Questions on using e-mail for communicating literature and collaborating with peers. Also related to academic advertising or announcements.
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What to do when emails to a potential advisor are not replied?
I asked a potential advisor for possible research projects but I haven't received a reply.
What is the appropriate thing to do?
Reply with my previous mail quoted, and say something like I having ...
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Is it ok to send an email informing about your new paper?
Several times in the past, after publishing a paper, I have sent email to several people which I thought might be interested in the results obtained in the paper. Usually I have emailed some of the ...
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What should be included in a departmental email policy?
I receive about 10k emails per year and send about 2-3k. In my department (the sphere I can influence) there are those who almost never respond and those who respond as soon as I have hit the send ...
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Is ignoring emails acceptable in academia?
As a grad student, I just find it tremendously frustrating when emails are ignored by faculty (both at my institution and at other places). Is this acceptable? I'd be content with a simple response ...
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How did conferences “work” before the e-mail era?
Some friends and I were discussing a certain conference that has a "rebuttal" phase, in which the authors can see the reviews and reply to them. We realized that this rebuttal phase probably couldn't ...
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What should a proper email signature look like for graduate students?
So far, what I have is
First and Last Name
Title
Group/Lab Name
School Name
Address and Phone
I'm especially confused about the "title". I'm not sure if it should say "Graduate Student", ...
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How do I remove myself from academic mailing lists?
When I was a grad student, I participated in a bunch of conferences, and sent papers to journals and the like.
But now I'm no longer in academia. I've been out for more than three years, and I still ...
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Does timing of emails matter?
I wonder: everyone in academia handles a lot of email, on all aspects of their work. I mean, emails about conferences, emails about journals and papers, emails about research, teaching, supervized ...
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CS PhD Addmission: Contacting prof about unpublished work
I have applied to PhD programs in US in the area of TCS for FALL 13. I have two unpublished work in the area of theory which was part of my master thesis. I have other published work but they are not ...
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Should I send email to my former supervisor
I'm applying to PhD programs and want to ask for a reference letter from my former supervisor, who has since moved to a new university, so that his old work email is not working anymore. I've been ...
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Asking for official e-mail address from ex-employer University for publication?
I am no longer affiliated with a University. In the instance that I publish a paper (co-author or otherwise), is it appropriate for me to e-mail my old University and ask them for a staff e-mail? This ...
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How should one respond to 'Call for Paper' e-mails?
Of late I have been receiving a number of e-mails with subject 'Call for Paper' and invitations to contribute to new and/or open-access publications. While most of them immediately qualify for the ...
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E-mail address to use in publications
It is customary to use one's academic e-mail address as contact address in publications; I have seen once or twice an @gmail.com address being used instead, but it simply looked unprofessional.
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Should I respond to emails (resembling spams) asking for my papers?
I started to get emails like this:
From: Firstname Middlename Lastname <someotherfirstname0000@hotmail>~
Title of paper.
I need the article to study.
thank you!
Firstname ...
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3answers
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Should résumés be attached in a mail to a professor?
Say there is a student who writes a mail to a professor asking for a PhD vacancy or a RA-ship position. Should he attach his résumé in a mail to a professor?
I have had contradictory viewpoints on ...
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When asking research-based questions, what are some good practices to maximize the rates at which people reply to emails?
Matthew Might has an excellent article on his website.
But what are some other good suggestions? One important thing is identification (some professors are simply happier to reply to emails than ...
