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Is specifying a minimum word count beneficial for academic writing?
Awarded Feb 4 at 9:19
How is grading by curve fair at all? Are there any arguments in favor of it?
Awarded Jan 31 at 22:55
Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service
Awarded Jan 29 at 14:02
Difficulty reading scientific papers in two columns
Awarded Jan 27 at 18:25
What are the ethics of creating educational content as an advanced undergraduate?
Awarded Jan 27 at 0:31
Is it common for the head of a department to be able to reduce a tenured professor's salary to 0?
Awarded Jan 24 at 11:15
If a professor refuses to elaborate on the contents of the cheat sheet, what becomes fair game?
Awarded Jan 24 at 3:20
Is it cheating if I get paid to write simulation code for a grad student's thesis?
Awarded Jan 23 at 19:51
Do peer-reviewers ignore details in complicated mathematical computations and theorems?
Awarded Jan 18 at 18:06
Mentor added his name as the author and changed the series of authors into alphabetical order, effectively putting my name at the last
Awarded Jan 18 at 17:07
Is the Nature publishing group's "Scientific Reports" journal well regarded? [closed]
Awarded Jan 13 at 20:18
How to spot abusive/incompetent supervisors in advance
Awarded Jan 10 at 18:46
Advisor getting involved in semi-pseudoscience
Awarded Jan 10 at 9:41
My supervisor uses my scientific jokes and metaphors in his talks. What's a healthy way to deal with this?
Awarded Jan 9 at 13:46
What style questions should I ask potential graduate students interviewing for positions in my lab?
Awarded Jan 6 at 15:52
How to survive in the academic world: focus entirely on top-tier results, or spend effort on lower-tier results to boost h-index?
Awarded Jan 5 at 2:17
Is it okay to upload code I wrote for replicating someone else’s simulation study?
Awarded Jan 2 at 22:35
How should you cite yourself when there are more than 15 authors?
Awarded Jan 2 at 21:50
What's wrong with my e-mail to potential PhD supervisors?
Awarded Jan 2 at 18:27
What exactly are academic librarians?
Awarded Jan 1 at 23:09
Is it OK to use GPT-3+ to rewrite your own paper to have better English?
Awarded Dec 31, 2022 at 6:18
Mention two-body-problem in PhD applications? If so, where?
Awarded Dec 30, 2022 at 9:42
Why do colleges attempt to teach students who lack prerequisite skills?
Awarded Dec 29, 2022 at 20:42
How should I investigate and respond to a potentially false claim of a publication in the CV of an applicant?
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 17:25
May my distinguished referee award be withdrawn if I inform the editors that I've actually left academia?
Awarded Dec 21, 2022 at 8:26
Can you exclude a co-author because of abusive behaviours?
Awarded Dec 20, 2022 at 18:16
Student continuously makes insulting comments during my lecture - how do I handle him?
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 7:31
How should a faculty deal with the problem of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated texts?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 11:02
Parts of my e-mail address can be seen as controversial in Western countries. Can this affect my Ph.D applications?
Awarded Dec 14, 2022 at 23:25
Why do faculty often complain about teaching?
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 19:11
Should teachers encourage good students to help weaker ones?
Awarded Dec 12, 2022 at 9:57
Is it possible to get DOI from ISBN of a book?
Awarded Dec 12, 2022 at 3:31
Should I give a brutally honest feedback on course evaluations?
Awarded Dec 11, 2022 at 6:22
Why do American universities have so many general education courses?
Awarded Dec 9, 2022 at 23:55
What do students mean by "makes the course harder than it needs to be"?
Awarded Dec 9, 2022 at 22:46
Why do American universities cost so much?
Awarded Dec 8, 2022 at 19:15
How do I add an article that is already in Google Scholar to my profile?
Awarded Dec 7, 2022 at 11:42
Net salary for PhD in German university
Awarded Dec 5, 2022 at 22:09
Masters' advisor uses my work without citing it - Journal decided to intervene
Awarded Dec 5, 2022 at 2:55
Is it OK to generate parts of a research paper using a large language model such as ChatGPT?
Awarded Dec 3, 2022 at 17:15
How can I deal with a professor with very weird English?
Awarded Dec 3, 2022 at 0:17
How many professors are children of professors?
Awarded Dec 2, 2022 at 21:04
Trying to write several short, unimpactful papers to boost publication record
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 19:03
Is it fair to have follow-up interviews after a test following suspicions of cheating?
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 7:25
How possible is it to do mathematical research outside academia?
Awarded Nov 28, 2022 at 22:07
What should I do when my PhD adviser sends me a paper to read?
Awarded Nov 23, 2022 at 8:27
How to help a successful high schooler who is failing in college?
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 16:20
Harassment and intimidation by fellow students
Awarded Nov 21, 2022 at 4:42
PI asked me to remove a student from author's list, but I disagree
Awarded Nov 18, 2022 at 13:19
Is it bad to finish your talk early at conferences?
Awarded Nov 16, 2022 at 23:56
My professor says I would not graduate my PhD, although I fulfilled all the requirements
Awarded Nov 10, 2022 at 14:42
Handling unprepared students as a Teaching Assistant
Awarded Nov 9, 2022 at 12:06
Can we stop looking at recommendation letters and rely purely on "objective" measurements during the admission process?
Awarded Nov 7, 2022 at 16:09
Should I answer email from a student who based her project on one of my publications?
Awarded Nov 6, 2022 at 18:03
Technology for redesign of a math seminar room
Awarded Nov 1, 2022 at 14:07
When should a PhD student be removed as first author?
Awarded Oct 31, 2022 at 14:26
Mentor trying to be first author?
Awarded Oct 29, 2022 at 9:32
I want to cite a theorem from a book written by influential scientists. However the theorem is not proven in the book. Should I add a proof of my own?
Awarded Oct 27, 2022 at 7:07
Why are there dollar amounts listed near the copyright information for journal articles?
Awarded Oct 24, 2022 at 11:06
Should I tell my advisor my fiance left me?
Awarded Oct 22, 2022 at 23:07
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