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75 votes
8 answers
17k views

Is generic "thank you" email a waste of time in academia?

29 votes
9 answers
4k views

What is the de facto standard while writing equation in a short email to professors?

20 votes
4 answers
7k views

Is it normal that the editor says "the referee report is for editor's eye only so I cannot share it with you"?

17 votes
6 answers
6k views

Can I omit my department's name to express my dissenting opinions?

13 votes
2 answers
4k views

University promised to announce the application portfolios of the fellowship recipients, but now they choose to not to share

9 votes
5 answers
11k views

What is the meaning when the editor says a paper is "provocative"?

6 votes
0 answers
177 views

I don't want to disclose "other schools" in my application [duplicate]

4 votes
2 answers
373 views

Results published by others first in parallel. Is my work still publishable?

3 votes
2 answers
18k views

I submitted an assignment late. Should I email the professor to explain my situation?

2 votes
2 answers
261 views

In college and grad-school applications, will the information of self-identified sex information be shared among all reviewers?

2 votes
4 answers
1k views

What is the consequence on purposefully lying on grad-school application (town of birth)

2 votes
0 answers
255 views

Changing my lastname to A [duplicate]

1 vote
1 answer
169 views

Does the superseded version of a paper establish priority?

1 vote
1 answer
1k views

What should I list as my academic affiliation in scientific publishing?

1 vote
5 answers
2k views

Shall I contact multiple faculty members in one department?

0 votes
1 answer
33 views

What is the license for the data shared on Jounral of Political Economics

0 votes
1 answer
148 views

A course-based letter from a named professor or a research letter from a young no-name researcher?

0 votes
1 answer
87 views

Usefulness of prior PhD experience in USA PhD application

0 votes
1 answer
174 views

Shall I collaborate/email with a peer who've been taking contribution from others' working paper without properly citing?

0 votes
2 answers
188 views

How to deal with attacks focusing on minor points and subjective points in an academic debate/paper writing?

-5 votes
1 answer
955 views

Why do people say that elite schools are inflating grades? [closed]