Top new questions this week:
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I am an instructor in a STEM field. I am teaching an upper-division course where I try to interact with the students rather than just lecturing. I am teaching in the students' native language; there ...
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I am very proud of this achievement and I am thinking about sharing the email to social media. Is it okay to post it as long as I remove confidential information, e.g. manuscript id, title, author?
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I have a question about copyright. Suppose I am reading a classic book in mathematics that was published in the 1960s. This book uses very old notation, which makes it impossible to read it. Suppose ...
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So, I've received what was in many respects a perfectly normal spam message of the form;
Due to your recent publication [title of my paper] you are invited
to contribute a chapter to a book on [topic ...
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Recently, a submission of mine was declined as not suitable for the journal, but with the rejection came a request to transfer the manuscript to another journal owned by the same company.
However, the ...
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Is it ethical to privately thank authors when you discover they’ve cited your work?
Can it be looked upon like you’re trying to gain future favour? Or like the citation itself was for any reason other ...
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I am looking for software to create slides like these.
I want everything to be hand-drawn/hand-written.
I don't want to draw/write anything at the time of presentation, but I want parts of the slides ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Can I put the name of my baby as one of the co-authors of a scientific paper?
I know it sounds disturbing, but it's a way of mine to protest against co-authors that haven't made any contribution (...
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While working on a paper, my PhD advisor (at a prestigious school, if that matters) sent revisions that included three pages plagiarized from a book. Thankfully I caught this before the paper was ...
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At best, the PhD thesis is read by:
The author
The examiners
The supervisor
The author's parents
The author's roommate / spouse / fellow students in research group
Or less than 10 people in total. ...
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A student of mine has told me about Sci-Hub, where people can download copyrighted scholarly articles for free.
I have cautioned him that it is illegal, but he challenged me asking me what would be ...
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How does one write a strong (good) introduction into a research paper? Some introductions make me really curious about the rest of the paper while others do not. Although it is relatively easy to say ...
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I use active voice for cover letter and while doing that I end up with too many "I" and most of the sentences in my letter also begin with "I". This makes my letter quite boring. I would appreciate if ...
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I just got an email from Academia.edu saying that my name has been mentioned two times (Edit: now up to 150 papers!), but to see the mentions you have to upgrade to a premium account at 8.25AUD/month.
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I plan to put on my website useful books and useful journals related to my area, websites covering postdoc opportunities, in other words, information that I think useful in our area especially for phd ...
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I recently applied for several permanent research positions. The interview were all similar: a talk on your past, present and planned research and some time for questions. I prepared well for the talk ...
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I would like to attend to a conference and present the data of my first authored paper published a few months ago in a high quality journal. I plan to show just the published results, no unpublished ...
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