Questions tagged [colleagues]
Questions relating to colleagues in an academic setting.
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How do I professionally communicate to a colleague that I am not interested in helping with his project anymore?
I'm a PhD student in a pretty large lab, and have come from a more theoretical background than the other members, so sometimes they ask me to help out with theoretical parts of projects. Generally I ...
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Is it okay to work on colleagues' ideas after they leave academia?
I've just discovered that a former colleague is now working on some research ideas that I developed and laid the groundwork for now that I have left academia following failure to obtain funding. I'm ...
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How should I talk to an unwelcoming future research group colleague so no interpersonal issues raise?
This year, I am going to join a research group in which one of my past classmates who used to study in the same university during my the bachelors degree years is also working. The professor who is ...
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Asking an academic for a cursory look at a paper
Suppose that Alice has a PhD but then left academia more than a decade ago. Alice has written a short paper on a topic unrelated to her thesis. Suppose moreover that :
the paper has been submitted a ...
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Can I take a course and get credits without enrolling in a program in the US?
I am pursuing a master part time in my home country. My job is sending me to Houston for 2020, so I will have to pause my studies. I wouldn't like to stop studying next year so I wanted to know if I ...
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Can you switch the co-first author position after the article is published?
Can you switch the position of the first co-first author with the second co-first author of an article after it is published?
Full story: During my PhD, I published two articles, both as the first ...
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PhD: When to quit and move on?
I am a second year PhD student at a technical / interdisciplinary lab in Europe wondering when to quit and leave a seemingly unbearable situation behind.
My supervisor (a young-ish professor) mostly ...
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Two researchers want to work on the same extension to my paper. Who to help?
I recently presented a paper in a top-tier conference in a computer engineering field. I did that work as a research assistant under a Professor but now I am working in the industry. Two different ...
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The IT department bottlenecks progress. How should I handle this?
I'm currently working as a PhD student.
I am not working on a tech-oriented PhD. However, my project requires a lot of programming. This involves both working on a computation cluster, servers, and ...
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Passive discouragement and less supportive senior colleagues: What should I do?
I am a budding scientist (27 y/o, Doctoral candidate) and a lecturer in a University. In the early stage of my career, I have achieved some significant milestones in my field. However, sometimes I ...
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Difficulties with behaviour of other PhD students in group
I'm in my first year of a PhD at a top UK university. I am part of a cohort of students, most of whom have come straight from an undergraduate degree and never had any "real-world" experience. I am ...
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I grade exams together with a colleague but disagree with their grading. What should I do?
Recently, I have graded exams (50 pcs.) together with a colleague from another department. I felt like my colleague was awarding too many points for wrong/incomplete answers. For example, awarding ...
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For STEM fields, is there self-segregation in United States academia?
I notice that often a lot of Chinese mathematicians collaborate with other Chinese, and Americans collaborate with other Americans. Many of the journal papers that I look up seem to indicate this ...
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I have been asked about a rumor of a collegue, what should I do? [closed]
A colleague of mine (C1) from other University (U1) has asked me, by email, if another colleague (C2) from my University (U2) is moving from U2 to U1.
Should I tell to C2 about that rumor?
Or should ...
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Colleague claiming first co-autorhip of my work
Some time ago I started my Ph.D. and my project was to attempt again to investigate a problem that a colleague (a senior Ph.D.) had failed to investigate because he lacked numerical/coding skills to ...
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Toxic colleague talks about me to Professors
I am a PhD student with a very difficult colleague - someone I thought was just socially inept, and rude. I was always friendly, giving her the benefit of the doubt, even though she offended me and ...
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Should I give a symbolic “thank you, and goodbye” gift to an abusive supervisor?
Within one week I shall leave my present institution, where I felt severely mistreated around salary payment and work conditions for 2 years, as a postdoctoral fellow.
The PI who signed my contract (...
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How to deal with incompatible labmate?
I'm having trouble with one of my labmates that is severely impacting my work. He is a more senior student than me, but only has been in my lab for two months since my advisor came from a different ...
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Resolving dependency on a senior colleague before deadline
(Disclaimer: While this question pertains to interpersonal issues in a working environment, I feel it is better suited to this SE than Workplace because of it being in the context of a lack of formal ...
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Will declining a research award be problematic for me, or other people?
I recently received an offer for a research award for early-stage scholars producing outstanding research in my field. I have verified the award and the association are genuine and I have colleagues ...
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Academia's view on body modification
I'm a young undergraduate student currently finishing my next-to-last year as a math bachelor. I plan to apply for a Masters as soon as I finish, and I look forward to a job as an academic researcher.
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Soliciting citations
I have now several times experienced recieving mails after publishing a preprint, from authors asking me to cite their work before I submit it to a journal. In some cases it is probably fair, but in ...
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How do I communicate effectively and work in an interdisciplinary research team?
Forgive the MS paint.
But as someone who often straddles two different domains of research and knowledge, how does one translate the jargon that is commonly found in one field and effectively ...
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Dealing with colleagues avoiding work
I doing a PhD in a research group where there are 4-5 PhD student and 1-2 Postdocs. Given the nature of the research projects, more than one person ends up working on one project and sometimes people ...
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Cover letter: List strangers as potential collaborators? And/or, can/should I be contacting them?
From The Professor Is In and from other sources, I've gotten the impression that it's very good practice to refer to possible collaborators both within and outside of your department or academic unit. ...
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How to stop weird labmate from staring at me doing experiments without damaging work relationship (too much)?
A few months ago my lab had a new member. Shortly after he joined I started hearing from students in other labs that he was being very weird, hinting that they were somewhat bothered. For instance he ...
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Is it ok to go on a swim with your colleagues while on a conference? [closed]
I'm attending a humanities conference in Italy in early September. Since the weather is supposed to be good and the venue is close to a beach, some coworkers are already planing to go for a swim ...
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Do people actually scoop others?
I was wondering if there are real faculty members who go to conferences or read the abstracts (if it's being published) and scoop others?
If not why some professors are so paranoid? IMHO A real ...
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Who should be first author? Theory person or Experiment person?
The situation:
Two PhD students named 'Theory' and 'Experiment' are working on a project. Both are experimentalists by training but, from experiences working on a separate project, Theory comes up ...
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Using masters lab colleagues as references for PhD application?
I'm thinking about applying to a PhD program in computer science this coming December and I'm wondering a couple things about getting letters of recommendation.
For some background, I have a BS and ...
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A teaching situation.(long) Comments and suggestions welcome [closed]
Sorry there is a long lead-in to this question. It's a specific complicated situation and the background is part of it.
I am on retirement/long-term sick leave. I do a certain amount of tutoring ...
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How to deal with a colleague who won't accept they're wrong
Sometimes an argument will arise between collaborators where two (or more) contrasted views or (mis)interpretations of a scientific issue exist. Sometimes both views are partially correct, sometimes ...
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Should I remind someone of a previous invitation to give a talk?
I recently emailed a senior professor in a neighboring state, that I've never met, with some comments on his recent paper and pointing to some of my papers with related results. It turns out he was ...
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What if your advisor excludes you from lunch with students during conference? [closed]
I am attending conference with advisor and the other student from our research group.
I saw my advisor and the other student went to lunch together. They didn't offer me to go together. There were ...
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What to do when you plan to submit a paper and a senior colleague is independently pursuing the same research idea?
I am an assistant professor in a business discipline. A couple of months ago, I came across (through casual chat) that a senior colleague of mine plans to pursue a research idea that I myself was also ...
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Can a postdoc conduct collaborative research with people that are not their PI?
I am a junior faculty member at a research university. I am working with postdoc A on a project. Postdoc A's PI, Dr. B, works in the same university, but is affiliated with another department. Prior ...
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What can I do about these disingenuous classmates sabotage and manipulation? [closed]
I've seen questions like this on the Stackexchange before, though I'm not sure which section (ie. superuser or stackoverflow). Anyways here goes.
I'm a sophomore CS major at a University. I'm taking ...
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Strategies, approaches, methods for motivating innovation adoption in academia [closed]
I'm curious about what strategies, approaches and/or methods people (successfully) use in academia for motivating colleagues to adopt innovative research collaboration mechanisms, workflows and/or ...
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How to respond to a citation request which is not relevant?
Often, as soon as I submit a pre-submission paper on the arxiv, I receive a couple of emails from other researchers pointing out their previous relevant work, which in their words is connected with ...
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How to build relationships with colleagues as new faculty member?
I have just started a new job
as an assistant professor in a tenure-track position.
What are the most important things that I can do
to build good working and social relationships with my colleagues?
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What kind of video conference software do academics use?
I'm a new graduate student and my adviser asked me to set up a meeting with some out-of-state colleagues (whom I haven't met yet) to start working on a collaboration that I'll be playing a major role ...
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How to build bridges between mathematicians, computer scientists and biologists?
I am part of a recently founded laboratory in computational biology and we are trying to get all the parts (biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and so on) to speak the same language, or ...
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A potential collaborator applies for a grant on his own: what should I do?
In response to a solicitation in an area of my expertise, I approached a known expert in a different field; I had thought of a way to apply that field to solve the problem. He liked my idea and set ...
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Publishing a non-invalidating comment to a recent paper- should I contact the original authors if I know them?
This question is similar to this one: Publishing a comment or contacting the authors privately?
but has a few differences.
A colleague of mine has recently published a letter responding to another ...
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Another instructor is pushing me out of the classroom right after my class ends
I am a graduate student in math in my final year, and for several years have been teaching at my department as a lecturer. This semester, in the same lecture hall there is another lecture that starts ...
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What to do with an overtly exasperating colleague in computer science?
I am working on my undergraduate research project in an HPCC. Whoever does programming knows this is a "teach-yourself" skill. Everytime a problem arises, you search the wealth of tutorials and guides ...
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How to acknowledge a colleague's authorship of text in a syllabus
Here is a situation that I have been in several times, but have only recently begun to give careful thought to. Suppose you are asked to teach a course that you have not taught before. A fairly ...
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Is it OK to let somebody know I refereed their paper? [duplicate]
It is not uncommon, especially for narrow fields, that you review papers authored by people that you might, at some point, come to interact with more or less closely. This can range from meeting them ...
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Is it OK to only invite one of three co-authors of a previous joint paper to do another joint paper?
I have co-authored one paper with Professor A, PhD student B and PhD student C. B left the best impression on me as the most friendly, productive and hard-working. Now, I want to do a joint paper ...
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6-months internship has nothing to do with what was promised
Since sept 2013, I have been doing a Masters in mathematical finance. Our course requires us to do an off-cycle internship of 5 months minimum (typically, from April to September).
During this ...
