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[ { "content": "In an interview right before receiving the 2013 Nobel prize in physics, Peter Higgs stated that he wouldn't be able to get an academic job today, because he wouldn't be regarded as productive enough. > By the time he retired in 1996, he was uncomfortable with the new academic culture. \"After I re...
[ { "content": "If any professor is reading this: please do not praise students keeping their presentations much longer than you said it should be because it covers more. It is unfair and an obvious sign of obliviousness. It is nonsense. Please. If you tell your students to keep their presentations at a certain l...
[ { "content": "After receiving an email from a sketchy journal soliciting submissions, a professor sent in a joke paper titled \"What's the Deal With Birds?\", which got published. Here's a small excerpt from the paper: > *Abstract:* Many people wonder: what’s the deal with birds? This is a common query. Birds ...
[ { "content": "How about we stop working for free? Just this month I was invited to review five new submissions from three different journals. I understand that we have an important role in improving the quality of science being published (specially during COVID times), but isn’t it unfair that we do all the wor...
[ { "content": "I flunked someone for plagiarism. I just discovered they hired a PI to investigate me. Does anyone have experience with this? I’m in a tenure track position in the social sciences at a school in the Midwest. Last semester, I flunked a student for plagiarizing part of a paper (it was a clear case o...
[ { "content": "Do you also happen to get sad because you simply will never have enough time to get the knowledge you want to? I was wondering if other people also get kind of sad because it is simply impossible to have enough time to learn everything you actually wanted to learn by a certain age/stage in life. L...
[ { "content": "Why did I pursue a PhD if it has not led to any opportunities? I’m feeling pretty down at the moment. I’ve been applying to TT jobs for a few years and have gotten no luck. I received my PhD from an average state school in 2015 and have had two relatively fruitful postdocs the last 5 years. I’ve p...
[ { "content": "My prediction for the Fall semester 2020. Might play out like this: https://imgur.com/IVt9EiJ", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "I currently teach high school... We plan to be open face to face, once a kid gets COVID we're out for a week and anyone who was in cl...
[ { "content": "What to do about a situation where my professor wrote a negative letter of rec for grad school? I am in the US, and applying to graduate school. I was a research assistant for this particular professor and ran a club that she was the advisor to. I did not struggle in her class or other class revol...
[ { "content": "Your name was mentioned in a paper recently found by Academia! Dear Academia.edu, no one is mentioning my name in any papers. Please stop.", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "I get frequent notices for some paleontologist with whom I share a name, despite my being ...
[ { "content": "MY FIRST PAPER WAS ACCEPTED!! The good news keep on coming! My sole-author paper was accepted. I will be published as an undergrad!", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "Published as an undergrad in a non-undergrad publication? That's pretty nuts congrats!", "do_...
[ { "content": "When you get home today, don't forget to kiss your spouse and say thank you. I see this particularly in STEM researchers; it's a thing for you apparently. I'm a spouse working in the private sector. We, along with your children, get a bit tired of not seeing you much. And I cannot understand how t...
[ { "content": "Does anybody feel like academic publication pressure is becoming unsustainable? I am becoming very frustrated with the publication culture in my field. Becoming an expert takes a long time and so is making a valuable contribution to the literature. However, publication pressure is turning many co...
[ { "content": "Have you been getting these emails from your ever-supportive senior administrators? Dear loyal workers of Flailing University, First off, let me start by making a distracting comment about how odd the situation feels and sharing what I think are some uncanny observations about “these times.” Nex...
[ { "content": "So much effort about encouraging young people to do science, what about creating more jobs in academia? I am watching this increasing trend of scientists encouraging youngsters to become scientists for the last couple of years. However, whenever I visit the r/AskAcademia subreddit, I find some pos...
[ { "content": "Is misogyny the only problem with the WSJ op-ed on asking Jill Biden to not use 'Dr.'? Edit: I do not often post. And looking at the options for flairs, I have a feeling this might not be the right subreddit for this. I apologize if that's the case. So recently there has been a furore over the op...
[ { "content": "My fiancée passed away on the 1st and she was going to come to my PhD program with me. Is deferment bad? I'm at a loss and I don't know what I should do anymore. I got into my dream PhD program in January and my fiancée and I were making our plans to move there soon. However, my fiancée passed awa...
[ { "content": "Successfully defended PhD yesterday. COVID-positive today. So much to do to submit this paper, but I feel like death. Any advice?", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "I hope you recover quickly, Dr. Barnacle.", "do_train": true, "role": "Assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Successful defense! Today I defended my PhD dissertation, and it was accepted by committee with revisions. I'm so relieved I could cry. I'm so glad this stage is over. To be honest, I had been worried the pandemic was going to affect my defense process negatively, and I'm so relieved it's done wit...
[ { "content": "I just passed my Qualifying Exam. I’m officially a Ph.D Candidate!! As many of us, I’ve had imposter syndrome since I started grad school. Until my exam, I honestly thought I would fail my QE as I really didn’t belong and didn’t think I knew enough. I thought they would hate my proposal and rip it...
[ { "content": "Just wanted to say thank you. I'd read several times on here that the best way to gain access to most papers is to ask the author directly. I tried it yesterday and it worked. Not only was the author happy to send me her paper, she also sent me another related paper of hers and offered to send me ...
[ { "content": "Does anyone else get really sleepy about 20 minutes into any Zoom call? I find it's impossible for me to stay alert during colloquiums or presentations, and sometimes even for more dynamic conversations where I'm actually participating, for more than about 20 minutes into a video call. I feel like...
[ { "content": "People who write scientific research papers quickly, what’s your secret? For academic research papers, what are your best tips and tricks for being both efficient and doing high quality work? What order do you write the paper in, and how do you keep from going off on too many tangents? How do you ...
[ { "content": "If I have 6 hours of Zoom meetings everyday, can I really be expected to get anything else done? Postdoc in STEM completely overburdened with meetings at the moment. I'm (co-)supervising 15 student projects, spanning the bachelor to PhD level with students in 4 different countries, on top of which...
[ { "content": "For us average people in academia: When in your academic career did you realize that you weren't going to be a star and what prompted it? Now, if you are a star in your field or are on track to be one, congratulations! But this question isn't for you. I've spent my entire academic career at \"hig...
[ { "content": "PhD defense in a few hours Just getting this off my chest. I'll defend in a few hours and genuinely think there is a big probability that I will fail. My thesis is an embarrassment to myself, my PI, and the field. Data is limited, analysis is very simple, conclusions are unclear. I could train a ...
[ { "content": "How do you turn off the “academic” portion of your brain and just be a normal person? I’m always “on” and it’s not helping my relationships. Or is this just an occupational hazard?", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "I just had a major surgery and the medication th...
[ { "content": "How to be happy for getting accepted in PhD when it seems like family and friends can't relate? Hi guys, So I'm a first year phD in the Social Sciences and I've been struggling to be happy for myself and celebrate my accomplishments without the enthusiastic support of my family and some friends? ...
[ { "content": "Anyone so frustrated they literally start to cry? I am so frustrated with my self for not being able to focus on my online assignments that I literally feel like i’m going to cry. my house is loud and i can’t find anywhere where it’s completely silent even with noise cancelling headphones. i have ...
[ { "content": "Thank you all I finished my PhD in spring of 2020 and stayed at my university in a different lab as a post doc. The new lab is awesome and I was happy there, even in a pandemic. But, I’m happy to say that I’ve accepted an TT assistant professor job in my dream city at a great school for this fall ...
[ { "content": "Do you think that life would be easier if there was just one universally accepted citation style? I know it sounds a rhetorical question. But as a TA, I have noticed that students in my institution often have a very difficult time with correct citation style. My class follows APA. Somehow, even wi...
[ { "content": "My work just got published, it's my first publication What are the things I should do? I've already created a Google Scholar Profile.", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "Congratulations! Some things to consider: * Create an orcid profile. * Check your university'...
[ { "content": "Posting grades back in the '90s Thinking back to when I was in undergrad (early '90s). You would be in a big lecture course, and after an exam the prof would post everyone's grades on the wall outside the classroom so you could walk up and see what you got. (Not everyone had e-mail yet, and course...
[ { "content": "Postdocs under pressure: long hours and a lack of job security, combined with workplace bullying and discrimination, are forcing many to consider leaving science, finds Nature’s inaugural survey of postdoctoral researchers. There is a lot of relevant information here for people in various stages o...
[ { "content": "New research suggests that metrics that are used to measure academic success, such as the number of publications, number of citations, and impact factor, have become targets and follow Goodhart’s Law, according to which, “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” The origin...
[ { "content": "Redditors who work in academia, how much free time do you get for your hobbies, exercising, etc.? How is the work-life balance for you? How would you rate your happiness? Do you think you earn enough for your efforts? From a curious teenager who is contemplating being in academia when I grow up 🙂...
[ { "content": "I feel like an asshole asking, but is it wrong to feel like I shouldn't get MORE work than my colleagues with children just because I haven't got children yet? I feel like a complete asshole asking this, as I know it's an emergency situation and the normal rules go out the window. I'm a lecture...
[ { "content": "What are the wildest hijinks you never though you’d have to write a syllabus disclaimer about (and yet here we are)? This morning I woke up to an email from a top journal in my field confirming my submission. I definitely did not submit anything there. Eventually I realized that instead of submitt...
[ { "content": "Are you expected to work 60-70 hours a week in the academia? This is part rant and part question. I had an introductory meeting with about 15-16 other PhD students who had just started and the session included a question answer session with professors where anonymous questions could be asked. One ...
[ { "content": "Female Grad Student in Engineering having Challenges working with Men I’m noticing this pattern where I get sidelined by men who take over something I was working on, or male colleagues opening talking down to me in front of our superiors, or even the male students that I TA blaming their mista...
[ { "content": "The university that I teach at (NYU) has gone remote because of the coronivirus. I teach two classes of over 100 students and give multiple choice exams. Is there any possible way to stop them from cheating on the exams?", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "You can'...
[ { "content": "What are some of the more absurd journal article titles you're come across? Having recently come across \"The hitchhikers guide to flow chemistry\" and \"Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?\" journal articles, I was quite amused by them. What are some other art...
[ { "content": "What is the strangest thing that happened to you during your PhD? Here is mine. I spent three months abroad at a laboratory in Spain. The experiments required that I was there on the weekends. I only spoke a little Spanish and on weekends the university was practically empty except security, so I...
[ { "content": "Is academia so competitive now that it's pointless to try if you aren't exceptional/remarkable? People will suggest to major in engineering instead of physics or mathematics due to academia being so extremely competitive. Has it reached a point to where if you're not, say, winning math olympiads d...
[ { "content": "Why is academia so TOXIC? As title.", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "So a lot of the answers here are \"competition\" but the situations in which I have seen toxicity are generally not about people stabbing each other in the back or being resentful over the jobs...
[ { "content": "Academia made me forget how to read, need advice This is my 3rd year working in a research lab (am STEM grad student). I've downloaded and read/skimmed at least 200 papers on my research topic (or related topics) at this point. But I think there's something seriously wrong with me - I can't seem...
[ { "content": "Serious question - do admins really think people are excited to read their regular 20 paragraph emails? Because I rarely get one that has useful info. Why is this a thing? No, I don't care what you think about \"mental health awareness\" when you provide nothing to support it. No, I don't care wha...
[ { "content": "Does the feeling of “the more you learn the more you know you don’t know anything” ever end? Not sure if this has been asked before but it’s getting to my head, the more I study the more I feel behind or as an imposter..what are your stories/reflections on this", "do_train": false, "role":...
[ { "content": "Is it emotionally valid to steer away from academia due to its lack of empathy and compassion? I'm a graduating student in the university and it was my dream to become a professor and a researcher one day since our country lacks them. It was always the statement of our country's Department of Scie...
[ { "content": "I have a TT position - thanks, I hate it I am about 1 year into a TT position in chemical engineering and I feel so bad about myself. How does anyone have the resilience to stay in this job? Of course I was rejected by every grant I applied for (5), but it’s more than that. Nothing good happened,...
[ { "content": "What do academics in humanities and social sciences wish their colleagues in STEM knew? Pretty much the title, I'm not sure if I used the right flair. People in humanities and social sciences seem to find opportunities to work together/learn from each other more than with STEM, so I'm grouping t...
[ { "content": "Anyone else depressed about defending their thesis online because of COVID? For YEARS, basically since I started my PhD, I have been dreaming about my thesis defense. I was going to invite all my friends and family and have a giant party afterwards. I have been working so hard for months now and I...
[ { "content": "Why are American public universities run like businesses? In the US, many universities are public in that they're theoretically owned and operated by the government. Why is it then that they're allowed to set their own policy, salaries, hunt for alumni donations, build massive sports complexes, an...
[ { "content": "Accidentally outed a top student During lecture yesterday I was engaging with students and accidentally let slip that one of the students that answered a question had a perfect score on the midterm. Instant regret - but I can’t take that back obviously. I feel like I should write the student an em...
[ { "content": "Do professors appreciate simple email replies such as just a \"thank you\"? On one hand I would assume sending a quick \"thank you\" or a one-sentence appreciation would be polite. On the other hand I wonder if this would be annoying as it just clutters up your email more. So are there any guidel...
[ { "content": "How do you switch off your brain and resist the constant urge to be productive in your free time? For context, I recently finished a PhD in a subject I absolutely love and my graduate studies went really well, but I am frustrated with the academic lifestyle and moving to industry. But all those ye...
[ { "content": "How do I cite a transgender author's name Hi, everyone! I am trying to cite an old article by an author who has since come out as transgender and changed their name. Do I cite the text using the name which appears on it (essentially deadnaming them), or do I use their new name? I feel like th...
[ { "content": "Just got my PhD. Now what? It all feels less spectacular than it should. I loved my field when I decided to pursue a PhD. And then I started getting worn out. I dropped out because I was having too much trouble working with other graduate students. I found a job in the field, and seeing how my p...
[ { "content": "I just saw an advertisement embedded as the first page of a journal article PDF 😡 This made me grumpy. The journal is not an open access so my institution gets to pay for the pleasure of me seeing ads. Thanks Wiley!", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "I've never s...
[ { "content": "TA dealing with a condescending student Hi all, Have any of you had to deal with a condescending student? How did you deal with it (or did you?)? I (30F) have a student (19M) this semester who emails me frequently with questions that have always seemed to insinuate that I didn't know what I wa...
[ { "content": "Did you buy yourselves a nice gift when you defended your PhD? I was talking to a fellow grad student recently and she told me she’s been planning to buy herself a really nice pair of shoes when she defends, as a gift to herself for making it through. I defend in a little over a month and I can’t ...
[ { "content": "Why do professors feel the need to tell students they aren't cut out for certain careers or them to pursue something else? I know it's not all professors, but why do some professors feel the need to destroy students passions by telling them to drop the majors/minors? From personal experience I've ...
[ { "content": "There are so many people complaining about academia, being overworked and underpaid, not having work-life balance,... Why do people actually want to work in academia? I left academia 5 yrs ago, after 2 postdocs. I loved my research but wasn't interested that much in teaching, so I didn't really tr...
[ { "content": "Are those of you on the US job market worried about job prospects post Roe v Wade? I'm a young (28 yo) woman currently in a VAP position and a year out from my PhD. I'll be hitting the job market hard again this Fall with the hopes of landing a TT job. But I can't help but feel like my options wil...
[ { "content": "Editor is \"strongly\" encouraging me to cote his papers. I received my review comments for a recent manuscript. The comments were addressable, but the editor sent a LIST of 15 of his papers asking to cite them. Some of the papers are somewhat relevant, so I cite 4 of them. The manuscript came bac...
[ { "content": "I notice a lot of things are different between USA academia and \"rest of the world\" academia. Should we split up askacademia? Or make a rule that you have to specify country with each question? Gets confusing otherwise. In true academia fashion we should not endeavour to improve anything and lea...
[ { "content": "How to tell a struggling PhD student who wants to stay in academia that it's time to look for other jobs? I have a PhD student who is finishing this year who ended this job round with no postdoc offers. It's not completely surprising, unfortunately. The student, let's call them P, has had 4 years ...
[ { "content": "Bad news Hey everyone I went to the Dr a few days ago and she found a mass on my humerus. She was reluctant to officially diagnose but it seems that it is osteosarcoma. I was wondering if this is something I should tell my grad advisor. I’m hesitant because I’m afraid she might tell me to quit to...
[ { "content": "What obscure skill have you picked up as a grad student/academic? I'm doing a biology PhD, and know exactly how to empty a mortar of powdered plant material suspended in liquid nitrogen into a tiny vial without it exploding (easier said than done), an obscure \"skill\" I've picked up doing hundred...
[ { "content": "Do you think research results in STEM should be published regardless of negative or positive conclusions? Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Exeter believe that publishing scientific articles is not an end unto itself. In a recent opinion piece, they state ...
[ { "content": "I think I've just failed my PhD This is kind of my open letter to academia... My PhD was tough. It started really well, full UK scholarship, amazing project, and enthusiasm to do amazing research and follow the dream career. Then something happened. Can't pinpoint where or when, but my mental h...
[ { "content": "Have you ever seen anyone fail a PhD Defense? Per the title. I defend my dissertation in a few days, and I feel like my defense is shaping up to be very... Unimpressive for a variety of reasons. My committee gave me the green light to look for jobs and write a dissertation. I turned in the documen...
[ { "content": "If you could start your PhD life from scratch, what one thing would you do differently? Hindsight hour!", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "1. Start therapy. Mental health is the most important thing and imo the best determinant of success in grad school and in lif...
[ { "content": "People who hire faculty and postdocs, out of the “200 applicants for 1 position” how many were never serious contenders to begin with? And the ones who aren’t serious contenders, what tends to disqualify them? Wrong subfield? Wrong field entirely? Not enough pubs? Low rank university?", "do_tr...
[ { "content": "What secret unspoken reasons did your hiring committee choose one candidate over another? Grant writing potential? Color of skin? Length of responses? Interview just a formality so the nepotism isn't as obvious? We all know it exists, but perhaps not specifically. Any details you'd like to share ...
[ { "content": "Is it normal to become more convinced your discipline is detached from practical reality the more you study it? I know this might read as a trollish post, but I *promise* I'm serious. So, I'm currently halfway through my Adv. MSc. International Relations & Diplomacy, and while my undergrad was a ...
[ { "content": "Just saw that the research paper I have been working on for a year is published by someone else. Whats should I do? I have been told to post on this subreddit. Looking for advice on what should be the best course of action and if any one ever faced this issue I would like to learn from their exper...
[ { "content": "Discussing Stagnant PhD Stipends I've been talking with my fellow PhD students recently about grad student pay, specifically why its viewed as normal to be so much less than minimum wage. We are at a supposedly top-tier Canadian research university in a city where the official poverty line is now ...
[ { "content": "UPDATE: LWIFU. How did I recover? (Translation: Last Week I Fucked Up.) I posted this last week and got a ton of good advice, and some requests for an update. Long story short, I \"met\" (remotely) with my PI and some muckety-mucks from my graduate program, and it was painfully awkward but ultim...
[ { "content": "Got my PhD almost a year ago, struggling to find a job. Hey /r/AskAcademia , Australian PhD graduate here. My doctorate was (broadly) in risk communication and natural hazards research. I started when I was 23 straight after undergrad and was awarded last year at 29. I worked as a sessional/casua...
[ { "content": "Those of you who don't fit into the typical profile of someone in your area of study, have you had others show skepticism about your knowledge or abilities due to your age, race, gender, etc? One of my friends from undergraduate is a super bubbly blonde girly girl (think Reese Witherspoon from Leg...
[ { "content": "Stock phrases to answer talk questions Just met with a graduate student who was concerned that a recent talk had been derailed by a persistent questioner. I told them that question management is a skill that develops over time, but also provided a few stock phrases that can be used to deflect ques...
[ { "content": "Conducted my first lecture today. It did not go well I’m a TA and this term I am conducting classes for one of the intro lectures for first years. It’s like a general knowledge module on my country (so we cover history, econ, politics etc). I had my first independent lecture today on a topic I’m...
[ { "content": "Why am I slacking off days even in my post-PhD life? Background: I recently received my PhD (30F). I worked very hard to secure a good postdoc fellowship during my PhD. Now that I am here, I am finding myself in some patterns and old habits of slacking off that I am quite alarmed by. During grad...
[ { "content": "Do you ever feel \"reviewer's guilt\"? Recently reviewed a paper and couldn't help but give it a very critical review with a recommendation to the editor to reject. I gave a very detailed review with both specific and general comments, and tried to write something constructive. I can't help but e...
[ { "content": "My advisor might be dying and I don't know what to do. I'm a 4th year PhD student in the natural sciences, USA. I'm trying to be vague for privacy reasons; if you need clarification, please ask. My advisor's health took a turn for the worse in May. He's not doing well. We're a very small group...
[ { "content": "Should I Speak up About Homophobia in Research Center? **I am a gay graduate student who's part of an NSF research center in the hard sciences. An external evaluator is polling members about the center's climate to send to the administrators and to the NSF. I've been on the receiving end of homo...
[ { "content": "Trying to change toxicity in Academia Hello all. Myself and a group of faculty and students are trying to get together a group of signatures from faculty, postdocs and trainees in multiple institutions in the USA. Our goal is to ask NIH to make public the names of PIs that have been found guilty...
[ { "content": "Accessing Elsevier papers First of all: F**k you Elsevier, for making contributions and most importantly access to science damn expensive, especially for the students (such as me) that really need these papers. This leads me directly to my question: Unfortunately in my field a lot of relevant pa...
[ { "content": "Do you find that many people in academia have \"tunnel vision\" where they are excessively preoccupied with their field of study and that critical thinking doesn't transfer to other domains? It would appear at first glance that the skills of reading a technical paper and logically critiquing it wo...
[ { "content": "Why has college become so expensive over the last 40 years? How and why could the price of attending college rise over 5x the rate of inflation- where does all the money go? What’s changed between now and then in the university business model?", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { ...
[ { "content": "How do you handle unsupportive parents? Hello! I'm a microbiologist who's about to begin my PhD next fall (yay!). I've had a very successful undergraduate career, including working on science outreach. My parents always act/say that they are ~so proud of me~ but their actions state otherwise. I've...
[ { "content": "What are some websites every researcher should know? I wanted to actually ask how popular and useful are websites like ResearchGate and Academia, but just wondering what are some social websites you recommend every researcher should know. Thanks.", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, ...
[ { "content": "Do you get jealous of people who study what you don't? I am a doctoral student studying climate change. I know academicians aren't supposed to be experts on all topics out there. Although, I have this constant thought in the back of my head that it's sad that I don't know topics such as machine le...
[ { "content": "The 'Other' College Scandal: Grade Inflation Has Turned Transcripts into Monopoly Money Article link here (Forbes) ​ From the article: \"Consider these facts: A 50-plus-year nationwide study of the history of college grading finds that, in the early 1960s, an A grade was awarded in colle...
[ { "content": "Which research paper do you think was the funniest you've ever read? I'm just taking a day off of everything.", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "The one where the biologist invents numerical integration.", "do_train": true, "role": "Assistant" } ]
[ { "content": "Why is academia such a hated field? I've never seen another field (except law, perhaps) where the people involved despise their own field of work so much. This sub is itself filled with tons of discouraging posts. \"It pays peanuts\", \"work hours are inhuman\", etc. Even profs themselves are like...
[ { "content": "do people really read all the papers they cite? or do they just read the abstracts? or do they just read someone elses’ literature review and cite what they said about the paper?", "do_train": false, "role": "User" }, { "content": "Sometimes I only read parts of it that is relevant...
[ { "content": "Tackling misogyny as a female PhD researcher How to tackle misogyny from senior white male Professors, as a female PhD student who is about to defend her thesis? The comments range from passing crude comments on my nation of origin and criticizing my computational skills on a course (without any f...
[ { "content": "What is your 'favorite' academic jargon? From my grad advisor years back: 'Not to be pedantic' then followed by something that is either common knowledge or incredibly obscure. Field specific jargon that even most people that have been researching the topic for decades don't even know.", "do...
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