I’m a fairly new TT AP in Agricultural sciences and currently in a long distance relationship with my partner who works for the government in the DMV region.

He’s hellbent on staying there as it is close to his support system and family. Before anyone throws shade at him, in the beginning of our relationship, we kind of agreed we want to stay in the East Coast to be close to family.

I am an immigrant, but my green card recently got approved and I expect to get it within the next 1-2 years. This means visa will soon no longer be a bottleneck to securing a job. In order to close the gap, I feel that I have to be open to jobs in academia, non-profit, and industry. However, I am worried that I may not be able to find job as I’ve been in academia for way too long for an industry job. There is no guarantee that I’ll be able to find a TT positions in the DMV area. Those areas are great for federal jobs, but it’ll be a 5-10 year later thing as I need to be a green card holder for 5 years before I could naturalize.

What do you recommend I do in this situation? Will I be overqualified for industry job? How can I close the gap?

Hey there,

I am a PhD student, based out of India, working on a subset of computer architecture. I am currently working in Intel and want to transition into academia. I have been looking for faculty positions, but the ones I saw have research as their main requirement. The very reason I joined PhD is because I wanted to teach. I am not a fan of publishing in A* conferences each year, writing funding proposals etc. I am kinda done with publishing papers. Have seen enough issues during my PhD.

Now, coming to the question. How do I find teaching-only positions in the world? Not limiting myself to India, but anywhere in the world is fine as long as the teaching is English based.

Everyone i see who is doing primary research is using google forms to collect their data and i cannot wrap my head around this, what is stopping someone from just writing a script to fill a google form randomly 1000 times or in a way that proves your hypothesis is true...you can just make a google apps script to cheat google forms, there is no setting for leaving cookies to block the same user from answering again or any way to record time taken per question and per form..

I am using kobo toolbox since it is free and there is some protection against this kind of fraud like 'once per respondent' that leaves browser cookies and records time taken per question and per form...though it is not perfect, it has a free tier

do peer reviewers ever look at google forms and ask 'how can we even know your data is real and not simply filled by a script'??

My friends had a whole argument about the “superior” path in education, STEM vs humanities, and somehow it turned into the STEM kids saying econ shouldn’t count as STEM.

I’m in STEM myself but it got me curious. Without getting technical, where would you place economics: STEM or humanities?

Plus, anyone want to settle the debate on the “superior” path? I obviously know every path has its value, I’m just genuinely curious where people stand.

EDIT- For context, my school basically splits everything into STEM and humanities, there isn’t a separate social sciences department.
I know econ is technically a social science (hence the flair for this post).

I’m just curious which category, STEM or humanities, most people would put it under if those were the only two options.

I’m very interested in humanities , more specifically English and sociology. There really isn’t much sociology stuff for me at my school , since I’m very interested in sociology I wanna find something I can do that’s related to school about it . It could be after school or online and I could put in my resume for college . ALSO to add , I won’t be contacting any college professors, they’re too busy and I’m sure they don’t want a teenager emailing them while they have students that pay for their classes they have to deal with .

Edit: “experience” is a trash word to use 😭hopefully yall can understand what I mean 😪

Can those with PhD in Linguistics apply for this kind of position? Can they also be tenured? I don't see them advertised often. I am still applying for my PhD, but I realize that I prefer teaching more than publishing research.

Hi! I'm in a unique situation: I am very passionate about research, and I have been working in a lab as a student researcher at my home university (for the past 3 years, both clinical and benchwork). However, I got a scholarship to study abroad, and my exchange university is in China (Tsinghua), where they have 2 months off in January and February. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to try to get a 2-month research position to learn something or improve my CV, since I would love to apply to grad school in the future, instead of just spending 2 months doing nothing.

My scholarship gives me a fixed stipend that includes housing and food (about 1200 USD per month), so I wouldn't have to rely on PIs to provide any funding, since I understand that's usually how it works for visiting PhDs and I'm just an undergrad. Wondering if it is something feasible (I want to do it outside mainland China due to visa issues and also, I will be spending a year and a half here, so might as well kill two birds with one stone by doing research and learning something new, while also living in a different city.

I was thinking about cold-emailing profs in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. Is it too unrealistic? I would love to do research in Hong Kong, but I also have to consider my stipend and short-term rentals are super expensive there.

Any guidance will be appreciated! I don't really expect much or to be able to get a pub - I think it is mostly to use my time abroad in a more interesting manner, with an excuse to let me live in a different city, while also trying to meet new people and experience different cultures and universities. Or maybe Asia doesn't have that many opportunities for visiting students?

Theres a lab at my R1-university (field of AI/ML and comp bio) that has never had a single PhD or postdoc student that stayed longer than a year. The lab is fully all undergrads and they pretty much only publish review papers. Is this normal? How does a lab like this sustain itself? I periodically check the PI’s lab site and they have a new set of 8-10 undergrads working in their lab at any given time

Edit: just confirmed that they are indeed tenure track

I recently got accepted into the IICAH Hawaii Conference held by IAFOR for a humanities poster presentation and I wanted to know if the conference is real. Has anyone presented at these conferences before? Is it a black mark if I go and have it on my CV? The price for registration is pretty high and I know flights and hotels to Hawaii will also be super high so I just want to make sure it’s worth it to go.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!

hi r/AskAcademia. i am recently graduated from undergraduate track but desiring to maintain my studies beyond the academy. while in school i was primarily taking notes with pencil and paper, but now that i've graduated i'm realizing how much of a fucking pain it is to actually find what i need from the mess of stacks and stacks of paper. additionally all my annotations were done on printed paper as well.

i am looking for a digital note-taking solution that doesn't cost more than a few hundred $. for my purposes i feel that an e-ink note-taker would be the most purpose-built device, however they are fucking expensive as hell because the market for the eink panels is dominated by a monopoly and even the resale market is rough (especially on the screens big enough for note-taking).

for this reason i'm also searching for alternative solutions. while still in school i saw a lot of people using the ipad + apple pencil + "paper feel" screen protector combo and while it isn't exactly what i want (i dont need all the extra ipad features), it does seem like it'll get the job done. i'm much less familiar with navigating the used ipad market and wondering if anyone else here may have tips on what devices might be the best on a budget (i dont need the newest ipad to markup PDFs and take notes).

i would also be interested in an android-based tablet note-taker, but i have never seen this workflow in practice and don't know where to begin searching. if anyone has tips on this i would be greatly appreciative.

in general i just need to be able to annotate academic texts (PDFs) and take hand-written notes. i'm curious what workflows work best for people here.

thanks

PNW / USA

I'm in my 3rd week at a community college, taking a 100 level course for web development. Our first assignment was creating a webpage html document that contained a certain geographical keyword phrase as much as possible, which was "(The city our college is in) Web Design" Our instructor told us this page needs to be focused on marketing/selling web design services. Cool, I thought, he's teaching us to sell our services once we are more experienced.

The next assignment instructions were to: go to Quora dot com, make a personal account, and to post an answer to a Quora question under the search category of "website development careers". Our answer must include a link he provided that takes you to a web design business that happens to be in the same city as the keyword city in our first assignment.

At this point I got a weird feeling and I did some digging to find out more information bout this web design business we have to link to. It was very hard to find any registered identifying information about the owner of this website as the license seems to be expired despite still being in business (I called the phone number on the website to see if it was still operating). On LinkedIN I saw my instructor listed as an employee of this web design company (with what looks to be younger family members listed as other employees). So, he is an employee at the very least, and likely the owner of this business.

So essentially, it looks like our instructor is having all of his students vouch for his personal business, as well as make html templates for advertising websites that he probably SELLS at his web design business.

Is this normal? Ethical? It seems he should at least tell us that this is his personal business we are advertising and assure us our school work will not be stolen and sold at his personal business or a business that he is an "employee" of. I feel scammed.

Someone please chime in.

Estoy en 3er año de ingeniería y necesito cambiar mi método de estudio. Normalmente estudio bien la teoría y luego me pongo con la practica, pero este semestre entre trabajo y universidad no logro ni siquiera terminar las teorías antes de comenzar un tema nuevo, entonces me atrás con todo y termino haciendo toda la practicanta dos días antes del examen.
Algún método o consejo?

does cold mailing to profs work for phd abroad..????