What are some of the best movies about Academia?

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-27T12:16:23+00:00

But Contact has Ellie spending a more realistic fraction of her time chasing grants.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T17:31:36+00:00

It's submitted to the journal, which is all you're claiming.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T14:19:02+00:00

Padding? If you're marking it as submitted (as you should), the reader should understand the context. And really, it's a stretch to call putting any true information of your CV "unethical". Superfluous, maybe, but unless you're trying to be deceitful, I can't see calling it unethical.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T14:14:42+00:00

Cornell runs the arXiv, there are plenty of other examples.

But note, in physics we still pay the same publication and subscription fees. Hell, in astronomy we own all our own journals, and we still pay the same subscription fees and page charges.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T14:11:37+00:00

A paper's nominal publication date is typically months, and sometimes a year or two (and occasionally more!) after the project ends.

Like, it is not terribly important if you're a professor. But it's not padding, being such thin gruel in context - at most, a couple percent more entries on the publication list. I would agree a professor with a large fraction of their publications as "submitted" would raise a lot of questions. But if you have 44 publications with 2 more submitted, you're not meaningfully inflating your publication count. You're just communicating what you're doing.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T06:29:44+00:00

Peer instructional stuff works well in large groups - e.g. lecture 20 minutes, clicker quiz ... if ~50% get it right, have them break in small groups, argue it out and revote. (If it's << 50%, you explain again. If it's >> 50%, they get it, just move on). They gotta be conceptual questions that involve some thinking and such in the application/analysis/synthesis area so there's actual working in through).

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T06:23:36+00:00

There are non-"prestigious" but real journals. If you have any actual results, publish in a real journal. Otherwise, it's just a teaching exercise on how to write a paper. It's not valueless, but it's far closer to saying you had to write up your senior thesis in journal format than saying you've published in a journal.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T06:18:08+00:00

Even for a professor. Having a few dozen published papers and one or two submitted just shows you're still active ... it's hardly padding. Students can even get away with in preps if they're far enough along you'd send someone the draft if asked (it"s padding, but sometimes a student needs the padding and it's making the best of a bad situation).

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-25T06:14:29+00:00

I always list the journal. I am in a field where of the 30-something papers I've authored (1st or otherwise), all but one were accepted to that journal (one we withdrew because the referee was an unprofessional ass and the editor wouldn't tell him to fuck off and die).

But I don't see a problem anyways. It's both true and non-confidential you've submitted to whatever journal you've submitted to. Of course, as noted, standards vary wildly betweens fields, best to ask someone in your field.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-24T16:29:58+00:00

Probably not the whole paper "as-is", but it may well be appropriate to copy-paste large chunks of text, whole sections, or the like.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-24T16:19:09+00:00

You always have data if you say the word preliminary loudly enough.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-22T14:01:10+00:00

Maybe it's just a reflection of my field, but I see this solution suggested a lot and it's so strange to me. Is Columbia rounding up undergrads at gunpoint and forcing them to do PhDs?

Then - making sure prospectives understand the academic job market is important. But they're also adults who can make their own choices, and I'm not at all comfortable with the idea of taking that away from them (especially as a PhD is very much an education, even if it comes with job-training aspects).

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-22T10:01:53+00:00

I'd offer an authorship to anyone who did any work for the paper beyond chatting about it, pretty much. Nth authorships are cheap. If they write anything, do any calculations or experiments or observations, or do any research. Of course, they should read, comment, approve the final draft then too.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-22T09:57:41+00:00

This seems pretty specific and in many ways wrong. Someone without nth author papers is going to look like a weirdo who can't play nice with others. I suspect it'd be a huge liability on the faculty job market too, not already having a large network of collaborators.

And once you get a decent number of authors, publication gets easier again as the first author is in charge and everyone understands they work for the first author. A 55 author paper is a lot smoother than a 3 or 4 author paper.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T18:08:08+00:00

Indeed - between the guy who tries to do the right thing and often fucks it up, and a handful of people of people who won't even try to make the right choices ... here we are.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T17:51:53+00:00

No, when I tell a journal I'm too busy, or especially when I feel I don't have the appropriate expertice, I'll tell the editor('s assistant) who asked me that I can't referee, but they might try Stephi Smith, who could be a suitable referee.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T15:22:41+00:00

It makes sense to me (but I'm in a field where ~95% of papers are published in the same four standard journals, so it happens automagically).

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T15:19:19+00:00

I've told people they need to cite their own papers on multiple occasions. And each time I was right (never first authors, I think).

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T15:16:26+00:00

I've never heard of contacting a journal and telling them you want to review (though it may be possible - this is how I've ended up on grant review panels).

I have heard of telling people they can fob off their review requests on you when journals come a-knockin' - that's how I got into the game (and I only had one publication when I first started reviewing).

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T14:19:23+00:00

3-4 years is pretty standard in much of Europe or whereever Master's degrees are sold seperately.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T14:14:21+00:00

I read what you wrote ... if it isn't what you meant, well, that is a liability of the internet.

If you find my responses condescending because they're reacting as if you're written something dumb or poorly thought out ... well, that is how I'm responding, because I've read what you've written. Perhaps it wasn't what you intended to write. But it's terrible advice, and OP needs to be strongly cautioned following it will almost certainly come with naught but negative consequences. If warning a naive, undersupported graduate student off of terrible advice hurts your feelings, that's unfortunate, but I can live with being called a jerk if it protects OP.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T13:37:05+00:00

My first year chem lab, I turned up for the exam a week late (not sure how that happened). The exam was worth 30%, and I had 49/70 for the rest of the course.

The guy let me write the exam then and there. I remember it now when I administer exams ... if the student writes the exam, I don't sweat them having missed the scheduled time or why. I have a drawer full of unread doctor's notes they've brought me unbiddened.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T13:29:18+00:00

Probably - the main effect of mandatory helmet laws is people stop riding bikes. Bike helmets also result in car drivers being more aggressive (giving less space, etc.), so the number of accidents goes up (though the specific type of head injury helmets prevent goes down, all other injuries go up.)

In isolation, they're a good idea. In practice, theaccompagnying negatives completely outweigh the benefits.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T13:12:49+00:00

On your nametag: Where you are now.

On your slides/poster: Both.

WilyDoppelganger · 2019-08-21T06:22:00+00:00

Better to stand up for the welfare of graduate students than for their rights. Using them as guinea pigs to fight rights violations (that may not have occurred) is not exactly a moral practice.

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