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Is it ethical to ask students to proofread a textbook?

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Is it ethical to make an anonymous referee realize we know who he is?

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Advised to decline co-authorship on prior work

answered Dec 17, 2022 at 12:59

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Question to professor one week before an exam (as a mathematician)

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What if I made a mistake in a paper and now I got a minor revision?

answered Apr 13, 2022 at 11:58

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Finding a PhD supervisor as an experienced professional working outside of academia

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How can I use parentheses when there are math parentheses inside?

answered Jul 20, 2022 at 8:02

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My interview went well but at the end the interviewer said "All the best for your future endeavours". What does it mean?

answered Sep 4, 2021 at 19:54

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Avoiding conferences: Potential effects on an academic career and mitigation strategies

answered Nov 21, 2021 at 21:14

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What should I do when someone publishes a paper based on results I already posted on the internet?

answered Jul 20, 2022 at 7:34

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What to do when a result is essentially proven but not stated in an existing publication?

answered Sep 19 at 9:04

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I got the same referee report from two different journals

answered Jul 5, 2022 at 15:34

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Are "short bios" at the end of a letter of recommendation the new thing?

answered Nov 23, 2021 at 14:01

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What is the best way to deal with cranks?

answered Jun 7, 2022 at 8:04

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PhD student pressured to fabricate data due to bad experiment design

answered May 25, 2022 at 7:38

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Is there a point in pursuing a PhD outside of top universities?

answered Dec 23, 2021 at 15:42

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My PhD advisor is proposing an unfashionable topic

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How can I recover the lost time in my career?

answered Jun 27, 2022 at 8:32

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How can I appeal an apparently unethical decision to take down a job posting early?

answered Oct 29 at 10:23

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Student continuously makes insulting comments during my lecture - how do I handle him?

answered Dec 20, 2022 at 10:59

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Is my potential phd supervisor ethical?

answered Aug 23 at 6:39

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Industry job right after PhD: will it affect my chances for a postdoc in the future?

answered Aug 2, 2022 at 8:55

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How to answer 'Is your research going to be in biology text books one day?' question during faculty interview?

answered Sep 4 at 14:14

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Are niche topic textbooks normally published by vanity presses or traditional ones?

answered Jul 20, 2022 at 7:50

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Possibility to use PhD Thesis work in another university

answered Dec 7, 2022 at 9:59

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Should I omit some of my qualifications in my application materials to "surprise" with during an interview?

answered Apr 13, 2022 at 8:54

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Is it worthless to cite a paper as X et al. when X is not first author but performed the work?

answered Jun 7, 2022 at 8:23

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Is it ethical to assign problem sets and not tell students which subset of problems will be graded?

answered Apr 14, 2022 at 16:59

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Falsely Accused of Cheating on a College Final

answered Nov 21, 2021 at 10:03

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Head of the department said statistics exams must be done without software, otherwise it's cheating. What can I do as a lecturer?

answered Nov 21, 2021 at 8:52

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Is it ethical to ask students to proofread a textbook?

Is it ethical to make an anonymous referee realize we know who he is?

Advised to decline co-authorship on prior work

Question to professor one week before an exam (as a mathematician)

What if I made a mistake in a paper and now I got a minor revision?

Finding a PhD supervisor as an experienced professional working outside of academia

How can I use parentheses when there are math parentheses inside?

My interview went well but at the end the interviewer said "All the best for your future endeavours". What does it mean?

Avoiding conferences: Potential effects on an academic career and mitigation strategies

What should I do when someone publishes a paper based on results I already posted on the internet?

What to do when a result is essentially proven but not stated in an existing publication?

I got the same referee report from two different journals

Are "short bios" at the end of a letter of recommendation the new thing?

What is the best way to deal with cranks?

PhD student pressured to fabricate data due to bad experiment design

Is there a point in pursuing a PhD outside of top universities?

My PhD advisor is proposing an unfashionable topic

How can I recover the lost time in my career?

How can I appeal an apparently unethical decision to take down a job posting early?

Student continuously makes insulting comments during my lecture - how do I handle him?

Is my potential phd supervisor ethical?

Industry job right after PhD: will it affect my chances for a postdoc in the future?

How to answer 'Is your research going to be in biology text books one day?' question during faculty interview?

Are niche topic textbooks normally published by vanity presses or traditional ones?

Possibility to use PhD Thesis work in another university

Should I omit some of my qualifications in my application materials to "surprise" with during an interview?

Is it worthless to cite a paper as X et al. when X is not first author but performed the work?

Is it ethical to assign problem sets and not tell students which subset of problems will be graded?

Falsely Accused of Cheating on a College Final

Head of the department said statistics exams must be done without software, otherwise it's cheating. What can I do as a lecturer?