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Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software
My advice is to just use the pirated software and not rock the boat, just like Drunken Code Monkey, for example, mentioned.
This issue isn't something that you're likely to solve yourself. Instead, ...
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How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?
OK, it's getting weird now. I thought this would be much less common in top 10s.
There's a simple path here: tell them plagiarized papers are not going to get published, or will be retracted in the ...
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Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software
While it is true that software cracking is inappropriate and even illegal, almost everyone around me uses cracked software
That is really bad and I know it happens also in my country (Italy). However,...
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Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software
One thing you should absolutely avoid doing is cracking the software yourself. That opens you personally to a whole lot of legal issues (IANAL, but this is kind of obvious). If your computer is really ...
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Why would my former colleagues acknowledge me for a nonexistent contribution?
A possibility which have not been mentioned: If you are in the acknowledgements section, you will not be asked to review a paper. Especially within narrow sub-fields, this can actually mean something.
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Why would my former colleagues acknowledge me for a nonexistent contribution?
I see two possible reasons for their behaviour. Others options are possible.
They are using your name to reduce the chances of desk-rejection. I have heard that a well-known expert in the ...
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How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?
tl;dr
The majority of students simply will not understand the academic view of plagiarism. There is only so much you can do to help them. At some point you simply cannot help them any further. There's ...
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How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?
tl;dr Move elsewhere. If not, make sure your immediate colleagues feel the consequences of academic misconduct.
I have worked as a postdoctoral fellow for two years in China. I was invited to stay as ...
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Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software
Let's see through this step for step:
Is this actually illegal? To give an extreme example: Homosexuality is in Scandinavia not only legal, but accepted in the culture including marriages while it is ...
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Is it appropriate to share the distribution of grades for a small class?
No, for exactly the reason you give. If just a couple students share their grades with each other, it becomes trivial for others to be discovered by process of elimination.
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Postdoc in China: what are the possible difficulties and disadvantages?
I'm doing a postdoc in computer science at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. You've asked about the negatives, but I first want to point out that I love living in China (my friends talk about how ...
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Postdoc in China. Looking on advice about culture shock and pursuing a career in industry
As someone from England who did postdocs in Thailand (for 4 years) and then taught in high schools in Shanghai (for 3 years), not so recent, but within the last ten years:
Working conditions depend a ...
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How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?
You already ruled out the best answer, which I think you should reconsider: If the cheating and plagiarism bothers you as much as you say (and it would bother me, too!), you should find someplace ...
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Meeting dishonest ex-supervisors at large international conference -- Should one speak out?
There is a lot going on here. If you want to play power politics make sure that you have the power first.
You contemplate making an accusation. Depending on local law and custom this could open you ...
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Persistent issues with salary pay as a postdoc in China: What can I do?
Invited by the OP to post my comment under another post here:
Courts in China are often unwilling to rule in favor of foreigners in economic dispute cases. Not to mention that Chinese law already ...
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Postdoc in China. Looking on advice about culture shock and pursuing a career in industry
A math postdoc typically has no formal responsibilities (except teaching if the postdoc is also a teaching position). That makes it a bad idea for anyone who isn’t at least seriously considering an ...
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Postdoc in China: what are the possible difficulties and disadvantages?
I know this question is dated thus likely the OP Artem has finished his/her Postdoc contract long ago. But I will leave some comments as well, as a westerner (from a 3rd world country, engaged to a ...
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Why was I offered an associate professorship after applying for an assistant professorship position? How will this be perceived?
UK perspective
(1) What do you make of this?
They think you are good enough to be recruited directly to the higher-ranking grade. It sounds reasonable in light of your seven years' postdoc ...
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Why do Chinese universities hold many more patents than other universities?
I suspect there are two main reasons.
There are substantial subsidies for patent applications in China
Chinese patents are generally of lower quality; thus it takes less work to file them, and there ...
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Our teacher is encouraging us to use cracked software
In the general case that you disagree with an approach that your teacher is using I would just suggest that you speak to the teacher and raise your concerns.
However, as there's a legal issue ...
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How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?
You don't have to solve this problem for a whole nation, or even for your school. Just insist, up front, clearly, and in writing, that for work submitted to you, or that you collaborate on, copied ...
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Is it appropriate to share the distribution of grades for a small class?
Check if the university has a policy on this. This varies wildly across locations: in some places grades are still published with the students' names next to them; in others there are stated policies ...
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Can Chinese "scientists who publish in the top Western journals... earn in excess of $100,000 per paper" via cash-per-publication incentives?
There is likely more up-to-date information to be found, but the 2017 paper Wei Quan, Bikun Chen, Fei Shu Publish or impoverish: An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (...
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Academics in China - promoted via connections
I am a postdoc in China, and have been here since almost 2 years. I am looking forwards to leaving mainly because I cannot cope with their cultural ways at work, e.g. how the local academia works. The ...
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Postdoc in China. Looking on advice about culture shock and pursuing a career in industry
Maybe you should be aware there is a new coldish war between five eyes (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) and China. [Plus Japan, India, and the ...
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Why was I offered an associate professorship after applying for an assistant professorship position? How will this be perceived?
In China academic positions are filled on the basis of publication record. If your total points (dependent on the impact factor of your published works) is higher than a particular number, you can ...
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How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?
I'm sorry if this answer is a bit contrary. However, you are judging people on the basis of European cultural standards that they don't necessarily accept. Those standards are not part of their ...
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What problems do non-Chinese people face while working as research professors in China?
Although I was not a research professor and merely a Master's student, I had the opportunity to work alongside many such researchers at a nationally top-ranked university, and will use this experience ...
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Why would my former colleagues acknowledge me for a nonexistent contribution?
It's worth noting that I've heard many times of companies and schools in China lying and pretending to employ or work with western professionals to make their group look good during tours and ...
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