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I need help adapting my academic workflow to the COVID-19/coronavirus crisis – where do I start?
Remote teaching, studying, and exams
General and Other
Tips for transition to online classrooms given university shutdowns in response to COVID-19
How to get students to use the course forum?
What ...
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Why was my question put on hold for shopping?
What exactly is a shopping question?
A shopping question is a question that appears to seek help choosing, finding or assessing
an individual journal,
an individual publisher,
an individual ...
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Why do the moderators move comments to chat and how should I behave afterwards?
The mechanics of moving comments to chat
If a post received twenty comments in three days, an automatic moderator flag is raised.
Moderators can move comments to chat only once. After this, they can ...
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Automatically generated text is banned on Academia.SE
Policy: Questions, answers, and comments may not be auto-generated on Academia.SE.
While the technology is impressive, these answers are not based on references or personal expertise in academia. ...
cag51Mod
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Policy against questions making allegations against named individuals or organisations
As Anonymous Physicist pointed out, it is not clear whether the proposed policy applies to self-allegations. Let’s decide this:
Suggested amendment
This policy shall also apply to questions making ...
WrzlprmftMod
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Publications
In some fields like computer science, conferences act as publication venues: you submit papers, they get peer-reviewed and disseminated. In most fields this is not the case and ...
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I need help adapting my academic workflow to the COVID-19/coronavirus crisis – where do I start?
Other questions and resources pertaining to the COVID-19 crisis
Publications
In this time of crisis, would the journals Nature and Science prioritize papers about COVID-19?
Has the rate of papers ...
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I need help adapting my academic workflow to the COVID-19/coronavirus crisis – where do I start?
Conferences
How to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak while organizing a conference?
Can I put an invited talk on my CV if the conference was canceled?
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Authorship
In many fields, the order of authors in a paper indicates how much or how they contributed: The first author usually did most of the work, while the last one is sometimes the supervisor. ...
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What potential duplicate targets should I know about as a reviewer?
Graduate Admission and Studies
How should I deal with becoming discouraged as a graduate student?
How does the admissions process work for Ph.D. programs in Country X?
How are Ph.D. applications ...
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Theses and Defences
In some countries and universities, you hand in your thesis to the examination office, which then distributes it to the examiners for grading. In others, you hand in your thesis ...
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Studying and PhD Programmes
In some countries, you have to decide on a discipline when you start studying, in others you start broadly and decide for a major (or similar) later.
Some countries and ...
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Employment and Funding
In some countries, PhD students are university employees, which means they get unemployment benefits, healthcare, and pension contributions like any other employees.
In some ...
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Writing and Writing Style
In pure math, a paper’s introduction may just be “We consider the problem of X.” and not have a conclusion or summary. In other fields, you are expected to argue why a ...
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Academic Life
In some countries, universities don’t arrange academic or mental-health counselling services for students.
In some countries or institutions, mass graduation ceremonies are a big thing....
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Student Body Properties
Some academic contexts do not have students at all but still fit within academia (e.g. the Institute for Advanced Study).
Some have only what is usually called graduate ...
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How to deal with a question that contains a false premise? How do I make a frame challenge?
General rules of thumb
Before you write a frame challenge, see whether you can answer all of the following with yes:
Is the misconception central to the question? If the question can be asked as well ...
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How to deal with a question that contains a false premise? How do I make a frame challenge?
Wrong assessments of individual experiences
Here the asker potentially wrongly assessed something that happened to them – as opposed to general facts. For example:
Assertion: The student I supervise ...
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Automatically generated text is banned on Academia.SE
While there may be background, even automated, solutions, I suggest a user-facing change to some of the user dialogs.
Adding "Seems to be auto-generated", or similar, to either or both the ...
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How to deal with a question that contains a false premise? How do I make a frame challenge?
Misconceptions about academic procedures, norms, or similar
These misconceptions concern the very topic of this site. For example:
Assertion: You must have a PhD to submit a paper to a journal.
...
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Policy against questions making allegations against named individuals or organisations
I suggest explicitly excluding from deletion questions where the asker makes allegations about their own conduct. "Did I do something wrong, and what should I do about it?" is a helpful ...
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Academia varies more than you think it does – The Movie
Academic Administration
The role of the head of a faculty, department, institute, or similar can be seen as anything between:
a prestigious and powerful role that people strife for, requires years ...
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Policy against questions making allegations against named individuals or organisations
I have a concern with the use of "defamatory" in "The allegations are defamatory, i.e., the reported behaviour is misconduct, criminal, or highly unethical or highly unprofessional.&...
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Policy against questions making allegations against named individuals or organisations
Perhaps this passage
The information in the question (including the asker’s username) allows others to identify the target or allows the target to identify the asker beyond any reasonable doubt ...
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How to deal with a question that contains a false premise? How do I make a frame challenge?
Misconceptions about off-topic aspects
Typically this is about the content of academic research or teaching, but it may also be other off-topic things. For example:
Assertion: My newly developed ...
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How to deal with a question that contains a false premise? How do I make a frame challenge?
Wrong goal (XY problem)
The asker wants to achieve X and thinks doing Y helps them to do this, so they ask how to do Y. However, Y is not a good way to achieve X.
Most often, we can only suspect an XY ...
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