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[ "Why can Oxford or Dublin (Trinity College) graduates be admitted to the equivalent Cambridge degree?", "What links Cambridge with Trinity College Dublin? I know\n\nOxford and Cambridge are frequently lumped together as Oxbridge,\n\nOxford and Cambridge each have a college called "Trinity College".\n\n\nDegrees under Statute B II 2 | Student Registry\n\nUnder Statute B II 2, the M.A. degree may be conferred on Heads and Fellows of Colleges, University officers, and senior staff of the University Press or Cambridge Assessment if they are not already Cambridge graduates. Graduates of the Universities of Oxford or Dublin (Trinity College) may be admitted to the equivalent Cambridge degree instead of the M.A.\nDegrees under Statute B II 2 are full degrees conferring the same rights as the equivalent degrees by examination, i.e. permanent membership of the Senate with its associated privileges and entitlement to submit work for other degrees such as the Ph.D. under Special Regulations or for Higher Doctorates such as the Litt.D. or Sc.D. They are not titular ‘honorary degrees’ (which are awarded by a different process)." ]

[ "degree" ]

[ "How much theory should be given in article?", "I have created a software and the assisting methodology for its application to some kinetic studies. I used a lot of theory. E.g., I used kinetic model, reactor model, data analysis (about 7 methods to analyse the results totally). Now I have prepared an article where I report this methodology and demonstrate the results of its application.\n\nHow much theory should I include into the article? Can I only refer to other publications/books for the models/methods proposed earlier?\n\nI have seen many publications where a part of theory is taken out from the main text to appendices (example with 5 appendices). In some journals appendices are not included into the article (supplementary, accessible online-only). Is it a good solution to include some theory in appendices? If yes, how many appendices would be OK (i.e., would the reader like the article with 7 appendices? As for me, I do not have anything against many appendices)." ]

[ "publications", "writing", "theory", "chemistry" ]

[ "Does it make sense to pay tuition fees for a PhD degree?", "Some Ph.D. programs charge tuition fees. Others are competitive.\nDoes a Ph.D. done by paying tuition fees have the same gravity as a Ph.D. done on stipend when it comes to an academic career?\nWhen does it really make any sense to pursue a Ph.D. by paying tuition fees?" ]

[ "phd", "tuition" ]

[ "Getting back into academia after years in industry", "What aspects of one's resume will a faculty hiring committee care about for a candidate who was gone from academia for a decade, but has done good research during that time, including publishing a few papers?\n\nI have always been told that if you get out of academia, getting back in is really challenging. After a postdoc, I spent 11 years in industry and consulting work. I worked on a lot of research topics in that time, but they produced only a couple of papers. I'm currently clearing out my publishing pipeline, and should be able to get a few single-author papers out of that, given a year or two of work. If I apply for a position at a top academic institution after getting those papers published, realistically how hard will the \"gap\" in my academic work be scrutinized by the hiring committee?" ]

[ "citations", "job-search", "interview", "industry" ]

[ "Is there any concept of working paper in science and engineering?", "I have come across working papers in economics. I have seen 'papers in progress' listed on some researchers website but have never seen the idea of working paper as is common in economics. Just curious if this is practiced in some sub branch or was used at some point of time in history." ]

[ "publications", "research-process" ]

[ "Negotiating 1-year delay to my Assistant Professor Offer", "Recently I was offered an assistant professor position at a major R1 university. My problem is that I need to stay one more year in my home country due to Fulbright 2-year home residency requirement. I will apply for a waiver but just in case I'd like to negotiate the possibility of one year later start date. The department head is aware that there might be some delays due to legal issues, but I did not want to bring these procedures before signing the contract. It is my dream job at my dream college and I can be of a good asset to the department. How do you think I should approach negotiating and communicating this situation in a respective manner? Thanks!" ]

[ "career-path", "job", "negotiation" ]

[ "What should I do if the first author wants me to write the whole paper?", "I have finished three years of work in a Ph.D. program. I've published one conference paper as sole author, and have recently sent out another paper to a prestigious conference. \n\nI started a project last October with a professor who does not have anything to do with my dissertation. He asked me early on to do a lot of work so I asked him who is the first author, and he said he would be. I've already written the full literature review for this journal paper, and came up with the framework by myself. He has only advised me on it.\n\nNow, I have a clear idea about my dissertation, and I have to write my proposal and defend it this fall. So, the work with this professor is rather burdensome to me right now. So far, he has not worked on it at all. I've written six or seven out of the 15 pages of the journal paper. The main thing left is data analysis. He wants me to do the data analysis and write it up as well, and recently he also asked me to write introduction of the paper. At this point, I thought, he wants me to write the whole paper, which he can edit at the last moment and become first author.\n\nSince this paper does not have anything to do with my dissertation, I do not want to work with this paper anymore. I told him I am busy with my own research, it seems like that he will wait until I finish writing the paper.\n\nWhat should I do? I do not want to cut the relationship but he is asking too much which I think is unethical. Any strategic advice will be appreciated. \n\n\n\nUPDATE:\nI talked to the professor and said there must have been misunderstanding about the responsibilities as a second author in my part and as a first author in his part. I said that I understood that writing literature review will meet the responsibility as a second author. \n\nHis brief comment on the e-mail was that he wrote a conference paper already, and this journal paper (that I'm working on) is a developed version of the conference paper. So, he did the major work already for the conference paper that is why he is the first author. And he stated that I am supposed to write a literature review and to do the data analysis for this journal paper. \n\nOK. He has integrity in his position. I remember that he said something like this when we started this paper 10 months ago. But the problem was that his position was not re-enforced again, and the lit review I've done took off to a different terain. That means, I did a lot of creative interpretation of the framework. (Sorry, to technical folks. This is social science study using business management theories. The upfront literature review is very significant. My dissertation uses machine learning and NLP stuff. yes, this paper is unrelated with my dissertation). \n\nAnyway, the reason I'm writing this update is to provide the professor's perspective that I've got to learn recently. So the major lesson I've learn through this experience is to keep reinforcing (in emails) about my understanding of my and his responsibilities on this project." ]

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

[ "Should a young professor avoid using dating apps?", "I am a recent PhD graduate in mathematics, and I will be starting a tenure-track position this fall at a small liberal arts college in a northern US city.\n\nMy graduate degree was completed at a large university in a college town, and I made occasional use of dating apps during my time there. They were only mildly useful at best, but they facilitated interaction with people outside my normal social circle, which I enjoyed.\n\nMy instinct tells me that I should avoid such apps in my new position, but I'd like to seek outside opinions. I already have some of my own ideas, but what are some potential pitfalls of maintaining dating app profiles? Should I simply refrain from using them? Would anyone in my department or administration have a problem with me using them if they knew?\n\nSince it might matter, I am a 27-year-old male, and my new city is home to about 100,000 people.\n\nNote: I am well-aware that dating students at my university is a bad idea. (For what it's worth, I am not interested in meeting people more than three or four years younger than me anyway.) I'm looking for advice that goes beyond some of the more obvious points." ]

[ "ethics", "etiquette", "interpersonal-issues" ]

[ "When does the co-authorship line end for a PI's data", "As I understand it, in the engineering field, the person who has research money and/or a project that leads to the collection of data, is put on research papers that directly use that data. I guess the most common of this is for PHD students whose advisors funding or project is the reason they have data.\n\nI am curious about when this ends in regards to collaboration. If one person gets a project and funding and collaborates with a different lab/department/professor/researcher and through this, gives a portion of the funding to that person or place, what is the convention for authorship? Does the PI of the project go on all papers that use the data, or only papers they directly do with their own staff/students?" ]

[ "authorship", "funding", "projects" ]

[ "How is the \"special aptitude for in-depth independent scientific work\" proven if the professor candidate does not have a doctorate?", "My PhD is almost finished (writing last paper of the cumulative dissertation) and I have applied for a full W2 professorship at a German university of applied sciences .\n\nI have been invited by the appointment committee to give a lecture. However, I was informed that I would only be shortlisted if I can demonstrate a “special aptitude for in-depth independent scientific work” (German: “besondere Befähigung zu vertiefter selbstständiger wissenschaftlicher Arbeit”). It is required by all German higher education laws (e.g. §25 NHG).\nThe request was made by HR relayed through the committee as far as I can tell.\n(I am a German citizen, so this is not visa-related.)\n\nHow do I show this without a doctorate? My list of publications is comparatively extensive for a doctoral candidate." ]

[ "application", "professors", "germany" ]

[ "Why would an academic write a textbook for free?", "Recently, I became aware of a Java programming textbook\nIntroduction to Programming Using Java, Seventh Edition\nwhich is to my surprise, free as in:\n\n\n The most recent version of this book is always available, at no charge, for downloading and for on-line use.\n\n\nQuestion: Why would the author (David J. Eck) make this textbook free?\n\nI have found that almost always,\nauthors of academic textbooks prefer to make money\nfrom sales of their textbooks,\nrather than writing a textbook which is available freely without cost.\n(I don't have any statistics to back up this assertion.\nHowever, throughout my undergrad and my PhD studies,\nin about 95% of the courses which I took,\nthe prescribed textbook was published by an academic publisher such as\nMcGraw-Hill, Pearson or Springer.)\n\nClosely related question:\nMassimo Ortolano\nclaims in this comment that most authors would not be able to make much money\nfrom sales of academic textbooks they have written.\nCan someone give me an estimated amount of earnings per textbook sold?" ]

[ "books" ]

[ "What is a cv including the marks obtained in BSc and MSc?", "I don't know if they are asking my GPA or a list of grades and courses. Yes, I am applying somewhere where they asked for a \"CV including the marks obtained in BSc and MSc\"." ]

[ "phd", "application", "cv" ]

[ "Professor stopped responding to emails suddenly. What should I do?", "I am an MS student in France. It is commonplace here to seek out professors from other universities or scientists at research centres to do the MS thesis under them, which is usually during the final semester. So, I reached out to a professor at a US university to carry out my thesis under him. I attached a motivation letter, CV and transcript with the initial email. I also mentioned that I have a scholarship and will not require funding. I heard back on the same day from him and he thanked me for my interest in his research. He said he would like to know a bit more about what I am proposing and went on to ask me about the duration of my thesis, the thesis requirements from my university and what I planned to do following graduation. He ended the email saying he was looking forward to our discussion. I responded to the email within two hours but he never replied. I waited a week to send him another email but he did not respond to that as well. It has been one week since. I do not know what to make of the situation. Is it appropriate to send him another email after a week? I don't understand why he would lose interest all of a sudden when he already had a chance to not respond after looking at my CV?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "research-process", "graduate-school", "masters", "professors" ]

[ "Asking for recommendation letter before beginning internship", "I will be going for my undergraduate thesis under a professor (at a different institute than my home university) in May 2018. I will work with him from May - December 2018. I plan to apply to graduate school (for my masters) for fall 2019, so applications will be done around November 2018.\n\nSince some professors have different policies of writing recommendations for students (for some 6 months is a short time of work to write a good letter, some have other conditions), I am thinking about asking the professor whether he would be willing to write recommendation letters for my applications during November, provided of course he is satisfied with my work.\n\nI thought this would be better to get out of the way beforehand, so that he will know that I am willing to do substantial work during this time, and am willing to take on as much work as he feels is necessary to do before he can write a strong recommendation letter. This will also help me strategise for graduate school admissions and prevent me from being put on the spot if he refuses to write a recommendation in November.\n\nIs this (asking about recommendation beforehand) a standard practice? I feel he shouldn't mind because I am trying to cover all my bases and plan for my future. I feel it will be better for the both of us if we agree on all such conditions beforehand." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "etiquette", "recommendation-letter", "internship" ]

[ "Writing a \"recommendation letter\" for a supervisor from a student?", "As a thank you to my thesis supervisor, I would like to write some sort of letter expressing my gratitude for the work he has done for me.\n\nI was wondering if students ever write letters in such a way that they can be used by professors as a sort of \"reference\" letter when applying for jobs or teaching grants. For reference, my supervisor is a Senior Lecturer at a university in the Australian system. Would a letter like this be appreciated? What should it look like?" ]

[ "etiquette", "recommendation-letter", "university" ]

[ "Exam requires self-imposing a time limit: what should I do when others are likely to use more time?", "I am enrolled in an upper level STEM class.\nMy teacher has recently announced that we have a "downloadable" midterm. The midterm is not officially timed, and we have a week to submit it, and there is no way the teacher can track how much time we have used. Now, in class and in a clarification request, it was stated that we have a total time to "work on it" for 3 hours tops, even though we can "look at it" for longer.\nI have no clue how to deal with this. A good number of my (normally obsessive/honor code) friends have already told me that they will use more time than what is officially allowed to work on the exam. Based on the sample I've conducted with the people in my year in the class, I would say its highly likely at least 50% are planning on using more time than allowed.\nNgl [not going to lie], I've had to deal with "other people using more than they should be" for at least two of my classes (all of which are online) this semester and I don't want to deal with it in a third. I'm frustrated.\nIs there anything I can do?\n\nSolutions I consider:\n\nStudents protesting — I don't think anyone is being obsessive about\nthis mess apart from me.\n\nConfronting the teacher myself — for one thing, I'm not sure if I\nam liked by this person (LOL) but I'm guessing if I say "yo there\nare students planning on cheating", this person will simply send out\nan email stating "don't cheat" to the class.\n\n\n\nNotes:\n\nThe people in the class of my year already know about all this mess of a situation because I discussed the strange rules in our group chat, so I suspect if the professor sends out an email I can be immediately linked as "the person who prompted the kerfuffle". also I'll be known as the rat. I don't care too much about my reputation, but nonetheless this isn't super pleasant. I probably shouldn't have done this, I see now that it is kind of coming back to bite.\n\nCertain details have been changed or obfuscated to avoid identification.\n\nI'm estimating likelihood of cheating based on an informal "poll" I gave in a high-effort group chat; to get a picture of this group, its a bunch of overachieving underclassmen who I don't think would ever cheat in normal circumstances. I have evidence of intention to cheat, I am not willing to submit it to my teacher.\n\nWhat I would hope from my teacher would be that the "time cap" of 3 hours would be removed; this obviously is going to get violated anyway.\n\nI specifically asked the professor whether we "must not" spend more than 3 hours on the test; he confirmed that 3 hours is a hard limit.\n\nThe class is graded on a curve.\n\n\n\nWhat I'm probably gonna do:\nI don't think I should contact the professor directly, mostly because I think this person doesn't like me that much. I think my solution is just going to be to email this person anonymously and express that I have concretely seen evidence of people intending to cheat, though I'm not ratting out any fellow students, and I'll request that the time limit is lifted." ]

[ "ethics", "professors", "exams", "cheating" ]

[ "Expiration of accreditation of the program", "In the university Master degree transcript, if it is written that accreditation of program is valid until Jan 10, 2016, then what does that imply?" ]

[ "graduate-school" ]

[ "What does an optimal grading distribution look like?", "Researchers on education must have thought about this, so I hope to find some directions here. Suppose that I am grading students on a scale from 1 to 10. If I have no prior knowledge of the ability of the students but have obtained their test scores (let's say from 1 to 100).\n\nSuppose these test scores have only ordinal meaning. A student with a higher score can be said to have achieved better mastery of the course but having double the score does not mean that one has achieved double as much as another student. We may also assume that a (statistically speaking) large number of students representative of the student population took the exam.\n\nWhat should be the optimal grading distribution?\n\nWe may also assume that the grading distribution/scale should achieve two goals: a) it should be informative about student's grasp of the material, b) it should incentivize students to study the material.\n\nRegarding a) from an information theory perspective, we may want to maximize the information (entropy) of the grade distribution. Thus, we would choose a scale which yields a uniform distribution. However, in practice most teachers implement distributions which are peaked. What is the motivation behind this?" ]

[ "exams", "grades", "grading" ]

[ "Does a low acceptance rate imply quality?", "I am presenting a paper in a conference with a 20% acceptance rate. However the conference is just 3 years old and does not figure in the tiered rating system for conferences in my field Computer Science (that some universities use) . Recently I found out that another reputed international conference (that figures in the conference rankings) has almost double the acceptance rate. Did I make the right choice. How should I evaluate conferences in the future??" ]

[ "conference", "rejection", "ranking" ]

[ "In a research paper, is it acceptable to include expletives in the results of a text analysis?", "Currently, I am doing a research paper and as a result from my text analysis, I found a record which contains a (*UCK) word. Is it ethical if I submit it as it is to a conference? Hereby in the image (in the third record)" ]

[ "writing" ]

[ "Drifting away from the \"boring\" slide in the conference", "I am not a fan of heavy/text-infested slides and hope my audience also second my opinion. I did resort to the healthy image-text ratio in most of the slides and am relying on my speaking skills during my first presentation! In this context, how should he/she adapt himself to suit the interest of audience,dynamically? If I realize that a couple of sides have turned out to be cumbersome or \"boring\"**, how should I seamlessly switch over to the next section and regain the lost interest.\n\n**boring = Many example slides are available as follows :\n\n\nExample 1 :Slide which talks about the approach of simulation, when actually results of the simulation are the \"meat\" of the talk. \nExample 2(The first few slides of the talk)\n\nHypothetical Talk : Thumbdrives have changed the world, Jan 2003\nMotivation Slide, 1 : End of the road for Floppy Disks(3 Bullets) \nMotivation Slide, 2 : The Storage Roadmap(Image), the arise of the\nPenDrive(3 Bullets) \nThe News Slide, 3 : Ascend,ManDisk and Watergate 3 News Clippings + 3 Images \nThe Cool Feature, 4 : Pendrives = 1K X Floppy Disks, they are Reusable CDs \nPaper Starts , 5 : How I used the cool features efficiently to build something\neven cooler?" ]

[ "conference", "presentation" ]

[ "The manuscript does not reach the required quality standard of this journal", "I just received the following comment from an Elsevier editor "The manuscript does not reach the required quality standard of this journal.". To my mind say just that or nothing is pretty much the same considering the minimum requirements for data openness and transparency.\nthere is already a good explanation of the submission process here:\nwhat does the typical workflow of a journal look like\nHowever, as an automated process, is prone to flaws as well as to improvements.\nAnd does not explain in detail the received comment stated above.\nAny thoughts on deciphering the comment stated above are greatly appreciated.\nthank you\nEDIT:\nWhen I posted this question I forgot to add an essential and relevant fact to this conversion, which is: many and many scientific researchers don't have the opportunity to develop their research works in a team or even do it collaboratively. They have to rely on themselves to present their findings and defend their thesis. And everyone here is acquainted with the syndrome of "tunnel effect" when writing. So having someone, that can give a small contribution to unlocking someone else research writing, I see as a welcoming behavior that can only benefit the scientific community at the individual level." ]

[ "paper-submission", "editors", "publishers" ]

[ "Master's at Undergrad University Then Pursue PhD Elsewhere", "My university has a 5 year BS/MS degree for mathematical sciences and I am graduating a year early, so I can do the BS/MS in only 4 years. I am considering applying to PhD programs at other universities after I complete my MS. Do PhD programs want students right out of undergrad? Or will I be at an advantage showing that I can take grad courses (assuming I do well)" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-school", "mathematics", "united-states" ]

[ "Is a self-taught person allowed to compete with other in a prize like Nobel Prize, Field Medal, etc?", "If a person studies and/or does experiments at his/her own home or laboratory because of some reasons, is he/she still allowed to compete with others to get a prize like Nobel Prize, Field Medal, etc?\n\nMore precisely, from the beginning he/she never gets educations from formal institutions (schools, colleges, universities)." ]

[ "productivity", "education" ]

[ "Is it crazy for a PhD student to pay open access fees out of pocket?", "I was preparing to submit a manuscript to a journal when I made a fatal realization: the journal publishes everything as open access and the author(s)/institution/funding agency must cover the cost ($500). This was a solo side project that I undertook on my own time with no co-authors nor outside funding. I was not expecting to publish this as open access as I was unaware of this policy. In fact, when I initially targeted this journal I thought that some articles were open access and others were not. Upon further inspection this is not the case. I'm clearly at fault for not being diligent enough about the journal's policies.\n\nNow this situation would not be such a big deal except that \n\n\nI'm a third year doctoral student and will be on the job market soon (I need pubs ASAP!); \nI was planning on submitting this article and subsequently switching my focus to the dissertation; \nIt would take a significant re-work to tailor this paper to another journal as it is somewhat niche: the journal focuses on software publications across a range of disciplines, requires a fairly specific format, and limits articles to 3,000 words or fewer (note: I am not in a traditional STEM field, so I feel that my options for target journals are quite limited).\n\n\nAm I crazy for wanting to just submit the paper and pay the open access fee out of pocket? $500 does not seem exorbitant compared to other journals' fees. Unrelated to my current situation, a few weeks ago I spoke with my advisor about creative ways to fund open access, but he stated that our university does not have options for funding - this must come through grants. It doesn't seem right asking him to cover the fees as he was not involved in the project and is not a co-author.\n\nIn this question, @ff524 suggests seeking funding through PLOS or a fee waiver through the journal/publisher. Other questions on Academia SE result in answers suggesting that authors request funds through the university, library, etc. When is it appropriate to ask for a waiver and/or seek funding from an outside source? Prior to submission, during submission, or after a paper is accepted? It seems like a massive waste of time to seek funding from multiple sources only to have a paper be rejected outright. At the same time, it would seem like withholding relevant information to wait until after a paper is accepted to ask for a fee waiver." ]

[ "journals", "funding", "paper-submission", "open-access" ]

[ "Is it possible to upload expository papers to arXiv?", "I would like to know if arXiv allows authors to upload expository papers (for example, a paper in which the author explains a specific topic). If this is the case, how should those papers be written? And will they be automatically moved to the General Mathematics section?" ]

[ "arxiv" ]

[ "Include F1000Research publication on CV", "I am a biostatistics postdoctoral student. I recently participated in a coding festival and our work was published in F1000Research (https://f1000research.com/).\n\nIn your opinion, should I include this publication in my CV along with more typical peer-reviewed papers? Similarly, what are the pros and cons of adding this to my CV?\n\nThank you for sharing your thoughts!" ]

[ "publications", "cv" ]

[ "Acknowledgment and authors in article based on PhD thesis", "A friend of mine finished his PhD and joined our group, on a project closely related to his PhD work. After three months, we submitted an article which includes significant amount of work from his thesis and also the work done the last three months in our group. \n\nBut his PhD supervisor got angry and said he can not add any other author except himself and he demanded that the acknowledgment should only be based on funding information which he will provide.\n\nThe article includes some experimental work which was conducted by my friend after joining our group. We offered the professor to add his and our both funding acknowledgment, but he did not agree. \n\nIs he right in his demands? \n\nMoreover, my friend said his supervisor rejected the publication draft by saying it’s not worthy to be published." ]

[ "publications", "authorship" ]

[ "Can one get a second Master's degree in a related field (biochemistry, bioinformatics)?", "If one has already got a Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, can he/she apply to the Masters’ Program in Bioinformatics at another university in another country?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "masters", "second-degree" ]

[ "Any tips for preventing perfectionism when it comes to notetaking?", "This is a slightly seperate question from before.\nI was curious on hearing any tips from the community regarding: Preventing perfectionism when it comes to notetaking?\nIt can be trying to make the notes look perfect (aesthetically + information-wise it troubles me not understanding a couple of key points after having written a bunch of notes down and I'm reviewing them).\nI don't do color-coding and doodles, but I like underlining key parts of my notes a bit too much.\nI feel like it's all about having this nice condensed packet of beautifully written notes for future review, which is wrong. I know some people will address how this is not a good way to get information in my brain and I agree you should address that, but also please address the perfectionism aspect of my notes because I will still have to take notes in life anyways and that is why I'm asking this question\nThis is tied to preventing perfectionism in general I guess too.\nNote: I wouldn't say I have OCD as I'm not at that level in other aspects of life or to an extent in academics, but still it is a 'perfectionist attitude' or 'minimalistic, beautiful notes', etc" ]

[ "writing", "health", "note-taking" ]

[ "Confusing article status for journals of American Mathematical Society: \"reviewing\" AND \"being handled by an editor\"", "The web page of my article in the AMS editorial system for some three months says "Article status: Reviewing" and in the next line "Your paper is being handled by an editor". I find this confusing as the "reviewing" status appears to suggest that the article is with the referee(s) rather than with the editor but this in turn seems to contradict the line "Your paper is being handled by an editor".\n\nCould someone with enough experience with AMS journals please explain how should one interpret the combination of "Article status: Reviewing" and the line "Your paper is being handled by an editor" at the article page?\nMore broadly, which are the possible article statuses in the AMS editorial system?\n\nMany thanks in advance." ]

[ "journals", "mathematics", "editors", "journal-workflow" ]

[ "Finding a self-funded research internship for summer (international student) - any strategies?", "I have read several questions for this topic, and haven't found one which is comprehensive enough for me and has all this factors that are unique to my case. I have won a special grant from an educational fund and now I can do a self-funded research internship in US. I am a third year undergraduate student majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The biggest struggle to date is to find a good lab and professor to work with. The process of looking up labs and researchers is time-consuming, and my emails rarely get responses. If you can kindly describe some strategies that might help me accelerate the process. \n\nBy the way, I want to do research in Computer Vision and/or AI and human interaction. If you have any suggestions for labs or professors, who are doing interesting and relevant work in these fields, can you please write them down?\n\nAdditionally, I wanted to ask whether it is acceptable to call professor's office and ask to read my emails, if they do not respond. Will it be considered rude?" ]

[ "computer-science", "email", "internship" ]

[ "What is the meaning of 'under review' after making a minor revision?", "Last week I received a minor revision decision letter from a journal's editor. I made revisions in accordance with the reviewers' comments and resubmit the manuscript to the ScholarOne system. And now the status still is 'under review'. I wonder whether it means the resubmitted manuscript is now reviewed by external reviewers, or by the editors." ]

[ "publications", "journals", "peer-review" ]

[ "Three month delay in reviewing the revision of paper, Editor doesn't even answer the email", "I've submitted a paper in an ISI journal, i.e. in Taylor and Francis. The first submission date of the manuscript was 30-May-2014. We received the first revision result on 27-July-2014. Hopefully, the result of reviewing our paper was optimistic as the paper status was accept with change; we had only some minor comments. We submitted the answer of revision on 15 Aug. They didn't reply our revision yet. \n\nSo, I've sent an e-mail to the Editor in chief, but he didn't even reply our email. \nThe handling editor identity is not available for us. What is your proposal in this case?" ]

[ "journals", "peer-review", "email", "editors" ]

[ "What is (S’73-M’76-SM’81-F’87) in author biography?", "What does (S’73-M’76-SM’81-F’87) mean in author biography. I am writing a paper and the format given for author biography also include a must fill entry: (S’73-M’76-SM’81-F’87). I tried to Google it and I can see many similar entries in authors biographies in published papers.\n\nCan someone please help me about how to fill up the field (S’73-M’76-SM’81-F’87) for myself?" ]

[ "publications", "paper-submission", "ieee" ]

[ "How does your institution credit a department's support of, and participation in, interdisciplinary programs?", "In these lean economic times, traditional majors are in danger of being cut if they cannot keep up their numbers (at least in many small liberal arts colleges). Simultaneously, interdisciplinary programs and majors requiring the substantial support of traditional disciplines may be a way to diversify an institution's student base.\n\nAssuming that departments are generally not healthiest as purely \"service departments\", it behooves us to find ways to support the traditional majors while encouraging vigorous participation in the development of interdisciplinary programs. \n\nMy question is this:\n\n\n How does your institution handle the \"major count\" problem for departments contributing substantially to interdisciplinary programs and yet want to retain their traditional major? A bit more specifically, if major X is interdisciplinary, but requires substantial contribution from several upper-level (content near the level of major) courses from traditional department Y, at your institution how is Y credited its support of X in a way that preserves the major of department Y? I am interested in specific policies regarding everything from faculty load to administrative assessment of the health of a department.\n\n\nBroadly, I am asking about administrative resource allocation policies that maximize diversity in the sense of preserving the identities of traditional disciplines while encouraging truly interdisciplinary efforts.\n\nApologies if this question is rough. I am certainly willing to sharpen it, if needed." ]

[ "policy", "major", "interdisciplinary" ]

[ "how to share to mention/publish large datasets?", "When writting an article with outputs (by outputs I mean a big dataset created), how do you share them? \n\nDo you ask the readers to contact the main author? Should I pput them in a university website?" ]

[ "publications" ]

[ "How to evaluate the quality of a conference that has a high ERA ranking, but whose organizer has a lot of negative reviews online?", "In Australia we follow something known as the ERA ranking, when submitting papers to journals and conferences. My lab stresses publication in venues which are graded as only A or A(star), as per this system ( ERA-A increases possibilities of funding). In the area of biomedical engineering there is a specific conference which I found is ranked as ERA-A. Not a lot of international biomedical conferences are ERA A-ranked. \n\nThe problem is I found a lot of negative reviews about the conference organizers online and therefore am skeptical about sending my paper there. Yet, I also know that an ERA-A rank publication very early in my doctoral program can make a good impact on the committee, when my doctoral assessment review comes up later this year. Moreover, this will release some pressure/tension in terms of the doctoral review and I could go on to work on larger targets without worrying about the doctoral assessment ( since it would be considered good progress if I can show an ERA-A paper in the first year of my program). \n\nHowever much I try, I have failed to understand how this conference gets a top australian rank, when there are so many negative things said online about these conference organizers. One possibility, is that this particular conference is the only one which may be famous. The other is a lot australian academics might have been ranking it as ERA-A. But if so, why only Australia? What does the rest of the world say? The third possibility is that the online reviews are dubious claims made to malign the organisation.\n\nHow to evaluate the quality of a conference like this?" ]

[ "publications", "conference", "ranking" ]

[ "How to correct errors in proofs of an accepted paper", "I have a paper which has accepted in a journal published by Springer.\n\nToday I have received the proofs from the production team. After checking the proofs carefully, we have detected some typos and minor errors in equations and data. To correct them we must change something in some equations and values of the parameters and these corrections do not effect to the results of the papers. On other words, the paper is still exact with the corrections.\n\nMy question is that what should I do to make the corrections?" ]

[ "publications", "online-publication" ]

[ "Student asks TA if his result (figure) is correct", "I'm TAing a class that uses Piazza (an online student forum), in addition to the traditional office hours. A student made a (private) post, where he uploaded a MATLAB figure and asked whether it is correct. The figure is what the first question of the homework assignment asks for.\n\nAm I supposed to tell him whether his answer is correct/wrong? Especially over an online forum?\n\nI don't think so, because that would be giving out the solution. How do I reply without sounding \"mean\"? Do I tell him to come to office hours instead?\n\n(It's my first time TAing ever...)" ]

[ "students", "teaching-assistant" ]

[ "What is the best approach to fix the date in a weekly seminar/colloquium with the potential speakers by email", "I am organizing a weekly seminar (at specific day of every week) at our department. We will have 12 talks for the next coming semester. We have a list of n potential people for these talks (suggested by seminar committee). It is clear that not every people on this list can actually deliver a talk (for time restrain or personal reasons), so n should be larger than 12. \n\nThe invitation is done by sending an email to the potential persons, asking if he/she is interested to give a talk. We don't necessarily have a phone number of these people. \n\nWhat is the best approach to propose the date of seminars to the interested people by email?\n\nIf I list all the available 12 dates to the first person who replies positively, he/she may not quickly select the desired date and asking to answer quickly may be sometimes uncomfortable. If I have his/her phone number I immediately call him/her for fixing the date, but some people don't like to share their personal phone numbers, also office public phone numbers are not always working (once I almost spent the whole working day to call someone at his office but nobody was there). Also while I am waiting for someone to select his date, it is difficult to propose the same dates to another person as both may select the same date." ]

[ "email", "seminars" ]

[ "Proposing research as Ph.D. thesis in Sweden", "I am a geography M.Sc. and I want to study Ph.D. in Sweden. I wrote a research proposal about a computer program which simulates some spatiotemporal situations. I have done some underlying logic and calculations too.\n\nThe problem is many many Ph.D. programs in Sweden are announced with special conditions. They demand that you work on a specific question or problem chosen by the authorities. But I want to work on my idea since I think it is so needed in geography.\n\nSince in my country situations are completely different I am wondering: What's the solution?" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "thesis", "sweden" ]

[ "Which libraries are included in the Scopus citation database?", "Is there a list of libraries which are included in the Scopus database? \n\nI am working in the field of Human Computer Interaction and searching for a list of included libraries (e.g. ACM, AIS and so on)." ]

[ "literature-review", "scopus" ]

[ "Existence of regional bias in peer review and how to deal with it", "Background information:\nField: Neuroscience;\nCountry: India\n\nPremise:\nI am a graduate student. I have not published many articles. Over the past 5 or so years, I have been hearing from colleagues, my advisor, and other professors from my University that it is really difficult to publish in respectable journals in the field as there is a lot of resistance in seeing a good paper from a developing country. Until recently, I was skeptical of such opinions.\n\nCurrent situation:\nThe past couple of papers that we have submitted have come back with really sparse reviews. In fact for two of our papers, we only got one peer-review which had nothing much to say except for a brief summary of the paper and a small point here and there (in fact addressing those two points wouldn't even have required a major revision; really small points). However, the editors were prompt to reject the paper saying the review(s) were not enthusiastic. [Note: I am okay with the idea that our work may have had flaws and that it could be made better; the question is not really about the review that we have received]\n\nQuestion: Looking at these couple of experiences along with hearing similar experiences from several other colleagues/faculties, I am wondering if there is any truth to some sort of racial/regional bias in the peer review process. Specifically:\n\n\nIs there concrete evidence out there to suggest that such discrimination at peer-review happens?\nHow can we deal with this kind of problems (for example, potentially submitting to journals that follow double blind reviews, etc.)\n\n\nRelated questions/answers:\n\n\nhttps://academia.stackexchange.com/a/105219/115072\nhttps://academia.stackexchange.com/a/629/115072\nWhat prevents reviewers from providing biased and very negative reviews?" ]

[ "publications", "peer-review", "journals" ]

[ "Personal cover letter for visa application for TV-L 13 PhD Position", "I have been offered a Ph.D. position with a TV-L13 (50%) salary. I am in the process of applying for an employment visa (as I am a non-EU citizen). The work contract provided by the university is for a part-time scientific associate. I am unsure of what exactly to write in the personal cover letter (explaining the exact purpose and duration of the stay) for the visa application. Should I write about both the part-time scientific associate position and Ph.D. or only about the part-time scientific associate position?" ]

[ "phd", "germany", "visa" ]

[ "How to format a teaching statement?", "I have already written a teaching statement for a faculty position as assistant professor.\n\nI have three questions:\n\n\nWhat is the right tense of teaching statement? (present tense or future)\nMust I sign the statement of teaching like \"best regards\" etc? How should I put my name in statement of teaching? I mean is there any template for that?\nIn the last paragraph I put some words on the position that I am applying for, about the university and etc, is that Okay to keep this paragraph?" ]

[ "formatting", "teaching-statement" ]

[ "How much a statement of purpose can help with PhD admission?", "If I can write a convincing Statement of purpose which conveys why I choose the PhD program and show that I am well-prepared for the field, will it save other parts of my application? I read somewhere said that SOP is not as important as GPA and test scores." ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "statement-of-purpose" ]

[ "Usage of Videos or Images from Youtube/ Google-images as data source", "I'm working on a deep neural network research application Does usage of youtube videos or google images as data source cause a sharing-data, ethical, copyright or commercial problem? The aim of the usage of these data is only academic research. Maybe we can neglect google-images because of there are many free image data set. But we need youtube videos because of time and cost. Instead of sharing data in the article, is sufficient to write: \"this study uses top 10(or more) search results for keyword search on youtube/google\". There are lots of machine learning examples that learn from google like https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/12/04/how-to-create-a-deep-learning-dataset-using-google-images/" ]

[ "ethics", "computer-science", "copyright", "data" ]

[ "Should list my advisor as an author on a paper I wrote alone?", "As a part of my PhD project, I wrote a paper. When my supervisor read it, she said “it is perfect and complete, go ahead and publish it yourself because I cannot contribute more to it”. She really meant it and tried to do me a favor.\n\nHowever, I still think it can be more beneficial for my future to have her name on my paper. Should I insist to have her as a coauthor or it might be useful in the future to have all the credits of a good paper?" ]

[ "publications", "advisor", "authorship" ]

[ "What to do when you spot a paper on arXiv with the same essential material as yours?", "What do you do when you've sent a paper on your fancy new algorithm to a conference, and before the conference has replied to you, you spot a newly submitted paper on arXiv on the same algorithm?\nPossible reactions I can imagine:\n\nYou immediately submit your work to arXiv and/or open-source your code to "prove" you were working on it too (or at least as much as that might be worth at this point)\n\nYou just wait and see if the conference accepts it (but then what?)\n\nYou withdraw your paper entirely -- you "lost"\n\nYou totally ignore it -- it's not "official" until it's peer-reviewed, so you might still be "first"\n\n\nFurthermore, who typically gets credit if:\n\nYour paper is accepted, and is first to be published outside of arXiv\n\nYour paper is declined, and is not first to be published outside of arXiv\n\n\n\nUpdate\nI'm reading the other group's paper more carefully (I'd only had a chance to glance at it yesterday, and was alarmed because several of the key words and concepts were exactly the same as ours), and it seems like they might not have discovered the same algorithm after all -- it's difficult for me to tell because their notation and terminology varies considerably from ours, but there's a chance that we've found different algorithms, even though several key concepts are the same. I'll continue looking into it, but just thought I'd mention this to add more context. At least now I'm a little bit more hopeful." ]

[ "publications", "paper-submission", "arxiv" ]

[ "How to verify academic history and degree?", "TL;DR: How does one verify the academic credentials (degree earned, date of graduation) of an individual without their permission or knowledge. \n\n\n\nI'm trying to verify the academic history and degree of an individual. I'm new to verifying academic histories and achievements, so understanding the process and responses below would be very helpful to me (and likely others in the same situation).\n\nThe individual states he attended University Maryland University College (UMUC) form 1992 to 1995, and earned a MBA degree. Its public information and published in his Linkedin profile.\n\nI attempted to verify though UMUC's alumni services. The alumni service did not respond to my emails or calls. Next, I called the registrar at the University and they instructed me to go to degreeverify.org. degreeverify.org directed me to the National Student Clearinghouse.\n\nI placed an order for the verification with the National Student Clearinghouse. It cost me 10 or 20 dollars. I received a \"Thank you\" email from them and an email address to use in the future ([email protected]).\n\nI believe I am getting a run-around from National Student Clearinghouse. After a few days, I sent an email to [email protected] requesting the results. National Student Clearinghouse responded back \"The verification results you received came directly from the school and they based their research on the information you provided in your initial request\":\n\n\n\nI have not received results or an answer from UMUC or National Student Clearinghouse. Additionally, the National Student Clearinghouse stated I should \"fax or email a copy of the students transcripts or diploma for verification [sic]\". That's what I paid National Student Clearinghouse to do!\n\nI used National Student Clearinghouse's website \"Contact Us\" page to request their phone number so I could speak with someone. In addition, I made the same request via email. I have not received a reply to the request for their telephone number!\n\nI'm new to verifying academic histories and achievements, and I surely don't understand the run-around I am getting from UMUC and National Student Clearinghouse. My questions are:\n\n\nWhy won't UMUC provide me with a Yes/No answer to the Verify operation?\nWhy won't National Student Clearinghouse provide me with a Yes/No answer to the Verify operation?\nWhy won't National Student Clearinghouse provide me with a telephone number to speak with them?\nIs this run-around typical for folks who verify academic history and degree?\nDo I have any additional options to to verify the academic history and degree?\n\n\nI'm beginning to wonder if National Student Clearinghouse is a legitimate service. I know National Student Clearinghouse is not BBB accredited. I discovered that after the run-around began.\n\nThanks in advance." ]

[ "university", "degree", "academic-history" ]

[ "How do you cite a Github repository?", "I am working on a honours thesis and have developed a Fortran library that I would like to cite in it.\n\nIn some places they suggest to quote the documentation of the project but this is something I plan to do in the future and isn't done yet. The only documentation I have right now is the README file and the code itself. \n\nWhat would be an acceptable way of directing a reader to my work on Github?\n\n(bonus) Is there a BibTeX way to do it?" ]

[ "publications", "citations", "repository", "bibtex" ]

[ "Can a high school student involved in a college credit program get an arXiv endorsement?", "I'm 16, homeschooled, and I am taking dual credit at LoneStar. If I wanted to write a paper, unlikely, but I've toyed with the idea, would I be able to get a suitable endorsement from a mathematics teacher at LoneStar? I was considering submitting on arXiv. \n\nMy guess would be no, but I don't know much about how this works, so I'd be interested to learn more." ]

[ "mathematics", "arxiv" ]

[ "Lab vs personal brand", "I’m moving to a new university and setting up a lab. Unlike some US universities, the consensus is not to use your surname as the name of the lab but have a descriptive name (e.g., “this area” Lab). So, I’ll have to setup a new website under my new university domain, “brand” my lab (logo, etc.) and add some standard material (course material, people in the lab, recent publications and preprints, news, recruitment info, etc.).\n\nUntil now, most of this data I had in my own personal website NameSurname.com because my previous university did not provide for lab subdomains.\n\n\nDo I keep both websites? Do I redirect my personal one to the lab or do I redirect the lab to my personal?\nIf I keep both of them, how do I differentiate the material? What goes on each?\nWhat are the pros and cons of having a lab with a generic name and me as director or putting everything under my own name?" ]

[ "website", "lab-management" ]

[ "About to leave academia?", "I am about to leave my university in the UK, however I still have access to services for the next few months.\nFor some background, I initially did my BSc(Hons) at another institution, worked in industry, and then returned to this university to do a master's degree and then the first year of a PhD programme with a full scholarship which I decided not to finish.\nIs there a good place to get a list of things that I should do before I leave? I have already spoken to the careers department so I get a list of current jobs in my field, and they have also helped me with both a CV and a Cover Letter for when I apply to new jobs." ]

[ "phd", "masters", "university", "degree" ]

[ "Is it better to have no publication than having you as second author?", "I am a post graduate engineering student(Computer Science). I have only one conference (not very good) publication in my name as a first author. \nOne of my seniors labmate, worked on a very good research project a few months ago and wrote a paper. I have been approached by him to generate a few more results for his paper and proof reading and extending his paper with literature survey and elaborative explaination of results. I have been offered co-authorship(2nd author) for this paper.\nNow, though I can dedicate some time to do that work, but is accepting 2nd authorship worth. \n\nI would like to ask in general as well, that is it worth to put effort in papers and get 2nd authorship given that the paper is not related to my primary area of research or rather work and dedicate time on one's own research and get papers as a first author ?\n\nNote: I have seen that in academia (where I want to go), usually advertisements call for applications from people having at least X no of papers as first author." ]

[ "research-process", "publications" ]

[ "What is the average teaching load for a math postdoc position in the US?", "What is the average teaching load for a math postdoc position in the US? And can someone please explain this in reference to the trimester or quarter system, which I'm not too familiar with.\n\nAccording to most job ads I've read, it seems for universities on trimesters, it's 3 courses per year, and for universities on quarters it's 4 courses a year.\n\nHowever, is it the case that the summer term (in either system), is different from the other terms and that teaching usually doesn't occur in summer? So it's 2/1 courses per term under a trimester system and 2/1/1 courses per term under a quarter system?\n\nUsually how many weeks are there in a term under each system? And usually, how many hours per week is there in a normal course?\n\nObviously, I know these answers will vary from university to university, I'm just looking for a ballpark answer." ]

[ "mathematics", "united-states", "teaching" ]

[ "Losing faith in my PhD advisor?", "What should I do if I have lost faith in my PhD advisor (leadership, research direction, everything)? I have worked in this lab for three years and from my observation, none of my advisor's project work out and zero publications so far. Since I already had a gut feeling that everything would eventually go on a dead march, I have tried to propose to him an alternative approach but my advisor never listens (or only listens passive-aggressively). Guess what, my advisor ran out of funding, and he blamed us (the graduate students) for no publication. Now we all have to serve as TAs. I somehow manage to pump out my own project but my advisor didn't quite like it unless it's his idea. He told me he had no funding for my proposal and continue to gamble on his own project. (Come to think of it, no funding was a lie.) Recently, I am publishing my paper and the way he edited my manuscript is always cursory, mindless and pushy. I have a feeling that I am destined to fail the moment I joined this lab, any advice? Any experience similar to mine? \n\nI joined the lab because his research topics are interesting but found out later that all his approaches to the problem just don't \"hit\" the point. For example, you know you need different tools to solve a problem but he just keeps using the same one again and again and my mind just get narrower and narrower. Also his work were simply a rehash of the previous one, like switching apple to orange, and everything else stays the same." ]

[ "advisor" ]

[ "Is it normal to go to a conference/workshop without a publication?", "I started my PhD not long ago, and I have heard some of my colleagues something to the effect of since they did not get their submission to some conference accepted, they will not be going to that conference.\n\nThis made me wonder whether it is normal for academics to go to conferences or workshops even if they didn't get anything accepted by that conference or workshop. Obviously, the organisers and committee members could still have a reason to go, but what about other people? As a PhD student, I would think that it's a good idea to go to conferences that are relevant to your area of research, whether or not you actually have anything accepted by that conference, just to make connections and hear about the latest research.\n\nSo long question short: As a new PhD student, should I go to relevant conferences and workshops even though I have no publications accepted at that conference or workshop, or would this be seen as a waste of time and weird?" ]

[ "phd", "conference", "workshop" ]

[ "How to ask my advisor from another department for research assistantship?", "I'm a first-year Machine Learning PhD student supported by a TAship offered by my host (non-ML) department that does not have much funding. I have heard that RA is uncommon in my host department. A professor from the CS department (renowned for its ample funding) has recently committed to be my thesis advisor, and I was wondering if he would be able to give me research assistantship in the future if my research becomes successful. To be honest, I am not 100% sure whether a professor can give a RAship to a student from other department. If it is possible, could you describe how to ask, so that I can follow the advice once my research becomes successful? Is there any general understanding about from what year it is reasonable to have RA in CS and what the reasonable RA duties in CS are? Is RA something to be offered rather than to ask for?" ]

[ "funding", "research-assistantship" ]

[ "Should I wait patiently if the professor asked me to wait for a few weeks?", "I am in my final year of PhD and submiting thesis in June. I had an interview for a Postdoc position about 2 months ago and gave an on site talk to the lab. The professor asked me to talk to each lab member individually to ask about lab culture, salary and so on. The professor and I then had another interview and she briefly talked about the project I would be doing. When I asked about when I can know if I can get an offer, she asked me to await for like a month. She told me it's quite positive and very keen on taking me. But she has to think about grants and funding as she will be taking a couple of postdocs. After waiting for one month, she requested to wait for a few more months for her to be certain.\nOnly a few labs are available in the country I am applying for. So I don't want to apply for other labs and get rejected or rejecting their offer if any.\nSo should I just wait and see how she will reply before applying more? What is my chance of being accepted? Thanks!" ]

[ "funding", "postdocs", "professors", "presentation", "interview" ]

[ "What to include in a letter of support for an academic assessment?", "I have been asked to write a short note that includes comments about the impact and importance of a colleagues' work over the course of the past year - for a pre-tenure review.\n\nI could discuss a notable recent publication, a conference he is organizing, inspiring discussions we have had over the past year, and his public outreach at a recent conference. But it is not clear how I do so in a way that most effectively supports his work, and would appreciate advice from more experienced academics who request and review such letters. \n\nHow can I most effectively frame and focus these points while keeping the letter brief and genuine? In addition to these points, what are the key features of such a letter?" ]

[ "writing", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "How does the admissions process work for Ph.D. programs in the US, particularly for weak or borderline students?", "When applying to a PhD program in the US, how does the admissions process work? If an applicant is weak in a particular area, is it possible to offset that by being strong in a different area?\n\nNote that this question originated from this meta answer. Please feel free to edit the question to improve it." ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "united-states" ]

[ "Publication of review's comments on scientific papers?", "Personally I believe publication process is not optimized at all and is too wasteful. There are numerous problems associated with it, however, here I just point out one of those. \nDue to formal presentation of papers, usually reading a scientific paper especially in field of science and engineering is time consuming. There are some points in the paper that only a specialist of that very field would notice. This is why the journal editors assign reviewers to judge the paper quality. Usually these expert reviewers would see insightful points on the paper, which would take a newbie months to notice. \nHaving said that \n\n\nI wonder why the publication does not provide review comments alongside the paper? does it harm anything?\nWould be OK if we ask the editor for the comments of an specific paper? if yes, how?\n\n\nI think it would be a good idea for publishers to publish reviewer comments of papers as well, they can even make more money and reading and understanding papers would be easier." ]

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

[ "What to do if a team member does not work but they have to answer committee questions?", "I am a master student in a French university and the university states that for a project students must form a team. However, I ended up doing the whole work by myself (They always come up with an excuse to avoid working). We have to present the project in a French, the committee will ask us questions. \n\nMy French level is at best A2 on CEFR. I am afraid that when they ask questions I won't be able to answer them due to my language skills also my colleagues probably would not be able to answer since they have not done any work which would result in a poor grading of our project." ]

[ "masters", "projects", "france" ]

[ "Is there a generally accepted format for submitting papers to journals?", "I believe in Mathematics and Computer Science journals usually accept LaTeX documents. In fact, the AMS has a number of packages and document classes for just this purpose.\n\nWhat about other disciplines? I'm not particularly familiar with the humanities. Would a Microsoft Word document be unacceptable?\n\nDoes it vary from subject to subject, or even journal to journal?" ]

[ "publications", "journals", "tools" ]

[ "How to equitably divide the economic benefits of a licensed patent among academic inventors?", "I am PI of a research group and in different projects regarding sample analyses, it looks like we will be able to license 4 patents to 4 different companies. I can tell you this success was not neither expected nor planned. And now the problems come; the money we receive from each patent, how to distribute it among the different participants. In order to avoid problems, I decided to distribute it equally between the number of people involved on each patent, which varies from 5 to 7, including me. \n\nBut some people are disappointed because they consider that other people did much less and should receive less percentage. In addition, I do not like this completely since I got all the funding for the projects, infrastructures and negotiate it hard with the companies, so I think I should deserve it a bit more, but I know that with this I will have problems in the group. Of course, I should have written everything down, the regulations, before starting the projects, but now it is too late. In order to solve this I thought about preparing a document, in which everybody writes down what they think they did, and how that part contributed to the invention. Then I think we could start a reasonable discussion, so people that did less, could not say the opposite, and finally we would reach an agreement. Another solution I thought would be to leave my University to decide on this. \n\nMy questions here is, how would you solve this problem, and if you think (and why) that a PI should get more part of the contribution." ]

[ "patents" ]

[ "Master's thesis, should I inform my supervisor about the mistake?", "Please hear me out first,\n\nI am one week away from submitting a manuscript, the deadline is in one week.\nThe supervisor has reviewed my thesis and is happy with my results.\nHe is writing a paper based on my work.\n\nNow I used a technique in my work that is fairly different is almost never used, but it yielded good results so I went on. I told my supervisor during earlier days that I using that technique and he said it's not the norm, but whatever you do just document it. He never questioned my decision or said it doesn't work.\nFast forward 13 months, and I've come to know that you are not supposed to use that technique as it introduces some bias in the results, which is not discernable.\nNow I am more than willing to inform my supervisor, but this will have a domino effect and I might have to start my experiments again, which will take more than one and a half months at least, and I have been working on my thesis for 18 months now.\nWhy should I not tell my supervisor:\n\nHe has reviewed my thesis and he is happy with my results.\nMy student visa expires in 21 days, and another thesis extension (if it happens) with the university would be whole another hassle, and I am not sure if I will even get the extension.\nNo money to pay the rent. this is a big one, up to this point I have survived by a very little margin, with no funding from the department, and I have no work now, another one and a half months would mean at least 70K $ which I cannot arrange.\nVisiting parents after 2 years of not going back home because of masters, and short on money.\n18 months of already working on a thesis, having done my very best, I am f****ng tired now. I just want to hand in the thesis and sleep in peace. Every single student in my class has given their defense I am the only one left.\nI want to move forward with my life, get engaged and find a job. 4 years of master's school, with zero\nfunding from my department, even when they were happy with my work.\nGetting rid of my supervisor for good, he was always pushing me and\npushing me, and I worked my ass for this thesis without any returns.\nNot dealing with him would be the highlight of the year for me.\nIt is a 100+ page thesis, from a different perspective, it shouldn't\nnullify all of my work.\nI can always plead ignorance in the end. Since I am not from a\ncomputer science background, this thesis is at the CS department\nthough, they know I am always learning or whatnot.\nI can defend it, my supervisor is one of my graders, and he is on my\nside.\n\nWhy should I tell my supervisor:\n\nIt's eating me up from inside. It is my baby, my work, I've put 18\nmonths of work into it. It only deserves to be 100%\nMy supervisor is writing a paper that he wants to submit to Nature\nbased on my results, and it has that faulty method I used. This kills\nme.\nI feel like a fraudster/criminal.\nScared my work will be thesis work might get canceled in the future.\n\nI would be happy if you can help me solve this quandary." ]

[ "thesis", "masters" ]

[ "Journal turnaround time of 18 months", "I submitted a paper to an economics journal. They have promptly replied to let me know that the review process generally takes 12 to 18 months. I also have to give them a go-ahead confirming their policies before they can begin the review (so I could effectively withdraw at this point). Since this is my first paper, I do not want to be too picky about journal timelines. However, I also planned to apply for a PhD at the end of the year (less than 12 months), and was hoping for a better chance to be able to put a publication on my CV. \n\nMy question being: should I attempt to get published faster with a different journal, or is this timeline of 12-18 months acceptable to stick around with?" ]

[ "paper-submission", "economics" ]

[ "How to quickly get complete list of citations to all my papers?", "I need to get citations (with complete info including authors, journal, date) to all my papers. What's the best way (hopefully without too much manual copy & paste) to do this?\n\nWhat i so far tried:\n\nGoogle Scholar seem to give more complete list of papers that cite my paper that it includes papers in non-English language journals etc. But i can't see how to get authors, journal title, volume number etc quickly from the Google Scholar search output." ]

[ "publications", "citations" ]

[ "What if the lead author disagrees with the coauthors on manuscript content and target journals?", "The lead author has conceived the initial idea, developed the methods, the experiments, the analysis, and has written the draft. Coauthors have contributed to that draft mainly by rephrasing and restructuring it, in a way that lead author disagrees. \n\nAdditionally, coauthors insist on submitting to a journal which lead author disagrees with, but also the coauthors do not agree for submission on journals which the lead author prefers.\n\nLead author wants to stop collaborating with the coauthors, but doesn't want to leave this work unpublished (coauthors say they will ask for retraction if work is submitted, since they believe they contributed considerably). Would it be possible for the lead author to omit the coauthors' contributions by rewriting the manuscript, and submit it as the only author?\n\nGiven that the solution of negotiating and finding a middle way is excluded, do you have any other solutions to propose?" ]

[ "collaboration" ]

[ "Applying for PhD programs before finishing your honours, when admission requires a first or high second honours?", "I want to apply to a bunch of PhD programs, particularly ones in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. All of these list a \"High honours degree\" for admission into their programs.\n\nI will be finishing my honours in November, and will almost certainly be getting first class. The problem is that I'd like to apply to these programs before finishing in order to be eligible for certain scholarships. \n\nIs it normal for applicants to apply for a PhD program while still finishing their honours year, even when a high honours is specifically stated in the admission requirements?\n\nIf it matters, my transcript is all A's or A+ for every year except my first year, and all A+ for my 5 honours courses I've taken, with 3 left to go this semester." ]

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

[ "Should I do another master followed by a PhD or do a PhD directly", "I hold a Master's degree in computer science (machine learning) and I am published (not in very top conferences).\n\nDuring my Master's studies, I found out that I am more interested in the theoretical aspect of machine learning instead of the application. However, it requires more knowledge of maths, which I am lacking.\n\nI am thinking about following another Master's degree in applied maths, perhaps that available in Netherlands. The courses include measure-theory based probability and more challenging statistics, in which I am interested.\n\nI might also consider following a PhD (directly) in data science or applied machine learning, which is consistent with my master's study. \n\nwhich track should i consider ?" ]

[ "phd", "career-path" ]

[ "Citing multiple Japanese authors", "I'm trying to put a reference for article at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27894279 using APA format.\n\nIs this the right way to do it?\n\nTadaka, E. Kono, A. Ito, E. Kanaya, Y. Dai, Y. Imamatsu, Y. and Itoi, W. (2016, November 28). Development of a community's self-efficacy scale for preventing social isolation among community-dwelling older people (Mimamori Scale). Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27894279" ]

[ "citation-style" ]

[ "What do you say to a professor/potential advisor when you accept the offer from their school?", "Is it common to contact professors you've been in communication with to let them know that you're accepting their school's offer? Do you usually contact the professors that met with you on a campus visit? \n\nIs it usually just a brief FYI type email or a longer/introductory letter? I've already visited campus and spoken to my potential supervisors/advisors.\n\nHow does this sound?\n\n\n Dear Professor L,\n \n I hope all is well. I'm writing to let you know I've accepted School's\n offer for the PhD program. I am grateful for this opportunity and I\n look forward to working with you and the rest of the faculty in X\n Subfield! \n \n Best regards,\n \n Pomegranateseed15\n\n\nAnything I should add?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "graduate-school", "advisor", "professors", "communication" ]

[ "What should I write in the experience section of CV?", "I have recently graduated with a BSc degree in Physics. I haven't had any internship before. Well, all internships last summer were cancelled because of covid. Now, I am applying for few internships for the summer of 2021. What should I put in the experiences section of the CV? Or, should I remove the whole section?" ]

[ "cv", "internship" ]

[ "Model for the number of citations an article receives over time", "Is there a standard model for the number of citations an article will receive over time? If not, is there a good source for data on citation counts for articles divided up over time? Furthermore, does this vary by field\n\nIt seems plausible to me that the number of citations decays approximately exponentially, with the rate of decay depending on the article, but I have empirical evidence for this conjecture.\n\nSuch a model would be useful because a few years after an article was published, one could use the MLE method to estimate the number of citations the article would receive over any time period. This would allow us to count citations in a way that does not bias older articles, one of the chief problems with straight citation counts. Additionally, it would give us a better idea of the inaccuracies of metrics like impact factor." ]

[ "citations" ]

[ "Graduate school Conditional Acceptance", "I was conditionally accepted to an MSCS program. My conditions are: Must maintain a 3.2 GPA and Complete 2 specific classes with a B or higher. I have till the spring semester to complete those conditions. I'm very likely to make a C in one of those conditional courses I'm required to make a B or higher in. I was wondering how those are conditions are generally evaluated?\n\nEdit- And it rounded to a B, but thank you for the responses!" ]

[ "graduate-school" ]

[ "What is standard record-keeping like for a journal editor?", "I'm developing an in-department certification process, with multiple faculty members assigned to assess each new certification, and it occurred to me to model the overall process on the (familiar) cycle of submitting articles to editorial review at a journal.\nNot having been on the backend of that, it's dawning on me that I don't know what the usual record-keeping looks like for a normal journal editor. Is there some standard software platform to keep track of who is assigned to reviews, deliverable dates, status, feedback, etc.? Can it be put in a simple spreadsheet or database? Is it usually accessible by multiple people at the journal, or private to the one editor?\nI've searched online and not found anything in this vein. Any advice or examples of "best practices" in record-keeping for the editorial process would be helpful." ]

[ "editors", "journal-workflow" ]

[ "Providing Students Formal Exam Feedback?", "I'm in the process of finalising my exam for my unit in second semester (based in Australia). \n\nThe exam will have 3 essay questions out of a total of 6 that students will receive prior to the exam. They will be asked to prepare responses to these 6 essay questions, but only 3 will appear on the exam (originally I had wanted to do 3/10 as a former professor of mine had done, but was asked to reduce this to 6). \n\nThese exams will be assessed against a qualitative rubric with no comments provided. \n\nOther than considering faculty rules/procedures regarding whether or not students can receive feedback from formal examinations (which I still need to inquire about):\n\n\nAre there any downsides in providing students qualitative rubrics from their formal exams after final marks have been posted? \nDoes the term/nature of a 'Formal Exam' mean that students should not receive feedback?\n\n\n(As a side note my course has to have an exam as its listed in the 2015 handbook, but next year this has been removed to be 100% in-class assessment)." ]

[ "students", "exams", "feedback" ]

[ "Assistant Research Professor in a prestigious university or a tenure-track assistant professor in an R2 institute?", "I'm debating over two positions to choose from. One is an Assistant Research Professor (fixed term, huge potentiality to be continued for at least another year or so) in a prestigious university. And, the other one is a tenure-track assistant professor in an R2 institute. Which one is better for the long-term? Do people treat assistant research professor position as a glorified postdoc? I don't like a lot of teaching and my offer from the R2 institute involves a lot of teaching. I aspire to move to a BIG research institute in the future. So, what would you advice?" ]

[ "faculty-application", "tenure-track", "non-tenure" ]

[ "Another way to say probability", "In a paper I want to state that a certain course of action increases the \"chances of success\" - with success defined earlier in the work.\n\nIn my field, words like \"probability\", \"odds\", and \"likelihood\" (and the associated variants) have certain connotations, and are likely to elicit semantic arguments, so I'd like to avoid those words.\n\nThe word \"chances\" seems colloquial.\n\nAre there any other phrases that connote the idea that a certain course of action is more likely to lead to optimal outcomes, while avoiding any words that have mathematical or statistical connotations?" ]

[ "mathematics", "writing", "statistics" ]

[ "Does consistency in how my name is presented/abbreviated as author on a publication matter?", "Assume I have the name: \"First Middle Last\". I have been publishing as \"First Last.\" \n\nAt my current job (postdoc) my adviser prefers that I list my name on my paper as F. Last (or F.M. Last), and I'm afraid that the change in style will make it less obvious that all the papers I've written are from the same person. Is this an issue that matters? If so, does it matter enough to insist on using \"First Last\" in spite of all other names being abbreviated on any papers?\n\nP.S. If this is a community dependent question, I'm a physicist in the AMO physics and optics communities (e.g. APS and OSA). I'm asking about how my name appears in the list of authors on the paper I wrote (not about how citations are formatted)." ]

[ "publications", "citations", "personal-name" ]

[ "Including link to professor's page in resume", "I am applying for PhD positions in computer science. I have been fortunate to get the opportunity to research under some really good professors (specifically, one who has a high h-index, another who is the academic director of a large scientific institution). While these professors are respected, they are not pioneers in the field and so not known to everyone.\n\nThus, while mentioning that I worked with these professors (specifically in my resume, but in general wherever it's required), I usually include a link to their profile. My question is, is there a specific format or convention that people follow while providing more information about a professor?\n\nFor instance, many professors have multiple profile pages across different institutions that they're associated with---which one should be used then? Sometimes, they have poorly maintained profile pages but have really good research work, which makes their Google scholar page much more impressive. Some even have Wikipedia articles about them.\n\nIf I want to highlight different aspects about a professor, can I link different pages against their names? In my case, that would mean linking the Google Scholar page for the professor with the high h-index while linking the profile page of the professor holding the important position." ]

[ "professors", "cv" ]

[ "Can I publish research in a peer-reviewed journal if parts of it have previously been published in a self published book?", "The book was not published in English, and I am using a different perspective in the paper, but the same qualitative data." ]

[ "research-process" ]

[ "Create YouTube videos on exercises of a University level course", "Is it acceptable to create YouTube videos about exercises of a University level course ?\n\nI struggle to follow a quantum mechanics course I need to take and thought about making YouTube videos where I explain the exercises and their solutions provided to us step by step. I already did that for two math courses last year, and not only did it help me a lot, it also helped other people that watched my videos. But some people told me to be cautious, because after all I did not create those exercises by myself and thus I have no right to talk about them in a YouTube video.\n\nWhat should one do in those cases ?" ]

[ "teaching", "university", "undergraduate" ]

[ "Teaching Assistantships and research", "I'm working as a TA now, and I've found that I'm spending an inordinate amount of time on my TA-ship. Is this normal? Furthermore, is this expected? I'm worried that my research career will suffer because of my lack of research productivity." ]

[ "teaching", "teaching-assistant" ]

[ "How to deal with a nosy fellow graduate student?", "There is another graduate student at my school working in the same area as me that is extremely nosy about my work. His curiosity definitely goes beyond the normal amount of \"What are you working on?\" chit-chat that I have with other graduate students. He frequently asks me to list exactly (his words) which papers I'm reading. If I walk past him in the hallway holding a book or a paper under my arm, he'll (very obviously) contort his neck to see what it is. If I'm working somewhere public, he'll walk up to the table and start reading what I'm working on.\n\nThis may sound silly, but I really feel like my privacy is being violated. I think this guy's behavior is creepy and rude. I could never imagine doing any of the things I listed above. What I do with my time is my business and no one else’s, and what other people do with their time is not my business. How can I deal with this guy without appearing unfriendly?\n\nI don't want to appear unfriendly because this other graduate student works in the same area as me and I don't want to burn any bridges. In my very short time in academia, I have also never witnessed anyone acting unfriendly. I have no idea what is appropriate or how to calibrate my response. It is also difficult because the other student is not the same nationality as me, so maybe there are cultural things that I don't understand.\n\nI can't merge my accounts to comment. I am indeed a woman." ]

[ "graduate-school", "interpersonal-issues", "workplace" ]

[ "Lost to find a topic for my reseach!", "I am really LOST. anyone can help me sharing his/her experience would be great.\n\nI am currently a PhD student and I changed my advisor and minor 'research field' after one year of my program. This is a new research field to mine but I have the ability and confident to conduct research and go through but the big problem I've never been exposed to this field before and couldn't find a solid topic/idea to consider for my research. my advisor asks me to find a topic in my own. any tips guys!!" ]

[ "phd", "research-topic" ]

[ "Registering for a math conference with no publication record in this field", "I’m pretty sure that I’ve solved a certain open problem in mathematics. My solution is currently in its third week of peer-review at some journal that is known for rejecting cranky papers within five days of submission. \n\nI’m currently searching for the next relevant conferences where I can present my paper. The thing is I’m not yet a famous person in the math community, hence it might not be easy to convince the conference organisers. Can someone kindly advice me on how I can go about it?" ]

[ "mathematics", "conference" ]

[ "\"You are one of our top candidates.\" How many candidates are there likely to be?", "I have applied for a Ph.D. position at a research group in a European University and gotten an acknowledgement from a research unit member. His reply states \"... you are one of our top candidates and we would like to pursue your application further. Can you provide us with some of your program codes and two references we can contact.\"\n\nI have given them some of my codes and details of two of my professors for references. Its almost two weeks now and I've not received any feedback or rejection from them. He/They usually replied back within two working days during our earlier correspondences.\n\nMy question is \"Am I rejected already?\" and how many candidates are usually in a 'top candidates' list? \n(The Ph.D. position is to get the degree working with the research group and develop softwares for the group, etc.)" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "europe" ]

[ "Who should write a recommendation letter?", "When applying for a faculty position (from assistant to full professor), the search committee asks for 3 - 5 recommendation letters by people who know the applicant professionally (and probably in person).\n\nThe first factor for choosing a reference is his/her relationship with the applicant, but another important factor is the (academic) position of the writer. Possible references can be:\n\n\nPast PhD student/post-doctoral fellow who is now an assistant professor: probably he is the best person to describe the\napplicant's attitude towards students and education (something that\nis critical for the search committee).\nA faculty colleague: closely witnessed the applicant works, but not directly involved.\nDepartment chair: supervised the applicant, but probably his view is just the standpoint of a boss.\nDean: had less connection with the applicant, but can provide a top view about the applicant.\nProvost/Vice Presidents: very little direct connection, but can show the applicant's relationship with senior people.\n\n\nThe point is that how to balance the level of relationship and the reference's position? Normally, recommendation letters by people with higher positions are more reliable, and can be trusted search committee, as a colleague may bias the letter for a colleague, but a provost will not do this for an employee.\n\nIs the position of a reference more important than his/her direct connection with the applicant (considering the fact that a senior person has no reason to write a recommendation letter for someone he does not know personally)?\n\nUPDATE: Some commented that references should be not-related peers, not people who know the applicant. It seems I'm a little bit confused.\n\n\nDo you list references who do not know you at the end of CV/resume? References named in the applicant CV can be contacted for a job application.\nSome job ads ask the applicant to arrange submission of three letters of recommendation to the search committee (for example, see a job ad at UC Berkeley). Do you ask people who do not know you to submit a recommendation letter about you?\nNowadays, most job applications are via online systems. When the online system requests a recommendation letter just send an email to the named reference to submit his/her recommendation for Mr./Mrs. X (but will not attach his/her resume or works). How one who does not know the applicant can then submit a recommendation letter." ]

[ "university", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "How much background information should I provide in a paper if it is a follow-up to a previous publication of mine?", "I have recently published a paper in which I have identified a problem and developed a potential methodology for solving it. In that first paper, I included a fairly extensive literature review of the subject so that I could support my proposed methodology. The primary goal of that review section was to introduce and elaborate on all of the variables that would need to be accounted for in the model.\n\nThe paper that I am currently writing is a follow-up to that original publication where I have gathered the data I need to test the methodology. In this paper, do I need to re-write the sections that introduce all of the elements of my model (the literature review in the first paper), or is it acceptable to state that this is a follow-up to a previous publication and refer the reader back to the initial paper? \n\nOf course, I will need to provide enough information in the second paper so that a reader will be able to understand the model. However, if I can simply provide an abbreviated explanation of the background and the elements that make up the model by citing my original paper, that would save me a great deal of work. It also would likely improve the second paper, since I will not have to spend several pages explaining things that I have previously established. However, I wanted to check to see if it would instead be wiser to just re-word the material that is present in the first paper." ]

[ "publications", "citations", "self-citation" ]

[ "Do I have to do a Masters and a PhD thesis?", "I am currently perusing my masters degree in engineering, and would like to continue that with a PhD, and it was my understanding that I needed a thesis for my masters in order to get into the PhD program. Is this true? I'm beginning to reach out to professors to see if they will take me on, and when I mentioned a masters thesis to one of them, he said it would be better just to take the class requirements for a regular masters degree, but I could start looking at my PhD thesis now. Does this sound right? Thanks for your input!" ]

[ "phd", "thesis", "masters", "engineering" ]

[ "When writing a peer review is it better protocol to quote parts of the orginal work or paraphrase?", "I am writing a peer review exercise and I am not sure when referring to specific parts of the paper whether it is better to quote or paraphrase them. What is the correct protocol on such this?\n\nThe review decides whether the paper gets published in a small magazine, whether that makes any difference to these things, I am not sure." ]

[ "peer-review" ]

[ "Diversifying the academic institutions one attends", "I am planning on doing research mathematics at a university or similar institution as a career. I have heard that it is important to diversify your studies (not attend the same school for undergrad, masters, and PhD). Is this true? What if I am already going to a good school, with the potential to work with people in the forefront of my field?\n\nI am currently doing my undergrad degree, but when it comes time to do my masters, is it important to find a different school, or will staying in the same place hurt my job prospects? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!" ]

[ "graduate-school", "career-path", "job-search" ]

[ "Can section numbering depth exceed table of content depth in thesis?", "I’m writing up my thesis and use two levels of structure in my table of contents, which looks something like this:\n\n\n Table of contents\n \n \n Introduction\n \n 1.1 Subsection intro \n Methods\n \n 2.1 Methods subsection\n \n 2.2 Etcetera\n \n\n\nHowever, the section numbering in my thesis has three levels, so for example section 2.1 contains a subsection 2.1.1\n\n\n 2.1 Methods subsection\n \n blablabla\n \n 2.1.1 Methods subsubsection\n \n More bla bla bla\n\n\nI don’t want to have three levels in my table of contents because that really clutters it up. However, I don’t want to reduce the number of actual levels to two because I refer to the subsubsection in my text as well. Is this OK or is there some convention that says you have to have the same numbering depth in your table of contents and text?" ]

[ "thesis", "writing-style", "formatting" ]

[ "Should I leave academia or not?", "This is a question about whether I should leave academia. I understand it's very hard to answer the question, I would nevertheless like to know every opinion.\n\nSome background: Got a PhD in pure math at 2012 in the US. Due to family reason only looked for jobs in my hometown right after graduate. Worked as a lecturer (teaching staff) in the department of mathematics for 8 years but never did a postdoc. I like doing research and teaching. Teach 6 courses per academic year. Have 9 papers, 7 of them are single-authored (I would like to say in my hometown no one is in my research field, so it's very hard to find coauthors). Due to workplace politics my contract as a lecturer does not get renewed. I hate corruption in academia very much.\n\nI still have the heart and energy to learn (especially new things, like Physics), do research and publish papers. If you are talking about research resources, there is no problem for this because all my publications are not research-funded. Perhaps what I think I don't have is the heart and energy to work in academia and deal with all the non research things, like meeting people, writing research grant proposal (yes, perhaps my definition of research is very narrow).\n\nMy PhD advisor (who is a really nice guy, by the way) encourages me to look for academic jobs in some other countries. But after working for 8 years at university I have seen enough corruption in academia and ugliness of the people who are fighting for their tenure positions. I am very sick of it. Sometimes I do think of applying academic jobs in some other countries but I am afraid of falling into something I know I hate. Of course, I understand there is no free lunch.\n\nIf I leave academia, I could just find some part-time teaching jobs or private tutoring to make a living. Sometimes I do think of taking a master course in Physics or even doing a PhD (if I am able to do so). Leaving the possibility of having such an offer, if I do so it seems I am pushing myself back to academia.\n\nAny opinion and suggestion is welcome. I can also provide more information (as long as it would not reveal my identity) if you need.\n\nThank you." ]

[ "quitting" ]

[ "Free ways to automatically get notified if new papers are published on ACM or IEEE?", "I'm looking for a way, tool or technology that allows me to define keywords and/or authors and/or conferences for which I want to be notified if a new paper is published on ACM or IEEE. I couldn't yet find a way to achieve that. What are my possibilities? It shouldn't cost any money." ]

[ "publishers", "ieee" ]

[ "Deferring a PhD to pursue a masters after accepting it. Advice?", "I have accepted a fully funded PhD offer from a very good university. In the meanwhile I have managed to secure a masters offer from another very good university. (I applied to both at the same time, but was given a masters offer a week after the funding acceptance deadline for my PhD)\n\nThe opportunity to attend two of the worlds best universities is a huge decision that will affect my future in a very significant level. \n\nEspecially given that if something where to happen in the 4 years of my PhD (change in supervisor's or personal circumstances) which would prevent me from completing the PhD, I would still have a Masters under my belt if I pursue both opportunities. \n\nI would therefore like to defer my funded PhD start date to next year, in order to do the masters. Rather than do one or the other.\n\nI would like your opinion and I would also like to ask for possible consequences of such an action, and how best to approach it.\n\n(I note that suspensions of studies can be available for exceptional circumstances(including work/career opportunities). I would class the masters as a career opportunity, given that is at one of the world's best university and career focused with many industry links.) \n\nHow do I very nicely request to defer my studies by one year to pursue a masters opportunity - which will enhance my career prospects greatly?" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "masters", "deferral" ]