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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for assistance, or question with a concrete answer, it's probably a discussion.

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Contesting a duplicate question: non-standard career path and two PhDs

(See this discussion for more info.) Which is another reason it is not suitable for our format, so I have left it closed also. …
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Looking for a general academic term on "technology trees" and related research and not sure ...

I agree it is off-topic for Academia. However, I think it is suitable for History of Science and Mathematics, but you should read their question guidance first. However, you are not the first to be in …
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What should we call our chat room

Let's go all Oxbridge and make it a Senior Common Room....
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Is the word "Bizarre" too loaded with negative meaning?

I find myself uncomfortable with the title of this question, but don't want to get into an edit war, and the question is at the moment both protected and close to closure: Is it bizarre that a profess …
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Spam attack on Academia Stack Exchange?

Not an answer but a bump. I guess some desperate academics must be taking loans from them, because they have come back. Obviously there are lucrative customers among us somewhere, because otherwise wh …
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I have just discovered that I can edit other users' posts! Is there anything I should know b...

Be aware of culturally different spellings and word usages It is well known that there are different, but correct, spellings for certain words. Examples are color and colour, behaviour and behavior, a …
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Should [courses] be a synonym of [coursework]?

In most of my teaching the term coursework refers to what would be called "homework" at grade school. It is a specific assignment created by the teacher that when completed contributes to the assignme …
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