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Is admission standard for math PhD significantly higher than that for physics PhD?
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Dealing with discouragement during the academic job hunt
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When teaching Computer Architecture, why are universities using obscure or even made-up CPUs? Why not x86, ARM or RISC-V?
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Will professors get dismissed for not actively doing research?
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How do I deal with crying in front of my supervisor?
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Will Israeli Military Service Affect My Chances of a Physics Master's Program?
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What can I tell a student I am mentoring who claims: "I want to do pure mathematics because it is superior to any other subject in the world"? [closed]
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Do you write about known code bugs in your publications?
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What is the proper etiquette when my advisor asks me to add non-contributing authors to author list?
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Is there a way to stop students using AI to generate essays?
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Asked to cite papers for money
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Can academics make a living solely out of publishing?
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How long should a professor stay?
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How frequently do pre-tenured assistant professors switch institutions?
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Is it appropriate to ask a sick student to leave the classroom?
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How to deal with an incompetent collaborator
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Can I submit my old PhD thesis to arxiv with the date set to its original submission date?
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Is there a way to report to google scholar some systematic mistakes?
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After successfully publishing papers during my Post-Doc, why am I now having trouble publishing as a tenure track academic?
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Implications for the candidate if a contacted external evaluator declines
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How can corresponding authors protect themselves from academic spam?
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Is it ethical to send an unpublished draft preprint to a competitor by email to establish priority?
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Resubmitting elsewhere without any key change when a paper is rejected
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PhD supervisor complaining about not getting paid for supervision
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Students who did poorly on the final exam
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Why do most US regional colleges/universities/institutions have poor reputations in academic circles?
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My colleague took my teaching materials to use as their own. What should I do?
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As a private tutor, is it ethical to recommend the student take more classes?
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Will I be facing entitled students everywhere?
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After I put a paper on arXiv proving X, I found out someone had previously proved X already. What next?
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What's the point of visiting students?
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Is it plagiarism using an AI to do the bulk of my LaTeX?
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(How) Can I switch from field X to field Y after getting my PhD?
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What is the procedure with regard to unfinished thesis if I am terminated from the program?
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Should I offer co-authorship to colleagues who worked on a problem with me only initially?
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How should I deal with a well-intentioned, but poorly organized advisor?
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What do "minor" and "major" mean (in relation to degrees)?
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Is there anything wrong with letting people know I am anonymously refereeing their paper?
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Same review for Math Reviews and Zentralblatt
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Is it ethical for a professor to reuse exam questions annually without changes?
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How can I make my papers available on Sci-Hub?
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How to avoid writing a 'good but not great' reference letter
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Recommendations regarding publishing 'folklore' results in math
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Leaving paper before publication due to personal ethics stance
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How to make sure that a conference is not a scam when you are invited as a speaker?
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Gap year before post-doc?
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What should you do when asked by the chair to raise course grade distribution when the students do not deserve it?
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Does the word "Plagi" have associations with contract-cheating?
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Decline PhD offer gracefully due to low salary
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Appropriate/smart ways to decline students' requests of "begging for better grades" at the end of the semester without being too hurtful
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How does the Dutch academic culture compare to other countries in Europe?
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I have been asked to be on a tenure evaluation committee during my sabbatical, how should I respond?
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What is a good length for the statement of purpose in a U.S. PhD application?
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Postdoc opportunities in mathematics
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How bad will refusing to defend PhD look on industry-job applications?
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What should I do if I suspect one of the journal reviews I got is AI-generated?
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Does the reviewer ever get the same manuscript twice?
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Why is getting your PhD in Iran invalid for obtaining a post-doc position in the US?
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Does it have a bad effect on my career if I publish in Frontiers journals?
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What incentives does an advisor have to help PhD students graduate in a timely manner?
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