Comment by aqua on Lack of research opportunities in Israel
I am doing my PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in English. As far as I heard, they actually do want to encourage researchers to come. I am not sure of geoinformatics, though...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Lack of research opportunities in Israel
As far as I understood, in Israel they do not necessarily advertise PhD places. You should look up the groups that do geoinformatics and contact the PI about opportunities. E.g. the Hebrew Universities...
View ArticleComment by aqua on How to limit the disruption caused by students not writing...
We also had this method (together with handing out the exam sheets). It worked pretty well, did not really give students chances to cheat.
View ArticleComment by aqua on In academic papers, is it really a bad thing to not report...
Does the metrics you use depends on the ratio of positive:negative ratio? E.g metrics like MCC, accuracy, F1 score, etc. DOES depend on the ratio. Does your specificity/sensitivity (and similar metrics...
View ArticleComment by aqua on How should feedback be given for "silly mistakes" on an exam
It reminds me of an exam where we had to calculate the height of some filling in a column. The correct calculation lead to a filling higher than the containing column, meaning that the setup is not...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Making office hours meetings more efficient as a faculty...
As a PhD student, I have 1 hour meetings with my PI every week (I have like 8 projects which I am on working on, because I love to juggle lots of things at the same time). Sometimes we schedule...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Why are exercises in US university classes graded?
@laolux "only the rather motivated ones show up" - or the ones that prefer lectures. I had generally a quite high average but I much more prefer reading materials. So after the 2nd year, I skipped many...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Grad schools in which countries, besides the US, allow you...
It might vary even between universities. That said, I am doing mine in Israel. I had to choose an advisor when applying (but this is for my university, I know that e.g. in the Weizmann institute, they...
View ArticleComment by aqua on What should I do with discarded paragraphs?
We usually have a separate document where we put the discarded paragraphs - this way you still have them when writing something else.
View ArticleComment by aqua on Dealing with a plagiarized paper with both junior and...
I want to highlight, that after reading just 5-10 papers in a topic, it is very hard to write the background info in a way that sounds original. Also, in our case, there are some stuff, that we a...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Collaborator remade all the figures of our results. How to...
His figures are not of better quality. He removed information from the figures (both scientific, and e.g. labels that help the reader to understand the figure by a glance). We needed to convince him...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Collaborator remade all the figures of our results. How to...
His figures are not of better quality. He removed information from the figures (both scientific, and e.g. labels that help the reader to understand the figure by a glance). We needed to convince him...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Should first authorship be given to the one who proposes...
What about writing the paper? I can imagine that if you have the idea (and your pseudocode is indeed working) and you also write the paper, then you both should be co-first authors.
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for How to keep up with new publications and conferences. RSS...
I collected all relevant arxiv categories and a bunch of main journals to an RSS feed and it helped me a lot. I agree, that it is impossible to keep up with the pace, but I found this better than...
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for How to warn others about a conference-related scam?
I have recently seen a conference webpage that highlighted that there was similar scam going around. Later, I have seen it on their Twitter page as well. You could also use participant's email address...
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for How do non-LaTeX users handle citations?
I (and many of my collegaues) use Mendeley as paper and citation manager. It has a plugin for Word, that makes it extremely easy to insert citations.
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for phd advisor hasn't kept a promise (and may not care) - do...
I think, you are overthinking. It's perfectly normal to gently remind others of promises they made after doing your own part. He may not know when you need his help or simply forgot it. Anyway, you are...
View ArticleHow should I list someone as reference?
I am writing an application where I should indicate my relationship with those that provide references for me. How should I describe the following: the person has never been my supervisor, however as...
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for Is it okay to keep a "Thank you" slide before references?
Do not include 7 slides of references, that is absolutely no-go. A usual way to show references is at the bottom of the slide they reference (it is easier to find and match with the referenced content...
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for Is Google Docs an appropriate tool to write a PhD thesis?
It is perfectly acceptable, if both of you agrees. My recommendation is to try to find a citation manager that can work with Google Docs, though. It makes life a lot easier.On the other hand, you can...
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for Signs of toxic behavior in my peer group
There is definitely toxic behaviour there, especially disregarding you and making you feel inferior. They have no right to do that.However, about the advisor: there are advisors who are very kind to...
View ArticleAnswer by aqua for Is the Ph.D. fellowship amount for 1st-year students the...
I am studying for PhD in Israel, it is not the same even inside universities. The PhD fellowship is determined by the PI's funding or the fellowships that the PhD student can apply for. In our...
View ArticleComment by aqua on Wrong Data, Wrong Direction, Career suicide
I am not sure what you should do, but your academic career is definitely not finished. I restarted my phd after having a very bad experience, now I am close to finish with quite a few publications,...
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