Interesting Academia Articles

Critical Notes about Academia's Lives

• I thought we were friends
• Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
• The real problem of bad science
• The good the bad
• I Quit
• Archives: Why I Quit Academia

Academia

• Milan Cvitkovic Things you're allowed to do
• 7 things I wish I had done during my PhD - Dr Veronika CH
• Things You Are Allowed To Do, Academic Edition

Critic to Higher Education

• I found that college fails to live up to being “The Great Equalizer” | Hacker News

PhD Management

• Advisor should express his expectations for student finishing and tailoring those expectations to student career goals clear up front
• Each time, make evaluation of those expectations
• Create a expectation document, for example, it will contain target like:
  • 1 journal paper as the first author, so that they learn how that process (often is a review or perspective paper on their field, which goes in their dissertation)
  • 2 first author papers in top-tier machine learning venues (goes in dissertation)
  • 1 first author paper in a top-tier or second tier venue (goes in dissertation)
  • 1 collaborative paper with another PhD student (have to learn how to collaborate)
• PhD Guidelines
• Lessons from my PhD - Austin Z. Henley
• 10 reasons Ph.D. students fail