Questions tagged [productivity]
On measuring or improving workflow, organization, learning, memory, etc. in an academic context.
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How to manage being excluded from the lab group?
I started my PhD two years ago in Germany as an international student.
Initially, everything was fine but after half a year all my labmates stopped talking to me. It began with them switching to ...
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Suggestions for math post doc topic after PhD
I am a math PhD student and I should finish the PhD in about 1.5-2 years. I am already thinking about what to do next. At the moment I am not even sure that I will be staying in the academic world, ...
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Can sharing code on GitHub enhance career opportunities post-PhD?
I am a third year PhD student. If I do projects and upload in a github profile; will it help in my academic career or job hunting after my phd?
I am asking this because if it does increase the worth ...
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Work with structure and clearly defined performance outcomes after my Ph.D?
I'm a fourth year Ph.D candidate in Experimental Psychology who earned an MA also in Experimental Psychology as I matriculated into my Ph.D program. I am posting here because I've come to the hard ...
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Could my visiting instructor position be terminated due to low course reviews? Full time instructor position is not going well at all
I'm a fourth year doctoral student in Applied Experimental Psychology who earned a Master's prior to enrolling in my program (which my Ph.D program accepted on full). Long story short, my funding ran ...
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Struggle to regain lost passion in physics
I am a PhD student currently in my second to last year. Last year something weird happened, my supervisor forced me into projects in which I was not interested. He forced me into collaborations which ...
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What to do when someone is doing the same subtopic (originally brought up by me) of our group project as me and not willing to collaborate
Basically, we are in group of four working on a larger project in a graduate seminar. I brought up an idea to approach a subtopic X (abbreviated as X for convenience, but if you are familiar with ...
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Getting over a bad PhD start
Backstory - I was accepted for a PhD at an excellent university in a new and exciting field I've been working towards for a long time. Due to a number of issues, I had to delay my start date for 6 ...
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How often should one check the status of a manuscript?
How often (e.g. frequency) should one check the status of a submitted manuscript?
I understand that daily checking is a waste of time while never checking the status might also bear risks (e.g. when a ...
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A better name for a reading list around a mathematician
I would like to create a reading list around the life and works of a mathematician. But I need to choose the name to use as the title.
Take as an example the Bibliography of N. Bourbaki by L. Beaulieu
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Why are so many chalkboards placed in public places in university campuses?
I have heard that many academic campuses, ICTS, for example, are equipped with abundantly many chalkboards in all public places. I wonder what the reason behind this is and how it helps foster ...
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PhD students, how did you get work done when you initially had no externally determined routine? [duplicate]
This question is geared towards (new) researchers who do not work in a lab and have no teaching duties, like maths PhD students.
How did you learn to be productive when you started? After doing ...
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How useful is a third language for a Engineering scientific/academic career?
I am a PhD candidate in Teleinformatics Engineering and, during my academic career, I was required to learn English in order to write articles, communicate with partners around the world, read books, ...
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Is it productive to work on weekends?
My Ph.D. supervisor told me to go to the office every day except Thursday and stay there as long as he was in the building. I.e., work in the office rather than remotely. Generally, he stays there ...
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Would it be ethical/reasonable for a PhD student to hire an undergrad for help with research-tangential tasks (see proposed job description below)?
Pretty much what the title says (I know this question is quite strange).
I have some extra money (my research stipend is fairly generous, and I get paid by doing TA work on top of it) that I'd like to ...
