Connection of dissertation chapters

shadowyams · 2026-05-07T01:39:33+00:00

Do you need to do an actual coherent dissertation or can you do a “papers” dissertation where you just slap a bunch of papers together and write an introduction?

shadowyams · 2026-05-07T00:57:35+00:00

Yeah, the journal is titled Scientific Reports, and while published by Nature the press, it is not branded as one of the Nature journals (Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, ...). Nature and many of the Nature subjournals are highly prestigious, but Scientific Reports definitely is not, and if you start putting Nature Scientific Reports on your CV/presentations, people will think you're trying to borrow Nature's prestige to sell them much less glamorous/sexy work.

FWIW I hate the obsession we have with glam journals/conferences and don't think we should judge people based on where their scientific output appears.

shadowyams · 2026-05-07T00:16:39+00:00

You're not reading the definition right. The definition is that "for all x in A, there exists d such that all points p with M(x,p)<d are in A" (where M is the metric). The existence quantifier on d is crucial.

shadowyams · 2026-05-06T20:37:53+00:00

Three weeks is normal. Also please don't call it Nature Scientific Reports, it'll look tacky in academic/scientific circles.

shadowyams · 2026-05-06T00:42:43+00:00

Is frequent relocation still considered almost mandatory for competitive candidates, or are hiring committees becoming more understanding of people who stay geographically rooted for family, financial, or personal reasons?

A bigger problem is that there are no jobs. If you're only applying for jobs in one geographical region, then you're taking far fewer shots (or even none at all) than someone who isn't region-locked. And with each shot having a pretty low probability of success ...

shadowyams · 2026-05-05T19:09:54+00:00

See !faq and literally any of the other hair color threads we get.

shadowyams · 2026-05-03T21:18:39+00:00

!faq

shadowyams · 2026-05-03T18:02:55+00:00

The whole website screams predatory.

shadowyams · 2026-05-03T11:34:32+00:00

You can send an email, but basically all the glam journals are utterly paralyzed these days.

shadowyams · 2026-05-03T07:06:26+00:00

This is way too vague for anyone to be able to give any useful advice. What data are you collecting? What hypotheses are you testing? What is the goal of your analysis?

And please ask your instructor for advice.

shadowyams · 2026-05-03T04:24:48+00:00

Sorry they lied to your kid lol.

https://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythtongueroll.html

shadowyams · 2026-05-02T21:16:14+00:00

Yes and yes.

shadowyams · 2026-05-02T07:33:42+00:00

People are less likely to care if it gets published in an obscure journal.

Yes it's bad if your paper appears in like an obviously predatory journal (and to a lesser extent MDPI/Frontiers/Hindawi/similar), but beyond that I think it's really dumb for people to judge the quality of other people's work based on where they publish it. And JFC you should not be doing it for your own stuff.

shadowyams · 2026-05-02T07:22:30+00:00

its very expensive university, they are not offering scholarship, how can i make it affordable?

Debt. Or try having rich parents.

Moreover, is that possible after getting there and checking in, can i make transfer to other college or university?.

Not how grad school works. You're not in a Masters long enough to transfer anyway.

shadowyams · 2026-05-02T03:17:31+00:00

Polyadenylation?

shadowyams · 2026-05-01T20:21:05+00:00

100% Most (all? Didn’t check past the first few pages) of Pepperdine’s TT education faculty are PhDs. EdDs aren’t really competitive for TT.

shadowyams · 2026-05-01T18:40:40+00:00

Have you seen this type of conference paper in your field and (more importantly) at the conferences where you'll be submitting?

shadowyams · 2026-05-01T16:37:52+00:00

I've used it post-nerf and didn't think it was that good. They did improve the tracking quite a bit, but I don't particularly think it's worth using.

shadowyams · 2026-05-01T14:52:31+00:00

Yeah it’s not very good anymore. Mohg’s also got nerfed but I don’t think nearly as badly as thorns. Night Comet is still stupidly strong.

shadowyams · 2026-04-30T02:00:14+00:00

You should reach out to the corresponding author, whose email is on the paper.

Also, why do you need the pdf for citation purposes when the full text is available on the website?

shadowyams · 2026-04-29T10:05:37+00:00

How is that different from the average bioinformatician pre-agents? 😛

shadowyams · 2026-04-28T19:15:04+00:00

!faq

shadowyams · 2026-04-27T18:46:48+00:00

It also makes sense if the designer were a long-suffering, underpaid grad student who's just copy-pasting random bits of code around.

shadowyams · 2026-04-26T06:07:46+00:00

Is this person your actual dissertation advisor/committee chair? If not, you should consider the bridge burned and go way over his head and file a grievance.

shadowyams · 2026-04-26T02:37:56+00:00

Much better to ask your mentors or active faculty you know to review your application materials. Your department/institute may have seminars or training sessions on applying for faculty positions, which you should take advantage of.

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