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Consider the following bolded recommendation for arranging graphs and tables for an IEEE submission Because IEEE will do the final formatting of your paper, you do not need to position figures and ...

I’ve noticed that in most opening ads for tenure-track faculty positions in the US, the deadline for submission of application is set close to December first, and the position starting date is set to ...

If I had Data that looked like this: Path 1 - Green, Yellow, Orange Path 2 - Green, Purple, Blue, Maroon Path 3 - Green, Blue, Maroon, Red Path 4 - Green, Cyan, Grey, Magenta It could be visualized ...

After the first year and pretty much at the cusp of submitting my research proposal, I feel that my PhD topic and supervisor is far too technical. I had completed a masters that was closer to ...

Note on applicability of this question to others I’m aware of this post, which was closed for being too individual-specific. I’ve included information specific to me, but I wrote my questions to be ...

I have written a research paper and was told that I should include a preamble at the start explaining who had the idea for the project, who my supervisor was and the name of the company. My question ...

I am in the early stages of thinking how to structure and write my dissertation. In the course of doing so, I have been spending a lot of time reviewing unpublished dissertations via my universities ...

I work in a small, specialised, tech research team in a UK HE institution. I have recently been asked to do some consultancy work involving a separate institution. Although I will be the sole ...

I am looking for postdocs, and I have different postdoc offers. I am really hesitating between different possibilities. Some of those offers are interesting, in a dynamic group and they are in eastern ...

I am a mastering student. I want to pursue PhD and I have already submitted 3 articles to journals. Now I have some results about something. Should I wait until my PhD to publish? Here is the pros. If ...

I submitted a paper in an IEEE journal five weeks ago and is still in "With Associate Editor" status. Does anyone had a similar experience? What does this situation could probably mean?

I recently completed my Masters at a prestigious UK university and received feedback on my dissertation that is fairly inconsistent with what I have written. For example, the reviewer has asked me to ...

Yesterday, I talked to my advisor about a student who was bothering me. She told me that she would not talk to that person about this topic, but no one could mobbing towards me. She talked to me ...

I started a PhD project in Europe. However, as the project was going in a direction quite different from what I had expected, I spoke to my supervisor and converted it into a research position for a ...

I would like to present and discuss the technical issues of used software, which crippled/damaged some of my final data during the data processing (Still I have a sufficient amount of data for the ...

Several astronomers are building up the grass-roots / volunteer organisation Astronomers for Planet Earth (raising awareness for the climate crisis from an astronomical perspective). Most, but not all ...

When writing a book about a subject, if all your text is in your own words, and, contains only commonly known, fundamental, well established knowledge about the subject, which can all be seen in tons ...

Right now I'm on anti-psychotics and I can't do new mathematics; I actually have trouble reading books. I was wondering if modafinil would be a good drug to get me going again. Last year I had resumed ...

I'm a PhD student and recently returned to the office. Despite being back on campus, I haven't really made many friends and I often go the full day barely speaking to people. It's sad because I'm just ...

In my penultimate year of PhD I did not apply for postdocs. I decided to take this year as a gap year. I remember that before telling my supervisor, they were very encouraging, and told me I had very ...

In another post, I mentioned that I have been waiting for a decision on a revised article for more than 11 months. During those months of waiting, I have contacted the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) twice to ...

I'm doing a systematic review, and I'm checking to see if some papers that I know are important will be recovered by my search string. One of these papers is "Tutorial for Using Control Systems ...

As a first, I recently received an invitation to peer review for a predatory (or at least shady) conference - in contrast to the tons of unsolicited invitations to publish papers with their journals ...

I'm a non-US Computer Science Student enrolled in a bachelor's + master's integrated program at a top institute in Asia. I wanted to do a semester-long in-person research internship in the Fall of ...

I am applying to US universities for Ph.D. so I wrote to some professors from X university. Actually, I wrote them at the beginning of this year but I was late for admission so I did not get any ...

About four weeks ago I interviewed a university (outside the U.S.) for a tenure-track assistant professor position. The head of the department scheduled a meeting with me the next day, gave me a ...

This might be sort of a weird/rare situation (more common to have gap years in regular engineering industry/research labs), but how would the following be perceived- Engineering undergrad with good ...

I noticed that a recent teaching faculty candidate's LORs from an institution outside the US all had not-so-short and shamelessly hagiographic "short bios" appended onto the end. One went ...

What are some examples of research papers that are very generally viewed as "well-written"? And by "generally" I refer to something which is not dependent so much on "...

I'm a postdoc based in Europe working in a theoretical/computational field with a background in physics and am considering leaving academia. There are various reasons for this, but most importantly I ...

I am a postdoctoral fellow, working in a rather prestigious institute in Asia, for about a year. To be frank, I was rather surprised to get a position here, as many people here have spent at least ...

I have been working on my PhD for fourteen months now. I had a break only for four days before my PhD. I was busy with my master's thesis before that. During the PhD, I have had breaks for 3 weeks ...

I intend to apply to European Master's programs in theoretical physics, and I've got my bachelor's degree in my country Thailand. I also would like to continue my Ph.D. on my master's thesis subject, ...

I am a senior studying math at a private research university. It isn't an Ivy League school by any means, but it is a good school with, as far as I have experienced, a good undergraduate mathematics ...

What if you opt for the 12-month pay but quit your position before the end of an academic year? (For example, give 30-days notice in December). Do you forfeit your 3 months of distributed pay that ...

How many competing papers can be expected for a topic? Assuming that papers should be competed for, since as in a free market, the competition should lead to better outcomes, right? So then, when one ...

I'm a graduate student and soon be a Ph.D. student in Physics. The semester is about to end. We have been given too many assignments throughout the semester that we don't get time to read the topic ...

I think the title is pretty self-explanatory. I am very happy with my current research topic but I would like to have some side research. Is it OK? And in case it is, how do people get those projects?

Background: CS Undergrad applying to CS PhD Programs. I have an internship experience under a HOD of a department in my university. The work was on computer vision, there was a paper published at a ...

I am the sole author of a paper which I would like to publish in a journal. Is it better to use "I" for example "In this paper, I present xyz" Or is better to avoid "I" ...

I submitted a manuscript to a journal and it was reviewed by a single reviewer. This reviewer's report is honestly ridiculous. Among other things, they ask for extending the window of analysis, ...

In the future, I'm thinking about applying for tenure-track positions in Computer Science at teaching/undergraduate focused institutions. The kinds of places that usually have 3-3 teaching loads and ...

I'm a master's CS student, and I'm about to write a motivation letter for the study abroad program. I worked for almost three years as a junior software developer, and during my bachelor's studies, I ...

I am doing my PhD since 2019 in the subject of molecular biology. I am at the end stage of my PhD. Despite the harsh beginning, I put really a lot of effort to become very good in laboratory work and ...

I am using Harvard referencing for my thesis draft, however, I am a bit confused with how to cite multiple authors (4 or more) in the bibliography. Specifically, I have been finding contradicting ...

these are two relativistic fluid governing equations ∂_t (γe)+∂_x(γev)=0 γ∂_t(γv)+∂_x[(γv)^2/2]=-(C/(1+C))*∂_x[log(e)] where γ=1/sqrt(1-v^2) is Lorentz factor,v=v(x,t) is three velocity,e=e(x,t) is ...

I am a researcher working in the field of Catalysis. I was working on two seperate reactions (suppose R1 and R2) which were supposed to be the part of two seperate publications. Reaction R1 has been ...

My Supervisor has pointed out that Harvard requires different in-text citation styles based on whether it is in Narrative style or Parenthetical. e.g. It has been emphasised that good referencing is ...

While at University, I studied Biology and found that Genetics was what I was most interested in. I found, however, that most if not all Biology courses focus on plant genetics and crop growth. This ...

In 2018, I shared an idea with an assistant professor from another university. I shared this because this is an idea many people are working on and are developing approaches to solve it. My PhD ...