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Jan 31 |
answered | Requiring student to participate in online challenges to complete coursework |
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Jan 31 |
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What does it mean to accept a job offer (I agree about flexibility, but in the communities I'm familiar with, this is almost always handled by asking to extend the deadline. It's pretty standard for departments to do that, and if they won't then it's a clear sign that they would be unhappy about rescinding an acceptance later.) |
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Jan 31 |
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What does it mean to accept a job offer Yeah, it's almost certainly field/country dependent. I just want to emphasize that there are cases where changing an acceptance can be very dangerous. (And the linked case is definitely anomalous - it got a lot of internet discussion precisely because it was a borderline case and opinions differed.) |
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Jan 31 |
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What does it mean to accept a job offer On the other hand, accepting a job and then trying to switch to another job during the same year/job market cycle is very rare (at least in mathematics). This is incredibly risky for your reputation. It might be possible to pull it off if you really beg, but even still some people will think you did something wrong/manipulative. |
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Jan 31 |
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What does it mean to accept a job offer In my experience, people sometimes make a future commitment ("I'll come work for you after I spent a year at Institute X") and then change their minds before they arrive. This has to be handled very delicately, basically by saying you know you are obligated but hope they'll understand and release you from the obligation (with the subtext that if they don't you'll come for a year to fulfill your obligation and then leave, which won't be any good for anyone). The time delay is crucial here, in establishing that the situation now seems different than when you accepted the job. |
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Jan 31 |
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What does it mean to accept a job offer I strongly disgaree about the morals: many people do consider any acceptance morally binding. (I have no statistics but I'd estimate it's a majority of faculty in the communities I'm familiar with - maybe mathematicians are unusually rule-bound. :) ) And this is critical to keep in mind. Even if some, or many, faculty are willing to view changing your mind as just playing the game, it can still ruin your reputation. For example, in the case Willie mentioned this controversy is still among the top three Google hits for the applicant's name three years later. |
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Jan 31 |
awarded | Informed |
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Jan 31 |
answered | Can I use tools in beta version in my research? |
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Jan 30 |
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Can I use Google images for my presentations without violating any copyrights? added 25 characters in body |
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Jan 30 |
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Can I use Google images for my presentations without violating any copyrights? @Silvado: Good point, I'll edit to clarify. Incidentally, the German law (dejure.org/gesetze/UrhG/52a.html) allows only uses that are "necessary to the respective purpose" ("zu dem jeweiligen Zweck geboten"), so it's not 100% clear to me what it covers, and it does not include anyone but the actual students (for example, you cannot post the slides online). Still, it's great that German law has formalized this. I wish they would do that in the U.S. |
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Jan 30 |
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Can I use Google images for my presentations without violating any copyrights? Yeah, it can be tricky. You could just have a line at the bottom of the slide in very small type saying "Images from A, B, C, D, E, F." and not giving full links. |
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Jan 30 |
answered | Can I use Google images for my presentations without violating any copyrights? |
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Jan 30 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What should raise red flags to detect fabricated data |
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Jan 30 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jan 29 |
answered | why do academics write peer reviews? |
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Jan 25 |
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Doubt regarding authorship @user5715: You should be careful with this, since the master's student probably also wants to work hard and be first author. Of course what's right depends on the circumstances, and if you do most of the work then you deserve to be first author. However, competing too hard with junior students is generally frowned upon, and it could look bad to spend lots of time trying to be first author on someone else's master's thesis rather than focusing on deeper projects. |
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Jan 20 |
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should one add to the CV papers that appeared in conferences with no proceedings? What does it mean to say a paper "appeared" in a conference with no proceedings? The term seems confusing here, since at least to me it suggests publication or distribution of the paper. If the paper is published elsewhere, then that is how I would list it under publications in your CV, but you could (and should) also indicate somewhere that you spoke about it at this conference. That would fall under talks or presentations rather than publications. |
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Jan 17 |
answered | Is it okay to use students as a reference when applying for a teaching position? |
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Jan 17 |
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What to do if one has had an unsuccessful PhD (because of others' fault)? I would urge him to avoid talking about suing. It sounds frivolous to sue because he published only one paper, the postdocs hogged the machines and did some of the research he had hoped to do, and he doesn't feel he learned enough. I can understand why this is upsetting, but the courts are not equipped to settle such disputes, especially when the outcome is not terrible in absolute terms (he is getting a Ph.D. in a reasonable amount of time and has published a paper). It may be worth complaining about the advisor, using one of the mechanisms F'x suggests below, but probably not a lawsuit. |
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Jan 17 |
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Changing the Title of The Research Paper before the submission of Camera Ready Paper I'd be very surprised if they denied permission for any reasonable title change, but it's definitely crucial to let them know. (If you just change the title on the camera-ready version without any other notice, it will cause confusion.) |
