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Is it valid to modify a student's exam grade if you feel they did not earn it?

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I did something I am not proud of, and was rightly accused of cheating by the instructor. What is next for me?

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How can I address a student systematically boosting their grades by filing frivolous complaints?

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Is it pointless to bring up poor supervision during PhD viva?

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answered May 22 at 14:38 David258 236

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Should I avoid admitting female students for now?

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How can I decline the request to help a fellow student cheat?

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Is it unethical to expect one's PhD students to work after graduation without compensation? Should graduates ask for compensation for work?

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Is Relocating Necessary in Academia?

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Is it OK to have a PhD thesis with shortcomings and inaccuracies?

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answered May 23 at 15:20 msouth 2,284

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Master thesis advisor gave me an ill-defined question. I worked on it for a year!

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modified May 8 at 10:34 WoJ 3,770

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Do teachers want students to add their attempts on solving their own question in an email?

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answered May 14 at 5:27 Tasos Papastylianou 2,595

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Can I write a referee report too fast?

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File naming conventions when sending file back and forth via email?

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answered May 17 at 2:25 anon 76

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How can I secure a solo-authored paper as a PhD student, while working with a supervisor who has reputation of forcing coauthorship?

phd advisor coauthors

answered May 11 at 22:51 tschwarz 111

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Found out I might have unknowingly cheated after term completion

united-states undergraduate cheating

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Untrue negative comments on RateMyProfessor website

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How do I professionally communicate to a colleague that I am not interested in helping with his project anymore?

projects colleagues

answered May 22 at 8:55 Oleg V. Volkov 129

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Should I ask my advisor to please pretend that he is happy with me until the end of my contract?

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answered May 18 at 23:02 Matt 121

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Paper rejected due to short reference list

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modified May 11 at 16:23 Deepak Tatyaji Ahire 391

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A lecturer wants to grade me based on 'creativity' in a task, how do I succeed?

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answered May 7 at 15:36 Dando18 227

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What’s the point of invited talks?

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answered May 5 at 19:24 Michael Ekstrand 877

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I communicate a conjecture and a colleague/professor proves it; are we both authors?

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Bad answer to a bad peer-review

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How do I handle a mistake in a mathematical proof that does not invalidate the main conclusion of our paper?

mathematics errors-erratum

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Locating a specific German Ph.D. Dissertation from 1959

thesis germany literature-search

answered May 4 at 19:39 K-HB 141

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How Would You React If a Student Complaint to the Dept. Chair About You but Later Apologized and Disclosed Mental Illness? [closed]

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Is it possible to get a PhD position with only a Bachelor's degree?

phd graduate-admissions career-path

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Do I have to acknowledge the company where I started a project when I later publish related research in college?

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Can I get a PhD if I did research without being enrolled in a PhD program?

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modified May 8 at 18:12 Karl 1,478

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Should we transition to making our conference online or postpone?

conference

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Can I keep my full-time job while I pursue a PhD in Psychology, and if so, for how long?

phd research-process work-life-balance psychology

modified May 21 at 0:40 ako 160

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Is it ethical for professors to ask graduate students to teach? [closed]

ethics teaching teaching-assistant

modified May 18 at 4:35 user1271772 1,186

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Is this considered citation stuffing?

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modified May 8 at 6:17 Kat 1,382

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Did I anger my PI by not sending my data/notes after leaving their lab?

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answered May 11 at 7:51 user18244 5,290

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Advisor wants me to send manuscript to a potentially shady journal

peer-review journals advisor

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Erroneous paper published and reviewed on MathSciNet

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Should I suggest my sources as reviewers?

peer-review paper-submission conflict-of-interest anonymity

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Do reviewers go over the calculations (i.e do the calculations themselves) when reviewing?

peer-review

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Sharing with research team about being affected by a natural disaster

phd advisor interpersonal-issues international-students group-dynamics

answered May 26 at 11:18 Titus 1,250

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Is it too late to ask the faculty for a summer research internship position?

united-states internship

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Deciding between cursive and print handwriting [closed]

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modified May 21 at 16:30 WoJ 3,770

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Being the last author as an undergrad

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answered May 22 at 14:41 edthealchemist 41

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How to stay calm for a 7 minute scientific research talk? [closed]

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answered May 11 at 5:11 usr1234567 2,524

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How do you deal with the ridiculous catch 22 to get into grad school [closed]

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Should I admit to cheating when it appears I cheated but I did not?

united-states undergraduate cheating

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Retroactively Awarding Extra Exam Time

students exams covid-19 instructor

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How to handle PhD student who expects help with technical problems?

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Social media vs. academic career [closed]

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