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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?

Yes, you can decline the request. However, just like you can decide to only work with people who are willing to communicate solely through text, the professor can decide that they prefer video and are ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?

---tl;dr--- Simply answer you are available for a phonecall, without video. There are thousands of good reasons for that and you do not need to explicitly mention any. If the professor is a decent ...
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How can I avoid this unproductive pattern with my PhD supervisor?

Keep in mind that this is subjective, but here's my advice moving forward: Point 0: Reframe your expectations As a PhD student, you want to do independent research, with some guidance from your ...
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What are some methods to find a research gap?

On the one hand, this is really something an advisor should be helping you with, and one of the reasons why there is typically an advisor-advisee relationship at early stages of a young researcher's ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?

Try to put yourself into the Professor's (let's call them X) position: X makes a completely valid request that indicates that X is interested in working with you. You deny this request and force on X ...
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Is 18 references in a 18 page article too little?

There is no "right" number of citations for a paper, only the number that you need in order to appropriately position the paper with respect to its background. There is especially little ...
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How to deal with collaborators prone to publish in MDPI?

The solution is fairly clear. First, find better collaborators if possible or work on your own. Second, when you begin a collaboration, since you say it is based on your ideas, set parameters about ...
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How can I avoid this unproductive pattern with my PhD supervisor?

Obviously I'm not in the same room, so all I have is your description and interpretation of the (indeed unproductive) pattern/cycle. Here is my interpretation, especially since this is now the second ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?

Addressing your literal question: yes, of course you can decline. It's 100% your decision whether to have a video call with a professor (or anyone else), and any decision you make is 100% valid and ...
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Is it common for community colleges in the US to have IRBs?

I'll sketch out an example where I teach. CUNY (City University of New York) includes seven community colleges, eleven senior colleges, and seven professional institutions. Among those, the Graduate ...
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Is it common for community colleges in the US to have IRBs?

I think the only way to find out is to do what you're doing and research specific schools. As far as I know it isn't common for community colleges to have IRB's or really support research at all. It ...
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What are some methods to find a research gap?

Reading is not equal reading. Put on different lenses while reading. "What are the goals of the paper?" → What could be different goal? "How do the methods/proofs/… work in this paper?&...
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Forgot to give a copy of consent form to participants throughout qualifier project and dissertation data collection. What are my next steps?

Talk to your advisor immediately, in writing by email, and keep a copy of the email, to show that you were proactive about this. I would not expect this to be a major issue (it's certainly not on par ...
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Seeking Guidance on Comparing Algorithm Performance Metrics in Research Compilation

It is always ethical to extend existing research and to use publicly available information. If you avoid such things as copyright infringement (and plagiarism) then you should be fine. Just cite what ...
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More than two years in a journal

Waiting 1-2 years, even for the first revision, is not unusual. I understand your impatience and frustration, but you cannot do much now. Writing to the editor is OK after some time; journals usually ...
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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?

Debriefing is not a universal requirement in human subjects research. I have never written one in an IRB I have submitted. This is what my investigator's manual says (but check yours; emphasis added): ...
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Forgot to give a copy of consent form to participants throughout qualifier project and dissertation data collection. What are my next steps?

If this is in the United States, you should consult your IRB immediately. They will probably say it does not matter, but it depends on your experimental design. If you attached something to your ...
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Can IRB approval be reversed?

There's perhaps a disconnect in expectations here - you say 'agreement' to do research, which implies you're thinking of the discussion with the IRB as a contract or similar. However, IRB reviews are ...
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ethics form withdrawn during the international research funding process

It is standard that all grants go through the institution rather than directly to the investigator. The only exceptions I can think of involve direct reimbursement of costs like travel expenses that ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?

You can meet them halfway -- accept the video call and do not turn your own video on. If called on it, you can come up with a harmless lie, like "if I turn on my video the audio often gets ...
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In group meeting, one colleague presents my ideas as if they are his original ideas

I think the concept of arguing over ideas at this stage is silly, but people get tied up in "who came up with it first". It always leads to these sorts of situations. In a perfect world, ...
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Can a modification of an existing method be still named original resarch

Expanding on (i.e. stealing from) a comment of Christian Hennig, the answer is yes, it can be, but it may not be. It is a judgement call by those who evaluate your work, such as reviewers at a journal....
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Can an author change the title of a paper to be published again in a special edition of a journal?

"Camera ready" is just a colloquialism for the final version, going back to a time when things were literally archived on camera film (in some cases this still happens). It doesn't imply any ...
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Extending the PhD Project into Post-Doc

Couple of things here (even though I am from a different field, so customs may vary): What are your long-term goals? Do you plan to stay in academia for the long run (or hope/want to)? In this case, ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?

If you are fine with the voice component, and video is the only concern, you can suggest that for security reasons you do not have a camera on your computer, or that you have it permanently disabled. ...
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ethics form withdrawn during the international research funding process

united-kingdom According to the UK Research Integrity Office: Organizations and researchers must recognise that competing interests (i.e., personal or organisational considerations, including but not ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?

I agree with arp and Jeremy Dover - even in a video call, you are not obliged to be visible all the time. I have already attended lots of video calls where the participants did not switch on their ...
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In group meeting, one colleague presents my ideas as if they are his original ideas

So lots of this depends on context, too. Let me give an example. My coworker developed an econometric method for his dissertation. We've since started working together, and I translated his R code ...
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Should I switch labs to work on a topic that interests me more or stay with great current PI?

Since you are asking the question you already realize that there are tradeoffs. I suggest that you speak (personally) with each of the PIs giving your concerns. It might be that the "great" ...
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Do you any have access to Computer Science Review Elsevier Journal MS word Template?

First of all, I suggest to follow @Stephan Kolassa advice and use Latex. You can find the Latex instruction linked in comment here. According to their FAQ as of the 16th of November linked here: Most ...
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