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Is this professor being unnecessarily harsh or did I actually make a mistake?
As a first-year PhD student, I've been receiving feedback on my dissertation plan from my supervisor and other professors. One of these professors recommended that I contact a professor from a ...
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Getting research award and then ghosted?
I am being offered a research award at a university in a western europe country, and it's a quite known one as well in that country (well you can say in Europe as well). The research award is not from ...
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What title should I use to greet both a professor and an associate professor in an email?
I am wondering how to write email to both a professor and an assistant professor in the same email.
Shall I use "Dear Professor … and …" or "Dear Professor … and Assistant Professor … &...
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What should I do with the postdoc verbal offers if I'm strongly inclined to one option?
I am a international student who is in the midst of a US postdoctoral job search. I have two potential lab options, lab A and B, both of which I have interviewed with and received positive indications ...
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Should I correct my previous statement to a stranger after several years?
A stranger sent me an email asking for a solution and advice on a technical problem years ago. I gave him my personal opinon and solution at that time. Now, several years later, I found that some of ...
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What steps should I take when contacting another researcher after finding possible errors in their work?
The story starts on April 2, when I found a critical mistake in a semi-famous recent applied math paper with 100 citations. I admire the paper and I find a very simple counterexample that high-...
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What should I do when I can’t replicate results from a conference paper?
There is a theoretical computer science paper that is published in a very good conference. The paper essentially comes up with an algorithm and an explicit function (mentioned in the paper) of some 20 ...
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Ethical standards in asking a professor for reviewing a finished manuscript and publishing it together
I have been independently working on a substantial idea. The results of my work have been compiled into a complete manuscript.
However, I think I need to have an expert in the field reviewing it to ...
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Should I send a manual email as well as an autogenerated email to potential reviewers?
I am an editor for a math journal. When I select and invite a reviewer to referee a paper the journal's management software automatically writes and sends an email invitation to that reviewer.
For a ...
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What is the de facto standard while writing equation in a short email to professors?
In a research field that math is frequently used, while sending a long note/paper, attaching a pdf is of course the best. But for a short email that only involves few equations, a pdf file might be ...
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Etiquette: How many reminders should one send for conference speakers to submit their talk info?
I am co-organizing a conference that will take place virtually on Mar 13, 2023. We invited the speakers and they confirmed their participation in Nov, 2022. Now, we sent them a form that collects ...
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Invited a speaker to talk at a conference which is part of a bigger conference and the parent organizers rejected their participation. What to do now?
I am organizing a volunteer academic conference as a part of a larger conference at a top university (let's call it X). Organizers are required to invite speakers to talk about their research in a ...
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Should I ignore or reply an external colleague insisting in sharing methods in potentially COI project?
I (scientist X working at lab A) have received several e-mails from one specific colleague (scientist Y working at lab B) regarding engaging in some specific project led by Y. Some of the ideas I ...
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How to reply to an email from Professor asking for the progress on assignments?
I didn't write any of the assignments, and the professor has now sent an email asking me about the progress of the assignments. I don't wish to submit the assignments for reasons I cannot explain. I ...
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Is it polite to send another reminder to your ex-supervisor after they confirmed availablity of a vacancy?
I reached out to my ex-supervisor regarding the availability of a RA in their group about 2 months ago, via mail. The email exchange we have had till now has been at 2:1; where I send a reply followed ...
