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Say you made a smart move in solving an important question that your advisor did not think of and all of a suddenly your advisor becomes jealous because you have made your advisor look bad. What ar …

To provide a slightly different point of view - if your field is a slightly more experimental or engineering related one, maybe the problem is a different one? Maybe you (in your inexperience with the …

This question is fascinating to me on many levels. It shows a weird tendency that we have in academia to equate job offers to something like awards, where the decision for or against a candidate has t …

In my experience it is not uncommon for people in your situation to not "gel" perfectly with the rest of their cohort. You are used to an industrial way of working, which is, or at least should be, qu …

Is this situation actually normal? Yup, pretty normal. It's what is called "office life". I am almost tempted to vote to close this as a boat programming question, as it is really no different t …

From your original post and follow-up comments, I do get the impression that you may have something to learn and improve from this incident - but maybe not related to your teaching style, but related …

How to deal with this? Dear [student], Thank you for pointing this out. [1 or 2 more sentences of explanation] Sincerely, [your name]. What troubles me is the attitude, which I found it k …

Given that "thanks, but no thanks" is often used as a mocking euphemism for "gee, that's a stupid idea, I will of course not do that" I would suggest not using it on your advisor. What's wrong with j …

Both existing answers provide useful perspectives, but one aspect that I feel is missing is: how are you funded? Option 1: If your PhD is being paid from funds of the "larger project", you will invar …

Don't give in to Imposter Syndrome! Both your reasons are fundamentally not sound. Somebody nominated you for an award. The awards committee thinks you are deserving. You should not refuse the award …

As mentioned in my comment, I am in full agreement that working conditions for young scientists tend to be somewhere between precarious to downright terrible, but I do not share your impression that t …

If the jury asks about my appreciation of the company where I did the internship: should I be honest in telling them what happened and that my advisor is too incompetent? Or should I lie and tell t …

Is this normal in post doc recruitment? No, this is obviously not normal. There is something going on, and your guess is as good as mine as to what that is exactly. Maybe there is indeed some sor …

Hard No. This isn't only unethical, it's also a really bad idea in practice. Unethical: Every PhD position I have ever heard of requires you to do things that aren't part of the requirements to get …

Firstly, I should note that the examples you give are certainly somewhat agressively formulated (more so than would be common in my field), but not in themselves invalid questions. It is certainly "al …