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2018/05/17 | 1,417 | 5,323 | <issue_start>username_0: The question [Is there a way to change preprint service within OSF system?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/109866/14341) is about to closed and I suspect the reason is that it's a technical question. Perhaps the close voters think that it's better on [Web Applications](https://webapps.sta... |
2018/05/17 | 1,622 | 6,461 | <issue_start>username_0: The [original question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/109789/what-was-offensive-about-the-ladies-lingerie-department-joke-and-how-can-i-av) about the lingerie joke made in an elevator was controversial leading to a lively [meta discussion](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/... |
2018/05/21 | 927 | 3,849 | <issue_start>username_0: The question [What research explains political attitudes of academics?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/110059/7734) has attracted a lot of debate and undergone quite some change since it was posted. In particular, some of the answers do not fit the question (anymore). How shall we proceed... |
2018/05/23 | 571 | 2,444 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been here for about 1-2 months, and clearly see that most of the questions come from mathematicians or computer scientists.
Am I wrong? Is it because these disciplines are on their computers more, relative to a chemist or biologist?<issue_comment>username_1: As its name suggests, the S... |
2018/06/01 | 903 | 3,850 | <issue_start>username_0: The irony of putting on hold this question [How should I handle questions about family/spouse on the job market?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/110614)
is that it limits my right to apply for any position without being the questioned why I choose such a distance, therefore limiti... |
2018/06/03 | 914 | 3,707 | <issue_start>username_0: @scaaahu noticed in the Ivory Tower chat that <https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/91603/d-hutchinson?tab=profile> has been banned for 28 years. Incredible! I took a look at D.Hutchinson's posts at academia.SE and found nothing bad. Really nothing. I might be missing something, but which k... |
2018/06/04 | 508 | 2,046 | <issue_start>username_0: When I browse the questions on the issue of research funding, I found that [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100499/funding-in-mathematics-from-large-companies-as-undergraduate) was closed (I am not the author). Since I want to be more familiar with the norms of Acade... |
2018/06/05 | 814 | 3,227 | <issue_start>username_0: In the following question, I describe how I believe to be the target of a possibly predatory journal:
[Can an academic journal with low reputation be a scam?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/110785/can-an-academic-journal-with-low-reputation-be-a-scam)
I was informed in the subse... |
2018/06/06 | 1,274 | 4,904 | <issue_start>username_0: Part of the questions on the Academia.SX mainly focus on admissions procedure in different countries. One of the best questions, succeeded to cover questions about application procedure in the United States, [link](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/38237/how-does-the-admissions-proce... |
2018/06/09 | 1,120 | 4,546 | <issue_start>username_0: A few people flagged the last couple of questions I asked as duplicates of other questions, while they clearly weren't duplicates and the people flagging it had apparently misunderstood/missed the part of my explanation that was explaining why the question is not a duplicate. Yet, flagging a qu... |
2018/06/15 | 384 | 1,437 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a closed question on the OSF system: [Is there a way to move a preprint from one service to another within the OSF system?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/109866/is-there-a-way-to-move-a-preprint-from-one-service-to-another-within-the-osf-sys) that has spawned a number of... |
2018/06/20 | 1,155 | 4,513 | <issue_start>username_0: I subscribe to the [review-articles](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/review-articles "show questions tagged 'review-articles'") tag, whose description is this:
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> "Survey" or "review" articles are academic publications that organize
> and summarize the current state of r... |
2018/06/22 | 903 | 3,545 | <issue_start>username_0: This is quite funny, because although whether the [original question about the OSF system](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/109866/14341) is reopened or not, I think the meta series is more interesting. First, let's recap:
1. [Are questions asking technical issues on academic services on-t... |
2018/06/26 | 2,240 | 9,368 | <issue_start>username_0: My answer to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/111498/40589) has been quite controversial, attracting several hundred positive and negative votes and a long thread of comments. An initial batch of comments was moved to chat per the usual site policy, and two subsequent long s... |
2018/07/09 | 1,466 | 5,761 | <issue_start>username_0: Latino is not even race, [Is this statistic about how many Latinos/Hispanics have a PhD in the USA correct?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/111045/is-this-statistic-about-how-many-latinos-hispanics-have-a-phd-in-the-usa-correct)
and it was only referenced via social media,
my qu... |
2018/07/22 | 1,172 | 4,538 | <issue_start>username_0: We commonly redirect questions such as ["Manuscript status changed from Review in progress to Ready for review"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114030/manuscript-status-changed-from-review-in-progress-to-ready-for-review) to ["What does the typical workflow of a journal look like"... |
2018/07/27 | 400 | 1,616 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a bounty recently for [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114135/why-do-most-scientists-think-brexit-is-bad-for-british-science). The reason is explained in the bounty notice: most of the answers are passionately anti-Brexit. However if the answers provide the... |
2018/08/01 | 3,825 | 15,577 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Context
I recently updated my answer to the question [Do all countries have the same gender imbalance in science?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/34360/do-all-countries-have-the-same-gender-imbalance-in-science/94081) with additional information.
Basically, my answer contain... |
2018/08/01 | 386 | 1,839 | <issue_start>username_0: I think it's clear from the Help and actual questions/answers here that questions about the academic side of research are on topic. However, are questions about research administration on topic?
By "research administration" I mean things like:
* Interpreting uniform guidance regarding things ... |
2018/08/02 | 679 | 2,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I have posted a question a few months ago and I would like to get it deleted.
In the question I have posted my own opinion and views that I have used in an essay. I have been told that there have been some similarities found using the [Turnitin](https://www.turnitin.com/) service and I have t... |
2018/08/19 | 1,254 | 4,717 | <issue_start>username_0: [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/115512/20058) and [this other one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/115513/20058) have been recently put on hold for being strongly dependent on individual factors.
I think that the closure of the above questions is unfair and unwarrante... |
2018/08/20 | 896 | 3,302 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked a few questions on this website and I think all of them got deleted. I have no idea how to ask a good question on this site. I'm not a researcher. Maybe researchers have knowledge that I don't have from which they can figure out how to ask a good question. I read [How do I ask a good qu... |
2018/08/21 | 3,134 | 13,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I closed my account and it will be effectuated within 24 hours. I received an indirect personal attack on my posts. I also do not like how quickly sincere questions of (new) participants are downvoted or labelled as a duplicate because a couple of years ago a similar question was asked. These r... |
2018/08/25 | 745 | 3,001 | <issue_start>username_0: On some large portion of all questions about conferences,
it becomes important to know if the
conference is in Computer Science, or one of the other fields, that takes conferences seriously as a publication venue.
I was thus thinking we should put something in the tag wiki,
to recommend to us... |
2018/08/29 | 971 | 3,945 | <issue_start>username_0: See this: [*How does the admissions process work for Ph.D. programs in the UK, particularly for weak or borderline students?*](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/115557/84565)
And, compare it with this: [*How does the admissions process work for Ph.D. programs in the US, particularly for we... |
2018/08/31 | 2,323 | 8,551 | <issue_start>username_0: Update - the theme and layout is now live for everyone.
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Thanks for your feedback in this process. If there's additional feedback, please feel free to add to the answers below.
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As part of implementing the new unified themes across th... |
2018/09/01 | 1,331 | 5,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I have made a question very clearr (and interesting) as the answer and comments show ([Why publishing in a journal instead of arxiv or in my blog?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/116166/)), but 4 users flaged this as unclear. I feel that this is a censorship strategy because the q... |
2018/09/16 | 1,559 | 6,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm deleting my academia stackexchange account so I don't really care if this my last question will be marked as duplicate or off-topic. The reason why I'm asking this question is that I feel the academia stackexhange community right now heavily focused on hierarchy of this forum such as preven... |
2018/09/21 | 1,321 | 5,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering what is the similarity percentage of answers and opinions, which are given on Academia Stack Exchange to users, to the opinion of academic community as a bigger entity? In other words, do the answers here necessarily reflect the accepted answers to questions or problems of whole a... |
2018/10/03 | 676 | 2,866 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I posted [a question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/117764/98164) which at the first time I didn't expect that it will receive this huge ~ 12k attention. Now, I'm wondering why it received this amount of popularity among the academic community in this forum? Because I had simil... |
2018/10/05 | 1,012 | 4,298 | <issue_start>username_0: Quite a few questions at Academia are about conflicts with Supervisors, both for students and for post-docs. A question there about how to avoid such conflicts from arising, starting on the first day, would likely be closed for a variety of reasons - broad, opinions, shopping, etc.
Is this a ... |
2018/10/15 | 504 | 2,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question about my Academia Stack Exchange post: [is my spreadsheet considered a framework?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/118384/is-my-spreadsheet-considered-a-framework)
I posted a question about my methodology for generating a theoretical framework but some lads respo... |
2018/11/13 | 621 | 2,544 | <issue_start>username_0: It's clear that you could reasonably use [supervision](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supervision "show questions tagged 'supervision'") without using [advisor](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/advisor "show questions tagged 'advisor'"), but I'm confused ... |
2018/11/13 | 1,205 | 5,189 | <issue_start>username_0: Proposition: The targeted reader of an answer isn't necessarily the OP who asked the question and therefore a general answer may be appropriate.
Background: Some commenters (and down voters) object if an answer is much more general than the question calls for or even orthogonal to the questio... |
2018/11/22 | 1,303 | 5,777 | <issue_start>username_0: A recent question has caused me to think about the idea of *reproducible-research* and what the concept means. I think that, while it may be fairly common to use this term, that a better term would be preferable, so as to make an important distinction.
The term I would prefer for this would be... |
2018/12/04 | 977 | 3,860 | <issue_start>username_0: ["Is it acceptable to shoot people if they annoy you?"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/120966/is-it-acceptable-to-publish-student-names-with-the-label-stupid-question)
Well, that's not exactly what was asked, but it's pretty close. And then people write serious answers saying "No... |
2018/12/20 | 1,198 | 4,857 | <issue_start>username_0: [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/121920/7734) asks about studies about peer reviewing. It was voted to close as off-topic and one of the close voters gave the argument:
>
> This reads as if you want people here to do your research on a particular topic. That would put it o... |
2018/12/27 | 1,255 | 5,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a bit concerned about [a recent post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/103328) (now deleted, link for 10 k users only) which was a pretty aggressive accusation with both the specific supervisor and accuser clearly identified.
I think most of the answers and comments are directe... |
2019/01/09 | 750 | 2,749 | <issue_start>username_0: Up until 2016, [there were polls](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3561/19607) asking if we wanted to participate in the annual Winter Bash Hat Festivals. Why haven't there polls the past couple of years? I realize the votes have been overwhelmingly in favor of hats, so they might seem... |
2019/01/13 | 692 | 2,866 | <issue_start>username_0: [Why is research at highly productive research institutions better than those at not-so-highly productive research institutions?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/122944/7734)
Unfortunately the answers to that question focus on critiquing how the rankings came about, which are not really r... |
2019/01/23 | 1,067 | 4,135 | <issue_start>username_0: 2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of **Community Promotion Ads**! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
### What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right si... |
2019/01/29 | 1,612 | 5,922 | <issue_start>username_0: This is to share a case study about the "fastest gun in the west" issue discussed on Academia.SE [here](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3826/are-upvotes-skewed-towards-the-first-answer-to-a-question/3827#3827) and more broadly [here](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97... |
2019/01/30 | 611 | 2,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I found [Am I conveying disrespect if I omit my gender pronoun from a conference nametag?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/123994/am-i-conveying-disrespect-if-i-omit-my-gender-pronoun-from-a-conference-nametag) through the Hot Questions list. I was interested in posting an answer, ... |
2019/02/10 | 337 | 1,234 | <issue_start>username_0: Motivated by these questions:
[Case Study: First Answer Bias](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4414/19607) and [Are upvotes skewed towards the first answer to a question?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3826/19607)
I propose a biased (biased towards people who use the me... |
2019/02/19 | 1,213 | 4,463 | <issue_start>username_0: We have seen the definition of plagiarism numerous times on this site, more or less elaborated, but always in its core:
>
> Plagiarism is passing someone else's work as your own
>
>
>
I am all for questions which ask to [understand the concept better](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/... |
2019/03/02 | 750 | 3,132 | <issue_start>username_0: There seems to be a huge number of very low-rep users called "guest." Is this the same individual, or a small number of individuals, who are using "guest" as a burner account? Does this violate either the terms or community norms of ASE?<issue_comment>username_1: Only mods know if two accounts ... |
2019/03/10 | 1,266 | 5,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I have fairly frequently been in the situation of being in the middle of providing an answer to a question when it is closed, leaving me no option but to discard my contribution or hope that the question can be re-opened.
It can be very frustrating to put in the mental effort to prepare an ans... |
2019/03/11 | 2,093 | 8,948 | <issue_start>username_0: The mechanics
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Hot Network Questions (HNQ) are questions shown in the bottom right sidebar featuring from other sites of the Stack Exchange network that are considered “hot” by a heuristic that takes into account recent visits, answers, and votes.
There can be issues when one of o... |
2019/03/14 | 1,127 | 3,806 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question to ask on the main site, and I want to ask on the meta first. My concern is that I may need to put links to my works, which can be perceived as hidden advertisement or making the question too narrow (individual factors). I'm not sure how to address that. Maybe you can ask me q... |
2019/03/20 | 658 | 2,180 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I was reading and answering the question [Do I need to sit for TOEFL or SAT?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/125804/do-i-need-to-sit-for-toefl-or-sat)
I searched for relevant tags and saw we have three tags:
[Asia](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asi... |
2019/04/02 | 5,081 | 21,050 | <issue_start>username_0: Introduction
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One of the actualities of academia that is important to be aware of when using this site is:
**Academia varies more than you think it does.**
More explicitly: Academic practices strongly vary between countries, fields, journals, universities, departments, and even gro... |
2019/05/09 | 443 | 1,811 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a gold badge for the phd tag. I'm not a moderator. But it seems that if I vote to close a question tagged with phd (at least as a duplicate), I can do it on my own, without votes from others.
I think this is probably a mistake as it gives a non-mod more power than we should have.
I v... |
2019/05/24 | 617 | 2,578 | <issue_start>username_0: A user heavily edited someone else's closed question [I want a book to be translated into my native language?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/130945/i-want-a-book-to-be-translated-into-my-native-language) to change the question from focusing on a popular fiction book (which seems ... |
2019/05/25 | 1,308 | 5,208 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up to [Should we reject an edit that fundamentally changes an off topic question on translating books?](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4489/7734), where Buffy [remarked](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4492/7734):
>
> Let me note that there have been othe... |
2019/06/12 | 694 | 3,220 | <issue_start>username_0: What is our stance regarding questions asking for survey of institution’s regulations? Are they on-topic or off-topic?
For example, the question [When an academic researcher receives a gift funding from an industry partner, does the academic researcher's university take a cut?](https://academi... |
2019/06/14 | 1,501 | 6,087 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been using academic.stackexchange quite enthusiastically during a rough postdoc devoid of mentorship. However, since I am a young researcher and since some of the questions I want to ask are rather sensitive, I am careful about what information I disclose, my field being one of them. My sp... |
2019/08/01 | 1,501 | 6,106 | <issue_start>username_0: Hеllo,
I am asking here regarding the answer of user <NAME> to the following question: [Should I intervene when a colleague in a different department makes students run laps as part of their grade?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/134002/should-i-intervene-when-a-colleague-in-a-di... |
2019/08/06 | 407 | 1,683 | <issue_start>username_0: Many apologies for [Daughter wants to advocate physician-assisted suicide as her life goal. Shall she be professor?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/134238/75817). How do I edit it and make it on-topic? Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: I am not sure you can, but your question is pretty un... |
2019/08/21 | 1,386 | 5,748 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been thinking about the general model on which the stack exchange sites work and I feel like academia.stackexchange is rather flawed. The model is essentially that lay practitioners are able to prove their experience in a socially recognized way (upvotes) and are therefore granted corres... |
2019/08/26 | 982 | 3,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to ask the following question, but am not sure if it is appropriate for this site. Can you help me tell if it is okay to ask here? If not, can you point to a better forum?
>
> I consider myself part of the community of scholars. I have a few publications, but have worked (hard) in indu... |
2019/09/09 | 2,065 | 8,426 | <issue_start>username_0: For the [upcoming](https://academia.stackexchange.com/election/3) and future elections, could you please describe what it is like being a moderator on Academia Stack Exchange?
In particular:
* What are your most time-consuming or challenging duties?
* What are the specificities of this site?
... |
2019/09/09 | 1,492 | 6,127 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> **The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it [here](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4561/32458).**
>
>
>
Academia is scheduled for an election [next week, September 16](https://academia.stackex... |
2019/09/12 | 2,715 | 11,736 | <issue_start>username_0: For a site about academia and helping users out with academic related questions, I have tried posting 6-7 times on that forum and each time have had my questions flagged as off topic or too specific. Despite me specifically stating I was looking for general direction and not specifics. I have h... |
2019/09/13 | 1,118 | 4,260 | <issue_start>username_0: [This question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/135907/73) about patent infringement yielded a few moderately contentious answers, as judged by the number of flags on the question. [One of them](https://academia.stackexchange.com/revisions/135933/1) simply stated that China was a dictators... |
2019/09/16 | 6,627 | 25,728 | <issue_start>username_0: In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected [from an earlier thread](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4537/32458) have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their... |
2019/09/25 | 884 | 3,759 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/137528/98164) attracted a lot of attentions, surprisingly not just from new users even from experienced users with moderation capabilities, despite the fact that it is obviously off-topic and opinion based.
The other issue is that ... |
2019/09/30 | 2,466 | 10,067 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently there has be a lot of discussion regarding [Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper). A num... |
2019/10/01 | 576 | 1,968 | <issue_start>username_0: Academia's [third moderator election](https://academia.stackexchange.com/election/3) has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:
[](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/20058/massimo-ort... |
2019/10/05 | 2,570 | 10,368 | <issue_start>username_0: I have never understood why some answers-in-the-comments (or partial answers, or empirical data) are apparently allowed, while others get deleted. As I practice swinging this hammer, I find myself confronted with this more and more.
StackExchange's [guidance](https://meta.stackexchange.com/qu... |
2019/10/07 | 1,076 | 4,539 | <issue_start>username_0: *As I already said [here](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4590/7734), if we want to better define our stance on answers in comments, this has to be a community effort.
We have to clarify how we react to users posting comments as answers, how, if, and when they should be flagged, and w... |
2019/10/08 | 708 | 2,296 | <issue_start>username_0: The small ['liberal arts' tag](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/liberal-arts) is defined in the tag wiki as:
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> Questions having to do with liberal arts subjects such as literature, languages, art, music, philosophy, and history.
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>
>
However, several of the questions... |
2019/10/10 | 1,647 | 6,431 | <issue_start>username_0: The SE [Code of Conduct](https://academia.stackexchange.com/conduct) has been changed in regards to the use of pronouns when referring to users.
There is a fair amount of discussion at MSE [What does the Code of Conduct say about pronouns?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336364/what-... |
2019/10/13 | 1,057 | 3,400 | <issue_start>username_0: Now that [The code of conduct has been changed](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4607/19607), I found myself wondering to what extent non/gendered pronouns are a concern for people on Academia.SE. Do we have any data/rough idea about how many users of this site state preferred pronouns... |
2019/10/21 | 819 | 2,804 | <issue_start>username_0: I find myself uncomfortable with the title of this question, but don't want to get into an edit war, and the question is at the moment both protected and close to closure: [Is it bizarre that a professor asks every student for a 3 inch by 5 inch photograph?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q... |
2019/11/18 | 1,358 | 5,318 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago, I had a [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/138935/what-to-expect-when-pursuing-a-second-doctorate-in-an-unrelated-field) closed and marked as a duplicate. I found the experience to be quite bizarre-- [the post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/172... |
2019/11/22 | 1,646 | 6,421 | <issue_start>username_0: One moderator suspended [activity](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper/334390#334390)
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> 'm a mod on Academia.SE. After reading the official SE response, I'm going to temporarily suspend my mod activi... |
2019/11/30 | 542 | 2,132 | <issue_start>username_0: I was just editing tags for a question with only the “untagged” tag, and I noticed that there doesn’t seem to be an “academic-writing” tag. Given that a number of our questions seem to be about the process and contents of academic writing, this seems to be an oversight; I’m wondering if it was ... |
2020/01/01 | 1,974 | 7,336 | <issue_start>username_0: The question was closed. Currently, my closure reason comment has 25 upvotes. There are several bad answers. I cannot find any comments about reopening (too many to read them all carefully.) Why is the question open now?
[Why are female students evaluating my teaching worse than males?](https... |
2020/01/16 | 2,077 | 8,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I have decided that I can no longer contribute my efforts to Stack Exchange and therefore I am stepping down as a moderator and planning on leaving the community. I will not be deleting my accounts or content, but I will not be actively participating. I have been thinking about this for a while... |
2020/01/30 | 1,370 | 5,578 | <issue_start>username_0: The question [How to answer the diversity question during faculty interview](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/143541/73) has attracted a few answers, but [one in particular](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/143572/73) stands out as being both rather non-politically correct and also quit... |
2020/03/10 | 1,592 | 6,447 | <issue_start>username_0: Many of the [citation-style](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citation-style "show questions tagged 'citation-style'") questions, some of which are erroneously tagged [citations](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/citations "show questions tagged 'citations'"... |
2020/03/11 | 791 | 2,541 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know how much help I can be, but I've created a [chat room](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/105448/online-learning-chat) where people who suddenly find themselves in a situation where they have to entirely change their teaching toolset in the next few weeks can post resources, or a... |
2020/03/11 | 3,197 | 13,283 | <issue_start>username_0: I posted the gist of this as an answer to the meta thread on faculty support during the corona virus, but it was suggested that it might make sense as its own question. **What questions should be closed as “shopping”?**
* Here’s the [meta thread from 2017](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.c... |
2020/03/12 | 3,785 | 12,414 | <issue_start>username_0: The current COVID-19 crisis impacts academia in several ways: teaching and exams are moved online, conferences are cancelled, travel is restricted, etc.
If you are here because of this, here is a brief introduction to our site and resources that may help you.
### Finding existing questions
We... |
2020/03/24 | 1,502 | 5,732 | <issue_start>username_0: A low reputation user posted a very short answer. The answer had a net 13 upvotes. A moderator deleted the answer giving the reason that "It adds nothing whatsoever to the earlier answers and has no lasting value. Moreover it mocks the asker."
Votes indicate the first reason is wrong - it was ... |
2020/04/22 | 697 | 2,527 | <issue_start>username_0: [This](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/147940/leaving-academia-at-39/1) question entitled as "Leaving academia at 39" basically asks advice from people who had similar experience during their academic career. I believe that his question is highly relevant to academia, and very bene... |
2020/04/24 | 1,733 | 6,685 | <issue_start>username_0: We regularly get questions from people who describe symptoms of depression or anxiety. These are very common mental health problems. Some askers explicitly say they are depressed or anxious and it is disrupting their lives. Others only imply it.
Often, but not always, these questions are close... |
2020/04/25 | 1,053 | 4,540 | <issue_start>username_0: [Is this statement on doing a PhD in Germany as a foreigner accurate for mathematics?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/144960/7734) was closed for being primarily opinion-based. It actually failed to be closed in the close queue, [receiving three *leave open* votes](https://academia.stacke... |
2020/04/29 | 2,014 | 8,002 | <issue_start>username_0: Background
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With [recent changes to the closing system](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/346638/255554), we can now tailor the texts for custom close reasons to different audiences:
* One text that informs close flaggers, voters, and reviewers when the close reason should be used.
*... |
2020/05/05 | 946 | 3,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I may have fallen into a bad habit. A few questions get asked that don't require much thought or analysis to answer. Often the answer is "ask your advisor" or "contact that journal". The OP needs some help but the question is anything but earth-shattering.
I've been "answering" quite a few of... |
2020/06/11 | 428 | 1,763 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have noticed that two of my answers get downvoted each day.
I have seen other posts that mention the system notices serial downvoting, but will the system notice two a day across several days?
I know that the system will revoke downvotes of say ten in a row as that is easily spotted but w... |
2020/06/13 | 1,342 | 5,273 | <issue_start>username_0: In accepted answer to this question:
[A free papers search engine](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/150373/7319)
@Allure states that:
>
> Your friend is probably thinking of Sci-Hub. Warning: it's likely illegal, including to use the service (as opposed to uploading stuff onto it), in m... |
2020/06/22 | 3,700 | 13,064 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday, I asked a question in Academia.SE: [Are there any scientific papers that were retracted by the publisher due to the reader comments?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/150829/are-there-any-scientific-papers-that-were-retracted-by-the-publisher-due-to-the)
**Disclaimer:** ... |
2020/06/23 | 712 | 2,841 | <issue_start>username_0: <https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/150925/25124>
Do Japanese-Americans not want people to talk about what happened to them during WW2? If that is the case, I want a source.<issue_comment>username_1: A comment left on this answer stated:
>
> This seems to be more of a snarky comment than a... |
2020/07/08 | 2,637 | 9,849 | <issue_start>username_0: Personally I think downvoting should only be done in very exceptional circumstances: I've been on this site for over 2 years and only picked up the critic badge about 1 month ago (meaning I never downvoted anyone for about 2 years).
I appreciate that not everyone has the same opinion as me, an... |
2020/07/12 | 1,559 | 5,763 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently there has been few questions (that I will avoid linking) about PhD student workload expectations and how that can compare to a "normal" 40h/w job. Generally, this comes from PhD students or prospective PhD students that are worried or actually overworked.
My worry is, that these quest... |
2020/07/26 | 2,168 | 8,758 | <issue_start>username_0: *Due to recurring problems with questions that contain allegations against named individuals or organisations, we moderators would like to implement a policy against these.*
*This should only affect a small fraction of questions that cause a disproportionate amount of trouble. In this post, we... |
2020/08/04 | 1,235 | 4,632 | <issue_start>username_0: **A first draft of the requested canonical question is now live [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/153661/what-are-the-criteria-for-degree-revocation/). Please help us out by editing the wiki and adding information.**
[Can public political criticism of my alma mater result in ... |
2020/08/04 | 656 | 2,534 | <issue_start>username_0: The [revision history](https://academia.stackexchange.com/posts/153498/revisions) of [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/153498/can-public-political-criticism-of-my-alma-mater-result-in-my-ba-being-revoked-35) seems to be saying that edit #6 is the addition of a thank-y... |
2020/09/04 | 2,992 | 11,351 | <issue_start>username_0: The tag **[disability](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disability "show questions tagged 'disability'")** is currently synonymised with [health-issues](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/health-issues "show questions tagged 'health-issues'") (see the [full l... |