Top new questions this week:
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For many years one of the main problems for academic essays and BA/MA/PhD theses was plagiarism. However with the recent advent of artificial intelligence (AI) that can write high quality texts (e.g. …
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I teach in a small college and one student seems to have an obsessive need to make comments aloud during class. Sometimes those comments are funny (he is the class clown) but sometimes they feel …
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I left academia years ago and am self-employed, but haven’t stopped refereeing papers for one of the journals I published a few papers in. Now I’ve been informed by the editors that I’ve been selected …
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I am a final year PhD student, in the process of writing the thesis and submitting the manuscripts of my work done. Unfortunately, the work-environment in my lab was quite toxic, with several bullying-…
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I am a first-year PhD student in computer science and caught in a political dilemma. My master thesis project was supervised by a researcher at my university, let us call him Dr. Anderson. There is …
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I am currently reading the following Ethnic and Racial Studies article from 2018: Marino (2018): Ethnic identity and race: the “double absence” and its legacy across generations among Australians of …
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I am unsure about how to capitalize the title of my dissertation. In my case, I am wondering about “testing” and “empirical”: Four Essays on the empirical testing of the …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Let’s start with background: I’m European, don’t know much about undergrad educational systems, and especially grading, outside my own area. So, I receive a CV from an Indian undergrad with the …
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I’m a third-year PhD student at a university in the Netherlands. The program is normally four years but students finish averagely in 4.5 years. By the end of each year we have progress evaluation. The …
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I’m applying to a BS/MS program and I’m gathering recommendations. I’m an international student from China and I was transferred to my current college last year. Two weeks ago, I went to see my …
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I applied for several postdoc positions recently. One made an offer which I accepted. Since then I’ve been invited for an interview for one of the other positions. Is there any benefit to attending? …
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Inspired by this question, I have a similar but somehow different problem. I recently assumed a tenure-track position. One of my strategies for a visible start is to have a strong presence in social …
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This is in reference to my question: How to do a PhD to equip myself for a job as assistant professor. I was told in the answer of the above linked question that chances of landing a job as an …
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I am applying for a PhD programme in Europe. For that I need to write a cover letter. It will be more like a SOP (technical but shorter version, as it’s one page) or it can be more general stuff, as …
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I’ve been asked to upload these reports in the admissions form but both of them combined mention names of several of the US math grad schools I’m applying to for Fall 2023. I’ve read in other posts …
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(I am not sure if this is an academia question. So feel free to flag/take it down if this is not the right forum to ask) My question is specific to the context of Computer Science/Computer Engineering …
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When I perform the search “ND27760” in GS, it does not find this paper from the NIH PMC free collection which cites that term in the text. Here is one possible explanation. If I search GS …
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