Academia Weekly Newsletter - Friday, October 31, 2014

Top new questions this week: I was caught cheating on an exam, how can I minimize the damage? I got caught cheating in a two-hour engineering exam consisting of 100 multiple choice questions which was done online through the moodle e-learning software. I feel like my life is almost over. ... ethics exams cheating   asked by naughtyjojo 44 votes answered by Dronz 117 votes What is life like for Western-raised/trained academics who are faculty in countries with extremely tight governmental control? There are a growing number of prominent universities in the world which are based in countries where the government exerts substantial control over its citizens in ways that are not typical in ... academic-life international   asked by Danny W. 44 votes answered by David Ketcheson 39 votes Why does a UK university need to know my sexual orientation and religion? I want to apply to a postdoc position at a UK based University. They want me to fill a "Equal Opportunities Data" form with questions about my marital status, sexual orientation, religion and race. ... application united-kingdom privacy   asked by Vladimir F 43 votes answered by Qwerty 51 votes How should a teaching-assistant deal with an angry student? This happened two semesters ago, when I was teaching-assistant to a class of bachelor students. The lecturer had such marking weights, 30% for teaching assistant class including all the homework and ... teaching-assistant interpersonal-issues   asked by Enthusiastic Student 36 votes answered by jakebeal 44 votes How not to come off as boasting or arrogant, if you are one of the few active students in a class? tl;dr: How not to come off as boasting, arrogant, attention seeking, etc. if you are one of the few students participating in class? Some background: I am currently attending a Master's level course ... etiquette students   asked by mort 36 votes answered by jakebeal 27 votes Discovered a serious error in a reviewed paper after submitting the review, what to do? I have been reviewing a paper where the authors apply a computational method from an earlier paper they published to a specific system of general relevance. The paper seemed ok, and I recommended ... publications peer-review errors-erratum   asked by silvado 34 votes answered by Pete L. Clark 50 votes How to deal with two students who potentially colluded when one is unavailable? We have two students in my department who handed in identical essays. As per our policy we scheduled independent meetings with both students to determine what happened. Going into these meetings our ... plagiarism cheating   asked by StrongBad 32 votes answered by Benjamin Mako Hill 33 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Is it right and polite to ask for a free copy of a published paper? There is a published research paper I would like to read. The website it is published in, charges what I think is quite a lot of money, considering that I won't use this for research or work. I want ... publications etiquette   asked by Maximiliano Sorrohcotom 54 votes answered by SLx64 54 votes Is it problematic to use a Wikipedia article I wrote in my PhD thesis? I'm working on a specific subject, and I thought that sharing my bibliographical and synthesis work from peer-reviewed journals on Wikipedia could be a good idea. Moreover, there is no Wikipedia entry ... thesis plagiarism   asked by jeanrjc 27 votes answered by Piotr Migdal 36 votes Can you answer these? PhD admissions - Contacting multiple profs from the same university Presently, I am writing to potential PhD guides in US universities. There are two professors from the same department who work on topics that cannot be considered closely related, but I would be happy ... phd graduate-admissions email   asked by Manoj Kumar 3 votes How likely is it that PhD application is not reviewed by professors if TOEFL minimum isn't met? I am applying to doctoral programs and I have a worry about the application. Since I found that my TOEFL score does not meet the minimal requirement set by a school that I am applying to, I am ... phd graduate-admissions toefl   asked by Kurt 1 vote Are there any experiment reproducibility databases? Quite often when I read a medical research article I wonder whether other researchers tried to reproduce the experiment. I could go through the list of papers that cite the article but I find this ... reproducible-research databases   asked by Franck Dernoncourt 3 votes

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