Hottest Questions This Month

79

votes

17

answers

13k

views

Is it acceptable for a professor to tell male students to not think that they are smarter than female students?

answered Apr 5 at 21:26 Geoffrey Brent 6,854

62

votes

13

answers

15k

views

Accidentally leaked the solution to an assignment, what to do now? (I'm the prof)

teaching assignment

answered Apr 8 at 4:15 l.k 11

73

votes

10

answers

16k

views

Was a professor correct to chastise me for writing “Prof. X” rather than “Professor X”?

email

modified Mar 29 at 20:44 Scott Seidman 15.2k

61

votes

5

answers

15k

views

Is it inappropriate for a student to attend their mentor's dissertation defense?

thesis students defense

answered Apr 5 at 14:11 ribs2spare 21

27

votes

12

answers

8k

views

What typically incentivizes a professor to change jobs to a lower ranking university?

professors

answered Apr 7 at 11:35 John Bentin 706

54

votes

9

answers

14k

views

How to deal with my PhD supervisors rudely critiquing all my draft papers?

phd advisor etiquette writing

modified Apr 16 at 13:02 allo 2,138

55

votes

11

answers

13k

views

How do I gain back my faith in my PhD degree?

phd career-path academic-life industry work-life-balance

modified Apr 8 at 5:31 Masked 37

37

votes

14

answers

9k

views

Is above average number of years spent on PhD considered a red flag in future academia or industry positions?

phd thesis

modified Apr 15 at 16:36 pukki123 43

54

votes

8

answers

8k

views

How to politely respond to generic emails requesting a PhD/job in my lab? Without wasting too much time

phd graduate-admissions application email

modified Apr 17 at 23:18 WetlabStudent 6,829

36

votes

4

answers

9k

views

Should I tutor a student who I know has cheated on their homework?

phd ethics teaching-assistant cheating tutoring

modified Mar 31 at 7:03 einpoklum 25.6k

20

votes

11

answers

6k

views

How to avoid supervisors with prejudiced views?

ethics advisor

modified Apr 5 at 11:44 Nat 5,644

56

votes

6

answers

12k

views

Is it fair for a professor to grade us on the possession of past papers?

grades coursework

modified 2 days ago Wrzlprmft♦ 34.7k

15

votes

8

answers

5k

views

Putting class ranking in CV, but against dept guidelines

cv grades application-cover-letter

modified yesterday BruceET 994

40

votes

8

answers

5k

views

Is there hard evidence that the grant peer review system performs significantly better than random?

peer-review funding

answered Apr 19 at 19:55 Anyon 8,815

23

votes

6

answers

6k

views

Using et al. for a last / senior author rather than for a first author

citations etiquette

modified Apr 18 at 19:38 quid 2,363

34

votes

5

answers

12k

views

Is it ethical to give a final exam after the professor has quit before teaching the remaining chapters of the course?

ethics exams

modified Apr 18 at 23:58 Jeffrey J Weimer 1,840

22

votes

8

answers

5k

views

How old can references or sources in a thesis be?

citations thesis masters online-resource

answered Apr 7 at 4:11 Sule 86

39

votes

8

answers

14k

views

Is there a way to save my career from absolute disaster?

phd research-process thesis

modified Apr 1 at 6:37 Joel Huebner 1

28

votes

9

answers

6k

views

What are the motivations for publishing new editions of an existing textbook, beyond new discoveries in a field?

books publishers

modified Apr 11 at 15:36 Calin Ceteras 101

48

votes

5

answers

7k

views

What's the purpose of writing one's academic biography in the third person?

professors cv writing-style website

modified Apr 16 at 11:50 Wrzlprmft♦ 34.7k

19

votes

8

answers

5k

views

How to ask rejected full-time candidates to apply to teach individual courses?

etiquette job-search adjunct-faculty

answered 9 hours ago Zarrax 1,556

39

votes

8

answers

5k

views

How to write papers efficiently when English isn't my first language?

writing language

modified Apr 4 at 20:07 Trusly 1,057

44

votes

4

answers

6k

views

Inappropriate reference requests from Journal reviewers

publications citations peer-review ethics

modified Apr 2 at 4:13 smacdonald 105

26

votes

8

answers

7k

views

Is expanding the research of a group into machine learning as a PhD student risky? [closed]

phd research-process united-kingdom supervision

modified Mar 29 at 18:43 MHilton 136

32

votes

3

answers

7k

views

Is it ethical to upload an automatically generated paper to a non peer-reviewed site as part of a larger research?

ethics paper-submission arxiv

modified Apr 16 at 1:40 Penguin_Knight 19.5k

31

votes

6

answers

11k

views

Should my PhD thesis be submitted under my legal name?

publications phd thesis university personal-name

modified Mar 28 at 10:29 Ali 158

32

votes

4

answers

4k

views

Can someone clarify Hamming's notion of important problems in relation to modern academia?

research-process

answered Apr 2 at 14:35 glougloubarbaki 141

26

votes

5

answers

5k

views

What do I do when my TA workload is more than expected?

phd united-states teaching-assistant psychology

modified Apr 11 at 23:11 Community♦ 1

15

votes

7

answers

5k

views

Why doesn't the university give past final exams' answers?

exams

modified 16 hours ago DesiredOB 84

33

votes

3

answers

8k

views

Accepted by European university, rejected by all American ones I applied to? Possible reasons?

phd application

modified Apr 12 at 2:32 WetlabStudent 6,829

14

votes

4

answers

4k

views

What to do with wrong results in talks?

mathematics conference presentation

modified Mar 29 at 20:05 Whatif 82

5

votes

5

answers

4k

views

Is three citations per paragraph excessive for undergraduate research paper? [closed]

citations

modified Apr 11 at 2:49 Allure 35.6k

20

votes

4

answers

3k

views

Pointing to problems without suggesting solutions

peer-review

answered yesterday Karl 1,314

16

votes

5

answers

3k

views

Are student evaluations of teaching assistants read by others in the faculty?

teaching-assistant course-evaluation

modified Mar 29 at 7:15 JeffE 88.6k

11

votes

6

answers

4k

views

Can I take recommendation from someone I met at a conference?

conference postdocs recommendation-letter

answered 4 hours ago Lekha Sharma 200

16

votes

5

answers

3k

views

Can an undergraduate be advised by a professor who is very far away?

research-process advisor supervision

modified Apr 11 at 19:37 A. P. 83

20

votes

4

answers

3k

views

How do teaching buy outs work?

funding united-states academic-life salary

modified Mar 30 at 20:24 Austin Henley 16.8k

26

votes

3

answers

3k

views

Global number of publications over time

publications reference-request

modified Mar 26 at 3:14 JJJ 160

16

votes

2

answers

2k

views

Re-submission of rejected manuscript without informing co-authors

peer-review paper-submission authorship

answered Apr 9 at 14:25 Jeremy 793

7

votes

5

answers

3k

views

Slides for 30 min~1 hr Skype tenure track application interview

faculty-application

modified Apr 12 at 10:00 bremen_matt 837

15

votes

4

answers

3k

views

How to make a software documentation “officially” citable?

citations authorship software software-papers

answered Mar 29 at 13:11 amka 1

4

votes

6

answers

898

views

What should I do if I hate engineering, but my parents want me to become an engineer? [closed]

career-path engineering stem

modified Apr 14 at 18:21 Kai 384

10

votes

8

answers

4k

views

Is it okay to consider publishing in my first year of PhD?

publications phd journals advisor

answered Apr 11 at 23:28 Annie 1

18

votes

1

answer

4k

views

Manuscript was “unsubmitted” because the manuscript was deposited in Arxiv Preprints

paper-submission preprint biology

modified Apr 9 at 10:23 Tommi Brander 5,436

11

votes

6

answers

2k

views

Writing Thesis: Copying from published papers [closed]

publications citations thesis

modified Apr 15 at 12:31 guest 15

18

votes

3

answers

3k

views

For a new assistant professor in CS, how to build/manage a publication pipeline

publications research-process professors assistant-professor

modified Apr 17 at 19:37 Nemo 759

13

votes

3

answers

3k

views

What to do with repeated rejections for phd position

phd interview rejection

answered Apr 19 at 16:53 aaaaaa 1,542

17

votes

3

answers

2k

views

Is it convenient to ask the journal's editor for two additional days to complete a review?

journals peer-review review-articles

answered Mar 31 at 19:50 ZeroTheHero 1,652

Top Questions

Looking for more? Browse the complete list of questions, or popular tags. Help us answer unanswered questions.