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Should I share my horrible software?

A paper I received to review has (independently) duplicated work that we are writing up. How to proceed in light of peer-review confidentiality?

How to read papers without falling into a rabbit hole?

Sex worker student offering her (lawful) services

Professor creates assignment making students advocate for a bill being presented to Congress. Is this legal?

Have I embarassed my supervisors by solving a problem that a PhD student in my group was working on without success?

Postdoc overwhelmed by incomplete work

How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?

How to stop hopping the learning chain and actually begin somewhere?

Quoting a typo: Do I really have to do “sic”, or can I just fix the sentence?

My research paper filed as a patent in China by my Chinese supervisor without me as inventor

Grant fraud, should I bust my PhD advisor?

Do I have the legal right to demand information on plagiarism of my work from another university?

Why do many talented scientists write horrible software?

What to do about questions that are designed to embarrass the speaker?

Appropriateness of dedicating my thesis to a Jewish mathematician who died in a concentration camp

Why do most people think it's a bad idea to read from slides?

I slept with my advisor's daughter and she is blackmailing me now. What can I do?

Useful strategies for answering “dumb” questions in a talk?

Is publishing runnable code instead of pseudo code shunned?

I am an editor for a lousy paper and I found a better algorithm than theirs. Must I share it with them?

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How to supervise a bad PhD student

What should I do after advisor got upset when I expressed “belief in evolution” and then said he couldn't add me to his research team?

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