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Stack Switch After 3 Years of Experience [closed]
I am a .NET developer with 3 years of professional experience. Right now I have a pretty decent job in my country. I have Basic skill on Unity Game Engine which I learnt when I was student.
Is it will ...
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Should a conference abstract submission contain citation, if current research is an extension of the another research?
I am working on submitting an abstract to a conference. My research is an extension of another publicated research (paper B) at my University. In the abstract, I do have a short summary of paper B ...
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What was your main selling point to start your own research group after the PostDoc phase?
I am in the PostDoc phase in an European institution where I am given quite some autonomy by the group leader. She is very generous indeed. Recently, she advised me to apply for a 4-5 year grant to ...
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"Presentation Outline" for Postdoc Interview
I've been invited for an interview for a post-doc position. For the interview, they wanted me to make a presentation for 15 mins on "What is my most important contribution to research and how can ...
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How do I bring my work in a new field to the attention of experts?
I am an expert in mathematics in field A. In recent years I got also interested in another field B, being initially motivated by my field A. I have some ideas in field B and I published 3 papers. The ...
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Collapse of the AMOC: Global cooling [closed]
The AMOC is caused by density differences in temperature and salinity. If the AMOC collapses, can an global ice age be triggered?
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My PhD is experimental based and do not have theoretical analysis [closed]
I am currently at the end of my PhD and getting for submitting my thesis for examination. It is a engineering PhD and more with experimental verifications and few finite element analysis sections. ...
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Is 4 letter of recommendations too much for CS PhD applications?
I’m looking to apply for CS PhD programs. Initially I only had 1 letter writer (my masters advisor). Since I didn’t get replies from other two letter writers at that time, I emailed a few more ...
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How do professors like to receive emails from students?
For one of my classes, some of my classmates said that the professor never responded to their emails. However, the professor said that the emails were never properly formatted. Turns out my professor ...
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Did the Urfa region of southern Turkey spawn the first scientific diarchy on the planet? [closed]
Did the Urfa region of southern Turkey spawn the first scientific diarchy on the planet?enter image description here
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Academic racism [closed]
There's this question that really bothers me. Why do Western academics especially with European roots always think Africans, young or senior researchers are never good enough?. I mean, in any lab or ...
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Including bad exchange transcript when there are limited upload slots in graduate application
I am applying for graduate school. I have a very good profile, except for a very bad exchange semester, in which, due to unfortunate circumstances, I got two Fs (and two A+).
One of the universities I ...
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Career advice for a computational engineer [closed]
I have just started my Masters in Computational Engineering in Germany. I have a background in Mechanical Engineering in bachelors. Having worked in research roles in the gap between my master's and ...
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Postdoc delegates work to PhD: who gets to be PI for a small proposal?
A postdoc delegated a (newly joined) PhD student to write a small proposal for computing time. She wrote a reasonable first draft, but it needs heavy editing that the postdoc will now do, and submit ...
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Will not receiving medals in two semesters hurt my profile?
I am have completed 7 semesters in undergraduate in Computer Science. My goal is to apply for Masters in a top graduate school, like MIT or Stanford.
I have the highest GPA in my batch. However, there ...
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Appropriate/smart ways to decline students' requests of "begging for better grades" at the end of the semester without being too hurtful
Normally at the end of semester, there are always a couple of students begging for better grade. Let me just list a few sample cases:
Case 1: I worked really hard during the semester. I attended all ...
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A question regarding the abstraction of research problems
I recently discovered a more efficient method for a problem that was published in a hardware journal and presented in a rather concrete way that is related to its application. I abstracted that ...
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As a junior researcher, should I pay my own article processing charge for career reasons?
I am a researcher a few years out of PhD competing in a field where there are very few jobs. I have a sole author paper coming out which received very good reviews.
The journal is Hybrid Open Access, ...
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Should I stay in my current PIs lab for grad school?
Should I stay in my current PIs lab?
I graduated from a Biology program with a 3.49. During that time I didn’t take many quantitative classes. I look calculus 1 and I’m currently competing a data ...
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Seeking Advice on Transferring Foreign Exchange Credits and Degree Completion
I'm facing a bit of a unique situation regarding my academic credits and would appreciate some guidance.
Background:
I was a foreign exchange student in the US for one semester. Upon returning to ...
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breaking into AI after a math PhD
TLDR. Math PhD, currently computational math postdoc, wants to work on AI. Which is a better way: another postdoc (this time CS), start with software engineering / quant, or going back to school?
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Is it okay to use ChatGPT for generating letters of recommendation?
Someone I know will be applying to universities in the US for their PhD. To that end, he sought LORs from his undergrad instructors. However, they told him to write those himself, and to send those to ...
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Career changing from ME to CS
I have a 4 year bachelor of engineering in Mechanical. I want to do Msc phd in CS( Computer Science). How can I get any kind of funding (TA / RA / Schoolarship) in USA/Canada when i dont have any ...
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Reference in a poster
I am presenting a poster in an international conference based on a work that is yet to be published. Should I include this work in the references of the poster?
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Is there any way to find the most-cited papers that match a keyword?
Let's say Google Scholar has a million matches for a certain keyword, but I only want to see the 100 most-cited ones. Is there any way to do this? (Note that "Sort by Relevance" doesn't ...
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Equitable Recruting Process for International Faculty Candidates
Can someone please chime in on best practices when it comes to ensuring that the search process is equitable for all candidates. More specifically if a department has budget constraints and may be ...
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Work that I reasonably do without publications post Ph.D? [closed]
I'm a fourth year student in an Experimental Psychology Ph.D program with an accepted MA also in Experimental Psychology from a different program. I'm posting here since I'm about to graduate in May ...
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Is my student applying to too many PhD programs in the US? (statistics / biostatistics)
I am in Asia, and one of my master student wants very much to go to the US to study for his PhD. He applied 25 PhD programs and has asked for a reference letter. I think 8-10 programs is quite enough.
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Dealing with Delayed Recommendation Submissions from Thesis Advisor
I'm in the process of applying to graduate schools and had secured a commitment from my thesis advisor for a recommendation letter. However, I've noticed delays in their submissions, with a few ...
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Covering application fees for peer review, when your university declines to proceed, but expert in the field consider the work excellent
Situation - I produced a MSc thesis in applied data science (I mean, using data science but applied on a certain domain X), which was A-graded. An expert in the field X said it is excellent and worthy ...
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Is it bad to get 40% on TurnitIn?
I submitted my Anthropology paper about abortion in the United States to my teacher, and I saw the Turnitin report being 40%. Needless to say, I almost got a heart attack (figuratively, but it felt ...
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My 1.5 time accomodations were not properly implemented, what can I do?
I am an undergraduate student in Canada. I have academic accommodations from the accessibility centre since I have autism and ADHD. I informed the instructor of my 1.5x exam time at the start of the ...
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If a bachelor degree was revoked for a exam misconduct committed within a module, how can that degree be re-earned? [closed]
My question is very simple. If someone was found guilty in cheating during a continuous assessment, and the degree was (about to be) revoked, can that person re-earn it by taking that particular ...
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Salary Disparities Between Fields
Have professors just come to accept that there are significantly higher salaries in certain academic fields (generally engineering, some business, law, etc.)? Does it ever cause tension within a ...
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What will happen to my to downloaded PDFs on springer if I no longer have institutional access?
I'm a high schooler who self studies math. A university in my state (University of Minnesota) is offering college courses to high schoolers so I automatically get access to, and can download, books on ...
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Ask about political climate at a department during a job interview?
I am on the job market this year, and one of the main things I'm looking for is a good department culture fit. Naturally, the political views of the department and its members plays a role in this, ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
I have some preliminary experimental results that won't fit into the next round of experiments. The first only shows there is problem but can't make any conclusions about why. The second will ...
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How to deal with inappropriate hiring instructions that are only given verbally?
Suppose I am chairing a hiring committee for a faculty position
in a north American university,
and suppose the administration have some verbal instructions on how the search should be conducted that ...
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Where or how do you ask for peer review?
I have written a research report and did a literature review on specific topics, and I would like to know where I could ask for a peer review of my report. I'm new to this and would like to know if ...
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Unhealthy PI behavior
What is your opinion on a situation where a PI informs a postdoc that their presence is attributed to the PI's efforts and salary funding, thereby implying certain behavioral expectations? Do you ...
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In addition to naming three professors, should I mention that I am open to working with other professors in SOP?
I am naming three professors from specific Ph.D. programs with whom I have identified similarities in our research interests in my SOP. In the last sentence, I want to mention that I am also ...
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Why is bibguru not detecting an ISBN reference?
The WHO have a report entitled
Global report on hypertension The race against a silent killer
ISBN 978-92-4-008106-2
When I put the ISBN in BibGuru it cannot find the report. Which is strange as it'...
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Mentioning faculty in SOP while already mentioning them elsewhere in application
Should I explicitly mention faculty in my SOP for a PhD program when there are prompts in other parts of the application where I already specifically chose faculty of interest? Would this be ...
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Seeking Guidance on Comparing Algorithm Performance Metrics in Research Compilation
I am currently working on a research problem where the existing literature proposes an algorithm that is tested on data generating 100,000 integer values within the range of 0 to 20. The common ...
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Is it risky or inappropriate to mention a history of substance abuse in a PhD application personal statement?
A PhD program that I am applying to requires a personal statement based on the following prompt: "what struggles have you overcome?"
Would it be risky to write something with the following ...
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How can I avoid this unproductive pattern with my PhD supervisor?
I’m currently a PhD student in electrical engineering in the US, and I changed supervisors after the end of my first year as a PhD student. There were several reasons for this, but the main one was ...
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Wearing academic dress (gown) after I left the university
I wore a gown to attend graduation and other formal events when I studied at a UK university. I still keep that gown but I'm not in academia for years. Under what situation would it still be useful?
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Accepted postdoc offer retracted last minute
I accepted a postdoc offer back in January 2023. I signed a (presumably unofficial) contract that stated I would accept the position, and the offer was formal in every sense I know postdoc offers to ...
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Can I publish a part of my master thesis without having my master thesis supervisor as a co-author?
I completed my master degree at one of the top universities in Europe more than 5 years ago. Me and my supervisor had some conflicts at the end of my thesis submission and then he was not interested ...
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Interviewing Questions on Teaching
I've got an interview for tenure-track teaching jobs at an R1 and liberal arts college in the US. As part of the application, they've seen a cover letter, CV, teaching statement, 3 syllabi, and ...
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