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What is the purpose of asking whether a prospective grad student would attend the program in the absence of financial aid?
I need financial support to join a specific university. There is a question in the Master's application that says "Will you be willing to join the program even if you didn't receive financial aid? "
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Do EPSRC-like Centres for Doctoral Training exist outside the UK?
I'm looking into starting a doctorate next Autumn and am currently exploring my options. I really like the program style of EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training which started sprouting around British ...
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Make Google Scholar re-identify a paper's citations
A few weeks ago, Google Scholar asked if I wanted to update the title of my thesis (the publication website and the document itself had different titles for some unknown reason). I accepted the ...
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What do these European Commission open access rules mean and how do they translate in practical terms?
My institution has received funding from the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program. In regards to publishing peer-reviewed articles the grant agreement states that:
The beneficiaries ...
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Potential Plagiarism by a reviewer (that we recommended to PC chair)
I recently submitted a paper to a conference and received four positive reviews and one negative review. The negative reviewer did not want any discussion on the paper, so we contacted the program ...
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PhD supervision numbers by discipline
My faculty imposes some numerical "recommendations" for promotions. Instead of arguing this sort of recommendation is ridiculous, I think it is wiser to provide some evidence the recommended ...
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IEEE submission vs ArXiv Version with missing IEEE-statement
I've just got and corrected my revised paper. I submitted the revision to IEEE and I uploaded a newer version to ArXiv. BUT I made a mistake and the IEEE-disclaimer statement was regretfully missing ...
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How to approach "potential benefits to society of proposed research" question on a grant application for a pure math project?
I have been writing a grant proposal, where it is based in the UK. I almost did most of the application, but I have no idea for the following parts:
Benefits of Overseas Country: Describe any ...
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What to do if a postdoc I just started has practically no opportunities for self-directed research?
During the interview for a postdoc position, I was given the impression that there will be various opportunities to get involved in research other than the main job description of the postdoc, and ...
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Research assistant in Germany. When is it possible to switch projects
I am a research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in Germany in a BMBF funded project. I just got an offer to join a project that has a longer runtime than my current project and offers more ...
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What is the conventional way of presenting combinations of things in a table?
For a paper I am writing, I need to name several combinations of things (specifically, certain combinations of mathematical equations/inequalities that impose specific constraints on certain variables)...
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Professor submitted my letter of recommendation after I removed him
I had sent a reminder to the professor for submitting my letter of recommendation about two days before the deadline, but he didn't reply to me. He was highly unresponsive after initially agreeing. As ...
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Do APA article titles that include the title of a book italicize the book title within the article title?
I have an APA question that I cannot seem to find a clear answer to within the APA 7th edition Style guide. When citing the title of an article of an article whose title includes the title of a ...
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How do I bulk export results (to .ris or .csv file) when searching on OSF preprints?
I would like to include OSF preprints as a source of grey literature for my ongoing systematic review. I did a simplified search on OSF preprints and it generated 10,000+ results. I would like to ...
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Ethical guidelines for using uncensored photos of individuals in global health presentations
I have attended numerous global health meetings and conferences where I've observed scientists sharing uncensored photos of individuals, often from Africa and Asia, in their presentation slides. These ...
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