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"How can you identify which are the strongest PhD programs in particular subfields?",
"I'm an undergraduate student (United States) majoring in X, applying to PhD programs with a research focus in subfields Y and Z.\n\nI conjecture that the best universities for Y and the best universities for Z are not necessarily the same, and I want to narrow down my PhD applications to universities that are known for one or both of these subfields.\n\nNone of the professors at my university's X department do much research in either Y or Z, and they seem to not have the greatest idea where I should apply - I usually get generic answers like Prestigious University U, which may or may not be what I'm looking for.\n\nThe other concern is that I've taken a few graduate classes regarding Y and Z, but in no way am I fluent in the fields, nor have I done direct research in these fields. As such, it would be difficult for me to attempt to read research papers about Y and Z to try to back out which universities produce the best work.\n\nHow might I go about finding the strongest programs in Y and Z?"
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"Can I ask a postdocter candidate to write a recommendation letter for applying to graduate school",
"I'm working in a lab as an undergraduate worker. Can I ask one of my lab member who is a postdocter candidate for a recommendation letter?"
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"What is a \"good\" PhD dropout rate, and how would we know?",
"In a few questions/answers on here (e.g., here), passing reference has been made to the difficulty of determining a good/acceptable/healthy dropout rate for a PhD program. However, I haven't seen any questions directly asking how this question is or can be addressed. In practice, it seems this question must come up. If a lot of students drop out of a program, the faculty (not to mention the other students) must begin to wonder if something is awry.\n\nThe difficulty, of course, is that an ideal dropout rate is probably neither 0% nor 100%. (If no one drops out, the program is likely to be too easy; if everyone drops out, the program is probably too challenging.) How do departments/schools deal with this question in practice? How do they distinguish between \"good\" dropouts (where the faculty and student agree dropping out is best for all concerned and there is no ill will) and \"bad\" dropouts (where the dropout is due to burnout, a harsh environment, lack of funding, etc.), and track those outcomes over time? How do they avoid self-protective rationalizations (e.g., \"our program can't be too/hard easy\" based on review of the program content rather than the dropout rates)? Are there established ways of looking at the dropout pattern and evaluating it?\n\nAs a sort of side note, I'd be interested in hard data on dropout rates. Although there are numerous popular-press articles and blogs lamenting the dropout rates, the only concrete data I've been able to find is this slideshow and a few other things that seem to be drawing on the same data. (It's rather surprising that there is so much discussion of the \"problem\" with so little discussion of how to decide whether it's actually a problem or not. There seem to be many articles saying \"the dropout rate is so horribly high!\" and very few saying why it's considered high, and what would be considered low or normal.)\n\nJust to clarify: I recognize that the dropout rate is not the only meaningful assessment of a program's health or quality. My question is not \"How do you decide everythig about a program based just on the dropout rate?\" My question is \"How do you decide what the dropout rate is telling you about the health and quality of the program?\" You will of course combine that information with other kinds of assessments of the program."
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"What are the pros and cons of publishing a new unpublished idea in a poster session in a leading conference?",
"I worked on an idea and got new results. I came across a very prestigious conference that calls for poster abstracts. I sent mine and it was accepted for a poster presentation.\nShould I present it there or it is better to publish it as a paper first?\nWhat are the pros and cons of submitting my idea as a poster?\nAlso, I want to mention that I worked on the idea independently without a supervisor which was the main motive for me to send the idea in the poster session.\nWhat advice would you give me also?\nThanks"
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"As a new faculty member, how do I avoid the Peter Principle?",
"Quoth the Wikipedia:\n\n\"The Peter Principle is a proposition that states that the members of an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability. The principle is commonly phrased, 'Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence.'\"\n\nIn academia, we have a tendency to promote brilliant and productive young researchers (e.g., grad students and postdocs) into positions with a large management component (i.e., assistant professors who must run a research group). God willing, I will get promoted. But during my PhD,\n\nI was not trained as a manager!\n\nThe conventional wisdom is: it doesn't matter! No professor ever took management training, and, hey, everything \"works out\" in the end. The main problem I have with that statement are the quotes around \"works out.\" I have seen friends suffer through horrible, painful, sad grad school experiences as a result of having advisors who are brilliant researchers and terrible managers. Likewise, the advisor suffers because she/he is investing time/energy/money in a student that doesn't produce anything. So my question is\n\nQ: How do I avoid becoming a terrible manager?\n\nIn particular, what kinds of activities have you seen successful leaders of large-ish research groups engage in? Did they take training specifically targeted at managing groups? Read certain books? Talk about it a lot with senior colleagues? Make lots of posts on academia.stackexchange? Or did they really all just fly by the seat of their pants, and let natural selection take its course?\n\nThanks!"
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"Reference citations sequence for \"Crescent Classification\"",
"Kindly can one guide me about crescent classification in references citation. \nI have received a review that is following\n\n\n \"for instance in the sequence of citations [5], [7] and [6], which must\n be changed to cope to a crescent classification\"\n\n\nI have searched through the google but couldn't find any solution or knowledge about it.\n\nThanks."
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"If I proposed my PhD this year (but have not defended) can I say that I graduated this year?",
"I am in a PhD program, and all I need to do is defend. There is still a little more work I need to do before this, but my degree is essentially finished. I have totally completed all other requirements (classes, qualifying exams, proposals, publications, etc). \n\nIn my field (engineering) it is common to immediately begin applying for jobs after the proposal. So, after many interviews, I was offered a job. They want me to start ASAP. I am thinking this will push my PhD defense back 1 to 1.5 years. \n\nAnyways, on my resume, linkedin, etc I would rather say me PhD was 2009 - 2015 (6 years) than 2009 - 2016/2017. (7-8 years). Would it be acceptable to state that this year (2015) is my graduation year? I feel I'm selling myself short is I state 2016 or 2017 as my graduation year."
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"Email to potential advisor after submitting an application",
"I applied to graduate school in US about two months ago and I am still waiting for my result. I was thinking may be it is a good idea to email my potential advisor again and asked them whether they have looked at my application or what is the status of my application?\n\nCan you please tell me how to start this email? How should I politely ask about status of my application?"
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"Refer to arxiv version?",
"Am I breaking some kind of rule if I'm adding the arxiv link to the bibitem for an article that's published in a journal? I thought obviously not until I noticed that (link to arxiv) and (page number in journal) are quite mutually exclusive."
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"Do refreshments attract audience to seminars?",
"In academia, is there evidence that including phrases such as \"refreshments provided\" in a seminar announcement increases the average attendance (even slightly)?"
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"Junior academic jobs in the time of COVID-19",
"During these unprecedented times, it is quite hard to predict whether any recently advertised academic jobs will be still available next fall, as some countries might enforce social distancing or lockdown for a whole year. Still, many conferences are cancelled or delayed this year, thus getting papers published harder, alongside with academic path progression. I guess that we should be trying to get journal papers accepted instead...\n\nGiven that I am at the end of a fixed term assistant professor position (looking possibly forward for an open term/tenure track one), I'm asking if it will be possible that universities will still be hiring new APs when they might be asked to close until further notice (e.g, UK). Is it still possible that some degrees will convert all of their modules into on-line classes (e.g., for Computer Science), thus allowing universities to get the same number of students they expected in the following academic year? This is still a relevant question - I think -, as the hiring of new junior accademic staff goes hand in hand with an expected increased amount of students on campus. Do you have any insight on this, or do you think that it is too early to make any possible educated guess? \n\nThanks a lot for your suggestions."
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"How to index a Google Scholar article and its author in Google itself as well",
"I have published an article on Google Scholar back in 2018. Although it can be found by searching my name (the author) or the title of the article in Google Scholar, it cannot be found in Google.com\nWhile entering some authors in Google results in something like this:\n\nI get neither "Scholarly articles for" nor do I even end up with a result from Google Scholar in the list at all. How can I make Google index this for me?"
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"Is it necessary to customize letters of recommendation with recipient names?",
"I am concerned to the fact that how a professor whom I am asking to write an LOR, will change the name of the person every time before sending? I am applying to like 100 different persons for the position of postdoc. Does it really matter that it should be addressed appropriately (name basis)?\n\nI am working in the interdisciplinary field of materials chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental remediation, physical and theoretical chemistry."
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"Structuring two first authors equal contribution in computer science publication",
"Sorry if this is a naive question. We tried finding guidelines, but have failed to find concrete advice. \n\nThere are N authors (where N>2) in our publication. Two authors have equal contribution. We are aware of the custom of putting an asterisk and writing a footnote about equal contribution.\n\nHowever, while arranging the names of authors with equal contribution, how should they be arranged – alphabetically by last name? For instance, if the names are John Foe and Jane Doe, should they be arranged alphabetically by last name: Jane Doe*, John Foe*?"
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"What is considered as the time since PhD degree granted?",
"In certain postdoc positions, the eligibility criteria says, "candidate's PhD has received their PhD within last 4 years."\nSo, if I defended on December 2019 and got my degree (convocation) on May 2020. Started postdoc from June 2020. So will my 4 years from now will be calculated on the basis of May 2020 or December 2019?"
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"I discovered a mistake in my application after being accepted to a master's program. What should I do? Will my offer be rescinded?",
"I have been accepted to Duke for the MS in ECE program for Fall 2021.\nI just checked my proof of application and there has been an error. It lists my minor as "Economics" whereas I have no such minor.\nI have not deliberately tried to falsify my education, I think it could've been a human error on my part (I wanted to specify minor as Electronics since it only mentioned Electrical Engineering as the major). I only saw this right now, and I didn't catch the mistake when I first submitted the application or I would've contacted the admissions team right then. I was able to view this from my "proof of application" which is for personal use only.\nI have been accepted to a STEM MS and I don't see how not having an Economics minor should change anything.\nDuke's my first choice, I don't know what to do.\nShould I email said university about the error? I don't think I made the mistake. Will they rescind my application?"
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"How will returning to your PhD advisor as a post-doc affect future career options in academia?",
"I am currently in a joint teaching/research post-doctoral position at a university that is different than where I obtained my PhD. There may be an opportunity in the future for me to return to my old PhD advisor and be hired on as a post-doc once my tenure is up here. I don't really NEED the job as I have decent job security teaching where I currently am. It will, however, keep the door open for sustaining good research, publishing, and gaining grant-writing skills... the latter being something that my current post-doc advisor has never offered me... And yes, personally I would like to go back and work for them again (for a variety of professional related reasons).\n\nI understand this will be a lateral move at best but I am trying to gain sufficient understanding on how this will affect future career options in academia. I've been told that this type of situation can cause people to simply overlook you when applying for faculty positions at higher-ranked schools. I'm not really interested in joining some \"Top 50\" research university either but I'm not willing to join a pure undergraduate research program just yet either.\n\nPlease advise."
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"Should I tell a colleague that he's serving as an editor for a predatory journal?",
"A colleague of mine, who I regard scientifically, just invited me to submit an article to a special issue of a journal which I consider predatory.\nI consider this journal predatory because its publisher released several journals that are considered predatory in my scientific community (bioinformatics), and also for some details like the super-fast review and acceptance process.\nThe last article this journal published, for example, has the following review and acceptance times listed:\n\nSubmission: 12th September 2020\nRevision: 23th October 2020\nAcceptance: 28th October 2020\nPublication online: 29th October 2020\n\nThis aspect is very suspicious to me.\nWhat should I do now?\nShould I tell him that I think the journal is predatory?\nIn this case, he might get offended, and this situation might compromise our future relationship. Like, he might not want to collaborate with me anymore in the future.\nBut if I say nothing, the scam could go on..."
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"Abbreviations in journal papers",
"Do I expand abbreviations at their first use per section or per paper?\n\nThis is an IEEE publication, but I haven't come across any specific instructions."
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"Should I address my GPA declination in my personal statement?",
"Basically, my last two years GPA is much lower than my first two years: I got almost straight 4.0 in first two years but my junior year is a mess (one semester is 2.7) and my last semester GPA pump up a little with 3.5. I think the main reason is that I feel depressed with the over-packed schedule (I took 7 courses with a job in lab in the semester of 2.7) and slow progress of research. But, should I mention those in my personal statement?\n\nI am triple majored in CS, Econ, and Math. I am planning to apply for Master degree in CS.\n\nThanks in advance."
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"Feeling inadequate as a PhD student",
"I just started a STEM PhD before last christmas and whilst things are going okay, I still feel like I'm not good enough and don't deserve the opportunity. I guess it's some form of imposter syndrome but it's driving me to become irrationally attached to my work because I lack confidence that it's good enough to impress my supervisor.\nI consistently overwork myself and as a result my personal life is suffering- I even feel bad about taking weekends off. None of what I do feels like it's good enough and I constantly feel like a failure- I have a presentation in the next few weeks to present my project progress and I'm dreading it.\nHow do I ditch this mentality?"
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"Doctoral Advising: No Available, Appropriate Chairs",
"I work at a regional university in the United States. Several years ago (before I arrived) our department admitted five years of doctoral students (approximately 50 students) as general admits to a distance doctoral program without assigning chairs. \n\nNow those students are reaching comps and the dissertation. Four faculty left in the last year which is stressing our already over-capacity workloads. \n\nMany students are interested in topics for which we have no faculty experts. We are going to hire a new faculty cohort in the next five years but there is no guarantee those faculty interests will match our students’. \n\nAre faculty obligated to work with and graduate students we did not admit? \n\nIs there a precedent for such a situation?"
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"To what extent should a reader be required to read a paper to understand a chapter?",
"I am doing a master thesis and have more or less written my report. My supervisor has from time to time read my paper and from the feedback I get she wants to be able to skip to a later chapter and read it without necessarily reading exactly everything else before. This seems a bit odd to me, but I have not thought about it before as the papers I've read I read from the introduction and onwards.\n\nMy outline is introduction, related work, method, results, discussion, conclusion.\n\nSo, to what extent should I expect/force a reader to read previous chapters that are relevant but not critical for understanding the paper? Should the method chapter be written in a way that you don't have to read the related work and introduction chapter? Should you be able to skip to the results and discussion and understand them without reading the method chapter?"
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"What to do when professor is not responding to emails or calls and his action is required to commence a masters thesis?",
"I'm planning to start my master thesis soon. It will be an external thesis in a company.\nAs this kind of thesis is not very common in German universities, I need to find a professor to supervise me during the whole semester. \n\nLuckily, a professor agreed to supervise me and advised me to meet with one of his PhD students to discuss my task, whether it meets all requirements.\nWe met the following day. Afterwards, I sent my professor an email to arrange a meeting to clarify some things and get his final OK.\nAs he hadn't responded for about a week, I sent a reminder. This time he answered, we met and discussed more things. He even suggested to call my boss to clarify my task, so that I don't need to \"liaise\" between them.\nAfter talking to my boss, I sent my professor another email with times, my boss is available for the call.\nThis email remained unanswered for another week, as well. I wasn't sure how to react, so I contacted my professor's secretary. She told me to send him another reminder, also she would talk to him.\nHe answered me a few days later and promised, to call my boss during the following 2 days.\nUnfortunately, he didn't.\n\nI'm in an awkward situation now. My boss asks me regularly about my professor, because I can't officially start my thesis before we have his OK. I'm waiting for about a month now.\nThe phone call between them wouldn't last more than 10 minutes and all the little issues about my thesis would be resolved.\nHis secretary said, this behaviour is very uncommon. Also, I never had any problems with this particular professor."
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"Is taking a method explanation from books and papers considered plagiarism?",
"I have been reading a few Q/A about plagiarism, but I still have a doubt about the use of books and papers to explain the method I am applying in my thesis. \n\nI mixed up the infos I found in a book and in a paper to explain the method (because some parts where better explained in the book and some others in the paper), of course I cited them at the beginning and I put them in the bibliography. Is this considered plagiarism since I am not using \"my words\" to explain it?\n\nEDIT to be clearer: I am not doing copying and paste: I am following the same flow of ideas to present the method, some parts where omitted in the paper, therefore I had to rely on the book to take care of every aspect\n\nAnd at the beginning I wrote:\"the method is fully explained here [1][2] and it is here reported for completeness"
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"What can a student do if he has problems with homework problems that he is unable to solve?",
"In university courses, is it possible or good habit to ask help for homework exercises one can't solve? I mean, someone might think it is cheating but on the other hand, should a student be stuck in some particular problem for days? \n\nThe course I take is about version control on git and there are questions in an online system. One question has six different true/false questions, where one can choose on different alternatives. The system has informed me that my answer is incorrect; however, it does not explain why my answer is incorrect, and I'm not able to figure that out by myself."
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"How to prevent too many students from making appointments to meet with you when you put \"Office Hours: ..., or by appointment\" on the syllabus?",
"In the past I have included the following statement on my syllabus:\n\n\n Office Hours: Mon 1-2pm, Weds 3-5pm, or by appointment\n\n\nHowever, I am beginning to get too many requests for appointments. Appointments are really inefficient. They waste both of our time trying to schedule them, and with multiple appointments per week in addition to office hours, even holding them takes a lot of time away from research. How do you accommodate students who can't make your office hours without devoting too much time to this task? \n\nI thought about setting up a class message board where they can ask each other and answer each other's questions - anonymously if they wish - (I can also answer questions on the message board) and put on the syllabus \"All content related questions should be posed in class, on the message board or in office hours. I do not reply to questions about content via email. Please schedule an appointment to meet with me if you are having difficulty getting a question answered after trying the above options\" \n\nSome Background: I'm a graduate student lecturer. I teach 2 sections of calculus, so about 60 students. Since classes are small (~30), there are about 10 lecturers (some are faculty and some are grad students with masters degrees) and we all have office hours. Mine tend to be very crowded, about 5-10 students showing up (some from other sections). I tell my students to go to other instructor's office hours, but they say they aren't as helpful."
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"Can I get an admission for a mathematics masters program with only an acceptable GRE subject score and an unrelated bachelors degree?",
"I have a degree in Civil Engineering and I want to continue my studies in the field of mathematics. I think the only option that I have to enhance my application is to take the GRE mathematics subject test. If I can get a good score, will I have a chance to get an admission in a top university?\nThanks."
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"multiple authors format for saving space",
"I am submitting the final version for an ACM sponsored conference and I am dubious about what would be the correct format to include multiple authors (with multiple I mean more than tree). The ACM template has the following author heading:\n\n\n\nin which I need to add another author, but If I do that in a new line (apart that the Word template moves horrible to the left side) then I will be out of the limits of pages that the conference established.\n\nI would like to know, and maybe it sounds like a silly question if I can do the following:\n\n\n\nThe four authors belong to the same institution, and the only thing that changes is the email. Any help?\n\nThanks"
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"Writing On the Board vs. Showing Slides",
"There is a new trend on some Universities (in engineering and science majors), that professors show lecture slides over a video projector on the screen instead of writing on the chalkboard. They enter the hall, stay two hours totally passive before the students and read the slides aloud without explaining it. I even have had a mathematics course, in which the professor read the slides like a textbook without explaining them on the board or working examples. \n\nAre you also affected? Which method do you think is more effective? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? (I myself believe the chalkboard is much more effective.)"
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"Can analyzing data from an existing public online database be considered orginal work?",
"I wish you all a Merry Christmas. I have a question but found no solution to it using the search function.\nI would like to ask whether summarizing and analyzing data from an existing online database could be considered original work? The database is freely accessible and it does not require registration. Data is completely anonymous. I can give an example:\nLet us assume there is a database that contains information about the food quality at hospitals. People can upload their experience to a database without providing names / identifiable information. I would like to analyze the data and summarize it to answer basic questions (e.g. if people were satisfied with the food quality in hospitals in 2020 based on the ratings).\nSo I am not referring to a situation where one needs to register, e.g.:\nUsing public profile data from website for research\nMy field is medicine."
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"What questions do prospective advisors ask during first meeting?",
"I'm in a PhD program and I'm preparing myself to meet a prospective advisor for the first time. I want to know what questions do they usually ask students in their first meeting? What do they expect? I've looked at the following discussions and they were helpful but did not answer my question completely.\n\nHow do I impress my prospective grad advisor? (first meeting)\n\nEtiquette for an initial meeting with a prospective advisor: What is expected of the student?"
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"How to edit name on existing publications after a name change?",
"Assume that I publish many papers in many journals and someday I changed the family name (my last name). How can I edit that where my papers have been published? and is it easy process?"
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"Publishing as an independent researcher",
"Could I submit a (Math) paper in a journal (i.e. ArXiv or Annals of mathematics) as an independent researcher (not associated with any university)?\n\nWhat is the process to submit a paper without affiliation?"
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"How do I tell if the content of an academic conference is available?",
"A post on an official site gives Abstract Details about a presentation. \n\nHowever I didn't see a link to see or buy the full content.\n\nHow do I tell if the content of this presentation is available?"
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"time management for applications: apply more or apply better?",
"I am a postdoc applying for tenure-track assistant professorship positions. I am writing one application per day and have less time that positions to apply for: some job offers expire before I am able to submit. Recently, the templates of my application files (cv, research statement, teaching statement, cover letter) have been proof-read by a native English speaker, and some blatantly embarrassing errors have been found and corrected.\n\nIt would take me 1-2 full days to correct about 7 applications which have already been uploaded to the human-resources sites of various institutions but which are still editable. What's better: invest time into one or two new applications or correct errors in the old ones?"
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"How to deal with fear of failure as a PhD student?",
"I am working on a mathematical topic that is basically my own concoction. I have days where even the simplest thing takes ages to do and I realize that's because, deep down, I am terrified that things might not work out. This is in different way: I am scared my topic might not be novel enough, appreciated etc. ; I am also scared that checking parts of proofs will reveal catastrophic mistakes. \n\nI rationally realize that this is part of the game and I do my best to take mistakes I find as good news that my work is improving, but at times I am just paralyzed and unable to do things.\n\nI am also bothered by the presence of colleagues in my office, afraid they might judge my work (and at the same time going to a hidden place in the library helps a little but is also very annoying and uncomfortable). \n\nI am sure this must be, to a different degree, experienced by many PhD students. \n\nWhat are some strategies to fight fear as you work? \n\nNote that I realize there really is a deeper confidence issue and I am already seeking help for that. I'd be happy to hear considerations on the possibility of therapy or counseling and how it worked for you as well as day to day tips and strategies."
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"Listing expected graduation GPA along with current GPA for grad admission of senior undergraduate",
"I am a senior undegraduate CS student who is interested in applying for a good grad school (current GPA 3.76/4.00, distinguished in engineering competitions, written a lot of code, has 2 papers - one before university and is currently working on multiple research projects). \n\nI am now filling in the application form of some particularly demanding grad schools (e.g. Stanford, MIT) and I am faced with the following dilemma: \n\nI have some remaining courses to pass (since I have not completed the 10 semesters that are required) until the end of this year. Moreover, I have not defended my thesis yet (although I have almost completed it).\nMy thesis counts for 20% of the grade (and it is almost impossible to get a grade different than 4.0/4.0) and all the courses (passed and ongoing) count for the rest 80%. Having this in mind and being optimistic enough, I suspect that my finishing grade will be about 3.8/4.0.\n\nI am finalizing my SOP and CV and I am faced with the following question:\n\n\n Should I list my expectation for a finishing grade along with the current GPA that is on my official transcript? \n\n\nMy problem is that on the one side, I feel not being fair to myself since it is a feasible goal and the overall work I have done is not directly depicted in my current transcript. On the other, I am afraid that I may get a conditional offer like \"maximize your graduation GPA\" and in a semester which I am currently doing research and, personally, optimizing course grades is my primary objective. \n\n\nI would like to hear advice, especially incidents of (if they exist) of such offers, as well as experience from other students who were in this quandary. \nWould that really count given my academic profile?"
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"How do I find the standing of a journal or conference for an academic CV?",
"I'm writing an academic CV for a PhD application and they have asked for the standing of journals or conferences of published articles.\n\n\n Research publications\n \n Include articles published or accepted for publication (with the three most significant marked with an asterisk). Please specify the publication details, your contribution as an author to multi-authored publications, plus the standing of the journal or conference.\n\n\nI'm really not sure what they are looking for or how to express this. Is it the impact factor of the journal? And what about conference proceedings which don't have impact factors?"
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"Is it a good idea to email a potential grad adviser a modified motivation essay after I have submitted my application?",
"I am applying for a master's program in electrical engineering/applied physics. After I submitted my motivational essay, I felt that I could have talked more about my experience. Is it a good idea to email my potential adviser a modified essay?"
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"Do scholars blog or only prefer to publish papers?",
"Are there scholars who blogs independently their thoughts not over papers? If so, which platform do they use?"
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"What do professors do with personal copies of old textbooks?",
"I've been teaching a few years now and the number of older editions of textbooks is beginning to pile up in my office. There is no policy at my university for disposal of old textbooks. These books were purchase with department funds and it troubles me to throw them away. They content is still relevant as the newer editions are not ground-breaking in material.\n\nMy questions are as follows...\n\n\nPlease share how you deal with older editions of textbooks? \nIs there a policy at your institution (if so please share) or do you have a personal way of dealing with this problem (again please share)?"
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"How to ask for employment help or referral from someone you don't know?",
"I will use fake names for the sake of anonymity. I have recently completed my PhD and applied to a professor position at University ABC. It has been almost 3 months since my application and I sent out an email to the Chair of the department (who presumably is the person in charge of recruiting academic/faculty members) but did not receive any response. There is another senior faculty member at University ABC, Dr. M, whose research is similar to mine and whose work I have referenced in my thesis. Moreover, Dr. M also attended the same university as my academic supervisor but they have never formally met.\n\nDr. M may not be involved at all in the recruitment process. However, I would like to ask for Dr. M's help in case he is able to give my application a push.\n\nI am not sure how to write an email to Dr. M to ask for his help in such a scenario since there is no reason for me to believe that he is involved in the recruitment process. Nevertheless, I do want this job and I wan to do everything I can to make sure my application gets properly considered. How can I go about this task?"
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"Do Nature journals wrongly claim copyright in their published pdfs?",
"I just noticed this and I'm slightly confused by a small detail.\n\nThe Nature Publishing Group states in its Publishing Licences page that the copyright on articles remains with the author:\n\n\n NPG does not require authors of original (primary) research papers to assign copyright of their published contributions. Authors grant NPG an exclusive licence to publish, in return for which they can reuse their papers in their future printed work without first requiring permission from the publisher of the journal.\n\n\nMoreover, this is supported by the Licence to Publish agreement, which explicitly states that\n\n\n \n [...] the Authors grant to NPG [...], subject to clause 2 below, the\n exclusive licence (a) to publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the Contribution in all forms [...].\n \n\n\nand\n\n\n \n Ownership of copyright remains with the Authors, and provided that, when reproducing the Contribution or extracts from it, the Authors acknowledge first and reference publication in the Journal, the Authors retain the following nonexclusive rights: [...].\n \n\n\n\n\nHowever, the published articles have a clear Macmillan copyright marker. Taking this paper as an example:\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIs NPG wrongly asserting copyright to the entire article? It is my understanding that they could still be claiming copyright over the copy-editing and formatting, but since they have explicitly opted for a licence to publish instead of a copyright transfer, it seems to me that they should be crediting the authors with the copyright, e.g. along the lines of \n\n\n © 2015 Qian Wang, Edward T. F. Rogers, Behrad Gholipour, Chih-Ming Wang, Guanghui Yuan, Jinghua Teng and Nikolay I. Zheludev. All rights reserved.\n\n\nfor the above-quoted example, with whatever legalese they felt necessary to indicate that they own the exclusive publishing licence. \n\nIs there some interesting detail about copyrights that I'm missing here? Or is this simply a fudge?\n\n\nI understand that this is not a big question and that it is on the edges of this site's purview, but I still think it is interesting. If the community decides that this is too much on the legal-question-answerable-only-by-a-lawyer, would migration to Law Stack Exchange be appropriate?"
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"What prevents reviewers from providing biased and very negative reviews?",
"One of the fundamental features of science, maybe even the most important, is that publication of scientific results is peer-reviewed. \n\nI want to understand why peer review is effective in the scientific community, because I want to apply principles of peer review to a different domain.\n\nAs I understand it, a researcher is reviewing work of a competitor who is producing scientific results in exchange for grant funds and reputation, usually same as the reviewing researcher does. Of course, this competition may not be very direct, but the reviewer is in an overlapping area of research. In addition, there is some natural bias of every human being to groom their own ego. Based on this, I expect most reviews to be very negative. However, it seems that biased and extremely negative reviews are rare for decent submissions. \n\nWhat stops reviewers from providing biased negative reviews?"
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"How to get a second Bachelor's degree in an unrelated field?",
"I was studying journalism in my country, but I realised it's not for me at all. I kind of had to apply there because there aren't really any good schools in things I was interested in. I was thinking of applying to a Physics school in the USA or UK, but all the universities I looked up say I won't be eligible because I already hold a Bachelor's degree, so what do I do? Has anyone of you done that before? Which schools allow this, since top schools won't?\n\n\nAnd please, don't suggest I go and get a master's in journalism instead, that is not happening. \nAnd yes, I can do physics and am really good at maths so none of that \"are you sure you want it, physics is hard...\"\nNo, money is not an issue for me if I won't be eligible for any type of scholarship."
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"Who do I email about a question on a paper?",
"I want to ask the authors of a paper if they have thoughts on an application of their work. I'm not sure who to email.\n\nThe first author is a grad student, who is supervised by the last author - however, the authors are in alphabetical order so I'm not sure if there is any meaning to the ordering. The paper is in economics, which traditionally goes alphabetically, I believe.\n\nShould I email all the authors in one bulk message? Just the professors? Choose one of the authors at random and email them?"
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"I create a software in order to solve a step of an specific problem. The results obtained (aided by the software) are going to be published in some journal. The focus of the publication is far away from that step.\n\nThe software may be very useful for other people because that step is involved in many common problems. It is not a huge code, but neither me or my collaborators known about other similar software for the matter. We know many researchers that solve it manually in long time.\n\nI want to make the software available online. I wish to do it in some way that it can be cited (and the cites counted).\n\nI can include the code in the supporting information, but I think that it has some downsides:\n\n\nHard to find compared to a site like github.\nImpossible to polish and improve it. \n\n\nIf I don't attach it to a paper, then I don't know how it can be cited.\n\nIn short I want to: Make the code widely avaliable in some way that let me collect cites, and make me free to modify/improove the code after publication.\n\nIs there any way? Which are my best options?"
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"Long story short, I'm a struggling first year graduate student. I considered myself very lucky when I found out that I was accepted into one of the best programs in my field, but didn't realize at the time how steep the learning curve would be to work alongside the best. I work in a wet lab, which I joined three months ago. However, given that I had very little research experience in undergrad, I've had a rough start. I don't think I fully realized the level of critical thinking skills that would be expected of me, and still depended on other people to tell me what to do and what to work on. A lot of science conversations I've had with people in the lab have also been completely over my head. Like I should be the one developing novel knowledge, yet sometimes I can't even understand someone else when they describe something to me (not just older grad students either, a lot of the undergrads also know more than me)... As a result, people in the lab have started treating me like I'm stupid or inferior, and my PI is slowly decreasing my level of responsibility. \n\nI've spent the past few months in complete depression and anxiety, which is making the problem even worse. I would really like to change this situation, and have been working really hard on my project, but I'm not sure whether it's already too late to change the impression of my labmates and PI. So I guess my questions are as follows:\n\n\nHave you ever had/known any grad students who started slow, but have reversed bad first impressions? How much harder did they have to work to achieve the same level of respect?\nWhat do you think of students that on average take longer to learn the same technique or concept? Should such student still stay in research given the amount of competition that now exists in academia, or is it realistically a waste of their time?\nHow would you recommend I go about making changes. Work harder and push out more experimental results? Dig into and understand literature broadly? How should I go about changing people's impressions of me?\nFor any PIs out there, what do you think of your students that are not meeting your expectations? Do you wish you never took them on as a student, or are you still rooting for them to make changes?"
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"Am I obliged to answer student queries that can readily be answered by reading the syllabus?",
"I maintain an email group for my class where the reading list and other course materials are made available to the students. Despite sharing all relevant information with them, I still have students asking me exact page numbers and sections from the book, and whether 'Topic X or Y will be on the exam'. I am fed up! Am I obliged to entertain these queries? They usually ask these queries on email or typically on sms.\n\nThis is a second-year undergraduate class (about 50 students) majoring in economics. I teach them a statistics course. I've included a link to the syllabus (page 2 of linked document).\n\nLink to syllabus"
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"Cite submitted paper in my master's thesis",
"Some time ago, I and another person submitted a paper to a conference. It has not yet been accepted. In my master's I want to express that the results of my algorithm (included in my thesis) have been compared to those of another algorithm in the submitted paper. In other words the derivation and results of my algorithm are included both in the thesis and the paper.\nHow do I cite the paper?\nI know this question has been asked many times but I were not able to find previous answers entirely reflecting my situation. Most importantly, the review process of the conference is double-blind and I am afraid that by specifying the name of the conference in my master's thesis, I am jeopardizing the anonymity.\nBut if I cannot mention to which conference it is submitted, very little of the actual bibtex entry remains. I suspect that because of this it best to simply cite it as @unpublished with a note specifying the status.\nI hope someone can confirm this for me or provide a better alternative. I simply do not want to make a fool of myself.\nUpdate:\nI eventually got around to speaking to my supervisor and we agreed that a citation of the form\n\nAuthor A, Author B (Me), ... Title Of Paper, Submitted, 2020\n\nwas appropriate. I reference this citation in the overview of my thesis and mention that parts of my work have been submitted to an international conference. As Buffy points out, some form of citation is absolutely required to avoid self-plagiarism. By citing myself I clearly indicate that I revisit material that is also submitted in a paper.\nI included the title of the submitted paper in the citation. Necessarily this puts anonymity at risk. The theses submitted to my university will be published. As its review process is shorter, we expect the thesis to be available before the paper is accepted. Therefore it is theoretically possible that the reviewers could find my thesis and cross-reference the title of the paper I cite to the paper submitted to the conference. However, we concluded that this is quite an unrealistic scenario.\nNote that the name of the conference submitted to is left out. This is done primarily as the actual conference is, for me, unimportant (until it is potentially accepted). What matters is that I have contributed material to a paper, which reflects well on my thesis.\nIf you are more profiled than I, perhaps you must take further steps to anonymize the citation such that it cannot be cross-referenced to the paper. If so I would suggest you confer with your supervisor."
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"What systems are most effective for monitoring student attendance?",
"I work in the Computing and Mathematics School at my university (UK). This year the School has adopted a fairly aggressive policy regarding student attendance. If a student has a poor – or zero – attendance rate, the student is contacted and a dialogue opened. This has many benefits including identifying those students who have possible undiscovered or undeclared learning difficulties. \n\nIf a student’s attendance rate remains poor following a first intervention, a process of issuing formal warnings commences, culminating with the withdrawal of the student if the student does not start to engage with their course.\n\nAttendance is presently monitored at all laboratory and tutorial sessions. Attendance is not presently monitored for lectures. \n\nOur current system comprises a series of shared Google spreadsheets which contains the details of all students for all classes. Staff members enter attendance manually into the spreadsheet for their class.\n\nThe difficulty with this system is that there is presently no automatic link between the existing official university student record database and the attendance register spreadsheets. This means if students change groups, enrol late, withdraw, change course or units, all this information must be dealt with in a robust manner. Currently, such changes are implemented manually. This means errors are likely to be introduced into the attendance register.\n\nI notice that there are a number of commercial attendance monitoring solutions available which are based on hardware, e.g. Telepen. I would be interested in anyone’s experience with such systems, however I don’t forsee these to be ultimately workable in my case owing to the large cost. \n\nI am interested in software solutions. If your institution monitors student attendance, do you use any specialist software? If so, what do you use?\n\nAnother option – a preferable one – is to work within the existing university data systems.\nAll the necessary information regarding student details and activities is available. The problem arises when we try to ensure our ad hoc attendance register contains up to date student information. Ideally we’d use our Virtual Learning Environment to enter attendance data. Our VLE is Moodle. Are there any Moodle users out there who use Moodle to record attendance?"
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"Asking my prof. whether he is affected by the hurricane in Texas,",
"I and our security guards have not heard from nor seen a prof. of mine who I do research for. We do know that he is from Texas, but we are unsure of his exact hometown.\n\nHow can I email to ask about his and his family's safety without overstepping any boundaries?"
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"What to do with negative research outcomes (results) of PhD research experiment?",
"It is an expectation that the PhD would make an original contribution and/or advance knowledge in a given field. I understand this is a universal assumption for this level of study across all universities.\n\nOne of my friend's research experiment has not produced a single positive result. This was a science experiment, so it is easy to quantify whether the result is positive or negative.\n\n[It is a bit different in the social sciences, where the outcome (result) would be that either the null hypothesis is supported or rejected (with some analysis on the effect size to make the analysis meaningful in a given context). In other words, the data analysis either supports or does not support the proposition that is being investigated.]\n\nMy question is: What should a student do if none of the research outcomes or results are positive? \n\nSimply writing that nothing new was found does not add or advance knowledge other than to just confirm the status quo (which I guess is a form of contribution, but there has to be more than this at this level of research!)."
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"How to cite a thesis/paper when it's not available online?",
"In a published research paper, the author has cited a thesis/paper, which is not available online. The question is, when I'm writing my paper and I need to cite the corresponding unavailable paper/thesis, what should I do? Should I cite the original material even though I haven't read it? Or the paper that cited the unavailable material, say in its literature review section?"
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"Can affiliated university claim ownership of ideas presented in your paper?",
"I'm a part time lecturer in a university and conducted a research independently and I'm about to publish the result. I'm concerned about assigning the affiliation to the university. I'm afraid that I give them the power to limit my full rights over the paper. It's a paper with innovative ideas and I will continue to work on the ideas presented in this paper. \nI want to know exactly what the affiliated university can claim for if they want to? Can they claim for ideas in the paper as intellectual property of university?"
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"Will reviewers see acknowledgements in double blind peer review?",
"In the acknowledgements section of a paper, I am thanking some well known people in the field I am working in, for helping me revise the paper.\n\nJust out of curiosity: Do most conferences blank out the acknowledgements section? I feel like these people will add bias to the reviewers decision."
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"What are the benefits for claiming authorship on the arXiv?",
"When you post an article on the arXiv, it gives the poster a link for co-authors to claim authorship of the paper. I have claimed authorship for most of my articles but some in the beginning of my career were posted by senior collaborators and I have not yet claimed authorship. My name is on the paper, but not in the electronic sense in arXiv's servers. There is also a solo-author paper that arXiv that I submitted but arXiv does not have me registered as the author.\n\nAre there any reasons to try to fix this? What are the benefits to having a complete authorship record on arXiv's servers?"
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"In my second year of a three year PhD program and I now hate research. What career can I do?",
"I have just started my second year in a Health Education and Promotion PhD program. It is a three year program and I will be done with classes after this year. Next year is my dissertation year. Currently I do research and teach. I started doing research as a senior in my undergrad program and continued doing research while getting my MS in Health Education. I have a lot of publications and research experience but do not see myself doing research in the future. For the last year I began to realize that I hate research. I LOVE teaching online and some small classes but I realize that it is unlikely I will get a great career teaching online. I hate to drop out now since I do enjoy learning, taking the classes, and I only have a year and a half left until I graduate. My question is, what can I do with a Health Education PhD that is not research related besides being a professor? Could I use this degree in another field than health education or health promotion? My advisor keeps pushing research but I know I do not want to do that. Thank you!"
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"What makes for a \"strong\" LoR for graduate application?",
"I searched this site and it seems that some individual cases were addressed, but is there any general guideline? For example, between a renowned professor who may barely fill up one page, and another professor freshly hired from a postgrad who liked my course project and has more good things to say about me, whose LoR will be evaluated more highly by the committee? What (reputation, length, relevance of area, writing skills, etc) matters more for an LoR?\n\nThanks!"
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"My advisor used my research idea and wrote a paper with another student, what should I do?",
"I had an idea of using a specific type of data in a specific research area (sorry, I realize this sounds vague). No one has used this type of data in this area before. I shared the idea with my advisor. Recently I noticed the advisor and another student published a paper based on my idea. I think it is not fair. What do I do?\n\nEdit: Thank you all for the comments and answers.\nTo clarify a couple of things: it wasn't just a fleeting conversation or group brainstorming. I came up with the idea myself, did initial work, and shared it with the advisor. I would expect to be at least told they wanted to work on this even if they were to conduct an independent analysis. I do not think the time frame and other factors would allow forgetting where the idea came from. The group works on several topics and my idea was more like a side line project. There is a lot of publications coming from these main topics, so it's not like this specific paper would be crucial for future funding.\nI think the worst in the whole situation is that now I distrust my advisor."
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"Is it appropriate to ask a job candidate if we can record their interview?",
"I am part of a faculty search committee. One round of our process is Skype interviews of top candidates. Not all of our committee will be able to attend each interview (even remotely). \n\nWould it be appropriate to ask candidates if we can record their Skype interview to share among the committee? My concern is that candidates might not feel free to say no if they're uncomfortable being recorded.\n\nIn case it matters, this is in the United States."
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"Masters in mathematics after bachelors in mechanical engineering",
"I am in a bit of dilemma regarding my career aspirations.\nI am a mechanical engineering graduate from one of the top 5 IITs in India.\nI have a average CGPA of 8.87/10 (top 20 in my class).\nI have taken close to six mathematical courses like: Maths1(grade A), Maths2(grade B), Transform Calculus(Excellent grade), Partial Differential Equations( Excellent grade), Probability and statistics( grade A), Control systems( Excellent grade).\nCurrently I am working as a quantitative analyst for credit risk team at an investment bank, the job here has drawn me closer to the field of mathematics and statistics and through a lot of self-study, I have decided to pursue a masters course in statistics/applied mathematics and possibly use that masters degree for phd applications later.\nI am in my mid-twenties currently.\nI have self studied the entire statistical Inference book from Casella and Berger to supplement my knowledge/fill in the gaps.\nHowever the problem lies in the application part for the masters program as they require an undergraduate degree from mathematics and letters of recommendation, while I can arrange for letters of recommendation from my manager here at workplace and a few professors whom I did my bachelors project with/took their courses, however I am not sure how relevant they will be.\nI understand that because I don’t have a undergraduate in mathematics, even if I get admissions, they won’t be into any top coveted programs but I am willing to put in the extra effort/fill up the gaps using my experience in that college for graduate school admissions later on.\nDoes this sound like a plausible plan or am I working for a lost cause?\nDo I stand a chance with my profile for admissions into decent masters courses in mathematics in US?\nCan attending a decent mathematics masters program work as a stepping stone into some good graduate programs?\nAny insights would be helpful.\nThanks in advance."
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"Subreview papers, to what extent?",
"I am about to defend my PhD thesis in computer science and so far I have being asked to subreview 5 or 6 papers of different conferences.\nAt the beginning, it was exiting because it was a new experience in my career. However, at this moment I am a little bit snowed under work and I have being assigned with 2 subreviews from the same conference.\n\nI do not want to turn down the opportunity of expanding my knowledge and experience, nevertheless, this situation has brought to me serious doubts about the usefulness of subreviewing.\n\nApart from the acquisition of knowledge and experience, \n\n\nWhich are (or could be in a future) the benefits of subreviewing?\nIs there a moment in your career that it is not worth it anymore?\n\n\nThank you."
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"Realized a co-author inserted plagiarism into our paper 8 years ago - what to do now?",
"Recently, after the acceptance of a paper, the journal said some sentences were exactly copied in my manuscript. I was shocked as I was the first author. Later, we found that during the preparation of the revised manuscript, one of the co-authors exactly copied two sentences from a reference. This brought fear in my mind if I had ever been a co-author in an unintentionally plagiarized paper. I got access to the Turnitin from a friend at a different institute and checked all my previous papers. \n\nI realized that 8-10 years ago, a visiting student in my lab had significant portions of the published papers plagiarized. The data and analysis were correctly done in my supervision, but significant parts of introduction, methods and some places discussion were plagiarized. I had read and edited the drafts of the papers, but I didn't realize that he had copied text from other papers. Generally, most sources are cited. The student already earned a PhD based on the work. \n\nAt that time, no-one in our country had access to the plagiarism detection software from institutions. \n\nWhat should I do now?"
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"Obtaining a non-digitized thesis",
"I have been trying for a few weeks now to obtain a published thesis (this one, if you're wondering), but have had no luck in doing so. \n\nThere currently exists only one copy of this thesis, at the Lewis Library of Princeton. It has not been digitized. I have contacted the library to enquire about obtaining it, but not being currently affiliated with any university, the best they could offer me was to ask local libraries about inter-library loan programs. I have done so, and discovered that people were amazed that inter-library loans were still a thing, and after ferreting out the person in charge of it, discovered that they would not even consider an ILL from the US (I am in France). \n\nAre there any other process I can try to obtain a copy of that thesis?"
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"Are appeals of termination from PhD programs common and are there any unambiguously successful or unsuccessful approaches to fighting a termination?",
"I'm currently in the process of appealing a termination from my PhD program and although there are many facts concerning my case that I feel are relevant and important, I'm not sure how relevant they are in the consideration of my appeal. \n\nMy question is: how do I present my appeal in a way that ensures I have the best chance of success? \n\nThis may seem subjective, but there may be some objectively unsuccessful approaches to appealing such a decision. Are there any objectively successful ones? \n\nThe main thrust of my department's decision to terminate my candidacy is that I lack basic competency in topics related to my research. The issue is that the way my competency was evaluated was not in line with university and department guidelines (generally we are evaluated based on reports and formal meetings), I was evaluated based on my response to an email requesting more information from me about my research. In the grand scheme of things, this is a small part of the processes leading up to my termination, but it's what initiated the process. Would it be reasonable to appeal such a decision? \n\nIt is true that I don't have competency in the topics I was evaluated on, but these were part of one project I was working on and not related to the main thrust of my research, so I'm afraid I'm almost like a \"fish\" that was evaluated on its \"climbing\" ability (if that makes sense). I am confident I can \"swim\" quite well (meaning, I have other research merit as a PhD student), but there is no way I could \"climb\" in the time I was given.\n\nIt's simply nerve-racking and difficult consider my own assessment of myself over the assessment of experienced professors that seem to be making objective decisions about research ability, so I'm not sure whether my concerns are valid or not.\n\nFYI - this is in Canada."
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"Is it correct to get a scholarship to do your final degree work?",
"I applied for a public call for applications in which scholarships are awarded for the final year of my studies. The purpose of the fellowship is to promote the health sciences in other university studies.\n\nSpecifically, my studies are computer science and the project is to develop a web application to visualize medical images.\n\nI have also discovered that the process of researching and learning new concepts motivates me. However, the aspect of having the responsibility of programming the application frustrates me, fills me with anxiety and causes discomfort, since I am actually a student who is finishing my degree studies, and it is the first time that I am doing an application for real use.\n\nIn short, I like the subject of using medical images, I hate programming the application because I get frustrated quickly, because I encounter difficulties with mathematical concepts, graphics or web programming that I have not been taught during my studies. Still, I do love the purpose for which the application is intended: to help the students and the veterinary teacher.\n\nConsidering I've already been paid my scholarship, is it correct that I've been given it? \n\nEDIT:\n\nThere is a condition which states that tha maximum development time is a year since the scholarship's resolution which was on 10th november 2017.\n\nIs it correct that they pay it before the app has been developed?"
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"Placing large figures at end of paper",
"I have some elaborate drawings that need some space. I think putting them \"inline\" would break the flow of the (mathematics) paper. \n\nQuestions:\n\n\nWhere exactly should they go? Just before the References? Do I have to make a section header for them, like Figures or Appendix?\nSome of my figures will remain inline. Do I number the figures in order of appearance, or in the order they are referenced?\n\n\nThanks!"
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"Properly cite a document from the WHO assembly",
"I want to cite a document from this years WHO World Health Assembly. The document in question can be found by clicking on \"Main Documents\" on their page and then selecting the document with the title A71/21 (Improving access to assistive technology).\n\nI like to use IEEE referencing, so I would do it like this:\n\nWorld Health Organization (WHO). 2018.\nImproving access to assistive technology (A71/21).\nSeventy-first World Health Assembly, World Health Organization, Geneva.\nAvailable: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA71/A71_21-en.pdf. [Accessed: 03-Dec-2018]\n\nIs this acceptable?\n\nThanks!"
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"Would participating in student politics as a PhD student without an advisor create a bad impression?",
"When I had joined the program last year, I was assigned an advisor who was the one I'd wanted to work with. However, due to things not working out (because she thinks I lack the background), I have had to start looking for a new one, and that's what I was working on all summer. I'm still in the process of finding someone by working on small projects with some faculty (in order to show them I can do the kind of research they do). This kind of puts me a bit behind my cohort. In my department, most PhD students have an advisor within two quarters. While a lot of other students I spoke with told me that it is perfectly normal to be finding an advisor a bit later than year 1, I'm very much embarrassed about being at this stage. \n\nSo anyway, my department's academic advisor just sent out an email saying she needed someone to take up the role of President of the grad student organization of the department, and I really want to go for it. In the past, I've enjoyed working with people and organizing stuff; I really enjoy talking to people and putting forward people's problems and finding solutions to them, especially the seemingly small ones that actually do make a difference. \n\nMy question is, would faculty members consider it strange on my part if I ended up as President when I don't even have an advisor and a research project going for me? I mean, would it look like I don't have my priorities set straight? I wouldn't want to do it if there's even the slightest chance of it creating a bad impression."
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"Is it possible to be paid by a company for research and also use this research towards a Ph.D.?",
"The question in this link makes the assumption that the work you do at a private company and the work you do at a university for a Ph.D. do not intersect (or have very little in common), thus the person asks if \"it is too much work or stress\" to do both. This question (and its answer) got me to think of another related question.\n\nMy Question: I'm wondering if the research you do for a private company can be used towards a Ph.D.? For example, suppose I work for a private company X and I have been accepted into the Ph.D. program at university Y. \n\nIs it possible to be paid by company X for your research work, but at the same time use that research work to publish a paper along with your advisor at university Y?\n\nI think I already know the answer to the question: It's possibly only if your advisor at university Y and your supervisor at company X have a strong relationship of many years and trust each other. \n\nBut I'm wondering if there are other answers? \n\nSome background information about me: I have 10+ years of software engineering experience. I have a two B.S. degrees (Computer Engineering and Mathematics), one M.S. degree (Software Engineering), and a 2nd M.S. on the way in 2020 (Electrical Engineering). My plan is indeed to pursue a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2020."
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"Do I need to check references of the paper with cross checking softwares?",
"I've finished writing a paper with 2 co-authors. As everyone participated in the writing, I thought there might be some ( maybe unexpected) plagiarism in the paper. So I checked the paper with Cross check software, for some reasons I couldn't supply all of the paper to the cross check program at the same time.\nTherefore, I divided the paper in 4 parts in which, each part has almost 2,000 words.\nThe plagiarism level found by the program for part 1,2,3 and 4 are 12%,20%,1%,16%.\nSo my questions are:\n1) what is the overall plagiarism level of the paper? In other words, should get the average of these 4 parts or get their summation them? (assuming that each parts has 2000 words.)\n2) lets assume the last part only contains the references (16% plagiarism level detected). Do journals take the plagiarism level of the references into account as well?\n3) what are the thresholds of the most popular journals? (IEEE,Elsevier,John wily, Taylor & Francis)"
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"Is this level of publication politics normal in academia?",
"I'm currently finishing up a master's thesis in computer science/applied mathematics and have for the last few years been sure of my goals: to pursue a PhD.\n\nThe decision to do a PhD or not should largely be a function of your research potential. There's a lot of questions of the \"am I good enough for a PhD\" sort, but my concerns are of the opposite flavor. I'm fairly convinced that I would make an able researcher, based on discussions with several members of faculty and my output record thus far.\n\nLately, I've gotten a taste of academia's backside. There's the general record padding done by a fraction of faculty: publishing/coauthoring stuff they KNOW have no novel content, blatant reciprocal out-of-context citations and stuff like that. This strategizing almost seems to spill over into the problem selection process as well - a good problem is one that has potential for publication quantity first and foremost.\n\nNot all professors do it, so I guess I could live with it. What's worse is the attitude from what is supposed to be peers. PhD students who I've proposed ideas to pitching them as their own to their supervisors. Others acting threatened and stand-offish, leading to awkward social situations. There's much less free exchange of ideas and much more politics than I thought.\n\nIt seems like such a cynical culture at times. Most of the professors are great, but I don't know if I'd want to enter academia if this is a typical situation between peers. So my question is: is this really typical? Am I being unreasonable in expecting less politics between peers? Is it possible to work in this sort of atmosphere without becoming part of it?"
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"Is listener's fees in a conference justified?",
"In a conference, where I am an author, I noticed that there is a substantial fees for registering as a listener for the conference.(10-30% less than the fees for professionals, students etc but it is still on higher side).\n\nIs this justified given that as an author I would like my work to be presented in front of as many people as possible and receive comments for the same. Is this common practice in conferences across Computer Science or any other field ?"
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"Usefulness of prior industry experience before entering grad school?",
"I'm wondering what impact does prior industry experience (by which I mean 2+ years in a non-trivial functional role in any established organization) lend to the profile of someone who is entering grad school for a Ph.D. (in my case, its Computer Science, but I expect the question to be applicable to other areas as well) ? \n\n\nDo admission committees look upon it as a bonus point, seeing that the applicant has managed real-world responsibilities successfully in the past, thereby improving the chances of acquiring funding (in terms of TA/RA) ?\nMore importantly, does it help the candidate during (and post Ph.D), when he is looking for research internships/post-docs ? \n\n\nIn both cases, assuming the position the applicant held is in a completely different area from his/her research, what other factors become important in the both the above cases? Is it the difficulty of projects the candidate undertook (which, frankly, very few people outside the organization are equipped to judge), or the level of success (promotions, accolades acquired during the stint in industry) that matter, or are there other parameters as well ?\n\nAlso, in case it is deemed that such a profile offer limited/no advantage to the grad student, it would be nice to know why that may be the case - after all, most (if not all!) organizations are run for profit, and they would tend to have very little use for someone who is not productive or capable of learning."
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"What are strategies for minimizing student questions during exams?",
"Context: I am an assistant professor of mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the US.\n\nI generally find student questions during tests and quizzes to be somewhat annoying. I disliked them when I was a student, and they're even worse as an instructor.\n\nTo elaborate on my dislike:\n\nAs a student I found such questioning very distracting. I'd be in the midst of trying to solve a difficult problem when suddenly people around me are talking in hushed voices about a problem I had already done. As one can imagine, it was challenging to pull my attention back to what I was doing. \n\nAs an instructor, I want to do my best to provide a good test environment, so I would like to minimize questions that I see mostly as a distraction. In addition, most courses contain a student or two who I don't entirely trust, so I like to be able to watch the students during the exam to ensure test security, and answering questions can hinder that. I also don't want students getting up during a test to ask questions, for obvious security-related reasons. (This problem is easily solved by telling them to raise their hand.)\n\nMost questions fall into the following categories:\n\n\nLegitimate questions aiming to clarify vague instructions or a typo.\nQuestions fishing for a hint.\nQuestions seeking support of a solution method.\nQuestions asking for confirmation about answer format.\n\n\nType 1 questions are not a problem. Type 2 and 3 questions are foolish, because I hardly ever tell students anything remotely useful. Type 4 questions are irritating, because my questions specifically say what format to use (i.e. \"show two decimal places,\" \"you do not need to simplify,\" etc.).\n\nWhat are some strategies for eliminating questions of type 2, 3, and 4 while not discouraging type 1 questions?\n\nOf course, I can just straight-up tell them that they're not to ask questions unless they believe them to be very legitimate, but I'd like to use a less \"adversarial\" approach, if possible."
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"Is it ethical to apply to be a conference volunteer (with a registration fee waiver) if I have a fellowship?",
"I am a US graduate student, and recently I have had the great honor of being awarded a large fellowship that provides a sizable monthly stipend for tuition, living expenses, and conference travel.\n\nI plan to travel to a couple of conferences in Europe this summer where I have accepted/pending submissions. However, there also happens to be a pair of nearby conferences a few days prior. These conferences are not as essential to my interests as my planned travel, but still extremely relevant, and if given the opportunity I would like to attend them despite the fact that I will not be presenting a paper.\n\nBut conferences are expensive. It is a huge stretch to afford all of these conferences, even with my stipend (which will begin in June, so I won't have had the time to save up). I would like to apply for the student volunteer positions at these conferences, which would reduce registration fees partially or completely if I were selected.\n\nHowever, I feel anxious that I may be taking away the opportunity from a student who really cannot afford to go. Especially since, as I mentioned, I can stretch myself super thin to make it without the volunteer waiver(s).\n\nOn the other hand, though, I suppose it could be argued that I \"earned\" this financial freedom by earning the fellowship.\n\nIs it ethical to volunteer at a conference where the registration fee would be waived, if I have a fellowship and wish to attend the conference despite the lack of any obligation to do so?"
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"Can I request the code behind a research paper from the author?",
"I am in the field of computer science. It is often the case when I am reading a paper I start to wonder, \"Wow stunning results, however, I would like to prove that.\" or \"How exactly did he get these amazing results? He/she just wrote a rough overview of the real methodology used in this paper.\". As you can see, a lot of times the small things have a huge impact on the overall performance of the underlying methodology. Often they are not part of the paper or not revealed at all.\n\nMy idea would be to contact the paper writer, to ask for his research programs to recreate them and understand them. Can/should I do that? \n\nI personally think that there are probably not a lot of researchers, who would let somebody else \"look at their cards\". What's your experience with that?"
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"Why are some academic research datasets not available to people who only have freely available email addresses?",
"Why are some academic research datasets not available to people who only have freely available email addresses?\n\nFor example, ImageNet is not available to people only have freely available email addresses:"
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"Supervisor wants me to withdraw from program",
"I have had continuing problems with my supervisor in that\n\n\nI used data from a publication but didn't cite it properly (this was an honest mistake and during discussions, I plainly said that I received the data from elsewhere) leading him to accuse me of academic dishonesty.\nI had some publications in journals not of a good standard and he started accusing me of lying and having fake publications.\nI did a lab presentation for which I was not prepared enough and he called me lazy and incompetent.\nI got delayed in providing him with some research material and he plainly stated that he does not want to supervise me anymore.\n\n\nI am planning to talk to the chair of the dept about my issues but are these sufficient grounds for the chair to recommend that I be withdrawn from the department?"
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"How should one interpret a rejection on the grounds that a paper \"has no added value to the existing state of the art\"?",
"I've got a rejection for my paper that was submitted to a high impact journal;\nafter waiting 6 weeks instead of 4 normally it was rejected with only one referee comment 4 lines:\n\n\n This study seems to be well done and the results are properly and concisely described. But, the paper is also nothing more than that...It is just the determination of some basic properties and a comparison of the calculated and measured ones. As such, the paper presents no new insights, new methodologies, or whatsoever... Hence, it must be concluded that the current study applies current measurement protocols in a correct way, but has no added value to the existing state of the art. Therefore, although I have hardly any small remarks on the paper, it does not meet the standards of the journal.\n\n\nHow should one react to such a review? Submit to another journal? The paper is about new material, so I don't agree the referee about the fact it has no added value to the existing state of art!!!!"
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"Are colored in-text citations against APA6?",
"For my thesis I am required to follow the APA citation and reference style. I personally quite like having colored citations (typically blue; some journals do this) because they allow the reader to identify citations more easily and highlight the fact that they are linked to the reference list (clickable).\n\nTo give an example:\n\n\nIs this against APA rules? I have not been able to find any information on this online at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated!"
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"Where do you place the link to open data in a manuscript?",
"Assume you are writing a manuscript and you have uploaded your raw data to a relevant hosting site (e.g., The Dataverse Network, FigShare, etc.). Where in the manuscript should you indicate a link to this?\n\nThis question was posted on twitter and one suggestion was to include a link in the author notes and the results."
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"How to list an academic award received multiple times on CV",
"I was distinguished as 'Best Freshman' when I started university as a freshman. If, as I did, I managed to display an exceptional academic performance, I was re-awarded this distinction (which actually doubled as a scholarship). I am now preparing my CV to apply for Master's degrees. How should I list this award in my CV? I feel saying,\n\n\n Awarded 'Best Freshman' distinction in 2016, 2017 and 2018\n\n\nfor example, might convey the wrong idea, as I was only a freshman that first year. \n\nAny suggestions? Thank you!"
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"Preserving ownership of authorship in the period after leaving a position and before journal submission",
"Background: \nI am currently working on a paper as a first author with 3 other members.\nMy tenure with the research institute ends on the end of this month and I have no intention to continue any working relationship due to the very complex political environment and \"back-scratching\" among upper management in this research institute I am in, plus my observations of other ethical issues.\n\nHowever, I intend to submit this paper to a journal after the end of my tenure. This journal has an associated conference that has deadline submission on the 15th July 2018. For this particular conference, an acceptances of a paper for this conference would enable a direct proceeding to its associated journal. \nI have a valid concern aimed at the senior research fellow (No PhD), whom I report to and who is also the last author of this paper, due to strong corroborated anecdotes (credit stealing included) from multiple employees. As far as facts is concerned, he comes from industry after 20 years, without a PhD, and sorely lacks technical skills in my observation. \nThis further cements my concern and I am aware that there exists a possibility that my concerns may be misguided.\n\nMeasures taken:\n\n1) I have created an official email confirming the roles, responsibilities and order of authorship of each team member involved in this project. The email has been acknowledged by each individual team member including aforementioned senior research fellow/ programme director (without a PhD).\nHis role is to review to review the draft before my submission (possible and probably potential red flag?).\nHe has not acknowledged nor mentioned anything in his reply about getting back to me with changes to the draft. \n\n2) I intend to submit my paper to an open journal arXiv before submitting any draft to this senior research fellow.\n\n3) 2) is followed by a submission of a draft to senior research fellow with a co-correspondence to the integrity office, worded in a diplomatic manner.\n\nAre these three steps sufficient? What more should I be aware of?\n\nEdit: The email also serves as a centralised communication where any work done by must submitted to that email."
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"Best options for publishing original research without being in academia?",
"What are the best options for publishing an original piece of research for someone who is not in academia? The main issues are:\n\n\nzero prior publications, i.e. no reputation whatsoever in the given field,\nno contacts, i.e. no-one that can step in as a \"referee\" or a \"supervisor\",\nno academic titles in the given field (ex. a PhD or something equivalent).\n\n\nThe research is original and does provide new information about a given topic. But given the above limitations the options are not obvious.\n\nWhat can one do in this case? I heard people who are starting out in publishing can post on arXiv.org, and once they have a couple of \"published\" papers respectable journals will be more likely to consider the candidate.\n\nIs there any advice out there for people doing research as hobby?"
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"Licensing under author name?",
"What does it means a project being licensed with the name of the author?\n\nI mean, one instance is: there is an author X, that writes an open source book on biology with git and at the end of the README file is © 2017 X. Other instance is when the same author X, writes his webpage and at the end of the page put his characteristic © 2017 X. \n\nIt is evident author does not get into the game of licenses (justified or not!!). But what should I interpret with his license? Every change (in any sense) that I want to make I should contact him? What is the (legal status) point of this license \"© 2017 X\"?? \n\nExample of webpage"
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"How many recommendation letters are enough?",
"If I apply to a job, and it asks for 4 recommendation letters, is it good if I submit 5 or more letters? Why and why not?"
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"How to start a startup based on university research?",
"This is a follow-up to How good are entrepreneurial opportunities for faculty members?.\nSay, a few researchers, professors and their students, at a university would like to start a company to exploit and commercialize their research. \n\nWho owns the copyright/patent of their research? Will the university claim ownership of the startup company? What is the general procedure?"
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"Dispute grade penalty for reading in class?",
"I am in an large, entry level course targeted at engineers. A few weeks ago, I was reading for another class while my professor covered material I was familiar with, and she marked me down as absent for at least one and maybe two classes. She has a strict attendance policy so that she gives a 5 percent penalty for missing three or more classes, and I already have three marked absences.\n\nThe only relevant section in the syllabus says, \"Good manners provide the foundation for proper classroom behavior: arrive on time, listen attentively and take detailed notes, remain quietly in your seat until dismissed by the instructor.\" There is a strict no-screen policy, but nothing about reading.\n\nI am considering taking it up the ladder and arguing that she should have asked me to put the book away if she wanted me to, as I spoke to her multiple times between the time of the alleged offense and becoming aware that she had penalized me for it. Do I have a good chance of a grade appeal? on merit? statistically?\n\nShe is a teaching only professor, so I assume she doesn't have huge sway in the department. It is a ginormous class at a large school though, so I probably don't either."
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"Paper contributions and first authorship",
"Twelve months ago I started working on a project (which began at that time) with my advisor.\nSix months ago another student (refered to as A in the following) joined the project.\n\nWe are now publishing a paper on our results. My advisor asked me if I would find it reasonable that A’s name was put before mine in the article. Our advisor’s reason is that she believes A has contributed a lot more to the publishable results and making figures for the article.\n\nI agree with this latter part: student A has definitely been the working horse behind these results and made the graphics for the article. However, my contributions were in the first 6 months of the project, laying the foundations for the setup, etc.\n\nI’m not sure how to feel about my advisor’s question. Is my contribution worth less because they are further back in time? And does making article-figures count as “ammunition” to be put first in an article?"
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"Is giving condolences to a professor socially acceptable?",
"I'm an undergraduate in the US.\n\nMy professor just told us via email that he will not be able to grade an exam until next week because his family member died from complications due to COVID-19. I don't care much about the delay, but I do like my professor, both as a person and an educator. Would it be out of line for me to send an email along the lines of \"Hi professor, I'm sorry to hear your loved one passed.\"\n\nI'm not a very socially outgoing person and I don't speak up in class much, so I don't know if this would overstep the student-professor relationship."
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"Should papers presented at local conferences be put in list of publications?",
"I have two papers presented at state and national level conferences. These conference proceedings were not published in any journal. Now, should I list these papers in my list of publications or not?"
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"What are the effective strategies to increase GPA?",
"I am doing Undergraduate in Software Engineering and am going to finish my third semester (total of 8 semesters) now and as with my calculation, I am going to end it with a GPA of mere 1.89. I know this is a very low GPA, and this is because I failed my calculus II and Data Structure class. It might be very difficult to raise this GPA but I believe I still have time to make up and reach at least 2.5. Now since I don't want to set my goals too high or I might end up miserably disappointed, I want to know if this is even possible? Will a GPA of 2.5 be too bad for life career? And what are the strategies I can take to get my goals or even higher if possible anyhow?\n\nReasons of previous failures\n\nTo point out causes of failing previous semesters, I am studying in a foreign land and hence the language difference is the biggest problem in communication and even understanding lectures. Recently, I have also been suffering from a lot of anxiety and have been having symptoms of depression (as I have read on Internet, I don't know till what extent they are true). I have been losing my social life and feeling just nothing at all. I have a part time job as well to support my personal finance.\n\nSo what can I do to tackle with my personal anxiety and make up for the bad scores I had earlier? Do I still have enough time for that? And how high can I reach?"
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"PhD defense in germany: how do they decide for the final grade?",
"I am a PhD student in Germany (physics) and I will have my PhD defense in some months. I am not German. \nMy thesis is mainly based on 2 PRL's and a paper not yet published (submitted to PRB). The reviews (Gutachten) on my thesis are positive: I've got 1.3 and 1.7 (1 is very good, 4 is sufficient). \nThe defense will consist of an oral presentation of my thesis and of an oral exam (Rigorosum) in the presence of two professors (two main topics, one of which is completely not related with my thesis). \n\nMy question is, how much are important the presentation, the rigorosum, and the reviews respectively, to the decision of the final grade? Is it possible to fail the PhD defense, having good reviews? Actually, I am mainly concerned about nasty questions after the thesis presentation and during the Rigorosum..."
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"How do you discover who funded a study?",
"Someone asked a similar question here: How to find out who funded a study / research?\nseveral years ago, but not a single person had a real answer. So perhaps now. So...how? How do I find information on who funded a certain company or where their funds might come from in general? Specifically trying to find information on this company: https://ridgebackbio.com/\nThank you in advance.\nPS: not looking to be spoon-fed information on this company, but to learn this skill on following money. I just can't find any resources to learn it in the first place."
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"Which logo to use in a seminar title page?",
"This might sound a silly (probably it is!) question to ask. But whenever I go to give a talk at some other institute I face this dilemma of putting the host institute's logo or only my affiliation logo, on the title slide. Most of the time I put both. \n\nKeeping aside my decade-old-hesitations, let me ask you about your opinion on this."
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"Music with lyrics about academic world",
"I am curious to know if there are musicians or music bands whose compositions (in any musical style) have lyrics that talk about our \"academia world\" with songs, for instance \"my manuscript was rejected twice\", \"happy day, my grant was accepted\", \"the nature paper that wasn't there\", etc."
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