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69 Questions

Why do American colleges and universities have sports teams?

How hard do early-career academics in the United States work, really?

How do “scientific couples” (from different fields) find positions?

How long before PhD graduation should I start applying for post-doc positions?

Is there an inflation in the number of authors per paper?

When reviewing a manuscript for the second time, is it fair to comment on aspects I did not realise the first time?

Are there any online tools to calculate academic collaboration distance (i.e. a generalisation of the Erdős number)?

Why do academic journals usually have continuous page numbering?

Why does grade inflation seem to be so severe in the USA?

As a session chair, how to familiarise oneself with the pronunciation of speakers' names?

How does job security in academic untenured soft money positions compare with job security in industry?

What incentives do academics have to write text books?

Undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate student — is that Bachelor/Master/PhD or Bachelor/Master+PhD/postdoc?

How should a university deal with outsourced essay writing?

Is there any research on the prevalence of academic theft?

If tenured staff are virtually unsackable, why is the drive to find funding so strong?

What are the boundaries between draft, manuscript, preprint, paper, and article?

Is it appropriate and useful to inquire if an open position has an internal candidate?

Dealing with irresponsiveness from far-away scientists

Why are most universities reluctant to offer open-ended contracts to research-funded-staff (such as postdocs)?

Should bad prior work be ignored, or cited and criticised?

Is it self-plagiarism to reuse my own unpublished material?

How (un)usual is changing fields?

Are reviewers supposed to know each others' identity, after the reviewing process is finished?

Do research-only postdocs harm chances for tenure-track opportunities?

Why write papers anonymously?

Can UK PhD studentships legally effectively bar EU applicants by stating that “all eligible applicants must also have been resident in the UK”?

Why do Swedish postdoc ads typically have a requirement that PhD date must not be more than 5 years ago?

Are extended periods of unpaid leave compatible with an academic career?

How commonly do researchers spend a long time (>10) years on soft money?