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Deciding to not apply to a college that I have met with a faculty member, advice on what to do
I met with a faculty member for a history MA program but have decided not to aaply there. Simply put there are better programs that I would be a better fit for and also it requires an expensive ...
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What steps should I take if I haven't received responses from potential supervisors?
I am in the process of applying for the M.Sc. Research program at universities in New Zealand. My application will not be assessed unless I secure a supervisor. Despite reaching out to three potential ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
I am a Phd student who has recently tried to initiate a collaboration on a paper with a professor to a university unrelated to mine.
I have already collaborated successfully with this professor a few ...
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Do PhD degrees in Germany require government accreditation?
I am an academic from China and I am currently studying the accreditation and quality assurance of German master's and doctoral degrees. However, the existing English literature does not clearly ...
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Are PhD programmes reluctant to admit multiple students from the same university in the same application cycle?
The senior undergraduates at my (mathematics) department have this impression that postgraduate programmes don't want to admit multiple applicants from the same university in the same application ...
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Forgot to debrief participants on an old qualifier project. Can this error cause my qualifier project and poster I did on it to be revoked at all?
I realized I did not do a proper debriefing on my qualifier project for doctoral candidacy in Experimental Psychology from a little over a year ago.
I only say "proper debriefing" because my ...
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Is 18 references in a 18 page article too little?
I'm about to submit my paper which is about predicting the apparent geothermal gradient in a country using a machine learning algorythm, the main motivation is the fact that the country only has heat ...
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Mathematical journals which accept micro-articles [closed]
A micro-article is a paper of at most six pages.
The following mathematical journals accept micro-articles:
Elemente der Mathematik,
Examples and Counterexamples and
Journal of Computational ...
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What did teachers write on before the invention of the chalkboard?
I read that the chalkboard was invented in the 19th century in the UK. What did teachers write on before the invention of the chalkboard?
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A PhD from a lower-ranked university or a PhD from a higher-ranked university with less-known and less cited supervisor? [duplicate]
Which is better, a PhD from a lower-ranked university with a well-known and highly cited supervisor, or a PhD from a higher-ranked university with less-known and less cited supervisor?
Note :My ...
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Is a 3 page Statement of Purpose for Course-based Graduate Program too much?
I have a short-term goal of improving a current Machine learning model in loan disbursements for the unbanked as well as integrating explainable AI (XAI). And my long-term goal is to work on ...
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Legislatively I’m a fourth year phd student whilst I haven’t completed three years yet [closed]
Good morning everyone
As a title suggests, legislatively I’m a fourth year phd student whilst in fact I haven’t completed three years yet. This is how it happened.
On March 2021 I have sat for a phd ...
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What countries offer Government-funded Postdoctoral fellowship in EE CS? [closed]
Please, name some countries to offer GOVERNMENT-Funded Postdoctoral fellowship in fields of EE and CS, that can fund independent research.
This is, not dependent from the wallet or the personal ...
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Do I stand a chance at top US CS PhD schools or should I broaden out my school list? [closed]
I'm currently a master's student at one of the Top 4 CS (computer science) schools, having recently completed undergrad at the same school (the MS is a 1 year, BS+MS program) and I'm currently ...
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Made potentially unauthorized copies or adaptations of copyrighted test material. Can I keep the data I have collected for my dissertation?
I am a fourth year doctoral candidate in Experimental Psychology who recently finished data collection for my dissertation. I recently discovered something that may be a potential issue, but I am not ...
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In group meeting, one colleague presents my ideas as if they are his original ideas
This is a follow-up of Someone claim to "indepdently discovery the same thing (two years after me)"
Long story short, I'm now working with Jason, in a large team.
I chat with Jason once a ...
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Statement of Purpose for math graduate schools
I am a recent mathematics graduate from the UK who will apply to math PhD programs in the United States.
I completed a master's in pure mathematics at a top program in the UK focusing on geometry. I ...
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Advisor-student collaboration (or lack thereof) and paper authorship in mathematics: how does it work?
In (pure?) mathematics, author order on papers is alphabetical, based on the assumption that all authors contribute equally (e.g. as discussed here and explained in this statement from the AMS). ...
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Is it common for community colleges in the US to have IRBs?
I'm coming to the end of my PhD in a social science field, and given the unlikelihood of landing a research-oriented position at really any university, I'm finding myself in the position of having to ...
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How to become a competitive candidate for grad school after a ruined integrated master's degree?
I am 22 years old, about to graduate (delayed by one semester because I failed in two courses) with a dual major (one of which is an integrated Master's degree in a Physics, and the other a Bachelor's ...
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Applying for PhD after Engineering work on MS
I'm considering revisiting a PhD, my last MS I felt I basically spent my time on engineering work the advisor needed to get done vs actual research. I was effectively an engineer working for a small ...
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Supervisor refuses to be included as a co-author in PhD student papers?
As title entails, my PhD supervisor refuses to be included in all of my research papers as she did not take part in the writing process. However, since day one, she has been giving me ideas and ...
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Department head has requested I lower student grades [duplicate]
I’ve been teaching a 4th year business elective for the past 8-years. Grades for my class generally range from about 57% - 94%, with the average at 86%. This current teaching year, the chair of my ...
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How to publish independently in top journals?
I am a second year PhD student. I also worked on topics outside my thesis. The results are good and I want to submit it to top journals. However, I am surprised by the attitude of most of the editors ...
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Can you be disciplined for 'intention' to cheat but didn't?
I have an grad sch exam where I can bring in a single textbook of choice for reference. I borrowed one from the sch library and find that multiple books have evidence of previous students writing ...
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What is the consequence on purposefully lying on grad-school application (town of birth)
Sam was really really uncomfortable in disclosing their actual biographic data such as the town of birth (similar to Gaza). Sam felt that they will be discriminated.
There was no option to "...
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Can two people write one letter of recommendation?
I have two cofounders who I've worked with in a similar capacity. Can they write a joint letter of recommendation for me?
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I have been asked to be on a tenure evaluation committee during my sabbatical, how should I respond?
I have been asked to be an external tenure evaluator for someone I don't know. It would be my first case. Knowing myself, I am sure I will spend an unreasonable amount of time and energy to do it ...
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Can I Use Published Work for an MFA Writing Sample?
This could be a no brainer of a question, but I thought I'd throw it out there to be safe. I'm applying to an American MFA program in Creative Writing and want to submit some of my best work for ...
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How do I mention low grades on the transcript due to genuine incompetence? (PhD Application)
"I failed an important course due to some justified reasons or terrible excuses, can I get into a decent PhD program?" is probably one of the most asked questions on the Academia Stack ...
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Should I copyright my figures in my report?
I am writing a report for an assignment in which I have used Tikz/LaTex to make several plots, block diagrams and figures in general. Due to the hard work that has gone in to making them I do not want ...
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Best methods to send citations to co-reviewers
I am currently conducting a systematic review and have finalised my initial extraction. I need to send a list of citations to my co-reviewers so that they can screen the relevant citations.
Does ...
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Given Post doc interview at IIT Bombay 4 months back but have yet not received any letter. What to do apart from talking to supervisor? [duplicate]
I have given interview for postdoc at IIT Bombay 4 months back and have still not got any formal letter. However, I asked and got news from multiple sources that I have been recommended for the ...
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Google Scholar Profile of Department or College
I found a google scholar profile that represents one of the academic departments of a university. All articles published by faculty working in that department since long time are listed in that google ...
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Is failing to cite similar work in a conference submission considered unethical?
My team and I recently encountered a situation where another research team, also funded by the same agency as us, had a paper accepted at a conference. Upon reviewing their paper, we noticed ...
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How do PhD letter of recommendations actually get sent?
Is there usually a person at the undergrad university that handles it? Or does my recommender have to fill it out for every single program? Or something else?
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Copyright issues and Self-Plagiarism in the PhD Thesis
Part of my doctoral thesis is based on three articles I wrote during my PhD. My supervisor suggested that I directly use part of the articles I had written (the part related to the data analysis and ...
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Faculty application: getting a recommendation letter from a professor at the same university
I am applying for an assistant professor position at a university. I have worked with a faculty member there for a long time - he was a postdoc in my PhD lab and I have been in touch with him later. ...
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It is rude to offer a teacher the study guide you made for their class?
Is it rude to offer my professor a study guide I made for their class? I throughly enjoyed his class but the class he is teaching is extremely hard being it is a premed requirement. I made a study ...
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What should I do if I cannot understand a peer reviewer's comment?
I have submitted a paper to a journal in the field of computer science. My paper was accepted with major revisions. However, a reviewer asked : " Give more mathematical treatment of the proposed ...
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Attendance Date in PhD
I am applying for PhD for Fall 2024 in the US, I am still pursuing my masters degree. In the applications they ask for the attendance date for every institution, I am expecting to graduate in Spring ...
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Gender inclusiveness in academic writing: "they are" or "they is"? [closed]
"A person is doing an experiment, and they are having fun."
This expression sounds grammarly incorrect. "A person" and "they" are the same being, how can we use different ...
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PhD: alignment with a supervisor
I am contemplating a PhD degree where an industry partner connected me with a senior lecturer at University.
I have full confidence in the said partner as their contributions to the discipline are ...
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Do GRE questions sometimes require students to have Geographical or other specific knowledge?
This is a sample question from a Barron's GRE prep book:
"It can be inferred from the passage that a jet plane will usually
have its best average rate of speed from its run from..."
Choices:...
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A potential postdoc PI contacted my Ph.D. advisor without asking me for the contact info. Is this common?
I'm a recent Ph.D. graduate looking for a postdoc opportunity in the US. I recently interviewed with my potential PI, and at the end he said we will discuss later. A week or two after the interview, ...
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How do I add a line of code(command) in LaTeX? and what is the proper formatting? [closed]
I need to add the following command:
python demo.py --image_path ./asserts/1.png --private_key "Effiel tower" --public_key "a tree" --save_path ./output --num_steps 50
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Limitations on naming a framework in an academic setting
I am designing a framework in an AI related field of study which has a particularly difficult name properly abbreviate. I was wondering if it is appropriate if I were to name it something that doesn't ...
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The status "Required Reviews Completed”
I submitted a paper twenty days ago, and now its status has changed to 'Required Reviews Completed.' I'm wondering if such a quick review turnaround indicates a high likelihood of my paper being ...
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Does case of the first letter in disciplines such as Mathematics, Physics, etc. need to be capitalized?
Does the first letter of disciplines such as Mathematics, Physics, etc. need to be capitalized in research papers of computer science?
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How should the multiplication symbol be written in the mathematical formula of a research paper? *? or x? [closed]
How should the multiplication symbol be written in the mathematical formula of a research paper? *? or x?
The field is computer science and I am multiplying integers.
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