Questions tagged [interpersonal-issues]
Questions concerning relationships and dealing with problems between people.
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How to negotiate such toxic competitiveness during my master’s studies?
I came to a university for my master's studies in computer science, along with five batchmates from my country. Since most groups are formed in threes, two teamed up with me and instructed me not to ...
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How to prepare to talk with my advisor about concluding our relationship before the defense?
I'm in the last semester of my PhD program and trying to pull together my dissertation, which has not been going well for the past 2 years.
I shoulder most of the responsibility for this situation, ...
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How can I talk to the professor who has accused me of cheating? [closed]
My professor gave me a course incomplete because my lab3 homework on GitHub is very similar to someone else’s work. I would admit that I did asked former students from this course to send me the lab3 ...
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How can I work with a senior researcher who is less knowledgeable than myself?
This question is partially inspired by this comment on a recent post which says
[...] Part of being successful is working out how to work productively with people who are not as good/knowledgeable/...
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What should I do when a coauthor suggests I fluff up a manuscript?
I have worked on a project almost entirely on my own with some input from my main advisor.
Now I've drafted a manuscript, and I have received comments from my secondary advisor, who is also a coauthor,...
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How to deal with co-supervisor that does not contribute but requires coauthorship?
I'm a PhD student with two supervisors, one main PI which I has nothing to complain about, and a "co-supervisor" that had a long history with my PI. He was my PI's student, then post-doc, ...
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What are my options if a prof ghosted me after agreeing for recommendation letter?
I asked one of my professors, who I had a great relationship with, to write me a LoR for a fellowship.
They're not my advisor.
I had informed them of this 2 months prior to the LoR deadline.
They ...
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Changing Ph.D. supervisor or changing (applying for a new) PhD project
I have moved abroad to do a PhD in Europe (in a STEM field). Currently, I am in my second year, and I have realised that my supervisor has little to no knowledge about the fields (simulations and ...
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Supervisor is acting weird [duplicate]
I am female and married. My PhD supervisor told me that I am lovely and he likes me. He asked me to go for a special date. I rejected as I am married though my husband is in my home country, not with ...
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Does my contribution to an editorial project merit a more formal acknowledgment?
For the past several years, I've worked remotely and without pay in an archive in order to assist a colleague (who has actually left academia) with a book project. The project consists of compiling an ...
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How to deal with an absentee advisor who is unreachable when trying to set up thesis defense
I'm a fifth year PhD student, which is the average year a student in my department graduates. For the majority of my time in my PhD program I've had an absentee advisor. He doesn't respond to emails ...
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What do I do about a professor that demands I publish a nonsense proof?
tl;dr: Skip the first two paragraphs.
I'm a student working in theoretical computer science. I recently did some research where I came up with most of the ideas, but would regularly receive feedback ...
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What should I do if my group members are uncooperative after a warning?
I'm doing a marketing project with five members (including me), and I was elected to be the group leader. (I also forgot to say that it's a school marketing project)
As part of the project, we made a ...
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How to foster a positive relationship with my team in a PhD program when I am older and have work experience?
I recently joined a PhD program after accumulating nine years of work experience. My decision to pursue this program was driven by personal ambition, aiming to refine my skills and engage with ...
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My supervisor published a poster about my (master) thesis without mentioning my name
Last year, I completed my master's thesis, and my supervisor expressed interest in collaborating on a paper based on my work, with me as the second author. However, the paper was never published, and ...
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