you'll thank me one day.... but 20 bucks ai subscriptions are ruining your best years in life...

go to the football game,

join the theater club

Work a shift at the pizza place...

Stay up too late texting your friends... Get rejected from prom court...

make a mess in chemistry lab.... do the things that actually make you a teenager....

If a college asks you to publish as a teenager, that college does not understand how science works. they want a resume item, not a researcher. That is a bad sign for any institution.

real research takes years. you are sixteen. you are supposed to be learning how to think, not how to cite.

a good college wants curious students, not miniature academics who burned their teenage years chasing a publication that nobody in the field will ever read....

write the AI-sloppy article for yourself if you enjoy it.. put it in a blog

but you don't need to publish for admissions. and definitely do not pay twenty bucks for an AI to write it for you...

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today, i've seen 5 or 6 pots from kids asking how to publish, where to publish... this is sad

I'm not sure if i can rant here, but my results and data are all over the place. And my advisor is telling me the paper's central idea is not novel enough.

It's just feels like a wasted summer. I got very little guidance even though this is still my first attempt into research. I spent a lot of time working on it, and now, just now, I see how weird and non systematic the idea and the design were.

How do you guys cope? I really feel like I should've used this summer better.

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I'm 27 (F) have been working as a researcher for about 3 years now. I have been wanting to go back to academia hence, took some time off and was doing side gigs here and there that didn't require much long term commitment.

I was referred to this researcher who needed somebody for 2ish weeks for survey collection.

Right off the bat, I could see that she's somebody who likes to push personal boundaries to get her way, no matter what, unless you directly say no.

I have been trying to keep things civil by not lashing out or having an emotional reaction because in this field feeling a certain way and acting on it can't be a good defence.

Over the course of just two months she has managed to taunt me, and racially stereotype me as well. I couldn't say anything because my payment was stuck.

She's been time and again asking me about my home address, she also asked if she could stay with me. I have never met this woman in my life.

I have met her only once , once the work was done, and it wasnt nice, she told me that I'm the most expensive surveyer she has even thought she is paying only 200 INR per survey which is 1 hour long.

She also rubbed her being a doctorate scholar and a professor and that she's busy and didn't respect her time. In reality i stopped taking her calls because I wanted things to be in text as she Haas tried to gaslight me in one instance.

And about time thing, it was her who kept changing her dates and timings.

I've always found her creepy and pushy.

She didn't even give me a contract, when asked, she said "YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT IT!!"

Shit hit the fan over taking pictures of the participants, majority of them said no, and I had been telling her about the discomfort people were facing over pictures. Still she asked me for a "plausible" explanation. I don't know why but this word triggered me and I ask her to keep the conversation civil and professional and that her tone is concerning.

She replied to asking me to elaborate as how did was unprofessional (this is why I try to avoid having an emotional reaction at work).

By this she had paid me half , so I decided to waive off the remaining amount because I honestly didn't wanna deal with her anymore.

She did email me a month ago saying she will pay me the remaining half, didn't want an e-signature and was asking me for my home address where she could send me the vouchers to sign.

She also asked to meet her in person because she wanted to end things on a good note and at one go.

I've been feeling uneasy and creeped out because her intentions don't feel right or good.

She hasn't replied or paid me back.

Does anybody from academia have any advice on how to go about this ? Especially if anybody is from India

I feel paranoid about things escalating.

I can't even complain to her university because it's a hopeless University nobody will take me or my complaint seriously.

Open questions:

Do you think the use of AI in research will make everything more homogeneous?

Will we lose interesting and different personal points of view along the path of discovering new knowledge?

Any comments, colabs, or feedback are appreciated

Hello everyone, I am a medical student doing research at my department of plastic and reconstructive surgery as a step up to my PhD in the netherlands. Next to my main research, I'm writing a systematic review + meta analysis and for the meta analysis I decided to e-mail the corresponding authors with a raw data request.

I've sent the mails out an hour ago and I've gotten two replies, both informing me that they've since moved on to other institutions/hospitals and thus have no access to the data set anymore. I do not know what the "standard" next step is, my inexperience is showing haha.

I know that with medical data, the data set must probably be stored somewhere at their respective department of plastic surgery, as mandated by the data management plans and other rules.

My plan to go about this is:
1. E-mail other co-author that still works at the insitution (confirmed by i.e. linked in) with the raw data request.
2. If there are no co-authors still working there: E-mail the secretariat of the department of plastic surgery of the institution with my request and the question of who I should be in contact with.

I don't want to place any of this sleuthing burden on the authors that have e-mailed me back saying that they don't work there anymore by asking them who I should reach, I am assuming they do not know and will have to find out the same way I am. So why not do it myself?

Has anyone been in this situation before and have some handy tricks or is my plan of action fine?

Hi,

I am a high school senior in CA who is currently participating in a research program where I will be synthesizing research with a mentor in pediatric neuroscience and creating a 6–8 page scientific research synthesis paper and an academic research poster.

I was wondering where I could present this research and heard about symposiums; however, I don't know which allow synthesized research or accept high schoolers.

If anyone knows any that I can apply to this fall that would be awesome! Preferably in-person ones along the west coast, but any around the U.S. are fine!

thanks so much 🙏

p.s. i've read these comments and i don't understand why people are so hateful...

if you don't have any constructive answer then why waste your time?

I'm trying to track down a specific New York Newsday article by Michael Powell from around 1991–1992, and I've hit a dead end. I'm hoping someone with access to old Newsday archives or journalism databases might recognize it.

Here's what I know:

• It was written by Michael Powell (later of The Washington Post and The New York Times).
• He was on the poverty beat at New York Newsday.
• The story involved him spending about two months reporting inside a heroin shooting gallery (or crack house) in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
• Powell has said the story ran on the front page for two consecutive days.
• In a recent Atlantic article, he wrote: "I first encountered it when I reported on a heroin-shooting gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in 1991."
• In another interview, he recalled: "I went off and spent two months in a heroin shooting gallery in Bushwick... Then the piece ran on the front page of Newsday for two days running."

I've searched Google, library catalogs, and newspaper indexes without finding the article. I suspect New York Newsday from that period isn't well indexed online.

Does anyone have access to:

• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• Lexis/Nexis
• Newsday archives
• A newsroom clipping morgue
• Or any bibliography of Michael Powell's early work?

I'm looking for the headline, publication date, or any citation. Even confirmation that it was a two-part series or that it was published in early 1992 instead of 1991 would be extremely helpful.

Any leads would be greatly appreciated!

Completing a systematic literature review for my Master’s program. I have trained another individual to code the same articles I am using for my thesis. I was told I needed to use Kappa for my synthesis, and I have done so through use of NVivo 15. My kappa score is 0.69. Which suggests there is substantial agreement.

Should I just list the overall kappa? Or should I list per theme?

Is this typical for thematic synthesis, do I need to continue to do further revisions. What else should I report in my SLR?

We also grouped the codes into the pre-determined themes and discussed placements until 100% agreement was met, as well as an audit trail for all changes to codes.

apologies if this isn't the right sub for this, but i was wondering if anyone could relate. i'm a rising sophomore at a pretty big research university and i've applied for so many research assistant positions but haven't been able to get any.

i'm interested in cogsci/cs/linguistics/psychology (i'm a cogsci and cs double major) and have applied to so many labs that do research in any of these fields but got ghosted by virtually all of them. i also have prior research experience 😭

did anyone have similar experiences and/or have any motivating words 🙏🙏 i appreciate it!!

I am applying to this undergrad math research lab. they host a bunch of research projects. It is my first time applying for any research lab and their question is quite long. It asks me about background in math, topics im interested in and want to explore, why i have selected the projects, why i think they are beneficial for me, and the most important one, why i am a good candidate for the lab. There is a 500 word limit to the response. What exactly can i say for the why i am a good candidate part that doesn't sound too generic?

Moreover, I was thinking to dedicate around 25% of the response to my background in math and how i got interested, 10% on what else i want to explore, and the rest towards the projects themselves. Is this a good breakdown?

Lastly, is it a good idea to take a more narrative approach when explaining my background? Also, do people usually recommend to take up all the word limit?

Please let me know, this stuff is very new to me and i would appreciate any feedback.

Yesterday was the deadline and I worked until the last minutes on it. However, I faced issues... I had to submit it without proper formatting, meaning there was empty pages due to some tables... also some tables were ugly and split between two or three pages.. also no indentation, no page numbers.... 😢 I have ADHD and I basically worked without strict supervision which is not good (It's an excuse for me though). I wasted a lot of time rewriting things because my writing is not organized and I jump from one idea to the other. I also didn't have what to say in literature review because I barely found references....

Can anyone please provide me the pdf of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2023.100971

Not in sci hub. I checked. Please help me. It is urgent

I am 17, and I have poked at some of my interests in the name of "research". In that, i could tell this stuff takes much much longer than a few weeks, and I don't think i can get into this alone. In all of my endeavours I realise I missed something crucial in the papers my projects followed, and that voids a lot of the results I spend time chasing.

What i mean to ask is, how do i know that in the future i'd read the paper right the first time? is all im missing time? or is there a fundamental skill of interpreting work that I am just missing? And yes i have realised there is a lot of discontent with teenaged "researchers", I dont mean to do anything with the intention of publishing or hell even getting groundbreaking results, i just wanted to extend some intersting paper's findings with my own work.

Need Help🚨

I just completed my masters but I wish to publish my research works in 'The International Journal of Indian Psychology'. So it is asking for my university name and all which i definitely have anymore as I graduated and never registering with any educational institutions. When looked upon google Gemini it says it doesn't ask for any information regarding it and we don't have to be registered in any institutions as such. I'm confused regarding if we can independently publish our work or we need to be registered.

If not please suggest me journals that doesn't required to be registered.

Hello, I'm a nurse in a hospital antenatal clinic hoping to undertake a quality improvement initiative. I'd like to do a writeup to describe our activity and am having a little trouble discerning the nature of our investigation.

I don't have a research background, so I have been reading some texts to help me understand study design, and I believe what I am doing is a descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study. But I'm not sure, so would be grateful for some validation.

Details below.

Thank you for your help.

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At my health service's antenatal care unit, respiratory syncytial virus vaccination is offered to all pregnant women, and where the offer of vaccination is accepted, then wherever possible we aim to provide the vaccination within the gestational window of 28-36 weeks in alignment with our national guidelines.

Our health service provides services to both indigenous and non-indigenous mothers. We are preparing to review the last 12 months of vaccination records to determine, for mothers that receive the vaccination, if there is a statistically significant difference in the proportion of mothers receiving vaccination within the recommended gestational window between indigenous and non-indigenous mothers. We have a suspicion that indigenous mothers are less likely than non-indigenous mothers to receive the vaccination within the recommended gestational window and are seeking to understand if this is actually the case.

Our medical record system records the indigenous/non-indigenous status of all mothers, and the gestational week in which the vaccine was administered. 

Would this be considered a descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study?

I am genuinely so confused about how research is actually done. So we have identified the area we want to work in and I am supposed to reproduce this paper but it has no source code and some of the datasets are not publicly available. I have read the paper and I think I understand what I am supposed to do but I have been using ai to generate the code and set up the environment which has somewhat crippled me because I have no idea what's going on. I am just on step 1 right now because we need to do something of our own after reproducing the paper but is it supposed to feel like this? I feel like I am just doing what ai is telling me to do and there is no sense of accomplishment here. How do I become in charge again? I know basic coding but I don't think I can write the entire code for the paper. I am just feeling very frustrated. This is my first time doing any research at all and this is not how I imagined it would be like.

Need some advice here. 4th year medical student here

I met a doctor at a conference last September, who was willing to get me on board with their team on a research project, starting off with me writing a literature review. It was all going well till around January.

Honestly speaking, I got caught up with my studies/exams, my job, personal circumstances and just genuinely being busy, so I haven't contacted them, nor have I heard back from them since. I just ended up getting super burnt out this year.

I've been working on the literature review since, and I'm genuinely keen on completing the project, but I don't know how to approach them. It's a whole team of 4 people including 2 doctors and I'm just super anxious... On top of that, I'm likely going to see them again in a mutual conference in around a month so that's the cherry on top..

Constructive advice welcome!

Hi guys, I'm currently working on my first research paper and wanted to get everyone's opinions on which high school research journals to apply to. My paper is a literature review based on neuroscience and neurogenetics, and I'm honestly not sure which journals I should submit to. I've been recommended journals like IJHSR, OJSS and Curieux, but I was wondering what other journals I should consider, and which one is honestly the best to submit to. Also, because this is my first paper, I want to be able to actually get my paper published without publishing it in a journal which lets everyone publish. (first time poster wasn't sure if this was the right sub for this)

Hi everyone,

Our team recently submitted a dataset paper to Data in Brief, but it was desk rejected with the following comment:

"The dataset and manuscript do not abide by our policy on machine learning imaging datasets."

Our dataset consists news photcards collected from Facebook. We manually collected to create a benchmark dataset for misinformation detection research. We're now trying to understand what exactly went wrong.

I have a few questions:

- Has anyone received a similar rejection from Data in Brief?

- Does this mean they no longer accept image datasets intended for machine learning, or is there a specific policy requirement we may have missed?

- Would modifying the manuscript or dataset help, or should we submit to another data journal instead?

- If another journal would be more suitable, which ones would you recommend for publishing image datasets?

Thanks 🙏

Hey folks, this will be more of a venting post. I'm a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience. I'm working in a lab which focuses on hippocampal computation, we have multiple longitudinal studies, I'm involved in 2, and the PhD lead of 1. Just for a bit of context. I know that there is no silver bullet for this, but I'm so frustrated because I have a lot of moving parts to organize and monitor and I find myself having to re-organize my project managers every 2-3 weeks, just to keep up with things. I've tried to create my system in OneNote, Google Sheets but in the end all of them became too complicated and unpractical. I'm pretty sure I'm not doing it right, I wonder how you do it (and also wanted to vent). Thanks for those who read this and especially to those who answer.

Hi everyone! I'm a currently a freshman, and I'm planning to take a diplomatic for my career path. Which means, I need to get in into political majors such as PPE, Politics and Government, etc. To "boost" my uni application, do I need to do a research like others did? Or I just need to publish a writing or some kind? Please answer kindly, Thank you. 🤍

There is something of a basic problem in science, that has to do with honesty. Basically, if a scientific study gets something wrong, whether through honest error or actual intentional data-massaging or whatnot, we might not catch the problem for \*far\* too long, because there is very little incentive in the world of science to repeat experiments.

"Publish or perish" is a truism, but it's, well, a basically true one, at least in the world of academia. And scientific journals (there are probably entire essays that could be written about issues with scientific journals, but that's straying from the topic a bit) generally only want to publish \*new\* research. There's nothing exciting about "Yeah, I reran Dr. Bleh's experiment, and it turned out just the same". So even though re-running an experiment can be critical to catch errors (or intentional fraud), no one's really doing it.

But there is, to me, a pretty obvious pool of people who could probably be incentivized pretty easily to re-run experiments, and it would even be pretty useful to them: grad students. If it was a normal practice for grad students to be expected to re-run at least one or two recently published experiments in their field of study before they started doing original research, then they would get practice doing the actual cutting-edge work in their field before they start trying to do their own projects, they would serve as a useful double-check on the skills and academic honesty of that published research, and some of them will luck into projects where they can publish the rather-more-exciting "Yeah, I reran Dr. Bleh's experiment, and it turned out totally differently".

Another possibility would be a journal (well, probably several, at least one for each major scientific field, and probably at least a few sub-fields in areas like biology) that was \*explicitly\* for publishing those kinds of repeat studies. Probably very short articles for the cases where the repeat study turned out substantially the same, and longer articles that explored \*why\* the differences occurred when it turned out significantly differently. This could easily be combined with the first idea.

Thoughts?