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[ "Hyperlink to bibliography reference", "In Microsoft Word and Mendeley, is it possible to jump to the complete reference in the bibliography section of a document using a hyperlink?\nFor example, using "Ctrl+Left Click" on figures or table cross-references will take to the corresponding table." ]

[ "reference-managers", "cross-referencing" ]

[ "Ethics of a journal requiring that submissions cite existing articles in the journal", "Recently, I became aware by own experiences and friend's stories that some international statistical journals (whose names I prefer to omit) are rejecting papers because they do not include a reference of the journal in question. This is, if you do not cite a paper from journal X, then you cannot attempt to publish a paper in journal X. \n\nThis, of course, has an influence on the Impact Factor of the journal and the administrators are trying to increase this.\n\nAre there explicit regulations regarding these issues? Is it possible to denounce this kind of behaviour?" ]

[ "journals", "citations", "ethics" ]

[ "What is expected in a 5 minute postdoc interview presentation?", "I have been invited to interview for a postdoc position at a good university. They asked me a different question to most of my other interviews. For the presentation they want me make a 5 minute (maximum) PowerPoint presentation on the following topic \"How does your previous experience in vascular biology equip you to fulfill this post?\". \n\nHow do I go about answering their question? I assume it would be: one very brief slide showing an overview of my career, then techniques so histology and why that’s useful to them. Do I show any of my own data?" ]

[ "postdocs", "presentation", "interview" ]

[ "Mentioning a published paper from a current team member in a PhD letter application", "I am writing a motivation letter for a PhD position related to antibody analytics. While I was researching the current research group I read a paper published by current team member \"A\" which I found pretty interesting, and honestly, also quite motivating.\n\nI would like to include this in my motivation letter, but the problem is that \"A\" published this paper when she was working at another research institute. NOT the one I would be currently applying to.\n\nWould it be a faux pas to mention this paper in my motivation letter?. On the one side it would show that I have actually researched them, and that I am actually motivated (which I explain why). On the other side, it could give the impression that I thought it was published by them, and I was not careful." ]

[ "phd", "application", "statement-of-purpose", "application-cover-letter" ]

[ "What would be the best way to convince a professor to waive late submission penalties?", "I am a grad level student and I am completing my last course this semester. \nThe professor is reducing our grade by 20%/day if we submit our assignment late.\nIt is a lot. For example, my grade is 18/20 and he reduced it by 4 because I submitted it a day late. My total GPA is A+. It is a significant amount of grade that he is taking off. This will ruin my grade.\n\nI understand that a late submission is not good. Having said that, I have always been trying my best to submit them on time. His assignments were more difficult than what he was teaching us during lectures and I always need to study extra books and material to solve problems.\n\nI was thinking of sending an email and asking for him to waive the penalties. Especially now due to COVID it is somehow cruel to enforce these penalties. \n\nWhat would be the best way to convince a professor to waive late submission penalties?\n\nReason for late submission: Due to my research internship, I have been working part-time in a company in another city (not the city that the university is located). So it was pretty hard for me to keep up with the deadline. Before COVID, I had to even commute in between cities to attend classes and that drained me. \n\nEdited: I wrote this letter, please feel free to edit or add more details.\n\n\n Dear zyx,\n I am writing regarding the late-submission penalties.\n \n Due to my research internship and displacement, It was pretty hard for me to keep up with the deadlines.\n \n During this time I had to commute in between cities and I had only slid to follow up the course and solve assignments that I can save them for submitting my assignments earlier.\n \n Not accessing the in-person classes made me spend hours studying other references to solve my assignments.\n \n So I was wondering if you could please waive late submission penalties?\n \n Best regards,\n \n XYZ" ]

[ "gpa", "homework", "canada" ]

[ "How to avoid the repetition of \"I\" while writing a cover letter for an academic job?", "I use active voice for cover letter and while doing that I end up with too many \"I\" and most of the sentences in my letter also begin with \"I\". This makes my letter quite boring. I would appreciate if you share your suggestion/tips to avoid this while writing a cover letter. \n\nSince cover letter is the first thing that the potential employer notices, I want to write a concise and attractive cover letter. It will be also helpful if you share a link of a well-written cover letter." ]

[ "writing", "application-cover-letter" ]

[ "If I were to ask a professor on sabbatical to consult with him on a paper I'm writing, would I be imposing on him?", "I'm a fourth year undergraduate philosophy student. \n\nLast academic-year, I took a seminar with a professor that I had known reasonably well before I took the course. During that seminar we had several lengthy after-class conversations about a topic related to the seminar. The professor seemed to enjoy the conversations, and I think we developed a good relationship (as far as undergraduate student-professor relationships go). \n\nI plan to write an essay and submit it to an undergraduate journal in December. I know that the topic of the essay is interesting to the professor and covers some unconsidered possibilities that the professor expressed interest in during our conversations. That is to say, I think he'd enjoy thinking about what I plan to write about. \n\nThis professor is the only one in our department knowledgeable about the subject, so I can't ask anyone else for their thoughts on the essay. Unfortunately, he's on sabbatical this year. \n\nWould it be rude to email the professor in order to ask him whether I might discuss my argument with him a few times during this term?" ]

[ "etiquette", "research-undergraduate", "sabbatical" ]

[ "Vacations during my one year postdoc", "I am a researcher in South America and this year I will do postdoc in Paris for a period of one year. After this period, I will return to my country. However, I have an elderly aunt for whom I am responsible. She can not go with me and I would like to take a vacation to visit her. My question is: since I will only be in Paris for one year, can I have vacations? Could anyone explain how this happens in France? \n\nThank you," ]

[ "postdocs", "france" ]

[ "How to get Chartered Engineer in the UK? Should I pay some fees (every year) to keep this title?", "I have completed PhD in Computing in UK. Can I apply for a CEng title as I have a Computing degree (not exactly engineering)?\n\nIf I get one, should I pay some subscriptions (every year/month) to keep this title?\n\nWhat are the advantages of having CEng?" ]

[ "phd", "career-path", "computer-science", "titles", "professional-association" ]

[ "Search for a WYSIWYG, non-latex Online collaborative paper writing Tool", "Is there a tool that is\n\n\nWYSIWYG and not latex (in fact any coding) base\nonline (for ease of collaboration)\nCan write math equation\nDoes line numbering\nDoes equation numbering\n\n\nGoogle Doc is perfect for 1-3, but they don't support 4-5 (unless you work around by using tables, but that's not really a nice solution)\n\nAuthorea and Overleaf does 2-5, but is very latex/code based. (Despite Overleaf's rich text editing mode, which is a step closer to what I want, but still quite far from the goal)\n\n(At the moment, I am just using Google Doc and do all the numbering post exporting to .doc)\n\n---------This is not the same question as Collaborative paper-writing with non-LaTeX-using colleagues------------\n\nReasons:\n\n\nThe author of that question clearly wants to use latex for his part of the collaboration, but wants a non-latex front end for his no-latex using collaborators. Unlike him, apart from writing equations, I have absolutely no intention of using any latex code. In fact, I will be satisfied with MS word type equation editor (as long as it lets me put equation number on it)\nThe accepted solution to that post includes solution like overleaf and Authorea, which I specifically said is not satisfactory to me because they are too latex based.\nAnother population solution to that post was Lyx, which clearly fails the 'Online' part of my question.\n\n\nAt risk of repeating myself, let me say this. That post is after a masked latex service. Whereas I am after a Google Doc with line and equation numbering feature. If I insert a table, I want to insert a table, not a \\begin{tabulate\\table} environment, if I insert of picture, I want to be able to drag and adjust its position. I want a truly WYSIWYG editor." ]

[ "writing", "collaboration", "online-resource", "tools" ]

[ "Supervisor gave my PhD project to another student", "I am a PhD student in life sciences. My PhD project's goal is to analyze specific data and to check a totally new idea in the field I am working in. This project is risky, however, very promising. With my supervisor, we planned all the studies and experiments before the start of the PhD, and he did promise that this would be my project. However, just as I started the PhD, he asked me to finish other experiments as I am the only one in the department who knows methodology and that work was crucial for the lab funding.\n\nAt the same time, he gave my project to another student claiming that he wants to know results and to publish this as early as possible. This student started the experiments and to analyze data. Moreover, my supervisor presented him to our collaborator (well known and influential scientist in the field) as the main researcher. \n\nAt this point I am desperate. Yes, I am jealous, but just don't know what to do in this situation. I came to this lab only for this project. I tried to mention this to my supervisor, but he just said: \"Well, these findings are very important to us and I want to know the results as soon as possible\".\n\nIt's only 4 months into experiments and I hope that someone could suggest how can I change this situation." ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "supervision" ]

[ "Rescinding or deferring admission over a break up", "I have a full ride for a grad program at a good school\nI've recently gone through an awful breakup with a girlfriend of 7 years\nI now want to take an extra year before going to school, for many reasons. I could explain them to you all here, but that seems beside the point; assume they are compelling enough.\nIn my head, my justification sounded very legitimate and serious (the tale involves depression and hospitalization, an abrupt change of living situation, etc., all just before enrollment)\nNow, typing out an email to the department, I feel totally immature. I try to word it more professionally, which only makes it look like I'm trying to be vague about my immaturity, which perhaps sounds even more immature.\n\n\nHow can I talk about personal relationship issues to people who it matters to, but for professional reasons, and not feel like I've tainted my name at the school?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "interpersonal-issues" ]

[ "Do professors get paid for supervising students?", "Do professors get paid for supervising PhD students / honours student's projects?\n\nIf so, typically how much?" ]

[ "salary", "supervision" ]

[ "Is it appropriate to contact a journal about grammatically erroneous editing?", "Recently, I submitted a paper to a maths journal (which is a decent journal with a solid editorial board). It was eventually accepted after making some revisions suggested by the referees, at which point I uploaded my final submission. This final submission was then edited by a copy editor at the journal; as well as the usual cosmetic changes in ensuring that my papered adhered to the cosmetic style of the journal, the copy editor also made several grammatical changes. I then was given an opportunity to read through this edited version and suggest any final corrections before my paper is uploaded to the journal's website.\n\nThis, of course, is all fairly standard practice. However, many of the grammatical changes made by the copy editor were incorrect. Of course, I noted this in my comments, so I hope these changes will be reverted before the paper is published.\n\n\n It is appropriate for me to take further action in notifying the journal (e.g. a member of the editorial board) that a copy editor is repeatedly introducing errors?\n\n\nThis of course seems a little petty. On the other hand, these same grammatical errors occur repeatedly throughout papers in this journal (at least in recent papers published online), and I'm sure that I'm not the only reader who finds these mistakes irritating.\n\n\n\nIn case anyone is curious about the errors, the most common mistake is that the copy editor repeatedly replaced with a comma my usage of a semicolon before an independent clause, especially such a clause in the imperative mood: an example would be something like \"This can be proved via the method of Gauss, see [1]\". Other such comma splices were introduced - all by replacing semicolons with commas.\n\nAdditional grammatical mistakes were introduced that were clearly incorrect: for example, I perhaps overuse the phrase \"Note that\", and this was pruned on a couple of occasions by the copy editor, but in more than one case, the rest of the sentence wasn't edited to ensure that it still made sense." ]

[ "journals", "editors", "journal-workflow", "grammar", "copy-editing" ]

[ "150%, 1.5 times, 1.5× or 1.5-fold", "If some measure of quality improves to 150 % of its original value in a study from condition A to condition B, would it be most appropriate, in terms of scientific writing (computer science specifically), to describe that as:\n\n\n\n a 1.5-fold improvement\n\n\n a 1.5× improvement\n\n\n performing 1.5 times better" ]

[ "writing", "writing-style" ]

[ "Tablet/e-writer/pressure pad for writing with normal pen and paper, but electronic output", "I would like to be able to create short 'video tutorials' or 'video lectures' where I draw on the screen and record my voice. I know that I can use OBS software to capture an application window and my voice to make the video and that is not the problem.\n\nThe question I have is about how to draw and have the image come up on the screen. \n\nWhat I would like to do is to draw on a piece of paper with a normal pen on top of an electronic pressure pad, so I can see what I am doing on the paper and also record it on a screen. \n\nMy question is 'Is there any electronic writing device that will work with a normal pen and paper on top of it?' -- I am not asking what is the best way or the best device, I am just wondering if it is possible.\n\nI have read this question and the answers, which is somewhat similar, but different because the question is just generally about capturing writing on a whiteboard or paper and not about writing on paper. I have also seen this question, which is again less specific than the question here. \n\nI am aware that one answer would be to have something like a document viewer with a camera above the piece of paper, but I would like to try to avoid that if possible so my hand does not get in the way. \n\nSo far I have only found either pressure sensitive pads to write on, where you cannot download the image like this one.\n\nAny suggestions very gratefully received." ]

[ "teaching", "audio-video-recording" ]

[ "Ethics of gathering data from social networks for research", "I am starting to work on my thesis on analyzing the social network. My question is about using ethical procedures to access data.\n\n\nIs it ethical to use Facebook messages as the source of my data if I have permission from the other users?\nIs it alright to create a chatroom to create a chat/web page to get the data, is it the right way to go?" ]

[ "research-process", "thesis", "ethics", "computer-science", "data" ]

[ "Teacher has done nothing all semester - should I say something?", "My Teacher for a required course has been completely unreliable for any amount of actual teaching. He is honestly the worst teacher myself or pretty much any of the other students have ever had. \n\nIt's online, and it's actually very obvious that he's taken the format of his lesson plan directly from another teacher as many of his materials have their name listed instead of his. He'll ask for things on assignments that are very confusing (for instance, meet with your groups and discuss x) and the student body will be frantically messaging each other trying to figure out if we missed something because we were never assigned groups etc. It's not just us asking each other either, we send him messages. At several points it took him until after the assignment's deadline to respond to any one of us, so this isn't a one off occurrence. \n\nHis version of MLA format that he expects is adjusted, but how it's adjusted is up to speculation and seems almost dependent on how he's feeling. The only thing that he actually has to grade (since everything is online - he just pointed us to do pre-programmed worksheets from the book company) are three written reports at the tail end of the semester. \n\nThe problem with those reports is that because of the unclear formatting I, and a few others, received a drop in grade with no explanation or \"this isn't what I was looking for\". Nevermind that we've been wondering what he's been looking for but rarely responds to anyone about anything. The same thing happened with the next assignment but I lost significantly fewer points and I have zero idea what the difference was between the two formats. \n\nI understand that Teachers have to work incredibly hard and they are often undervalued comparatively to that, but even giving him an incredible amount of leeway I have to be honest and say that he should never have picked up this course if he wasn't actually going to teach us. Is this something that I should bring up to the school's HR? This semester has been absolute torture for all of us and it's ridiculous that anyone should be \"taught\" like this." ]

[ "ethics", "teaching", "online-learning" ]

[ "Should I mention that I'm currently studying in CV?", "I'm currently taking course in Business Intelligence and writing a CV to apply for jobs. Should I mention the fact that I'm currently taking this course in my CV? Since I have no previous work experience I'm having trouble with filling my CV with information.\n\nThat's what I came up with so far:\n\nSummary:\nA highly motivated, results-focused SQL Server/T-SQL/SSIS developer. Currently in finishing stage of BI Developer course. \n\nTechnical skills:\nDatabase: MS SQL Server 2014\nProgramming: SQL, T-SQL, basic level C#\nDatabase tools: SQL Server Management Studio, SSIS\n\nLanguages: English(Fluent), Hebrew(Fluent), Russian(Native)\nFormal education: BA in Business Management(Tel Aviv University)" ]

[ "cv" ]

[ "Most recommended automated way for conduction university exams", "In most of the universities of India, conducting exams such as mid terms and end terms for a semester is as follows:\n\n1) Designing question papers and taking print of them\n\n2) Distribute it among students along with answer sheets\n\n3) Invigilating during exams and taking attendance\n\n4) Collecting answer sheets\n\n5) Evaluation and rechecking if any student has issues\n\nThis process is tedious and most of the part is unproductive.\n\nI want to know the method for conduction exams so that less human intervention is needed. \n\nDoes any good universities in any country automated these process of conducting exam and what are the steps in their method?" ]

[ "exams", "teaching-assistant" ]

[ "External collaboration without doctoral supervisor - is it a fair request to pursue this?", "I am about two-thirds of the way through my doctoral programme, and am intending to start applying for post-doctoral fellowships within the next few months.\n\nI am fortunate to have already published a first-author publication with my supervisor, and have another under review. I have also brought projects to my supervisor that we are currently undertaking, but will not form part of my thesis.\n\nI wanted to ask for your advice/thoughts on an issue. I have been approached directly by an academic that I greatly respect and have not previously worked with to undertake an analysis on the understanding that I would be first author on a write-up and they would take the last author. While I have a great relationship with my current supervisor, I am keen to try and publish an article without any of my existing/previous collaborators. My reasoning for this is that such a collaboration would enable me to clearly demonstrate my independence as a researcher and my ability to collaborate in any future fellowship applications (or other postdoctoral applications, for that matter).\n\nI wanted to ask you all whether you feel that it is a fair request of my current supervisor that I pursue this external collaboration without them?\n\nMany thanks for any advice you can provide." ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "application", "funding", "postdocs" ]

[ "Who should write summary papers and what are the pros and cons of doing so?", "My advisor has suggested that I write a survey paper. I am concerned because neither my advisor nor I are know for, or are knowledgeable in, the topic my advisor is suggesting. We would be starting completely from scratch. I am concerned this will be an exercise in futility as our combined lack of experience would make our credentials questionable at best and make publishing our work in a quality journal either hard or not possible. Even if we can create a publishable work, I am concerned about how many PhD students undertake such a project. From my (admittedly) limited experience it seems like survey papers require an exorbitant amount of time and may not offer as high of a return on investment as research papers can for PhD students. I am in the computer science PhD program at my school if that helps. Are my concerns irrational? What are the pros and cons of a PhD student writing a summary paper? Thank you!" ]

[ "publications", "advisor" ]

[ "Mentioning that a part of the thesis was done at another university in my PhD thesis", "While working on my thesis, and for about a month, I did some simulation studies on another university with the supervision of another professor. I want to mention this at the begining of the section where the results of this study are reported. How do I properly acknowledge this?" ]

[ "phd", "thesis" ]

[ "Is it common for a university to remain unresponsive to queries?", "I'm planning to study in the u.k. I've never been to the u.k. but is it common there to remain unresponsive to the students' queries?\nI've sent a few emails to the student service team for some queries. They replied me once or twice and on one of them, idk if they forwarded it by accident ot not, they sent me the conversation they had about me through emails including the answer to my query. They were complaining to each other how I email multiple ppl at the same time. I'm not sure if that's a professional way to deal with anyone even though I'm a student.\nAfter that, I sent a few emails because I urgently need to work on my visa, and they haven't answered to any of them. It's been roughly 9days since I sent my unanswered query.\nCould they be ignoring my emails on purpose?\nI've been informed that an organisation is to take certain period of time to reply before when I was emailling other institutes, but never experienced this unresponsive instutue..." ]

[ "application", "transfer-student", "faculty" ]

[ "How do I choose an appropriate scope for a master's thesis in mathematics?", "I am a new Master's seeking student in Mathematics, and I'm trying to get a jump on my research focus/concentration for eventually writing my Master's Thesis. My interest is primarily prime, perfect, and Mersenne numbers. When I try to formulate a plan though, my ideas are always too broad and vague, or are way too specific. Does anybody have advice on how to decide on a topic? How long is the average such thesis? Perhaps what I thought was too vague and expansive would be a perfect length and I was just second-guessing myself too much." ]

[ "research-process", "masters", "thesis", "mathematics" ]

[ "To publish or not to publish", "There are two parts to this question.\n\n\nAs a student interested in pursuing a doctoral degree; how important is it to publish an article or \"something\" before one applies? Will it help your chances? I plan on writing a MA thesis but whether it is publishable or not, remains to be seen.\nWhat are the main steps to go about publishing?" ]

[ "publications", "phd", "thesis", "masters" ]

[ "Would this be considered plagiarism?", "I'm currently about to finish my BA thesis, and my topic is bullying. I have read several books, studies, and such that can be connected to my topic. I finished the literature review, but haven't touched it since. However, when I recently re-read it and looked at the sources, I have found that a lot of my sub-chapters in my lit. review are really similar to those in the literature. For instance, in the work I read, the author mentions the consequences of bullying and I also have a sub-chapter dedicated to this. Or for example, I have read about strain theory in another one of the studies that I have also included and wrote about in one of my sub-chapters. I did not include every single aspect of these particular studies, just specific parts that I found relevant in my study.\n\nMy question is the following: Is this considered plagiarism?" ]

[ "thesis", "plagiarism", "literature-review" ]

[ "How do Academic Journals protect against empirical results given by bugs?", "As the title says.\n\nMy background is in Economics/Finance(mostly), many topics in those fields (and I am sure other fields) require fairly complicated programming, enough to where one can easily screw something up. How do Academic journals defend against results that are generated by bugs? \n\nAs far as I understand nobody ever sees my code, it could be hundreds or even thousands lines of garbage code without a single function in it (not to mention no unit tests) laced with bugs, and I kept \"fixing\" things until my results \"made sense\", and then happily reported them. How could a journal tell that my results are trash?" ]

[ "publications", "journals" ]

[ "Using an image under Creative Commons license in PhD thesis", "I would like to use this image of a Star Trek tricorder in my PhD thesis as cover art for an \"Outlook\" style chapter. It is listed as being under CC-BY-SA. I believe this is fine, but I wanted to confirm. As attribution, I have an acknowledgements section at the end of the chapter which says \n\n\"Chapter cover art from Bobbie Johnson, used under CC BY-SA\"\n\nIs this an acceptable use/attribution of this image? More generally, does using Creative Commons licensed material in my thesis pose problems for the licensing of the thesis itself? If I am reading it correctly I do not need to license the thesis under CC as long as I don't modify the image at all, is this correct?" ]

[ "thesis", "copyright", "creative-commons" ]

[ "Attending supervisor's group meeting after thesis approval", "I am a finishing Masters student. My supervisor approved my thesis recently, and I am waiting for the graduate studies office to process my thesis so that I can get a letter from the university that confirms the submission of my thesis and apply for a post-graduate work permit.\n\nIn the meantime, should I still attend my supervisor's group meeting? I do not contribute to the discussions in the group meetings anyway.\n\nI cannot bring up the topic of attending group meeting because once before, when I asked him about the logistics of the final stages of the Masters program, he got really mad at me." ]

[ "advisor" ]

[ "Good data entry and management systems", "I am a PhD student and am thinking ahead to when I start up a psychology lab---what are some of the best data entry and management systems? To avoid the \"it depends\" answer, below I list what I'm looking for. If you must say \"it depends\", it would be helpful to know what it depends on (i.e., what the good options are for different needs). I've done some work with data management systems in SPSS and Excel, and have not been impressed.\n\nHere's what I'd use it for:\n\n\nEntry of ~100 variables for every one of ~100 measures and ~10,000 cases. In other words, the entire (merged) data matrix could be about 100 X 100 X 10,000 cells (10,000 rows and 10,000 columns).\nData involve human subjects and are mostly from questionnaires\n\n\nHere are some things I'd like it to be able to do:\n\n\nData entry can be restricted to specified, plausible values for each variable (string, number, integer, value from 0-2, etc.) in order to minimize data entry errors\nDouble data entry checking (users enter the same data twice and the system flags discrepancies to minimize data entry errors)\nData from different measures are entered in separate forms, but data can be easily merged by one or more matching columns (full outer join)\nData can be easily imported into R (ideally in base R with a .csv or .txt file)\nEfficient (time & effort) to open and use\nUser friendly (undergrad RAs would be using it)\nCan interface to import data from other sources so that not all data are entered manually (iPad-entered data, website-entered data, physiological data, .csv files, tab-delimited files, etc.)\nData can have appropriate safeguards because they involve human subjects (e.g., password protection, encryption, others?)\n\n\nNot necessary, but ideally it would be:\n\n\nLow (or no cost) and a one-time license that can be installed on an entire lab's worth of computers\nPlatform independent (can be run on Mac & PC)" ]

[ "research-process", "data", "databases", "lab-management" ]

[ "Good practices for organizing notes", "As a PhD student I generate a lot of pages with calculations, ideas and lecture notes.\n\nMost of them are useful only for a short amount of time, but some may be important for much longer (when writing a paper, or when having new ideas to continue a once abandoned project). Typically I work on a few project simultaneously.\n\nThe question is, what is a good practice of taking and keeping notes? (With or without computer apps.)\n\nWriting on single sheets (even if adding date and title) makes it easy to organize by topic, but also easy to loose. Keeping in one notepad makes it harder to collect useful things of one topic in one place." ]

[ "workflow", "note-taking" ]

[ "How to quote a draft in my thesis?", "For my bachelor thesis I needed a certain source. As it wasn't accessible neither on the net, nor in my library, I decided to ask the author directly. She was kind enough to send me a draft of the text in question, explicitly allowing me to use it for private academic purpose. \n\nNow I'm in the middle of my thesis. How do I cite a draft that doesn't even have a date? If I had the published version, I'd simply cross-reference, but I don't, and adding the page number of a word document that my supervisor doesn't have seems utterly useless. Do I simply leave out the page number (it's a very short paper), or do I add the paper as an attachment? \n\nI know this is something I'd normally ask my supervisor. Unfortunately, communication with her is not something I'm interested in, for personal reasons. I'm therefore looking for a reasonable advice that has nothing to do with her preferences." ]

[ "citations" ]

[ "How can I best adapt my seminar slides for a virtual presentation?", "I was recently invited to give a seminar talk at another institution. Ordinarily I would have travelled there for the day and given my talk in person. However, due to the travel restrictions imposed by the UK government in the wake of the coronavirus, I will instead be giving my talk via video conferencing. \n\nI had already prepared some slides for this talk, and have given variations of the talk before. I tend to prefer a lighthearted style of presentation, and have a couple of humorous slides. I'm concerned that this style will not work well with a virtual seminar, as the audience feedback will be non-existent if everyone has their microphones muted and cameras switched off. I'm also not sure if I should change the layout of my slides in any way, to reflect the fact that people will be looking at them up close on their small laptop screens rather than from a distance in a lecture theatre being projected on to a large screen.\n\nMy question is this: how can I best adapt my talk in this situation? I'd appreciate answers that address dealing with the lack of audience feedback and interaction, as well as practical points regarding slide layout and so on." ]

[ "presentation", "covid-19", "video-conference" ]

[ "Research-assistant classification in C.V", "I was a research assistant at a university when I had a master’s degree. Now I got a Ph.D from a different university. I want to apply for a faculty position.\n\nIn which of the following CV categories can being a research assistant be considered:\n\n\nWork Experience\nTraining Course\nQualifications and Certificates\n\n\nNeedless to say, I have a report letter from the head of department, where I was a research assistant." ]

[ "cv", "research-assistantship" ]

[ "Can a good but unremarkable PhD student become an accomplished professor?", "Given that PhD students and professors often need to use different skill sets to accomplish their jobs, are there instances of people who had good but unremarkable careers as a PhD student, but much more success as a professor? If this describes you, can you describe why this might have been the case? I personally feel that my technical skills are comparatively average to my peers, but my writing, conceptualization and framing skills are above average. My own PhD journey thus far is fine, but not remarkable. Assuming I manage to find a faculty position, do you think I might be able to have a more accomplished career than when I was a student? How might I do this?" ]

[ "phd", "professors" ]

[ "Graduate school applications: Should your answers be exhaustive or selective?", "Should you see graduate schol application questions as opportunities to provide relevant positive information about yourself, or as fiats to list absolutely everything in a category of your experience?\n\nFor example, here are a few questions from Harvard's GSAS application (I don't know what, if any, general instructions are given--such as whether it says \"Provide complete answers to each question\" or \"Please provide the following information\"):\n\n\n \n Academic Honors/Fellowships\n List any articles, books, and other material published, and any inventions.\n Other universities (Program/Department) to which applying\n Employment experience (including part-time) since secondary school\n \n\n\nWith some of these (#1, #2) it seems easy to believe one could choose which examples to report. That is, you wouldn't be ethically obliged to list that you once published a crossword puzzle in your town's local paper, or that you won the Latin prize in high school, even if both are true. Instead, it seems reasonable one would list the honors and publications providing the best evidence of one's qualification for the program.\n\nBy contrast, some of these (#3 and the submission of transcripts, for example) would seem to suggest that a thoroughgoing answer is expected. Others (#4) are in a gray area--it's not clear to me which approach should be taken.\n\nThere is usually a statement at the end of the application where you must affirm that your responses are \"complete and accurate.\" However, I don't really understand what this means in light of the nuances above, and in the absence of clearer specifications. Please help!" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "ethics", "application" ]

[ "Traveling with textbooks", "So I am finishing my MSc in Europe and it looks like I will be headed to the US for a PhD. Along the way I have collected a small set of textbooks that I find particularly useful. From my experience, most academics have a reasonable number of textbooks in their offices so I cannot be the only one in this situation. These books can be hard to find and are costly to replace. \n\nHowever, textbooks are pretty awful to carry around. Even a modest number make any box very heavy. \n\nSo what I am asking is this. Is it worthwhile to transport books around the world? Is there a best way to do it? Since I an impecunious student I am hoping to do this cheaply." ]

[ "graduate-school", "books", "travel" ]

[ "Is it a good idea to combine the glossary and the list of notations in a mathematical PhD thesis?", "I am considering including a glossary and a list of notations in my PhD thesis on mathematics. Is it a good idea to write them separately or combine them? \n\nFor example, a typical entry of the list of notation is:\n\n[a,b] The commutator of a and b, defined by [a,b]=a^{-1}b^{-1}ab.\n\nAn entry of the glossary is:\n\nCommutator The commutator of a and b is defined to be the product a^{-1}b^{-1}ab.\n\n(Note: the definition of commutator is well-known to mathematicians, but since another definition aba^{-1}b^{-1} is also possible, I would like to add the definition to avoid any possible ambiguity.)\n\nI have a strong feeling of combining these two entries together, maybe even combining the glossary and the list of notations together.\n\nIs it a good idea to combine the glossary and the list of notations in a mathematical PhD thesis?" ]

[ "thesis", "writing", "mathematics", "glossary" ]

[ "How many weeks of holidays does a Ph.D. student in Germany have the right to take?", "As a Ph.D. student in Germany, what's the maximum allowed holiday time per year?\nI heard of 1 month per year.\nThanks." ]

[ "phd", "germany", "europe" ]

[ "Minimum thereshold for scholarship", "I emailed a professor in Australia for a PhD program. In the response, and as a part of that, he told me \"For scholarships, you need to be at least 85% and over\". What does it mean? Is this refer to GPA or something else?" ]

[ "phd", "funding" ]

[ "How does a 1 yr. Visiting Assistant Professor (in physics) position look to a small liberals arts college", "So questions similar to this have been bandied about a lot here but I haven't really seen an satisfactory response to this particular one. I gather that the Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) at a small liberals arts colleg (SLAC) blows your chances for schools that prioritize research (R1) tenure track positions. Fine, not going to get those jobs anyways. \n\nBut how does either an school with less research emphasis (R2) or a SLAC look at this experience on my CV?\n\nBackground: 5 years as a post-doc with no actual teaching experience. Only teaching experience was TAing in graduate school. Pretty strong publication record but not top of the world." ]

[ "career-path" ]

[ "There is an uncommon icon for my submission on EasyChair", "I have submitted a manuscript via EasyChair. I assume that\niIt is still under review because I had no notifications of any sort.\nWhen I click on my role on the main page, there is a link which allows me to download the manuscript I have submitted.\nThe icon is as shown below:\n\nThere is a paper icon with the number 1 in a red, rounded square on the lower-right corner.\nHowever, normally, it is like this:\n\nWhich can be described as an open folder icon with a small black arrow pointing right on the upper-right corner.\nDoes this mean anything?" ]

[ "peer-review", "conference", "paper-submission" ]

[ "Risk to academic reputation by publicly requesting pay-walled articles", "The Twitter hashtag #ICanHazPDF has been popular among academics as a method for peer-to-peer exchange of pay-walled articles. Some people call this practice \"piracy\", and it could be illegal depending on the publisher policies.\n\nApparently, many users use it with real names and real profile pictures.\n\nWhat are real risks to academic reputation and career of people by publicly requesting pay-walled articles?\n\nI'm looking for an objective assessment." ]

[ "publications", "legal-issues", "reputation" ]

[ "Careers at the National Research Council of Italy and difference from the university system", "What is the organization of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR)? In particular, I'd like to know\n\nHow does one get a position there? I assume there are public competitions (as for university positions), but I've never seen an announcement: Are they very rare or just not advertised as much?\nWhat is the career progression in the CNR? I've seen people being called "Technologist", "Researcher", "Senior Researcher", and "Research Director" within them: What are the differences/seniorities/career progression mechanisms?\nWhat are the other differences between an academic career at a university and at a CNR unit? In particular, in terms of teaching load, administrative tasks, and salary?" ]

[ "career-path", "job-search", "job", "early-career", "italy" ]

[ "Will uploading a half completed paper to Arxiv hurt my chances of getting admitted to a grad school?", "I worked on a independent research project during my free time in college. Nobody guided me and nobody assisted me. I developed a algorithm for a problem and I tried it out on few data-sets and compared it with some leading algorithms(Papers for which I could find implementation online) on the same data-sets and the results were great. I didn't get enough time to finish the paper and now I am working in a job.\n\nI wish to apply to US colleges for spring for MS. As I don't have time currently, I am thinking of just uploading the unfinished paper that I prepared in college to Arxiv. The paper will just lists my results on 4 ~ 5 data-sets and nothing else as I don't have the comparison data with me anymore.\n\nWill uploading a half completed paper to Arxiv and mentioning it in my SOP give me any advantage or will it hurt my chances of getting admitted?\n\nAlso what should my affiliation be in that paper?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "research-undergraduate", "arxiv", "independent-researcher" ]

[ "Should I quit if I'm having problems with the Marie Curie industry partner?", "Unfortunately I am having a really hard time with the industry partners that have made me think I should quit. First of all, they are aggressive every time I come up with a research idea, and they shut it down in an aggressive way. I have been having some issues to be there to the secondments (bureaucracy not from my side). It is now on their side how to solve the bureaucracy. They have been trying to convince me the secondments are not important, and I can work for them from abroad. They are not being transparent or providing information about what they are doing to have me in place and finally one of them just got out of control and insane and scream at me in a meeting in front of everyone. Frankly I don't want to work with these people again.\n\nWhat should I do in case of having troubles with the industry partner? What are the risks for the project, if I quit?" ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "funding", "career-path", "marie-curie" ]

[ "Changing ordering of authorship in a proceeding", "In the field of applied math where a paper has been accepted for a conference presentation (talk), is it common for the ordering of the authors to be changed for a proceeding that entails thereafter?" ]

[ "journals", "conference", "authorship" ]

[ "Will delaying entering grad school for a year to pursue study abroad put one at a strong disadvantage?", "I'm a year away from getting my undergrad degree in (computer) engineering, with a minor in Japanese. I never had the opportunity to do a study abroad due to the rigors of the major. As some probably know, the JET program is a program by which selected individuals move to Japan to teach English at public schools for a year (or two or three, but not more, I believe). I've always been very interested in doing something like this, but I have always assumed that doing so would ruin my chances of getting into a graduate program or landing a good job upon my return. \n\nIt wouldn't be like attending grad school before entering the industry or vice versa, in that I would be teaching English for a living, not studying or working in my field. I could still self study, and my field gives me the advantage of still being able to apply my skills working on personal projects and open-source software, but I would certainly be removed from the industry and academia, I would expect. \n\nI feel like leave from the field would look bad to any prospective schools or employers. How accurate is my assumption? Would a leave of absence to do something like this reflect poorly on me in the eyes of potential schools or employers?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "undergraduate", "industry" ]

[ "How to decline a postdoc offer a few days after accepting it?", "I recently received two postdoc offers on the same day. I accepted one (verbally, in saying "I would like to accept this job offer", but I have signed nothing), but then some additional information came to light that I would not be happy in that role and the other was probably a better fit for me after all.\nIt is undoubtedly the case that I failed to adequately understand the pros and cons of each role before accepting one of the roles. I accept this, but it's also my first job, and frankly I have no idea what I am doing. If I had a better idea what I was doing then I would have been able to extract this information before accepting one of the roles. I accept that I have been fairly useless in this decision-making process and I am quite ashamed and horrified by it all (I'm not really sleeping and I've even had nightmares, as ridiculous as that may sound). Frankly, I just want it to end, but I want to make the right decision as it will have a profound impact on my life. And the right decision for me is to decline the offer that I had previously accepted and go forwards with this alternative one. At most as it stands I'll have cost them about 2-3 days of time. It's not as if I've kept them hanging for several weeks or months before finally backing out. I can already tell my would-be supervisor in the role I wish to decline is a very decent and kind person and I want to cause them them the absolute minimum undue difficulties and upset.\nHow unethical is it to decline an offer after accepting it (but without having signed anything)? How can I go ahead with now going back on my decision and let them know in the best possible way? Thanks for your help." ]

[ "postdocs", "job" ]

[ "Are there any journals or conferences that take into account the availability of the source code when selecting the papers to publish?", "Quite too many times I have read in a research article claiming that the source code will be made available, and, when I look for it, it turns out that the source code still hasn't been released.\n\nAre there any journals or conferences that take into account the availability of the source code when selecting the papers to publish? By availability I mean present availability, not some vague promise of code release sometime in the future somewhere on Internet.\n\nNow code availability is one thing, clarity is another. I have seen a lot of emphasis on the papers' clarity in the paper selection criteria, do some publication venues pay attention to code clarity during the paper selection process?\n\nObviously, I have the same issue with datasets, so I am wondering the same for them, i.e. are there any journals or conferences that take into account the availability of the dataset(s) when selecting the papers to publish?" ]

[ "journals", "conference", "open-science" ]

[ "Postdoc recommendation letters: The European-American gap and how to overcome it", "I heard from several sources that European recommendation letters for postdoc positions tend to be minimalist and understated, while the American ones are way more enthusiastic. I have two questions about this phenomenon:\n\n\nIs this cultural difference taken into account by members of postdoctoral search committees in high-ranked American universities?\n\n\nThe second question is more personal:\n\n\nI'm a European grad student aiming at a postdoc position in an American university. I'm currently gathering my recommendation letters, and I'm supposed to get one from one of the leading figures in my field. He knows my work well, and I believe he has a good opinion of me. On the other hand, being familiar with his style of expression, he will never write one of those \"omg he is the best researcher ever\" letters that top American universities expect to see (he won't write it even for someone who is actually the best researcher ever). So the question is: Should I use his letter in my application or am I risking that the search committee will translate the adjective \"good\" (which is a very significant compliment considering the letter writer) to \"horrible\"?\n\n\nps. For whatever it's worth, I work in pure mathematics." ]

[ "mathematics", "postdocs", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "Unproductive in dissertation research (mathematics/statistics)", "For my dissertation research, I feel like I was unproductive a lot of times because I didn’t have a good intuition about approaches to even try. I felt as if a whole year was wasted trying ideas that went nowhere. I think the reason for this is because there weren’t many related papers on my dissertation topic so when I’d read papers, I only had a few potential approaches I could think of.\n\nHas anyone else had this problem? I also wish I had another easier/more tractable problem to work on, but my advisor wanted me to focus on this one (generalization bounds based on optimal transport theory).\n\nNow I have some progress, but even now I’m stuck trying to make sense of a function that comes up in my generalization bound. And even that, I’m having a tough time making sense of that even for simple cases. Sometimes I think I’m being unproductive but it’s more because I lack enough relevant ideas than it is sheer laziness. And I also talked about my problem to other professors/researchers but most didn’t have much insight." ]

[ "research-process" ]

[ "Pursuing a Masters, trying to figure out the potential effects of my undergraduate transcript on PhD admissions", "Long story short, my transcript is quite the spectacle: I started off getting really good grades, but due to a lot of personal issues ended up graduating with a respectable, but lackluster GPA. Unfortunately, I have a downward trend. While my final GPA is slightly below 3.5, I have failed quite a few courses. I'm getting a MSE in computer science, coming from an applied math background. My undergraduate computer science GPA is really high, but my GPA in everything else is pretty low. I'm confident that I will do exceptionally well in the CS MSE, but I have a few questions:\n\n\nAre undergraduate courses unrelated to one's discipline factored into the PhD admissions decision making process?\nDespite doing poorly in some math classes in my undergrad, will taking graduate level math courses and doing well in them essentially negate the fact that I did poorly in some classes as an undergraduate (did well in most of them)?\n\n\nFor reference:\nI'm currently conducting research and should have good to outstanding recommendations.\n\nI understand that for PhD programs, a common order of applicant evaluation is: \n\n\nRecommendations\nResearch\nTranscript\n\n\nand that I have valid reasons for my poor performance, nonetheless, I'm scared that they're going to look at my undergraduate transcript and just get scared off. Any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated." ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Should I publish my software independently or publish it along with a case study in higher journal?", "I have built a software that handles protein clustering data in specific format. It is able to draw several plots on that basis along with many other analyses. It has more options than its existing competitor. Should I just try to get it published as a software/technical issue, or try some\ncase study data (research work on a logical data) produced by the software\n+\nthe software,\n in a better journal?" ]

[ "publications", "research-process", "software" ]

[ "Book series in bibliography?", "At one time I tried to be able to remember obscure journal abbreviations and the like, but recently I started favouring more bulky bibliography entries.\n\nSo I started wondering if it might be useful to include series and volume number of a book, e.g. Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM). Sometimes library shelves, book stores, publisher's sites, etc. are ordered by book series and often it helps to know the series and number to track down a book. Traditionally, the bibliography information for a book would be\n\n\n Takeuti, G. & Zaring, W.M., Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory, Berlin: Springer, 1981.\n\n\nwith the title of the book in italics. But then journal names are also in italics, which could mean that book series should be as well (after all, some book series even have ISSN numbers, so how different are they really?). But then there is not really enough contrast between the book title and the series...\n\n\n Takeuti, G. & Zaring, W.M., Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 1, Berlin: Springer, 1981.\n\n\nMy questions are\n\n\nWould it be good to include book series in a bibliography? If yes:\nHow should I style the book title and the book series?\n\n\n(As apparent from the example book, my field is mathematics.)" ]

[ "books", "citation-style" ]

[ "What should a good theoretical physics PhD progress look like at the beginning of 3rd year?", "Obviously I am asking this because I am worried!\n\nI am a theoretical physics grad student at one of the top places in the US. The following is a brief history of my last 2 years and I would like to know of opinions and suggestions regarding the path ahead. \n\n\n\nI did the most advanced courses (relevant to my interests) during my first year and worked on some project ideas through very high-profile external collaborations (but the projects didn't work out and I had to can the drafts) During my second year I tried working with some other profs but the projects were never really interesting. \n\n[..though I have a (single author) paper on arxiv from my 2nd year work and may be I will get one more...] \n\nTowards the end of second year I started meeting with a very brilliant scientist who will be joining my institute as a faculty in January 2014. With him the projects are very exciting - but interactions are difficult since he is still mostly not in campus. \n\n\n\nOf course this unstable path happened since I had to join a grad school which didn't have people in my subject of interest. But over the last 2-3 months things have been looking up as this new person came in..." ]

[ "phd", "publications", "graduate-school", "advisor" ]

[ "Should I wait for my professor to reply my request for recommendation letter?", "I am going to apply to graduate programs in the US, so I contacted my professor who advised my master's thesis. He is the most important referee because I did research with him, so I think he understands me well. Moreover, he is a well-known scientist in a very prestigious university in France (top 20 of the world in my field). \n\nAt the time, I left France to my home country, he told me that he would help me further my academic career. He actually gave me two recommendation letters afterwards for 2 PhD positions. Sadly, I failed both of them.\n\nTen days ago, I emailed him if he could give me recommendation letters. He didn't reply for one week, so I wrote a follow-up email. However, I haven't got any responses from him until now. I am so confused because the deadline is December 15th.\n\nDoes it mean that my professor has declined my request? Should I wait for him or ask other professors?\n\nNEWS: I just got his acceptance. He was traveling this week so he didn't got my email. Thank you all for your advices." ]

[ "etiquette", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "Applying for research assistant (What can I speak about?)", "I will be applying for a research assistant position under a professor at my college (master's program). I have an interview with her on phone (competition will be stiff, many students have applied). What should I be talking about? How do I put forward to her that I can manage my time well between studying responsibilities and research? More importantly, how do I show my eagerness for working under her and towards the research work at hand? \n\nThis will be my first time - giving an interview for a research position and I don't know what I will be questioned about or how do I impress my interviewer." ]

[ "graduate-school", "professors", "research-assistantship" ]

[ "Is it appropriate/accepted for a PhD student to organize/coordinate a special session at a conference?", "I have the possibility to organize a special track/session at a small computer science conference, however at the moment I'm in the last year of my PhD study.\n\nThe special session includes an introduction presentation (related to an editorial) by the organizer (me in this case), some accepted papers presentations, and an \"Open Discussion and Closing Remarks\" chaired by me as well.\n\nAlthough I believe to have enough expertise/general knowledge on the topic of the session, do you think it'd be appropriate for me as a PhD student to do this? Or is everyone expecting a doctorate or a professor to organize such sessions?" ]

[ "conference", "computer-science", "chairing" ]

[ "how should I be positive about financial support?", "I am accepted for the January intake.I am a fully funded student. \nI received the acceptance letter from university but the university has not sent me any financial support letter.\nMy supervisor just sent me a letter of financial support.\nA financial support at $22K per year from which $15K comes from Supervisor's grant money \nand the rest from internal funding available to the graduate students in our faculty in form of research and \nteaching assistantships.\n\nIs it enough to have a financial letter from the supervisor? or Should I send the university an email and ask them to send a letter of the financial letter?\n\nbecause on my personal university portal there is not any section for funding.\nwhat should I do before starting my study? since it is really important to finance my study form very beginning. what should I write to the university and what should I ask?\n\nThanks in advance!" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "funding", "professors", "email", "administration" ]

[ "How Does Funding for Graduate Students in U.S. differ from Undergraduate Scholarships?", "I am interested in furthering my understanding of the process of applying for grants (funding) for graduate students and pursuing Engineering (STEM) Career. I am located in the United States and I am a U.S. Citizen. \n\nMy understanding of the process: funding opportunities for graduate students are more 'project' based (to pursue a certain line of thought or experiment) while undergraduate scholarships are more based on student achievement and designated major.\n\nI received a few scholarships while an undergraduate, and my question is, what are the significant differences between funding for graduates and scholarships for undergraduates?" ]

[ "funding", "united-states" ]

[ "Can we present a same study to a different conferences?", "I was wondering if it is ok to present the same paper (may be already published in journals or unpublished) in different conferences? Assuring that the conference will not publish the whole research work but only abstracts in the proceedings." ]

[ "conference", "presentation" ]

[ "Distinguish starting journals from predatory ones", "As you know, there are journals -predatory journals- which are just publishing scams, without actual peer review, etc. but look like genuine ones, and it is a problem for the honest researcher to avoid them.\n\nUntil recently there was a free blacklist, Jerry Beall's (which had flaws), and now there is Cabell's list, which apart from being behind a paywall, may not distinguish predatory journals from new ones (see this review).\n\nAs the number of publications seems ever-increasing, I feel new, legitimate journals will play an important role in next years. I would be willing to publish in one of them sometime, but I don't know how to identify them. For the moment being, each time I receive an email promoting a starting journal (as some may in good faith do), I just dismiss it as being a predatory one.\n\nSo the question is: Are there good ways of knowing that a new journal is legitimate? Perhaps is there some kind of white list?" ]

[ "journals", "disreputable-publishers" ]

[ "Acronyms at the start of a sentence", "I was wondering if there was a rule regarding the use of acronyms at the start of the sentence in Journal Papers.\n\nIf so, is there a difference between the state of use of that acronym (i.e., whether it is being referred to as a noun or verb st the start of the sentence).\n\nAccording to my understand and research, it seems that it is not advisable to start the sentence with Acronyms, however, there is no set reference for it.\n\nNote: the use of that acronym is deemed necessary as it repeats over 10-15 times in the entire manuscript." ]

[ "writing-style", "language", "grammar" ]

[ "Similarities detector for IEEE conference papers like crosscheck", "IEEE conferences managed thru EDAS system are usually interfaced with Crosscheck service which automatically highlight to reviewers the percentage of detected similarity for the paper to be reviewed with existing papers.\n\nUnfortunately, this service can only be accessed thru the conference admin console.\nI checked with IEEE support who confirmed that such service cannot be accessed by an end-user but only activated as a paid service for a conference.\n\nAlso, I think, I remember that another API called ithenticate is sometimes used.\n\nMy question is:\nAs an author, not as a reviewer,\nHow would I know what is the computed resemblance percentage of my paper to existing works prior submission?" ]

[ "publications", "ieee" ]

[ "\"Challenging\" Teaching Experiences for Math Grad Students?", "I am currently a graduate student, who will (hopefully!) graduate in the next year (or two . . .). I have slowly come to realize that I enjoy teaching, and consequently want to do more of it! My main reasons are:\n\n\nto gain experience\nto bolster my CV\nto learn to be a better teacher\n\n\nThat last point is particularly important to me, because I feel I have received insufficient training in how to teach mathematics well.\n\nNow, I have done the usual TA thing. For the past year, I have also been an adjunct instructor at a local four-year college, so I pretty much know what it's like to be \"fully responsible\" for a course. What I am looking for are challenging opportunities which allow me to do some–or all–of the following:\n\n\nteach fairly sophisticated math to bright high school students / undergraduates\nengage them in innovative thinking/research\nbe consistently mentored/evaluated throughout the duration of this experience\n\n\nAgain, the last point is rather important to me. So my question is:\n\n\n Do such programs exist?\n\n\nI am sure they do, but when Googling, I invariably come up with graduate summer schools, or \"local\" opportunities. (By \"local\" here, I mean those which are only eligible to students in that particular school's graduate program.) So I am hoping someone (or several people) here know more about it than Google does.\n\nI know that most opportunities for this summer have probably already expired, but I want to stress I am not only focused on summer sessions. In particular, I would gladly forego my usual TA appointment for a semester, to be a part of a more difficult and rewarding experience somewhere else.\n\nThanks in advance.\n\nPS - This is my first question here, so feel free to edit my tags appropriately." ]

[ "teaching", "mentoring", "research-undergraduate" ]

[ "Should I leave my undergraduate research project?", "I’ve been working on a project for about 4 months simulating optics in a beamline for ANL. I’m the only person on the project developing the simulation. The software being used is brand new, open source and clunky. The documentation is poor (at best) with no real tutorial or users manual. There are consistent occurrences of bugs. \n\nAnyway, I’ve been putting in 10-15 hr weeks and most of it has been spent learning the software and building summary PowerPoints (that have ultimately been deemed useless) based on examples in tutorial. That was the first 3 months. The pay period has since ended but I’ve elected to assist because I was led to believe the project would end shortly after and I’d be able to co-author a paper. \n\nNow, it seems I have about 30(optimistic)-70(pessimistic) hours until I’m done based on what’s left. My advisor is bad and typically rejects any questions I have and says I simply have not been putting in effort. There’s little to no guidance in the project and my advisor always says how he could just do it himself much faster. \n\nI have another project starting in a few days that will require 40+ hours a week that’s paid. \n\nThe combination of lack of respect for my advisor, other time commitments, and overall distaste for the project leads me to believe I should respectfully tell him I can’t continue working on the project. \n\nShould I end it? If so, how should I go about it?" ]

[ "research-undergraduate" ]

[ "Getting published: writing a book chapter in linguistics", "I am an assistant professor of linguistics. In order to get promoted to the associate professorship one of the things I need to do is write a book or a book chapter. I was wondering how I could write a chapter in a book to be published. Where should I start? Who do I get in touch with? \n\nMany thanks!" ]

[ "publications", "books", "linguistics" ]

[ "My examination centre made a big mistake, what should I do?", "I live in the U.K. and I'm taking my A-Levels (the qualifications before university).\nYesterday I sat my Computer Science exam. This is the first of two papers, and is completed on the computer.\nOnce we enter the examination room, we are subject to examination conditions - no talking, no looking around and all unauthorised materials (notes, books, phones) are banned from the room.\nWe were assigned examination logins to the network which had the files we needed for the exam and nothing else. The computers were already logged in (as per the instructions issued by the exam board).\nThey had also locked down the computers, for example to disable the calculator and other unnecessary programs.\nSlightly unusually, however, the Upload Centre for Windows 10 was running. This is a program on Windows 10 use to manage file conflicts when syncing with One Drive. I thought this was a little odd, and opened it to satisfy my curiosity. As expected there were no files pending. I didn't notice at that time, but there was no error message saying that it could not connect to the internet. I closed this program.\nBefore the exam started, we were instructed to open the PDF, containing some instructions. As is the default on Windows 10, this opened in Edge - the web browser. I was a little surprised - I assumed they would have disabled Edge as it wouldn't be needed, but they hadn't. Again - I'm curious. I opened a new tab, pressed the 'H' key, and hit return. To my surprise - and concern - Bing proceeded to search for 'H'.\nI raised my hands and spoke to the invigilators. They were surprised and simply informed us to not use the internet. They didn't seem to realise how serious this was - they informed us that they "didn't want to see us playing any games". I am confident I could have accessed Stack Overflow without them noticing.\nTo start the exam, a computer science teacher has to confirm everything is ready, resolve any issues, and give the invigilators the go ahead.\nThroughout the exam, I did not manually access the internet. However, I know that Windows 10 certainly will have been forming connections for various programs (for example, one drive, windows monitoring tools, and any connections that Edge makes when it is opened).\nAfter the exam, I had a maths exam in the afternoon, so I ignored the issue. When I was traveling home on the bus, I composed this email and sent it to my computer science teacher. It was sent after their work day finished, and I have not heard back from them over the weekend:\n\nBefore the exam started (at 9:15) I did 2 Bing searches, and discovered the internet was enabled. Of course, I did not access the internet again, but I would still like to confirm that even though my exam account accessed Bing there will be no issues? My account was No. 22 I think - candidate number 1499.\nAs an aside, apart from this being a bad idea (neither invigilator would know I was using the internet as neither were especially technically savvy - it would not have been difficult to search for answers), I was also rather concerned that I would accidentally click a link - for example in the Delphi Help, or when searching Cortana for a program and it provides web links.\nI hope IT have turned off the internet connection for the exam accounts now. If not, I'm happy to tell them how I accessed it so they can prevent that.\n\nHaving submitted this question, I apologise for how long it is. You're welcome to edit out any details that are not necessary.\n\nA summary:\nIn a horrendous breach of national exam regulations, I was able to access the internet during an exam. I did not access the internet during the exam, although background tasks on my computer likely did. The senior computer science teacher who was in charge of the exam was informed: around 5 minutes before the exam started. He instructed us not to use the internet.\nWhat should I do about this?" ]

[ "exams", "united-kingdom" ]

[ "Should I, as an amateur, get my result published based on a well known professor's opinion?", "I don't have any formal education in mathematics that the large part of mathematicians have but fortunately I have the ability to use intuition to obtain results in higher mathematics that many professional mathematicians find interesting.\n\nSo recently I happened to send this famous professor (whom I've been corresponding with for some time) one of my results and he responded by saying that \"indeed he thinks the result is new\"\n\nSo what's the next step? Should I try to get the result published?" ]

[ "publications", "mathematics", "independent-researcher" ]

[ "Is it advisable to submit multiple teaching letters for tenure-track teaching-focused jobs?", "When applying for academic jobs in the US, one is often asked for at least one recommendation letter from someone who can attest to your teaching abilities. \n\nIf applying for a tenure-track teaching focused job, should one aim to have multiple teaching letters? \n\n\n\nI am personally in mathematics. I am assuming the answers will not be too field-dependent (please correct me if I am mistaken)." ]

[ "teaching", "job-search", "recommendation-letter", "tenure-track", "faculty-application" ]

[ "Unusual funding issue -- what are my good next steps?", "So I got some strange news last week, and I'm hoping someone knows what a good next move in my situation is. I'm an MSci CS student in the U.K., about to graduate. \n\nA while back I got an offer to continue my masters studies in a PhD programme I applied to, at my current university. More recently, I heard that some friends who had also applied had heard back about funding many weeks ago. I did some asking around and found that my funding application never got considered -- due to an administrative error, my funding application was never processed, though I did submit it within the deadline. All funding has now been distributed, but I never had a shot at funding from the school's DTC as a result of this error. \n\n...I have a potential fallback. A company is interested in sponsoring my research -- they'll put 50% toward the fees and living expenses, and the college pays the other 50%. I'm yet to hear back about this from the college's end, but the company has already committed. Note that this funding's coming from the college of science and engineering, of which the CS school is a part -- so the funding can come from two places. \n\nObviously, I want to maximise my chances of getting out of this scenario with funding. Less obvious is how to go about getting that best shot! With the issue I'm facing regarding DTC funding being kind of unique, I'm not sure that anyone knows what the protocol is. That means I don't know what it'll be possible to make happen. Some suggestions I've had:\n\n\nThere's always the college funding and the industrial application I've got right now.\nUsing this situation as leverage to try to get the school, rather than the college, to fund the other 50% of the industrial application. This is my prospective supervisor's bet.\nAs a new tax year brings a new budget, there's potentially a new pool of funding for the DTC for the coming year. I wonder whether I can be considered now for funding from this new pool. Not sure whether that would then affect my start date. \nDefer my entry until October 2018 and apply again to the DTC in the coming year. This was the suggested course of action from the admin assistant who made the error -- its also my lowest preference. \n\n\nDoes anyone have an idea as to whether the school is obligated to consider me at all, if I've applied for funding with my admission application? And what might I be able to do to improve my chances? Does anyone have advice on which if the above might be avenues worth exploring?\n\nThanks!" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "graduate-school", "funding" ]

[ "How to cite uproot and awkward arrays (by Jim Pivarski)?", "Normally a python library has a paper or user manual by the same name.\nJim Pivarski's uproot doesn't appear to, the closest thing I can find is https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06307\nShould I cite that paper or cite the github repo? (https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot)" ]

[ "citations" ]

[ "Further questions/information on letters of recommendation", "In virtually every letter of recommendation I've seen, the final line is something to the effect of \"Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions\". \n\nBut how often is it to actually get contacted? I've never actually received any follow up before, but virtually all the students I write letters for have gotten into the programs of their choice. \n\nGranted, I only tend to write letters for undergraduates applying for scholarships and graduate school (no graduate program for my department) so maybe the likelihood increases for, say, letters written for master's students applying for PhD programs, but I'm curious if this is just happenstance that I've not been contacted or more par the course. (I know we do contact letter writers once we have a short(er) list for job candidates, but I'm thinking here specifically letters written for students who will continue to be students.)" ]

[ "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "Etiquette Question - Professor asked if I could meet after X time on Y day. I emailed to confirm a specific time but he has not responded", "I have been looking to get started in undergraduate research (CS) and finally got a bite on a cold email. This professor said he read my resume and \"liked my profile\" and asked if I could meet him after X on day Y. I responded asking if a specific time in that time frame worked for him. However, it's been a day and a half and he has yet to respond. (the day is tomorrow)\n\nIf he does not respond today, would it be rude to knock on his door during the time frame he specified? Or does the lack of response suggest he has rethought the offer?" ]

[ "advisor", "etiquette" ]

[ "How to utilise university resources when doing an independent research masters?", "I'm planning on undertaking a research masters in Earth Science or Geography within the UK. \n\nDuring my undergraduate, there were many lectures, exams, courseworks/reports and workshops. I utilised my lecturers to ask questions about all of these things. Yet, my dissertation was very independent with minimal guidance or advice from lecturers (they mostly just nodded along).\n\nMy research masters will only have a single thesis/dissertation to hand in (no exams, lectures or reports). How should I use my university to help me in this? The obvious answer is lab equipment, but my thesis is most likely to be a desktop based study. Another answer is guidance from supervisors, but as I am required to come up with a thesis proposal before applying I will probably already have figured out much of what I need to do.\n\nSummary\n\nIf you're applying for a research masters in which there is only one piece of assessed work (your independent thesis), there is unlikely to be lab work (no need for uni equipment) and I must pre-decide a thesis proposal before applying (staff not available for guidance), how do I utilise the university to best help me?" ]

[ "graduate-school", "thesis", "masters", "advisor", "research-proposal" ]

[ "English Bachelor of Computer Science - Germany", "I've googled so much for English Bachelor of Computer Science in Germany and I just found Jacobs University which teaches Computer Science in English. Though Germany is a place I would like to study, I am open minded for other places.\n\nI checked Bachelor's portal, and setting Germany as a country and English as language, it gives me a full list of universities, but unfortunately when visiting the course site it's always set as taught language: German or 50% German and 50% English.\n\nOther than Bachelor's Portal, is there anywhere else I could search for? Any good links I could be making use of?" ]

[ "computer-science", "europe", "germany", "bachelor" ]

[ "How do I tell my private teacher I want to stop learning subject with him/her", "I would like to tell it politely, because there is a chance I will hire the teacher in the future. Now I just want to stop working with the teacher." ]

[ "students", "interpersonal-issues", "communication" ]

[ "Exam design: give maximum score per question or not?", "When designing an exam, would you mention the maximum score per question or not? Is it common practice? \n\nIn my view this promotes cherry-picking. This could be seen as a way to prioritize or to satisfice (leaving questions open since \"they are not worth it\"). \n\nIs there any scientific proof/pedagogical insight this is a \"must\", \"nice for students \" or \"making it easier for students\"?\n\nAny thoughts on this (from professors and students)?" ]

[ "exams" ]

[ "Should I mention in an email to a professor that they are referred by another one?", "I emails professor A about a chance to study with him, and he answers that he's on leave next academic year so not accepting new students, and I might want to check professor B. Should I mention to B that A refers her to me?\n\nMore specifically, I think that A is best suited for me. Should I be honest in saying that I have email A first? I think being honest upfront will set a better expectation from him, thus saving time for both.\n\nBelow is my intended draft:\n\n\n Dear Prof. B,\n \n To introduce myself, my name is X, from country Z. I'm writing this letter to ask you if you are planning to accept new students this year. I have asked prof A about studying with him, but he has kindly refer you to me since he's on leave next year.\n \n From reading your profile, I can see that our interests align in many aspects. My interests can be divided into two main categories, which mirror yours: \n \n \n The cognitivism in Daoism and Buddhism's epistemology\n The physicalism in Daoism and Buddhism's metaphysics/cosmology \n \n \n In case you are interested, here is a proposal I crafted for your reference.\n \n Do you think the program could be a good fit for me? Would there be an opportunity for me to work with you as a grad student?\n \n Best wishes and regards,\n\n\nBoth A and B are in the same school in Canada." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "professors", "email", "canada" ]

[ "want to Pursue Phd in Philosophy?", "Want to pursue a PhD in Philosophy, but my Master degree is in Fine Arts (Painting). I want to know how likely will I be considered for the program? I have art history and Aesthetics, as my theory in Bfa and Ma." ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Why isn't there a doctoral degree that does not involve a major project?", "I am trying to find a doctoral program without a capstone, project, or a dissertation, because I do not find a value in doing a project.\n\nBut why isn't there a doctoral degree that does not involve a major project?" ]

[ "degree" ]

[ "Do people who work at research institutes consider themselves \"academics\"?", "My long-term goal is to work at a research institute. While discussing my career plans with different mentors, I find that there is some confusion about whether a position at a government-funded research institute is still considered \"academic.\" Although my question is mostly semantic in nature, I imagine there are some implications with how to market myself (i.e., what to include in a CV or how to describe myself on LinkedIn). Since many people with posts at research institutes either come from universities or go on to become professors, I think this question is relevant for this forum." ]

[ "etiquette", "terminology" ]

[ "Is specifying a minimum word count beneficial for academic writing?", "As we all know, during our higher-education careers there have been many professors who have assigned academic papers that require a minimum word or page count in some shape or form. \n\nPersonally, I feel this simply forces students to create “fluff” in their papers. I can understand creating a maximum word count (this makes students sift out what they feel is relevant to answering the prompt of the paper) whereas a minimum word count encourages one to think more broadly about how to go about the prompt. In some situations this is good – perhaps the instructor expects evidence or more critical thinking – but in most situations this will only lead students to find more evidence to reaffirm their claim (which is not very useful if you can prove your claim with less evidence) or create “fluff” in their paper in order to meet the requirement.\n\nI found a blog post about word counts for people writing stories/articles but this is in the professional world (not academic) and doesn’t actually have statistics, but it does give some interesting perspective.\n\nI want to know if there are any statistics or studies that prove specifying a minimum word-count is beneficial or hurtful in academic paper writing? Does it vary based on subject? Perhaps instructors can give their experience and/or thoughts on this?\n\nSo far there have been answers of people’s experiences which is extremely beneficial and I encourage more of them. Inevitably though, I am hoping to accept an answer that has a case study or any research relevant to this topic." ]

[ "writing", "reference-request", "coursework" ]

[ "How do I politely decline student requests to meet during my \"research time?\"", "I'm a young (female) professor in a (U.S.) department with a small graduate program and a research expectation. I usually teach Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and try to save Tuesday and Thursday for research (where possible). On MWF, I'm quite good about meeting with students, even if they stop by outside of office hours (or on any day during exam weeks). My week or more homework assignments are generally due on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday (there's no good place for students to drop them off outside of class and I like discussing them as they turn them in) so I get requests by students who have put off their homework to meet on Tuesday or Thursday, even when I mention this preference in advance. I've yet to come up with a nice response that I'm satisfied both:\n\n\nReminds students I'm busy with other work (despite the fact that\ntheir tuition pays part of my salary). \nthat still encourages them to keep reaching out for help and encourages them to think of me as the approachable professor I try to be (at least on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).\n\n\nSuggestions for a nice email response?" ]

[ "office-hours" ]

[ "What is the preferable way to share data?", "Suppose there is data that you as an author of a journal article wants to share with the readership of the article (e.g. raw experimental data, code, gold standard / ground truth data).\n\nWhat would be the best way to do this? Possibilities include:\n\n\nAdd a footnote that data is available upon request by e-mail.\nMake the data available for download on an institutional webpage. \nMake the data available for download on your personal webpage.\nMake the data available through the article's publisher.\nSomething else..." ]

[ "publications", "data", "online-resource" ]

[ "Improving English for research", "I'm going to start my PhD in an English-speaking country. I would like to improve my English for research (fro writing and speaking). Could you let me know any good ways to do that?" ]

[ "academic-life" ]

[ "What does “query to referee” in the tracking system of Physical Review Letters imply?", "After the report was sent in, the status of my manuscript in the tracking system of Physical Review Letters indicated a query to referee.\nWhat does this mean?\n\nThe editor explained further information is needed from the referee.\nThis is basically what query to referee means.\nBut I am wondering what it implies. Is the report good or bad?\nDoes anyone has any experience on this issue, and what is the outcome?" ]

[ "publications", "peer-review", "journal-workflow" ]

[ "Funding for PhD students in the UK for EU student", "If I wanted to do my PhD in the UK at a renowned university in the natural sciences, how likely is it that one gets access to a fully funded PhD program?( living costs + fees).\nThe reason why I am asking this is, that I see a lot of scholarships on the websites of the universities but I have never heard of an actual percentage of PhD student(coming from the EU) who got such a scholarship. Does anybody know? It does not have to be an actual number, but maybe you know something about this." ]

[ "phd", "funding" ]

[ "Is it legal in the US for a professor to publicly reveal a student's performance in PhD comprehensive exams?", "Is it legal (for a faculty member) to publicly reveal a student's performance in PhD comprehensive exams? In the US, isn't this in violation of FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974?" ]

[ "united-states", "legal-issues", "qualifying-exam", "privacy" ]

[ "Minor revision- Editor implied to do the experiment, however a rebut would clarify the issue", "We recently received comments from the reviewers after revision. Comments were positive, one reviewer asked us to do an experiment. EES status says its minor revision, editor's email do not say it's a minor revision and he insists we do this experiments. Ending the email, he writes we would be glad to reconsider the revised ms. Though the reason given by the reviewer to do the experiment can be rebutted, it's more of clarification issue.\n\nShould we rebut or do the experiment; Also, does the minor revision mean it's a in principle acceptance?" ]

[ "publications", "peer-review", "editors", "biology" ]

[ "Is it reasonable to collaborate with a professor when you are employed by a different professor?", "How wise is it to collaborate with another professor while working as a staff under one professor? Is there a ethical conflict in doing so even if the other professor is from a slightly different area? \n\nAlso, how should one develop his/her own expertise while working as a postdoc under one professor? Is it wise to also work with other professor with slightly different research interest?" ]

[ "research-process", "ethics", "postdocs", "collaboration" ]

[ "Why is a PhD course studied by consultation? And how is the study by consultation done?", "I have been accepted to do a PhD in Czech Republic. I will be arriving to the University at the end of November 2020.\nThe supervisor told me to take about three courses and we agreed on which courses I'll take. I then emailed a professor that is responsible of one of the courses and he told me that the course is not organized as a regular one consisting of a series of lectures. Instead it is supported by a group or individual consultations devoted to specific topics.\nSo my question is how is the study by consultation done (in detail please)?\nAlso Why is a PhD course studied by consultation rather than a series of lectures?\nThank you" ]

[ "phd", "coursework" ]

[ "Confused about bibliography in old books", "I’ve been looking at the bibliography of an old book called History Of Burma by G. E. Harvey and am quite confused.\nThere are abbreviations introduced first like this: \n\n\n B Bodleian Library\n BM British Museum\n IO India Office Library\n\n\nAn example for an actual citation is: \n\n\n John Stevens, The Portuguese Asia, three vols 1695.\n \n B 55.b.59-61.\n BM 582.e.6, 8.\n IO 300.A.76.H.10-12\n\n\nI can see the abbreviations refer to respective libraries, but what about the numbers? Are they referring to the book’s location in the library, or pages within the book itself?" ]

[ "citations", "citation-style", "academic-history" ]

[ "Reusing material from paper on website", "I have been working extensively on a project for which I have written a couple of papers which still haven't been submitted for publication. I am also preparing a website where I want these materials to be freely available. I would like to avoid having to rewrite everything again for the website, so I was wondering what is the best solution to be able to reuse literal sentences from the papers (once they're published).\n\nAs far as I know, Open Access solutions sometimes allow the author to retain copyright, but I'm not sure if always. What kind of publishing licenses would allow me to copy-paste literal material from my paper onto my website?\n\nOverall, is this a good idea or should I strive to rephrase content even if not legally bound to do so?" ]

[ "journals", "copyright", "website", "open-access", "license" ]

[ "How can a masters student arrange to do a thesis in collaboration with industry?", "I have started a MS program in Computer Engineering. This is my first year and it is a 2 year program. I want to do a master thesis about Machine Learning (I have an artificial intelligence and genetic algorithms background from my MS but I can work on different topics within Machine Learning). \n\nI am interested in doing a thesis in collaboration with a company in industry. I'm hoping that working through a MS with them will increase the chance they consider me for a job after the end of the program.\n\nDo companies ever publicize masters thesis proposals for students to work on with them?" ]

[ "thesis", "masters", "collaboration", "industry", "engineering" ]

[ "Chances of academically publishing a book without professional degree", "I have been considering publishing the book I am writing with Springer; specifically under the series Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (or any related series). I believe the contents of the book would be a great addition to the related content published by Springer and I also believe it would be popular amongst both mathematicians and physicists. The issue [I believe I face] is that I lack a degree. The contents of the book do not necessarily warrant a degree, for the book is mostly on special functions and their employment. I should also mention that the book is about 90% complete (perhaps this increases my chances of publication?).\nThis page is what I am most concerned about. I fail to be able to fill out the "Affiliation" and "Personal website" sections, for I have neither; i.e., I lack a degree and a website. Now for the question:\nWill lacking a degree in mathematics or physics prevent my book from being published?\nAnd a follow up:\nWould "hobbyist" be an appropriate title for the section labeled "Title"?\nI am asking such questions to gauge whether or not I should even submit my proposal. Thank you!" ]

[ "publications", "books", "springer" ]

[ "Can professors have romantic relationships with post-docs?", "Can professors have romantic relationships with post-docs (in the same department)?\n\nI feel like this point is a bit more subtle than, say, professors hooking up with students, since post-docs and professors are considered peers / colleagues." ]

[ "ethics", "professors", "postdocs", "academic-life", "sexual-misconduct" ]

[ "Whether to share at thesis defense where I have submitted pertaining papers to", "I have submitted journal articles that come from my thesis.\n\nWhen defending the thesis, is it a good idea to give the names of the journals to which those pertaining papers were submitted to?" ]

[ "thesis", "paper-submission", "defense" ]