Questions tagged [networking]
To try and build academic relations among people who share academic interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.
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Is it okay to send a connection invitation on LinkedIn to an academic event director?
As a just graduated student, I have submitted my contribution proposal for an academic event and the organising committee has accepted it.
Despite I have still met none of the above mentioned ...
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positioning yourself for research positions after graduating from a PhD in a different country
I asked this on Reddit also but didn't get any responses so I am trying here.
I am a first year PhD student thinking about how I can start to better position myself to get a research position after ...
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Do I owe potential collaborators an explanation for late follow-up?
I had a meeting with a potential collaborator month ago, and at the meeting I had agreed to email them within a week. However, shortly after I began going through a stressful divorce. I am worried ...
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What to expect, prepare, bring to a short-noticed meeting solicited by a University Press editor?
How to prepare for a meeting/discussion with a major University Press editor when they solicited/sought you out on short notice (4 days)? Because I didn't solicit them, I don't have a full manuscript -...
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How would someone go about creating something like the Pew Research Center? [closed]
I live in India. I've found that analyzing any sociopolitical issue objectively is almost impossible given the lack of data. If I wanted to close this knowledge gap by starting something like the Pew ...
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Found a major flaw in paper from home university – to which I would like to return
During my Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics, I published a paper together with two other students. The research group of the university that I am originally from (in Madrid, Spain) happened to work on ...
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How to approach a professor giving a presentation to work with him?
I am a master's student in Applied Math with two undergraduate degrees in physics and math. There is a professor who is coming to my university to give a talk on his research, and I read his abstract ...
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Is it recommended to email a professor at other institution to work with him over the summer
I am currently an undergraduate in mathematics and physics and graduate student in applied mathematics in the US. I am looking for a research position/internship for the summer (somewhere other than ...
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Tips on finding research groups that focus on credit scoring based on alternative data
Despite conducting a thorough Google search implementing all the tips provided in answers to this question, I still haven't managed to find a single active research group (at a university, or a public ...
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do's and don'ts of networking for a PhD student in a conference?
My field is Telecommunications (Engineering). I am going to a very huge conference in our field where I am presenting my work as well. I want to take this opportunity to hone my skills of networking, ...
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How could I network during my Phd?
I am thinking a bit ahead of time and I would like to do some networking with some groups in my research field, for probably a future postdoc opportunity with them after my PhD. However I am afraid my ...
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List of peer review platforms and social networks [closed]
I recently stumbled upon Publons, a social network of peer reviewers, with a database of potential reviewers, along with their areas of expertise, stats, and contact details. I wonder if there are ...
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When should I get business cards and how much do they actually matter as a graduate student who has not yet built up their CV? [duplicate]
Context: I am a graduate student within the social sciences, who will be obtaining their Master's degree on their way to Ph.D. (hopefully by the end of this academic year). Though I have not yet ...
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How to grow as a researcher outside of research?
I am a Ph.D. student (after mid stage) working in theory. I do as much hard work as I can, but there is something I think I am missing. My experience so far is many people don't know what I do and ...
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How to increase my collaboration “network” as a new faculty?
I recently got a tenured (yes, permanent) faculty position in mathematics. During my PhD and postdoc, I collaborated with the same people on some projects, one big and one small, but most of my time ...
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I am going to start my PhD in the next few months. How you would you recommend that I start networking?
I am an Indian and I will be starting as a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. student in the US this fall semester and I am looking for some tips regarding how I should start networking before I start my ...
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How to ask a former advisor to resume 'contact'?
A few years ago, I completed by bachelor's by creating a 'bachelor's thesis'. My advisor for this thesis. The thesis went very well, I've got a high grade and my advisor was very much impressed by my ...
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Life after graduation; should I update my academic reference on my career progression?
In my undergraduate years, I have forged a rather close relationship with some of my professors including the head of school – they were supportive as I did struggled with mental-health issues and ...
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Is Peer.us useful? [closed]
I just received an email from Peerus "letting me know" that my paper was published. While it sells itself as a paper monitoring app, better than google scholar, it does seem to be closer to academia....
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What are some important questions to ask former alumni of a PhD program we will enrol in?
After a long and nerve-racking application season, I have finally managed to get into one of my top-choice PhD programs. As luck would have it, one of the recent alumnae of the same PhD program ...
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Does anyone know of an international postdoctoral association?
The number of postdocs is increasing worldwide. Because of their technical expertise and dedication, postdocs are rapidly becoming the backbone of most large science laboratories.
I am aware of ...
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How to tell a Prof you are no longer applying to a PhD program at his university?
I am about to apply to Computer Science PhD programs to start Fall 2018. In the process of researching programs I have met with many Profs in fields I was interested in to (a) learn more about their ...
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How can I view a collaboration graph between two arbitrary authors? [closed]
I'd like to view a collaboration graph between two arbitrary authors.
For instance, the Erdos Number famously describes the distance between an arbitrary author and Paul Erdos, measured by authorship ...
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Post-doc priorities: “Laundry list” vs. “Research trumps all”
I am a post-doc in the physical sciences and I am finding that people have very different expectations of what a post-doc's priorities should be. Typically people are somewhere between two camps. I ...
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How do I find new problems to work on while attending a workshop?
I am attending my first ever workshop next week, in Theoretical Computer Science. My goal is plain - discuss interesting ideas to find new problems to work on and collaborators to work with. My ...
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Introducing myself to a research mentor [closed]
I am a PhD student and apart from academic supervisors I also have a mentor. This mentor I haven't met in person yet and have only communicated through email once. But I am going to meet the mentor in ...
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When trying to establish a connection with a STEM field professor, is it appropriate to ask them out for coffee?
I have a friend who is trying hard to establish a connection with a well-known professor at a generally top 5 school for STEM in the U.S. This professor is frequently at some good seminars around the ...
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How to establish a relationship with a department head as an undergraduate?
I am an undergraduate who is line for a first author publication in a field I absolutely love, and want to continue my research in the same department. At my school there is a program, I have heard of,...
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How should I respond to someone's research “elevator pitch”?
I am starting my PhD in cosmology in October of this year. I have already met some of the older PhD students and postdocs in the department where I will be studying, and I am going to be attending two ...
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How to talk to other UG researchers and/or PG researchers?
I'm an undergraduate at a research-intensive university and I have received funding with other students to do research. The other students involved in the project are all undergraduates. I'd really ...
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How to appear legitimate when asking authorities about sensitive data for research?
I am a graduate student, and I am interested in doing my thesis on the modeling of utility networks, and how they are related / dependent on each other. A specific case I would like to model is the ...
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Is computeroxy trustworthy? [closed]
I am wondering if computeroxy can be considered a "safe" website. I have received two emails from them in the past in my institutional email address without subscribing (one of them was a very long ...
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Are PhD forums worthwhile
In my field (computer science), many conferences have a section dedicated to PhD forums. For example, this one
http://ecmlpkdd2017.ijs.si/submission.html
has the following schedule
Lightning-talks ...
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To include only academic titles in business cards of researchers with many positions?
Assume you have many academic titles, but you have also many positions.
I am thinking to exclude all positions, and just having your academic titles because I do not want to carry a pile of different ...
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Found reply for a research application from 2 months ago in my junk mail
I am a third year undergraduate biology major student.
At the beginning of this quarter, I sent out a bunch of emails looking for research opportunities. I heard back from some of them and got a ...
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What is the best philosophy and practice to use smartphones for academic life? [closed]
I am doing research in theoretical physics, and have learned that smartphones can bring in a lot of distractions to your life if you want to focus on your research and study. Like facebook, twitter ...
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Is it acceptable to e-mail a professor at another university to ask for a meeting to discuss common research interests?
I'm a PhD student, from Europe, nearing the end of my thesis.
I'm going to the USA for a conference in a few months. A couple of professors (assistant professor level, both fairly young, recruited in ...
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Create contact for future postdoc without disappointing PhD supervisor
I am a physical science PhD student and after completed my PhD I would like to work as a postdoc in a second, specific, university's research group.
Therefore, I would like to start making some ...
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How should a job market candidate leverage his or her network?
I am a job market candidate who has really “worked” conferences for the past 4 years. Now when I go to conferences, I find it easy to have coffee with a variety of junior (and some senior) professors ...
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sharing ideas for collaboration or working on them individually?
I'm in the middle of my PhD and published 2 conference papers only with my supervisor, But i always want to have collaborations with other academic people in the field. Unfortunately i am a bit ...
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How to handle Co-author who is not listening the suggestions to improve the paper quality
Assume I am involved with a work and the lead author is writing a paper. However, after every draft version, I see that not all my comments are well addressed in the revised version. I expect that if ...
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Moved to a new city – how to start academically networking?
I have recently moved away from the town and university where I completed my masters degree to another city for personal reasons. Now I work here in academic information services and part of my work ...
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How to make a great first impression at a conference?
I was awarded my PhD in November last year and will be giving a paper at my first official academic "débtante ball": the most important conference of its kind (outside of N.A.) for my discipline.
The ...
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What to talk about with academic recruiters?
Recently I was in a large research conference mostly targeted at undergraduates, so there were people from many universities recruiting for summer programs, grad schools and academic societies.
It ...
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Attending a conference with self funding and no publication
I am a PhD student and got a workshop poster (only poster based on abstract, no paper, at one of the workshops co-located with the major CS conference) accepted at the top-most conference in my field (...
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Should I use a not-self-hosted website for both blogging and collecting academic materials?
Several researchers in my subfield (and in mathematics in general) use not-self-hosted wordpress.com subdomains for their 'professional blog' (to blog about their research, their latest papers, or any ...
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How to address email to professor your advisor knows
My advisor recommended I email a well-known professor at another institution because of our shared interests.
He said I should use his name in my email so I'm good on that.
I (of course) refer to ...
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How to make the most of my time as a volunteer at a research-paper conference?
I'll be attending as a volunteer at a prominent conference for computer-science research papers. Do you have any advice for how I can do a good job in my role, and also make the most of my time at the ...
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Business card for Ph.D. student - what should be included?
I'm a Ph.D. student considering getting business cards printed to facilitate follow-ups after conferences, etc. I am barely in touch with industry but I'm in a field where business cards are common.
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Activities for welcome event for incoming PhD students?
My department is planning an event (2-3 hours) welcoming incoming PhD students and giving them a chance to meet the rest of the department.
So far, the proposed activities for this year's welcome ...
