I recently got awarded first place for a poster I presented at an undergraduate poster session. (At my first ever poster session!!)

Obviously I want to include this on my CV, but I'm not sure how.

Also want to note that I presented the same poster at two different sessions. I decided to cite it like this:

Doe, J., Brown, J. (2024, April 1 & 2). Title of poster*. [Poster presentation]. Subject #1 Undergraduate Poster Session & Subject #2 Poster Forum. University of Example, City, ST, United States.

I won the award for the first session.

Should I include it with my "honors & awards" section (where I have my scholarships and academic achievements award by my school), or with the "posters and presentations" section? Either way, how should I include it?

*I know the title should be in italics but I'm on mobile.

Thanks!

I am completely lost as to which masters to pick and the deadline is very soon. I’m looking for a broad program as I’m not sure what I want to do in the future and I am not the best at econometrics. Is the applied economics very quantitative based? Can I avoid the quantitative modules?, is the behavioral masters more work? And does it limit me significantly in future jobs?!

I’m looking for something will little quantitative work but still staying general. I do not want to burn myself out either. I just want to get a masters and move onwards. I know that may not be the best mindset to go into it with but that’s the stage I am at. Thank you for all the advice!

I am choosing between programs in UCD in Ireland.

Caveat: I am an observer in this story, but watching it unfold has got me questioning when it's appropriate to address the behavior of those you mentor.

The situation: A graduate student in my department is building a reputation for being obnoxious. He's your boilerplate well-intentioned but overconfident young man who rather too freely shares his shallow understanding of any particular topic. We all know the type. A 'splainer.

My question is this: When is it appropriate to try to correct "bad" behavior? For instance, if I caught one of my students disparaging another student, I'd shut that down right then. But what if instead he was just making a fool of himself? I'm not a parental figure, but I do care about these students. And that kind of behavior has real consequences for both the actor and the bystanders.

In the case of the obnoxious grad student, my opinion is that he's damaging himself through his actions. But that definition of "damage" is nebulous. He has plenty of friends among students and he's doing okay academically... he's just irritating my colleagues (and probably other students), which has negative effects downstream.

This isn't something I'm planning to bring up to him, as he's not my student. But if I did have a student behaving in a way that I thought was nebulously damaging... I'm not sure what I'd actually do. Annoying people are a fact of life, and I don't want to impose my definition of good behavior on everyone who passes by. Sometimes, however, a sharp rhetorical shake (or gentle nudge) is just the wake-up call someone needs to make positive changes in their life. But is an academic mentor the appropriate source of that shake (nudge)?

tl;dr: Students can be obnoxious; should we help them un-obnoxify?

Context: I’m in the US. I’m a lab tech/university staff in biomedical research on campus.

A union has started at our university and I’m curious about how unions work when it comes to research, especially at large institutions. If you have joined your campus union, what is it like? How do they help with things like salary and PI conflict, and how is it different than usual university routs? Is it worth it? Has your experience been good or bad overall?

Hey, obvious throwaway account. I'm rather curious about something. I'm in a European countext, and super lucky that although I'm in my 30s I managed to get a full tenure job in my field, with a decent contract but the university is rather eh. I've been there about 1 year now, and I'm in a creative field. Financing of our institutions generally works by how many students pass in X program. Considering that a lot of creative programs have few students, they have a lot of power.

A student asked me to submit something late because "they have so much work to do". Being diplomatic, I said it is not acceptable since they knew about this assignment since August, but I will accept it late. The consequence is that they will not get direct feedback on the assignment since it was handed in late. The student then said "That's not okay (etc). It's good that you will accept it otherwise it would have been a complaint directly on you, and it would have gotten ugly". Along with a few other things. The student then also asks to study privately with me (they get a "private" teacher for their specific field). I was diplomatic and said that she may apply, but I cannot guarantee that she will receive a place.

The complaint thing is a pretty direct threat. I will not report it, and honestly I don't think this student is smart enough to understand what they did despite being well over 40. I will not be accepting this student as one of my own. What I'm wondering is if this type of attitude from students is normal? I have never encountered anything similar, and I'm a bit at a loss to be honest. In what universe is this thought of as ok? I see (naively, I know) universities as a bastion of knowledge, culture and actually forming minds.

Thanks

Hello, I am a biology graduate. I fell far behind in education due to both the quarantine period and the problems of the country I live in. And I want to do a Master's degree abroad, how can I improve myself?

It's the end of the 2023/24 academic year if you don't teach during the summer months. So here's a platform for us to nag about all the things that sucked at work this past year! Vent and feel better :)

Hi, I'm writing an systematic review and I have to find 6 articles to work from. The guidelines are saying I need to give a detailed report of how I found my articles but through a series of unfortunate events I now don't have the right search criteria that match all six. Does anyone know how you can reverse engineer a database search to find specific terms that could be used to generate my six articles? I'm honestly stumped.

a week ago I was flagged for plagiarism and told by my TA to talk to my lab professor. I met with my professor immediately the next day as I was shocked to hear I was accused of plagiarism. She then pulled up an old lab from 6 year ago. I was kind of dumbfounded as there was no way I would have even been able to access that paper nor would I have wanted to. The strange thing is we wrote it in the same structure. I’m a straight 4.0 student at my university and even meet with my TAs in other labs to ensure I grasp the concepts and everything, so I was extremely shocked and confused. I tried explaining to the professor that I only used the protocol she provided to write the lab - I even had highlights! I mean some of the similarities were literal direct quotes or paraphrasing information only taught my the protocol (btw I cited the protocol). The thing is the professor didn’t seem to care - she still was set on the belief that I should receive a zero. She then went into the results section and pointed out that my way of deriving the equation was almost exactly similar to the persons in 2018. However, I told her that she specifically taught us only 2 methods to solve these types of problems. I have been proficient in math before. I passed out of high end math( calculus based) from proficiency exams and even took multivariable in high school. My professor didn’t seem to care even though I explained how I reached my calculations. I am now set to go to an academic hearing and don’t know what else I can do to prove my innocence even though there are similarities. I mean I’m not sure if it is because there are 200-300 students taking it every semester and the lab protocol hasn’t been revised since like 2018 but I’m stressed because what if the board finds me guilty and I’m innocent. I can’t help but feel my future depends on a couple of student on the integrity board and like 1 faculty member. I mean if I lose should I take a legal route? Please let me know anything you recommend I do to help fight this.

I'm a male, 37 years old, unmarried, from Latin-America, PhD in Electronics, high ranked university of China, few but good ranked publications, 1.5 years of experience in Chinese industry + 1.5 years in original country.

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1. I'm currently at a Chinese university as postdoc: Salary mediocre (for Chinese standards), no teaching, almost no supervision. No assigned topic, I can get postdoc extended up to 2 years more. I don't speak Chinese. I've lived in China for 10 years.
2. Now, I was offered a postdoc position in German University : Salary is good (for German standard），2 years extendable, 4 hours of teaching mandatory. Some supervision. The assigned research topic is not my expertise. I don't speak German.
3. Also I was offered position as Researcher in Spaniard Laboratory: Salary is quite low (for Spaniard standard), no teaching mandatory. Focused in industry projects. General research is within my expertise. Supervisors are experts in the topic. I speak Spanish.

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Initially, I wished to become a Professor. If going for options 2. or 3. I'm almost sure I should abandon the idea to stay in Academia (due to statistics) and better aim to Industry, but I'm not sure Industry may accept overqualified, inexperienced Postdocs of 40 years old.

On the other hand, For option 1., I have seen similar profiles to mine (but Chinese people) who have got tenure-tracks in China in varied ranked universities. As per industry in China, is recently impossible to get hired as a foreigner (I've tried to search for jobs), but actually offered a few small-contract teaching jobs.

I'd like to know your opinion on what should I do. I'm a little bit clueless. Thanks

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I'm a male, 37 years old, unmarried, from Latin-America, PhD in Electronics, high ranked university of China, few but good ranked publications, 1.5 years of experience in Chinese industry + 1.5 years in original country.

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1. I'm currently at a Chinese university as postdoc: Salary mediocre (for Chinese standards), no teaching, almost no supervision. No assigned topic, I can get postdoc extended up to 2 years more. I don't speak Chinese. I've lived in China for 10 years.
2. Now, I was offered a postdoc position in German University : Salary is good (for German standard），2 years extendable, 4 hours of teaching mandatory. Some supervision. The assigned research topic is not my expertise. I don't speak German.
3. Also I was offered position as Researcher in Spaniard Laboratory: Salary is quite low (for Spaniard standard), no teaching mandatory. Focused in industry projects. General research is within my expertise. Supervisors are experts in the topic. I speak Spanish.

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Initially, I wished to become a Professor. If going for options 2. or 3. I'm almost sure I should abandon the idea to stay in Academia (due to statistics) and better aim to Industry, but I'm not sure Industry may accept overqualified, inexperienced Postdocs of 40 years old.

On the other hand, For option 1., I have seen similar profiles to mine (but Chinese people) who have got tenure-tracks in China in varied ranked universities. As per industry in China, is recently impossible to get hired as a foreigner (I've tried to search for jobs), but actually offered a few small-contract teaching jobs.

I'd like to know your opinion on what should I do. I'm a little bit clueless. Thanks

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Hi everyone,

I'm applying for my first postdoc positions (I'm in Australia) and in addressing the job and person specifications one of the criteria is "demonstrated ability to critically review the literature in relevant fields" and I'm not quite sure what to write to address this.

Obviously I can do this - I consider myself to be pretty good at critical thinking and in fact it's key to my discipline (critical psychologies). I also have experience in systematic review methodology of which part of that is appraising literature.

BUT do you think that is what the question is asking? If you were asking this question to hire someone, what specifics would you want to know? What evidence would you want?

Thanks so much!

How to become a assistant professor in CS and does college matter from where you are doing your masters. Please help .

to your anthropological research, so they could share that knowledge with their children, would you show them the relevant portions of your fieldnotes?

So I'm in the process of publishing my very first paper, but I'm now confused with the process.

I'm told by the journal that I'm in the 'files requested' stage where I'm being asked to send my figures in an editable format, but I don't know the significance of this stage.

My paper was in the final stage of the peer-review process. The last time I checked the status of my paper, it was in the 'pending approval' stage. But I never got to find out whether it was approved because of a system glitch the journal had.

Does the 'files requested' stage mean that the paper has been accepted?

Pretty much the title.

I work a lot in interdisciplinary projects with other fields and have developed a fascination for the little differences that have grown over time in the respective areas of research. This could be wording, behavior, or how academic things are handled in general.

EDIT: I wanna thank everyone for contributing. This is a nice collection of weird and funny stuff. Please keep it going!

About 2 months ago I submitted a paper of mine to a journal via the “scholar-one” submission platform.

Although I understand this isn’t a long period of time in the grand scheme, for the past two months the paper’s status has cyclically changed from “awaiting reviewer assignment” to “awaiting reviewer selection”. This status change occurs approximately every few days.

What’s the deal with this? I don’t think I’m past the desk-rejection stage yet, but this lack of progression is quite annoying.

Any guidance or insight very much appreciated!

I was officially offered a position via phone call from chair of the department three weeks ago, but I haven’t received anything on paper/via email. I am sure I’m just catastrophizing, but it was such a long shot job to begin with that I can’t help but worry it’s going to be taken away from me. 😂. Is HR often this slow on getting out paperwork at major universities?

Hi all, I recently got the news that I will soon have an interview for a permanent position in France (Maître de conférences). I'm scared shitless, anybody got any tip, suggestion, kind word for me?

Can I publish in journals (STEM) without an affiliation as a first author or corresponding author? Some journals require affiliation information, but what options do independent researchers have in such cases?

So I applied to a conference for early Sept, was accepted based on my abstract. This is my first conference I am attending, but second to get a paper accepted.

However, I have NOT written said paper. I intended to base it off of my phd thesis.

Anyway, couple questions.

1. Do I actually have to present a physical paper or just a presentation? I don't know how it WORKS

2. My research has taken a SLIGHTLY different path, do I need to tell the conference organizers? Or just present on what I find?

I have no idea how any of this works and my supervisors are of 0 help and support, so thought I'd go to strangers on the internet! Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

TIA.

We all have heard the remark "isnt it a waste that most publicly funded research is not really engaged with by the public".

But I wonder how many of us actually care to have our work read beyond our field? I know public engagement is an upcoming KPI, but do you feel contributing to your field is enough?

No judgement, genuinely curious.

I had really good vibes in a recent interview. The chair said he’d hope to call me even before the dean signs off on a hire. As I’m still waiting I’m now wondering if they’ve moved on with someone else or whether he thought again about that and I might still be in the running. It’s been about a week since the last candidate.

Thoughts? I’m applying elsewhere and waiting on other campus visits but this is the one I want. Assumably all colleges have an approval procedure for TT hires?

So I applied to a conference for early Sept, was accepted based on my abstract. This is my first conference I am attending, but second to get a paper accepted.

However, I have NOT written said paper. I intended to base it off of my phd thesis.

Anyway, couple questions.

1. Do I actually have to present a physical paper or just a presentation? I don't know how it WORKS

2. My research has taken a SLIGHTLY different path, do I need to tell the conference organizers? Or just present on what I find?

I have no idea how any of this works and my supervisors are of 0 help and support, so thought I'd go to strangers on the internet! Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.

TIA.

Humanities/social science early career researcher here. I have an article coming out in a very good journal, and my department offered to pay the exorbitant fees to make the article open access. The fee is ridiculous but they have special funds set aside for that, and they choose a select number of papers every year, so obviously I said yes.

I was excited at first, but now I'm wondering what the actual benefits of it are. I don't really buy that more people will read it, since I would put it on ResearchGate/Academia anyway, like everyone does in my field. Not to mention websites like Anna's Archive, SciHub etc. Does it look good on my CV or something? Does the university get to brag about how many OA articles their staff published? I know almost everything in academic publishing is a scam, but I really don't see the logic behind this.

I'm trying to find seaweed applications for a specific genus of seaweed called Codium. Before I refine the search equation any further, I'm noticing this problem:

TS=(Codium AND (application* OR use* OR utilization*)) = 227 results: https://webofscience.una.elogim.com/wos/woscc/summary/0a245a18-8026-49e9-ac7a-3048889ab83a-e25923fe/relevance/1

TS=(Codium AND (application OR use OR utilization)) = 327 results: https://webofscience.una.elogim.com/wos/woscc/summary/1230909b-f47c-47f8-b9e3-e0c3f683f014-e259492d/relevance/1

I thought the wildcard * was supposed to find other words with phrase/word included as well. Can somebody explain it to me what's happening? It's supposed to be the other way around (wildcard asterisk should ADD results, not remove them)!