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i.e., obtaining access to email because it was logged into that computer (as was commented as a reason), then I don't believe the rationale makes sense as IT can almost certainly access their emails in any case. They have direct access to create email accounts, regenerate passwords etc. At my institute the IT can log in directly to the computers, although it would be a big issue if they actually did.

@LLlAMnYP @LLlAMnYP I can appreciate the issue of being more effective by mixing your personal resources, but I think some of the concerns are also not justified. For example you can have an institute hosted gitlab account, overleaf, slack, google mail, etc. that the institute could access. I am not completely knowledgeable on the laws, but if there is an issue of someone thinking if they give the institute a private key that would let them illegally obtain personal information (cont..)

This is such a strange attitude, and the comments reinforce that. You have a job and are given resources to do that job. This is so far on the opposite side of questions on workplace SE, where people ask if a company should have access to their personal phone since they use it for work as well. This question is now claiming they don't want their employer to have access to their own equipment and employee data because they use it for personal things. Lose the ego and be a responsible person.

I guess I was speaking to the expectation of working, as the survey showed only 5% were expected to do the 9-5 hours. I do see the point about the bankers, I was just comparing the answers against workplace SE.

@ff524 right, what I am saying is, I think it is different, but it seems many times the answers here are along the lines of, working alot is not unique to academia, to quote the answer (upvoted 24 times) i linked to "Well, it is indeed somewhat common, at least in the U.S. But this is by no means unique to academia;" . To me it seems pretty unique, your answer suggests it is unique, so this other answer threw me off

Comparatively, the workplace SE has questions frequently about working times, and I have yet to see an answer that didnt revolve around "your work hours are 9-5, dont work more unless your paid. If they ask, just refuse" or something to that account . workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/915/…

Is academia really not that different than industry in terms of workload? I have a feeling it is, but it seems to be the diplomatic answer on SE to say its not, for example the answer to this question: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/59118/…

@ff524 I see now, thanks for clarifying :)

considering the OP is a frequent user, it is not a 'welcome to SE..." issue, but no one seems to bring it up. In this question academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17556/… there are many questions within the question, which is apparently not allowed by all the times i see comments saying 'only 1 question'. Why is this situation different?

This question academia.stackexchange.com/questions/34723/… was about a conference, I made a comment that one of the users here is listed on that conference site, how can I do that @ for a person that is not within that discussion (the autocomplete doesnt show for me)

Are there any statistics on how many questions have been closed by a single moderator without any other user input (ie. close votes or flags from other users)

I am curious about the different ways in which researchers and evaluated (quantitatively) in different places. I dont fully understand the SE model here, but it seems like a meta or community question, where people can answer with their own cases, or keep modifying the answer to update with many cases. How could I post this, or is it not appropriate for academia.se?

@StrongBad thanks, any idea on something that would be considered 'overhead/space' that I would find in one field and not another, or are computers basically the main thing and it spans all fields

Mostly curious about other fields, such as, does chemistry have restrictions for buying chemicals (outside legal issues, as in, if it was industry funded it would be allowed)

Where I am, there are some rules to using grant money from the government, for example I can buy ram and cpu and monitor, but not a 'computer'. I can buy a server, but not use it for anything else. In many projects that involve computation, this is a bit strange. Is there a list of these types of issues field dependent?

In regards to this: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/31451/… , to my recollection in public university in america, professors were not allowed to talk about their political opinions in class (that was not related to politics). Is this the case?

They are interested in me writing a recommendation letter (to US schools, but we are outside US). Is this advisable?

This is a bit related to undergrad so I wasnt sure to post it, but am looking for advice. I am a full time researcher at a research institute, we are part of a university, but the institute does not have students, just researchers. I mostly have assistant researchers and interns that are undergrad. I am thinking of bringing on a final year highschool student who is really promising and has been winning some awards.

@jakebeal Im guessing you have personal knowledge of Dr. Clark? I wanted to dive into this, and dont think comments was appriate to continue the discussion. The link you gave provides no evidence he is a PI on separate funding projects, through his bio nor cv, just that he is currently sponsored by NSF

some questions such as the recent one on requiring extra hours from students in class made me wonder, how frequent does someone, if ever, recognize themselves as the one being described. Or is the traffic here that small?

@StrongBad it was the answer here academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27731/… by stephan, but it seems to be edited out by someone else, any idea what that was about?

I just noticed a post that mentioned google links are not allowed. is this for all SE, just academia, or just specific to google scholar?

what is a good way to assess answers? this academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27298/… post post was not by me, but as of now with equal votes, seems to be a difficult choice for accepting an answer. does anyone have a good way to assess these situations?

@whuber It was motivated from a curve I use to analyze the ranking of some data. Basically, there is a score, where if some item is the first in its list, it gets the y score, and if its second in the list, it gets the y/2 score. In the end it is factored into a correlation matrix

I dont know the name of what I am trying to describe so its hard to search for and dont want to post a duplicate question, hoping someone can help in chat. What is (or is there) a name of a curve that is on x and y axis, where the y value is divided by x. Such that y at 1 = 100, y at 2 = 100/2 y at 3 = 100/3. with y having a different start value at different graphs