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 Discussion on question by KaiSqDist: …

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Scott Seidman
May 26 05:46
@CaptainEmacs. Yes, it's most certainly legal territory, which is exactly why I suggested University counsel as a starting point for this route, and asking whether that sort of response is indicated. Plus, it makes sense to give university counsel a heads up when a student receives a veiled threat of a misconduct accusation.
Scott Seidman
May 26 05:46
OOOH -- this is infuriating. There are much nicer ways to respond to a preprint where your work has been overlooked that don't involve the threat of accusing someone of academic misconduct. I imagine it's very tempting to tell this buffoon where to go. Don't do that though (in fact, I wouldn't personally contact this researcher at all). It might be interesting to pass this along to university counsel, though (but not without talking to your advisor), and ask them if they think a cease and desist is in order.
 

 Discussion on question by QUESTION_ST…

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Scott Seidman
May 14 04:50
Does the person that asked you this question expect you to answer it on your own?
 

 Electrical Engineering

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Scott Seidman
May 13 17:32
@tobalt Mostly grounding schemes at the device level, with treatment of where the current is going, showing why star grounding is sometimes the wrong thing. They also talk about small resistors to sometimes semi-isolate grounds, pseudo-differential treatment, ...
Scott Seidman
May 13 17:30
@NickAlexeev These particular grades, grading mostly. I've been driving our senior design course solo for a few years, and it was developed to be team taught, so it's been a bit rough, but this year I have some help again.
Scott Seidman
May 12 16:09
oops, I got cut off and distracted, but my intention was to ask about the noise chapter in Horowitz and Hill.
Scott Seidman
May 12 13:06
@Lundin -- what do you think of the chapter on
Scott Seidman
Nov 12, 2024 17:15
\Ganssle has finished the Embedded Muse. Last edition at ganssle.com/tem/tem500.html
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Scott Seidman
Mar 25, 2024 20:17
Just got an email from adafruit that they have some Raspberry Pi 3's in stock at the moment -- 1 to a customer, requiring authentication.
 

 Discussion on question by Researcher:…

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Scott Seidman
Apr 5 23:26
Does Germany have any laws protecting whistleblowers from retaliation? This could fund your retirement.
 

 The Ivory Tower

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Scott Seidman
Mar 3 17:19
Discussion on impact of NIH indirect rate impact -- we're part of the suit at Rochester, but other than that, no real policy mandates from up high re accepting new students. applying for grants, or anything else. Anyone else hearing anything from their leadership??
Scott Seidman
Aug 23, 2023 11:13
nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02603-8
 

 Discussion on question by Dillon: Dat…

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Scott Seidman
Feb 12 20:51
Sounds more like a problem with one instantiation of the device than noise to me. Have you tried swapping devices between sites?
 

 Discussion on answer by Ian Sudbery: …

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Scott Seidman
Jan 28 14:57
Some places provide specific guidance that case reports are not considered to be research for RSRB purposes. e.g. icahn.mssm.edu/files/ISMMS/Assets/Research/PPHS/…
Scott Seidman
Jan 28 14:57
@JoshuaZ -- in fact, the ethics of human research in general is a fairly recent thing, arguably pickup up steam and regulatory attention following human experimentation during WW2 (on both sides of the war).
 

 Discussion on question by A witch: Ne…

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Scott Seidman
Dec 11, 2024 14:26
I don't understand why your mentor "becoming resentful" precludes submitting the paper for publication in the same way that you would had your mentor not become resentful. Is he in some way blocking that? If so, you should really tell us how, as it will be very difficult to publish in an intellectually honest way if your mentor is actively trying to block that.
 

 Discussion on question by Time4Tea: A…

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Scott Seidman
Oct 16, 2024 22:00
You know, there are certainly ways to be deferential, and show an off-base reviewer that they're off-base at the same time. This might mean that your advisor and you are mostly on the same page, but have different ways of going about things. You don't talk about your advisor's publication record or level of experience, but unless there are problems there, I suggest that trying things your advisor's way may not be that wrong.
 

 Discussion on question by Klaus Kiene…

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Scott Seidman
Oct 11, 2024 13:45
... and some last words: Your criticism of the prof is unduly harsh, given the level of guidance universities are offering professors on these particular AI issues. There will be cases where empathetic, well-meaning profs who value academic integrity simply get it wrong. Meanwhile, the student has NOT been punished or penalized in any way beyond the request of a rewritten thesis. Hate or love the profs approach, there is every opportunity here for an acceptable outcome for all concerned.
Scott Seidman
Oct 11, 2024 13:39
Often enough, I see profs turn to AI checkers and the like when things don't seem right -- a student with functional, but not great, ESL mastery turning in perfect prose, stolen language from a seminal piece in an area given without quotes or citation, ....
Scott Seidman
Oct 11, 2024 13:36
FWIW, my participation in dozens of academic integrity hearings as a board member just serves to show me that solely reading an accuser's or accused version of what happened rarely gives one an accurate picture. In this case, if there is no published policy saying all theses will be run through an AI checker, I'd certainly be looking for why the prof ran the thesis at all.
Scott Seidman
Oct 11, 2024 13:33
Every professor in every university in the world is catching up to what AI has done to education and academic integrity right now, and wrapping up the entire value of a degree, as your chosen language did, with one chair's approach to academic integrity with respect to AI doesn't seem like a calm, reasoned approach..
Scott Seidman
Oct 11, 2024 13:32
@BryanKrause You have very little idea what actually happened, I have very little idea about what actually happened. It's very easy to imagine a scenario where either side is in the complete right, complete wrong, or somewhere in between. To add to the issue, we're seeing a third party description from somebody who's heard one side of a story.
Scott Seidman
Oct 8, 2024 19:37
@BryanKrause -- so, no need to temporize given that you've heard one side of a story from somebody who actually hasn't seen the turnitin report? No possibility that the 20% the Business student told their friend about wasn't a critical part of the manuscript that the advisor recognized as an uncited and unmarked quote? Not a possibility the the Business student hasn't told their friend the whole story? Just "cannot have any confidence in the program" and "working with a complete idiot? Frankly, not the messaging I expect from a diamond moderator.
Scott Seidman
Oct 8, 2024 19:37
@BryanKrause. That's quite a jump you made between this situation and a "worthless degree"
 

 Discussion on answer by JRN: How long…

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Scott Seidman
Oct 8, 2024 19:32
Sure, there may be cases where I should, but cases where I shouldn't too.
Scott Seidman
Oct 8, 2024 19:32
So, if I write a summary of a single paper on schizophrenia, say, do I need to quote schizophrenia every time it appears?
Scott Seidman
Oct 8, 2024 19:32
@GEdgar there are plenty of words in quotation marks that aren't quotations, and your example is similar to that usage
Scott Seidman
Oct 8, 2024 19:32
I disagree about the "just one word" part. It's just silly.
 

 Discussion on question by roxit: How …

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Scott Seidman
Sep 14, 2024 18:48
Frankly, if you believe that an agent of a university shared information about you that they were not entitled to share, and that has been damaging to your education and your career, you should be talking to a lawyer.
 

 Discussion on question by user1937198…

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Scott Seidman
Jul 22, 2024 20:35
More specifically, from fda.gov/media/151975/…., "Does the FDA regulate medical services, availability of medical products, pricing and health insurance? No. The FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine, medical services, the price or availability of medical products and whether they are reimbursed by health insurance or Medicare. "
Scott Seidman
Jul 22, 2024 20:35
And yes, surgeons jury-rig or build tools all the time.
Scott Seidman
Jul 22, 2024 20:35
fda.gov/medical-devices/…. "The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is responsible for regulating firms who manufacture, repackage, relabel, and/or import medical devices sold in the United States." Yes, this means that the FDA does NOT regulate doctor's practice, and they DO NOT regulate patients or device users. They specifically regulate the marketing and shipping of product.
Scott Seidman
Jul 22, 2024 20:35
The FDA has no mandate to regulate users.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan Romik: Is…

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Scott Seidman
Jun 28, 2024 06:52
If I got a letter like that, I'd also like to see that the student has brought themselves up to the level of being able to start and sustain a real conversation on the subject matter before trying to solicit help. A generic "can you look at my research plan and comment on it" simply doesn't do it.
 

 Discussion on question by Anne: Is th…

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Scott Seidman
Jun 28, 2024 06:50
Did you read the relevant parts of this professor's research before asking for help? The letter you wrote doesn't suggest that you did enough homework on your own before contacting them. Asking for a broad review of your proposed plan, even if you did the work, doesn't feel like a fair ask. If you're going to the experts, you should probably be more focused on detail. If you add "I have particular unease about part B of my plan, because of concern A -- what do you think?" -- then it's a much more reasonable request.
 

 Discussion on question by je je: Is p…

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Scott Seidman
Apr 25, 2024 14:39
Just from watching how hard our administrators that have anything to do with graduating students work the last few weeks before commencement, I suggest that anything that would cause them even one extra email over this is on the mean side.
 

 Discussion on question by Erel Segal-…

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Scott Seidman
Apr 20, 2024 21:47
Possible duplicate of Unsolicited CVs from grad school applicants - ignore or try to help?
Scott Seidman
Apr 20, 2024 21:47
Very hard to believe this isn't a duplicate
 

 Discussion on question by Dev15: Comi…

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Scott Seidman
Mar 27, 2024 20:17
Every time I've seen ABD used, it suggests everything is done but the writing up has been done, and there's no data left to be collected or analysis to do. It's not a very useful term.
 

 Discussion on answer by user438383: H…

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Scott Seidman
Dec 11, 2023 13:55
"Inverted Pyramid" is probably more appropriate than "short". Don't go overboard, and write in a way that allows the reader to decide when they can stop reading.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dmitry Savost…

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Scott Seidman
Oct 30, 2023 00:12
"Applicants expect ... applicants who meet selection criteria and have appropriate skills will be invited for the interview." That's not how searches I've seen go. In the ones I've seen, the best of the best are invited for an interview.
Scott Seidman
Oct 30, 2023 00:12
I don't see which question you've answered.
 

 Discussion on question by A.V. Arno: …

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Scott Seidman
Oct 24, 2023 20:10
Have you searched your default download folder?
 

 Discussion on question by JonathanRee…

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Scott Seidman
Sep 8, 2023 20:25
Do the sanctions include publishing? The article you point to doesn't say.
 

 Discussion on answer by Scott Seidman…

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Scott Seidman
Aug 20, 2023 01:33
@CrisLuengo Dishonest people do dishonest things to make money. This "publisher" is in an unknown country, and may not be very reachable by inexpensive legal processes. Have you ever had opportunity to sue somebody outside of your own country? If this "journal" is low on content, isn't it conceivable that they reach into their bag of whatever they have lying around to make their site look better in order to dupe the next innocent? For better or worse, I've know some dishonest people who would do whatever they thought they needed to to come out ahead.
Scott Seidman
Aug 20, 2023 01:33
@CrisLuengo -- well, not legally, anyway. The publisher can do anything they're willing to accept the consequences for. Why is everybody assuming that this purportedly predatory publisher will behave like a person of honor would?
Scott Seidman
Aug 20, 2023 01:33
@RosemaryBlanchard. The first unedited post in this question says exactly the opposite. It shows acceptance at #3 in your sequence, and a withdrawal request at step 6.
Scott Seidman
Aug 20, 2023 01:33
@RosemaryBlanchard. There are dishonesty people everywhere, but that still doesn't mean that two wrongs make a right. IMO, incomplete disclosure in this case is a wrong.
Scott Seidman
Aug 20, 2023 01:33
@RosemaryBlanchard -- Some of the answers just specify telling the new journal "I've withdrawn a submission" and not including details beyond that. That's not a full disclosure in this case. Telling the old journal "you're not allowed to publish this" of course doesn't mean that the old journal won't publish this. The authors have received a message from the journal saying that the article is accepted pending payment, which seems an awful lot like an acceptance letter to me.
Scott Seidman
Aug 20, 2023 01:33
@adunaic. Seems more to me like the author is concerned that the paper may be published elsewhere. What happens to the reputation of the author with the more reputable publisher?