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What's the point of PhD theses if nobody reads them?

phd thesis asked Feb 10, 2019 at 8:57

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In a yes/no question, a student gives the right answer and an unnecessary but wrong explanation. How to grade?

grading asked Jan 23, 2019 at 1:03

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Employees are gaming their performance metrics, instead of doing what's best for the company

work-environment performance competition asked Apr 9, 2018 at 2:02

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Why is peer review so random?

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Donating money to scientific research after my death

funding asked Feb 9, 2018 at 4:19

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Why do researchers need universities?

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Are results that are derived simply by using more computational power publishable?

publishability asked Nov 13, 2019 at 3:17

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How can I tell if I have simplified my talk too much?

presentation asked Oct 22, 2019 at 4:15

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How do some institutions attract so many female computer scientists?

computer-science gender asked Oct 19, 2018 at 7:13

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Why is COVID-19 prompting such wide scale action versus other infectious diseases?

healthcare covid-19-virus public-health asked Feb 5, 2020 at 3:03

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How can I deal with students who are not interested in the class but the credits?

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Why do students go for a PhD even when chances of getting academic jobs on its completion are slim?

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What should I do when my accepted paper is subsequently rejected?

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Two-thirds of my class colluded. Should I report them to the academic offences committee?

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I have stack-exchanged through my undergrad math program. Am I likely to succeed in mathematics PhD programs?

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Has NATO ever started a war?

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Two students having separate topics chose to use the same paper format

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Why is "Whataboutism" often criticized?

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I'm in a religious country, and my religious supervisor is praying. What should I do?

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Is it acceptable to use working hours to read general interest books?

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Where can I find a paper that has been cited multiple times but only ever appears as a citation?

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Can you share some screenshots of editor's control panels?

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How is it possible that [insert known crackpot] has articles published in Peer-Reviewed Journals?

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How are magnets held together, and why do they not explode?

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Why did UK quit Erasmus?

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What is the purpose of the “Comments only to the editors” section in peer reviews?

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What can I do with like-new, recent-edition textbooks that I'm not allowed to sell?

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Is it appropriate to ignore emails from a student asking obvious questions?

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Why does a collection of radioactive atoms show predictable behaviour while a single one is highly random?

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Journal published a paper, ignoring my objections as a referee

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Why is novelty mandatory for a Ph.D. degree?

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A journal editor has pretended my referee report actually came from two separate referees

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Why are journals telling me that my article is plagiarized even though I wrote it by myself?

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Why do some journal proofs insert dozens of typesetting mistakes?

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If space is a vacuum, how do stars form?

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Why is my paper "under review" if it contains no results?

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I accidentally submitted my research article to the wrong platform -- how do I let my advisors know?

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What if I made a mistake in a paper and now I got a minor revision?

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First-year PhD giving a talk among well-established researchers in the field

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Should I warn new/prospective PhD Student that supervisor is terrible?

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