Top new questions this week:
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I published a paper that received a bit of attention several years ago. A few months ago, I received an email from a student who expressed interest in my work. I don’t know her, she is not in the same …
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I am a Grad student and this is my first time as a TA, in a first-year undergraduate course. My concern is students that come to office hours completely unprepared, asking things that have already …
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My wife and I are international students planning on applying for PhD programs in the US (at nearby universities, post-bachelor’s, stat/AI/ML area). We would like to know how manageable it would be to …
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I was in a manuscript which was not accepted in the first journal. They resubmitted it to an other journal and left me out without telling me a word. They reproduced my data with the protocol I gave …
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I don’t understand where “reproducing results from other labs” fits into the running of a given research lab. (I’m not in academia, and I confess I only consider this function in the context …
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Top math grad programs in the U.S. will receive tons of applications from people with excellent grades in grad or advanced undergrad math classes, high math subject GRE scores, and some research. No …
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Once I published a few math papers which contained new ideas in a new direction. This was closely related to my usual field of interest, but went somewhat beyond it. It was not obvious to me how many …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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If I write a report and a whole paragraph is based on one source but not cited verbally it seems unnecessary to include the reference after every sentence: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur …
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I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned …
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Most of the textbooks I used during my undergraduate studies (outside north America) are International editions, so what is the difference between a national and an international edition of a book? …
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I am working on a honours thesis and have developed a Fortran library that I would like to cite in it. In some places they suggest to quote the documentation of the project but this is something I …
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I received a response about a manuscript I reviewed earlier, and the authors write about the reviewer (i.e., me) and his concerns. As a woman, I’m not so keen on this. Obviously this isn’t …
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It’s easy for me to find out salaries for tech-jobs but it seems Professor salaries are quite hush-hush. I really love to teach and would be more than willing to join academia. However, I may choose …
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I have to send my doctoral dissertation to the members of my committee and I wonder how I should write the email. It is not a question of inviting them to be on the committee (they have already agreed …
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Can you answer these questions?
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I get requested by 5 to 6 students every year to give a reccomendation for admission to graduate school. I find that the typical student applies to 6 to 8 universities. Most of the schools send a …
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I am a self taught developer, well… almost ready to publish my first android app. I haven’t been able to go to college since graduated from high school in 2020 because of political reasons. Covid …
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There is a PhD project I am interested in. This project is about computer vision in the biological area. The master degree they are looking for is ‘Photonics, (bio)physics or similar’. The machine …
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