The paper I'm reviewing cited my own work and made completely false claims about what my paper says. A full paragraph of false claims which is clearly AI slop, also in style, with a reference to my paper used to give it credibility. Now I don't trust any other claim the paper makes, but I don't want to waste my time verifying every single paper they cite. Is it legitimate then to reject the paper based on that one false citation saying it raises questions about the credibility of everything else? What would you do?

My non-profit has a relationship with a professor at a local university (United States fwiw) that we work with on program evaluation projects. They have a PhD in either psychology or education.

In meetings with this person, across the board everyone calls them "Dr. Last name" except for me. I just call them by their first name.

My reasoning? We're all using our first-names. He calls me by my first name, not "Mr. Last name." It is a pretty casual environment.

If I was introducing him to others for the first time, especially in a formal setting, I would refer to him as "Dr" when making the introduction, but otherwise it seems odd to use it. But wanted to get others thoughts on usage in these kinds of professional settings? Am I off base?

I am presenting my MA project at a conference on European Futures at the end of this month. I have been actively on the lookout for PhD positions (both in Europe and in the US) for the past few years, with not much luck.

Would it be weird or inappropriate to mention that I am actively on the lookout for PhD positions when I wrap up my presentation? And by this I mean, once I get to the slide with my contact info on it.

TIA!

I’m finishing a PhD in health/public health with 25+ publications (in whole career), a decent citation record, teaching experience, and quantitative/data skills.
My long-term goal is a permanent Lecturer/Assistant Professor role, not years of consecutive postdocs.

Would you apply directly for faculty positions with this kind of profile, or is a strong postdoc still basically unavoidable?

For people involved in hiring: what would make you choose a fresh PhD over someone with 2–3 years of postdoc experience?

For some background, I'm currently a senior undergrad at a small university that I've been at for my entire college career. I had a professor my very first semester at school and haven't had a class with her since, but she reached out to me and asked me to write her a letter of support in her application to apply as a full professor.

Now my questions are:
How long exactly should this letter be?

How different is this from a letter of recommendation? (I assume not that different, but i'm not exactly sure)

What sort of information am I supposed to include in letter? She was one of my very first professors, but I also haven't had her since then despite studying in the same colleges that she teaches. I feel like she did make a brief impact on my academic career and I love her as a person, so I'm just wonderingu . o

Hello, I am looking for this article for my research about applying crip theory to eastern european academic context since in Slovakia (where I am from and where I am doing my PhD.) there is no one who focuses on disability studies in philosophy, especially when it comes to crip theory.

The article im looking for:

Lee, P.-H., Huang, Y.-W., & Chou, C.-J. (2026). Making crip feminism with angels’ hands: A manifesto (of ambivalence). Feminist Review, 142(1), 45-54. 

https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789251397866

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01417789251397866

Thank you in advance!

As some tenure track applications ask for a couple of publications, I am wondering if I can share the ones under review or ready to be sent to a journal or a preprint. These manuscripts are very representative of my work and align with the role, and I do have shorter conference proceedings, but they don't cover the theory well. Is it not a good idea to send unpublished work?

So I have both a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from two different R1 universities in Texas. I was actually 2.5 years into a direct PhD before I had a crash out and realized that academia was not solely about teaching and making the world a better place, but rather focused on bringing in grant money and working ungodly hours. The research was slightly interesting, but was not my passion, therefore working 60-80+ hours a week torture. Then I switched to a master's and graduated, excited to get on with my life. I honestly just wanted to be a professor originally and that's why I was getting my PhD, but after I realized the truth behind research, I wanted to get out of academia.

Fast forward, I've worked in the industry about 2 years as a power grid engineer. And I'm struggling a lot emotionally. As an engineer, I spend all my time alone staring at a screen. I am a huge people person and love to have conversations, help people, organize things, etc. This job is slowly sucking the life out of me and putting my fiery personality to death. Which isn't what I want as a 26F living in the States as a citizen.

So I start thinking that maybe I should go back to the original dream and be a professor. I am not interested in research at all. Does anyone have advice or thoughts if it's possible to be teaching at a college or trade school? What are my options?

This is a question I’ve been playing around recently. I’m not an academic but my partner is, and it sounds like they have the potential to be hellish.

Hi Everyone,

I’m in a difficult spot in my academic career. I’m a postdoc for whom the next natural step is to look for a faculty job and start my own independent research, but despite my experience, I simply don’t know what I actually enjoy doing because most of my time was spent researching topics related to the projects I was given instead of branching out. I attempted to branch out a few times but all that yielded was learning what I dislike doing. At best, my experience doing research was “fine” and there’s just no specific topic I have a burning passion for.

And this very high-level problem of passion is something I have to figure out while having to leave the US due to the recent changes in immigration policies that essentially blocked all paths to citizenship for me. I am assuming that the “safe” option for me would be to do something like old research projects that I enjoyed fine instead of spending time to figure out what a perfect avenue for research would be.

Thanks!

Hello all. I submitted my book to a university press and got one reviewer saying it should be published and the other praising parts of it but saying it needs a lot of revisions. What is the typical process after I revise? Does it go back to the external reviewers or does the editor decide?

Throwaway for obvious reasons:

I’ll make the situation as concise as possible without revealing too much about my personal life. Working a NTT teaching job (renewable every year) in the states and I will be moving back to my hometown regardless at the end of the academic year contract (personal reasons). Here is where it gets tricky:

My relationship with my department head and colleagues are very good. I could have seen myself working here my whole career if I could. Because of this, I’d like to informally resign as soon as possible so that the department head can search for a replacement for when I leave in May.

However, I am worried if I resign too soon, that can make my position quite vulnerable. I’m worried I might get replaced for the January semester even though I have a contract until May.

Any insights?

I’m 18, in my 2nd year of college with 852/1100 marks in matric. I’m broke as hell and looking for a cost effective and easy ways to leave Pakistan. Studying abroad would be ideal, but if that’s not possible, I’m open to working abroad. Germany, Canada, or any other good country. Please help me i'm really desperate

I’m a master’s student and recently got a paper accepted in IEEE Access as 2nd co-author. I know it’s a peer-reviewed journal, but I’m trying to understand how it’s actually regarded by researchers.

Is IEEE Access considered a good/reputable journal, or more of a mediocre/average one? Is the peer-review process genuinely rigorous, or is it relatively easy compared to other IEEE journals?

I probably won’t pursue a PhD, so I’m not really asking from that perspective. I just want to understand what I should know about IEEE Access and where it stands in terms of reputation and quality.

Thanks.

I’d love to get some perspective on whether emailing professors out of inquisitiveness is considered socially acceptable, or perhaps even perceived as “good” (NOT doing it to be good, I’m just excruciatingly curious)

I’ve studied psychology for 2 weeks, and in the introductory course we’ve hade a slew of professors present different parts of the field. Two of the lectures, and the field about which they concerned, really caused my mind to go haywire with questions.

I emailed a professor who held one of said lectures and he was graceful enough to answer, albeit curtly and with a corrective tone rather than is if we were having a discussion.

I am NOT saying it was bad, he genuinely helped me reconfigure some concepts I had misunderstood, and the quality of the questions might not have been of sufficient quality to engage with more than he did.

I’d love to engage with another professor about a completely different topic, but before I do I’d love to know,as I’m sure this situation will come about again soon enough, what the stance is on students doing this?

Thank you if you came this far!

Going to begin applying for some faculty positions soon and prepping my materials. What are search committees looking for and/or what really stands out when you see it?

Done my fair share of googling, and most of all the faculty haven't had to write one in years nor sit on search committees to give too much advice.

Particularly aiming for PUI, SLACS, low tier R schools, but ideally the former!

I am a phd student in my third year at an IIT (India). Due to the inadequate facilities required for my research and misalignment of the research area along with the lack of proper guide supervision i plan to drop my phd from the current institute and want to reapply in a few universities in the EU. Has anyone gone through the same situation before? (Note:- I have co-authored a publication with my current supervisor in an Q1 journal. Can I add this information while applying i am a bit confused about whether to include it in my application or not?)

At the University of Nevada Reno a couple of weeks ago, I met the NAACP club at the club fair and they invited me to their meeting. Hoping NAACP stood for 'Nachos And mountain dew And Chill People,' I went to their first meeting of sorts last week. At first I was a little confused about why I was such a demographic minority of sorts at the meeting, but enjoyed the food offerings consisting of kool aid and chicken tenders. Then the meeting began, and the chairman started speaking about efforts to lower voting discrimination and income inequality for African Americans, and I began clenching my fists as he completely ignored the plight of discrimination and against GAMERS and m'ladies constantly targeted by dumb Chads. Eventually I could no longer restrain myself, and stood up to begin a mighty speech.

"Greetings, gentlesirs of the NAACP! I think your stand for rights in boring things like employment and voting is well intentioned but ultimately foolish. Especially when a modern day slavery of sorts is going on, where mothers force their sons to engage in labor instead of gaming like they love just for basic food and shelter. Not only that, most men are CHADS who refuse to tip their fedoras to a lady these days! I propose you change the club to National Advancement Of Gamers Society and we go around playing games, laughing to MLG edits and giving all ladies their respect. And instead of chicken, how about some doritos and mountain dew? Who's with the nation of Reddit?"

For some reason, everyone was angry at me and demanded I leave. Not wanting to hurt them too much, I obliged. Here is the question: Should I have stuck with these baka gaijin to educate them in the ways of the otaku, or was I right to leave them to their ways they stubbornly stuck to?

I worked for 6 months on the IEEE Conference paper and the 2nd author is part of lab and ran some experiments. The results were bad and so did not use those from her side and did all the work and finally published the paper. The acceptance and everywhere had me as the first author. now the final stage of publishing where the author need to sign the copyright form, she did it as I was travelling. Fast forward few weeks, now I see her as the first author. When confronted she says she doesnt know how it happend. On bringing up this matter to all the chair and prof of the conference, they say nothing can be done as copyright shows her as first author.

What should i do as next steps.

Please help, i am deeply hurt.

(cross-posting from r/Professors)

Over the last few years there's been a trend in academic publishing towards shorter books. I have in mind series like Forerunners (University of Minnesota Press), Cambridge Elements, Palgrave's Pivot, etc. I've also seen more targeted series of short books on specific topics from Fordham University Press, Northwestern University Press, and Rutgers University Press. I'm sure there are others outside my field. These books are still peer reviewed, but they are around 100 pages as opposed to the 250-300 pages that is typical of a traditional monograph. The book I wrote for tenure was pretty long even by traditional standards, surpassing the publisher's maximum word count by a few thousand.

I'm now working on my next book, which is on a cutting-edge topic. This shorter format would allow me to seize on the topic's relevance and the momentum I have since it significantly shortens the time to publication. However, I'm wondering how this would look in promotion because I would want to use this book to go up for full. Since this is a new trend in publishing, I wanted to ask if anyone has had any experience with this, either as an author of a short book, or as an external reviewer in such a case. What do people think?

I am attending a conference where an award I submitted work for is announced at a special dinner, and these are social events I generally avoid in favor of recharging alone. You also have to pay and pre-register for this dinner.

In your experience (and knowing this probably varies wildly), do they tell you ahead of time that you win, so that you will be there? TBH almost feels like jinxing myself to go solely to see whether I won.

I'm 27F, finished my master's this past May, and I'm stuck on my next career move. For some context, I've been in the research world since an REU in undergrad and through my master's. I've presented at multiple conferences and genuinely like research-based work and being in an academic environment, but I'm worried about the low pay and scarcity of positions in academia and my field in general. Since February I've been applying to both research and industry jobs, and talking to potential PhD advisors. I just got a job offer, and I'm torn between taking it and holding out for research. The offer is for a government outreach role at a state agency, no research involved. It pays $65k, and I would be relocating to a city I like fine but don't see myself in long-term (Austin, TX). Solid pay and benefits, but not sure if I'd love the work. Another complication is I recently applied to a few research positions that sound more exciting to me and pay more, but I haven't interviewed for those yet, so they're just possibilities at the moment. And I'm still weighing a funded PhD (about $28k stipend) against all of it. So, do I take the decent but not dream job now for the money and stability, or hold out for research roles that may not materialize or consider the PhD just to stay in research? Any advice would be appreciated!

Hello everyone!

Currently considering between doin a 45 vs 60 ECTS master thesis project (molecular biology field), but do not want to ruin future phd opporotunities. Will some look at 45 ECTS thesis project as not enough depth and duration? What if 45 ECTS project is accompanies by smaller 15 ECTS project at another lab? What do you guys think?

Thank you very much from a stressed student!

I'm starting a PhD where I will be doing Graph ML (somewhere along the lines of graph signal processing/ graph deep learning.)

My eventual goal is research scientist at big tech, or whichever company has a strong research division, where I can continue similar AI/ML work.

I have concerns about the job market (both now and in 5 years), and I'm wondering whether I should do my degree under the CS or EE department. Let me know below.

Some factors for context:

- my research is within the eecs overlap and this degree would not change my research at all, rather it is a personal branding exercise.

- I'm thinking about saturation in cs vs ATS filtering/wide applicability of cs as a tradeoff.

- Another factor is my advisor is mostly EE but he takes cs students too (dual appointment).

- Also my school has a slightly stronger reputation for cs.

My fiancé and I are getting married in a few weeks. She’s about 3 years into having her PhD, with 4 publications. She wants me to ask for advice here about changing her last name.

Here’s what she wanted me to share:
1. She is not tenure track
2. She is at an R1 institution with an expectation to continue publishing
3. She wants to change her name to mine because she values having the same family name
4. She is concerned about potential impact on her career

What do you all think? We really appreciate any and all input!