Questions tagged [email]
Questions on using e-mail for communicating literature and collaborating with peers. Also related to academic advertising or announcements.
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Professor previously wrote letter, and now he's not responding to my emails
Last year I applied for PhD programs. I got together four letter writers two from my current MA program and two from a previous MA program. I was rejected from every PhD program that year, and I was ...
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How to Address a PhD Student in an Email: Mr. or Dr.?
I am preparing to send an email to a PhD student and am unsure of the appropriate title to use in my greeting. Is it more appropriate to address them as Mr./Ms. or as Dr., considering they are still ...
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Is this professor being unnecessarily harsh or did I actually make a mistake?
As a first-year PhD student, I've been receiving feedback on my dissertation plan from my supervisor and other professors. One of these professors recommended that I contact a professor from a ...
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Is it common to email researchers to "sell" your work?
I recently read a paper with a research direction similar to mine. The paper builds an extension for a class of models that is very similar to the one I've been developing, but the paper doesn't ...
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Potential PhD supervisor recommended me to the Director of another university research group, is this a good or bad sign?
So one of the potential PhD advisors at a university let's say X whom I emailed didn't reply but recommended me to another professor who is the Director of another university's say Y's research group. ...
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Getting research award and then ghosted?
I am being offered a research award at a university in a western europe country, and it's a quite known one as well in that country (well you can say in Europe as well). The research award is not from ...
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What title should I use to greet both a professor and an associate professor in an email?
I am wondering how to write email to both a professor and an assistant professor in the same email.
Shall I use "Dear Professor … and …" or "Dear Professor … and Assistant Professor … &...
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Co-authors don't answer anymore and we still want them to be authors, what affiliations and emails should I use?
We are 4 co-authors for a paper. The four of us contributed significantly to the article, though, since approximately 6 months, two of them do not reply to the emails. Thus, we are two remaining ...
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What does this reply imply after a missed application deadline?
I missed the deadline to apply for admission in PhD programs of the University of Toronto by a month (because of my job restrictions!). So I mailed the University's PG office asking whether there can ...
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When to reply the email of a job offer?
I got an email with a written job offer for a faculty position in the US. A question that I never saw addressed is about the timing of replying to a written offer email.
Should I acknowledge and thank ...
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Different strategies to mentioning the need for negotiating a faculty position in the US
Today I received a written offer from a great US department in my field (Biology) and still did not reply to the email. I want to start negotiations about a few points in that offer, but I need also a ...
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I want to change my PhD supervisor after two years, I have a DAAD scholarship. how can I write email to ask PhD position from other groups?
I am considering changing my PhD supervisor after two years into the program and currently hold a DAAD scholarship. How should I approach writing an email to inquire about PhD positions in other ...
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On cold emailing professors about your research question
I am a postdoc in Mathematics in the West.
I am currently stuck on a research problem, and the things that I am stuck on lie far outside my domain. Hence, I have tried to cold email professors who ...
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How can I use one Google Scholar account with two different university emails?
I have a Google Scholar account which is verified by an university account (let's call it university "A"), and my account on scholar has three articles in it.
But now, I got a second ...
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I lost my university email account. How can I help the readers of my publications reach me? [duplicate]
In my university days, I published eight papers in journals of Elsevier and in the the top-50 publications. I used the email account provided by my university, since they promised me that such account ...
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