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"Can I claim authorship on work I wasn't personally involved in, that uses a framework I developed for my research?",
"As a postdoc I joined an existing project of a PhD student. I made significant contributions to his code and developed an entire framework X in the code necessary for my research. Developing framework X took at least four months. After I finished the project and was put on a new project, he initiated collaborations with people from other labs using framework X (not including me). Without framework X this research would not have been possible (unless he would have implemented it himself).\n\nNow I noticed that they are writing up an article about their collaboration. So far I have not been contacted as a co-author. My question is: should I claim co-authorship based on the fact that I developed framework X, which formed an important and necessary part of the code to obtain their results."
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"Graduate Admission Application",
"What does this question mean in an application for MS: \n\"Do you have partial funding for your graduate education? \"\nor\n\"Do you have full funding for your graduate education? \""
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"masters"
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"Contacting journal editor asking for final decision after all reviews were submitted weeks ago?",
"Should I email the editor of a journal to ask for a final decision on an article when I know that all reviewers' comments were submitted weeks ago? The online article submission interface shows me that all reviewers' comments are submitted.\n\nI'm applying for jobs in a few weeks, and I'd like to be able to add an R&R to my CV if possible. \n\nIf writing to the editor is appropriate, what can I say?"
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"Should I mention a mistake made by a third person?",
"A professor asked from me to send one of his books I've had. Because I've had to leave for some days from the country I've arranged with a relative to send the book. However, he ignore it and now the professor sent me an email asking for what happened. In my reply should I mention that the fault is not mine?"
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"Email from editorial assistant from different journal?",
"I sent in a Manuscript to a journal apart of the Taylor and Francis group. The manuscript was rejected, but today I received an email from an editorial assistant from another journal associated with the Taylor and Francis group.\n\nThe email includes the manuscript number and includes a bit in the email stating that this email is regarding the transfer of your manuscript, with the journal name of the journal that rejected the manuscript initially as well as the title of my manuscript.\n\nI went to the journal from where the editorial assistant emailed me, and the editorial board listing does not include editorial assistants, but the email extension for the editorial office matched hers. \n\nBasically, I have no idea what to think. I have never heard of this happening personally. I don't know what to do, if I should email back, or even if I have anything to worry about. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, Thank you."
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"How to stay active in research when my faculty job involves mostly teaching and administrative duties?",
"I recently completed a PhD in a research university in U.S. and came back to my home country in South America. I have a position as a faculty member in a state college. However, the position focuses on teaching and academic administration duties. Without a lab and funding, it has been very difficult to continue the research or even to continue a reciprocal correspondence with my research collaborators. \n\nI was wondering if I can ask for suggestions about how to continue pursuing my career path as scientist."
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"What is wrong with the requirement of writing pathways to impact in an EPSRC grant proposal?",
"By definition, an academic scientist is supposed to do research and teaching. His main job should be to create knowledge and explore the unknowns, and to teach our kids so that the knowledge and capacity of creating knowledge will be inherited. \n\nIn my opinion, it is not his job to do outreach or to think about how to realize the societal impact of his research. That is supposed to be the job of entrepreneurs and politicians! \n\nAsking a researcher to spread his already tight time on such things does no good but harm. Therefore any grant agencies (e.g. the UK EPSRC) should be prevented from asking a researcher to write something like 'pathways to impact' in his grant proposals. This is completely outside his expertise. It only wastes the time and distracts his mind.\n\nHow would you think? If you agree, what do you think can be possibly done to change this situation? \n\nP.S. I'm not saying a researcher should not do outreach. I'm saying he should not be forced to do that. It is not his main job. Whether doing outreach or not should not result in any pressure on them concentrating on their main job. I suppose this is expected for any healthy profession."
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"How should I choose the name of my past degree in application when the options do not not exactly match my degree?",
"I am applying for PhD for a certain university (Canadian), and in the form there is a question about the academic background. In the options I see things like Bachelor of engineering, bachelor of engineering with honours, bachelor's degree general, bachelor's degree 4 year, and bachelor of science. There are similar options for the Master's degree: Master of engineering, Master's degree, and master's of science.\n\nI completed my undergraduate study in 4 years and my degree is \"Bachelor of science in engineering\".There was a project in the final year. I am doing a \"Master's of science in engineering\". This is thesis based degree.\n\nWhich of the above options should I choose? In my country we only have Bachelor of science and Master's of science so I don't know what these things mean."
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"Choosing between a masters at a top tier university, and a PhD at a lower tier university",
"I'm in a difficult situation, although I understand that I'm very lucky to be in this position.\n\nI'm a final year UK chemical engineering student expecting a mid-high first class B.Eng degree from a fairly decent Russel Group university. \n\nI'm looking for graduate studies and I have managed to secure 2 places:\n\nThe first is a fully funded 4 year PhD as part of a CDT in synthetic biology. My first year would be spent at Oxford and my final 3 years would be spent at Bristol University, which I will graduate from after that. \n\nMy second offer is for an MPhil in a similar subject at Cambridge University which they have offered to fully fund also. \n\nI'm very unsure as to what to take. I cannot defer my PhD offer. On the one hand, Cambridge is a very good university but my fear is that if I do the masters there, I may have thrown away my only chance at a PhD, and that I won't be able to get one after that - And ideally I'd like to do a PhD at a top tier institution such as Oxford or Cambridge. On the other hand, the PhD at Bristol as a CDT, so I won't be choosing my supervisor until my second year after I finish my first year at Oxford, and I'm locking myself into a particular discipline, and to a specific list of potential supervisors for 4 years directly after my bachelors.\n\nAgain I'm well aware that I'm extremely lucky to be in this position, but any advice on what path might be the best one would be greatly appreciated. \n\nEDIT: The specific PhD that I applied is entirely taught for its first year, which is why I am not worried about the jump from the bachelors straight to PhD."
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"Should students who copy homework answers from somewhere else state how they obtained the answer?",
"I'm an 3rd year undergraduate student, and this semester, I'm taking graduate course in one of my departments.\n\nWe have homeworks each week, and while doing the problems on those, I sometimes get stuck. In that case, sometimes I go to the instructor for some hints and discussions, and sometimes, if I really haven't made any progress in that question for long time, I search the answer onthe web (for example math.SE), and write that answer if it satisfies me.\n\nIn those latter cases, I put some notes/a disclaimer on the top of the question stating that \"I've done these and these, but couldn't solve it, so I looked at the answer from the xxx website\".\n\nHowever, is this something that we indeed expected to do, or am I just making myself sometimes look like \"incapable of solving even an elementary question\" in the eyes of my instructor ?\n\nEdit:\nMy question is about the general norm in academia, not whether it is considered cheating or not."
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"Is it accepted to refer to your own published result by your own name?",
"Assume that Jane Doe has published a paper in 2010 where she has developed a model or a theorem or a similar result, let’s say, that it relates to growth.\n\nNow assume that Jane Doe is writing another paper in 2015, where she refers to the model/theorem from her paper in 2010.\n\nIs it acceptable for Jane to write something like the following?\n\n\n Doe’s growth model (2010), implies that ...\n Doe’s growth theorem (2010) implies that ...\n The Doe growth model (2010) implies ..."
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"Why do highly successful people in computer fields say a degree in Computer Science is not worth to get \"JOB\"?",
"I'm studying Engineering in India. In Information Technology, Many CS-friends of mine told me that that degree is not worth it and that none of the subjects will be useful in my computer science career.\n\nI subsequently lost interest in studying until a friend filled me in on the uses of each subject included in our course. I started studying hard since I understood the importance/application of these subjects in the computer world. I scored well.\n\nAlso, I made projects which were included in course with Interest.\n\nI wonder why people are giving less importance to the Computer Science degree and why they say that it is not important in the real world. I think if it is studied enough, it can definitely yield a job."
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"Choosing a short title for citing a journal article (humanities)",
"When citing a journal article using footnotes in the humanities (where of course particular journal styles will vary but in general Chicago Manual of Style is used), the proper format is to give the full citation the first time it is cited. However, after the article is cited for the first time, a shorter version is used for all subsequent times (involving only the author's last name, the omission of the journal, etc.). One of the ways these subsequent citations are shortened is by not including the full title of the article. I have seen many variations on how this should be done (where some seem intuitive, others less so).\n\nIs there an actual acceptable standard for choosing the short title? If not, how should one go about choosing an appropriate short title?\n\n\n\nAn example: This article by Ole Benedictow, \"What Disease was Plague? On the Controversy over the Microbiological Identity of Plague Epidemics of the Past\" would be reasonably shortened to simply \"What Disease was Plague?\"\n\nAnother note: This convention of shortening citations is also used for books and other materials, but I ask about articles because choosing a short title is more often less intuitive."
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"Is it necessary to add experiment to my designed framework for a journal",
"I'm working a framework X and trying to publish it in IEEE Communication Magazine. But, due to its limitation on the number of text and figures, I wonder it is necessary to add any experiment or proof-of-concept system there?\n\nThanks."
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"Curious case of self-citations and how to monitor self-citers?",
"If one looks superficially at the publications of author X, he seems to be one of the top scientists in his field. But looking more closely his citations are 60% from himself 35% from his co-author, and 5% from others. (Some people might say: “It doesn’t matter, probably he is the only one working in such a field and he has to cite himself.” However, let’s say that it is not the case.) \n\nThis author is only one example of many people who do self-citations. Many of us have grown up to see citation as a measure and started to mishandle it. As it is easy to do so. My questions are:\n\n\nIsn’t there a system which monitors unethical self-citations apart from the peer-review process, where such authors pass such tests and still extensively cite themselves? \nIsn’t there a system that blacklists authors who involve in similar unethical activities as “fake scientists” and never allows them to publish anywhere else? \nDo institutions not realize that such professors are a potential threat to science and ask them to resign?\nDon’t such people demean real science people who spend years of hard work to publish their work?"
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"Do people still have to write thesis after finishing their master/phd?",
"I know that the thesis is needed when doing their master.\nBut do people still need to write a thesis when doing research as a past-time?\n\nWhat if they just want to publish an article but not thesis?"
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"Send a question or thanks letter after receiving a notification of receipt of application?",
"After applying to some faculty positions, some professors send emails (not the automatic ones) that they have received the application and ask if the applicants have any questions. Should the applicant raise any question or maybe send a thank you reply for the notification to show their interest? Or just ignore and wait."
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"6-months internship has nothing to do with what was promised",
"Since sept 2013, I have been doing a Masters in mathematical finance. Our course requires us to do an off-cycle internship of 5 months minimum (typically, from April to September). \nDuring this internship, I'm supposed to do something that is at least remotely related to mathematics/finance, and at the end of the internship, I have to give a report of what I have done. The content of that report is supposed to contain actual mathematical researchs / developments / ideas, and is necessary for the obtention of my diploma.\n\nUnfortunately, since my internship started I have been given absolutely no work fitting the requirements. \nWhat I've actually been tasked to do is repetitive work consisting in using a software to process tons of record from a database, generating new records as output, and making sure the generated data is consistent. Whenever of these jobs fail I have to debug the software and propose a fix to make the job work. There is roughly ~50 millions records to be processed and the end goal is that all of them were processed correctly. As far as I can tell there is no way this will be done by the end of my internship, which is in 2 months.\nWhat's worse is that the team I'm in is facing increasing pressure to have all these records processed soon, while the higher-ups are heavily implying that it is taking so long because we are slacking off. This is pretty annoying because I want to make a good impression and I'm working as good as possible, but at the same time I don't feel like it is worth the effort to work extra-hard on this, given how little recognition I get and given that I will leave before the positive consequences of my work can affect me.\n\nWhat can I do in my situation ? I haven't started my internship report yet (I don't even know what subject I could do it on), and I know I will to do it on my own time. At the same time the repetitive nature of my work makes me pretty burned out and whenever I never feel like working on maths for several hours.\n\nTLDR: my 6 months internship that is supposed to be about mathematical finance is actually about doing extremely tedious work, and I have to complete a report by the end about all the mathematical research I'm supposed to have done.\n\nWhat would you do in that situation ?"
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"Is it a good idea to submit to a single-blind journal when I have no affiliation?",
"I am looking to publish a paper in computational biology. However, I have no affiliation (I have been affiliated with some institutions in the past, but am not currently affiliated with anyone now). I am also looking for a journal that will publish with no charge as I am low on funds.\n\nI understand I should be able to publish a paper when my work is evaluated solely for its quality. However I have been unable to find any non-predatory and at least semi-legitimate computational biology journals that use double-blind review and are free to publish in. \n\nI will submit my manuscript to bioRxiv, but would really like to publish in a journal. I am unsure how to proceed - should I try and submit to a single-blind journal and mark my affiliation as \"independent scholar\" or try some other way to publish to a double-blind computational biology journal?"
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"How important is the \"major\" of the PhD?",
"For sake of argument, let's say I obtain a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's degree in physics, and then a PhD in physical chemistry but from a department of chemistry. Can I then go on to be a physics professor? Or would I be confined to teaching chemistry? \n\nOne can imagine equivalent situations for other fields. Say, for example, a bachelor's in computer science, master's in computer science, and then a PhD in computational physics from a department of physics. Could that individual then become a computer science professor?"
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"Is it possible to do a text search just within the references of a paper?",
"Do any of the academic search engines provide a way to limit a free text search to just those papers which are cited by a particular paper? In normal google, as an analogy, you can append site:bbc.co.uk to your search string to only get results from the bbc.co.uk web site. I have checked the Google Scholar advanced search settings and there is no such facility.\nMy motivation for this question is that I am trying to track down a definition to where it has either a) been first used, and/or b) defined in the fullest terms."
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"Try exercises or look at the solutions for self-study",
"I am currently self-studying The Art of Computer Programming as an undergrad in my free time. To do all of the exercises (or even a portion of them) would be incredibly difficult and time-consuming; however, there are solutions at the back of the text. I am wondering if I would miss out on something from a pedagogical perspective if I simply look at the problem, understand what it's asking, and then read the solution and understand it?\nI would hope that mastery of the content is gained through experience in the field and further study in mathematics. How strongly recommended is giving “the old college try”?"
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"What are universities asking for when they demand a \"financial resource statement\"?",
"I am applying for a Master program and one of the documents that I have to attach to my application is a \"financial resource sworn statement\". What is exactly meant by this?\n\nIs it usually enough if I upload a document stating that I have the necessary funds to support myself during the duration of the program (explaining where those funds come from) or should I attach some kind of official document from my bank?"
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"How can I write a paper that will convince the reviewers that the results are non-trivial?",
"I submitted a paper in math/cs/economics to a top-level journal. The paper involves a new variant of a well-known problem. All reviewers agreed that the results are interesting and non-trivial, but they rejected the paper as not being general enough for their journal.\n\nEncouraged by the positive feedback, I submitted an improved version of the paper to a medium-level conference. The improvements include simplifications of some of the proofs and additions of stronger results about the same problem. Now the reviewers rejected the paper claiming that the results are too weak and unsurprising!\n\nWhat should I do in the next time I submit (to a different journal), in order to make the reviewers believe that the results are indeed surprising and non-trivial? I don't want to write the proofs in their more complicated version, as in the first revision, because this is unscientific. But writing it in a simple way seems that doing so creates a false impression that the results are too simple. What do you suggest?"
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"How to react to a student who provides very critical comments about your teaching in a student evaluation survey?",
"I am a teacher in an institute and I teach English as a foreign language to students in an 8_week session. At the end of each session, the students are required to give their opinion about the class and the teacher.\n\nOne of my students who attended all the classes and I corrected at least 20 writings for her has written something horrible and of course has ruined my rating by saying: \"What we learn depends on the teacher. I recommend teacher X, but I absolutely and strongly reject this teacher who does not know anything about teaching (meaning me).\" She has also written her name on top of the paper.\n\nShe never, ever, complained about my teaching method during the time we had class together and this sudden unfair comparison has gone on my nerve. I have taken a photo of what she has written about me and it is in my mind to email it to her and ask for her explanation. \n\nI have signed no contract with that institute and I have received no teacher training courses. I have teaching experiences somewhere else and that was why they invited me to teach. But their unfair system of evaluation at the end of each session will definitely have effects on my payment and if it continues like this, I will no longer be able to continue teaching there.\n\nI am REALLy thinking so deeply about what I could have done wrong. My last session assessment was 20% higher than an old teacher who is teaching there for 3 years. Another serious problem I have with this issue is the \"comparison\". I teach Reading and Writing and my colleague teaches Listening and Speaking. Of course, I have never met the other teacher. But, he has read this bad comment about me. Why should I lose my face in front of a colleague, because of an \"unfair\" judgement?\n\nIs it good to react like this, or I should keep silent about her unfair judgement?"
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"How one legally can justify distance learning for on campus programs?",
"A few years ago we wanted to open a new program that will be based on distance learning, however, getting accredited for having a master degree program that is based on distance learning and not on campus is literally a bureaucratic nightmare.\nFirst, no one allowed us to use Zoom, Microsoft Teams or other currently popular distance learning tools, second it should be some sort of \"Moodle\" program with clear guidelines for each week. Third everything needs to be under guidelines of the Distance Education Accrediting Commission, in current COVID19 teaching organizational crisis we don't follow those guidelines at all.\nI wonder what are legal repercussions for doing distance learning when you are not accredited to do one. Can our students with disability complain since when they needed this option we couldn't provide to them since our excuse was that we weren't ready or accredited to do so? And last but not least, can we legally organize accredited on-campus program but perform it online or using distance learning completely?"
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"What are \"Rare research subjects\" (\"Kleine Fächer\")?",
"I've noticed a funding agency offer a program for funding \"rare subjects\" (\"Kleine Fächer\" in German).\n\nI'm pretty sure my own research doesn't count, but:\n\n\nIs this concept / category of research subjects used more generally or is it just that funding body's invention?\nWhat are the criteria typically used in judging a subject to be \"rare\"? After all, almost everyone studies subjects which, at some level of specificity, nobody else is studying (so it's \"rare\" to study it)."
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"Asking a faculty member at my university that I have not met(!) about his research, and about courses that deal with his specialty/my career goal?",
"I am an undergraduate student pursuing a double major in Computer Science B.S. and Mathematics B.S.\nMy dream career is to work in quant. finance. However, my school does not have a dedicated department to this field, resulting in lack of dedicated classes and opportunities for it. The page for "Mathematical Finance" is simply a white page with nothing but a list of three faculty members, linking to their page, two of which are Ph.D students.\nI have found an associate professor who I believe can help answer a few of my questions and confusion about going down this path, but I have read a little here and generally, emails like this are frowned upon, and the last thing I want is for him to be offended by my request.\nHowever, I don't really know any other professors or faculty members who would be able to give me insight on this.\nMy email would start off something like this\n"I would just like to start off this email by saying please excuse me and forgive any informalities or unprofessionalism. I hope to not offend you with this sudden email from a student you do not know.\nI have found your email and page from MyCollege's "Mathematical Finance" page: mycollege.com/mathematical-finance"\nThen I would say something along the lines of "given your expertise, what courses/concepts are important...what steps should I take now..."\nAnd then finally I'd say something like "I know you are incredibly busy with research, school, among other things, so I hope you do not mind this email."\nI will also make sure not to completely bombard him with questions, but ask general, non-pressuring questions.\nIs this a bad idea? I am not quite sure where else to get in contact with someone in this field with such close proximity, and aside from LinkedIn with people I will probably never meet, this seems like my best bet.\nEDIT: this might be a duplicate of OK to ask a professor at my institution with whom I have no previous relationship some questions relating to hobby-project?\nbut this is about a community college professor who is not doing research, which may be different from my circumstances, also his is about a hobby, while mine is about career and industry."
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"How to thank someone who proofread my scientific paper?",
"A colleague working in my department helped me out in proofreading my English before submitting a paper. I would like to acknowledge his help.\n\nIs it common to acknowledge such help? Is there any standard sentence to do it?"
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"How can we change things so more researchers are willing to share their source code?",
"This is a followup to Why are CS researchers reluctant to share code and what techniques can I use to encourage sharing?. That question specifically asked how one can succeed in obtaining researcher's source code. \n\nAs discussed in the answers to that question, the reasons largely boil down to competitive advantage and people thinking their code is not good enough. The former issue is difficult to address. However, one could try to address the latter issue, making the reasonable assumption that this behavior stems from the surrounding academic culture. There may be additional aspects of the academic culture that discourage code sharing, and which do not relate to competitive advantage.\n\nSo, one could instead ask the general questions what concrete actions one can take to change this culture? Or, to put it a little differently, how can I help change the academic world so that more researchers are willing to share their source code?"
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"Is there any research on the prevalence of academic theft?",
"Some — perhaps many — academics seem to be very careful in keeping unpublished work secret. It is not difficult to find anecdotes where academic ideas are stolen, such as in this post by @Markus. Others, such as @NateEldredge in this post write that It seems to be pretty common for people starting out in academia to overestimate the risks of people stealing their work. Personally, I'm rather at the other end of the spectrum, and I don't feel afraid that my ideas would be stolen. Perhaps I'm naïve.\n\nIs there any research on the question: how common is academic theft, really? Such as surveys of people having experienced (or committed!) such theft according to an appropriate definition, possibly compared to peoples' perception as to the risks. It would be interesting to see if there are some facts to refer to. Perhaps it is field dependent?\n\n(By academic theft, I am not talking about plagiarism, but rather about stealing research ideas before anything is published)"
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"When is the appropriate time to email professors as a prospective PhD student?",
"I think my research interests and experience are perfectly aligned with a professor. And I plan on applying to the department when the admissions open. \n\nBut when is the right time to email the professor as a prospective PhD student? I don't want to shoot off an email and get ignored by being either too early or too late. \n\nIn this university (in the US) the admissions are granted by committees and not individual professors. Also I speak as an international student."
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"Should I write something to the reviewer who rejected my manuscript?",
"I have just received a decision letter for my submitted manuscript to an Elsevier journal. It was a revise and resubmit. One of the reviewers recommended rejection and his comment was just \"the contribution isn't strong enough\". I don't really know how to respond to his comment. Should I write something to convince him that my contribution is relevant or only respond the other reviewers comments?\nWhat do you recommend me to do?"
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"Saying thanks in the personal statement?",
"Should I include a small thank at the beginning of my personal statement? The thank can long for one line to three lines depends on the specifics it included. In the short version, it can be like this:\n\n\n I want to thank my mom, my friend XYZ and the SE community for supporting me all the time.\n\n\nIn the long version, it can be:\n\n\n I want to thank my mom for understanding my passion, my friend XYZ for his alacrity to make my works flows better in English, and the SE community as well as other person who I have never met has spent time advising and criticizing every time I come up a new idea.\n\n\nI should make clear that the school I intend to apply requires me to write a personal statement, separate to the SOP.\n\n\n The personal statement should give concrete evidence of your promise as a member of the academic community, giving the committee an image of you as a person.\n\n\nAs a person, not a researcher."
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"Who to ask for REU recommendations?",
"I'm applying for several astronomy REUs, for which you can have 2 letters of recommendation. I have three faculty members in mind:\n\n1) Engineering physics professor I've known for many years personally, and is the PI for the lab I've worked in for a year. I haven't taken his class yet, but he seems to have a good opinion of me.\n\n2) Astronomy professor whose class I took last semester. He knew me by name early in the semester since I asked good questions during and after class and participated a lot, although I always had to work during his office hours. I got an AB in his class.\n\n3) Engineering technical presentations instructor who was impressed by my projects. He told me at the end of the semester that he would be happy to provide a strong recommendation should I ever need one. However, the programs are for astronomy and he teaches courses on writing/speaking. And he's a faculty associate rather than the other two professors.\n\nMy instinct is to ask the two professors, but I'm not sure how much professor #2 would be able to say about me. I'm especially uncertain because #3 would write a very strong letter, albeit more lightly weighted. Any advice?"
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"Paper acceptance probability in case of Minor revision after a major revision",
"I submitted a paper in Physics background journal. At the 1st review, the referees' have written positive statement. One of the referee suggested minor revision, while the other suggested major revision. I have revised the paper according to the referees' comments. Recently. I have received minor comments (only a few text corrections) from the referee who suggested major revision at the 1st review. I have revised again the paper according to the referee comments and submitted to the journal about 2 weeks ago. However, I have received any decision letter yet. Does a minor revision after a major revision lead to acceptance ?"
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"Creating a schematic figure based on an existing one",
"In the context material chapter of my masters dissertation, between other things, I must write about the state of the art on the thematic presented. There are some very expressive and simple schemes in other authors works that I would like to use. I was wondering: is it legitimate if I create schemes by myself that convey the same structure and information and reference the sources in the following manner: \"Image based on [Reference]\" ?. The result would be different looking (colors, shapes, and several other visual elements) schemes that would express the same content. \n\nI've looked at How much do figures need to differ to avoid copyright claims? but I wasn't sure if the context of that question is enough for the answers to apply for me.\n\nThanks."
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"Google Scholar: Citations appear on co-authors' accounts but not on mine",
"Problem: I have several papers published all of which are picked up by Google Scholar. There's one particular paper that shows no citations, however, this is wrong. How do I know? The same paper appears to have citations when viewed from my co-authors' Google Scholar pages. \n\nQuestion: Why is this happening? How can I fix it? \n\nNote: I have other papers published with the same co-authors and the citations appear correctly on all Google Scholar accounts. \n\nDisclaimer: There are several questions posted about Google Scholar not picking up citations, including this on academia.stackexchange.com. These questions deal with missing citations in general, i.e., citations are not linked to an article. However, in my case, the citations are linked to an article, however, they do not appear on my account. In case this is important, the paper was published in 2018, so I don't think this is a case of not indexing my name yet."
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"How hard is it to get a research oriented job in the US with an Austrailian PhD (Computer Engineering)?",
"How hard is it to get a job at a leading research lab in the US (like Amazon, Microsoft) with an Australian PhD (from University of New South Wales, Sydney)?\nWill taking up a postdoc position in a US university help?\nIf not, what is the best route I can take?"
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"Did I anger my PI by not sending my data/notes after leaving their lab?",
"Last year I was informed by my PI that the lab was too busy to take on undergrad students. I said that I understood and found another lab that I was interested in to join. \n\nHowever, I had been working on a project for a year before I left, and didn't get around to sending them any data/notes related to my project after I left. The lab members also didn't ask for any data. So, I'm not sure if maybe my project as a undergrad wasn't that important, or if I was unprofessional. Would it be late now, more than a year after I left, to send in data? Did I leave a bad impression?\n\nI was hoping to ask the PI for letters of rec for grad school, but (1) He has new undergrad students now and I haven't spoken with him for a while and (2) I'm not sure if I left a bad impression when leaving the lab."
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"What is the difference between a \"I\" or \"II\" after a job title?",
"There are several job titles such as \"Research Associate II\" or \"Research Scientist I\" or \"Research Scientist II\" in the research institute located near my school. \n\nIs there a difference between the job titles and is \"I\" higher than \"II\" or vice versa?"
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"What is the meant by \"A high standard of illustration (both line and photo) is an editorial\"?",
"A high standard of illustration (both line and photo) is an editorial\n priority.\n\n\nWhat is meant by \"line\" here? I am not getting this into my mind. The sentence above is taken from the \"Instructions to author\" part of a journal."
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"Appropriate \"title\" to list on application for professors writing LOR?",
"In filling out my very first grad school application I've come across the Letters of Recommendation page. It says to list the \"Title\" of the recommender. Do I use Professor here? Or Dr.? I am stumped. Both of my recommenders are professors and that is how I refer to them, but I am just not sure which one I should be putting here since they have Doctorate degrees. I don’t want to make a mistake... I found this question which was sort of related, but also confused me even more. If the professor has a title like X-Y Professor of Z or Professor of X and Y, do I use that full title? Or should I just write \"Professor\" or \"Professor of [subject]\"?"
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"I want to leave my tenure track position before fall. I have great prospects but no new position \"locked up\": when should I break the news?",
"I am a relatively new tenure track faculty member at my school. For many reasons, I am certain I want to leave my current position. All of my reasons are professional reasons; there are no relocation issues or anything like that. \n\nI do not have a new position lined up but I am being actively recruited and feel that having a new position by the fall is a near-lock. Regardless, my finances are strong and, outside of good personal relationships with a couple colleagues, I have absolutely no hesitation about leaving this position. \n\nOne issue for my department is that some of my future classes are \"important\" (required classes that, right now, only I am qualified to teach). I do not want to put them in an unnecessarily difficult position. Therefore, my main question is: \n\n\nwhen should I break this news? Given my certainty about this decision, should I tell them ASAP? \nOr, should I follow the general logic that one should never leave a position without a new job lined up? What if this means waiting two more months, REALLY leaving them in a tough spot for covering my \"important\" fall classes? \n\n\nAs a secondary question: \n\n\nany advice about how to break this news? Some of my reasons are related to the way the program is run and the behavior of some of my colleagues. Should I go into this, or should I simply say that the position turned out the be a poor fit and that I must move on?"
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"PhD Applications and GRE Subject Tests during Covid",
"I just recently finished a masters program in Mathematics, unfortunately it seems most PhD Programs require a math GRE Subject test. At the moment I'm living with my parents and don't feel comfortable going in to take an exam with others - especially with the cases in the US right now, but I don't want to lose a shot at getting into some programs.\nDoes anyone know if universities have lifted the requirement for GRE Subject tests as a result of Covid?\nThanks"
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"Qualifications needed to teach math/statistics at US university",
"A friend with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Statistics would like to teach math/statistics at a US university which is not research oriented as a full-time faculty member. To do so, it seems like it might be necessary to have a PhD. However, my friend is not interested in statistics research, so she's thinking instead about trying for a PhD in Math Education. Is this viable? Are there alternative routes?"
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"Should I talk about a unpublished paper in my SOP?",
"I have a draft of a unpublished paper that I hosted in Arxiv that I will be attaching with my application. Should I talk about the inspiration behind it in my SOP. Like how is the method behind the paper different from the existing methods for the same problem?\n\nThere seems to be this general consensus that anything flimsy or story-like needs to be avoided. Does talking about inspiration for a paper qualify as flimsy or story-like?\n\nThe paper is a single author paper that I never talked about with my recommendors so I am afraid that if I don't talk about it, people reading my SOP will not read it at all."
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"Paper rejection probability after two round of major revision.",
"I would like to know the paper rejection probability (very rough) after two round of major revision. At the 1st and 2nd revision, I have revised the paper properly according to the reviewer's comments. The reviewer has raised a new issue in the 2nd revision and the reviewer has recommended me to revise the paper again. I have revised the paper properly again and submitted to the journal. The number of assign reviewer for the paper is only 1 (Reviewer 1). The paper has been reviewing for 7 months.\n\nIn the 2nd revision, I could not understand the editorial manager paper status meaning. The paper status has changed from \"major revision\" to \"with editor\" after submitting the revised paper. After 1 week later the paper status has changed to \"under review\" and then after two weeks later the paper status has changed to \"with editor\". I have not received any email from the editor so far. This morning I have checked the paper status and I found that the paper status again has changed to \"under review\". I would be grateful if someone could help me to understand the meaning of the status."
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"Responding to an unambiguously wrong referee comment",
"I'm now replying to a referee. One of his points is unambiguously wrong. Moreover, without going into specifics, he spends a lot of time on that point and asks us to do something with our framework that it cannot address. This is not stubbornness on our part since otherwise we'd be happy to accommodate requests.\n\nBut I’m terrified of writing \"This comment is wrong\". Even if I thereafter go into some detail as to why it's wrong, somehow I fear a backlash which we know shouldn’t be a reaction of referees but often can be. \n\nDoes anyone have any advice?"
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"Advantages of professional (student level) memberships (in computer science)",
"I'm a sophomore undergraduate studying CS and I look forward to getting into research in future. Is there any advantage of being a student member of societies like ACM, IEEE, etc? I think it might help me expose myself more in the area of Computer Science and research in general but I'm still not sure. I realised that I already have access to digital library through my uni. How can I maximise the benefits I derive from my membership if I choose to become one?\nFor example, the yearly student membership cost of ACM where I study (India) is ~$25. It says:\n\nAccess to the full ACM Digital Library\nAccess to online courses, ebooks and training videos,\nElectronic subscription to Communications of the ACM magazine\nAccess to ACM's highly targeted Career and Job Center\n-Subscription to XRDS, ACM's all new student magazine\nElectronic subscription to ACM CareerNews (twice monthly)\nACM e-news digest TechNews (tri-weekly)\nACM's monthly online newsletter MemberNet\nFree "acm.org" email forwarding address plus filtering\n\nI don't know how much these subscriptions really benefit me."
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"Do all the co-authors of a publication own the content and may use RAW DATA, text, figure or table for their own publication?",
"A third co-author C of a study in 2016 available on-line (under subscription) want to re-use the data (included in the figures or tables) of this paper with for others co-authors (A, B, D, E). Co-authors C and A are in conflict.These data will be presented and analyzed in a different manner to support its own and new data set in a paper that Co-author C want to submit as unique author. Co-author C will only use the published data (and not the raw data) of the study of 2010. Some raw data are available on-line (under subscription). However, co-author C only collected but not processed an insignificant part these data. After asking the editor permission that co-author C have (he is limited to re-use only 3 tables or figures), do co-author C has the right to publish part of theses data in a new paper as a unique author? these data are considered to represent (30%) of the data set for the new paper. Does the co-author C has the right to re-use the data without permission of the others co-authors (A, B, D, E)? The same may be also applied to the raw data already published as supporting data? IS the co-author C allowed to include in \"material and method \" or in \"results\" section some brief sentences describing how he gets the some of these data and these previous results in its new paper as unique author?\nThe PI request to include all the co-authors (A, B, D, E) for the new publication of co-author C. Co-author C is not agreed as most of the co-authors (A, B, D, E) did not participate in the elaboration, analyze and writing task of the new paper."
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"Where can I find good research proposals of researches in computer science?",
"Where can I find good research proposals of researches in computer science? I specifically need to see some example methodology sections. I am writing a research proposal where the research problem is based on database systems and reinforcement learning. Writing the methodology section has become a great difficulty so far because there isn't any proper guidance or understanding I have on the area of academic documentation. If you can suggests a good book or a website to refer it's also helpful in this matter."
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"NSF grant proposals after earning PhD",
"I am a fresh mathematics Ph.D who has begun a three year postdoc at University X. I applied for an NSF postdoctoral grant last year with University Y (with Y not equal to X) and did not get it. This year I want to re-apply. I like where I am and so I am planning to apply for the NSF with a mentor at University X. I have two questions.\n\n\nAre there examples of a postdoc at an institution being awarded an NSF grant to stay at that institution (before their postdoc runs out)?\nAre there any particular pitfalls I could find in applying at an institution that is already planning on paying me for three years? That is, if the NSF funds me then the job market \"lost\" a job in the sense that my postdoc position won't be replaced by my institution."
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"How to handle severe illness in promotion and tenure reports?",
"I have been suffering from a chronic, progressive disease the last few years, but during this past spring semester, it advanced much more rapidly, leading to massive declines in both my physical and emotional health. My teaching evaluations suffered, since I was just not in a place to spend much time working on prepping for lectures, and the changes I had hoped to incorporate didn't work as planned.\n\nWhat's the best way to go about making sure this information is properly documented, so it has as minimal an impact as possible on my promotion and tenure cases? We do an annual review, and I have already been in communication with my chair and dean, who are aware of my situation."
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"Will 2 years of non relevant work ex affect ms in cs prospects?",
"I have completed Bachelor's in Computer Science ( from India) with an 8.7 CGPA. During my engineering I've done a couple of relevant internships and published a couple of papers. After graduating, I've done a two years non-relevant job in a reputed bank. \n\nWill this non-relevant work experience hurt my chances of getting admit in a good university for MS in CS? (in USA)"
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"Is it appropriate to email an eminent researcher in your field?",
"Sometimes, I feel to contact some of the eminent researchers in my field for any of the following reasons:\n\n\nAppreciating their research publication (recent times). They publish in top conferences, which are usually not hosted in my country or nearby.\nRequesting comments on some of my research hypothesis\nSometimes just because I am a die hard fan of them. For example, probably the only reason I continued with research in Computer Science was due to Don Knuth.\nSometimes, to know what they think on some specific research area that has propagated due to there work. (Probably looks like some journalistic work)\nFor knowing how did they tackle the pressures or certain situation during their PhD or research. (Yes, it's vague but these questions come to mind and probably should be answered by oneself or personal interaction, but adding it for the sake of completion)\n\n\nSince, most of them are located outside my country, I can't visit or phone them. So, how are such emails perceived. Is it appropriate to send such emails, given that they are expected to have very busy schedule and it would probably waste their time?\n\nThough I have mentioned my field as Computer Science, the question should be applicable to all the fields."
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"Reply from prospective Ph.D advisor",
"I sent an email to prospective Ph.D advisor asking for a scholarship in his university and position in his research group. His reply was only \"please, apply mentioning my name\", I didn't understand if he accepted me or not!"
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"What is the relative importance of the parts of my application?",
"I'm thinking of applying to American universities for a Ph.D in Maths and I'm currently studying in the UK. \n\nI was wondering how important each of the pieces of the application are, which I believe are: my personal statement, the references I get, the GRE scores and my academic transcript. \n\nThanks very much!"
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"Can we use online video lectures to free university professors from lecturing for lower-division courses in mathematics?",
"During the 2020-2021 Covid-19 season, universities and colleges around the world made most of their math classes online over Zoom and many professors have their recorded lectures.\nMost math lectures usually don't involve in-class discussions and for the most of the time, professors dominates the teaching. Oftentimes, excellent recorded lectures can be much better than live lectures in mathematics and other theoretical sciences. I have seen many students commenting under certain YouTube videos that those recorded lectures are much better than their professors'.\nI wonder if we could possibly use those recorded videos (there are a lot of such videos modulo-necessary-editing during Covid-19 season. Building a system like (https://nptel.ac.in/) should be feasible) to free university math professors from repeatedly giving lectures on lower-division math classes like calculus, linear algebra or differential equations (but at the same time, asking them to hold discussion sessions and office hours to have more interactions with students and of course, grading homework assignments and exams), so that they could have more time on their research and teaching classes that are more relevant to their research? I believe this is particularly important for the early-career mathematicians. Many postdocs in math are assigned with lower division classes that are kind-of digressions to their research.\nThis seems to be a win-win strategy for both professors and students in terms of the mathematics. If this is good then maybe it should have been conducted already like https://nptel.ac.in/. What would be the potential challenges for doing so for higher education in United States and Europe?"
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"Should you thank helpful referees in the acknowledgements section of a paper?",
"I submitted a paper to a [science] journal and received some particularly constructive feedback from the referees. I am inclined to add something to the effect of\n\nWe are grateful to the referees for their constructive input.\n\nto the acknowledgements, as I have seen in other papers before. But is this considered appropriate?\n\nOn the one hand, it seems polite. But on the other, it's part of the job of a referee to make suggestions. Moreover, since they are anonymous and I am not going to specify their contributions, the only information provided in this remark is that 'someone suggested something' which seems a bit pointless."
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"What to do with a paper with references but no citations?",
"I just received a paper for review that does not have a single citation (in the text) of its references.\n\nI wonder if this is common in other areas non-CS related.\n\nSince it is a conference, I don't think I should contact the editor, but I do think it should lose many points in its evaluation. \n\nOverall the paper is well written, and they do not seem amateurish people writing their first paper.\n\nWhat would you do in this case?"
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"How does one submit an article \"informally\"?",
"Although I have read a lot in my area of interest (plant taxonomy and botanical nomenclature), in am no academic of it, having only a Bachelor of Translation degree.\n\nIt has taken me two years of waffling back and forth before I worked up the courage to write up a quick note (something not entirely dissimilar to this in nature, mostly bibliographical, but necessary nonetheless) which I'd like to submit to Phytoneuron. I call it \"informal\" because it is an independent, one-man journal with a relatively unelaborated review process where one sends the prospective article straight to the editor.\n\nHowever, I have NO idea what sort of language one in my situation can be expected to address to a journal editor. That I am diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and have been told before my writing can be overly formal to comical or insulting degrees at times is not helping my crushing nervosity about the whole thing."
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"How to cite page from section-page number style document?",
"I've come across a problem during my bachelor thesis.\n\nI'd like to cite a single page in a document, but it uses the \"section-page\" style of numbering pages of the document. It appear like I'm referencing pages 7 to 23, even it is just a single page. (I am using ISO 690)\n\n\n\nWhat's the proper way to cite such page? Thank you."
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"Can I cross-reference thesis chapters in my thesis literature review?",
"I am currently editing and updating my thesis literature review before submitting my thesis next year.\n\nIn reviewing the relevant literature, I find that two of my results chapters published as journal articles are within the scope of the literature review and I would normally cite them in a review article on the same topic.\n\nIs it appropriate to cross-reference these two chapters in the thesis literature review and mention the results that are presented later on in the thesis? In other words, is it more important that the review is up-to date and includes all published data (including my own), or should it rather reflect the knowledge in the field prior to my thesis?"
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"When to approach my dissertation supervisor?",
"I am about to start a masters degree in the UK. \nOur induction day is late next week and on this day we will have a talk on choosing our modules and preparing for the dissertation. Formal teaching begins in 2 weeks time. \n\nOn the website it says that we can select dissertation topics listed on the website or if we have a topic in mind, we can pursue this as long as we can find a supervisor.\n\nSay I have already found a topic that I would like to pursue.\nWould it be inappropriate to contact the supervisor for that topic this early before the start of term?\nOr should I wait after induction?\nI do not want to miss out on this topic."
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"Relating job hunting and PhD preparedness",
"I am applying for a PhD in neuroscience and one of the requirements on the application is to write a supplemental essay about a time you experienced failure. I wrote an essay about finding a job after undergrad and the times I was rejected and what I learned to ultimately land a job after several rejections. I want to conclude the essay by writing a sentence or two about how the job hunting experience will prepare me for some responsibilities during my PhD. I'm having trouble relating the skills I learned while job hunting (tailoring applications, organizing application materials, networking, interviewing etc.) to what is done during a PhD. Can anyone suggest what I can connect this to? Thanks!"
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"Publishing a paper with questionable statistics",
"I've submitted a paper to a reasonably good journal in my field. One of the reviewers questioned the statistical methods and recommended major revisions. Without getting into the nitty-gritty of the analysis, I sought help from a statistics expert and whilst they said that my analysis wasn't strictly "wrong" they suggested that I correct my p-values for multiple comparisons in order to pacify the reviewers. The issue is, when I applied the correction none of my findings came out to be significant. I am fine with that, for most of the paper we're describing general trends anyway, so I think that removing mention of significance isn't a huge deal, and everyone talks about the need to publish negative findings, so why would this be so bad?\nMy advisor however disagrees, they think that the adjustment is too stringent and we're penalizing the findings unnecessarily (I am using false-discovery rate, so the most lenient you could get). They also think that if we remove the mentions of significance the paper is likely to be rejected because then we don't have much to back up the trends we're presenting. My advisor wants me to go ahead and resubmit the paper by making slight adjustments. This would be the first paper I've published as first author, and I am struggling to get onboard with blatantly ignoring a the statistical error I would be committing for the sake of publishing it. My advisor has agreed for the correction of the p-values to be applied and discussed in my thesis.\nMy dilemma lies in whether I try to fight my advisor on this (I don't think I will win), or do as they ask and hope the paper gets rejected, or maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion and my advisor is right. I am concerned that I will regret publishing something I know to be questionable for the sake of publishing."
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"Extension of international internship in France",
"I am an undergraduate student from India and I was offered a year long research internship in France for my undergraduate thesis. However, since the French government does not allow for internships greater than 6 months my hosts proposed they'll get me another internship for the following 6 months in any of their partner organizations and I could continue my research on the same topic. \n\nBut recently I came across this blog where they mention (the fourth point) that \"students cannot complete more than 6 months of internships for each year they are enrolled in school\".\n\nCan someone who has been in similar situation or is aware of the french government's internship policies please confirm if this is actually the case and if so does this apply to all students or only students of French universities. And if it is indeed true for all students is there any workaround for this?"
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"Deferring admission to a computer science graduate program",
"Background: I have the opportunity to pursue a Computer Science graduate degree at a well respected program (around top 20). I spoke with the professors at the university and I feel like I am a good fit with their research program. My ultimate pursuits are to complete a PhD in CS. I've done research as an undergraduate and it has only confirmed my notion that I want to pursue a research track career.\n\nMore background: I applied to jobs (in case I was rejected to all the programs I applied for) prior to hearing back from my respective graduate programs. I accepted a position for an industry job (this was to secure I wouldn't be both unemployed & not in school).\n\nDilemma: Turns out my top graduate school is very interested in me, and I'm very interested in them. I would rather go to graduate school than work in industry forever. The industry job pays very well. I am split between A) working for a maximum of 1 year(It would only be 1 year, seriously I do not care about the money enough to work past a year) and B) going straight to graduate school. \n\nMy concerns are as follows, if I choose A): \n\n\nCould I potentially defer my admissions?\nIf I am not allowed to defer my admissions, would I have a good chance of re-applying and being accepted a year later?\nWould my potential advisers look down on me for deciding to work a year?\n\n\nI already made my mind up it would be a 1 year gig if I decide A). I know some people say once you make money, you may not be able to readjust to the graduate salary pay. But I don't think that will apply to because I'm going to live very frugally with or without industry pay."
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"What criteria would you assess to gauge whether to quit a Ph.D for a job in industry?",
"Just started my second year of a 3.5 year EPSRC funded Ph.D (in engineering, and using some machine learning) in the UK. I have recently finished my confirmation review so have secured the funding for the remainder of the Ph.D. \n\nI have a conference paper from my first year, but I have spent most of the year up and down with the ebbs and flows of research and I am not sure I can handle it mentally anymore. \n\nI am looking at applying for data science/analyst positions. I think I am far better suited to a life in industry.\n\nPart of me thinks I should just try and grind it out and finish (maybe this is second year blues?), but part of me also just wants to get out and start progressing with my career (I already have a Masters degree). \n\nAt what stage would you consider leaving a PhD in order to pursue an industry career?"
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"Should I explain my poor performance during undergrad, due to mental illness, when applying for PhD?",
"I was mentally ill for the first three years of my undergraduate studies (altogether, I had the diagnoses of severe depression and anxiety disorder for about five years). The diseases delayed my progress considerably. However, I recovered, and have done extremely well after that.\n\nTwo programs, both top-ten globally, are interested in hiring me. I have not listed my grades on my CV to avoid giving a bad first impression; I have instead highlighted my achievements: publications, prizes, research experience, etc.\n\nHow / when should I mention this? My BSc is average and MSc very good. I hope they do not care about the undergrad grades. If there is an \"other information\" box in the applications, should I state something along the lines\n\n\n My performance during my undergraduate studies was not good due to severe illness. However, I have fully recovered, and done very well since\n\n\nI know there is a previous question about getting a bad transcript past admission committees. However, I think my qualifications are really good without the bad beginning. Also, I would like not to mention I was mentally ill. What to do here?"
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"Why are Macbooks so ubiquitous in Science, if they are status symbols",
"In Biology, I was told, you will almost not be able to find a professor that does not have a Macbook. And as soon as they have enough money, students and scientific staff will follow. \n\nBut also in my own field, mathematics, I have seen lots of highly respected professors with Macbooks.\n\nNow, I have never worked with a Macbook myself, but I have helped out colleagues with problems a few times and I have really have not encountered any advantages over a regular and half as expensive Windows laptop, or an even cheaper Linux laptop. \nThose that I know good enough to question their choice of laptop confirm exactly my suspicion, saying they thought it was pretty/everyone in their lab had one, or swear by it but never had a different laptop.\n\nIs there something I am missing about Macs? Maybe some recent convert out there?\nIf not, why are academics so keen on status symbols? Isn't academia the one place where content should count, not looks, or even worse, depiction of wealth? \n\nEDIT: while I agree that this question is prone to flame wars and the question about mac vs. anything else is also not really new, I DID want to know about the specific situation for scientists and the two answers so far are exactly of the kind that I wished when I was posting the question. Now of course mentioning that Macs might(! \"if they..\") be regarded as status symbols attracts attention to my question ;)"
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"How long can you give job talks on your thesis-book project?",
"I'm two years out of my PhD in the humanities and have given a couple of job talks since, all on material from my dissertation. Not only have I spent months trying to make the talks themselves as good as possible, they're based on ideas and material I've had the entirety of my PhD to feel confident about presenting. My question is: at what point on the market do universities expect you to present new material that's not part of your dissertation research? I'm at the very early stages of developing my \"second book project,\" but my research / argument aren't nearly as developed!"
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"How not to get drowned in details and questions?",
"Hi I am a perfectionist electrical and electronics student who struggles with studying because I cannot focus on the subject or context as I cannot let go of the questions or details that trouble me. I always feel like I must be an expert regarding the subject and be able to answer all the questions that one might raise no matter how stupid or unrelated those questions are. That is why I am not academically successful and satisfied. What mindset should I adopt to overcome this situation? I feel totally frustrated and hopeless. I tried out psychological help but it keeps coming over and over."
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"Research Training Support Grant",
"I've managed to secure a National Environmental Research Council (NERC) funded PhD project (I'm a UK resident and student), and understand that the funding comprises of: \n\n\nTuition fees \nStipend\nResearch training support grant (composed of research and training budgets)\n\n\nSo the tuition fees and stipend are paid year on year, but there's a single figure associated with the research and training budgets for the duration of the project.\nI'm confused as to what the research and training budgets would or could be used for? Also as to whether it is something that is paid to myself, or something to be claimed against? I've tried searching for information specific to NERC or other DTPs, but can't seem to find out any information.\n\nI hope this doesn't come across as dense! Thanks for any help you can offer."
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"Can't find research area in my master thesis topic",
"I'm master computer science student. I would like to do my master thesis in a company. I got a topic from a company but the problem is when I show my topic to my professor he said he didn't find research in my topic. He said that this is normal when you take topic from a company.\n\nI really want to do my master thesis with company because it will level up my career.\n\nI read some papers I tell my idea about the research area but my professor tell me you are in root domain there a lot of branches.\n\nHow can I find a research area and how can I impress my prof?"
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"Time management during a poster presentation competition",
"I had a poster competition and given 4 minutes to explain everything in brief to the judges plus 1 minute for Q&A. I prepared in that way and explained my work to the judges in 3 minutes and 58 seconds. One judge asked me a quick question and I answered it also quickly. As there were another few seconds left, second judge asked me another question and I also explained it very nicely. Finally one person with a stopwatch told me you finished everything in exactly 5 minutes.\n\nWhen the result got announced, I just got shocked because out of 3 winners at least 2 were there who neither maintain the time nor could answer the judges' simple questions properly. The best poster award was given to X who took 7 minutes and 35 seconds to finish her presentation (with 3 additional time notifications:-please conclude, please conclude, please conclude). One judge asked a quick question to her and she took additional few minutes to answer. The person with stopwatch told her that she took a total of 9 minutes and 54 seconds.\n\nSo I am curious to know whether the judgement process does not consider the time management? Or it just depends on the judges' own interest? I had a chance to ask about my presentation to one judge during the end day dinner. Below are the relevant one:\n\nMe: How was my presentation, any suggestions please to improve it?\n\nJudge: Your presentation was one of the best. But why didn't you explain your results more explicitly? (Pointing the best poster awardee) X explained her results very clearly.\n\nMe: I had only 4 minutes.\n\nJudge: Yaah, I can understand it. But you have excellent fluent and good depth of your research objective. Keep it up."
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"How to prove/deal with plagiarism that is hidden behind bad synonyms?",
"I have had more than one undergraduate student who I have very strongly suspected of routine plagiarism that I cannot prove. There is a certain style of writing that is just inexplicable except as an effort to avoid plagiarism detection.\n\nI will give an example from a case I was actually able to prove. The student wrote:\n\n\n Free enterprise prejudice is changing in the current period as another U.S. racial conviction framework at a moment that African Americans are a vigorously urbanized, broadly scattered, and occupationally heterogeneous group; when state arrangement is formally race nonpartisan and focused on anti discrimination endeavors; and when most white Americans lean toward a more volitional and social, rather than innate and organic, translation of blacks' burdened status.\n\n\nThis was clearly an attempt to plagiarize from one of the readings in the course:\n\n\n Laissez Faire Racism is crystallizing in the current period as a new American racial belief system at a point when African Americans are a heavily urbanized, nationally dispersed and occupationally heterogeneous population; when state policy is formally race-neutral and committed to anti-discrimination; and when most white Americans prefer a more volitional and cultural, as opposed to inherent and biological, interpretation of blacks' disadvantaged status.\n\n\nThis kind of plagiarism is totally missed by SafeAssign, the detection tool that I have access to. When I am able to prove cases like this, it's only with much effort. Of course, I can just give students F for writing incoherently, but I would like to have these students removed from the course. I can only do it if I can prove the plagiarism. \n\nCan anyone recommend any strategies for dealing with this? \n\nEDIT: I of course do try to explain to the student that this is not an appropriate way to paraphrase. They typically say that they understand... and then they do the exact same thing on the next assignment."
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"Could I choose a PhD supervisor from a different university?",
"I want to apply for a PhD at a Canadian university, but I currently am in a Masters Program in the US. If I attend this new university, would I be able to choose a PhD supervisor from my current university?"
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"CV for leaving academia after PhD",
"I am soon finishing my PhD in computer science and I decided to leave academia for the industry (not industry research). \n\nI am not clear about what to include in the CV. \nI currently structured it like this:\n\n\nEducation\nWork experience (including teaching positions and internships)\nSelected Honors, Awards & Fellowships\nProgramming Skills \nSelected journal publications\nSelected Workshops, Schools & Conference Talks\n\n\nwhich in its current version results in a two page CV. \n\nI am neither sure about the ordering of the above items as well as the importance of each. \n\nFor example while I have ten publications I only mention two of them in the CV. On the other hand I mention about eleven Workshops, Schools & Conference Talks. I think this is not the right balance. On the other hand I am not sure how much companies (like Facebook, LinkedIn, ...) care about theoretical publications. I also do not mention any research visits I did. \n\nSo my question is, what academic information do you include in a CV for non academic positions and how important is each of the items?"
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"Citing non existence of a novel idea",
"Can someone please help me out here?\n\nI have a research proposal to present. I had a novel idea to present. \nFirst things first, I googled the idea and could not find it anywhere. So far so good. So I wrote down in my research proposal that 'No system had implemented (insert my idea here)...'. \n\nHowever, when I peer reviewed this writing to a friend, he strongly suggested me to cite the above sentence 'No system..'\n\nMy doubt is how do I cite it? I did not find the idea anywhere. \n\nIs my choice of using this sentence 'No system..' wrong?"
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"Do peer reviewers receive any salary?",
"Do academic peer reviewers receive any salary?\nIf yes, what is the annual average?"
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"Is it okay to share a tex template from a journal for teaching purposes?",
"I am a graduate student in a university. I was an undergraduate student on the same university, and I have good feelings for the workplace where I did my undergraduate studies (very much so that I keep close contact with the students).\n\nIn order to enhance the writing abilities of the students (it is a Mathematics course), I had the idea of making a \"toy\" journal, where students would be able to submit what they were studying/thought was interesting/etc. The main objective is to improve writing and exposition capabilities, and providing motivation for the students.\n\nIn order to make the idea go forward, I considered taking a (tex) template from a journal and sending it to the students for them to write using the template. This would be excellent in terms of efficiency. However, I feel that even though this \"toy\" journal has only internal intentions and is only this: a \"toy\" journal, there may be some ethics issue on taking a possibly copyrighted asset.\n\nI would like to know:\n\n\nAre there any issue with the above, given the intentions?\nIf there is no issue, is there a standard way to ask for permission?\nIf that is not possible, are there any good free templates available?"
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"When my work is presented by colleague at conference I don't attend, do I include on my CV?",
"My colleague has been presenting our work overseas. I'm primary investigator and first author on the work/papers. Should I or can I be including these presentations on my CV?\n\nMy context is that I'm a doctoral student in healthcare discipline and using the CV for grant applications.\n\nThank you!"
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"What is the best way to \"fire\" my advisor?",
"I have had it with my advisor's unethical behavior, demanding people to be removed from papers, removing my cosupervisor without telling me and insinuating that he has \"appointed a new one\".\n\nWhat is the best way to break up with him? The PhD school already has a procedure in place, but do you advise I speak with him before I start this process?\nDo I tell him the very truth for why I don't want him anymore or simply state some other reasons and stroke his ego anyway?\n\nUPDATE: He wouldn't meet with me, so I didn't even have a chance to be hesitant about speaking with him. He suggested a third supervisor other than the one I had chosen, and I respectfully declined."
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"What merits acceptance for rapid publication in letter format?",
"Ive recently been asked to review for a letter format journal (articles less than 4 pages) for rapid publication. The same standard criteria of original content, novelty and relevant references as for other journal publications are required. Looking to the referee guide of the journal, it is stated that \n\n\n When reviewing, reviewers should ask themselves 'Is this paper suitable for rapid publication?'\n\n\nI am unable to find any discussion or guideline that clearly state what merits acceptance for rapid publication compared to the normal peer-review process for journal article submissions. Publishing as a IEEE letter vs article gives some input from the guidelines of IEEE JMEMS, where the author should argue why it is eligible for rapid publishing, although, Im not sure if this guideline is general for all journals. \n\nI can understand that rapid publishing has benefits for authors and can be required by publishers due to competition. But I dont see what I, as a reviewer, am supposed to look for.\n\nSince the letter format is short, not all aspects can be covered in the submission. Since the decision is binary (accept/reject), questions related to the submission cannot be answered or clarified by the authors through the review process. The situation arises that the submission can be original and novel, but may lack investigations or results. Should I still accept?"
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"Should I mention future works in my SOP? (CS PhD Fall 2022 USA)",
"Background: CS Undergrad applying to CS PhD Programs\nI am working on my senior thesis and have thought about 2 major chapters. Assuming I apply to my preferred universities by dec 1st I will only be able to complete 1 chapter by then. Is it reasonable to discuss in short about how I plan to complete it within the SOP?\nThe topic I'm working on is something I want to continue working on during grad-school and is the professor's area of interest as well.\nQuestion Is this something one should write about in their SOPs?"
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"\"Warning signs\" that candidates should be aware of during an academic job interview",
"I know that a big part of academic job interviews is for the candidate to evaluate whether they want to be in the department (not only whether the department wants them). \n\nAre there some non-obvious general factors that signal a possibly dysfunctional department, or an otherwise undesirable position, that a candidate should be aware of? For example (but not limited to), is a poorly attended job talk, or only meeting a relatively small fraction of the faculty, a warning sign of something awry? \n\nI'm asking this question because I have had two successful interviews and am weighing competing offers. This has left me considering some of the finer aspects of the interview experience."
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"\"References\" in research proposal for PhD application",
"I am currently writing my \"research proposal\" for my PhD in Statistics application. I'm using quotes because technically this is not (or could not be) the actual research that I will perform during my PhD, but some sort of exercise to prove your writing skills.\nBy the end of the template I have a slot under the name \"References\", and I've seen this kind of thing in other research.project templates that I've submitted.\n\nI have some doubts regarding this, should I include all the references I've used while writing the research-proposal, or instead should I include the bibliography that I consider relevant, even thought it wasn't explicitly used in the text.\n\nFurthermore, should I also include there the references regarding my statement of purpose, or is it better to write them down after the letter itself?\n\nI am worried because I am asked to provide a \"State of the Art\" and of course I am citing a lot of articles, even thought I don't consider them strictly necessary for my research and I don't want to write down those references in the slot \"References\" if not needed (given that I can at most include 10 articles).\n\nHope you can give me some clue.\nThanks in advance."
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"How to get out of a data use agreement?",
"My project is based on data hosted by a different university than the one where I used to work. When I requested the data, I understood that the work (and cost) to extract it from the database increases with the number of items I wanted. I had no research funds at the time and therefore asked for a rather small sample, with an informal agreement with the director of the inistitute that the person extracting the data would be my collaborator and coauthor. \n\nSeveral months passed before I received the data and then the sample turned out to be too small to be really useful. I did not make another request as the data extraction process appeared so time-consuming. Instead, I moved on to work with other projects for a couple of years.\n\nThe data became relevant again when I started as a visiting researcher at this institute. Although I wasn't employed by the institute, I had direct access to the database and could download all of it in a matter of minutes. I expected that the person who extracted the first sample would be willing to collaborate on data classification and other things where he was an expert. Instead, he seemed hostile and would only answer to exactly what I asked, rather than make an attempt to be helpful. \n\nThe most recent development is that the institute made most of this database and classification open for anyone to download. \n\nWhat should I do to get out of the original data use agreement? I feel trapped in a forced collaboration with a person with whom I'm not in speaking terms. I'm not in a position to renegotiate or entitled to any help from the institute, as it is not my employer.\n\nI took this situation more seriously than anyone should, as my depression renewed and I went to psyhotherapy for nine months. That's telling something about the amount of time I have wasted with this dilemma."
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"Postdoc in the US : what salary should I ask for",
"I live in France and I'm currently applying for postdoc positions in fundamental mathematics, at several universities in the US and elsewhere. For my application at the University of Denver, I'm asked to give my desired salary, and I have no idea what to answer... I don't know at all what are the standards in the US, I don't even know if it's homogeneous or depends on states... So two questions:\n\n1) Do you have an idea of what could be a standard income for such a position? (To be more precise, it's a visiting assistant professorship with a teaching load of five undergraduate courses over three quarters during the 9-month academic year.)\n\n2) I don't know if the desired salary is taken into account during the search process. Do you think I should ask for a lower salary in order to have more chances to be hired? Or should I, on the contrary, ask for a higher one and expect they will bargain?\n\nThank you in advance, I'm a bit lost since it doesn't work at all in the same way in France..."
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"How to answer to this polite, but strange request?",
"I am a young postgraduate researcher, and I have developed an algorithm to measure the blood flow from echographic signals in a novel manner. I currently only have one published paper from my pregraduate years, on which I am 4th author, and it is not about my current field of research.\n\nLong story short, my algorithm is unpublished and works quite well... so well that recently a PhD in electrical engineering from the other side of the planet saw a summary about it on the net, and sent me an email asking for some data, so that one of his undergraduate students can reproduce my program. They assure me that they won't use it for publishing, and both the PhD and his supposed undergraduate sent me several emails already. When I asked for precisions about their project, they just in essence replied: \"We don't really know yet, but we would like to reproduce your work\"\n\nI don't know what to answer... moreover, the data they are asking for (a video of an echographic exam) can be found in 10 seconds on Youtube. What should I do?"
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"How to deal with a colleague who won't accept they're wrong",
"Sometimes an argument will arise between collaborators where two (or more) contrasted views or (mis)interpretations of a scientific issue exist. Sometimes both views are partially correct, sometimes they're both incorrect, and sometimes one is correct and the other is not.\n\nSome people don't handle being wrong in a very \"gracious\" manner, even after realizing they are wrong, and will not admit their mistake. I have a previous experience with a more senior colleague who would not admit they were wrong even after confronted with a lot of evidence. I should also add that I was intimately familiar with the research problem at hand and they had just some very superficial knowledge of it, which probably led to their mistake. I suspect that at some point they realized they were wrong but were trying to hold the upper ground (\"I'm right because I'm the more senior person\") and \"win\" the argument. Also their ego got in the way of reason (not the first time that happened). The situation was very frustrating for me and things went sour with this person, not only because of this incident but also because of previous history.\n\nI am facing the same problem again (with a different colleague who is also my senior) and would like to handle the situation in a less destructive manner. However, I cannot write a statement on a paper that I know to be wrong just to avoid hurting somebody's ego.\n\nWhat is a good way to resolve the issue with a colleague who you know to be wrong, anticipating they may have a hard time admitting it?\n\n\n\nJust to clarify (based on what I can read in the comments): my question is not about situations such as pointing out a mistake by the speaker at the end of a presentation, sometimes even with the malicious intention to embarrass a \"competitor\" (things you witness at conferences!). In such situations influencing factors are, e.g., present audience and lack of time to think things through. It's about stubbornly persisting on one's mistake even when confronted with evidence and given the time to think about it."
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"Is it acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to explain and fix homework mistakes?",
"In a course we have a lot of hard homework. We are allowed to share solutions etc, as long as each student's doesn't just copy but understands what he/she writes.\n\nIs this acceptable to hire a tutor help me solve the homework I can't solve?"
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"Increase chance of reply when e-mailing an eminent researcher?",
"I found this question, but it does not exactly match what I would like to ask. In my case, it's almost surely appropriate to send the e-mail (since my adviser suggested it), I'm just wandering as to what is the best way to formulate such an e-mail.\nThe situation\nThe situation is that there is this bigshot researcher in my field, who designed an experimental framework that is very widely used (which I want to use now). In the paper describing the framework (not so recent, ~2005), he compares 5 (then) state-of-the-art methods, and those 5 are still used as comparison references.\nThe problem is that, even though implementations for the reference methods are provided, I can not find the parameters used to initialize the method.\nIt is stated in the paper that the parameters suggested by original authors of the methods are used, but, after weeks of digging through the framework paper, papers introducing the method for the first time, and even trying to guess the parameters so they match the ones used, I still can not get the ones used. Since I want to test the method with slight modifications and not just use it as reference, I can not re-use the implementation provided but instead need to run my implementation with parameters I can not find, and introduce modifications to that.\nIn short\nSo, to summarize and generalize: After a few weeks of looking for it, I can not find some parameters used in a (seminal framework) work published in 2005. These parameters are not needed to reproduce the work, but are important in extending it. My adviser suggested e-mailing the author of the paper (who is a well known in the community), but since he is so well know and I'm a lowly PhD student I feel kind of uncomfortable sending this e-mail.\nThe question\nI do understand that this is probably the best (and possibly only) approach to getting the information I need, even if it is not very probable that it will work. With that (and my fear of bigshot academics) in mind, my questions are:\n\nHow to best write such an email? Besides the basics (be polite and concise) I don't know where to even start.\nDo you have any advice on how to increase the chances of getting a reply? Maybe including my adviser in the CC of the e-mail would be a good idea, indicating my relation to a more established academic?"
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"I am a recent Ph.D. graduate in computer science.\nIn the last few months, I wrote a paper about an aspect of my thesis, with the collaboration of my former supervisor. We found a call for papers for a \"special section\" of an important journal, that is a section focused on the data set we are exploiting. The submission deadline was set to the end of November 2014, but surprisingly we just discovered that it has been post-poned to the end of March 2015, a four month delay.\nI did not know if it was better to send this paper to this \"special section\" or to the \"normal track\" of the journal, so I asked here on Academia.\n\nUser Geoff Hutchison suggested to me to contact the editorial board and ask them if I could have all the original time schedules. That means to have all the notification and re-submission dates as they were not post-poned, except the final publication date.\nIt seemed reasonable to me, so I wrote to my former supervisor (who is also the co-author of the paper, even if his contribution to the project and the paper is only around ~5%).\n\nHe replied to me in a very ill-mannered, thwarted and angry way, stating that \"writing this request to the editors may cause a lot of problems\", that I am \"not able to understand how lucky we are for the existence of this special section\", \"having the paper accepted in this special section may be the best thing that could ever happen to our our paper\", that I \"should focus on how to improve the paper, instead of inventing new ways to create problems\", and I should \"understand that the paper isn't worth much\".\n\nWhat to reply back to this \"gentleman\"?\n\nThe paper is mine, comes from the doctoral thesis of mine, from an idea that I had, and was written entirely by me. My former supervisor just reviewed and corrected it.\nI am not going tolerate this disrespectful behavior, and cannot stand having a co-author that considers my paper \"not worth much\".\n\n[EDIT]: Thanks to all for your contributions. I'm asking to you all some suggestions on how to manage this situation: should I trust someone that is the co-author of my paper and thinks that the paper \"isn't worth much\"? In my opinion, this statement is in contrast with actually being a co-author of the paper.\nHow to let him know that I did not like his ill-mannered way to reply back to me, without damaging my perspective paper submission?"
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"My professor keeps opening my office door without knocking at the door",
"Is it polite when my professor keep opening my office door without knocking at the door whenever he wants to ask anything?\n\nSince the door closed, I am supposed to hear knock before breaking into, or rather, busting into the room. Is it polite?"
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"Submitted to a non Scopus-indexed journal, later found that University only accept Scopus journals. How can I submit to another journal?",
"I submitted a paper to Thomson Reuters ESCI Journal, and they are asking me to complete a registration and pay a fee of around $400 to publish the paper. \n\nBut later I found that my University gives preference to Scopus-Indexed journals. How can I cancel the previous submission (the paper has not been published), and how can I submit to another Scopus-Indexed journal?"
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"Use of Wikipedia images I created myself",
"I have created several images for Wikipedia and would like to use them for my own poster/talks as well. However I am concerned that my colleagues will assume that I took them from Wikipedia and will consider it bad practice to use images from Wikipedia instead of my own and secondly to not reference them. How would you clarify that?"
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"How to paraphrase a paraphrased part?",
"Lets assume that A wrote an article in 1999 and A included a part taken from B's source written in 1998. How do I paraphrase that part, and how do I cite it?\n\nLike this; Blablablablabla blabla (A, 1999).\nOr like this; Blablablabla blabla (B, 1998).\nOr something different?"
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