Questions tagged [communication]
Questions about how to communicate with others appropriately and professionally; communication etiquette.
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Advisor not responding to emails, conference fee deadline approaching
TL;DR:: My advisor, who is in charge of paying a conference paper registration fee, is nonresponsive and the deadline is approaching. What can I do?
I am working part-time in a research institute, ...
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Advice for a hypersensitive postdoc who has a hard time reading social cues and making small talk [closed]
Sorry to bother everyone, I am currently a postdoc at a research institution. I have trouble in my scientific collaborations/discussions because I am hypersensitive to (get easily offended at) ...
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Getting no responses from professor and being worried about my future
I decided to pursue a PhD degree after a few years in industry, so I contacted a professor from the university where I had received my Diploma 3 years back. We had some conversations in the beginning ...
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Reputable alternatives to The Conversation for science communication? [closed]
What are some popular press alternatives to The Conversation that are perhaps more reputable than Medium or HuffPost that accept pitches from academics communicating their research for a general ...
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How do I go about making a program suggestion to my department chair as a graduate student?
For context, I am a graduate student in my academic department — agricultural economics. I wanted to bring up the idea to the Department Chair that introducing some applications like JupyterLab, ...
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Heavy imposter syndrome [duplicate]
What are best ways/resources to deal with imposter syndrome or runaway thoughts? I recently published a paper (only my 2nd first author) and was excited about it for about 2 mins before I got very bad ...
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How do I decline a PhD offer by my master's thesis supervisor?
So I'm currently finishing up my master's thesis and my supervisor seems to be happy with my work. The subject of PhD came up a couple of times during meetings and while I did say that I think it ...
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Should I thank professor for forwarding me webinar/seminar invites
I work in the research group of one of the professors in my college. My professor keeps forwarding mails which he receives regarding some webinars/seminars being organized in college/companies or ...
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How to progress as PhD student with nonchalant supervisor
I'm a PhD student who has been enrolled in my program since the beginning of 2017. I took a half year break in mid 2018 for personal reasons. My supervisor is an Assoc. Prof in our department and has ...
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Potential Change of Supervisor: Who to talk to first?
I am considering trying a change of PhD supervisors.
While I do get along with my current ones as humans (they are nice to me), I feel like this is not the case academically. Our interests don't ...
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Do I have to inform a graduate program that just admitted me about my attendance to a different program?
I have received acceptance from a graduate program physician assistant. I have already been attending this semester a different program. I want to withdraw and attend the other program. Do i have to ...
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Having trouble responding to professors' emails due to anxiety,
I have crippling anxiety around "authority figures", and I'm irrationally deathly afraid to the point where I will cry in a room when alone with them, likely due to my upbringing, namely, always being ...
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How can I begin to gain credibility within the scientific community without a degree?
I'm working on a fairly extensive multidisciplinary research project - something a bit outside the purview of what would even be difficult for a respected field researcher to publish.
That being said,...
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I expect much more commitment from my PhD-supervisor. How do I communicate this to him?
I am a doctoral student in economics and have problems with the progress of my doctoral thesis because my supervisor hardly cares about my work.
I currently need some feedback and comments from him, ...
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How to cope with YouTube and use it as an aid for effective teaching
YouTube rules the roost. It is first resource that people refer to when they want to learn something new. After all, who would teach me how to replace a RAM on my laptop or to change the new ...
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Is it fine to send a message to the author of a paper if I don't understand something and want to clarify it?
I'm a Physics Ph.D. student and I have been studying one paper and had some doubt in one point. More specifically the author defines a concept in a way which is a little bit different from other texts ...
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Informative article about physics and quote on “physicists don't care about precise numbers, they care about trends” [closed]
I am writing an informative article about physics for the general public, and I was wondering if there is any quote by some famous physicist on the concept that usually physicist care about ...
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Changing interests after joining grad school
I joined graduate school in the US with interests in theoretical chemistry/chemical physics. Though I was enrolled for a PhD in chemistry, I was taking classes in physics for an entire year. This made ...
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How to address having been plagiarized by senior scholars without ruining the relationship
I recently came across a book written by two senior scholars in my field (anthropology), who cite a paper I published with a colleague two years ago. They cite us quite favorably and in most places ...
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What do you say to a professor/potential advisor when you accept the offer from their school?
Is it common to contact professors you've been in communication with to let them know that you're accepting their school's offer? Do you usually contact the professors that met with you on a campus ...
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Coronavirus, school lockdown and future uncertainty [closed]
I am a master student expected to graduate in April. I want to work as an R/A for my thesis advisor after graduation and want to do a PhD afterwards. However, the entire school is closed and I cannot ...
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How can I handle group projects?
I'm a grad student and have been assigned to a group with several other students. This is a semester long group that will work on various projects. From the start, this group has been a disaster. I ...
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Asking about how to say to a possible supervisor to give me some time as I look for funding opportunities
I am a masters student in mathematics at an Asian University and I mailed my CV to some professors in France for phd position in analytic number theory.
One of the professors said that his university ...
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how to congratulate for professors's grant achievements?
I recently got the news that my prof and his colleagues were got many grants/funding.
Is it common to write him a congratulation?
I prepared this simple sentences, how should I wish him more ...
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How to Ask for a Shift in Graduate Assistantship from Research to Teaching?
I am a graduate student in NYC and would like to learn how to ask my advisor and my professor to shift from research assistantship to teaching?
I have been working on a research project for one ...
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How to salvage a paper when the lead author gave up publishing it and refuses to communicate
I am a postdoc, and some time ago a professor in my department introduced me to her research assistant to work together on something related to their project I was not part of. I was interested ...
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Is it okay to request to do a reading project with a professor at a later time if he had politely denied it before?
I was planning to do a reading project with a professor in my institute and had asked him in the last semester whether it would be possible for me to do it under his guidance. However he had politely ...
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How to share responsibility for part of my advisor's project, which I did not create and I am insecure about?
I am a first semester PhD student, working in the planning of an experiment that is on a funded project from my advisor. I am not paid by this project, the professor has not spent grant money on me. I ...
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Journal editor made bad edits to my (accepted) paper - how do I respond?
Earlier this year I had a paper accepted to a well-recognized journal in a particular (humanities) subfield. I finally received proofs of the article, and was (more than a bit) upset at the edits. A ...
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Professor didn't acknowledge a late hand-in by email. Is it appropriate to follow up?
I missed a class where I was supposed to hand in an assignment.
I arrived at my school at the end of the class, and the teacher had already left, so I sent them immediately by email.
It has been a ...
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How to keep team morale and efficiency when dealing with poor communication in a mentorship-like relation
I am working in a academia-related field and the type of relationships tend to be pretty much as kind of mentor-students. I have mentored many persons in the past with very nice experiences and ...
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Choosing the best fit sentence to mail prospective PhD supervisor
I am applying for a PhD scholarship which was posted on the university website and for that, I am writing mail to the professor. I have written about my background, academics, interests and experience....
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Go to grad school or not? Help! [closed]
I'm having a hugely difficult time deciding on grad school. I'm almost 25 and I'm working for a non-profit, which I love, but I love the people and the mission... I'm not too passionate about the ...
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Is it fine to ask this kind of question to the corresponding author of a paper?
First some context: I'm a Ph.D. student in Physics. I have been discussing with my supervisor the objectives for the Ph.D. project and we have been looking at some papers from the field.
In that case,...
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Asking a Professor to sign me to a group
I have a class assignment coming up. On the syllabus, it was indicated that groups would be assigned this week. I assumed that the professor would be assigning groups. However, last week the professor ...
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Professor asking me about my financial condition
For masters degree, I have contacted one of the professor of university of Tokyo. He told me in his 1st email reply that he would not like to have students only for 2 years. He wanted a student for 5 ...
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How to deal with a research internship manager with very bad English?
I am a computer science student in a research internship. My superior is technically a professor, but I work with a PhD student. My goal is to help them run experiments to finish their thesis. They ...
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Communicate Author or Publisher for asking detail?
I have trouble finding out an expression in a theorem (click here to the problem)of a paper by Yann Bugeaud (page 12) , and I tried to contact the author through his e-mail but he didn't reply (don't ...
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PhD Advisor to Stop Funding Me
I am going into my 4th year PhD in a STEM field. I am my advisor's first student. While things started off okay and the research had been interesting, my advisor developed a tendency to switch ...
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Performing Poorly on Mentor's Exam
I was recently assigned a research mentor in my Master's program who also happens to be my professor (in a quantitative economics course). We've had a brief meeting to introduce ourselves, and I made ...
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Dealing with misconceptions when proposing a new idea as an outsider to a field [duplicate]
I have some ideas related to computer architecture/electrical engineering on which I would like to get feedback from academics.
A professor at a university I visited has the belief that something I ...
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how to reply a professor is not available for research guidance [closed]
Thanks for your interest. But I am not available for guidance or mentorship.
This is my professor's reply.
I don't know how to reply back formally. I want to know if this professor can suggest my ...
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How to respond to an e-mail asking me to suggest a doctoral research topic?
With networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu, it's easy to connect with and follow researchers from a variety of different nations and backgrounds. I personally think this is great, and I hope ...
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Physician assistant school rescinded my acceptance [closed]
I'm in a complicated situation. I was accepted to physician assistant school and was told I'm one of the most qualified candidates. I'm also a mother of 2 children (under age 3) and living with their ...
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Writing to a professor who contributed to my research paper
I was working along with a professor on a research paper during my masters in 2014. I graduated in that year but we still worked on the paper for next year.
After that I moved to another city for my ...
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How to approach bad communication with my department
I am a mathematics student at a top 10 math department in the US. Something I have been struggling to handle is an on-going situation I have been facing with with the administration.
When I was ...
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How do you address holders of non-Ph.D. doctorates such as an Ed.D. or Sc.D. etc.?
It is customary to call Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) holders by the prefix "Dr.", but I wonder whether the same holds for other doctorates, such as Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) or Doctor of Education (Ed....
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A senior colleague that belittles my contributions, expertise and won't acknowledge a published error that I identified
I am a PhD student and the most junior person on our small team (me, a lab manager, a statistical analyst, a wet-bench scientist, a senior statistician, and our PI). The statistical analyst has been ...
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How to find out whether my advisor expects to be author of a paper to which she did not contribute?
I am a postdoc and I prepared a paper that is now ready for submission.
I did this work by myself.
I know that adding my advisor as an author would violate authorship standards, but it is a widespread ...
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How to ask a professor via email about possible postdoc positions?
I have sent emails to a few (about 10) professors in different Computer Science research labs (related to my research interests) to see if they have any postdoc position available.
However, I ...
