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"Would this work be considered a publishable cs research?",
"I was able to create a new version of a known algorithm with a reduced space complexity than the original by using a different data structure from the one used in the original. It's something like what Fredman & Tarjan 1984 did for the Dijkstra algorithm's time complexity by using Fibonacci heaps. The only difference is that these guys created Fibonacci heaps, I did not create the data structure I used in my work.\n\nWould my work be considered by a respectable journal?\nIf no respectable journal would accept it, should I consider self-publishing it to, say, arxiv? or should I forget the whole \"publish as research\" thing and just write a blog post about it?\n\nP.S: I'm a fresh CS graduate and I'm not affiliated with any post-graduate program, so I don't have an academic advisor to ask that question to."
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"Is it a contribution if I prove the result in previous paper in my own way and provide small extension in the form of application of the results?",
"If I have an idea to extend an already published paper (P1) but the extension is very small and further I know how to prove the results of (P1) so my question is as follows. If I prove the results of P1 through my own way and has slight extension (in the form of application of the results) of P1 then is it worth writing that idea or should I avoid such thing?"
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"Tough Editor, How to handle?",
"I have got the first revision of my paper from a journal in Elsiver. Despite, all 3 reviewers' comment are very positive and accepted the paper the editor is so tough. He is questioning the originality of the proposed method and also saying the paper is not very much in the scope of journal. \nIf so, why did you hand it to reviewers?!!!\nAny idea to answer him/her?"
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"Would this be right to respond to all the reviewers queries simultaneously in single files along with their queries?",
"I have prepared all answers to all the queries raised by reviewers in major revision. Would it be ok if I respond to both reviewers in single pdf file in following format:\n\nReviewer #1:\nQuery 1: Reviewer's first query.\nAuthor response: This is my explanation.\nQuery 2: Reviewer's second query.\nAuthor response: This is my explanation.\n\nand so on....\n\nReviewer #2:\nQuery 1: Reviewer's first query.\nAuthor response: This is my explanation.\nQuery 2: Reviewer's second query.\nAuthor response: This is my explanation.\n\nIn this way both reviewers can see queries of each other. Is this right way of response to reviewers ?"
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"In terms of graduate applications, what sort of courses should I take in a gap year?",
"I've been offered a position in the lab I worked in as an undergrad, starting this spring upon graduation. One of the perks of my position would be that I get to register for 5 credits (~one class) per quarter for free. \n\nLet's say I want to take advantage of this, and my boss in the lab is willing. I see I have three options to take classes this way:\n\n\nI could take more classes in my major (linguistics) that I didn't take before I graduated.\nI could take classes that would prepare me for the sort of work I want to do in graduate school (closer to psychology than theoretical linguistics) beyond what I already have done and learn in the lab. \nI could take entirely unrelated classes I have interests in but didn't take in undergrad. For me, I would probably take a language class. It keeps me sane, and they're often scheduled early in the day so I would miss less work. \n\n\nAll else being equal, how would a graduate admissions committee look on me for choosing each of these paths for a year or two before I apply for grad school? I imagine (2) would be best, but there's still lots of interesting classes in (1) \nand (3) that are hard to pass up. \n\nI do want to say I'm not just doing this to make my grad school apps look better. There a lot of undergrad classes I'd love to take in both options (1) and (2), and like I said, learning a language keeps me sane, but I thought I'd get all the variables before I did anything."
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"What effect does a good research paper have on a university's reputation and worldwide ranking?",
"What effect does a good research paper have on a university's worldwide rankings?"
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"Can we ask a journal to assign another reviewer to review our paper if we think that his/her review is not satisfactory?",
"Can we ask a journal to assign another reviewer to review our paper if we think that his/her review is not satisfactory, for instance if we have reason to believe that s/he is not familiar with the subject of the paper? For example, s/he points out that s/he does not understand a term which is well-known in the subject area.\n\nEdit:\n\nIn this particular case, the reviewer in question is generally positive about the paper. The other reviewer is positive, and the editor has recommended acceptance. \n\nDo you keep quiet about it because the paper has been accepted? Or should we at least let the editor know that he has not assigned someone who knows the subject to review the paper? Or do you go as far as asking the editor to assign another review just to be sure that everything is done responsibly?\n\nIf you have been in similar situation, I am interested to know which action you took."
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"What are the cons of studying in a Ph.D. program that takes much time to confer the degree (about 1 year and a half or 2 years, after dissertation)?",
"Currently, I am in the second year of a Ph.D. program. However, I am really worried about the amount of time Faculty takes to confer the degree, since It could be detrimental to my academic and professional future."
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"How to choose and validate interdisciplinary research methodology?",
"How to formalize the following research consideration towards research methodology selection and validation?\n\nThat is, I consider to establish and validate interdisciplinary foundations for a discipline A using foundations of discipline B, and formally validate if it makes sense.\n\nHypothesis: is it possible to model, analyze and solve problems regarding end to end software application lifecycle management (aka DevOps) based on foundations of system engineering, specifically logistics engineering?\n\nExample case study: assess component flow from positions of optimization methods for material flow.\n\nNow which methodology is in place to proceed with evaluation and validation of the hypothesis so that findings would be broader than just \"I used method X of 10 possible for a specific software application of myriad possible and it was a 13% gain, maybe due to some luck or an error in the whole setup or my bias\"? \n\nThat is practical experiments would validate research, but after gathering practical experiences in a series of projects I am looking first towards creating theoretical and analytical foundations in this direction to design more large scale experiments and have some scientific output as well.\n\nIn case this is an existing field of interdisciplinary research to your knowledge please point to it as well in your answer."
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"Is it normal for US PhD programs to require students to pay tuition for extra credits beyond 9 credits/semester?",
"Last semester I chose 12 credits, but the department said it can only pay for 9 credits, i.e. I have to pay for the extra 3 credits by myself. \n\nNo one ever told me about such rules before. I thought the tuition fees for phd students are just a fiction/imaginary/symbolic number. Is there anyone who have heard things like this?\n\nI think it is ridiculous to ask a phd student to pay. Because phd is kind of a job, I have heard employees getting very low salary, but never heard of an employee PAYING her company."
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"Does APA style satisfy AEA style requirements?",
"I see the AEA templates as well as APA guidelines. I'm in the process of assessing the question myself, but I'm wondering if anyone has a quick answer: If I format my paper according to APA guidelines will this also satisfy AEA style requirements?\n\nTo add context to a paper I'm working on: I do have tables and equations, but I do not have second or third level headings. Only first-level headings.\n\nI'm interested in contributing this work PubCSS and I'm wondering if I will need two distinct style sheets, or if I can get away with a single one. It would be even better if I can get away with 0 new style sheets! PubCSS already supports ACM and IEEE style, so if anyone is familiar with those then I would be curious what differences, if any, exist between those, APA, and AEA."
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"How should I deal with a colleague talking on my behalf?",
"Our Chair is writing a major proposal and me and my colleague are on-board (both non-tenured)... Chair has asked for a meeting next week to work on the bid for a centre and this colleague of mine has replied back to both of us accepting the meeting and on our behalf and has suggested working two-three full days for the Chair. \n\nI replied to the Chair saying \"sure lets meet\" and didn't acknowledge anything else that was said. \nI am tempted to write to the my colleague and say I know they had the right intention but please never ever talk on my behalf again as its not professional. Is this the right thing to do? \n\nI am worried if I don't react this will continue as I am new in my current job. On the other hand I am worried if I react by sending an email or verbal communication and asking them not do it they might just forward/talk with the Chair with some lame excuse like suggesting that I am really busy and unhappy and they will do it themselves to make me look bad or with the genuine intention of correcting their mistake which in both cases will make me look poor! \n\nWhat should I do?"
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"The Ethnography Of Obscure References",
"I want to understand how absurdly obscure references are discovered by authors when preparing papers for publication.\nAlthough the availability of large online searchable databases obviously makes things easier today, I still occasionally come across a paper or a book, sometimes from decades ago, which somehow discovered a paper or letter to the journal editor, written 50 years ago, in another country, in a foreign\nlanguage, in an obscure long gone journal, from an unrelated field, which deals with a highly specialized problem, that has a shockingly generic title, and presents not the same idea, but one which can be shown to be equivalent to it, in a brief parenthetical comment, using defunct jargon, dead\nnomenclature and outdated notation.\nAlthough you don't often find strictly all of the above to be true at the same time, some generous subset of it does occur more often than one would expect.\nHow are these references discovered? Is there an army of science historians scouring agricultural journal from 19th century Prussia for proto-theories of quantum entanglement? Does every academic department dedicate a portion of its budget for the care and feeding of some tiny Hungarian septuagenarian savant with eclectic tastes and photographic memory? Or is the reference librarian a vastly unappreciated form of superhero?"
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"How important is your school?",
"I am looking to pursue an online master's in MIS starting next spring. I'm in the process of deciding on a school and I've narrowed it down to two choices: Florida State or Illinois-Springfield.\n\nBoth are accredited, but I'm trying to think about which would benefit me more in the long run. Florida State seems to be the more well-known, popular university, and, I would assume, would \"pop\" more on a resume. However, each credit hour is $810 and the program itself is upwards of $27,800.\n\nIn contrast, UIS is a much smaller school, and probably less well known. However, their program is $403 an hour and would come out closer to the $15,000 range.\n\nI could probably pay for the UIS degree out of pocket, but FSU would require me to get loans.\n\nIs it worth the extra money for a more recognizable name on your resume? Does anyone pay that much attention to the school?"
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"How can I prepare well for a MSc in the UK?",
"I am going to study this course in 3 months: MSc Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems Management. It is offered by The University of Manchester.\n\nI am a bit nervous and I want to prepare for it to overcome my nervousness.\n\nAre there any good resources or online courses which makes me ready for this MSc?\n\nThank you very much."
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"How should one acknowledge assistance received via sites like SE?",
"I have been working for some time on a paper that I hope to submit to a mathematics journal. Buried deep in the guts of the paper is a technical lemma that I struggled with for some time before finally posting the question to MSE, where it promptly received an answer. What is the proper way to acknowledge this assistance in the submitted manuscript?"
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"Does examiner's own PhD outcome influence decision?",
"PhD examination outcomes, depending on country/university, may include unconditional pass, pass subject to minor or major corrections, and resubmission among others. \n\nIs there any evidence or analysis (in any country) on whether an examiner's decision can in some way be influenced by their own PhD outcomes?\n\nFor instance, is an academic who himself/herself got a lower PhD outcome, e.g., major correction or resubmission, more likely to give lower outcomes when acting as an examiner?"
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"My postdoc advisor just now said she cannot support me after 6 months. What should I do?",
"After graduating in February, I was waiting for my work permit to start my one-year postdoc position. Finally, after 2 months delay (due to COVID-19), I have got my permit today and now I can start the paperwork to have my position finalized. However, now my postdoc advisor informed me that there's a change in the financial situation due to an industrial funding partner retracting their contribution and I can be supported for only 6 months. So, now I am clueless on what to do about this.\n\nWhat should I do? I am going to start applying to positions again from next week. Any other advice for me?"
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"On balance, is it more valuable to review for a journal you haven't yet reviewed a paper for?",
"I'm a grad student, and over the weekend, received two review requests from very good journals in my field, one of which I have already reviewed for. \n\nI declined one because it was out of my area, but it made me wonder if, all else being equal I should prioritize reviewing for a journal I haven't yet, or if it doesn't matter.\n\nI have often seen CVs in my field list journals reviewed for, as well as a number of reviews, so it is information that is out there and valued"
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"How to ask a, probably angry, PhD supervisor for a letter of recommendation after graduation from uni?",
"I was on good terms with my PhD supervisor throughout my studies. After graduation, I gave a talk at a symposium and my PhD supervisor was in the audience. I was planning to add a few sentences of appreciation to my supervisor during my talk, but decided not to (in order to prevent potential awkwardness). After ruminating about the talk, I also noticed that I perhaps took too much credit (\"I developed this assay in the past\" etc.) and never credited my supervisor once throughout the talk (must have been subconscious, because I don't know why I didn't in hindsight). All of that is true: I developed the experiments on my own and performed them on my own. However, my supervisor has been indispensable when it comes to \"meta-knowledge,\" general guidance and feedback. Overall he seems like one of the nicest professors in our department, so I felt bad. After my talk, he just left the symposium without saying anything to me. Maybe he was in a rush, but I remember he had done it another time in the past, where he was unsatisfied with my performance on a previous talk. Right after the talk, I sent him an appreciation email with candour, but I didn't receive a reply. Over my entire studies, I can only recall a single email of mine that he had ignored. My friend tells me that he was likely busy with travels, but I think it's very likely that he is disappointed for the aforementioned reasons (or another reason I'm not aware of). \n\nI now need a letter of recommendation from him for my next position. I'm confused on what mode of communication I should opt for (email, phone, in-person) and what content should be communicated. Although in-person seems like the best option, I don't think he is rarely in his office and I live far away now. We are both somewhat socially awkward and averse to awkward tension, so I also feel like a phone conversation might not the right approach. Regarding the content: If I'm apologetic, he might not respond out of awkwardness. There's also the small chance that I'm imagining his anger. If it's just a canned or standard request email, and he is indeed angry at me, he may ignore it or, in the worst - admittedly unlikely - case sabotage the letter of recommendation. \n\nWhat mode and content is likely to lead to the best outcome in this situation?"
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"Possibility of submitting a paper whose one page has been previously accepted in a poster session?",
"If a topic (only one page) has been accepted previously in poster session of a conference / workshop, is it possible to submit the long version of the same topic (15 pages) to another conference? (particularly in field of computer science)"
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"How to cite authors with same surnames?",
"How should I use in-text citation in case of one book from two authors with same surnames?\nFor instance; a source from Paul Ehrlich and Anna H. Ehrlich.\nWhich one is correct?\n\n" ... " (Ehrlich & Ehrlich, 2015)\n" ... " (P. Ehrlich & Ehrlich, 2015)"
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"How do professors see the German grades?",
"I am currently doing a master in Germany and I scored 2.7 in one particular course. \nHow is 2.7 to the professors? Is it a very bad grade? Is this grade uncommon among students?"
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"UK Post doc salary and National Insurance scheme for an expat",
"I've been offered a post doc position in the UK and I'm trying to understand how the whole package works so I can make an informed decision before I accept or reject.\nSay for example, I've been quoted a salary of £34,377 in line with the national average.\nWhat would be the total amount I get for a year accounting for tax and any other standard things that a foreign national might not know about? I've heard about National Insurance, but I don't know how that factors into a quoted salary offer. And practically, how much would I have deposited into my bank account per week?\nAlso, I'm not intending to stay in the UK permanently. What would happen to the NI after I leave? Does it get paid out when I leave the country?"
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"Publishing an algorithm that may not have many applications?",
"Suppose I came across a problem, say in graph theory, that I need to solve for my application, or a problem that I just created out of the blue. I find that it is not a standard problem by any means. Also, it may not have many applications. I then solve this problem with some algorithm. The algorithm is non-trivial. My questions are:\n\n\nIs it possible to publish such algorithms?\nDoes it even make sense to publish it? Since it may not even have any applications. And if it did, it is likely that other people have solved the same problem for their respective applications without ever publishing it.\n\n\nI am sorry if such speculative questions should not be asked here, but I was curious. Thanks!"
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"Are spelling issues part of the reviewer's job?",
"During peer-review, is it part of the job of the reviewer to check the spelling, typos, grammar, and suggest improvement? It will help the paper and seems part of the job, but seeing some manuscripts it could take ages to write down every tiny correction in the review.\n\nSo, is it the job of the reviewer to judge quality of the writing?"
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"When picking a journal for my research should I value the publisher's reputation over the journal's impact factor?",
"I'm in the process of selecting an appropriate journal for my article. I short-listed a few journals based on topic coverage, IF and speed of the review process. \n\nI am confused: should I select a journal with higher IF (2.3) published by a non-reputable publisher (MDPI) or should I publish in a journal with low IF (1.2) published by a reputable publisher (IEEE)?\n\nBy reputation I mean the reputable publisher (IEEE) is specialized in my area of research and non reputable (MDPI) is an Open Access publisher."
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"Should you list irrelevant work experience on graduate school applications?",
"(1) On graduate school applications that ask for a work history, is it permissible to omit jobs--such as waitressing, temping, working retail--that have nothing to do with the program to which you are applying? \n\n(2) If so, where is the line drawn to make a job something you are truly expected to report on the application? If you babysit now and then, do odd jobs for a day, or \"help out\" in a store for a few weeks, are admissions committees truly interested in knowing that? More to the point, is it dishonest to leave it out?\n\nFor an idea of the specific context, here is text from one graduate school's question about employment history:\n\n\n \"[List] employment experience (including part-time) since secondary\n school\"\"\n\n\nI ask about the general case here."
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"How to obtain an alpha-numeric endorsement code to give to my potential arXive endorser",
"How to I obtain an alpha-numeric passcode for my potential arxiv endorser"
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"No rec letters from subject area of master's application",
"I have a minor in the subject I want to get a master's in (CS). Core courses, all excellent grades. I have a major in math. If I get all 3 of my recommendation letters from math people (or possibly 2 solid math letters and 1 stellar letter in a totally unrelated subject), will that look bad to the CS admissions committee? As core courses, the CS classes were all massive lecture halls and I didn't develop personal relationships with the profs."
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"Five-year cutoff for postdocs?",
"I am currently a postdoc in a genomics lab, doing computational work. I will be completing three years in the lab, this fall (this in the US). I graduated with a PhD in theoretical physics in 2012 (US university) and during a postdoc year at an obscure lab somewhere in Europe (this was the only offer I could land), I decided to switch fields and move into computational biology. It took me about a year to figure out the background for the field and land another postdoc (which is where I am now). I have managed to publish one paper in a high impact journal at this lab and also picked up lots of bioinformatics techniques. \n\nHowever, the lab is not a good fit for me. It's not really multi-disciplinary and does not use any of my physics skills. But by going to conferences and talking to other people, I have managed to figure out what kind of work I'd like to do in the broad field of computational biology. I've also taught myself the necessary analysis methods that would be helpful. \n\nSo here's my question: I am going to apply this fall for another postdoc in labs that are much more aligned with my interests and where I can be a better fit. (a) But some universities specifically state that the PhD should be within five years. (b) Others state that the total postdoc time (including previous experiences) should be five years. (c) And there are yet others which state that the total postdoc time at that particular university should be five years.\n\nCases (a) and (b) could hurt me. Are there other researchers here who've been in similar (or remotely similar) situations? How strict are these five-year cut-offs? I have now acquired a lot of skills and have a much better vision of where I'd like to take my research in computational biology. I am worried though that this five-year cutoff rule could hurt my research plans and career. \n\nIn physics itself, I know many post-docs who did more than two post-doctoral stints with a total time exceeding five years. I wonder how they managed to deal with this rule?"
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"Is patenting based on theoretical findings possible?",
"Imagine one, as part of their academic research, makes a theoretical finding of a new material with interesting properties based on a computer simulation. The method used in the simulation is sound and has been proven to provide reliable results.\n\nCan the discoverer file a patent based on this theoretical work or does one need experimental confirmation that the new material indeed has the predicted properties before being able to file a patent?"
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"When should we repeat a statement of a theorem before proof in a paper?",
"When should we repeat a statement of a theorem before proof? \n\nSuppose we have a theorem in a paper at the introduction or at the beginning of a section. However, a proof is given, say, six pages later after a series of definitions, lemmas and propositions. It would be convenient for the readers to repeat a theorem before we give proofs to recall hypothesis and notations (especially those who read an electronic copy to see in a screen). Then, however, the paper becomes redundant. Should we repeat?\n\nMore pragmatic question: Are there any guideline/style of journal papers/books mention when to repeat or not?\n\n\n\nAdded: Although I asked when to repeat, how to repeat can be found, for example, in section 6.10.1(b) in this style guide."
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"Should I decline to fill out a recommendation form after saying that I will do it?",
"I received an email from a student today. The email said that she was applying to a program, and that she needed her professors to fill out a recommendation form. She added that it shouldn't take long, because it should be easy to fill out. The deadline is exactly a week from today.\n\nI am currently away from my institution, and will not return until her deadline, so this already puts me in a tight spot. She was also a weak student, maybe in the top half, but by no means a memorable one.\n\nSo I replied very quickly to her email (within 30 minutes of receiving her email), telling her that 1) if it's just the form, I can do it in a week; 2) if she needs a letter, I cannot write her a good letter within a week; and 3) overall, although if she insists I will do the job, she is advised to ask someone else for a letter.\n\nShe responded in a half-sentence, saying \"it's just the form\" So I asked her to send me her CV, transcript, and any relevant application materials. She has not responded yet.\n\nI made a mistake here, though, because I was so busy that I did not open her attachment, thinking that if it's just a form, it should be easy to fill out. Now that I opened the form, I realized that I have seen this form before. I have already filled out this form for another student, and furthermore, I have written a detailed letter for her, because the form has an \"additional comments\" section that is very short (that I assumed had to be interpreted as a recommendation letter). I even asked about this letter here:\nShould I write that a student is a feminist in my recommendation letter?\n\nSo now I am facing some tough choices.\n\nShould I still agree to just fill out the form for her? Given that I have already written a strong letter of support for another student on top of the recommendation form, this will be a death sentence to this other student's application since her grades on the form will be lower, and she will not have a letter to supplement it (however, the first student is a lot stronger in every dimension that I am qualified to assess them on). \n\nI could email the student again, and tell her that because of the above reason, I cannot even fill out the form because it is too weak and that she will surely not get in.\n\nOr, I could just do a half-assed job of writing a recommendation letter for this student as well, although the letter will have to be very generic and neutral, as I have none of her application materials, I do not remember her well, and I am also pressed for time since I am at a conference all week. Even physically sending the letter will be a pain since I do not get back until the day of the deadline.\n\nSo I am once again turning to you, hoping that I can get some quick answers (if I decline to write the letter, I had better let her know soon, so that she can find someone else). What should I do?"
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"Using a github code for my journal paper",
"I'm conducting research on cyber bullying classification. I recently found a github repository containing code on sentiment analysis which looked at different machine learning algorithms, doc2vec + ml classifiers and a word2vec + cnn model. My dataset is different and I do use different machine learning classifiers than the github code does. However, the way the code in the repository trained the cnn model and the word2vec that was used is exactly the same.\nWould using the code in the repository for my problem be considered plagiarism?"
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"Difference between Phd degree while remaining a student, and after quitting a Japanese university?",
"I am currently enrolled at a Japanese university in the doctoral program of Mathematical and Life sciences, and have already been a student for last 4 years. I am waiting for the acceptance of research paper, and based on it, will submit the thesis for defense soon. \n\nBut I came to know that Japanese universities have a system where one can actually quit the university, but if the paper has been accepted, one can apply within one year for a thesis defense. A PhD degree will be awarded in the case of successful defense.\n\nMy question is, has anybody here been such a situation, and is aware of a possible difference between the technicalities of the difference in PhD degree, while remaining a university student, and after quitting the university? I know the concerned university or department should be the best place to answer it, but just in case anybody here can clarify that, I would be grateful for it. \n\nAt the minimum, will the degree obtained after quitting the university, would it be considered equivalent to the degree obtained while as a student or not? I guess other country universities don't have such a system in place. Thank you very much."
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"Is it possible that an incremental work may get selected by a top conference?",
"I am a PhD student in computer science, working in theory. I was recently reading a research paper, which was submitted to a tier-3 conference last year.\nIt gave me some idea (which may not work), which is a kind of incremental, but yields a significant improvement of the run time.\n\nThe only problem I am facing right now is where I should submit this research paper. Although idea is not big as per me, my colleagues are saying it is significant and I do not realise as I have been working on this for three months. This is not related to my PhD project. I asked my supervisor and he said it seems okay to him.\n\nQuestion: Is it possible that an incremental work on research paper may get selected for a top conference? I have hard time deciding to which conference I should submit. I have little experience as I have already published two research papers but that does not seem to help much."
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"Research assistant, associate, fellow?",
"I completed my PhD and post-PhD. Since last year I am working as a researcher in my country, at the lowest level of hierarchy (first out of five) It usually takes no less than 4 years of steady research to advance to the next level. These levels are named (translated to English)\n\n\nAssistant researcher\nAssociate/Adjunct researcher\nIndependent researcher\nPrincipal researcher\nSuperior/Top researcher\n\n\nMy employer is the government (Argentina), and I work at a government-funded institute.\n\nAlthough I understand that this likely varies for different countries, what designation do you believe describes my position more accurately?"
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"How to deal with an incompetent collaborator",
"I was asked by this (tenure-track) assistant professor X, with whom I'm in very friendly terms, to collaborate on a project together. X and I work in the same broad area of pure math (topology) but our subfields of expertise differ considerably. At the beginning I was very excited but I've now realized that X is at best extremely inefficient and at worst incompetent. We have been working on the project for some months now and 90% of the things that X says are wrong for very elementary reasons and the remaining 10% are borderline tautological. I'm getting very frustrated because I spend more time correcting his \"proofs\" (of very elementary claims, not even high level stuff!) than doing actual research. So far all we have is stuff I had proved before starting the collaboration with him which forms the base of the project we are working on. On the other hand he seems to be very keen on us working on a project together and as I've said we're friends. I don't know how to deal with this. \n\nShould I give him some more time to actually contribute in some way to our project or should I tell him that I no longer want to collaborate with him? In the latter case would it be ethical if I worked on my stuff that I shared with him? He literally hasn't added any value whatsoever to it so far."
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"How much influence do individual professor have on grad admissions?",
"Say I have emailed a professor a few times, and told him I would like to work with him for my PhD etc. and that professor is interested:\n\nHow much of a factor could this possibly be in my application?\n\nWhat about the (not so exact) opposite: somebody in the department doesn't like me, I apply there to work with somebody else etc.?"
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"Is it possible to become a tenure track Assistant Professor at the same university where I did Post Doc?",
"I know that there is such thing as \"intellectual incest\" and that many universities are against hiring their own PhD graduates for their faculty positions.\n\nBut what about the movement from being a Post Doc to a Tenure Track Faculty at the same university? If a person did his PhD at University A, and did Post Doc at University B, would it be possible for the person to get hired as a tenure track faculty at University B straight from his Post Doc position? and if yes, why doesn't the \"intellectual incest\" apply in this case?\n\nThank you,"
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"Can a professor require that I collect personal data from family members for an assignment?",
"I have an assignment for a psychology class that is \"requiring\" me to contact dozens of family members to find out their traits and what health conditions they may have. Truth is, I don't have the best relationship with many of my family members.\n\nMy question:\n\nCan my professor require, at the penalty of point loss, that I actually contact my family members? Or can I provide obviously fake data?\n\n\n\nedit: I wanted to clarify. When I said \"obviously fake data\", I meant to convey that I would actually inform my instructor that the data was false before turning in the assignment."
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"Are journal papers really viewed as strictly inferior to conference papers in Theoretical Computer Science?",
"To give a bit of context, I graduated 1 year ago from an undergraduate where I double majored in Math and Computer Science and I am planning to apply for a CS PHD this coming year with a focus on theory.\nDuring my undergraduate studies, I worked on a project with a Professor that lead to a publication in a top Information theory conference (although the paper was about an information theory problem, it was essentially a theoretical cs paper). In addition, we added a new results and submitted the result to a top information theory Journal and we got the paper accepted. The last "breakthrough" came when I was able to come up with a new optimization technique that was interesting from a CS theory point of view, which led to a CS theory paper.\nHowever, after writing the paper, my advisor told me he would prefer to submit the paper to a journal ("Theoretical Computer Science Journal") right away, rather than to a conference.\nI understand that in CS, conferences are generally preferred to journals, but my question is, assuming that the CS theory paper gets in, would I be disadvantaged during the grad school application process against someone who has, say a SODA, paper? Are journal papers really viewed as strictly inferior to conference papers?"
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"Correcting small errors in text/picture after publication?",
"I got a manuscript published in November 2018 (Elsevier) and realized after reading it again today that an error has been introduced, after proofreading/publishing, in one of the equations I wrote; they have added a \"Â\" right after \"f(x)=\" which is nonsense. Is it conceivable to ask for correction now?\n\nAlso, two of the texts describing patterns in the legend of a graph were interchanged; this one is my mistake (prior to publishing)."
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"Writing grant applications as a new academic/faculty member",
"I am a new faculty member at a University. In the last 5 months since I started, I have applied (or in process of applying) 4 research grants (2 internal applied, 2 external in the process).\nWhat I have found difficult is that for the current two external grants, I feel I need to do a lot of research myself, learn new topics, techniques, and/or algorithms. The call-for-grants do not exactly match my existing research expertise, though the domains are the same.\nMy question is about spending a lot of time researching to learn new techniques/tools/algorithms to be able to apply for a grant. Is it normal, or is my approach wrong and I should not apply for those grants? I am feeling a bit lost. It seems challenging to decide if it is wise for me to spend my time writing grants for calls not exactly matching my area.\nResearching for my applications and writing them does not leave enough time for me to do my own publishable research (in a publish-or-perish culture) as I have to do teaching as well as other non-teaching services at university."
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"Does it look bad to get recommendation letters all from the outside of undergrad school?",
"I'm applying for Mathematics MS degree and I have an issue with getting an recommendation letter from undergrad professors. I didn't plan to apply for grad school unitil recently and I was never a type of student who visits professors during office hour or get friendly with them. Fortunately, I know two professors that I've worked with during an internship and they are willing to write me the letters. But as most schools require three letters, I still have an issue.\n\nI do have classes (semester-long) that I got good grade, but again, I've never talked to any of those professors. For now, it seems I have two scenarios. \n\n\nGet letter from someone from non-academic field that knows me personally\nGet letter from undergrad professor who doesn't know me personally\n\n\nI know it sounds ridiculous, but what would be the better choice? \n\nThank you."
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"How many supervisors for a post-doc position?",
"I am in the process of contacting potential supervisors for a post-doctoral position. I discussed my initial idea with 2 potential supervisors, but now I refined the idea and I found 2 more supervisors that fit within the scope of the project and that are interested in searching for funding together. The ideas are linked together, so my question is should I apply for funding with 4 supervisors? When is it expected to include someone into a grant proposal? At the moment nothing is written or decided, I was only proposing ideas. I am just feeling naive on these poitics matters. In my head, the best would be to have a first postdoc with 2 supervisors and a second postdoc position with the other 2 that seem interested."
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"Attending a conference with an abstract accepted but without a full paper submitted",
"I'm a Ph.D. and my abstract has been selected for an international conference. This is my first international occasion.\nI have to pay now the fee as an author and I have little time to submit the full paper before the deadline for the future proceedings. (I'm also evaluating to take mode time and completing it in the future, for a journal) \nI'm here cause in this call there is the option for not presenting the full paper but to register as an author the same. I have no experiences in this matter so here is my question: what happens if I decide to not submit the full paper? For me would be very important to present my work in progress at the conference and, maybe, one day publish the full paper in a journal.\n\nThanks in advance"
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"What are the typical steps to be admitted to a masters program later in life?",
"I graduated from college with a BS in Civil Engineering a bit more than 10 years ago. My GPA was about 3.0, but I think that was pulled up more by some electives and liberals arts classes that I excelled in because I recall struggling a bit with some of the more advanced technical courses and walking away with an A+ in History of Rock and Roll I and II.\n\nSince graduating, I've since tested for and passed the PE exam and am licensed to practice engineering in addition, I've since become a lot more proficient at advanced technical aspects of engineering via practice.\n\nI've never before attempted an application to grad school, but more and more I'm finding professionally that there are a lot of advantages to having a broader knowledge in engineering than the narrow specialization that my BS prepared me with.\n\nWhat are the typical steps I would need to complete in order to gain admission to grad school. Is it necessary to take the GRE? Would a GPA below 3.0 in technical courses pretty much bar me out?"
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"Why would a Ph.D. be awarded five years after attendance?",
"I recently verified a degree, and the university reported that the degree was awarded five years after attendance. In other words, the student attended from 1995 to 1998 but the degree was not awarded until 2003, five years later. Why would there be a gap between the time the student attended and the time the Ph.D. was awarded?\n\n(Note that the years above are fictitious and the actual years were at the time of the war in Vietnam so it is possible that some kind of military service may have been involved.)"
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"Having my first supervision soon, but I have nothing to tell or even ask",
"I have my first supervision soon, but I don't really know what to talk about. I am working on a particular problem in the Humanities; my supervisor has given me a reading list, and well, I am currently working through it. I haven't come up with any novel ideas so far, but I also cannot think of any questions to ask her. I have not encountered any problems, but I am also not far enough to have anything written, or a table of contents ready.\n\nWhat shall I do? What does my supervisor expect from me now? Obviously you won't know, but maybe you can guess? I am quite worried."
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"Is Publons a reliable reference to show peer-review experience in a faculty application?",
"I was invited for an interview for a tenure-track position. Since I was highly active in peer-review service, I highlighted this in my cover letter as well as my CV.\n\nWhen an interviewer mentioned it (in a positive way), I emphasized that I have already included my Publons profile where my peer-review works can be checked. He said \"I've never heard of it. Do you have any certificate or recommendation from the journals.\"\n\nThen, I felt it was better if I did not mention Publons at all (it would look more normal). Was it a problem of my interviewer OR it is not common to include a peer-review profile in the application?\n\nMy impression was (maybe I am wrong) that if you simply mentioned it, we would believe you. Now that you want to prove it, you should do it in an official way."
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"Why is it important to specify your source of funding in published papers and posters?",
"I was reading a paper online, and in a footnote, it read:\n\n\n The author is supported by NSF grant DMS-0649473 and by a Simons Investigator Award.\n\n\nThen it hit me, this information is completely useless to me as a reader. Why would I care what kind of funding the author have? The author for this instance has had every single kind of funding you can imagine, and at no time in my life was I ever interested in knowing any of it. This must be useful information for someone else.\n\nBut this is not the only place I see funding information being mentioned. In research posters, you tend to see a list of funding sources being mentioned at the top or the bottom of the poster, like brand names with their own little logos and everything. Again, they are completely meaningless to me. Sometimes I would recognise one of the sources of funding, but there usually isn’t a clear-cut relationship between the fund and the project, especially since a lot of them are government grants.\n\nCan someone explain to me what would motivate one to mention his or her source of funding (or going even further by thanking the fund, award or grant)?"
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"Mixing primary and secondary references",
"Suppose paper 1 establishes that roses are red, and cites paper 2 for the statement that violets are blue. Apart from the blueness of violets, no other results from paper 2 are relevant for paper 1, nor for my own essay.\n\nHow should my essay refer to these two assertions?\n\nI see three possible options:\n\n\nCiting the primary source for each statement: Roses are red.[1] Violets are blue.[2]\nCiting each relevant source for each statement: Roses are red.[1] Violets are blue.[1,2]\nDowngrading the second statement to a secondary citation: Roses are red.[1] 2 had earlier established that violets are blue.[1]\n\n\nIs there a generally accepted preference for one of these?"
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"How can a master student get research opportunities?",
"I'm an international student in a master program in applied math department in the United States. There are two ways that I have known in which the person like me can find the research opportunities:\n\n\nIndependent research: do it on your own. Is it common for most math students to do research in this way?\nResearch for the master thesis: As I know, the credits for the master program in applied math in my school are mainly for courses. You will not do research until you are writing thesis. \n\n\nWhat else opportunities can a math student like me have for doing research?"
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"Short reference on writing numbers and units",
"What's a quick and useful reference, either in print or online, for writing numbers and reporting measurements in scientific texts? Something I could distribute to all new students, which would cover things they should be taught but do not always know, like:\n\n\nhow to write big/small numbers in scientific form (1.78 10–12), including proper spacing?\nhow to write units of measurement, in text and in abbreviated form? includes: when do you capitalize units, when do you pluralize them, etc.\nhow to properly report significant figures, etc.\nwhen do you write variables in italics/roman/bold/underline?"
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"Career advice about a short stint at a mathematics institute as a postdoc",
"I'm finishing my PhD, and am about to take up a postdoctoral/visiting professor position this Fall. I do have the option of taking leave for six months to attend a Mathematics institute, which is having a thematic year in a field of my interest.\n\nIt's clear that I need to be as productive as possible in the next three years to get a tenure-track position. Since I do not have a very specific problem that I'd like to work on with people at the institute, I'm worried that I'd be wasting six months of my time at the institute. On the other hand, its always nice to meet new people, make connections and learn new math.\n\nI'd like to hear the community's experiences so I can make an informed decision. Thanks!"
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"Why do past PhD exams appear more difficult than current ones?",
"I noticed while doing practice math PhD exams that the newer exams tend to be a bit easier than the older exams. The online archive goes back about ten years or so, but I was able to dig up some old exams from the mid-80s. I was absolutely shocked. I would get wrecked if they gave me one of these. I don't even think I could finish one if they let me take it home.\n\nI looked around at some other PhD exam records at other universities, and it seems to be an across the board thing, not just my department.\n\nSome people I've asked about this give the explanation that PhD programs are bigger now than they used to be-- in other words, in the past, only geniuses got PhDs, and since then cretins like me have gradually wormed our way into academia and lowered standards for everybody. This would make sense, but I'm not sure if this is just something people say, or something that is actually true. People have a tendency to put the past on a pedestal, and I'm skeptical.\n\nAnother explanation I could think of would be drift in material content. Maybe they were studying different stuff back then at the same difficulty, or using different terminology to study the same thing we do now. Maybe it just seems harder to me because I'm not used to how they talk about it. A lot of PhD level material is, after all, reasonably modern.\n\nI also wonder if exam practices used to be different-- open book, take-home, more hand waving tolerated in grading, offered at the end of the 5th year. Something?\n\nAll this is speculation, though, which I find unsatisfying. Has this actually been studied with healthy rigor and skepticism? What is the history?"
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"Should I admit students who are waitlisted for my class?",
"As an instructor at a large university, you will sooner or later have a waitlist for your class. Is it better (for you) to admit those students into your class or do you better keep the enrollment limit firm?\n\nI favor the latter because it reduces my work, however marginally. What's more, it might improve the attitude of your students towards your class if there is more demand to take your class than you offer.\n\nIs there a different perspective or a refinement of the above?"
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"Do repositories of translated papers exist?",
"I've recently been told to read an article for my research, but do not speak the language it is written in (\"Drei Vorträge über Diffusion, Brownsche Molekularbewegung und Koagulation von Kolloidteilchen\", Smoluchowski).\n\nIt's fairly heavily cited, so I imagine that someone somewhere will have translated it.\nHas anyone heard of/found online repositories of translated academic documents?\nFailing that- I don't suppose anyone reading this happens to have a translation?\n(P.S. the original author is long dead, hence I will not be asking him for a copy)"
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"How do I generate an Undergraduate Thesis worthy of publication?",
"Simply, what do you expect from a good bachelor's thesis?"
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"Why has the status date changed while the status remains unchanged at \"Editor Assigned\"?",
"I submitted an accepted paper after a second revision to a springer journal on 24th Avril and the status stayed at \"Revisions Being Processed \" for two days. The status changed to \"Editor Assigned\" on the 27th. However, it remained at \"Editor Assigned\" for two days, and the date changed on 29th Avril. What does it mean? \n\nThank you very much."
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"Why have international branch campuses?",
"There are campuses in Malaysia belonging to the universities of Southampton, Nottingham and Reading. There is a Mauritius branch belonging to Aberystwyth University, whereas the University of Wolverhampton has shut down its Mauritius campus. Newcastle University has a Singapore campus. There are many more examples of UK universities with campuses in Asia or Africa.\n\nWhy do (some) universities based in the UK spend resources on establishing a campus on another continent? Is it a form of developmental aid, to bring UK expertise to a spot where existing universities may be perceived to have less quality? Or is there a different reason?\n\nI don't know if this is exclusive to the UK or if it also occurs with universities in other countries — I have not seen it anywhere else.\n\nThe Wikipedia article International branch campus is not terribly informative."
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"Switch PhD program: how to contact possible PhD advisors when already enrolled in PhD program?",
"Say a student is enrolled in a PhD program in the US and is in the first or 2nd year and has not started his/her thesis work but has only done coursework. The student has always been in the same lab (no rotations). Say such student for whatever reason wants to switch to a PhD program in Europe.\n\nHow should such a student handle contacting PhD advisors and other institutions? Should the student mention in the first e-mail that he/she is already enrolled in a PhD program or can this be mentioned in the first phone call? Or should it be mentioned at all? How much would this situation decrease the chances of getting accepted into a PhD program in Europe? Or should the student first quit the current PhD program before applying to any other program?"
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"Can I ever know if my question has been answered before?",
"I am working on a project that is very interesting to me, but I am unsure about whether the research question has been asked before. What is the best way to find out if my research question has already been answered before?"
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"Why do principal investigators not hire grant writers?",
"The success of a research-active professor is related to his successful proposals for securing research funds. For this purpose, he should spend something like half of his time for writing proposals, but still he misses several possible calls for proposals due to the lack of time while the current proposals are not idea.\n\nTo resolve this problem, many people have this idea to hire a grant writer to perfectly and quickly write/re-write proposals. I personally heard this from many junior and senior professors, but in practice I have not seen any example.\n\nThis plan seems reasonable (the salary of a grant writer should be less than a postdoc), but why it is not common?\n\nResearchers pay much more money to patent attorneys to have legally ideal text, then, why not investing on the text of proposals, which can directly enhance the chance of winning?"
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"Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under double blind review for one of the IEEE journals?",
"Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under double blind review for one of the IEEE journals? I am suspicious that it may violate the double blind review requirements and I couldn't find any thing in the journal's homepage specific to this issue. In general IEEE allows preprint versions to be uploaded to arXiv."
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"How to cite (Chicago author-date) papers your paper is about",
"I'm writing a philosophy essay. The essay is required to answer a particular question by analyzing, in turn, four particular philosophy essays; the essay needs to follow the outline below.\n\n\nRestate the question.\nIntroduction.\nAnalyze essayW by Mills\nAnalyze essayX by Shue\nAnalyze essayY by Locke\nAnalyze essayZ by Hospers\nAnswer the question with information from essay analyses. \n\n\nWhere do I need to write (Author, Date) in my analyses? Each analysis will be about an essay, and will reference that essay in most of its sentences. Do I need to include the same citation in every sentence that references that essay? That seems like it would aggravate the reader."
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"How can I know if my thesis has enough and good results for a PhD?",
"So I am doing a PhD for nearly 3 years now. I am self-funding my PhD, and I think I already have enough work for my PhD (in Mech. Engineering). \n\nI have 4 papers already published in ISI and Scopus conference proceedings, and one journal paper submited. Apart from that, I have another 2 conference papers published.\n\nIn my country I am able to defend a thesis without a supervisor. I am thinking of dropping out and doing this due to the fact that my supervisor claims he needs 2-3 years to review my thesis.\n\nHow can I know if my thesis has enough quality and results quantity? Any tips on how to evaluate that? I would like to drop only when I have enough results. Or is there any thesis review service?"
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"How much of the statement of purpose should be focused on each of my academic background and my work experience?",
"I am currently writing up my SOP for a PhD in Economics. I studied math and economics in college and I have been working for 4.5 years in financial services since graduation.\n\nI have two main question:\n\n\nHow much should reiterate my educational courses in college? It's on my transcript and I have already mentioned a synopsis of the coursework I took. Am I being redundant by mentioning the tough courses I took. I wrote a senior thesis, I'll obviously mention that.\nSince the career jobs I took after graduation are heavily economic modelling/quantitative finance oriented and add a lot of value in terms of modelling skills and programming skills. How much of the SOP should be focused on my academic how much on my work experience? I feel like the skills I received from my work experience do a better a job at expressing how qualified I am for the program. I had a high GPA in difficult math and econ courses but the same can be said about most applicants, so I was wondering that if the work experience is extremely relevant, maybe I should concentrate on that to distinguish myself."
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"Is it alright to thank my Master's thesis advisor, via e-mail, for getting a good grade?",
"So, I received the grade for my Master's thesis over the weekend. I defended my thesis late September, and received my grade yesterday (due to university rules). I waited about 4 months to receive my grade, and it was well worth the wait. \n\nSo I was wondering if it's alright to shoot my professor and advisor a thank you e-mail? I am very happy with my grade, but I was wondering if it's a weird/improper thing to do to thank a professor for a grade they've given. Does anyone have any experience with this? I would greatly appreciate it, thank you."
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"Adding the full text of the articles that I manually added to Google Scholar",
"How can I add the abstracts and/or the full text of the articles that I manually added to my Google Scholar account?"
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"Why do PhD students do research for other people’s research ideas?",
"I’m a research assistant with an idea for a new study. I’ve started my literature review, however a couple of people have said to me there are plenty of PhD students who would be keen to help with the research. Why would a PhD student want to do research on a topic that’s not potentially of any interest to them?"
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"Are there any students at the United Nations University?",
"The United Nations University (UNU) is an academic arm of the United Nations.\n\nIf I understood well, it is doing only research.\n\nAre there any people who are actually enrolled as \"students\" there?\n\nReferences appreciated"
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"Combining bibliography styles",
"For a few documents I have to write during my internship I have been told to use APA notation for citing my sources and building the bibliography. \n\nNow, my problem is that some of the quotes or information comes from multiple sources, so I'd like to use IEEE notation in-line with the text, for example:\n\n\n A quote about principles concerning the hierarchy of an organisation. [1, 2]\n\n\ninstead of the APA style, which would look like this:\n\n\n A quote about principles concerning the hierarchy of an organisation. (somesource, 2001, p. 22) (anothersource, 2005, p. 5) \n\n\nIs this acceptable for a research paper (Bachelor level at a university of applied sciences) or should I just stick to APA notation for the entirety of the paper? \n\nThanks in advance!"
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"Do semester, weekly, and daily planners work for undergrad or grad students?",
"I always feel like I’m pressed for time but don’t get as much done as others around me. I’m busy all day, but then I need to pull an “all-nighter” to finish something I couldn’t complete during the day. The day (or sometimes the week!) slips by and I feel like I haven’t accomplished anything. I have read that maintaining planers (semester-wise, weekly, and daily) is often helpful. Some of the universities (Univ. of Melbourne, Michigan State etc.) seem to provide planer templates for students. Making a planner is not very common where I studied. I would love to know some personal experiences. How well does this work?"
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"Consulting gigs for quantitative sociologist",
"I am a university professor (quantitative sociology) and I am interested in finding consulting gigs, especially for the summer since I'm on 9-month, but possibly year round if just for a few hours/week. Any advice how to find gigs?"
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"Presenting half-baked results in a department seminar",
"After having submitted my Ph.D. recently, I am working on a first solo paper (without my advisors). I have some interesting results, but, I have difficulty in formalizing some of the mathematical arguments. I tried to send the manuscript to some mathematicians for comments, and they said they will read it when they have time, but so far, apparently, they did not have time. \n\nSo, I scheduled a presentation in a local math department seminar. My hope is that, when people come to a seminar, they have more time to listen, and probably some of them will be able to help me. \nMy concern is that, presenting such half-baked results might make me look unprofessional. \n\nSo, my question is: what is the best way to present such results in a way that will encourage interested listeners to collaborate with me, while not creating a negative impression?"
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"Is publishing in open access journal a good impression?",
"Is publishing in open access journal a good impression ? I mean publishing in such journals (where one has to pay money), will it be valuable compared to other journals ?"
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"Can I contact the author of a paper for questions, even if I've never studied over high school?",
"I've never been in a University in my life, but I enjoy reading research papers to expand my knowledge and go deeper in the understanding of details which are not covered by books.\n\nA recent paper shows that this substance X causes reaction Y. Many others have shown that reaction Y can cause a dangerous consequence Z. I'd like to ask the author of the paper if he thinks substance X can trigger consequence Z. No one seems to have answered this question and, if they did, they're out of my radar.\n\nMany papers covers details and little aspects of how reaction Y causes consequence Z, however I've found that a Wikipedia article does a good job in summing up all of these papers:\n\n\nCan I link the Wikipedia article to the Doctor?\nOr should I link the 20+ papers?\nAssuming consequence Z is well known in the field, should I give for granted that he knows of it (thus not linking anything)? Can putting the links to something that is well known make me sound like a pretentious prick?"
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"Referencing, when you can assume that readers and you know \"what you talk about\"? Is it unnecessary?",
"Referencing, when you can assume that readers and you know "what you talk about"? Is it unnecessary?\nI.e. if I can be sure that any reader of my paper that's of a sufficient professional level, should agree on what I'm saying, then is it necessary to reference in order to "prove a view"?\nThis applies to e.g. definitions or methodologies or such. For example, if I write a paper on image segmentation that's read by people who also study image segmentation or are experienced in it, then would it be unnecessary to cite "elementary texts" on something that may be considered "basic knowledge in image segmentation"."
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"Which is the most accepted measure for an individual's academic productivity?",
"Among the various indices for academic productivity/impact in the respective field, which is most accepted one?\n\nYou can see some productivity measures, used in academia, here and here\n\nThis question is inspired by the comment here and should not be confused with this\n\nClarification:\nThe word accepted meant to be taken as accepted in the respective field of activity, for various requirements, say appointments, career advancements, selection for awards, invitation as an examiner, editor, reviewer etc. These measures might not have much impact on the general public, and that is not being asked."
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"There has been a lot of buzz about how difficult it is to achieve tenure, however, even getting into graduate school seems harder every day. My case (and the case of a lot of people too): I graduated early from school in a developing country and decided to study Biology with more passion than reason (low salaries compared to a Doctor or an Engineering). I completed in four years a five years Bachelor's in a top institution of my country, with some national awards, grants and scholarships. My GPA was among the best %5. I did research since my second year and established good relations with my Professors (their letters of recommendation are fine without bluff). \n\nI applied to some MSc in Europe and US and got rejected the first time. I got the only available (bad paying) job until the next admission period. I lowered the stakes for my second round of applications and got rejected again. With two consecutive rejections, I am starting to think that I am ineligible for any graduate position. Especially considering that I have been off academia for two consecutive years. Why? A MSc in my country, even at a top school, has no international worth. Furthermore, it doesn't have worth in my own country as few positions are available.\n\nI know I have weaknesses:\n\n\nMy college is top in my country, but almost unrecognized internationally. The awards I got have no international value.\nAlthough I was in that 5%, I had a harsh beginning. The first page of my transcripts has some bad scores (~2.8, lowest) along good ones (~4). That first page causes a bad impression.\nThe extra course load is irrelevant for the admission committees.\nI specialized myself too much. While some students attest experience in three or more projects, I focused on one big project since the beginning.\nFew publications and conferences. In my country, there have been almost no conferences in my field in years and I cannot travel abroad for a presentation.\n\n\nMy future is staring to seem bleak: no job in my country, no graduate school abroad. Overall, I feel a complete failure in what I loved. What should a person in my position do? Should I try again or set new professional goals?"
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"Value of published (non-english) books for applying in a PhD program",
"I have published a scientific book (i.e. a text book) alongside with my supervisor (he is an associate professor, by the way). Since the book is not in English and consequently does not target international audiences, can it provide some remarkable value in my CV for a PhD program abroad?"
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"I will be a postdoc in the coming academic year. While I have not decided on where I will be in September, it seems likely that I will be a research postdoc at a decent research university.\n\nAn aspect of a life as a postdoc that I had never considered before is the following: what is your social life outside of academia like as a postdoc?\n\nAs a PhD student, I had a very tight group of friends; we were friends from day 1 in graduate school, and that friendship continued throughout. Our friendship strengthened by going through many difficult classes together, staying up all night finishing homework, and studying for quals together, not to mention talking about how much it blows to be a PhD student, and worrying about the job market.\n\nI feel that I will not have this privilege as a postdoc. We are all there to do our jobs (i.e. research), and I do not see building the same kind of camaraderie amongst the newly-hired postdocs, for these reasons:\n\n\nthere are no excuses to spend a ton of time with one another (no homework, no quals to study for, etc.)\nwe will likely have different research areas, and possibly have nothing in common to talk about in terms of academics.\nthere are way fewer postdocs than there are graduate students. I would be lucky to have maybe three or four other postdocs hired with me by my department. Maybe we would get along, maybe we would not. I do not have the luxury of choosing the people that I like anymore.\nat least some postdocs must have family. I have found that married people are less likely to yearn for a close friendship. This narrows down the possibilities for friends even more (not that I would discriminate against married people, but they often dissociate themselves from, say, a late-night out of fun).\n\n\nI would love to hear from the people who hold (or held) research postdoc positions from PhD granting institutions. I feel that teaching postdocs would give different answers, as you would meet more often to discuss teaching."
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"My PhD defense is next week. I feel that I have not done enough work to justify my time spent on the thesis. What can I do about this?",
"I spent 5 years on my mechanical engineering PhD. I think that my thesis work could have been done in 2 years by a serious student. I have wasted my time on futile work.\n\nI don't know how to justify the time spent aon my PhD and my low research output to my committee."
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"Math graduate, not enough physics coursework to apply straight to physics MS",
"I have a BS in math (2.9) and a MA in teaching (Pass/fail online program)\nI am teaching math at a high school but now miss my college days and the upper level material. My end goal would be a PhD in Physics at a US university.\n\nI don't have enough course work in Physics to try and apply straight to a Masters in Physics, as well as a low GPA to apply with.\n\nWhat are my options? (I have ideas but am unsure as to what is realistic or worth doing)\nCommunity college classes until I have prerequisites for physics?\nNon-matriculated schooling?"
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"Should Ph.D. students interested with research remain as research assistant until they find a research position or just find any job?",
"As faculty or postdoc positions at top schools are getting hard to land, should Ph.D. students interested with research continue to work as research assistants and publish more, or try to get a teaching position or work in industry and then try to move to a research position?"
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"Publishing a literature review",
"Over the course or the past year, I've become very familiar with a specific topic through a careful and systematic review of the background and state-of-the-art. \n\nI think this could make for a nice publication, providing readers in similar fields with a handy resource and increasing my academic profile to boot. \n\nHowever, I want to make sure that the lit review I performed is scientifically sound - so it must be transparent and replicable. \n\nDo you know of any guidelines, best practices, or great examples to guide me as I get working?"
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"Tips for publishing a summary of an article to be published",
"I want to write a short article about a paper that has been accepted for publication in an upcoming conference. This short article summarizes the accepted one and will end up in my workplace's digital library. The reason mainly is to make the article to be more accessible and understandable to undergraduate students.\nIn this summary, I should cite the upcoming article to be published. However, I doubt where I can put that citation of the upcoming article to avoid putting it everywhere in my short article. For example, in the methodology, experimentation and results I will present a summary of the original article. However, I do not think it will look nice if I should put something like this in every paragraph: "According to Layla[2020]...", "the Experiments made by Layla[2020]," and so on. What can I do with this sort of "self-citation".\nI have been trying to find examples on the web about this situation, but I could not find anything. Any help would be useful."
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"Publishing dissertation with ProQuest and include CC BY-SA 4.0 images",
"I was wondering if images with license of type CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en can be safely (legally) included when a dissertation is published with ProQuest by my university.\nAlso: The question is: If I do not publish open access, can I include CC-BY-SA images?"
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"Is it appropriate/safe to ask for help on major theorem proof of my paper online?",
"I have been stuck on the proof of a major theorem in my forthcoming paper for about two weeks. Since offline help is limited, I'm trying to see if there is more help online. But I have two concerns.\n\n\nI am the author of the paper and am supposed to work out the heavy-lift proof. I want to see if someone has worked on similar proofs who may point me in the right direction. What if someone comes up with the complete proof, rather than just suggestions/comments? Should I offer co-authorship or just appreciate their help in the acknowledgement? \nFor others to offer concrete help, I may have to disclose the proposed algorithm as they suggested. So there is the risk, even remote, that someone just uses it for their publication purpose before my paper is submitted.\n\n\nHow should I proceed, keep grinding hard on the proof offline, or solicit help online with the still-to-be-published algorithm, or something in between?"
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"How to state incomplete Ph.D in CV (not defended yet)?",
"I have read few tags and i could not find appropriate answers. So, here i am writing again.\nI have completed my Ph.D research work, and completed all the credits required and published a paper. but i have not yet defended. one of my project doesn't have sufficient results to published. other than this there are other complications with supervisor, personal issues. but i was recommend to Licentiate degree (need to rethink about Licentiate).\nMy question is how do i present in my CV that I have not defended or it may be a licentiate degree. Or should i state in cover letter reason for not completing in time? I am applying jobs that has masters degree as requirement. in academics, companies mainly as Research engineer, laboratory assistant etc.\ncould someone help with right words that has to be put in CV? Thank you"
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"Is it hard to get a scholarship for graduate school in Mathematics?",
"I am currently majoring in Physics but I am thinking about changing my major to Mathematics because feel more attracted to it as a subject. However, I have been told that in Physics, one almost always gets a full scholarship to attend graduate school. Is it hard to obtain a scholarship to go to grad school in Mathematics here in the U.S.?"
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"Do researchers study topics outside their field for fun?",
"This question is partially inspired by this one. Do researchers, who actively publish, even have time for that? They seem to be a busy lot. I am not talking about publishing outside the filed, but about studying for the sake of learning just for fun and curiosity, as a form of amusement.\n\nIs there any known case of a researcher who, by studying a topic outside his/her field for fun, had an insight for a novel approach or solution?\n\nIt seems that studying is only done (by researchers) when \"it might be useful\". Is that true?\n\nThat, maybe, would explain why most of the researchers I know, speak at most, three languages. They would have little time or incentives to learn the fourth or fifth."
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"Graduating with a PhD in May, should I take a good offer in an undesired location?",
"I'm not sure if this is the correct StackExchange site to post this on, but I did not see one that was a closer fit.\n\nI'm graduating with my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from a mid-tier program in the US in May. I am targeting industry as my prefered career path and was advised to start applying to jobs a few months ago.\n\nI've had phone screenings with a few companies that have told me to get back in contact in the new year. However, I got a good offer (pay/benefits/semi-interesting work) from one company that's far away from my hometown (which I would prefer to be near).\n\nSo after all this set-up I have two questions\n\n\nDoes anyone have resources about the pay for a newly minted ME PhD? I found a report from the ASME/ASCE from 2012 (Exhibit 11) that lists some statistics. But I was hoping for something more up to date.\nShould I be worried that I'm not getting more interviews, or is this simply a product of May being relatively far out for companies to hire?\n\n\nThank you"
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"Should I take credit from the idea that I have initially suggested?",
"I had an idea for a project and discussed it with my professor. \nThe professor said that it was a new idea and we could try it. We agreed that we would first research more about the feasibility of the idea. The professor would be the project head/guide for it with me and my friends as part of the team.\n\nNow, he has given this project to his senior students.\nHe says that we still don't have much needed technical knowledge, so the senior project members will be of help.\nThis is correct.\n\nHowever, I feel we, sophomores, will just be sidekicks in the process and will lose out as major contributors to the project, although we will be part of the team that will be involved in modifications and development of the prototype .\n\nThe fact that we need help from seniors is very true and necessary\n\nI have just discussed the basic mechanism but design of the individual components with the professor and the design of the whole model itself still has to be worked out.\n\nDo I really lose out on giving away my idea? \n\nThanks for all the answers and clarity."
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"How to convince labmate to graduate? Graduating, in a 2 person research group?",
"I work in a small research group, there are 2 graduate students. \nMy advisor is fairly new, and I'm not sure when his tenure date is actually set for. Not necessary info, but pertinent.)\nThe other graduate student got here a year before me and worked with our professor a lot to set up the lab and has contributed to all of my works. He started in the group with 2 M.S. degrees from different universities. \nI'll have the necessary attributes in order to graduate 2 years from now, my 5th year, but I'm not sure how I can leave a group at the same time if my other labmate will be also leaving that year...\nI can't imagine staying for a 6th year for no reason. Only because my boss doesn't have enough funding/ likes keeping the group small.\nYes a lot can change in 2 years, but if my labmate isn't apply for jobs for next Fall/Spring, then how am I supposed to apply for jobs next year...There's no way we could leave at the same time and leave my advisor with only 1 graduate student (if he were to hire a new one NY then).\nHow do I push my labmate to apply for jobs? He's already got some great publications. He's totally ready to go.\nI'm part worried that he's not ready to push his way out. I'm not sure how to get out without this turning into a difficult situation."
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"Conversation between freshman from senior high school and retired professor who suffers from Alzheimer's disease",
"I live at a university town where I am freshman at a\nsenior high school.\nSome years ago a car steered by an inebriated driver\nsmashed me off my bicycle and run over me. \nNowadays I am a paraplegic sitting in a wheelchair. \nI can keep my head upright and move my left arm and \nhand. Any other limb of mine currently is still -eh- \nout of order. \n\nDue to my physical deficiencies I don't do much \nsporting activities. I get along with little sleep\n(about 4 hours/day).\n\nI have permission to go to the library of the faculty \nof mathematics and natural sciences of the university.\nI am interested in number theory and therefore I use\nto spend large parts of the evenings and nights at the\nlibrary.\n\nTwo weeks ago at the cafeteria of the library building\nI got into conversation with an elderly gentleman who \nstarted small talk. After about half an hour I realized\nthat the small talk had turned into a private lecture \nthat I was recieving about the topic which I learn about\nin the library (quadratic diophantine equations with\n2 unknowns). The gentleman didn't seem to perceive\nthe surroundings any more and he was engrossed in\nmonologues at dissertation level.\nI was deeply impressed. \nAt some point of our conversation I learned that he \nis 86 years of age and a professor emeritus.\n\nThe next evening I met him in the cafeteria again\nwhere he seemed to have been awaiting whether I\nwould drop in too. He had brought along some books and \npapers which he thought I might be interested in.\nAgain the conversation turned into a lecture after \na while and again he seemed to enjoy teaching maths and\nbeing in his element.\n\nWe met every evening since in this constellation\nand I enjoyed these meetings.\n\nBut today a woman who introduced herself as his daughter\ncut our conversation short. She told me that her father \nin fact is a retired professor of the faculty of \nmathematics and that he suffers from Alzheimer's disease \nand that she wished to apologize for any inconvenience \nher father might have caused.\n\nTo me the point is: Subject of our conversation was\nnumber theory. I did not realize myself that he suffers \nfrom that disease. Thus to me it seems that the disease\ndid not affect our conversation in a negative way. \nI enjoyed our meetings and to me it seems that he also \nenjoyed talking to me about maths.\n\nAt the moment I have the feeling that currently he still \nis capable of talking about number theory and \nthat currently he still enjoys talking about that subject.\nI fear that discouraging him in doing so by now would mean \nanticipating some aspects of the disease having reached \nlevels that probably aren't reached yet.\n\nHow would you deal with the situation?"
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"Writing letter of recommendation for someone I have never met",
"I'm a first year PhD student. A student applying for an undergraduate institution in the US has asked me to write him a letter of recommendation. I wonder if a first year graduate student can write recommendation letters to high school graduates applying to US colleges.\nThis is not my main question though. That student has a connection to my family. I discussed physics with him once and I wasn't able to form any idea about his physics ability. What's worse, he wants me to recommend his friend who is also applying to US colleges, although I have never met or spoken with his friend at all. He wrote himself a recommendation (which I have to send as if it's I who had written it) that he had worked with me in the physics laboratory and that he was my strongest student. I wish to know how to proceed. I have two options:\n\nrefuse to write that letter\n\nwrite that I have never met him.\n\n\nI wonder how common is this."
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