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Not comfortable sharing original ideas with my advisor, yet I need to have them in my thesis. What to do?
I've had multiple experiences that made me suspect my advisor might be involved in academic misconduct, particularly by taking ideas from my drafts or inspirations and passing them to other PhD ...
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I worry that my advice to female academics will sound like platitudes
I'm a female academic in CS and I will be giving an interview thanks to the prestigious prize my research has received. Historically, this prize was very rarely won by women. I have received prompts ...
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Why do Indian researchers accept to publish in predatory journals?
Just out of curiosity. I happen to receive spam emails from obviously predatory journals and I usually just ignore them, but sometimes I check the home page of the journal to see what they publish. ...
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Used AI for brainstorming and revision, flagged by Turnitin for high AI use. Have I committed an academic honesty violation?
I wrote a short essay for a creative arts class. When I submitted it through Turnitin, it came back flagged for high AI use. Other detectors didn’t flag it nearly as high, so I thought I’d be fine. ...
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Is it normal that my phd supervisor raises new questions for me to revise every time after reviewing my manuscript?
I'm a PhD student in sociology. I'm approaching graduation and facing a lot of pressure to publish. Specifically, one of my manuscripts is already on its fourth revision. However, I've noticed that my ...
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How to prepare for a tough thesis defence?
My advisor is not available to help, so here I am asking for tips and advice to prepare for a thesis defence. One of the examiners has a reputation of being mean and egotistical .. he likes to ask ...
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Grade-grubbing students escalating to deans
I am a new faculty member in a health profession program. Our department is struggling: we have only 10 first-year students and are lucky to matriculate students with GPA > 2.5. We are on probation ...
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Feeling undeserving of co-authorship when my time investment is low
I always feel undeserving of (middle) co-authorship on papers that I helped my collaborators with, but to which I have contributed relatively little time. I feel like it's not right for me to co-...
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Can I publish a peer-review that I received on one of my proposals?
I am interested to understand if it is possible to publish a peer-review. I submitted a project for funding and received a peer-review which is fully anonymized. Since it is anonymized, I was ...
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My work is being read, but not used — what can I improve?
I am two years after getting my Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and so far in my career I've managed to have many publications in good journals. I always get excited with notifications that my past ...
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Is it acceptable to ask researchers working in industry to referee papers?
I am an editor of several academic journals. Occasionally it happens that when I am looking for potential referees of a paper, e.g. by looking at the authors of recent related papers and preprints, I ...
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Is it acceptable to accept a university job offer while waiting on a potential industry offer?
I am a senior researcher based in Country A. I recently received an offer for an associate professorship at a university in Country B. The offer followed a lengthy and difficult negotiation process, ...
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How do I prove my point to my supervisors? [closed]
Currently doing my masters program and also doing my research paper with two supervisors but often times we come into a clash with certain concepts. Recently, the results I generated matched the ...
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How do authors of scientific articles find the sources they use to create their work?
How do authors of articles and/or textbooks find their sources?
Do they use academic search engines like Google scholar?
What other steps are there in the process of finding sources?
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When writing a grant application, should I be concise, or max out my word count?
I'm writing my first grant application, and have received a lot of support from colleagues. Many of them have even sent me their successful applications from prior years.
One thing I've noticed is ...
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