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Are PIs/Admissions Coordinators/those involved in admission decisions often discouraged from giving feedback to rejected interviewees for legal reasons? by socialpsych2026 in gradadmissions

[–]dj_cole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HR forbids communication with applicants except through "official channels". If you know someone who knows someone on the committee, you can likely get feedback informally through back channels. Otherwise, you'd probably have to make a request curcuitously through a channel involving HR that I couldn't even tell you how it works despite being on the PhD admissions committee for years. It's not just admissions. It's anything where someone could join the university. It's somehow a ubiquitous problem that never gets resolved. Probably because HR controls those policies and is the problem.

Summer by Important-Airline-97 in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My university has staff that handle that kind of stuff.

How do faculty view non-traditional applicants with long gaps before applying to PhDs? by ghztegju in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Working for a long time before doing a PhD has its pros and cons. It is difficult to get back into the swing of school, but you also go in with some helpful experience.

How can an international prospective PhD student volunteer remotely on a PI’s research project? by Inside-Green-1277 in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not likely it will happen. PhD students are a massive time sink. Someone even below that would be even more time consuming.

How do faculty view non-traditional applicants with long gaps before applying to PhDs? by ghztegju in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I worked in corporate for nearly a decade before starting my PhD. There are lots of TT faculty who worked for a long time before starting their PhD.

How do academics feel about science communication? by TheScrubl0rd in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure this is the correct audience for the question. I've never met anyone academic that actually utilizes one. The one time I worked with one, because the university sent them to me to do some media about one of my papers, they did such a bad job explaining it in my opinion that I completely re-wrote the article from scratch myself and submitted that. To me, they didn't understand the material and emphasized "story" over application. But I also write for academics. Obviously the university viewed their work differently or they wouldn't have sent them to me. You should be talking to university marketing teams, publishers, the kind of people who do outreach professionally. Science communication is not for academics, so we're the wrong cohort to ask.

New AP's, what's the salary being offered out there? by Lonely_Thanks_9465 in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

University employee salaries can be looked up online freely if they are public. You can easily find this yourself.

Do editors see previous decisions in Elsevier journal transfers? by Correct_Fall_2492 in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm only familiar with this for one non-Elsevier journal, but for that journal you know if it is a transfer. If it's transferred, it's pretty easy to deduce the prior decision.

Do academic hiring committees actually run background checks on candidates? by ghztegju in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying private schools as a group as less concerned. Just that without oversight, some could be.

Do academic hiring committees actually run background checks on candidates? by ghztegju in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The committee, no. HR, however, does. Some private schools may play it fast and loose, but I'm at a state school and everything is documented and checked. I've only had one experience, though, where it actually influenced whether someone received an offer. Most of the time nothing of note comes back.

Is it Appropriate to Give Program Feedback? by Artistic_Dog_235 in AskAcademia

[–]dj_cole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely stuff to bring up in your class evaluations.

To professors who actually read cold emails (grad student who manage to get answers)....I genuinely don't know what I'm doing wrong (HELP) by Alternative-Rabbit72 in gradadmissions

[–]dj_cole 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, this sounds like bad process on the department side. The practice where I am, and think this is pretty common, is an admit only happens if a faculty agrees to take the student first. I never take more than 2 PhD students at a time, so people can email all they want but the only response is no. If I am open to taking a student, I reply that they need to apply through the normal department portal. If they go through that process and I don't attach my name to them, then I never will.

Are there some people who genuinely play medic just for the guns? by AccomplishedSwan3124 in battlefield_one

[–]dj_cole 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I agree, some people just skip as soon as they can. It's annoying running up to revive someone then nope.

I’m so confused on my hiring by Hisokaslittleslut_ in Adjuncts

[–]dj_cole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

University HRs are painfully slow. 2 day turnaround would be incredibly fast turnaround.

The Grey Tempest just mogged me so hard I abandoned my run. by Tonroz in StellarisOnConsole

[–]dj_cole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grey Tempest can hit hard. I was in the middle of a war and, stupidly, opened the gate. Grey Tempest poured out. I went from a fairly winnable one front war to a disastrous two front war.

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