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On another post of mine, someone said that the idea of a qualified candidate is "elusive" because there are always more qualified applicants than open spots in any program. I thought that ...

For what it's worth, I've decided that my alma mater is not a good choice for me for many reasons. And I was indeed looking forward to this new university and the new advisor there. However, despite ...

I sent my manuscript to a journal which they accepted for publication without peer review. They asked for a 1000 euro service fee. I requested a withdrawal instead, to which they replied asking ...

My PhD advisers and I have an under review paper in a top tier journal. Recently, I received an email from the chief editor of the journal informing us that the paper has been reviewed and they ...

I am applying to PhD programs in math, cs, and statistics this fall at roughly top 15 US schools. I will be having recommendations from two professors who I worked on projects with personally and who ...

Suppose, someone studied in a 120ECTS MSc program in CS in a country 'X' in the EU. He obtained 60 ECTS there, but he also has some failed courses. He then abandons the program. Now, he moves to a ...

I am applying for a position of Assistant Professor in India. The requirements state: "PhD degree with first class at the preceding degree or equivalent in the appropriate branch/relevant areas ...

What are the implications of failing an exam of a particular course during Master's studies in Germany? Is it considered bad in terms of future job prospects in that field? Does that disqualify you ...

I am currently looking at an advertised postdoctoral fellowship (in the US if that matters), where it is stated that the topic of the research proposal should be discussed with faculty members before ...

The purpose of a company experience letter is to validate claims a job candidate makes about their skills and experience in their resume, cover letter, or Curriculum Vitae (CV). Is it a good idea to ...

I can divide the evaluation task into two kinds: Interactive evaluation and non-interactive evaluation. Interactive evaluation includes asking questions to student directly and awarding marks based on ...

Suppose someone is pursuing PhD in mathematics from a third class university and his supervisor has little knowledge about his own field. Then, is it possible to publish a good research paper in good ...

I'm last year undergraduate student in Web programming field and I recently interesting in Data Science. I have been researching about ML/ DL for 7 months and I really love it. I intend to take part ...

I have applied to a PhD position some weeks ago. After thinking about the given topic and institute for a longer time, I don't want to do my PhD there anymore. They want to interview me but since I ...

It’s not uncommon, at least not in my field, to refer to articles, books, chapters, etc., which have not yet been published. In in-text citations, these simply appear as Author (fc.) (or forthc. or ...

We are conducting a study where subjects evaluate what parts of a room make them pleased. They enter a room and fix a sticker on any point they want to evaluate. the stickers have four colors ...

My field of study is purely theoretical, meaning that there are a ton of equations and a bunch of numerical simulations. I am targeting groups that align with my field and I am trying to read their ...

This is a remake/sequel of the 2015 question Handwritten presentation slides?. Surely much has changed in these five years. I have seen lots of presentations combining typed text/equations and ...

Recently, the online calculus class I TA for took their first test of the semester and the grades were horrific. Granted, this is my first semester as a TA so my expectations might have been high. ...

I noticed some journals are publishing advance articles that are not part of a published volume (i.e. https://academic.oup.com/isr/advance-articles). I am a bit confused in regards to what is the ...

I recently saw my ratings on RateMyProfessor.com and it's very disheartening to see all the negative reviews from a course for which I worked so hard. Comments like "sh***y professor" are ...

I spoke to the (temporary) asst. general counsel at my university today (re: my complaint about the chair, which he evaded), and he said it's typical for issues to be reported to the dean's office by ...

This is a somewhat long question. I hope you can take the time to read it carefully. I obtained my bachelor's degree in physics in June 2019. I decided I wanted to go to physics graduate school in the ...

In the US and Canada, I addressed my lecturers and instructors as "Professor X", "Dr. X", "Mr. X", or "Ms. X" (depending on their formal education and academic ...

I am applying for a Ph. D. program after a 10 year career of secondary classroom teaching - I have held several positions in that time should I cut some of these teaching experiences out to make my CV ...

I am a PhD student. I was forced to leave my original PhD program due to a toxic environment (bullying/humiliation). I moved to a second institution, but this was also unsatisfactory as they had no ...

In the summer, I took a math course where one of the homeworks involved a question where answers were expected to include several diagrams alongside an explanation. At the time, I thought it was a ...

I have an undergrad thesis idea that involves transformers. I am trying to take the lead on the idea before I contact a professor about it - i.e. figuring out exactly how I'd make it happen, and if it ...

A certain fraction of personal websites of researchers has a hint along the lines of "CV available on request." I always found that a bit odd. Are there any situations where a researcher ...

I will receive my master's degree in June 2021 and my professor already offered me a PhD position with the starting date in August 2021. Important to notice here is that I live in Europe, so the "...

I'm in the sciences in the USA, and a very relevant to my field, well respected journal just advertised. I have been encouraged to apply. The workload is advertised as not egregious. I already sit on ...

I am teaching an undergraduate mathematics course to software engineering students. I often ask my students to prove some mathematical identities as their homework. The identities could be, for ...

For some reason, I sometimes enjoy reading very short articles in math. Question: Is there a way to filter the articles of a journal (such as Journal of algebra) by their length (from smallest to ...

I’m trying to create a new CSV file with the correct delimiting fields and then import the records from a downloaded file I’ve managed to get the python working to create the new CSV file and I’ve got ...

I want to check my paper plagiarism in Turnitin before submitting it to journal.(Just I want to be sure plagiarism percentage is low) What is the disadvantage using Turnitin before submitting the ...

I wrote a referee report for a paper and recommended a minor revision. This was in December 2019 and I have not heard from the associate editor regarding the fate of this paper. Is it inappropriate ...

I start to conduct a systematic review about cannabis. I struggled in a theme design and data collect. I try to used some software to design and organized the journal structure. I failed on mindmap ...

I did a Ph.D. in the area of engineering mathematics. The thesis used some of the concepts from Mathematics, such as basic probability and statistics (Bachelor/Master level), calculus (Bachelor/Master ...

As research grows even more intricate in fields such as pure and applied math (and other technical areas), very few reviewers now have a complete picture of any single field. Thus it should be common ...

In scholar we can list our fields of interest. Whenever you click them, scholar shows the most cited researchers in that field like this. Is there a way to sort google scholar profiles by country, in ...

I have applied for a PhD program in USA. I have mentioned a professor's name in the SOP. Will the professor only get the application to review or the other professors will also be able to see my ...

I am working on a website that contains a list of free courses. My aim is to promote our field (semidefinite programming). Each course consists of a number of articles. Each article is built using ...

I found a mistake (not a misprint) in an article which has been published in a very good math journal. According the available data, the article was in peer-review process for more than 8 months. But ...

I'm about to start a PhD in Europe. I'm seeing the PhD as a "normal job" that I'll do for a few years, because I'm interested in the job and I find it stimulating and interesting, and I want ...

This question is refers mainly to European students and European universities. I would like to try doing a PhD when I finish my master's (I'm still studying for my bachelor's), but a lot of students ...

I have a PhD in statistics and teach statistics for humanities students in a university. One week before the start of the semester I posted all the required information regarding the course textbook, ...

How many students are there at Columbia’s French studies department ? The university’s website doesn’t give that information, neither does Google. The point of my question is that most people in ...

I am going to join a PhD position in one of the TUs in the Netherlands. This question pertains to the salary I can expect. I have worked 2 years after my bachelors and 3 years after my masters. For ...

I work and teach in a field where public data is scarce (anatomical MRI processing). I planned to organize a few practical works for students this semester. I had a pretty hard time gathering publicly ...

Today, an increasing number of research papers are publicly available. At the same time, a community of researchers and students are reading those materials. We are highlighting, commenting, finding ...