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Do academics look down on well-designed academic websites?
As has been stated several times, there is no such thing as a site being "too well designed." Of course the design should take into account the audience that will be viewing the site—i.e. if you are ...
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Do academics look down on well-designed academic websites?
Academia is full of people who are deeply passionate about their work but sadly are less than deeply passionate about making an effort to communicate effectively about their work to the rest of the ...
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Shirtless picture on the academic page of a Ph.D. candidate seeking postdoc
First, there is no rule that you need to have a picture of yourself on your professional webpage. Most people do, but there's no rule. It's nice to have some image that represents you (giving people'...
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What's the purpose of writing one's academic biography in the third person?
When I wrote a biography of myself, it was because someone in administration asked me to so they could put it into a prospectus, where there would be lots of biographies in a row all in the same ...
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Are lay articles good enough to be the main source of information for PhD research?
I find the entire premise of the question quite odd. First of all, to answer your question: I’d say that in most cases I’ve encountered the answer would be no, you can’t use popular science articles ...
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Is it unusual for a math department not to have a mail/web server?
I've found out that the department (or the university?) is doing away with the server and instructing everyone to instead use the G Suite email and Google services that the general student body of the ...
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Why do universities delete professor's personal web pages after they leave?
In my experience there are two common situations.
The university's provision for web-hosting is centrally managed, and tied to the user's university-wide access credentials. These are themselves tied ...
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Is it safe to post one's research on web sites like Math Overflow for "peer review" before submitting to a journal?
If you post under your real name, I think that it is quite "safe" in the sense that your work is unlikely to get stolen because of this. In fact, posting your work on a public forum is the best ...
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Are lay articles good enough to be the main source of information for PhD research?
From the way you describe, this sounds really strange especially since there is a lot of real research in AI.
I cannot believe you could only use those articles. However, your supervisor is the right ...
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Criticizing other people's figures on my webpage
I can't even imagine a situation in which criticizing published academic materials on their merits would be wrong or immoral.
How would it be different from criticizing someone's selection of an ...
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Untrue negative comments on RateMyProfessor website
As the comments suggest, just ignore it. You will always have disgruntled students even if you do a great job. Some will blame you for their own shortcomings.
But the best "defense" against such ...
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How do I politely ask a convenor to not publish my name on the conference website?
From both an ethical and a practical standpoint, you don't. The ethical reason should be obvious (and has been stated in comments); you are lying to your employer about leave, and asking the ...
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Where should I host a (simple) personal academic webpage?
This doesn't sound like your website will have special requirements that an all-purpose CMS couldn't handle. My advice is to go for one of those "all included" packages by a mainstream ...
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Why do universities delete professor's personal web pages after they leave?
A university website is not an archive, and the people working at the IT department are not professional archivists. If you want to seriously think about preserving knowledge from people no longer ...
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Can I copy text from a scientific paper onto my website without directly referencing?
You must quote copied text and cite it where it is quoted.
Citations at the end are vague and can be misleadingly general. Specifically, it can give the impression that the cited works support all ...
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Is it professional to have a "cited by" section of a personal website?
For any well established research, they will usually have quite a large number of citations, which would make a "cited by" section would be exhausting to maintain and large beyond meaningful ...
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Is it too pretentious for an undergraduate student to have their own personal page?
Yes, it is fine, but if you intend to maintain it into the future, keep it professional in all respects.
It isn't likely to be found by many people, however, unless you also make it useful in some way....
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How do some researchers have such beautiful figures in publications, while their homepages look simple?
What is good web design depends on the purpose. I am sure Wells Fargo Bank and Google both have access to expert web page designers, but I find the current versions of news.google.com and the Wells ...
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What are some typical reasons for a professor to not list their publications on their school website
There are several reasons why this would be the case. The most prominent of which is simply they don't have the time to do it. Most institutions have departmental and faculty websites which contain ...
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Do academics look down on well-designed academic websites?
Well-designed isn't quite the same as appropriately designed. A simple example demonstrates this:
An academic puts up a publications page with links and full titles/author lists, everything on one ...
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Is it legal to use Sci-Hub in Germany?
The paper of
E. W. Steinhauer - Die Nutzung einer "Schattenbibliothek" im Licht des Urheberrechts Einige Überlegungen am Beispiel von Sci-Hub
says that downloading is probably illegal and viewing ...
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Is it unusual for a math department not to have a mail/web server?
It is becoming less common for individual departments to operate their own IT infrastructure - things are usually being centralised.
It is also becoming more common for parts of that centralised IT ...
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Importance of professional website to search committees
I look for and use the websites of job candidates all the time, and I know many of my colleagues do as well. The reason is that we can find things there that are not on your CV, for example:
Links to ...
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What are some typical reasons for a professor to not list their publications on their school website
I want to address another point in your question:
What are some typical reasons why he wouldn't want to list his papers online, especially in the publish or perish culture of academia?
I notice some ...
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Is it too pretentious for an undergraduate student to have their own personal page?
I had a webpage as a grad student where I had a lot of tutorials on how to use the various tools that we used in circuits classes. I also had some of my lectures, and tools. It got about 100k hits a ...
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Are lay articles good enough to be the main source of information for PhD research?
Answering for anyone who comes across this question from social science etc. as it is a bit different. We can use popular media sources, but only for certain things.
As someone who uses popular ...
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How do some researchers have such beautiful figures in publications, while their homepages look simple?
Researchers don't have much interest in and time for design (exception: Edward Tufte), otherwise they would have become designers. Luckily, they can rely on the work of others for "beautiful figures" -...
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Importance of professional website to search committees
The improvement in your chances is marginal but nonzero.
The reason for this is that the first thing people will do is read through your application package. If they can’t find a reason to advance ...
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