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"Do I have \"the right\" as a grad student to take a class just for fun?",
"I'm currently doing a PhD in computational biology, but I have other interests like music and ceramics, and I'm lucky enough to be at a university with excellent programs in both. I've wanted to take a course in either of these fields for the 3 semesters so far I've been here, but my advisor won't approve and sign off on them. I have a free slot this spring and I really want to take a course just for fun, and to learn from the world-renowned instructors. I've tried negotiating about just taking an evening class, or having my work for him improve since I'll be happier overall, but he's just stuck on \"this isn't your field\". Who's being unreasonable here?"
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"My paper was withdrawn from predatory journal after publication, what should I do?",
"I am currently in a very embarrassing situation.\n\nI have a paper (forgot to say, this paper takes no more than two pages) submitted to a journal. The journal accepted my paper for publication and I saw it online. But today I found that my paper disappeared without notifying me! I emailed them, and a staff member replied that a reviewer asked them to withdraw my paper. The reason given for this was:\n\n\n Your paper does not meet the requirements for publication.\n\n\nAnd I then tracked the publisher and the editorial policy, I found the journal is nearly a predatory one. First, it is a new journal, published only for one year. They require no publication fees only this year, from next year on, they do require! Second, the publisher is in the famous list of predatory publishers. Also, it took only two and a half weeks from submission to acceptance.\n\nOn top of this, I may face problems because I have used this paper to apply some scholarship.\n\nWhat can I do?"
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"If I don't ask for a recommendation letter from a postdoc I did research with, will it look bad?",
"I am applying for math graduate school. I have two people that I did research with: A professor and a postdoc. I have a strong connection with the professor, but the postdoc I do not. He was very passive aggressive with me and our relationship does not seem to be a good one. I do not want to ask him for a letter. However, I am wondering if this will look suspicious or hurt me in any sort of way. If I say in my application that I did do research with a postdoc but I did not receive a letter from that postdoc, will that affect me or the admission committee's decision? Will the admissions committee likely email this postdoc to hear about me from him? \n\nThank you very much."
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"Should I include PhD experience in MSc application?",
"I have a BSc in computer science and now I'm applying to a Masters program in Human Computer Interaction. A year or so ago I left an unrelated PhD program because I didn't think it would be beneficial to my end career goals. \n\nShould I include this on my MSc application or leave it out?"
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"Should I apply for a second masters degree (PSI master's program) after already having done a dual degree in physics?",
"I am a master's student in India, supposed to apply for PhD applications this year. However, I am still unsure of what I want to pursue in my PhD program. Meanwhile, I came across PSI's one-year master's program which seems like something I would like to explore. Should I apply for it or another master in the same subject will be a drawback for admission committees when I apply for a PhD in the US? I am also a bit reluctant to apply this year for PhD because of the pandemic.\nAlso, while presently I am mostly interested in computational work related to general relativity, I want to explore more in the theoretical side, hence inclined towards the PSI program."
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"Is computeroxy trustworthy?",
"I am wondering if computeroxy can be considered a \"safe\" website. I have received two emails from them in the past in my institutional email address without subscribing (one of them was a very long list of calls for papers if I recall correctly). Their website has no contact or ownership information other than a simple contact form and an email address, and the whois for their domain name (a .com; not linking to them directly in case they are a scam website) is hidden.\n\nLooking for the name on Google shows some results that seem to support it is a scam but at the same time I do not consider them conclusive.\n\nBut today someone I know forwarded a new email from them to the mailing list of a student network. The forwarded message has an enormous list of links to their website with open positions in academia (graduate, postgraduate, senior...) and the non-representative non-random subset I picked had actual real offers (from existing institutions and with links to the offers at the institutions' websites). Since I am part of a team that prepares a newsletter for that student network but reaches a wider audience and includes a section of scholarships and job offers, I was wondering: is it safe to include a link to computeroxy or is it better to just forget about it?\n\n(not quite sure about the tags I have used...)"
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"Discussing conditions of an offer",
"I have been made an offer to study for a masters at a top university in London. \nThe offer I have been made is quite specific with requirements in individual components of the course. I have accepted the offer. \n\nThere is a strong possibility that I may miss the conditions of the offer but only by an extremely small margin and this is obviously causing me much anxiety. \n\nI am thinking of emailing the university and asking them hypothetically what would happen if someone missed the offer by an extremely small margin just so I can start to make preparations.\nI was thinking more of emailing the program head to understand what they would usually do in this situation. \n\nMy question is, is it a good idea or not?\nCould it effect me in a negative way?"
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"SSRN \"unusual download pattern\"",
"I use SSRN extensively in my work. From time to time, I even use SSRN to find my own papers. (Sometimes (often), it's just much easier for me to go on my own research page and click on the SSRN link than search through my directory)\n\nI think as a result of this and my regular downloads of other people's papers, SSRN has flagged me as a user with an \"unusual download pattern\":\n\n\n What Happened?\n \n We have observed an unusual download pattern.\n \n The reason why this might happen:\n\nAccessing through a proxy server\nHaving problems downloading a paper\nAccidentally downloading a paper too frequently\n\n \n Please consider signing in or creating a free account. You can\n continue downloading this paper and you will no longer see this page.\n It also helps us track reader interest and provide accurate download\n counts to our authors and readers.\n\n\nAs explained above, I am not \"accidentally downloading a paper too frequently\", I am rather purposefully doing so.\n\nI would like to keep using SSRN without having to sign in. \n\n\nHas anyone encountered the same problem and found a solution to keep using SSRN \"anonymously\"?\n\n\nI've tried using other browsers, including \"brand new\" browsers that I just downloaded and installed, to no avail.\nIf that did not work, would something like clearing my cookies help at all (are cookies browser specific?)?"
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"Applying for tenure track position in mechanical engineering with lack of relevant coursework experience?",
"My undergrad and masters degree was in materials engineering. All my coursework and lab experience is in materials engineering. During my PhD, I had taken just two courses which did not directly help with my PhD research. My undergrad and masters courses were also not aligned with my PhD research.\nMy PhD thesis was on using finite element analysis and smoothed particle hydrodynamics to study mechanical damage under extreme conditions. As for credentials: I have 5 publications in applied journals (IF~4).\nNow, I was applying for tenure track positions in mechanical engineering department where they want my academic transcripts to be submitted.\nMy question is in two parts:\n\nHow do I justify my ability to teach and contribute to the mechanical engineering department if my degree and coursework experience was not in that field? My research is however in that field.\nSince my colleagues in the department would be from mechanical engineering background with dedicated coursework experience, would my application be considered seriously for a position in the department? I have been asked to submit my transcripts with my application package. They would know that I lack the coursework.\n\nI understand that noone have been in my peculiar position before. Usually people take necessary courses during their PhD. I got away with not taking them as I could self learn the required basics and was able to apply them successfully to my research work. However that doesn't make me technically thorough and strong in the topics.\nHoping for some insights on how to go about with my faculty position applications in my case."
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"How is undergraduate Indian percentage converted to US 4.0 GPA by graduate schools?",
"I am applying for Fall, 2015 in PhD programs (Computer science). \n\nThe admissions page of many universities I saw, demand an undergrad GPA of at least 3.0 and graduate GPA of at least 3.5\n\nNow, I excelled in the two masters degrees I have (MBA, MS).\n\nBut I was an average student in undergrad. Average in India means that I scored around 68% in my undergrad years (I.T.)\n\nIf you ask me, I think this conversion thing is crazy. Many colleges in India grade/score very stringently, since the minimum percentage required to graduate is 50%. So, if I were an average student at an elite college in India, my CGPA/ Percentage would be 7.0 or 70%. Using this conversion table, my GPA on a 4 point scale would be 2.3. \n\nIn the US, however, you need a min. GPA of 2.75 to graduate. A GPA below 3 is considered to be a shocker, while a GPA between 3 and 3.5 would be considered below average. It'll never work; it's like comparing Apples with Oranges.\n\nAm I missing something here? Any thoughts on how universities make this conversion?\n\nAlso, should I be using WES to ensure a \"fair\" reflection of my performance."
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"Is it allowable to use an organization's name to publish a paper in a conference, even after I graduate from it?",
"I just graduated from my university, and I have a paper to submit to a conference. I was filling out the information to submit my work to them, but I am not sure what to put as my organization. Since I have now graduated from the university, can I still use their name to publish my work? If the answer is no, is there any solution to get my work published?"
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"Does conference presentation of preliminary findings conflict with publication?",
"I am exciting to share our preliminary results. I also want to demonstrate productivity, so I'm wrestling with the idea of presenting findings in presentation and poster format at an upcoming conference. The research is in health care. However, our big journals typically don't publish papers on data that has been published or presented elsewhere. I'm looking for any advice on navigating journal requirements such as:\n\nResuscitation:\n\n\n The paper should deal with original material, neither\n previously published nor being considered for publication elsewhere,\n except in special circumstances agreed with the Editor-in-Chief.\n\n\nAnnals of Emergency Medicine:\n\n\n Annals publishes only original work in\n accordance with the ICMJE policy on overlapping publications. If your\n manuscript or data, in whole or part, has been published elsewhere, or\n has been or will be submitted for publication elsewhere, this may\n constitute unacceptable prior and/or duplicate publication. Should\n there be any doubt, please detail the specific circumstances to us in\n your cover letter. Failure to do so could be interpreted as deliberate\n duplicate publication.\n\n\nWhat would people think if we published secondary outcomes and answered a different research question than the research manuscript we intend to ultimately publish? Thoughts?"
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"Conjunctive adverbs in academic writing",
"As scientists, researchers and scholars, how do you feel when you read a scientific document that contains a lot of conjunctive adverbs, like however, in addition, etc? \n\nDoes it sound non-scientific to you? \n\nIf you did not notice it in other papers, then do you use these adverbs in your scientific documents?"
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"As an undergraduate, how do I become aware of the big names and departments in my areas of interest if that area has no researchers at my university?",
"I'm looking into a variety of grad schools, but really the only places I know to look are at top 15 or so schools. Now, I know often times certain research areas within a discipline have top-tier research groups at otherwise average-ranked schools in other areas. Unforunately, I have some areas of interest that I'd like to pursue, but none of the professors in my department are active in those areas, so it's tricky to get specific info about top researchers, top departments, top journals, etc. in those areas. Is there some way I can find this information?\n\nI'm in electrical engineering, if it matters."
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"Is it normal that my supervisor told me to submit my thesis without any correction from him(he took only one day to look to the thesis)?",
"I send my Ph.D. thesis to my supervisor, he replied on me after only one day(my thesis is 130 pages)told me that your thesis is OK and you can submit.He did not do any correction or comments!! does this happen?is it normal? I'm so happy, but also I am surprising\nGood thing to mention here that my thesis is edited by a native speaker person before I send.But still, I can't believe what happened?even my thesis is not editted to a be ready for print out"
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"How normal is it to have published as an undergraduate?",
"I’m currently in the first semester of MSc of psychology in a university in Germany and we got a lecturer from a university abroad who wanted to know what we had published. To his surprise, none of us had any publications. For us at least, not having any publications when entering the graduate program is normal.\n\nI know of a couple of peers who were able to publish their bachelor’s thesis and one person who had several publications even before he started his masters, but at our university those are the exception, rather than the rule.\n\nHow is the situation in other countries and disciplines? Do undergraduates generally have any publications?"
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"Should I ask for an exam deferral due to my fiance's first conference and first time leaving the country?",
"My fiance's paper was just accepted for a conference that is held out of country during one of my exams and he would really like me to come with him, as it is his first time presenting at a conference and first time leaving the country. When he asked, I told him that I couldn't go because of my exam during the conference time, but multiple people have told me to ask my professor if I can defer my exam. \n\nIs asking worth a try or will I just annoy my professor?"
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"What are the most important factors evaluated when applying for Phd position?",
"I am sure this question has been posted somewhere in SE forums before. If not here is my contribution, otherwise please show me the pointers to similar well-voted questions.\n\nHere is the actual question: In case someone is interested to apply for a Phd degree, what would be the parameters that head of the research group (i.e. professor) will consider when comparing different candidates?\n\nSome of the factors that come to my mind are the following:\n\nGrades,\nReference letters,\nPublications,\nCloseness of previous studies to the actual research taking place in that research group, Quality of final thesis (Master/Bachelor), Thesis adviser etc.\n\nHow would a professor prioritize these factors. I am sure here in the forums we have some experienced members who might have participated in acceptance committees, which can provide useful insights.\n\nThanks."
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"Am I receiving \"good\" higher education for graphic design?",
"my name is Asfand and I'm currently in my Junior year at a university in Lahore, Pakistan, studying Graphic Design.\nHowever, I'm not sure if I'm receiving a quality education or not.\nAll the classes senior to me seem to have a general discontent with the quality of the education, and they all openly admit that university didn't teach them much. We spend 90% of our time just doing assignments (for example, "create a national design policy for your country", "create a piece of design using humour", "create an art piece that represents 'you' [based on surveys that you will design and conduct]")\nSo we do most of our learning through doing, troubleshooting, and taking online tutorials while in the process of creating our assignments.\nThere is not as much (if any) basic education as to the etiquettes of design, what makes good design, etc etc (other than some basic knowledge we got in our freshman year). They don't really show us the ropes much or "teach" us, as much as we just learn what we do by making stuff along the way.\nMy question is, am I asking for too much? Yes we slack off and don't do as much research as we should before delving into our designs/artworks, but should it not be the institutions responsibility to an extent to point you in the right direction and show you the right/wrong, how to actually DO good design, before leaving it up to us to create art? I understand that they may not want to creatively stifle us by putting certain notions into our heads, but at the same time, this feels like very little/no effort is put into it, and we leave with 4 years worth of work experience from assignments, but not a lot of design education"
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"Can I publish a sum up paper?",
"Are there papers that sum up ideas and results from other papers? What are their characteristics/form? Do they provide insights on the field or try to predict the future?\n\nI have read some papers for a class homework and I would like to know whether I should try to summarize and publish it somewhere."
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"What is the etiquette for using empty desks in a communal grad student office?",
"I will soon be visiting a friend who is a graduate student. She works in a communal office with around 50 other desks (which are mostly occupied by other grad students). Is it appropriate for me to study at an empty desk?"
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"How to prevent a coauthor from stealing the article?",
"Please go through the following incidents to understand the problem.\n\nMr. A is a Ph.D. student of some institute who was working with Prof. B of another institute on a very interesting mathematical problem since last three years. Recently, they came across a significant solution to it. They wrote a research article to publish in a very good mathematics journal that accepts the online submission.\n\nProf. B wanted to submit it to the journal by himself. Mr. A agreed. \n\nA few days ago, Mr. A wanted to know about the submission of their article via telephone. Prof. B informed that the article is submitted. But, Mr. A received any confirmation e-mail neither from the journal nor Prof. B forwarded the submission mail to him. Prof. B did not upload it in arXiv, which is a free preprint repository.\n\nMathematics journals used to take a long duration to review and publish an article. Prof. B told that submitting this article to arXiv will immediately attract community attention. Many researchers will start working in the new direction. As a result, Mr. A and Prof. B may lose their opportunity to work on that problems. Also, the article may be stolen.\n\nMr. A did not ask Prof. B to forward the submission confirmation mail to him. Prof. might think that Mr. A is suspecting him. It may affect the relationship. Also, Prof. is a very powerful person in the administration, who may prevent an opportunity for Mr. A to gain a job. Again from some of his friends, Mr. A came to know that Prof. had distributed related research problems to his collaborators.\n\nAs a consequence, Mr. A is thinking that Prof. has submitted this work in his own name and he has lost his credit as the first author of this article.\n\nNow the question is: How Mr. A may save his credit and his work without hampering his relationship with Prof B?"
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"Does being unemployed after a PhD reflect poorly on my advisor?",
"I successfully defended this spring, and made it clear about a year prior that I would not be continuing in academia, with the goal of switching fields and entering the workforce. As part of this, I explicitly said I was not looking for postdocs, and I think I also said I was not willing to do one at all, for a multitude of reasons. It's been just over 3 months since defending, but I have nothing lined up. I've heard that waiting months and months for a first industry position is common, so it doesn't bother me, but I think it's bothering my advisor.\n\nBecause a lot of post-graduation roles aren't necessary for my advisor anymore, I'll occasionally receive an email or text message asking me how I'm doing, which includes how my job search is going. These messages have also pointed to potential academic-type positions and the names of postdoc advisors. I thought I was clear, so I wonder where this is coming from. The simple answer is that he is looking out for my best interests, but I'm his first PhD student and he is up for tenure this fall.\n\nDoes my unemployment negatively affect his tenure application, or am I over-thinking this?"
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"Where to upload/publish gigabytes of experiment data",
"I have conducted experiment that had unexpected result which goes against consensus in my community and I worry whether it will be accepted by other researchers. For that reason I would like to make all my work public - the resources, the programs, the results.. Is there online service where I can publish the data for free and obtain DOI number that I can reference in my paper?\n\nIt makes over 2GB when packed.\n\nI have heard that such services exist for people in biology and medical research but I work on transportation systems which is rather different (we do not produce so much data usually). I plan to submit the paper to journal published by IEEE."
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"Is the evaluation section of a paper a \"contribution,\" if it only describes the performance of the proposed system with no novel ideas?",
"Recently I was reading a paper where the authors include their evaluation as a part of their contribution. In general the paragraph I am referring to was something like this:\n\n\n Our contributions are a,b,c,d and e\n\n\nWhere e describes the evaluation. \n\nIn evaluation section, is about the performance evaluation of the proposed system. So the are running some simulations and benchmarks to show in which of the cases they perform better than the state of the art tools.\n\nThe evaluation (as a process) is not containing something novel, except from some modifications they did to adapt the benchmark / evaluation framework to their needs.\n\nSo, is this considered a 'contribution'? Is it 'good' to list the evaluation in the list of contributions?"
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"How is the quality of a paper evaluated for application purposes?",
"Suppose a situation when two students trying to apply for a PhD position in pure mathematics and they both have same GPA, same Rec.Letters, etc except for their published papers. Let both applicants have one paper published each, but applicant A has a \"much better\" research done compared to applicant B. \n\nWhat makes applicant A's paper \"much better\"? \n\nIf it is the number of people cited his/her paper in their references it is absurd because time is the main factor of growth of its credit. \n\nIf it is the reputation of journal the paper is published it is also not a good judgement because the very same journal can contain both proof to FLT and a PhD paper. \n\nI don't think the length of paper matters... I don't think the time that a researcher has spent matters since no one asks that...\n\nThis is a question of comparing two research paper which neither contains a solution to a famous unsolved problem; it's about papers that normally publish by students (or even professors)."
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"Pros and Cons of University vs Research only Institute",
"I love doing research, only research with no teaching duties.\n\nWhat are the pros and cons of having a job in a university and in a research only institute?\n\nIf you were me, which one would you choose?\n\nAre there more money in universities? Do universities do more cutting edge research if compared to research only institutes?\n\nMy countries of interest are the north European ones (within the EU).\n\nThanks"
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"How to answer “Why is graduate study important at this time in your life?”, when the reasons are very personal?",
"I am applying to our organization‘s scholarship program to pay for graduate school (if I get accepted).\nOne of essay questions is:\n\nWhy is graduate study important at this time in your life?\n\nWell, there are lot of personal reasons for that. For instance, I wish to get my mind off a terrible tragedy in my life that happened about a year or two ago, and they say being productive and busy is one of the best ways to get over things.\nQuestion: How much personal things to include in a scholarship essay? Would this add depth to the essay, or simply detract. I mean, the word life is in the question and it includes all sorts of things beyond academics and career.\nUpdate\nThank you all for your feedback.\nIt also answered other questions that I did not post, so a big thank you to all."
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"Graduate studies (phD & Masters) after a double degree",
"I am planning on doing Bachelor of Computer Science - Bachelor of Mathematics at University of Wollongong, Australia. Do you think I will be able to do a phD in Mathematics by studying Mathematics as a double degree?"
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"PhD application with mediocre grades, 2 SCI co-authored pubs., LORs from very well knows profs. in the area?",
"I am going to start my master thesis now. During my master I performed not well, my GPA is about 2.9/4 which is really bad for me. I am not excusing but my mother had cancer and she died in september, even though I studied very hard I performed poorly in my exams. I would like to apply a PhD program when I graduate, however I scare like a little rat due to my low GPA. On the other hand, I have two co-authored publications in not excellent but very good journals. Moreover, I have been working two of my professors about 1 year and going to start my master thesis with them which would be really good I think. Furthermore, my university and department is well respected in the Europe. \n\nActually my main fear is that, in my transcript my low graded courses are in very tangent to my thesis and past projects that I made with those two profs. I believe that in the future, when the evaluator look at my application folder he would be very suprised about my transcript and qualifications, the discrepancy. When I said my grades during this semester to my advisors, they are shocked as I expected. I fear that, that discrepancy would form second thoughts in people's mind. \n\nSo my question is, as far as I cannot change my GPA anymore. What should I do more to contribute my application, and show to people actually I know the subject in contrast to my low grades? \n\nThis is not a duplicate question, I am asking what should I do. I am not asking the admission process, furthermore I am not in border imo."
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"How can I tell if I have simplified my talk too much?",
"My experience listening to talks (of all kinds - seminars, conference talks, even Masters/PhD defenses) is that they tend to be very difficult to understand. This happens even if they're within my own field or even subfield. Occasionally there are conceptually simple talks (projects that use machine learning are an example) that can be easily grasped, but most of the time the talks are too technical, or are the \"blink and you will never understand the rest\" kind. I estimate I rarely get more than 30% of what was said, even when I'm in the same field.\n\nI certainly don't feel like I'm the only one who don't understand the talks, since I notice other listeners often get distracted by their laptops & mobile phones.\n\nI personally think this is ridiculous, so when I give talks I try to simplify them to the point where someone with an undergraduate degree can understand it. For example one talk went:\n\n\nWe're dealing with [technical term], which is analogous to [much-less technical term]\nThis is what we want to measure, why we want to measure it, and what we expect to see\nAfter some very complicated mathematics (I literally used this phrase and skipped the details), this is what we get\n\n\nI especially liked this talk since my family were able to grasp the gist of the work. However, the danger is that the talk might become too simplified. An actual expert would likely gain more by reading the paper during the talk instead of listening to it. Also, it seems some people think complicated language is the \"industry standard\".\n\nHow can I tell if a talk has been simplified too much?"
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"How to effectively locate older studies and papers?",
"Finding studies referenced in books can be nearly impossible.\n\nI was struggling very much to find the original paper by Liebmann (1927) on the, well, Liebmann effect.\n\nIs there a better method to look things up? My usual way is to Google, for example, \"Liebmann effect, 1927\" or something of the sort."
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"Is it ethical to extract my contributions from a multidisciplinary collaboration ( & exclude my co-authors work )?)",
"I worked on a big report with a bunch of people (published online as an agency report). Can I extract my data and analysis from the report, expand on it, exclude what everyone else did, and publish separately in a journal? One of the Co-authors was also the Co-PI and did a lot of editing, plus brought in funds but I feel that co-pI did not contribute substantially to what I will extract for my journal article."
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"How to deal with blinding when the new paper is a continuation of one's own prior research?",
"I wrote a paper (P1) which went through peer review and got published. The paper introduced a new graphical user interface (GUI) primitive.\nI then wrote P2, which extends P1, turning it into a new class of UI, which had no analogs at the time of writing (and maybe still doesn't, but the window of opportunity is shrinking).\nP2 is not just a thin layer on top of P1, it comes with substantial enhancements that are the result of our "lessons learned from P1" analysis + new ideas.\nP2 stands on its own, and it refers to P1 as if it were written by other people, per conference requirements. P2 also provides a short intro about P1, such that someone unfamiliar with P1 can still get the picture. It also provides comparisons to analogs of P1, explaining how our approach differs and arguing that our approach is better.\nThe set of P1 analogs consists of ~5 papers. One is a preprint, 3 are just providing their designs but not including any usability evaluation details at all, or deferring that to future work. This leaves us with one good alternative, which we were not aware of at the time work on P2 started. However, we did refer to this alternative in our related work section and compared it to our own product (there are some ideological differences in our approaches).\nP2 explains that we chose to base our work on P1, because at the time of writing P1 was the only artifact of its kind that has gone through formal usability tests and provides detailed results of their evaluation process. Of course, the fundamental underlying reason is that P2 is the continuation of our previous work on P1.\nP2 has been submitted for peer review, and a reviewer rejected it, one of the reasons being "it only considers one paper [referring to P1] containing a very similar design".\nWhat is the right way to explain why P2 is built on top of P1 without compromising anonymity?\np.s. note that the reviewer in question seems to have forgotten about the section where we compare P1 to alternatives. It could be that that section is not convincing enough, not well-written - but in that case the reviewer would have said "it is not convincing enough" rather than "only considers one paper". The review is otherwise thorough, I cannot say that I have the impression the reviewer hasn't read the paper fully."
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"What tense should paper titles use?",
"I have recently noticed that the tense of paper titles can be somewhat odd. This previous question, In what tense (present/past) should papers be written?, has some great information but it doesn't directly answer for titles.\n\nSome random titles:\n\n\nImproving source code search with natural language phrasal representations of method signatures\nA comparison of stemmers on source code identifiers for software search\nUsing Formal Models to Objectively Judge Quality of Multi-Threaded Programs in Empirical Studies\nModeling Programmer Navigation: A head-to-head empirical evaluation of predictive models\n\n\nMost titles (in Computer Science) look to be present progressive. Is there a rule/reason behind this?"
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"Should I reply to Travel Grant Award Notification?",
"Do I reply to travel grant chair for notifying me approval of my travel grant award application for a conference? (Thanking him/her.. etc)\n\nWhat is my appropriate action? Or is it not really expected and I should just follow instructions of submitting listed receipts to the specified person in email?"
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"Short-listed, but no interview invitation after three weeks - should I follow up?",
"Applied for a faculty position and was notified three weeks ago that the Faculty Search Committee has placed my name on the short-list of applicants to be reviewed by all faculty in the department. I was also notified that if I am still interested in this position, I may be contacted within the next few weeks to be invited for an interview. However, three weeks have passed, I have not got any updated message. References were submitted by my referees at the time I submitted the application. Should I be more patient or just contact them by sending a follow-up email? Not sure what has happened. They lost interest to me or just act too slowly?"
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"Is it OK to only invite one of three co-authors of a previous joint paper to do another joint paper?",
"I have co-authored one paper with Professor A, PhD student B and PhD student C. B left the best impression on me as the most friendly, productive and hard-working. Now, I want to do a joint paper again. Same as last time, the subject is not in A's area of expertise (nor B's or C's), though it's highly related, but I am hesitant to work with A as he tends to rush and push to publication before getting the paper to perfect (or very near perfect), and he is usually busy so I doubt that he will spend much time on it anyways. C is OK, but probably can't contribute much to the paper. Besides, I think two authors may suffice and be optimal.\n\nNow, A is B's adviser (maybe C's too) and was my undergraduate mentor. I don't want to induce any hard feelings to A and C if they find out they, but not B, are left out of this joint venture. In the end, I did present my draft to A and gave glimpse of it in a presentation where A, B and C were present. Another reason why I choose to work with B who is a PhD student is (this may sound silly) because I think this will actually help her career, as opposed to working with a professor or working alone, as I don't intend to pursue an academic career and am just doing this for fun. Plus, the second author can act as a serious peer reviewer, so this will benefit my paper as well.\n\nHow should I do about this?"
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"How to decide if the efforts put in corresponds to co-authorship or co-first authorship?",
"During my PhD, I had 4 first author papers, two co-author papers and one co-first authorship paper. My work is computational, so I have collaborated with experimental groups. My lab colleagues who collaborated with other experimental groups always went for co-first authorship in their papers.\nNow, my logic of going for co-authorship or co-first authorship is the following:\nIf I am doing very straight forward modeling work that won't require developing new models and is based on my previous work, I go for co-authorship. I carry out simulations and write a small methodology and discussion about the results.\nHowever, if my part of the work involves development of new models AND carrying out simulations AND writing up the methodology, discussion of the simulations, I go for co-first authorship.\nHowever, during my postdoc, I have been collaborating with a PhD student. I was involved in development of the important model in the paper. The novelty of the paper lies on the model. The PhD student later incorporated her own PhD work into the model. The development of model took quite some efforts on my part. But I didn't do the final simulations or the interpretation of the results. I just wrote the methodology section related to my model development.\nIn that case, should I go for co-authorship or co-first authorship? How to decide if my efforts corresponds to the first or latter in this case?"
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"Would you submit your paper that got rejected in a top-tier venue to a lower rank conference?",
"My question is simple: If you have a paper that got rejected two or three times (border-line* rejects every time) from top-tier conferences, would you polish it and resubmit it again to similar or another high rank conference or would you try some lower rank venues ?\n\n* Border-line reject: every time got 2 good reviews and 1 bad review.\n\nP.S. Every time the paper got vague suggestions like: compare with this or that. And the first and second time we DID in fact address all concerns, but another concern showed up next time.\n\nP.P.S. I am concerned with CS conferences.\n\nThank you."
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"What does notification date mean (CS conference)?",
"I have submitted a paper to a CS conference that takes place in the end of May. According to their website, notification date is in the beginning of March.\n\n\nDoes this mean I won't know if my paper has been accepted or rejected till the notification date?\nWill I be contacted by reviewers before that date to improve my paper, or will this only occur if my paper has been accepted, after the notification date?\nIf I am contacted by reviewers before notification date, does this imply my paper has been accepted, or is it possible to go through revisions only to discover my paper has been rejected in the end?"
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"Industry value of Doctoral degree when compared To a PhD in Computer Science",
"I'm planning to do a Doctoral program in computer science. However, there are Two degrees:\n\n\nDoctor of computer science (DCS Doctoral degree)\nDoctor of philosophy in (PhD) computer science \n\n\nI am a working professional and I'm planning to do one of these degrees mainly for career advancement. I'll be continuing in industries and not interested in the teaching profession. It is common to see industries specifying PhD as a mandatory requirement for some jobs; however, I have not seen the same thing for DCS degree. \n\nTherefore, I would like to know which one of them is widely accepted by industries? \n\nThanks,\nRaj"
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"Submitting the same PhD proposal to multiple universities?",
"I am currently doing my masters and applying to do my PhD. I have been accepted at my current university, but I am waiting on a decision regarding funding. However, if I am unsuccessful with funding, I will not be able to take up the offer. \n\nI am, therefore, looking at applying to other universities with the aim of increasing my funding chances. \n\nMy question is, can I submit the exact same research proposal to multiple universities? Or are there any issues with this? Also, my potential supervisor at my current university helped me a lot with editing my proposal.. obviously I would let her know that I was applying for other universities but does this come across disrespectful? I would also be looking to ask her for a reference. I am unsure how to even ask this, as I am worried it seems like I am taking her helpful advice on my proposal, just using it to apply elsewhere, then asking her for a reference. \n\nMy current university would definitely be my first choice, however as I said this is entirely dependent on funding. \n\nAny advice would be massively appreciated!"
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"Minor(?) error introduced during typesetting",
"I recently had a paper accepted by a journal which doesn't provide author proofs. Unfortunately, a typographical error was introduced during typesetting, but I had no way to know this until the paper went in print. I'm trying to determine what is the line between a minor typo and an error which requires issuing a correction.\n\nTo get into some more specifics, a constant was left out of an equation. Although that sounds really bad on its face, the equation is very standard and everyone in the field already knows the correct form of the equation. I can't realistically conceive of anyone being misled by the error. In fact, I doubt most readers will even notice. But it's technically incorrect as it stands.\n\nThis is one of those instances where I feel damned if I do and damned if I don't. Issuing a correction looks bad, but leaving the mistake looks bad as well. I double checked the revised manuscript we submitted and confirmed the error was definitely introduced by the journal staff. What do I do here?"
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"Is it okay to list a PhD student as corresponding author?",
"A colleague and I are both PhD students. We have conducted a project together that is unrelated to our respective theses. The project involved a bioinformatics analysis of public datasets, so we are not presenting any new experimental data (i.e., there was no overhead associated with the experiments). However, we have generated some very interesting results that we believe are suitable for publication.\n\nA question that has arisen while preparing the manuscript is who to list as corresponding author. Our supervisors were not involved in the project. I designed the majority of the experiments, but my colleague and I are both concerned that listing myself as corresponding author despite the fact that I am a PhD student would be (a) improper or unethical, (b) likely to draw the ire of the university for listing it as our affiliation, as we do not have faculty appointments, and/or (c) likely to cause reviewers to dismiss the work. What is the appropriate course of action?"
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"What is the advantage of becoming a full professor if you already have tenure as an associate professor?",
"What is the advantage of becoming a full professor if you are already an associate professor with tenure? Why not just stay an associate professor for life? What is the key difference between an associate professor and a full professor?\n\nWhy continue to write papers if you already have tenure? Can't a tenured associate professor stop writing papers and still have a job?"
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"After getting a PhD at a low-ranked university, would it be harder to get a job at a high-ranked university?",
"In more detail, let's say I get a PhD degree at a university which is ranked 51-100, according to QS ranking system. Is it possible for me to get a job at higher ranked university, like 1-50 ?\nLet's say without extraordinary publication record, which I believe the answer would be possible.."
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"Copyright for lectures, slides and textbook: university or professor?",
"I'll be starting as an adjunct professor soon at a smaller university, and I'm starting to prepare lectures and slides for teaching there. \n\nIn the future, I'm also thinking of publishing a textbook based on the lectures and slides I prepare.\n\nI'm trying to find out who owns the copyright to the lectures, slides (and possibly textbook) that I prepare. It doesn't seem clear to me who owns the copyright - is it the university or the professor?\n\nOne of my professor friends told me that she prepared the slides for her own course over many years to replace the publisher slides, and she has a copyright on the slides, though of course not on the standard textbook she's using."
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"Do I have to cite sources for my opinion when it was formed by reading other people's opinions? (undergraduate)",
"So I'm new to university and have written like 5 papers in my life, please help!\nSo basically the scenario is, I have a paper about a certain topic which I know nothing about. So I do some research on it. After reading a lot about the topic I form an opinion on it. The problem is that my opinion was formed based on reading a lot of other people's opinions. For example, I will read a lot of academics argue one thing, and I will think "oh that makes sense, I agree!" so when I write my paper I will be of the same opinion.\nSo the question is, do I have to cite the sources that led me to my opinion when I state my opinion?? Or phrased differently: Do I have to cite the people that agree with my opinion?\nFor example, if I write:\nX because of Y. And this specific author also agrees with this. <- in this case, do I have to use in-text citation for the first sentence?? Should I write something like:\nX because of Y (author, year). <- because I feel like in this case it does not sound like I also agree? It just sounds like I am describing what "author" thinks. How do I add my own opinion to this?\nPlease keep in mind that these are undergraduate level papers. Up until now, I have been writing entirely descriptive papers (with "someone argues this and someone argues that" and my grades have not been great :( ) without offering my opinion because I was so scared that it would be plagiarism to agree with someone's opinion without citing (since it may be considered to not be an original opinion). Again, I will cite the other authors that agree with me after stating what I think, but my question is if I have to in-text cite them when I state my opinion.\nI am a confused and lost freshman and with the pandemic I can't even go to campus and talk to a librarian about this, so if anyone could help me I will owe you my life, thank you."
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"How to find a high quality PhD advisor in another country?",
"I an currently finishing my first year in a Masters program in Computer Science / Mathematics and thinking about getting a Ph.D. I'm not really sure, however, that I want to make my Ph.D. with the same thesis with which I'm getting my Masters degree. \n\nI heard the opinion about Ph.D. as \"doing interesting (for you) stuff, development your skills and even getting paid for it\". But it seems too unrealistic for me, especially in my city/country (Russia). Probably I can think about getting a Ph.D. in another country, but how can I manage to do it without a proper Ph.D. advisor? Probably, I can determine an area of my interests, but how can I determine if it is suitable for a Ph.D. or not? And how can I find the person who can guide/help me with it?\n\nI'm feeling a little bit nervous when thinking about writing to a complete stranger in another country \"I want to do PhD under your supervision\" or something like this."
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"Are there any differences in how new vs. well-established professors select students?",
"For any professors out there, do you feel that there are any differences in how you selected and recruited students from the time when you were newly hired, to a well-established stage (i.e. after getting tenure)? I'm asking this out of curiosity. There are oftentimes questions about whether students should choose a new/old advisor, but I haven't seen any that asked about this from the prof's perspective.\n\nI would assume there are since the challenges and priorities for the two groups are normally somewhat different, but I'm not sure exactly how it would differ. For instance, it might be more difficult for the new PI to recruit students (especially good ones) when they have to \"compete\" with older, better funded peers. This would lead one to think that new PIs might be more likely to take on students they might not necessarily love, but just need bodies in the lab. However, on the other hand, new PIs are more likely to have limited funding, and if they are on the tenure-track, would need their few students to succeed in order to establish a name for themselves in the industry. In this case, it would be detrimental if they chose the wrong student(s) in the beginning, especially if they are limited to the number of students they can afford due to funding issues. I realize that this is field and situation specific, but I'm looking to hear stories/insights from people who have gone through/know about the process.\n\nThanks!"
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"How to tell my advisor I don't want to stay in academia",
"I don't want to stay in academia after finishing my PhD. My current research field is not exciting to me anymore, but also I am too old to change fields. Although my research and my interest were so far quite theoretically focussed, I would like to find a more applied job in R&D in a big prestigeous company, helping improving future technologies. \n\nNow: How do I tell my supervisor? I want to avoid leaving the impression I think our research field is boring.\nMy supervisor tries already finding Postdoc positions for me, and probably thinks I'm quite qualified for staying in academia. So I fear to be disappointing."
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"How to search for one phrase in the title and a different phrase in the body of the paper in a single Google Scholar search?",
"Google Scholar is a very good source of knowledge especially with its advanced search, but the options in the advanced search is either search in the title or in the whole paper. How can I search for a word in a title and a word in the paper itself?\n\ne.g. I want to search for papers that title contains the word \"meta analysis\" and the body contains \"Alexandria\". Is there a regular expression to do this?"
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"Quitting a collaboration project without hurting collaborators",
"I am a PhD student collaborating with another PhD student A, under supervision of Prof. B & Prof. C. I am student of Prof. B. Student A is co-advised by Prof. B and Prof. C. \n\nProf. B chairs the project. I was asked to join this side-project because of my certain experience.\n\nOur work requires knowledge from both A and me. A is doing well in his part. However, the novelty in my part, is problematic (in my view) and hard to produce. To this, not everyone is convinced: Student A thinks I need more tunings; Prof. B is dubious yet believes the novelty; Prof. C agrees with me but with a little suspicion.\n\nI have now enough lab evidence to support my claims (i.e. the failure novelty). And I believe I will convince others at next meeting.\n\nI would like to quit this project, and do not want to waste more time. Student A can still publish his part, just not a \"big\" paper though. And I will not ask for any credits of course.\n\nThe question\n\nHow can I, with enough respects, yet properly quit the project without hurting feelings of other colleagues? Especially student A and Prof. B?"
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"How to bring one's PhD research to another university?",
"I was talking about a probable research topic that I got in mind for following a Phd in Computer Science to one of my past Lecturers. This professor told me that I should make a research proposal and see what happens with the evaluating committee. The research proposal was made and it got finally accepted. Now the issue is that this university, in which they accepted my proposal is not so well known worldwide. So I would like to apply to another more renewed university with the same topic, I think that could help me better in my academic career. What should I do? It is unethically to move to another university with my research idea? maybe my past professor could feel like betrayed?\n\nThanks"
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"Hand writing on Powerpoint presentation",
"I have a mathematical online course that has programming sections. It has transitions between Python, Matlab, R, and Powerpoint. Powerpoint has equations and questions. I want to draw some arrows and take some notes on Powerpoint. I need to do them on a computer that can carry all this processing. \n\nWhat I want is a digital pen tool that will allow me to write on Powerpoint presentations on laptop. \n\nWhat is the attachment that I should buy to attach the laptop to work on all these at the same time?"
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"Is it possible for project grants to cover family visa fees?",
"This article from Times Higher Education tells about the struggles of Non-EU scholars with the UK’s visa policy. The article was published in January 2014. Since then, the visa fees to remain in the UK have increased in general. \n\nMy family and I have lived in the UK for 2 years now. We are non-EU nationals. Currently, I am working as a postdoc. With our visas expiring in one year, I have been contemplating about what to do next. \n\nI quite like my project, and there is a possibility for the university to extend my contract as a postdoc, by submitting a grant application for a separate project as a continuation of my current one. \n\nHowever, to renew my family and my visas would require £651 per head. This would give us the eligibility to stay in the UK for another 3 years maximum, after which we would need to pay £1,500 per head for an indefinite leave to remain in the UK. Assuming the fees do not change, this means that 4 years from now, I will need to have at least £12,000 in my account, £10,000 of which will go into paying the fees, in order for me and my family to be able to stay permanently in the UK. With a postdoc salary, this just seems daunting at the moment. \n\nMy main question is: Is it possible for a project grant, including research fellowships, to pay for my family and my visa fees? I suspect that the project grant could probably pay for my fees, but not my family. \n\nOne possibility is for me to try to go up in the academic salary ladder by getting a lecturer position. But even if I am able to get a lecturer position, I am not quite sure if the increase would be enough to pay the fees. It looks like a more realistic option would be to leave the country, although moving to another country as a family is not so simple and also needs money. From this aspect, it might be better to stay."
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"How do recruiters consider parental leave in one's career path?",
"It used to be that mostly women would take maternity leave, and in the field where I work it would be accounted for by a hiring committee. Most likely, someone would say “yeah, there is a dip in X’s scientific production during years XX-XX, but that's around the time she got 2 kids, so it's not worrying”. It might not always be put very delicately (I heard of a committee member once saying “so, let's decide in advance: how many papers is one kid worth?”), but there existed some sort of positive bias.\n\nNowadays, more and more fathers take parental leave (around me, it seems to be usually 6 to 12 months when the kid is young). Thus, the situation is getting more complex. How do hiring committees in academia handle these cases? Should one consider a parental leave as “lost time”, professionally speaking? Or are recruiters in academia more understanding than that?\n\n\n\nEdit: more specifically, I'm talking about the US system. I know that standards of parental leave are more generous in Europe than in a typical “welfare is communism” country :) So, I am worried about how academic employers might react to a woman having a 2 years parental leave in her curriculum, or a father having taken a 6-month leave in the recent past.\n\nOf course, the situation in others countries is also interesting… So please don't hesitate to leave comments!"
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"Canada vs. Australia for the academic career",
"Two days ago I was in discussion with a colleague of mine about the possible PhD studies destinations. We both agreed that the chances of getting post-Doc job or any full position are higher in the country we finish PhD (Maybe you have different opinion). However, we ended up discussion two potential (native English-speakers) countries, namely, Canada and Australia. We both had a vague idea about post PhD stage (academia or industry), so we had not much to share. My question is which country is generally better in terms of the following (computer science field):\n\n\nResearch sector prospects (is there any studies indicate which country has stronger research profile in computer science - my gut feeling is Canada at least from the world universities ranking in computer science)\nAcademic career path (What are the possible career paths for PhD graduates? (tenure track, postdoc, lab researchers ... etc.).\nFinance benefits (taking into account the living cost in both countries, which of the countries, the academic career stand stronger comparing to the industrial jobs in terms of financial benefits)\n\n\nAny advice to improve the question is most welcomed."
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"When writing a \"response article\" what's the appropriate way to refer to plots from the original paper?",
"There's a paper I want to respond to by writing an article examining its findings. There are 4-6 of key plots in that paper.\nI have the code and data from the original authors, so technically I can reproduce their plots myself and include their plots in my paper for easy comparison to other (original) plots I want to show. But is that appropriate, or is that too close to "stealing" their work and would it be better for me just to put in some text citation as reference to their plot and let my readers go look up the original paper to compare my plots versus the original authors'?"
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"How can I get research experience in between degrees?",
"I'm a recent graduate of a major university in Ohio, but recently moved to the DC area for my job (full-time software engineer).\n\nI plan to go to grad school for computer science in the next few years, but I'd like to get involved in some research to find out what I do and don't like about research (and, more importantly, the research topics) before I apply.\n\nI'd love to volunteer my skills to a professor in the area as an RA. There are obviously major universities in the area with research undertakings that interest me, but without rapport how can I let them know I'm interested in working with them?"
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"Who to address on the cover letter?",
"In the cover letter of an application to an academic job, should we write \n\n\n Dear Search Committee Members, \n\n\nor \n\n\n Dear Professor A, Chair of the Search Committee Members,\n\n\nor\n\n\n Dear Professor A, Chair of the department\n\n\nor what else?\n\nIn case we don't know who the chair of the Search Committee is, should we write the department to ask?"
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"Will my job have a negative impact on my profile as a graduate student applicant?",
"I am a senior undergraduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and I ultimately want to pursue a Master's degree in the field of Embedded Systems. However, my current financial situation prohibits me from paying for this, so I have decided to take a couple years off in order to save money and to apply for loans and scholarships. To that end, I have recently accepted a job in the IT department of a respected bank (I was unable to find a job in the field of Embedded Systems). Since I am not able to work in my target domain, will this time off negatively affect my prospects at top graduate programs?"
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"What does \"ADM\" stand for on an article submission information page?",
"On the information page of my article submission, there's a column titled \"ADM\", listing the name of two persons that I can email.\n\nWhat does this stand for?"
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"Math PhD application process",
"I expect to be graduating with a maths BSc (with an honours year, in Australia) in the not-too-distant future. I’d like to pursue a PhD in pure maths, with the view of becoming a research mathematician. I’ve found it quite difficult to find information on what exactly the application process entails, and when I need to start worrying about it. I have some specific questions, but what I’m really interested in is if there’s a compiled source of advice and information for math PhD applicants internationally.\n\n\nIt seems that many universities have a specific (December in the USA) deadline, does this mean PhDs have to start at a particular time of year?\nI see that occasionally people advertise a particular PhD position they’d like to fill, on some particular research topic. Is this kind of PhD different from the “generic” kind and have a different application process?"
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"Steady meeting room for Zoom office hours, ready at any time",
"I would like to have my office hours via Zoom with\n\nA link that doesn't change, so it's easy to find the meeting, and\nI can join my meeting at any time, if the need shows up, not just a scheduled times.\n\nI already know how to address the first problem, namely with repeated scheduled meetings. But I don't know how to address (2) as well. What is the best practice?"
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"How to deal with the frustration of doing PhD at a low-ranked university",
"Though I did my bachelor's at a top-notch college, because of low GPA I had to settle down for PhD at a low ranked university. Now I see that there is lack of intellectual atmosphere and very few people to discuss academic stuff in and around my area of research. I discuss with faculty, but it would have been nice if there was a good graduate student atmosphere which is lacking. Now I get frustrated often with the fact that it was my low GPA which led to all this. Also in general the graduate student atmosphere is very discouraging. \n\nWhat should I do to make my life better? Some people tell me to mind my own business and not worry about the environment. But to me no peer level discussion leads to feelings of loneliness."
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"Can anyone speak to the rigor or quality of UCF's mathematics PhD program?",
"UCF currently ranks 136 (tie) for its mathematics PhD program per U.S. News and World Report. Has anyone graduated here with a PhD in math from there, or can speak to the quality of the program? I am considering this program and currently hold a bachelors degree in business, and am close to completing a bachelor's in computational mathematics with an actuarial concentration (many of my business classes satisfy this requirement). I have not seen any admissions statistics other than the matriculated students and PhD's awarded. Can anyone provide this data, or know where I can locate that?"
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"phd",
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"Another instructor is pushing me out of the classroom right after my class ends",
"I am a graduate student in math in my final year, and for several years have been teaching at my department as a lecturer. This semester, in the same lecture hall there is another lecture that starts 20 minutes after my class ends. It's taught by another instructor from my department. I usually have many students coming to office hours and there are also students asking questions immediately after lecture. Due to other activities, I cannot have office hours right after the lecture this semester and can only stay for about 15 minutes to answer questions.\n\nMany times in the past I had a similar situation and never had any issues with it. This semester the instructor who is teaching right after often arrives 20-15 minutes before her class starts and tells me immediately that I have to go with my students somewhere else. \n\nI make sure to leave the blackboard clean and take all my stuff away from the instructor's desk before she arrives, but I do believe that I have a right to stay in the classroom after my lecture for at least 5-10 minutes. There is no vacant classroom around, and I don't have time to go with students to my office, which is in a different building.\n\nLast time the instructor told me in front of my students that I don't understand \"simple things\" and that I am \"playing games\". When I was talking to one of my students, she stood very close to us and clearly demonstrated that she wanted us out. I tried to explain her that I couldn't go anywhere else due to my time constraints, but she didn't want to listen to me. I really don't understand what \"simple\" things she meant and what \"games\" I am playing. \n\nWe leave the board clean. She doesn't need to set up a projector. She can still talk to her students before her class starts, if she wants to (even though it seems like her students don't ask her any questions before their class). So, I don't see how I cause any disruption. \n\nI had met this woman many times before this semester, but we never talked. I didn't see her talking to other instructors/students much, and she seems to be quite reserved and a bit neurotic. She doesn't want to have any conversation with me regarding the issue.\n\nI felt really offended after last class when she said those things to me in front of my students. What would you do in my case? \n\nAdded later: There are no official rules regarding classroom occupancy between classes. Instructors are supposed to use common sense and be reasonable. For me using 50% of the break time seems reasonable to answer questions after lecture seems reasonable. I agree that for some people it may not.\n\nI don't block the entrance to the classroom. A few students from the next class who come earlier always go ahead and take their seats as soon as my students start leaving the room. I also had one of the students from the next class listening to my explanation to one of those after-class questions and asking me further questions before their class (which is the same class as I am teaching, just a different section). Maybe the instructor got jealous, I don't know.\n\nThe entrance to the classroom is from its front (not back), so I do stay in the front. But it is a big lecture hall, and there is a plenty of space in front of the room (the board itself consists of 8 huge panels).\n\nAlso, during my career as a grad.student who is also teaching for the department, I have had several observations from experienced professors who are considered to be great teachers at the department and are in charge of undergraduate teaching policy. In my evaluations the fact that there are always several students approaching me with questions after class considered as very positive, meaning that students find me approachable. \n\nThank you everyone for answers."
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"etiquette",
"colleagues"
] |
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"What to say about somewhat forgotten studies?",
"The matter of fact is, I graduated from university (physics and mathematics) more than 4 years ago. I remember myself enjoying most of the subjects, communicating with professors and study mates, researching other non-curriculum topics.\n\nEver since graduation I have been working in IT industry. IMHO, those are not directly correlated and most of the topics, subjects, research are forgotten now.\n\nQ: What to could be written upon forgotten subjects/staff/research?"
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"undergraduate",
"statement-of-purpose"
] |
[
"Is it possible to publish a paper when the research was done many years earlier?",
"Is it possible to publish a paper when the research was done a number of years ago? \n\nFor example, can I write a paper from my Masters thesis which was done in 2011 and try to publish it in 2017?"
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"publications"
] |
[
"Can frequent messages to an editor about the status of a paper under review be a cause for rejection?",
"I have submitted a paper on mathematics to a journal and it was there for more than one year. I asked the editor many times about the reason of the review delay. At the end the paper was rejected with trivial comments. Some experts told me the reason of the rejection is that: I had asked the editor many times about the paper, which make him insist that the reviewers make their decision fast, and thus they gave trivial comments which led to the rejection. Can this really be a reason for rejection?"
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"Should I put the raw data in the appendix of an investigation if it is available in the GitHub repository?",
"I am currently doing an investigation (IB Extended Essay if it is helpful) of how different architectural approaches affect website performance. To do so, I have written a program that repeatedly runs a series of tests on each of the three researched websites. I now have 3 tables (as CSV files) with 7 columns and over 100 rows (the tests were run 100 times) stored in a GitHub repo.\nIn the investigation itself, I am taking the average of these columns and go from there. What I am asking is, should I put the raw data in the appendix? On the one hand, it seems like a good practice to show the data, as it demonstrates where did the averages come from. On the other hand, those tables are massive, AND they can still be accessed in the repository. Should I put it or not?"
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"How much time do I have to spend for NSF panel?",
"The field is mathematics/computer science. If one were to be selected to serve on an NSF panel, how much time/effort, realistically, will one be expected to spend? Especially for someone with no prior experience in this role."
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"funding",
"nsf",
"service-activities"
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"The steps for applying to PostDoc positions",
"I have a PhD in computer science and recently I would like to get a postdoc with a respectful professor in my field to update my research works, or after that working in more applied domains in companies.\nI don't know the steps of applying for postdoc positions specially in USA and Canada.\nI'm a non-native English speaker. Furthermore, I have several important concerns as,\n\nHow long does it take the process of applying?\n\nthe range of scholarship for PostDoc job\n\nThe general requirement for postdoc applicant (number of publications, teaching experience and etc)\n\nThe possibility of research working before the acceptance\nI'd like to see the comments based on these concerns and also to know the real experiences of PostDoc applying."
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"How do employers verify that job applicants have the degree(s) they claim?",
"Let's say someone is named John Smith applied for a job claiming that he was graduated from University X. How would an employer confirm that the applicant is John Smith, who also has the degree from University X? Wouldn't it be incredibly common for someone else to have the same name from the same department?"
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"How to Present an (Essentially) The Same Proof, in a Different, Earlier Working Paper, in a Present Paper?",
"I was requested to provide a simple proof for a side assertion made in one of my submissions. Regarding feasibility, it can be done; but the simplest proof that I came up with is already present in another \nearlier submission under review, and hence, to avoid \"self-repetition\", I did not give the simplest possible proof in the present one. The situation could be easier if I have the older one time-labeled. \n\nWhat is a wise way out given the situation? Thanks."
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[
"Do I have to submit transcripts from school I transferred out of for grad application?",
"Every grad school requires to submit transcripts from all undergrad and grad instatutions applicant attended including studying abroad.\n\nPersonally I am confused with one case. I entered first University just after the high school, but a year after I dropped it and entered another University (a branch of a well-known University that had been opened that very year). The main reason was that the latter University had a program with more advanced and fundamental courses in math and CS and with a researh component as a part of curriculum, and it generally better fit my interests and desires (another reasons were e.g. better professors, better ranking).\n\nI feel that this episode of my life is worth mentioning in my SoP (I preferred to waste a year because I wanted to dedicate my life to science and therefore get better training for this goal). However I'm not sure if I had to get transcripts from that first University even if I just studied there for a year and wasn't satisfied with it's level of education.\n\nCan anyone answer if I am obligated to get and submit this document?"
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[
"How do I locate the rockstars at my university, so as to establish a relationship and get references from them?",
"I'm an undergrad with hopes of entering academia. My transcript isn't stellar, and the general sense I get is that I can make up for this with good references. How do I find which professors have the best reputation, so I can try to establish a relationship and hopefully get references from them?\n\nIf the subject is relevant, my area is mathematics."
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"professors"
] |
[
"What should I start doing to improve my prospects since deciding on an academic career?",
"So, I have had a year out to work and am now going to do my Master's degree in Computing. I have decided to fully embark on a career in academia.\n\nWhat can I start doing NOW that will help improve my academic reputation, credentials, CV and career prospects? For example, should I do more writing, set up a technical blog, find research opportunities, what projects should I start, organisations to join etc.?"
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] |
[
"Do I need permission from my past supervisor?",
"I am currently a postdoc in computer science. Last year I completed my PhD. I have published one research paper during my PhD with my research supervisor. I am trying to work on that paper. I mean I have got something and I think it is going to be an incremental result of the previous research paper.\n\nQuestion: Do I need to get permission from my past supervisor to publish a paper that builds on our previous co-authored paper?"
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[
"Referencing pages of articles and books",
"I have some articles and conference papers that I am citing in my text, in my text cite I am using the page number that is related with the rest of the proceedings or the journal, even I have downloaded it or using the online version which is separate from the rest of the proceedings. I think this (Me, 2015, p.340) is confusing when the link of the document I attach will provide just the paper which probably is 4-5 pages. \n\nSo what is the appropriate page number to include in-text citing, even if the paper has the page number printed on it?\n\nK."
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[
"Have there been famous/documented cases where people die from working too hard in the lab?",
"Have there been famous/documented cases where people die from working too hard in the lab, similar to this and this in finance/marketing?"
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"health"
] |
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"Creative commons for academic library",
"I am building an online library, where professors will be submitting academic work (text and multimedia).\n\nI want to find the right CC license. The work provided by the library can be shared and anybody can build upon it for commercial or non-commercial purposes, as long as they give credit to the professor. But the original work must remain un-edited. So, CC-BY-ND fits this description, but there is a part that worries me. If anybody can \"remix or transform\" the material, what is stopping them from changing the article and re-share it as their own, or claim that is the original?\n\nIs there any way that CC-BY-ND protects me from this danger, or should I use another copyright licence? \n\nThanks"
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"copyright",
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[
"How important is seeing the face of the instructor?",
"So, I am yet to make up my mind on which is a superior mode of teaching in flipped classroom videos:\n\n\nKhan academy type model where you see slides or a digital drawing board and only listen to the instructor.\nOr a video in which you see the instructor communicating with you. Maybe in one third of the video and the rest of the screen real estate is focused on graphics, video etc.\n\n\nLet us assume that you have a superb communicator in both cases.\n\nWhich model is superior? Have there been any studies in this field?"
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"reference-request",
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"online-learning",
"lecture-teaching-method",
"audio-video-recording"
] |
[
"CS conferences not indexed by Scopus or Web of Science?",
"I have read that there are some good Computer Science conferences that are not indexed by Scimago or Scopus, but instead they appear in sites like ACM DL, IEEE Xplore or DBLP. I have tried to find information about those conferences, but not success at all. For that reason, I was wondering if anybody in the field knows of some good conferences in CS that do not appear in the aforementioned sites?\n\nThanks"
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"conference",
"computer-science",
"indexing"
] |
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"Finding out if company founders are graduates for a dissertation",
"In a nutshell, I'm thinking about doing research and analysis of founders of rapid-growing companies during the last decade or so, to see if there is an increasing trend of non-graduates successfully founding these firms, or if having a degree (especially in the same industry as the company) is highly recommended.\n\nHowever, I'm afraid the sources from which I can obtain this data might not be valid in the academic environment (or in any environment). For instance, I could go and check a founder's LinkedIn profile, but:\n\n\nIs LinkedIn a reliable source of data for a dissertation? I don't think so.\nMany people decide not to show their entire education or job history, because it might be irrelevant or because having a degree from a university with a low reputation could be a negative thing.\n\n\nTrying to contact these founders to interview them is almost impossible.\n\nI'm not experienced in doing academic research, so my question is: is there a reliable source of data for this that I could use for my research?\n\nThis is in the UK, if it makes any difference."
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"research-process",
"thesis"
] |
[
"What happens if my code teacher doesn't know how to code?",
"I'm a simple student who is having some problems with their IT studies. The thing is that my (Java) code teacher doesn't know how to code, and I don't say it, he has told it to us during more than one class.\nWhat do you recommend me to do? Because apart from that is like a class without teacher, he just gives us tasks to do and we have to search on Internet how to do it while he "plays" with his laptop and laughs or rests silent. And when we have to correct the tasks, he just shows us the code he had on his disk and, of course, he hasn't coded.\nThe last thing I want to share is that when he "explains" us theoretical things he doesn't really know what is he saying and in 80% of times he's wrong. He just reads presentations of other teachers, but from 5 years ago, so they aren't updated at this times (like 2019 or 2020).\nIt's very frustrating, he is a teacher but he doesn't teach us."
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"teaching",
"students"
] |
[
"Do Chinese universities offer CS/CSE Masters programs taught in English?",
"Do Chinese (PRC) universities offer CS/CSE Masters programs taught in English?\n\nIf yes, do these programs require mandatory HSK scores to enroll?"
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"graduate-admissions",
"masters"
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[
"Considering prospective grad schools; professor whose research interests me most may be visiting professor elsewhere currently, how to handle this?",
"At a certain grad school I am considering, there is a certain professor who I would be most interested in researching under, in fact if I couldn't have him as my advisor I my interest in this school would become diminished, but I read in his bio that he is a currently a visiting professor at a different university. In this case, should I still express my interest in his research in my statement of purpose? How long do visiting professorships typically last? Could I hope that I could have him as an advisor? I'm unsure how to approach this situation."
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"advisor",
"application"
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[
"How to evaluate the research level of a paper before any publication?",
"There are three differents cases when the research level of a paper must be evaluated before any publication: \n\n\nfor author: to choose the most appropriate journal,\nfor referee: to recommend acceptance or rejection for a given journal,\nfor editor: to take the final decision.\n\n\nIf we compare this process to justice, a referee is like a lawyer, and an editor is like a judge.\n\nQuestion: How an author, a referee and an editor can (respectively) evaluate the research level of a paper? \n\nWe here ask about the purely research level of a paper, so we assume that the paper is original, correct and well-written. We also assume that the paper is not too specialized if it is a general-audience journal, and is on-topic if it is a specialized journal (idem for any other specificity). Finally, if specific, I am mainly interested in mathematical papers. \n\nAn utilitarianism way could be to estimate how many papers should cite this paper in the next five years (self-citations excepted). Then the author can choose a journal having this number as Article Influence score (after renormalization), and the referee can check if it matches with the chosen journal. But then it would be necessary to know how to make such an estimate...\n\nOf course, an author/referee/editor can evaluate the paper subjectively, but subjectivity varies with emotions, it can be manipulated and the process can become political. I wonder whether there is an objective way to proceed, or at least, if we can add a bit of rationality in this process. Consider the process of justice, it contains undeniably a part of subjectivity, but also rationality, called the law."
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"paper-submission",
"evaluation"
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[
"How can I express my dismissal from public service in my academic resume?",
"I'm planning to apply to a number of university (public policy) programs in US and I do not know how to express my dismissal from public service following the political turmoil in Turkey. I was dismissed with a decree law, no charges, without being questioned like tens of thousands. How can I state this situation?\nAlso, how can I include the gap resulted after dismissal?"
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"graduate-admissions",
"cv"
] |
[
"How much can I quote a research article before I infringe on copyright?",
"I have 400 words of quoted and lightly paraphrased material from a scientific journal article. Would it be infringing copyright to share this on the internet? Note: most of the material is also cited by the one article I am citing. \nMaybe I should go back to the original sources and quote them individually so as to avoid such a large amount coming seemingly from the same article? Would that matter? What are the rules?"
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"copyright"
] |
[
"Is it possible to trade up during ones PhD in Mathematics?",
"I have been accepted into a Ph.D. program at a school that is a decent top 50 on the US News. Has anyone had any experience with 'trading up' after one gets their terminal master? At my undergrad, there have been cases of students entering the Ph.D. program and then transferring after 2 years to a better institution after getting their terminal master. Would this be a feasible plan?\n\nFor example https://mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=836&p=4603&hilit=trade+up#p4603"
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"transfer-student"
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"I am confused if this professor will fund me or not, I feel it is rude to ask directly",
"Recently I applied for a summer research internship in a lab in South Korea. \nThis was the reply from the prof.\n\n\n Dear Student,\n \n Thank you for contacting me for internship.\n You have worked with an excellent scientist, Dr. Manhattan, which draws my attention. \n With his recommendation letter, I am willing to host your internship in my lab.\n What you shall study, unless you have something else particularly in mind, will be numerical calculation similar to what is in the attached paper.\n \n Best regards,\n \n Professor X\n\n\nWhat does he mean by \"host\"? Does it mean funding? How do I go on about asking him politely about it?"
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"What is the role of your advisor and other lab members in your research work?",
"I have a very simple question : how involved should a Ph.D. advisor be in the work of a Ph.D. student ?\nShould he / she be correcting the work assigned to the student after few days / weeks of student's work, won't they check anything for simulations outputs for example ? or should they be saying few guiding words and it's up to the student to write code, simulate and write the paper ?\nThanks."
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"How realistic it is to change to a different field of mathematics after PhD?",
"Once I was told that in mathematics, after one gets a PhD, it is very hard to change one's field of specialization (within maths). Is this true? What are the reasons? How common are counterexamples?\n\nIn your answers please also specify what country are you talking about, if you believe it matters."
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"mathematics",
"changing-fields"
] |
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"I'm an accomplished person in my field, but don't have any degree. Would I be able to be a teacher or substitute?",
"As far as I'm aware, the base requirement to be a teacher or substitute requires a degree. However in my case, I've been working in my career field for going on 10 years. I'm wondering if it's possible to move to Academia, either part-time or full-time without having a formal college degree.\n\nLately, I've been having an \"itch\" to impart my own experiences and knowledge on students that are just starting out. I haven't decided on what exactly I want, but it could be anything from a guest speaker to teaching a full-time class."
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"teaching",
"education"
] |
[
"Oxford vs Job in Silicon Valley",
"I have an admission from Oxford University DPhil (CSE) . I also have a job in Silicon Valley with a startup that is a well funded late stage venture . Which one should I choose ? I am looking for insights in Visa differences , Rewards after the Dphil vs the current rewards I will get from the job. I am aware that I might not get the same salary in UK as in US . I am also aware that Oxford itself has great prestige. So my question also weighs prestige against money in my opinion."
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"united-states",
"job",
"united-kingdom"
] |
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"Asking for status of faculty position search during coronavirus pandemic",
"I applied for a faculty position and did a video interview. It was supposed that they let me know if I have been selected for campus or not. In the middle of the interview with other candidates, this COVID-19 happened and I am not sure what strategy they will take as the target university has canceled all in-person classes and shifted to an online model. \n\nWould it be appropriate to ask the committee about the status of the search?\n\nWhat factors would affect the university's response in such a case?"
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"tenure-track",
"covid-19"
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