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Joanna Bryson
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27 votes

Does academia have a lazy work culture?

25 votes

When should a supervisor be an author?

25 votes

Can college professors alter their grading scale to pass students? How often does this happen?

22 votes

How to become well-known in the research community while being a PhD student

21 votes

How do you get a bad transcript past Ph.D. admissions?

18 votes

Is it okay if a professor friends a student on social media sites?

18 votes

Being harassed by a department chair

17 votes

Is there an internet Git-like repository for collaboration on a paper?

16 votes

Being quoted for an incorrect statement

15 votes

How do universities deal with loss in productivity post tenure?

14 votes

Deferring admission to a computer science graduate program

14 votes

How can I prove my publication list is mine?

13 votes

Competition in department among professors

13 votes

Is web-presence important for researchers?

12 votes

How to deal with these so called "Minor revisions"?

11 votes

When is it appropriate to decline a review request?

11 votes

What do principal investigators (PIs) look for in prospective post docs?

10 votes

Why do universities have to spend money on journals?

10 votes

How to get the data to reproduce a published result?

10 votes

Is it advisable to underline some key points in a statement of purpose?

10 votes
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Is publishing a graduation requirement in many master's programs?

10 votes

Is it a good idea, for a young researcher, to submit to arXiv a "mediocre" paper?

9 votes
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Perils of making a PhD application merely to get funding

8 votes

current PhD applicant applying to another university

8 votes

Are overlapping dissertations ethically acceptable?

8 votes

Is using the description of an award as-is in a CV considered plagiarism?

7 votes

Setting exercises and assignments when everything is on the web

7 votes

How to handle not having my PhD advisor as a reference?

6 votes
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Do letters of recommendation typically include a biography of the writer?

6 votes

Why do a second PhD in a "neighboring" discipline?