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Should I share my horrible software?

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

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How to read papers without falling into a rabbit hole?

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Sex worker student offering her (lawful) services

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

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

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Apr 19 '16 at 17:46 Community♦ 1
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Postdoc overwhelmed by incomplete work

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Nov 5 '18 at 21:38 OBu 12.6k
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How can I convince graduate students in China to not copy/paste from the Internet into their research papers?

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

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

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

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Sep 13 '19 at 8:38 Community♦ 1
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Grant fraud, should I bust my PhD advisor?

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

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Why do many talented scientists write horrible software?

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

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Aug 12 '17 at 7:00 Wrzlprmft♦ 46.7k
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Appropriateness of dedicating my thesis to a Jewish mathematician who died in a concentration camp

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Mar 14 '18 at 5:59 Ben 24k
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Why do most people think it's a bad idea to read from slides?

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Sep 11 '16 at 18:19 fixer1234 131
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I slept with my advisor's daughter and she is blackmailing me now. What can I do?

phd advisor interpersonal-issues
Feb 10 '19 at 16:59 Community♦ 1
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Useful strategies for answering “dumb” questions in a talk?

conference job-search presentation seminars answering-questions
Apr 14 '20 at 22:54 Daniel R. Collins 25.2k
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Is publishing runnable code instead of pseudo code shunned?

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Mar 21 '20 at 18:38 Community♦ 1
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I am an editor for a lousy paper and I found a better algorithm than theirs. Must I share it with them?

publications peer-review ethics editors
Dec 4 '17 at 8:31 Tom Au 5,256
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Should I send professors money for illegally downloading their books? [closed]

ethics books intellectual-property
Sep 24 '19 at 21:05 einpoklum 33.8k
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How to supervise a bad PhD student

students supervision
Oct 25 '17 at 5:02 Community♦ 1
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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?

advisor united-states physics religious-issues
Nov 13 '15 at 4:29 Community♦ 1
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Fellow student asked question from take-home exam on Stack Exchange

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Jan 23 '18 at 18:47 Anonymous Coward 365
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Why do Americans care so much about recommendation letters?

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Jan 2 at 16:30 Ambicion 3,730
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What can I do when some people stole my master thesis work and published it as their own work?

thesis masters plagiarism
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Professor does not care about cheating, what should TA do?

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Why is peer review so random?

peer-review
Aug 20 '18 at 1:23 Keith 21
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What makes academic failure different from failure in another career?

academic-life emotional-responses
Apr 4 '19 at 14:29 Dirk 35.3k
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