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What is arXiv++, and who is behind it?
I have just learned of the existence of arXiv++ via an email, whose main content was:
The summary of your paper "Critical spin chains and loop models with $U(n)$ symmetry" has just received ...
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Beginning as an assistant professor, feeling extremely unprepared
I finished my PhD in quantitative/computational biology in January 2025, and somehow managed to land myself an assistant professor position starting in August 2025, between these dates, I have been ...
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Is there a book equivalent to « Good work if you can get: How to succeed in academia » but for European / UK academia?
I found Jason Brennan’s book very useful when applying to my PhD and planning long term about my academic career.
However I am doing my PhD in Europe and although I’d like to explore US academia at ...
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Potential Plagiarism by a reviewer (that we recommended to PC chair)
I recently submitted a paper to a conference and received four positive reviews and one negative review. The negative reviewer did not want any discussion on the paper, so we contacted the program ...
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PhD supervision numbers by discipline
My faculty imposes some numerical "recommendations" for promotions. Instead of arguing this sort of recommendation is ridiculous, I think it is wiser to provide some evidence the recommended ...
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What is satisfactory progress for a postdoc?
I am a first-year postdoc in the field of material science, and this is a new experience for me. The most difficult question here is self-evaluation.
For example, during this year I have prepared an ...
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How to deal with career anxiety and manage to remain concentrated on the matter in hand?
I am just over 30 years and about to finish my PhD. I will obtain my PhD from an EU country, and I must obtain residence permit to keep staying in EU.
My thesis is almost a staple thesis which ...
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Awaiting recommendation, but before any sort of peer review
I submitted a paper through ScholarOne Manuscripts 3 days ago. The first status that I am getting is "ADM: Awaiting Recommendation" , just after the initial status which was "ADM: ...
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Are there guidelines that say if post-submission publications must be cited?
I can see from this question Can I cite a paper published after the initial submission of my paper? asking if it is okay to cite papers after submission is answered as, yes- and sometimes you need to.
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To what extent are reviewers influenced by other reviews?
Is there any research/study/survey/... that looked at to what extent reviewers are influenced by other reviews?
For example, ICLR 2019 published reviews publicly before all reviewers had written the ...
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Can I get hired as a psychology professor if I get a PhD in educational psychology in an education department?
I'm interested in educational psychology and learning sciences. However, most educational psychology graduate programs are within the education department, not psychology.
What's the difference ...
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What is a “proper systematic order listing”?
I have a paper under review at a journal, and in it I have included a table of all of the species which exhibit a particular behaviour. Species are grouped by Order, and then family, and then species. ...
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OJS Implementation Concerns for University Journal
As an editor of a university journal, I'm considering OJS to improve transparency and streamline our manual submission/review process. Before proposing this to our IT team (who aren't very technical), ...
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Getting back into academia after a two-year gap
Two years ago, I got my degree from a master's programme in theoretical physics. After graduation, I took some time off as I felt burnt out after completing my studies away from home during the ...
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Career advice: How to move on in academia after a negative PhD experience?
I am post-PhD and I am really struggling with the job search phase of my career. My PhD took me almost a decade to finish, with time off, because after successfully completing all of the requirements ...
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