nI could make YouTube video lectures/tutorials.\n\n\nHow would graduate admissions committees compare the following with a good grade in a machine learning course?\n\n\n\nRationale for not wanting to take the course (Please do disagree if you see necessary).\n\nI think self-studying is more efficient than taking a course. There's a lot of overhead involved in going to class, submitting assignments as per a certain format, clarifying grading policy details etc. that I would rather divert to learning more of the material.\n\nThat said, having read one of the links in the comments, I now see how unverifiable self studying can be; many students can allege to have proficiency but be dead wrong." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "coursework" ]

[ "ppt presentation for postdoc position interview", "I have to prepare the presentation about my previous research experience for 20 minutes. I don't know what I should include, how big and how much specific it should be" ]

[ "postdocs", "cv", "interview" ]

[ "How much time does each stage of paper in Elsevier Editorial System (EES) take?", "We have submitted a paper to an Elsevier Journal and now I want to know how much time each stage in article lifecycle take?\n\nThere is an article in Elsevier site which describes different status of a paper from submission to publication:\n\n\nSubmitted to Journal\nEditor Invited (Conditional - this step may not occurs)\nWith Editor\nUnder Review\nRequired Reviews Complete\nDecision in Process\nCompleted – Accept\n\n\nIt also noted that:\n\n\n Please Note: Most journals aim to communicate decisions to authors within four months of the start of the review process. There are a number of factors that may influence the actual time taken, most notably the availability and responsiveness of the article's referees. In consequence, peer review times do vary per journal. During the peer review process your article will show a status of ‘Under Review’.\n\n\nBut our paper status is Technical Check In Progress. this status is not mentioned in Elsevier site! I'm confused about this statuses. and now after 40 days the status is still in that stage. I want an estimation about time of this steps to see if I should be concern or not." ]

[ "publications", "peer-review" ]

[ "Is it okay for a thesis to have sections of very different lengths?", "I run into a situation where the logical division the material in the thesis I'm writing forces me to create sections of very different lengths. Matters are further complicated by the fact that the short section does not naturally divide into subsections.\n\nIs this bad style to divide material like that? If so, what are some good techniques for correcting it?\n\nAlso, should the shorter section have exactly one subsection, or should it not have subsections at all?\n\n\n\nThe layout I have right now looks perhaps somewhat like this:\n\nSection 1 (where I prove Theorem 1)\n\n\nsubsection 1 [10 pages]\nsubsection 2 [10 pages]\nsubsection 3 [10 pages]\n\n\nSection 2 (where I prove Theorem 2)\n\n\nsubsection 1 [10 pages]\n...\nsubsection 4 [10 pages]\n\n\nSection 3 (where I prove Theorem 3) [8 pages total]" ]

[ "writing", "writing-style" ]

[ "What to do when you are a finalist for a tenure-track position but you want to wait until you complete interviews at other schools?", "I visited a school for a tenure track position and the chair informed me that I am a finalist for that position. While, I still have interviews at other schools remaining, other candidates seem to have finished their interviews. \n\nThe chair asked me whether I would take an offer before visiting other schools but they did not give me an offer yet. Is this common?\nDoes the fact that other applicants have finished interviews affect the school's decisions?" ]

[ "tenure-track" ]

[ "Why isn't implementing scientific libraries in software considered equivalent to a publication?", "In academia, researchers live by the mantra of \"publish or perish\". This is because the contribution to society that academia gives is the expansion of human knowledge.\n\nHowever, given the importance of software to conduct research, I don't understand why implementing many algorithms or building API's for research purposes is not equally relevant when trying to get funding.\n\nSee, for example, how few papers in math, computer science and software engineering provide source code, despite the entire focus of the paper being on the implementation of an algorithm and its performance in real hardware. \n\nMoreover, see how much research relies on API's. We have linear algebra API's, calculus, computer visions, physics simulations, etc. Many of which are paid software (e.g., Matlab).\n\nIf someone is willing to spend time developing an API for a given subject (a computer vision library, a rendering algorithm, quantum physics / computing simulations) and that software provides new and useful tools in open software and for free so that researchers can conduct their research more efficiently, I don't see how this is not equivalent in usefulness as making a paper." ]

[ "publications", "software", "publishability", "software-papers" ]

[ "When to follow up for recommendation letter", "I asked two potential referees, 1 month before application deadline, to write me a letter and both gladly accepted, and one asked me to write a draft (which I learned was a common practice). \n\nIt has been 10 days and I have never heard from them after I responded thanking them for accepting my request (and supplying the draft to the one who asked). \n\nWhat is the best time to follow up with them without appearing pushy?\n\nAlso, one of my referees had an academic email address, which means the application system sent him an automatic electronic reference form by email, and I have no idea whether it was completed or not. Should I still follow up with him?" ]

[ "application", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "When should the grading scheme for quizzes and exams be finalized?", "I am currently working as a graduate teaching assistant for a semester-long introductory physics course, aimed primarily at Biology/Pre-Med undergrads. The students usually have a short quiz every two weeks in a discussion section, along with two prelims (mid-terms) and one final exam. The TAs make the grading schemes for their own quizzes as each discussion section has a different quiz.\nOne thing that I find very strange with the grading (quiz or prelim) is that the grading scheme is made after seeing the answer sheets submitted by the students, not before. The intention behind doing so (at least for the quizzes) is to assign less points to the harder questions and more to the easier ones so that the average is roughly 7.5/10 (this is a soft rule).\nSimilarly, on the prelim, the points for individual sub-questions were decided after conducting the exam and seeing a few answer sheets (points for each question were fixed beforehand).\n\nIs this a standard practice for introductory physics courses in the US?\n\nWhat are the benefits of this practice over deciding a grading scheme beforehand?\n\n\nFrom an answer describing a good grading system:\n\nAt minimum, a good grading system should meet three criteria:\n\nit should accurately reflect differences in student performance\nit should be clear to students so they can chart their own progress\nit should be fair\n\n\nOn the first two counts, making the grading scheme afterwards seems to be a bad choice:\n\nAccurately reflecting differences in student performance → making the grading scheme later may bias the grader towards assigning higher points for conceptually easy questions instead of more challenging ones.\nClear to students → the points for individual sub-questions are not assigned beforehand so students cannot judge how much time they should devote to different problems." ]

[ "grading" ]

[ "Should I do a PhD in Sound and Music Computing?", "I have recently applied to two PhD programs (in Europe) under professors working in the area of Sound and Music Computing (SMC). Both programs are very well regarded in this area.\n\nSMC covers topics such as:\n\n\nMusic information retrieval\nComputational musicology\nAlgorithmic composition / performance\nSentiment and expression modelling in music\nComputational approaches to music cognition\nAudio signal processing\n\n\nThis is not a complete list. I find the field very interesting.\n\nHowever, would the industry want to hire someone with a PhD in SMC? Let's say Google (just as an example), which is known to hire many PhDs. Would they be interested in someone with a PhD in SMC, or would they restrict themselves to machine learning / web / search PhDs? And yes... I'm sure that Yamaha would love to hire an SMC PhD, but would I be restricting my options to only a small subset of the industry?\n\nWhat about academia? How would they look upon an applicant to the assistant professor position who has a PhD in this area? Would they simply reject him saying \"Sorry, but we don't do research in your area...\", since it is true that most CS departments don't do active research in SMC? Again, would I be restricting my options to only a small subset of universities?\n\nSecondly, how easy / hard is it to switch fields AFTER doing a PhD in it? I may like SMC enough to work on it for 5 years (and get a PhD) but I MAY not want to work on it for a lifetime. In industry or academia, could I switch to something else when (and if) I want to?\n\nOne researcher told me that I should only consider pursuing my interest in SMC after I have already established myself in some other, more fundamental, area of CS, like algorithms or AI. Do you agree?\n\nThis thread should be useful to anyone considering a PhD in a specialized or maybe even an obscure area." ]

[ "phd", "thesis", "application" ]

[ "Is using synthetic datasets in sciences the same as using fake data?", "Sometimes, there are good reasons to use synthetic data in research. In my case I am using data from Synthea, a program that simulated patient data including medications, names and addresses. I know that no hospital would hand me such real data, so there is no alternative. In my thesis I want to reveal specific patterns in patient records.\nMy idea is to test some statistical methods and neural networks to predict which disease a patient will have when he or she comes to the doctor next visit. Therefore a known statistical process in generating those patterns makes sense as I want to test some methods. I also want to infer which factors are the most important ones to predict the next disease. Therefore a mass of data is needed.\nI am still not sure if using such data is useful in research. On the one hand, data protection or confidentiality in my case I would rate as positive cases using fake data, same as simulated data. As I have an ordinary private laptop it is a good idea to work with artificial datasets, as there is no need for special data security and data protection. Medical data are very sensitive and should not be stored on students' computers. Artificial data is also good for testing code and programs, as one knows what is going on under the hoods if the data generating source is documented well.\nOn the other hand, using faked data is considered as betraying sciences a lot of papers are retracted or removed when using faked data. Data fabrication is also listed as a scientific misconduct incident on the English Wikipedia.\nWhat should I do?" ]

[ "thesis", "science", "research-misconduct" ]

[ "How to ask rejected full-time candidates to apply to teach individual courses?", "My department has a number of courses we need covered by adjuncts in the next academic year. We were given permission to hire one (and only one) salaried adjunct and to cover the rest of the courses with per-course adjuncts. Salaried adjuncts receive benefits and are better paid than per-course adjuncts.\n\nWe received excellent candidates for the salaried position, only one of whom we can hire. After we close the search, (how) can I approach rejected candidates about teaching individual courses at the lower rate? Some career adjuncts have told me it would be offensive to offer a lower-paying and lower-status position to someone who applied for a better one, and I do not wish to offend anyone. \n\nWhile the salaried position was publicly advertised, our institution does not advertise single courses. Furthermore, most of the candidates who applied for our salaried position were invited to by committee members or by our contacts, not because they were looking at ads.\n\nHow can I get the best outcome for our students and for teachers who would be willing to teach individual courses? I will continue to ask the administration for permission to hire a second salaried adjunct but do not expect to receive it. There is not much time to wait before starting our per-course search, as the current academic year is nearing its end (and our administration moves very slowly).\n\nUpdate\n\nBecause each of the top two candidates seemed too good to reject, we proposed a second salaried position, which we made by cobbling together the remaining courses and one from a related program. To our surprise, the administration reversed its earlier decision to let us hire only one salaried adjunct, and we were able to make two salaried offers. While my question is moot, I will leave it up for future search chairs." ]

[ "etiquette", "job-search", "adjunct-faculty" ]

[ "Can I refuse a grant position I was offered and still hope to work there in future?", "After an interview, I was offered a pre-doc grant for one year. Although I'm very interested in the research, I have other reasons to prefer staying in my current position: I think it would be easier for me to pursue the PhD I want from here.\nIs it possible to kindly refuse the proposal and still hope to work with that group in the future, or would I burn bridges this way? If it is possible, how can I refuse the proposal without offending anyone?" ]

[ "etiquette", "funding" ]

[ "Why do professors take on service duties?", "Why do professors take on service duties, such as reviewing papers for a journal, or sitting on university committees?\n\nWhat benefit does this have to their careers? I can't imagine they enjoy reviewing papers, at least not more than all the other things they need to fit into their busy schedule." ]

[ "professors", "service-activities" ]

[ "Can I refer readers to link to a large figure?", "I am preparing a journal paper and I have a very large figure in the SVG format that I would like to include in the paper. However, the figure is very hard to fit it inside the paper without affecting its resolution. I'm thinking to upload it to my website and refer the readers to it (by giving them its URL) because it will be very clear and they can also interact with it (e.g., zoom in and out). That way, I will be also able to shorten the length of the paper because right now it's longer the maximum number of pages.\n\nCan I do that?\n\nThank you" ]

[ "graphics", "formatting" ]

[ "How should I reference my own previous work in a talk to a general audience?", "I have to give a presentation to a general scientific audience (specifically, an interview talk). As part of the presentation I would like to highlight some of my previous work. \n\nI work in mathematics, where paper authorship is always alphabetical. The standard practice in talks is to replace your own name with an initial. That is, a person with the last name Potter might present their joint work with Granger and Weasley as \"the horcrux theorem, due to Granger-P.-Weasley\". \n\nPresumably this mathematical convention is not used or even known in the general scientific community. \n\nHow do people reference their own work in other fields? How do people reference their own work when talking to people in other fields? To people in a mixed group of many fields? \n\n\n\nETA: thanks everyone for your answers! \n\nI’m editing to highlight a point which hasn’t been addressed yet - how does one convey that authorship in mathematics is alphabetical? (My last name begins with R so I’m almost always the last author in any paper of mine.) \n\nI don’t want to change the order of authors in a published paper, but I also don’t want it to seem like I’ve never been a first author. \n\nIs it okay to simply state this verbally? This seems like it could be perceived as somewhat tacky...." ]

[ "citations", "presentation", "interview", "self-citation" ]

[ "How to get work done whilst feeling crippling shame?", "In academic work, when we are writing or have written a paper for example, there might be strong feelings of shame about the work done or to be done. These feelings can get in the way of finishing or revising the paper, or sending it to colleagues. These feelings may often lead to the writer feeling, quite strongly, suicidal. For example, when shame is the first thing they think of when they wake up. Not getting work done also leads to further feelings of inadequacy and panic over the future. Hence, these feelings make writing difficult, but overcoming these feelings requires finishing the work to a good standard.\n\nAs per the title:\n\nHow can a researcher write and research when they feel ashamed?\n\nThe shame is about the style of writing and the depth of the content/research. It is not about there being something wrong with the research. For example, I might read what I have written and feel too bad to fix it. Or, I might feel that the content (the research) is simply not deep enough, which makes going deeper difficult. Through perseverance, I finish writing papers. But, it takes a long time in an environment where both quantity and quality are important.\n\nI have in the past seen and asked a university psychologist, but they didn't have any specific advice. The psychologist was also supporting too many other members of staff and students to really give enough time to this problem, so I am not sure that this is an option to take again.\n\nI am looking for techniques, founded in psychology, and ideally with some supporting evidence. But more general advice is also welcome." ]

[ "writing", "motivation", "psychology" ]

[ "Mothers listing children's dates of birth on academic CV?", "I've heard anecdotally that some mothers will list the dates of birth of their children on their CV, but I've never seen it done myself. The intended effect seems to provide a kind of excuse for lower output around those dates, I suppose. Is this common? Am I totally misinterpreting the motive?" ]

[ "cv", "gender" ]

[ "How to deal with a disorganized professor?", "Our class seems very disorganized. I am a graduate student in four courses this quarter. At our school this is week 3. In 3 of my courses, we received the syllabus on day 1. In one of my classes, we haven't received a syllabus yet and I am worried it will become a problem for us. We don't know what subjects we will be covering this quarter, when our midterm will be or what form it will take (our courses are remote), what we will be graded on other than the homeworks which have been assigned, or really any of the other small things which a syllabus would contain.\nEvery lecture we ask our professor when he will give us a syllabus. And every lecture he gives us a vague "in a couple of days" answer. Well, today we found out we will have a midterm in about 2 weeks, but he wouldn't commit to a date. I am worried that this will interfere with my other classes which are already taking up a good deal of my time, and I have no idea how to prioritize this or deal with it. I have worked in the private sector for several years and never dealt with this kind of disorganization or chaos.\nI personally wrote him an email indirectly asking for a syllabus before. That didn't work. We ask him directly in every class when he will write a syllabus. That doesn't work. Several students have asked on our class discussion forum (which he is supposed to respond to). Those questions have gone unanswered.\nThis is tough because 1) I believe I will have at least one other class with this professor so I want to be very careful and 2) I feel like we have exhausted all of our polite options. I am considering going up the hierarchy, but I don't want to burn any bridges. What should I do?\nFor the record, I am attending an accredited university. Our program is listed as one of the better ones in the country for my degree, and it's not cheap either. I have high expectations, and suffice it to say, they are not being met." ]

[ "instructor" ]

[ "Are politicians attempting to destroy tenure?", "Apparently, Iowa's politicians intend to enrich the tenure experience by annual gladiatorial games at state schools, regardless of tenure:\n\n\nthose being evaluated below some threshold shall be terminated, and\nafter (1), the 5 remaining lowest scoring professors will be put to a public student vote, and the one with the least student support shall be terminated.\n\n\nThe source looks legit - blog of the AAUP. I'm not sure if this is enacted, or proposed (I think proposed). I'm also not entirely sure how to link this to an answerable question fit for Academia.SE, but maybe: \n\n\nIs this a joke I didn't get, or is it true?\nIs it part of a broader wave? \nDoes this contradict any case law, or is being fought already somehow; or will professors just have to live with it? \n\n\nIf this is true, and stands in Iowa, to be worried for the US at large one just has to look at how quality of life legislation spread like a wild fire once enacted in one place." ]

[ "professors", "united-states", "tenure-track", "policy" ]

[ "What to check when examining paper proofs?", "When you receive a paper proof and review it prior to publication, what exactly should you be looking for?\n\nThe things that come to mind are any changes in the annotation of author list and the corresponding author. What else is there?" ]

[ "publications", "writing", "proofreading" ]

[ "Tactfully asking research advisor for a break", "I am an undergraduate STEM student in an Asian university. At the beginning of the semester, I had about 7 courses which is the usual workload we need to deal with, so I gave a 'semester research plan' of sorts to the professor from another university under whom I am working as an intern.\nAfter midsemester exams, our department shocked us by introducing 3 extra labs for the semester which have weekly assignments and quizzes. On top of that, several of the 7 other courses have their own course projects (some more than one). Not to mention the course quizzes and assignments. I am also working on a research problem with a professor in my own university. Plus, I need to secure an internship for the summer, which COVID has complicated quite a bit.\nOverall, I just feel tired and demotivated to work on anything. I constantly break down and worry. I have spoken to some supportive family members about this but they don't really know how bad it is, so they can only offer so much advice. My uni friends on the other hand seem to be getting on fine and I am ashamed to seek help from them.\nAll this has made me want to take a break from my internship with the professor from the other university. I have barely done any work this semester and I haven't been regular at all to the meets. So I have already disappointed him considerably and I am further sad that I wasted an opportunity to learn and work under him (he is fairly popular in his field in the country).\nSo how do I tactfully tell my internship guide that I would like to take a break without disappointing him further? The reality is that I am already the weakest link in his research group, so I am worried that this will just convince him to let go of me from the group." ]

[ "research-undergraduate", "internship" ]

[ "How to initiate the collaboration 'talk'?", "Following my question How to effectively e-mail a professor I met briefly about collaborative work? here, I managed to convince the professor for collaboration. Now he has linked me to his post-docs and a Ph.D. student (his emphasis was more on the Ph.D. student).\n\nHe told me to contact them and see how we can collaborate. (actually he sent an email keeping all of us in CC, i.e. me and his post-docs and PhD student).\n\nNow I have an idea that I should read a couple of student's paper and then proceed in the direction. But what would the veterans in the academia suggest should be my approach so as not to miss this opportunity? \n\nPS. Not sure the second tag is correct or not!" ]

[ "collaboration" ]

[ "Textbook that is a combination of other textbooks?", "A, B, C are three good textbooks from the market. An author/professor translates them, taking chapter 1 from A, 2 from B, 3 from C and combining them into another textbook. The content of the new textbook is literally taken from other sources, with simple editing (cut irrelevant part that they don't teach in their class even it's in the taken chapter).\n\nMy questions are:\n\n\nWhat is the name of this kind of textbook? \nIf the author of the new book is the one who makes translation and edition, then is it ethical/legal? What is the name of this action?\nIf the reason given is \"lacking of good resources\" in the country, and A, B, C are cited as references, then is this action really bad? Is there any alternative way to do?" ]

[ "citations", "ethics", "books", "legal-issues", "translations" ]

[ "Hypothesis for an engineering project that can't be tested due to time constraints", "Question: How can I formulate a hypothesis for an engineering project that I help to develop but probably won't have time to test?\n\nExplanation: The project is to develop a system that will train clinicians to write a certain kind of research data. This type of data will be posted into a community where clinicians can discuss and collaborate on it. I am working on this project and it will be the basis for my master thesis. The value of this project for the company is to generate more of the research data and to thus to create a community that actively discusses its products. Thus, my hypothesis could be something like: The new system will help to generate more research data and support discussion about the company's products. However, I can't test this hypothesis because the marketing and acceptance of the system will take too long. Thus, probably when the hypothesis would be testable (i.e. the first people are using it) I must have already delivered my thesis. I can't think of a hypothesis that only includes the setup of such a system. \n\nCan anyone think of something or give me some hints on how I can come up with a hypothesis or handle this situation?" ]

[ "thesis", "engineering" ]

[ "Consequences of a master thesis with errors", "I finished my master thesis 6 years ago, since then I gained a lot of experience on my field and also in academia. I can say that in that time I was a \"child\" , very inexperienced. I think that also my advisor did not help a lot, and I tried to do a lot of things by my own, without someone to really review my things. Despite that, I still received a good mention by the master committee on final results. \n\nSome days ago, I just decided to read part of master thesis, and I just realized a big nightmare coming. I identified a lot of typos, some references errors, and some improvements that I should do, but I did not. The worst thing is that I wrote a paper to a conference with my master thesis results (and some errors are there). The conference is not a high impact conference, but still the paper has my name and is available for everyone... \n\nAs I am finishing my PhD studies for now, I am concerning a lot that situation. My dream and goal is to pursue a Professor career. So, my questions are: What are (or could be) the consequences of a master thesis and paper with errors (some minor and some major) in academia? Revoke degree after years by errors in master is possible ( I am concerning a lot this situation that I thought on it)? How can I minimize it (I thought that I can put a fixed version of my thesis and paper in the future, for instance on my personal website)? How those errors can impact me in a Professor recruitment process?\n\nSorry for the long text, I am blaming myself all the time, and really afraid about the possibilities since I know that Academia career is really competitive." ]

[ "thesis", "errors-erratum" ]

[ "What MA (MFA?) is needed to become an English / Creative Writing professor at a CC?", "all!\nSo, this might be ridiculous, and you can feel free to laugh me out, but I'm trying to figure out a new life path. I've spent the last decade as a flight attendant for a major airline, and now I'm at a perfect point to go back to school and get a masters degree. (My bachelors is in Criminal Justice, but I'm working through English prerequisites for the MA below.) I also write fiction on the side--I'm agented, have one book getting traditionally published, and two more on submission with the Big 5 in NYC.\nI was looking at Western Governors University to get an MA in Teaching English (Secondary), with the hopes that I could wiggle my way into adjunct or something and find full-time from there. But I just spoke with a friend who's a professor at a university in California, and she doesn't think this degree would help me. (Lacking the 18 credit hours in the core subject, for one, I think? But it's hard to tell; WGU doesn't number their classes like the rest of colleges do...)\nNow I'm feeling pretty depressed. If this degree won't actually help me, why bother pursuing it? But an MFA seems like a waste of time and money, especially for someone who's already getting published through years of hard work--for free. :(\nHow should I proceed? I think teaching English sounds AMAZING, and I'm so ready for a career change. But I don't want to waste my time and money pursuing a masters that ultimately won't help me. This is so intimidating... I'd appreciate any insight!\nThank you! <3" ]

[ "job-search" ]

[ "Should CV include special note about published 'cover articles'?", "I just published an article and, when I saw the journal, I was surprised to discover that they put my article on the cover.\n\nMy question is, should I update my CV to make special note of the fact that my article was not just published but is the cover story in a particular journal?" ]

[ "publications", "cv" ]

[ "Reference request for research on images or colors used in quizzes and exams", "For my exams and quizzes, I print them on colored paper, and I usually try to make them aesthetically appealing with the design. I include pictures that are usually relevant to the material they are being tested on. I sometimes include funny cartoons.\n\nI do this because I think it makes taking quizzes and exams an experience that is a little more relaxing and fun than if I just had plain white paper with no images. I also enjoy seeing my students chuckle at a funny picture or cartoon. I teach undergraduate mathematics, and given that many students have math anxiety, I like to try to take the edge off of that.\n\nHas there been any research done on whether or not having colored paper or images on exams and quizzes are beneficial or detrimental?" ]

[ "teaching", "exams", "reference-request", "education" ]

[ "Referencing images found in public domain", "How should I reference images found in public domain in my thesis? \n\nI mean, if it would be copyrighted, I would add a comment a la \"reproduced with permission from X\". If it would be under Creative Commons license, I would add a comment \"licensed under XY license\". \n\nWhat about public domain? Should I add some sort of comment to make clear it is public domain? E.g. if I would like to use something from NREL website (http://www.nrel.gov/)." ]

[ "citations", "graphics", "public-domain" ]

[ "Dropping a co-convener from the list?", "I propose a session every year in an International conference in USA with 3 more co-conveners and maximum 4 are allowed including me. I am thinking to drop one of them in this year and assign a new member in the list. Although I manage everything from writing the proposal until chairing the session, but still I feel awkward to drop anyone from this list. But I have also no other option, as I need to add a new member. Now following two questions are striking me:\n1- Because the title and proposal are same as previous years, is it\nethical to drop one who was already a co-convener of the same\nsession since last 5 years?\n2- How to inform the one that you won't\nbe in the list this year?" ]

[ "conference", "etiquette" ]

[ "Who determines whether or not a professor receives tenure?", "Does the department determine it, or does the president determine tenure after the department recommends it? Or does the process go through both ways?\n\nAnd how does this vary from institution to institution?" ]

[ "professors", "tenure-track" ]

[ "Breaking off a collaboration/project in science", "I discussed with two fellow PhD students about working together. I have been working on my project for about 8 months, and we started working together around 3 weeks ago. In the beginning we agreed I would be the first author, since I have been doing most of the work and the project is mostly done. After starting the work, however, one of the PhD students has been continuously promoting his work in the project as having more contribution (e.g. he always mentions his work first and mentions mine in a side sentence), even though I have been working on the project for a lot longer than he has.\n\nRecently, we had a visitor that could potentially help with our project. So we decided to give our work in three separate presentations. I said that I could give the introduction for our larger project and we agreed on that (after some very small unspoken disagreement on the mentioned person's part). During the actual presentation, however, my fellow student friend announced that he'll give the introduction (to which I agreed since we were in front of an audience).\n\nSo, after this I have a bad taste in the collaboration and would like to break it off without causing trouble. My supervisor and a lot of other people know we are supposed to work together now.\n\nAny suggestions on what I could do? They did some initial work so I am ok with putting their names on my paper if it comes down to it, but I do not want to continue with the collaboration." ]

[ "authorship", "collaboration" ]

[ "How should university employees address student breakups (and drama in general)?", "As I was writing and revising my personal statements, I overheared what was a rather nasty breakup outside of the window shortly after midnight. \n\nI know that personal relationships are not my business in general, and in this case, my involvement was a brief but stern question to the young couple if everything was okay and if they wanted to discuss their issues inside the lobby of the building I worked at instead of the freezing cold outside. I also offered hot coffee or tea. The ulterior intention was to insure that there was no violence in what was an emotionally charged argument.\n\nThe result was that he flipped me off and she declined. I replied if she was sure; she said yes and they went off into the night.\n\nWith this said, my questions are:\n\n\nWere my actions appropriate as a staff member of the university (who was basically about the same age as the presumed undergraduate couple ranging from 18–22 and myself at 23)?\nWould my actions be appropriate as a graduate student and TA in general regardless of circumstance (affiliation in my group, unknown student in general)?\nWould the same actions be appropriate for a professor?" ]

[ "ethics", "united-states", "university", "academic-life" ]

[ "How to find the Endnote template for CJPH submission?", "I have been searching and trying out to find the Endnote citation style to match the one required for the Canadian Journal of Public Health submission for hours, with no success.\n\nIt demonstrated that the CJPH style here. It also mentioned that \"The style for references is based on the ICMJE Recommendations.\" I have looked up and searched for the endnote citation template for keywords related to CJPH and ICMJE, but I couldn't find the the one that matches." ]

[ "citations", "journals", "citation-style", "reference-managers" ]

[ "What services would you recommend to ship belongings to graduate school beforehand?", "I realize that this question is not exactly pertaining to academia but I couldn't think of anywhere else to ask this. I fully expect to get several downvotes but please be kind and move my question if needed.\n\nI will be attending Georgia Tech as a graduate student this fall. Looking ahead at my summer schedule, I would like to ship my belongings (several pieces of luggage as well as many boxes) to school ahead of time and have them waiting for me when I get there. Ideally, I'd like the school to be able to hold my belongings for 1.5 months (~5-6 weeks) before I arrive. Perhaps it is unorthodox but that is the way that my schedule will work out as I will be visiting some family before I move to Georgia.\n\nI'd like to hear from you what your experiences have been like in regards to shipping belongings to the school beforehand and if there are any services that you can recommend. I called the GATech post office and housing office but both simply stated that they don't have any storage space for student belongings and just said to ship my stuff a day or two before I arrive. This was obviously unhelpful to me so I turn to the people here for any advice.\n\nI also Googled around and was wondering if people had used any services like dormroommovers.com or Summer Storage | College Student Storage and Shipping | Collegeboxes.\n\nThank you for your help." ]

[ "university" ]

[ "Is it OK to update code on repository after publication?", "Journals consider that is good practice to release script and codes to repeat the published results, and many of us I think agree with this practice. Code are typically deposited in software version control repositories (e.g., GitHub or BitBucket). \n\nI wonder if updating the codes during reviewing process or after publications (which in my opinion is quite important, in general) remains a good practice.\nMaybe the obvious answer is yes, but for example it is certainly not good to modify the data deposited for a published article (or modify its pre-print in a pre-print server)." ]

[ "publications", "code" ]

[ "Is there an independent organisation that oversees the professional conduct of researchers in the UK/EU?", "By professional conduct, I refer to issues related to how a researcher manages his/her research group, including funding (both research and salary) and human resource issue.\n\nFor example, there is the Office of the Independent Adjudicator in the UK that reviews student complaints against higher-education providers. But the service offered is restricted to students, and not directly relevant to the professional conduct of a researcher.\n\nAn example of such an organisation in the financial field is the Financial Conduct Authority, who oversees the professional conduct of both organisations and individuals." ]

[ "united-kingdom", "research-misconduct", "eu" ]

[ "Masters Student in Math: Picking an Advisor", "I'm a masters student looking to graduate next school year. I've picked a masters adviser already, who's doing some things in number theory but more on the analytic side (not quite my cup of tea, but close enough). I found out recently that there is someone doing algebraic geometry in my department (which is what I ultimately want to do when I pursue my PhD). Would it be in bad taste to switch advisers? Nothing with the original adviser is set in stone, just a verbal agreement and he gave me a paper to start reading.\n\nAlso, more importantly, is the closeness of a masters project to what you eventually want to be studying all that important in terms of applications to PhD programs? That is, if I do a project in something I'm not going to pursue further in PhD, would that look weird to PhD programs I'm applying to? The reason I ask is that the professor doing algebraic geometry at my school is not a very friendly guy. Thus I may not be able to get a good rec letter from him, let alone have an easy time working with him. \n\n[Just for some perspective, a masters project at my school mainly consists of reading a paper by someone else, studying it thoroughly, and then presenting it.]" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "masters", "mathematics", "advisor" ]

[ "How to deal with a student who harasses the (inexperienced) teacher during class?", "I am a young teacher at college. I have to go way too long, I know but I have the following problem. \n\nIn one of my classes, I have this guy who pecks at me for everything I say. He is surely conceited, but it hurts like hell when he makes fun of me in front of the whole class. \n\nHowever, I take no note of it in class, but later I feel very sad. This makes me frightened to go to that class at all. \n\nHe is overconfident and imposing and seems to have got a big gang behind him. He is a threat and he disturbs me. Please help me tackle this situation." ]

[ "teaching", "students" ]

[ "What should I do if I am asked to review a paper that should have been reviewed by an ethics committee, but was not?", "What should I do if I am asked to review a paper that should have been reviewed by an ethics committee, but was not? Assuming the paper is missing the statement that it was reviewed, and the paper clearly states that data was collected from human subjects." ]

[ "peer-review", "ethics", "social-science", "irb" ]

[ "Quit PhD two years ago, now I want to go back?", "I quit my Ph.D. two years ago because of multiple reasons but largely due to my own naiveness over deciding to enroll for a Ph.D. I decided to do a Ph.D. without knowing anything about it. I wasn't prepared at all. I wrongly chose a lab that has a very poor vision for any scientific advancement. I foolishly chose a supervisor who had no idea what's going on in his lab. Once I understood this, I also became aware of my own weakness that has resulted in not getting me an ideal lab. This realization happened very lately and until now I had already developed a strong vision for my research project and my future career. And according to my plan, it wasn't that lab or supervisor who was going to help me to reach my goal. In academia, everything is connected, so if I wasn't going to be the best version of myself in Ph.D., the chances of finding a better opportunity after my Ph.D. was very less. So I decided to quit my Ph.D. and start it all over again; only this time knowing everything about a research career and how to excel in it. I wanted to become the best and for that, I had to work on myself first. So, a six month gap period was planned after leaving my Ph.D. But this gap time became much longer (because of some unfortunate circumstances); almost two years now and I have started feeling like a failure. I really want to go back and do some quality research. What is the best way to do it? \nP.S. I am from India and I am talking in terms of the Indian research institute." ]

[ "phd", "india" ]

[ "Sending a paper to a 'Letters' journal", "I am at the cusp of finishing my PhD, and my advisor and I have decided that it is time to publish since there seems to be no hole in the theories that I propose. I have always maintained that I'd like to get a publication in the good letters section such as Physical Review Letters and then submit a longer manuscript to a more specific journal (in my field that would be the Physics of Fluids). My advisor isn't a fan of arXiv as he see it only for preprints with little advantage as it would be easier to just circulate my manuscript among 10-15 established people in the field.\n\nSo my question is/questions are:\n\n\nIs it useful to send in a manuscript to a letters section of a prestigious journal such as the PRL for quick dissemination of my work as well as brownie points for having published in the PRL despite a really high rejection rate.\nAre letters section of journals really quick (with a short submission to publication time)?\nAs a contingency plan, a rejection would mean what exactly to my career/immediate future? \nI have always had a soft spot for arXiv since several important works were first disseminated on it but I find that in the engineering community there is still some resistance to arXiv, any comments?\n\n\nAs a side note, I have read the several questions about arXiv on academia.SE and somehow I am not entirely convinced that a young academecian would gain much from publishing in arXiv than in a regular journal." ]

[ "publications", "phd", "arxiv" ]

[ "Why hold conferences in a resort town?", "I have noticed many academic conferences are held in small resort town. Why? Why not held in something like a 4-star hotel in the city center?\n\nAttending a conference is a paid job, why should we travel to somewhere remote?" ]

[ "conference" ]

[ "What are good database/grade book software?", "I am in the market for a (hopefully free!) grade book software and would like to see some suggestions. This would be used for a math class and I am planning for many grades (15+) per semester.\n\nIn particular, if a gradebook has any features that make it stand out from other gradebooks or spreadsheet solutions, I would appreciate knowing that information." ]

[ "software" ]

[ "Can I do experimental research after doing a computational PhD in Chemical Engineering?", "I am a graduate student in Chemical Engineering at a good research university in the USA. I came for the master's program and started working with a professor from day one. It has been a year, I like the research I am doing, and am on my way to publish a paper. The research is challenging and impactful but is purely computational. \n\nI am moving to the PhD program here. There is no issue with research problems or stipend—I am fully funded—but the idea of pure computational for the coming years is freaking me out. I am worried because I cannot run experiments anymore and I am wondering whether this limits my opportunities after my PhD. Am I going to narrow myself in research careers if I am going for a computational PhD?" ]

[ "phd", "research-process", "theory" ]

[ "What is freshman undergraduate engineering enrollment in total nationwide in the US?", "What is freshman undergraduate engineering enrollment in total nationwide in the US in three most recent years?\n\nI mean the number in total from in every discipline of engineering field." ]

[ "united-states", "undergraduate", "engineering" ]

[ "How to keep and organize a research journal/log/diary/notebook?", "I have read in multiple places that it is a good practice as an academic to keep a research journal.\nFor example, Marie desJardins' paper How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors says:\n\n\n Keeping a journal of your research activities and ideas is very useful.\n Write down speculations, interesting problems, possible solutions, random ideas, references to look up, notes on papers you've read, outlines of papers to write, and interesting quotes.\n Read back through it periodically.\n\n\nMy first attempt was to write my ideas in a log book.\nI soon gave that up because the book would not always be with me when I wanted to write something in it, and because I knew eventually I would lose it and not be able to retrieve information from it.\n\nMy current approach is to write a huge LaTeX file which I store in the cloud.\nIn it, I chronicle my daily thoughts about my research project, to take notes of what is discussed in meetings with my adviser.\nHowever, I simply feel overwhelmed by the volume of writing and the amount of repetition that I find in my research journal.\nI also have other files which serve similar purposes.\nFor example, I have a file called results.pdf where I write out all my theorems and propositions and their proofs.\n\n\nWhat have you tried and how has a research journal been of benefit to you?\nDo you do all your \"rough work\" in a research journal, so that you can refer to it later?\nWhat system do you use as your research journal?\nDo you log all your experimental results into a chronologically organized research notebook? (Since I am not from a biology/chemistry/experimental background, I am curious as to how people who do lots of experiments manage to organize their results and ideas.)" ]

[ "workflow", "note-taking" ]

[ "Which software converts academic publications from PDF to Word without mangling complex formatting?", "I'm asking about this in StackExchange Academia rather than a software-recommendation site because I have conversion problems specific to the layout of academic publications. I'm helping a student who has problems with their eyesight. They find it hard to read academic papers and books on screen, when distributed as PDF. They prefer to have these converted to Word, then read that on screen. This helps them because they can change the font of any part that's hard to read, as well as highlighting section headings and other cues to help them navigate. There are many PDF-to-Word converters, but all the ones I've tried (see below) have defects. Can anyone recommend something better than those I've listed? The converter must not mangle tables, diagrams, footnotes, formulae, subscripts and superscripts, or other complicated content typical of academic publications.\nThe student does not like to read printed text, and only has an A4 printer, so blowing up the text and printing that isn't feasible. The pandemic introduces its own constraints, since they don't want to venture from their flat to use University computers. So they're restricted to what I think is a 22-inch screen, Windows 10, and their A4 printer. I only mention these because commenters suggested them. The student is comfortable reading Word files, and I want to help them do that, rather than force them to do something outside their preferences.\nGetting back to PDF-to-Word converters, so far, we have tried:\n\nKofax Power PDF, but it's very erratic, though. For example, when I converted an archaeological report which I had to ask Power PDF to OCR, it "thought" it had found characters in the thin lines indicating boundaries in a diagram of the archaeological site. Power PDF also mangles structural chemical formulae, even when told not to OCR. Footnotes and tables cause even more problems, as do in-line chemical formulae, and subscripts and superscripts.\n\nSmallPDF. This claims to be "the platform that makes it super easy to convert and edit all your PDF files". It is not. It converts some so they work better than those done by Power PDF, but crashes on others.\n\nPDF24. This probably does a better job than either Power PDF or SmallPDF, when it works. But on some PDFs that need OCR'ing, it just emits the original page-images. This may well be a bug, and I've reported it, but I've not had any reply.\n\n\nDoes anyone have any recommendations?" ]

[ "publications", "health", "reading" ]

[ "When you are doing a second round review, do you read other reviewers' comments? Why?", "When you are doing a second round review, do you read other reviewers' comments? Why?\nIt seems to me that all I need to do is seeing whether the author/s satisfied my comments and whether I find any more problems in the current version of their manuscript." ]

[ "peer-review" ]

[ "How can TAs encourage institution to use different administrative software", "I'm teaching in a university where many different types of administrative software are used. Many seem a bit clunky and badly designed, but I'm only interested in those relating to teaching. Some of these, like Blackboard, are pretty poor in terms of usability, efficiency and reliability. However, the use of some of these software platforms are mandatory within certain parts of the university.\n\nThe university started asking senior staff and students their opinions about some of this teaching software. However, most of the teaching staff (especially TAs and Tutors) were overlooked in relation to such questions, which is unfortunate as the majority of student grading that takes place in the university, using this software, is done by this cohort. Senior members of staff who outsource administrative responsibilities to their TAs will likely see no reason to change the software that currently is in use. While more senior TAs will almost certainly complain about the problems faced when using this software to their professors, it is unlikely that many of these complaints will be passed on to anybody with any authority, and even if they are, the actual specifics of the complaint will likely be garbled when subject to such dissemination.\n\nWhat sort of steps can members of staff who have issues with the purchase of such software take such that the institution can notice and potentially respond to these kind of issues (I am unsure even what department or people are responsible for such decisions, or how to even begin finding out!)" ]

[ "teaching", "university", "software", "administration" ]

[ "What are good resources to read up on funding policies, especially pertaining to biology in the United States?", "I am a biology PhD. student in the United States. I would like to know a little bit more on how to navigate the politics and processes that guide grant funding. In addition to this I am looking for good resources to keep up with news that might impact or change these policies. I guess in short, what are some reputable sites, blogs, news sources, literature or books to help with this?\n\nBy tracking policy I meant any good resources that track any legislature or incentives that are being passed that might impact the amount of money going into grant funding. I am also just genuinely interested in the grant funding process or any insightful resources on how to best navigate the whole process." ]

[ "funding", "united-states", "reference-request", "biology" ]

[ "How to better prepare myself for the application to masters degree programs in the U.S.?", "I am an undergraduate student in China. I am currently a junior, majoring at Mathematical Economics and Mathematical Finance. My goal is to apply to a graduate school in the U.S. to learn Finance or Financial Engineering.\n\nWhat can I do now to better prepare myself for the forthcoming application? How can I leave a good impression on the Admissions Committee? Except for higher GPA, GRE, Toefl, what else also make sense? To win a competition? To publishing papers? Or abundant internship experiences?\n\nI know that the website of each school lists some requirements about the applicants, but those words are too general. Obviously there will be so many applicants who meet those requirements. What else need I show make myself outstanding, making them believe I am a good candidate? I am really puzzled.\n\nEdit\n\nI just want to obtain a master degree.\n\nI also want to know that among GPA, GRE, TOEFL, competitions, publishing papers(if possible), good credible recommendation letters, etc, which ones deserve prior attention. It is unlikely for me to be that \"superman\".\n\nEnd of edit" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "advisor" ]

[ "How should a new professor sign their name in emails to students?", "I just finished my PhD and am starting an adjunct position at a local community college. I was responding to my first email from a student when I came across a problem I've never had before: I don't know how to sign my email.\n\nSome options I've considered are:\n\n\nFirst Name: this is how I've signed every academic email my whole life.\nFirst Name Last Name: I have signed business, legal, or other official letters like this, and I suppose since this is my first job I could sign it the same way?\nProfessor Last Name: this makes the most sense because that's what I want to be addressed in the classroom, but I have never seen a professor write their title out like this.\nInitials: I always thought professors signed their emails like this to shave precious seconds from their inbox time, but I'm now suspecting it has more to do with avoiding making the decision of how to sign.\n\n\nI'm sure the best answer isn't going to be one of the above suggestions. No matter what I pick, I want to be consistent, so there's no confusion as to how I should be addressed.\n\n\n\nEdit: this is in the US." ]

[ "united-states", "professors", "email", "titles", "community-college" ]

[ "Is it unethical writing two papers addressing two aspects of the same research project", "I am currently a master student working in robotics. In my research project, I have been building up a systematic framework for my research problem. I have collected a dataset in the process and experiment with it using some advanced algorithms I have proposed. And the paper 1 I have written address in detail how those advanced algorithms are defined and come in handy, while addressing the framework in less detail (more details are focused on the algorithms, making the scope of paper really large already. Only a simple logic procedure of the framework is briefly discussed). The first paper's already submitted in a computer science conference & is under review.\n\nThen after some experiments, I have realized that, the systematic framework I have applied in Paper 1 can be a more generic framework, applying to different scenarios for different application purposes. In this case, the experiment I have in Paper 1 with the advanced algorithms can be seen as a complex extension to this generic framework & the advanced algorithms I have used for paper 1 experiments can be adapted or even simplified to better suit the framework. I have written another Paper 2 discussing this generality aspect of the framework, with the simplified yet slightly different experimental setting as a case study for the framework. A portion of the dataset originally proposed with Paper 1 is used. I have also discussed in depth how the generic framework can be applied for a completely different scenario, but I did not have the case study for it at the moment.\n\nAlso, while paper 1's still under review, I have submitted an ArXiv preprint. All similarities in paper 2 compared to paper 1 are properly cited, noted and discussed if necessary, when writing paper 2. \n\nSo the question is, is it OK to have this paper 2 submitted to another conference (an automation conference vs. the previous cs one) for review? Is paper 2 considered to be an \"unethical salami slicing\"? \n\nThank you!" ]

[ "ethics", "conference", "paper-submission", "extended-paper" ]

[ "How was the Doctorate/PhD title awarded in Italy in the 1980s and now? when can someone apply for Post-doc?", "One of the top Italian research centre for applied physics, the Area Science Park located in Trieste, just elected its new president.\nThe president's CV can be found here:\nhttps://ginko.unipg.it/ws/sitopersonale/cv.php?humanid=caterina.petrillo&tipo=EV\nBy reading it, I discovered she got her Physics degree in 1984, starting in 1985 a post-doc bursary at an Italian institution.\nIs it still possible to apply for post-doc bursaries&fundings in Italy without having completed a PhD?" ]

[ "postdocs", "physics", "degree", "italy" ]

[ "Is it common to have a mentor in academia?", "At a recent networking workshop (not one of the \"just don't be an introvert\" ones, an actually helpful one with applicable ideas) I learned that it is supposedly very common to have a (career) mentor in academia. \nThis is not meaning a supervisor or a former supervisor you are still in contact with, but a person a few years further in their career than you, not necessarily exactly working in the same field but well established and experienced in some aspects of academia and academic careers where the mentee is in need of guidance (networking, public outreach, being from a similar minority, whatever is important to the mentee).\n\nI promptly started to figure out what I would need in a mentor, who could be a good mentor and now how to approach them. But the questions come back nagging, because while this all makes sense and an online research came up with many tips and mentoring schemes I still have never met someone who said they had a mentor in this way.\n\nSo the question is: Do people have mentors in academia? If so, what are your experiences as a mentor/mentee? And would it be appropriate to ask someone who you have never met before for an informal conversation because you feel they might just be right for you?" ]

[ "career-path", "postdocs", "academic-life" ]

[ "Looking for an endorser to publish on arxiv.org as well as other suggestions", "My grandfather, a long since retired professor, recently finished a very long in the making paper, which tries to cover a lot of ground around physics and general nature science. He is very old-school, so he asked me to see if I can get his paper seen by people familiar with the field. I tried to publish on arxiv.org, but I need an endorser.\n\nThe author is 90 years old and has been out of academic circulation for over 30 years, long before arxiv and the internet. \n\nI am posting a link to the paper here (29 pages), nothing huge, and I'm asking for anyone interested to comment as well as for advice on how to get endorsement, and about other locations I can post it at besides arxiv.org\n\nhttps://app.box.com/s/2m4z6cfyaoje9zc3j3i0mx5sibfi5eaj\n\nThank you" ]

[ "publications", "physics" ]

[ "What niche is PRResearch supposed to fill that the other APS journals don’t already cover?", "I read the description of the new journal PRResearch on the APS website, but I am still confused.\nAPS publishes specialized journals, including PRA/B/C/D/E, for each major branch of physics, and journals with a broader scope and large impact, such as PRL and PRX.\nMy main question is:\nHow is PRResearch standing in comparison with the specialized and lower impact PRA/B/C/D/E and the broader and higher impact PRL and PRX?\nWhat niche is it supposed to fill?\nOn one hand, PRResearch is multidisciplinary as PRL/PRX, and both PRResearch and PRX are full open access with publication charges, whereas the other APS journals are not full open access but only have open access options.\nOn the other hand, as it is written on their website:\n\nThe acceptance criteria for PRResearch are aligned with those of other long-established journals in the family, such as Physical Review A, B, C, D, and E." ]

[ "publications", "journals", "physics", "open-access" ]

[ "How to apply for a research internship at the master's level?", "I'm a master's student doing research in the field of the cognitive psychology of language and I would like to do an unpaid 4-month research internship in a different university. I am preparing cover letters to send to different professors within whose projects I would like to work. I want to include in my cover letter a description of what I plan to do during my short internship, so I want to know what research interns usually do. How can they contribute to an existing research project? Also, can I say that I want to learn how to use a specific research technique (like for example a neuroimaging technique) even if I have no experience with it?\n\nDo you have any general advice on how to best ask a professor to accept me as an intern within their research project?" ]

[ "research-process", "masters", "internship" ]

[ "Poster about a published article (Poster session in physics conference)", "What is the usual way to indicate on the poster that the poster is just a summary of an already published article? \n\nI plan to give the reference as part of the poster title at the top, such as:\n\nInterestic topic\nJ. of important Results, 2017, p1-23\nAuthor, affiliation \n\nBackground (and why I have no idea): I am mathematician and will attend a physics conference. I have been encouraged by a member of the committee to present a poster about one of my results (actually my only result in physics so far, which was published in 2017 in the journal \"Foundations of Physics\"). I have no experience with posters (never presented one nor attended a poster session ever) nor with physics conferences. It seems that in many fields, posters are considered to be some form of publication? In any case, I would like to avoid misunderstandings or the impression of self-plagiarizing or whatever." ]

[ "physics", "poster" ]

[ "What are the typical questions students are requested to respond during a teaching demonstration they attend during a faculty interview?", "Disclaimer: There are other questions asking for general advice on a teaching demonstration during faculty interviews. My inquiry is more specific: \n\nIn the US, some colleges, which have a heavy focus on teaching, require candidates for a faculty position to give a teaching demonstration as part of the on-campus interview. This teaching demonstration is usually given to students. Typically, the students fill out a questionnaire after the teaching demonstration to evaluate the performance of the faculty candidate. I believe the questions on such questionnaires are different from a real teaching evaluation (the ones given to students at the end of a semester/quarter to evaluate the performance of their professors).\n\nWhat are some examples of questions students are asked to answer during a teaching demonstration?" ]

[ "teaching", "students", "interview" ]

[ "Are free online courses worth anything?", "There’s a lot of non-traditional ways to learn science without actually going to college. MOOC is the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear of free and certified learning. But are MOOCs worth anything? Can you even include free courses in your resume? Will you be able to pursue a graduate-level education by finishing a lot of free online courses that would give you solid foundation on a certain subject?" ]

[ "independent-researcher", "online-learning", "mooc" ]

[ "Completing German master's programs in less than allotted time", "I'm considering applying to master's programs in mathematics over in Germany (e.g. Bonn, Berlin Mathematical School). The stated time for these programs is two years. \n\nShould I get accepted and attend, are there any issues (ethical or otherwise), with bailing after a year to attend a PhD program in the US? If so, is it possible to complete the program in a single year if I come in with some kind of advanced standing (i.e. having taken many graduate courses beforehand)?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "graduate-school", "mathematics", "germany" ]

[ "How does already having an academic scholarship affect graduate school admissions?", "I'm currently applying to Grad school- mechanical engineering-and have a full academic scholarship to continue my education from the government. \n\nDoes this make it easier for me to gain acceptance to top schools like Stanford and Carnegie for masters? I'm doing the GRE in 3 weeks, but will I still need a 165+ in the math section to be admitted just like everyone else? \nMy GPA isn't stellar either. I guess the only stellar thing about my application is that I already secured funding." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "graduate-school", "masters", "funding", "engineering" ]

[ "International standards relating to a professor publishing a student's thesis work without the student as co-author", "I am looking for international standards that speak specifically of a professor taking the thesis work of an ex-student that they had supervised and publishing a journal paper on that work (and just that work) without the student's name.\n\nThis relates to a specific case that I am aware of where the official university finding essentially admits that the aforementioned incident did indeed take place (it is largely undeniable), and quotes some generic definitions and policies regarding plagiarism, but finds that the aforementioned incident does not imply plagiarism and/or academic misconduct (due mainly to a supposition that the student did nothing more than grunt work, which I don't believe to be true at all, which contradicts the university's own expectations for the academic title obtained by the student, etc.).\n\nThe finding is an obvious attempt to sweep the case under the carpet.\n\nHowever, the fact that this is clearly a case of plagiarism is sort of \"folklore\" to me and I cannot find something authoritative to back it up (lots of blog posts, etc., but no statement that speaks specifically to this sort of case written by an authority that an official from a well-respected university would be reluctant to explicitly discount or contradict). \n\nAside from my gut, my question then is: does this sort of scenario constitute plagiarism and/or academic misconduct with respect to some specific international standard?\n\n(I would very much appreciate answers with pointers to a statement from a well-known professional organisation, reputable university, high-profile journal, etc. The specific area is Computer Science, just in case.)" ]

[ "publications", "ethics", "authorship", "plagiarism", "supervision" ]

[ "Late followup for Internship Opportunity", "About a week and a half ago I received an email from a mentor with whom I'd previously inquired about internship opportunities, informing me of possible projects I could join. I accidentally let it slip for a bit and responded after 4 days. It's been almost a week since - how should I go about following up? I'm really punching myself in the gut, this was perhaps my \"dream\" work per se." ]

[ "mathematics", "email", "internship" ]

[ "How long does it typically take for editor's final decision after reviews are completed?", "According to the reviewers, the paper I have submitted is now ready for publication.\nHow long I should wait to know the final decision of the editor-in-chief?" ]

[ "research-process", "publications", "peer-review", "editors" ]

[ "What are the criteria for effective academic journal websites?", "I'm looking for information on the criteria that could be employed in the development of a social sciences (including economics) academic journal open access website. What visible (front-end) functions do academics prefer to use when looking up research content on an academic journal website?\n\nFor example:\n\n\nListings by year, author, publication type.\nSearch that allows you to modify the variables (\"advanced search\"), vs. search that lets you narrow down the results after a basic search (\"faceted search\").\nWhat criteria do you usually (or would like to) use to narrow down search results?\nAny examples of research content (academic journal) websites that work well?\nAny functions that you wish were available to make searching for research content easier?\n\n\nBackground: I'm a communications officer with a research institute that publishes its own research via its own website. The website was redeveloped two years ago, with the aim of making the content more relevant, but lost some functions more relevant to academics in the process. In an effort to redress this I would like to establish some criteria for evaluating functions that are needed in an academic journal website." ]

[ "publications", "journals", "publishers", "online-publication", "website" ]

[ "Was there ever a time in American history when humanities PhDs were more sought after than STEM PhDs?", "Was there ever a time in American history when there was greater interest in a humanities PhD, say, a PhD in Philosophy or Creative Writing, than a STEM PhD? \n\nPerhaps during the period of time before computers were invented / widely used for computations?" ]

[ "united-states", "research-topic", "thesis-committee", "academic-history", "history" ]

[ "Should I apply to PhDs in the US (theoretical physics)?", "I am a Cambridge Mathematics undergraduate (third year) and I want to be a theoretical physicist (I am taking the relevant courses, research experience, etc). I am confident I can get into Part III, but not sure if I could get accepted into an Oxbridge PhD. I would start my PhD in October 2021, so if I want to go to the States I should start thinking about GREs soon.\n\nShould I consider applying to US top schools? \nThe application process would we quite time-consuming, but I am not sure I would end up going to the US over other European universities. Some points I am considering about grad school in the States are:\n\n\nLonger (5-6 yrs) PhDs compared to Europe (3-4 yrs), it seems better to save 2 years. (Although I am young, so it may be good to have some stability before postdocs)\nCoursework required may overlap with my Part III\nExpensive (?)\nIf I do not get into an Oxbridge PhD, then I probably would not get into a top US school either. In that case, I think I would prefer a second-class European university than a second-class US university. And if get into Oxbridge, I would be more than happy to stay. Hence, with this reasoning, either way, I should not bother about applying to the US.\n\n\nI think it is relevant to note that I would be 21 at the start of the PhD.\n\nEDIT:\nTo clarify, my main question is not what are my chances of getting in, rather if it is worth doing a (longer) PhD in the US instead of somewhere in Europe (probably not Oxbridge)." ]

[ "phd", "mathematics", "application", "physics" ]