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What advice would you give someone on writing style for a academic paper (vs. thesis)?
I have already written my master thesis. My professor encouraged me to publish the results in a journal. He said I should orient me on some of the articles published in there.
Nonetheless I am curious ...
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Does starting PhD by late (after Master degree) affect in application for post-doctoral position?
I am a PhD scholar of Mathematics, in number theory branch. I completed my Master degree (M.Sc.) in 2015. Then I did a 2 years degree on education (B.Ed.) in mathematical pedagogy. I started PhD in ...
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I cheated in some of my engineering exams including finals during my time at University, am I a fraud?
During my second and third year, covid made all my engineering exams online. The exams were not proctored. Some of the exams I cheated by working with a group of friends. One person would have the ...
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Will there be a problem if I have not mentioned in my PhD application that i am already a PhD student in different university?
I joined last year as a PhD student at a good enough place in India. Here I realised that it's not good enough place to be and I applied to 3 places in US considering my interests.
I was quite under-...
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What can/should I do when finding several flaws in a published paper that I have not authored?
I recently read a paper that was full of small errors that should have been pointed out during peer review but very obviously hadn't. Issues like the following
insufficient information in the methods ...
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I lost my research assistantship due to poor grades and miscommunication. Does this count as being "fired" from a job on future applications?
I was in a graduate program in the sciences and started with full funding + stipend which came from a research assistantship. I then lost the assistantship after a year mainly due to miscommunication -...
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Geometrical Continuum Mechanics PhD Program [closed]
I did my undergraduate thesis in computational mechanics: plasticity. Now I want to pursue a Ph.D. in the field of continuum mechanics. I am more into the mathematical aspect of continuum mechanics ...
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Is it possible to claim a google knowledge panel without an id? [closed]
A few days ago I sent google everything they needed to claim my knowledge panel one of the main things you need is government approved identification which i don’t have my lisense So I was like I’m ...
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Could I contact with professor and apply for phd position in Germany in the last semester of master study?
I am in the last semester of my master study in Germany and going to publish my master thesis. However, I still need about two months to graduate. Could I contact with the professor in advance and ...
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Contempt on the part of students
At my university there is a program called "voluntary monitoring", where a student who has passed a certain subject can become the "monitor/tutor" of that discipline.
Among the ...
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Professor wants master thesis published in journal - impostor syndrome, next steps etc
my professor stated that my thesis has potential to be published in a scientific journal.
I have not come into contact with publishing in journals yet.
He advised me to put my empirical results, which ...
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Why do some research topics seem to be confined to certain countries?
Here I'm not referring to research topics on that specific country (e.g. a study on high school in New Zealand would be very likely conducted by New Zealand researchers, for obvious reasons). An ...
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How to survive a mean professor
I am an undergraduate student who has been conducting research with a professor for the past year. Unfortunately, I have been feeling defeated lately because the professor I am working with is ...
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What do maths grad schools ask for as an update after one graduates from undergrad (US)
After getting accepted into a mathematics graduate program (say PhD), what information does the graduate school ask for as an update once one graduates from undergrad (US)? I am aware they ask for a ...
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Partially funded MS at a top 3 vs Funded PhD at a top 20
My ultimate goal is to get a PhD and get into academia. I have two options in front me:
1 year MS at a university (whose department ranked #3 in world). The tuition is funded but there's no stipend ...
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PhD selection process - where should I do my masters in order to give myself the best shot of getting into a good program? [closed]
I'm a philosophy graduate in the UK and I'd like to set myself up so that I will be able to get into a fully funded PhD in the future.
I basically have two options for where to do my master's.
The ...
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Importance of PhD grade for future career in physics research?
I recently obtained my PhD in physics from one of the Max Planck Institutes in Germany. Unfortunately, I only barely passed with a "rite" grade (the lowest passing grade here in Germany). ...
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Accused of plagiarism in my master thesis, which I submitted two years ago. What now? [closed]
I submitted my master thesis two years ago and I got a passing grade. Now I got a call from the university stating that my supervisor has found plagiarism in some pages of the thesis. They told me ...
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How can I recover value in the form of some degree from my time studying for a BSc?
The TLDR; is I was kicked out of my (Canadian) BSc in CS program on a technicality after having offended the department chair.
I had only 2 credits left to go when I was kicked out. Is there any way ...
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How should I prepare for an interdisciplinary interview?
I applied for a Ph.D. internship position in a protein research lab. They invited me to appear for an online interview.
My background is in IT, and the professor who will interview me is from ...
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Download videos in the supplementary information section on nature.com
I'm wondering how can I download the videos in the supplementary information section on nature.com (here).
My professor adds them in the slides so I know that is possible to do it, but it's a bit ...
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Who is the PhD student to their supervisor?
I do not fully understand which interest a supervisor has in their student's work. Is the Ph.D. student somebody who the supervisor should teach, a colleague, an employee, or an independent researcher ...
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Should I let my incoming applied school know that I've optained a scholarship from another school?
This is in an Australian PhD application context, and I'll try to provide as much info as possible without revealing anyone's identity.
I have obtained a full PhD scholarship from a less prestigious ...
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How to verify my personal email address on Google Scholar (retired Emeritus Professor without university email address)
I have been a retired Emeritus Professor for 10 years. Thus I have no university email address anymore; I only have my personal email address. Google Scholar has pages and pages of my articles ...
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What should I do if my PhD supervisor is not proficient in my field?
I am a first-year PhD student in machine learning at a reputable university in the UK. Over the past six months, my work has consisted of reading papers that I find interesting, studying textbooks, ...
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Citing an encyclopedia in another language
I would like to cite the following page from an encyclopedia
https://encyclopediasindhiana.org/article.php?Dflt=%D8%A7%D9%BD%D9%8A+%DA%8F%DA%AA%D8%B1
but I am unsure about how to do it. I can't even ...
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Article Screening Without Formal Refereeing [duplicate]
I lately received an email from the editor-in-chief of a journal to which I submitted a paper draft last week, informing me that my submission has been rejected. What surprised me is not the rejection,...
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How do I get better feedback from my PhD advisor and when I do move on if I can not?
I am a PhD student and the next milestone in my program is my thesis proposal. I need to present what I plan to do for my thesis including specific aims, major contributions, timeline, etc... to my ...
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When using df = dataflow.LMDBSerializer.load('data/train.lmdb', shuffle=False) to load shapenet data, an error will occur. The following is my code [closed]
from tensorpack import dataflow
import h5py
import os
df = dataflow.LMDBSerializer.load('data/train.lmdb', shuffle=False)
print('df size:', df.size())
ds = dataflow.PrefetchData(df, nr_prefetch=500, ...
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Should I upload a preprint in multiple repositories?
Recently we submitted a paper to the Springer Telecommunication Systems journal, and we would like to upload the preprint to a repository, such as arXiv or TechRxiv. Is it wise to upload the preprint ...
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Publishing my first article, as the only author?
I just finished my master's thesis and my supervisor agrees that my work could be suitable for a publication. He suggested to:
write the article independently, and as the only author
have him correct ...
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Can I pursue my passion, wanting to be researcher? [duplicate]
I am in poor circumstances now, wanting to be a theoretical physicist, I wanted this path from my heart and can't think anything other than it.
Currently my_qualifications are 80% Class 10(2020), 84% ...
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PhD interview (Switching PhD)
I have a PhD interview in a few days. I am already registered as a PhD student at a university, however I am planning to switch to a different PhD program. My reason to switch are related to the ...
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How much should I tidy up code before I share it?
I'm about to give my first conference presentation, in historical linguistics. (In case it matters: I'm an undergraduate presenting at an undergraduate conference in the UK). My presentation and ...
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Thoughts about continuing PhD [duplicate]
I am pursuing PhD in Environmental Engineering at a top 100 university in the world. I genuinely like what I do but I think I am a misfit in the academic system here. I like my subject a lot and would ...
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Is the "Akademischer Rat auf Zeit" (offered in Germany) equivalent to a postdoc or to an Assistant Professor?
Once I asked about the exact translation of a job title offered at a German University, and related to a 6 year long position, generally called as "habilitationsstelle", the reply was ...
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After my abstract was accepted I learned that the journal is predatory. How can I protect my abstract?
I submitted an abstract to a journal that is on the predatory list of publishers. It has been accepted within hours, but I only now learned that publishing there involves fees and that the journal is ...
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What should I do in this grading appeal situation?
The grade I received for Fall 2022 semester was not the grade I feel like I deserved so I emailed my professor as soon as I saw it. The professor did not respond to my email or any follow-up emails ...
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Is it fair to desk-reject a manuscript because it breaks relativity?
Every so often a journal I edit receives papers with some kind of claim that, if true, would break mainstream physics. For example, a paper could claim that waves in dark matter can travel at v ~ 1014 ...
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How do you deal with grade deflation and with looking at grades?
I'm in upper years of physics and economics, as I've changed majors a few times and ultimately wound up coming back to physics, the subject that I love.
That said, back in my business school days (I ...
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Writing a paper after leaving the institute
I was working on a project related to the biological domain at a German institution. I have created ontology and knowledge graphs using public data from DSMZ. After working on the project for two ...
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Is the German 6-year long position of "researcher for habilitation" (called "Habilitationsstelle") a senior or junior position?
I am trying to understand if a 6-year long position of "researcher for habilitation" (called "Habilitationsstelle"), and that is offered in German universities, would be a junior ...
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How to add bibliographic data to a Google Scholar article?
A recent article of mine has just been successfully crawled by the Google Scholar robots; however, since the article is quite large (>40 MB), only the abstract and some basic journal metadata was ...
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Does a literary or film allusion, done for effect, require a citation?
First of all, I know that academic writing is ordinarily not a place to jam-pack in large quantities of literary, theatrical, film, or other pop-culture allusions, references, or parodies, but ...
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what are the laws and articles that can be implimented on an educational body like university for fraud admisson [closed]
i shruti mishra , student of shia pg college lucknow,uttar pradesh took admisson there in session 2022-23 in bacherols of arts, recently the date was released for 1st semester exams.we got our link ...
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What is the APA7 style for a translated quotation?
My field is in the humanities, and I need to quote a long passage (around 40 words) written in French inside of a paper I write in English.
Naturally, I would like to quote a (personally) translated-...
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Is it ok to send an email at 10om on a Saturday night [closed]
I'm in the process of having a food trailer built for me and I have questions for the health dept. I emailed them at 10pm on a Saturday night, not expecting a response until Monday. Boy was I wrong! ...
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Search engines for academic jobs
I have recently started looking for academic jobs search engines. There are some good ones for Math already listed in this site (for instance https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs?employers---m, https://...
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Should I formally enroll in courses related to my PhD?
I have a background in IT/Communications Eng. I also had study gaps. However, I have extensive knowledge and proficiency in computer programming and algorithms. I am doing a 4-years interdisciplinary ...
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Handling alternate spellings of a personal name
Dealing with a text that mentions several times the architectural historian Siegfried Giedion. A number of Giedion's books feature his first name as "Sigfried" and others as "Siegfried.&...
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