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Letter of recommendation before Skype interview
Procedures differ between disciplines and institutions. As an almost universal rule, you will not get a tenure-track position without recommendation letters. So, no conclusions can be drawn from the ...
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eLife-like publications and Tenure Decisions
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what people here think about eLife. What matters is what the people in the department and university you will end up think about it. That's something we can't ...
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eLife-like publications and Tenure Decisions
eLife is a journal experimenting with an alternative peer review model. All submissions that pass editorial review are peer reviewed, but the reviews do not influence a publication decision: ...
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Is it taboo to change departments within a university?
I think that there should be mention of the fact that, traditionally, departments (i.e., Department of Mathematics, sometimes called "Faculty of ..." outside of the U.S.) have more ...
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Is it taboo to change departments within a university?
In my observation (as a mathematician in a US research university), faculty members' primary loyalties are to their departments, not to the university as a whole.
My department is the group of people ...
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Is it taboo to change departments within a university?
In many, probably most, universities, who is a member of the faculty is a department matter. Departments do the hiring, not the university as a whole and departments have budgets and specific needs. ...
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Is it taboo to change departments within a university?
As a preamble, do you think this is particularly unique to universities? I've known people who have moved between teams/departments in non-academic jobs, both due to directives from higher up and due ...
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