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Do I have to include my pronouns in a course outline?
I am a TA in a US school and my professor told me to include my pronouns in the course outline. I personally would rather not for social and religious reasons.
Her argument was that I will confuse students because they do not know what my pronouns are. I find this argument not convincing since it is very obvious what my pronouns are from the way I look. We ended up having a heated discussion and she was very upset with my opinion. We had a great professional relationship, but once she found that I am on the opposite spectrum of her social/political opinions I can feel that the interactions between us are not "good" compared with our interactions before this argument. In the end, she wants to escalate this situation to a higher level.
Am I legally obligated to do so? If not, will this affect my academic career?
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I tried to avoid my view about the gender issue but since people are asking me to put it here, I will do so: If a student asked me to call him/her/...etc by a specific pronoun, I will do so (actually, I use names to overcome this issue, it is easy to do). I am here to teach them the material X, and I will make sure they all get the same opportunity. This includes trans and non-binary people. Even though I am not convinced; I do not support non-binary genders and I do not think it is possible that a one can change his/her sexual identity.
If I start putting my pronoun on my cv, it will contradict my beliefs since it implicitly says that I am ok with that movement. I do respect people's choices but I do not like to be involved in it. I am talking about myself and what to do with my "pronoun".
Some of the answers suggested to find an alternative and I did: I suggested to use my name instead! For instance: poman's stuff, poman said, I deliver it to poman. That is how we keep mutual respect. I always do this. I call people by their names, and I will ask about their names if I don't know.

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Great question, but the legal part of it, you’d get much higher quality advice if you ask it on law.se.

Is it normal that a TA writes the course outline and not the prof?

Are you at a public or private school?

What would writing in the pronoun look like? Ms. Julie Bobset (she)? I'm curious about the actual demand here

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Her argument was that I will confuse students since they do not know what my pronouns are. I find this argument not convincing since it is very obvious what my pronouns are from the way I look. With so many courses being virtual only, will all of your students necessarily actually see you, especially before they get the syllabus? Even before Covid-19, there were typically some students missing the first day of classes who discuss things with their peers and wind up referring to the idea of communicating with the TA/professor.

Do you have to? - there are no rules about this that apply across institutions, so the answer depends on individual factors. Should you, though? - We can argue about this until the cows come home, so the answer would be opinion based. Voting to close.

@henning--reinstateMonica I didn't ask for an advise for if I should. My question is clear: will it affect my career path.

@Behacad Yep, that's all that'd being asked for

@poman  If the professor of record, the person to whom you're saying no, can affect your career path, then yes, it will.  If she can't, then it won't.  No one without intimate knowledge of your institution and department can know which.

When you say pronoun, do you also mean writing "male" or "female", or just the pronouns? In some countries, gender is a common thing to include in the CV.

@iono First, 8k people watched this question and nobody said what you said except you. This forum's member are mostly academics (i.e., teachers, scientists) and I think these are the most people who really know how to capture BS and nonsense statements, especially what you described. If this question was it, wouldn't have 55 upvotes. Secondly, I tried to avoid showing my point of view about gender issues but based on the comments/answers I had to do it. Thirdly,you are the first one who spoke with this disrespectful tone,where you gave insulting statements without providing a logical argument.

@poman The comment you're responding to has been removed so I can't see it, but I think it's important to know that your question has been on the "Hot Network Questions" feature on StackExchange. That means that many people not typically participating on Academia.SE have voted on your question and the answers, and also that many of those people only have upvote and not downvote powers. So take the votes with a bit of a grain of salt.

@BryanKrause sure, but if the question is not legit, it won't stay that long. In the initial stage it was governed by the people on Academia.SE (and I think they still have the power to downvote and close). That comment was basically calling me names and attacking the moderators for not taking this question down. There are a lot of disagreements in the answers and comments but we all keep respectful tone. We share ideas and we discuss the issue (now the discussion is far away from the original question) but that comment was utterly nasty.

@henning--reinstateMonica Your close reason is not correct.  "Do you have to?" Does not depend on circumstances because no university has a rule where the answer is "Yes."  "Should you?" does have a clear consensus answer and is not opinion based.  "Will it affect my career?" also has a clear consensus answer.

@AnonymousPhysicist, poman you've convinced me. I would have retracted my close vote, but this is now moot.

For whether it is legal, I refer to Bob Brown's answer and focus on the other part in my answer on whether it affects one's career. Note that I will use the term 'trans people' loosely, including anyone who might want/need to explicitly proclaim their preferred pronouns (e.g. indlcuding androgynous people, intersex people etc. who did not switch from one gender to another), for this answer.
Will picking a fight with your professor regarding explicitly announcing your pronoun have any impact on your career?
Very likely, yes. However, the effect is likely  minimal or small.
Why? Your professor has already shown that they have a strong opinion in this matter or feel externally compelled to enforce this rule. If you pick a fight, no matter whether you "legally" win and can avoid following the rule, chances are the relationship with the professor is soured at least temporarily. The professor might be biased against you should you take further courses with them. They might not want to work with you in the future, either because they consider you a bad apple for not following the same political agenda or for just considering you difficult for making a fuss about such a non-issue (at least in their view) and this might restrict your options regarding bachelor or master theses or further TA work etc. with this professor. If it is quickly resolved with the professor (potentially via a quick answer from the higher body the issue will be escalated to), the effects will likely not go beyond direct decisions of your professor. The most likely short-term effect could be that you are fired from your TA role or at least not re-hired next term.
Note that your professor might also be perfectly reasonable/tolerant or calm down after a short time of annoyance and this might have no effect at all. It all depends on their character and how further escalation is handled by all parties. But there is always risk and there are multiple parties involved that you have no control over.
However, generally speaking, the higher the issue is escalated, the broader the involvement of other professors and administrators gets and the larger public impact it has, the more likely are broader long-term effects. Or sudden effects after a long term, e.g. if at some point someone wants to publicly denounce you and digs through your past. (See the stories for people being sacked / getting their university admission rescinded due to racial slurs used in the past for example; note: using this just as an example that hot social topics can be dug up and used against people, not saying this is somehow the same as these cases in any way). While non-participation in a well-intended gesture should in my mind have no repercussions beyond a head-scratching of why anyone would not go along, this is currently a hot social topic and unfortunately discussed in a very partisan style, where "both sides" too often read little deviations from their preferred ideology with a "you're not fully with us, so you're against us" mindset. However, since you're a TA, this is also a workplace issue and as such turns this from only a gesture into an issue of following proper workplace procedure as outlined by your superior (see also below). Even if only your current professor holds this against you, the professors at your university might exchange opinions about students, especially when it comes to student jobs like TAs. They need to make getting a bachelor and master thesis possible, but they do not need to provide you TA or other job opportunities, so these are more likely to be affected by bad mouth to mouth press.
So, if you want to go through with resisting your professor's wishes, you should aim at a quick resolution that is as local as possible to minimize any negative impact. If you have another discussion with your professor, consider to bring up arguments from the answers here, like questioning whether it makes sense to force people to proclaim their pronoun taking into consideration the people they aim to support. E.g. as @Serge pointed out in a comment, some transgender people might themselves prefer not to disculse their preferred pronouns. I'd suggest to argue from their point of view, i.e. does the policy make sense in its strict form especially considering trans people and the goal to support them. There is also a certain likelihood your professor is themselves only following a guideline imposed on them. In that case arguing the guideline with them will help little. You either need to address the source or indeed find a way for an individual excemption. So first establish whether the professor acts on their own or whether this is a university thing. This will also establish how far up you could need to escalate.
With respect to the long-term effects, it would in principle be possible that the tides shift and in a more "conservative" future having a track record of resisting a pro-trans-people move could be a benefit in some way. I'd consider this unlikely, but to be complete this can be considered too.
In any case, all that I can offer (and I'd say anyone as I doubt there are statistics, but if there are, they'd be welcome) is a personal estimation of likelihood and reasoning of how people might react. Neither of us can foretell the future, it's a hot topic in general but also a small issue by itself. It can blow up or just disappear and you laugh about it in a year.
Perception
While I personally feel your professor's approach is at least a bit misguided (see below), whether the approach is perfectly correct is not that relevant, it will be perceived as a well-intended attempt to be inclusive of trans people. Currently this seems to be a strong agenda in the US especially in academics (outside perspective, happy if anyone can provide data to back this up or counter it). So any resistance to such a policy will more likely be seen as negative than positive. In addition, to most people resistance to provide basic obvious information when asked by your employer, i.e. fill out forms correctly, will seem ridiculous. It is you who reads more into this than the average person. While the average person might find providing pronouns odd, picking a fight with a superior at work about giving (in most people's eye) obvious information like your name when filling out a document will seem way more odd to them and thus they will rather consider you a weird trouble maker than side with you. And yes, as a TA you are (should unless you don't get payed) now in a work relationship with your professor, not in a student relationship, where you mostly can do whatever you want as long as you learn something. Now you partially represent the professor and the university and thus there is a stronger expectation that you do as told unless that's particularly unbearable (discriminatory, illegal etc.). So, even people who have no investment into the general topic will see picking a fight over a (to them) non-issue like providing an obvious gender explicitly rather than have people implicitly derive it as an indication of a trouble-maker. So without deeper discussion, people leaning towards a pro-trans agenda as well as people who are not involved at all will likely lean to have a negative impression about you. This may influence their reaction to you, willingness to support you or work with you.
Why do I think the professor's approach is misguided?
The goals likely are 1) a symbolical gesture to show acceptance of trans people 2) to make it psychologically easy for anyone that doesn't have an 'obvious' gender identity to announce it and 3) to further the acceptance of trans people and specifically of announcing gender identity explicitly.
At least my hope would be that those would be the goals (or similar ones) rather than implementing the rule simply because it seems en vogue.
My personal problem with the approach taken is that it apparently tries to force compliance rather than convince everyone involved to participate voluntarily. Because

that partially invalidates 1) - it's way less of a meaningful gesture if people are forced, can still be seen as a gesture on the university level, but none that I would value much of an academic institution
it works against 3) - forcing people to do something in the name of an agenda or group typically breeds resentment against that agenda/group
and it insults the academic spirit of raising free thinkers that rather use argument to advance their position than power.

Pick your battles wisely
As always, you need to pick the battles you want to fight wisely. So you might want to decide to swallow this issue and pick another battle at another time. The following might help in accepting this.
Reconsider your own perception
Your main problem with accepting to state your preferred pronouns seems to be that you read that as supporting a trans-oriented view with arbitrary genders/genders up to be chosen rather than assigned at birth/tied to biological sex. Remember how I noted above that too many people treat this topic black and white? Try to not read adding your preferred pronouns as supporting everything any pro-trans movement proclaims as their goals. Otherwise how different is it for any pro-trans person to read your decision not to go along as a rejection of all they stand for - including the acceptance of them in society and academia (which you apparently DO support).
If you look at it pragmatically, if you risk a fight now, you either loose it (nothing gained) or you win and you don't need to put your pronouns, but someone could find out about it, write an article about the bad conservatives that are so anti-trans they don't even want to put their pronouns on a form for some construed reason -> laughter and sympathy points for the trans community.
You can also consider it a courtesy towards trans-people that you as a generous person does explicitly despite not agreeing with their ideology (or what you perceive as such, because there likely isn't one they all support). Like saying Merry Christmas to Christians although you're not yourself or the like. Talking French to the French tourists (although in your mind it might be their job to learn English when travelling to America) etc.
What about the old formal address using Mr/Mrs? Would you consider selecting these as explicit support for a conservative model,too? Then most trans people do show support for that model every day when ordering stuff online, give them some support back ;)
What if this will simply be the replacement for the old Mr/Mrs model? How is it different from extending that model to Mr/Mrs/Other/...?
Whether you need to consider yourself a hypocrite or feel a conflict with your religious convictions in this case largely hinges on your perception of the underlying meaning of the action to explicitly state your pronouns. That is something you can easily change. Not just because it makes accepting to follow the professor's wishes more easy, but because it indeed is more or less arbitrary. Yes your view is kinda valid (but also confrontational by nature), so is the one I sketched here or some answers and comments assume. Be the better person in being non-confrontational and give people the cookie they want.
If you want to fight this battle, support them and make friends
If you do want to go ahead with a confrontation, my suggestion would be to not make that about you individually but what is best for your institution. Does your institution really want to force TAs to declare their gender identity? Would that be in the best interest of trans-people? Do you have some sort of student council where you could discuss this? If a student representation body would make a counter-proposal that explicitly asks to provide pronouns voluntarily rather than mandatorily, that would be a strong argument for your case.
You could e.g. take a bet and offer a compromise in that you go ahead with the policy if it is supported by the students. Then organize a feedback evaluation where you make sure rejecting to force TAs to declare their pronouns is an option. For instance there could be options like "would you support a university policy that forced every TA to declare their pronouns to make it easier for transgender people to do so too? For or against this policy" and separately "would you support a policy that encouraged/allowed TAs to declare their pronouns to make it easier for transgender people to do so too? For or against this policy". Obviously a gamble, but perhaps serving the majority wishes would also make it easier for you to accept the policy should the feedback turn out that way. Note, I'd only go this way with either support from a student representation group and/or having it discussed with the professor(s) first. If you do your own evaluation  behind their backs, that might win you the battle but escalate the issue and breed resentment on their end.
Another important aspect, stay polite and to the point. Don't get sidetracked or tempted to make any general statements that could then be read as discrimination against trans people (or any other group). Don't make things personal, don't attack your professor. Things are typically easier forgotten or set aside if they were politely handled and about an issue than if people feel personally attacked. At least on the local scale. When you consider escalating, first make sure you are up to that and will be able to control yourself and what you say. The higher you escalate the more likely that anything you say will be used against you by someone.

Thanks for this fair, non biased, and well-constructed answer.

Regarding the point "the old formal address". There is no agenda, which I don't agree with, supporting them. For instance,  Mrs and ms distinguish married and unmarried women (as far as I know), which is from the old day, you can tell if it is okay to ask a woman for a date/marriage. So it has a purpose. Now why are some people showing their pronoun? Simply, to support social agenda, which I don't agree with.

@poman My point would be that a) the usage in an introduction, say in a text, using Mr. or Mrs. to distinguish male and female people is similar to announcing pronoun preference. With respect to the information they carry they could simply be exchanged (if we leave the female (pre-)marriage variants away); true pronouns may allow for a neutral ('they') more naturally than 'Other' as title. So if you're fine with that part, it's not a tough leap to accept pronoun declaration as a formally different way to do the same.

@poman And b) when trans people enter Mr or Mrs or even Ms in online forms they do basically the same as you're asked to, namely supporting a model they don't agree with(some of them). so my point there is the "other side" often goes against their beliefs, so it's fair trade if you do it here too. Again, a lot of this is a question of how you view things to come to a decision of what is acceptable to you, as with social questions it's mostly personal interpretation and less fixed empirical observation or even fixed logical deduction. I'm basically trying to give different ways to look at it...

Titles also show "signify either generation, an official position, or a professional or academic qualification"(source: wiki) pronouns don't show any of that. 2. Assume we agreed to use Mr. in my case, students feel it is awkward to call me Mr. P where they used to call me by my first name. And I like to have a friendly enviourment (for all students, I only see students in the class, and I ignore anything else)

Specifying my gender while I do have a picture online, I will be there in the first class showing my face and upper body, and they can shoot me an email without referencing any of my gender identity, all tells that enforcing me to put my title/pronoun is not professionally well-motivated. I understand you try to find a common ground and I think you don't think it is right to force someone to specify their pronoun, but sharing what I have in mind.

"the usage in an introduction, say in a text, using Mr. or Mrs. to distinguish male and female people is similar to announcing pronoun preference" I don't follow; the analogy would be the professor or school requiring everyone (including non binary) to announce whether they are Mr or Mrs. If the prof did that, you could say the OP should meet them halfway by announcing pronouns.

@Hasse1987 the point is that the Mr. /Mrs variant is probably accepted by OP, at least it is a widely accepted introduction "requirement", sometimes informally strongly encouraged, sometimes formally required (e.g. on online forms). If one is fine with that practically announcing pronouns isn't much different in what information is conveyed and what options there are etc. So one can simply see it as a "modernization"/update on the how this information is conveyed.

@FrankHopkins Except it carries quite different information; as the answers show, people on both sides recognize declaring pronouns signals endorsement of a particular viewpoint. OP can't declare pronouns and add "that's not an endorsement btw, I just said it so I don't get fired"--he probably would get fired. Why expect OP to ignore this connotation.

@Hasse1987 Have you read the answer completely? That section is about how to accept going with the prof's wishes. Viewing it as signaling endorsement is an arbitrary personal decision/judgement. You can always re-align your mind model of what means what and in that section I just give different angles to look at it that make it easier to overcome such a strict binary view. I don't expect OP to do anything, I just give 1) in general an assessment of OP's situation regarding the question and 2) in that section optional viewpoints to adopt to help overcome the personal viewpoint.

@FrankHopkins Yes I see what you're doing in that section. It seems you are saying, however something may be perceived by others, you can decide how you view it. Are you just saying you can convince yourself of anything for expediency's sake? And even so, that wouldn't make it "arbitrary".

Instead of the legal aspects, I would like to address the professional and ethical aspects of the pronouns trend.
In my opinion, the purpose of announcing your pronouns is to indicate that you will address other people with respect.  The message that is sent is: since I told you my pronouns, you know that if you tell me how you want to be addressed I will not disrespect that preference.
There is a secondary purpose.  People whose pronouns are not obvious may feel stress because they are the only ones who have to announce their pronouns.  If you announce your pronouns, you are reducing that stress.
Therefore, the professional way to behave is to announce your pronouns.  It's respectful.
Requiring people to announce their pronouns is, however, unethical.  Some people are not sure how they wish to be addressed.  Other people may not feel safe discussing their preferences.  Requiring these people to announce their pronouns is abusive.  Not announcing your pronouns is not necessarily wrong or disrespectful.

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While I don't know if it's technically illegal, I'd say that picking a fight like this would absolutely affect your academic career. Explaining this, I think, requires unpacking some of the social circumstances around these issues.
You say "I personally would rather to not to do so for social and religious reasons." Stating one's pronouns is sometimes used as a slightly coded way of expressing support for transgender and non-binary people. It's important to realize that stating one's pronouns has clear merits outside of this though. Even if you think it's obvious by the way you look (and perhaps you have a name strongly associated with one gender), it may not be obvious to students from different cultures than your own. Even if confusion is unlikely, it hardly hurts to make it plainly clear and referencable, so picking a fight over it really begs a bigger question.
From your question, it sounds to my cynical brain that you do not want anyone to think that you are supportive of transgender or non-binary people. Please feel free to clarify, but without further information this is what I (and quite possibly your professor, peers, and students) would cynically assume, given that many such people exist.
I'll be frank. Without more context, picking such a fight sounds rather extreme to me. You aren't being asked to affirm the existence of trans people, you aren't even being asked to use other people's preferred pronouns, you are just being asked to put down how you personally prefer to be referred to. So why the fight? It's hard for me to imagine an honest answer that isn't at least in part what I've described above. If you are fighting about something so inconsequential, it makes me wonder how you'd interact with any trans or non-binary people in your class (including those in the closet). If I came to the conclusion that you weren't capable of being respectful to all students (part of your job as a TA, IMO), I wouldn't want you as a TA.
Critics may argue that I'm being too cynical or assuming too much here, and indeed if I actually had to make any decisions here I'd definitely be following up and asking you much more specific questions and not relying on reading between the lines like this. No, I say all this in hopes that I can help you and others understand why your professor, or other people like me, may have concerns with you picking a fight like this. If my cynical discussion above doesn't describe you, then you should make this extra clear to avoid having whoever you talk to assume the worst.

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Many universities in the United States have a faculty member who serves as the university ombuds, uh, person.  Here is what my institution says about that office:

An Ombuds provides confidential and informal assistance in the
resolution of university-related concerns, especially those not being
addressed adequately through normal procedures. He or she is an
independent person who attempts to consider all sides of an issue in
an impartial and objective manner. An Ombuds cannot impose solutions
but can help identify options and strategies for resolution.

If such a person is available in your institution, make an appointment to have a chat.  Do it soon because your syllabus is likely due very soon. If not, try to find a senior faculty member in another department who will talk with you about your dilemma.
A person whose duties include resolution of concerns, particularly, can tell you the official requirements for a syllabus, which will answer your "legally" question.  Such a person can give you advice on whether declining to do what your professor has asked will damage your career at that particular institution.

I upvoted, but this answer does not leave me 100% satisfied, because it's basically telling "ask the ombudsperson, not us". We can also address the core issue here, though, I believe.

@FedericoPoloni We can't address the "legality" of the requirement without knowing the policies of OP's particular institution.  We can't address the potential for damage to OP's career without knowing far more the climate of the department and school, and of the reputation of the professor therein.

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Am I legally obligated to do so?

A UK employment law expert believes that, in the UK, the answer is no:

The question of whether UK businesses can force their employees to share their pronouns on their email signatures* was raised by a recent tweet. The answer, categorically, is no. [emphasis added —DR]
[...]
“Forcing employees to reveal their pronoun preferences could leave employers open to discrimination claims, and employees feeling alienated.

* Note: the article is discussing employers forcing employees to put their pronouns in an email signature and here we’re talking about a course outline, but that small difference seems obviously immaterial.
If someone can find the tweet the article mentioned, we could probably find additional discussions including for the US context.

Recently read a story from a woman who said that the women employees of their coffee shop were harassed/stalked so much they started to use fake name tags. So I think the legal principle makes sense, although students work much closer with a TA than a barista.

@AzorAhai-him- Yes, good point. Another way of thinking about it is that if we believe employers should not be allowed to prohibit an employee from listing their pronouns if the employee wishes to do so, we should also stand up for the rights of an employee who doesn’t want to share their pronouns not to be forced to do so by their employers. Both of those principles respect the rights of individuals not to have employers meddle in sensitive issues of gender and personal identity that have nothing to do with their employees’ work performance and capabilities.

I'm not sure the inverse follows, but don't want to get into here.

You should consult your university administration if you are unclear about whether this is an official requirement. Note that it is unlikely (though not impossible) that this will be specifically a legal requirement, but will more likely be a matter of university policy.
The university can require you to put this on you syllabus, if it is the policy. It is also possible that, since you are the TA, the professor of record for the course may be able to require you to put this information on your syllabus.
As far as I know, there are not any religious considerations that would prevent someone from being able to disclose their pronouns, but if you feel you are being discriminated against by this requirement, that is something to take up with a lawyer.

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Don't get in conflicting situations you can avoid. Learn to avoid conflicting situations well -- it is a very common interview question nowadays and you will be judged on your ability to handle conflict. ("We escalated this to the Dean" certainly will not reflect well on you.) Below I describe one possible compromise I think might avoid conflict and keep peace.

You say some answers suggested you find an alternative, and you did. However, it seems like your alternative is not a satisfactory compromise and still leads to conflict.
Consider how you would react if the request was phrased like this:

Please provide short biography of a few sentences about your research interests to include in the course outline. These are usually written in third person.

Would you still find the request unreasonable? This type of biography, always written in 3rd person, is common in most University profile pages and required by certain journal formats. It might look something like this:

Poman, PhD (TA, statistical analysis)
Poman completed his PhD on the topic of "Statistical study of Foo and its application to Bar" from University of Somewhere in 2017. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Right Here, working on extending his PhD work to Fee. His other research interests include statistics, and other processes from the Floo family.

I think this might be a good compromise, that satisfies everybody, as:

this is something quite reasonable to include in the course outline ("meet the delivery team"). It could be slightly shorter or longer as appropriate.
it accomplishes your professor's goal -- shares your pronouns (notice that the above paragraph could have been written using any set of pronouns, or even avoiding them completely and referring to you by name)
it accomplishes your goal of expressing yourself following research standards, and without sharing your view on, well, any other issues.

Good suggestion and good points about avoiding conflict. As another alternative along the same lines, OP could simply list their name with an honorific Mr or Ms.

@DanRomnik Actually, I think my point about avoiding conflict should be the main point, and this just a possible solution. I'll move it to the top of the answer.

update: this answer may have become less relevant (but hopefully still worth to read) now that more details about the situation have emerged from the edits and extended discussions in multiple comments.

As usual in a situation of differing opinion it will be very useful to try and understand the point of view of the other party. You say that "it is very obvious what my pronouns are from the way I look", but clearly your professor does not think so, otherwise she would not expect students to "be confused".
If your students do not know how to address you this could lead to uncomfortable situations (for you and for them) and possibly similar conflicts as the one you are currently having with your professor. The very fact that this discussion with your professor happened makes her point of view very understandable: you would not wish to have a similar conflict with one or more of your students.
If both you and your professor claim "religious" or "ethical" reasons for their point of view it will become very difficult to choose who is right. (Personally, and depending on the details that are not given in your question, I would probably choose your side, but my personal opinion is not a useful answer to your question.)
To answer your questions: There is unlikely to be a legal requirement to add the pronoun to a course outline, but having a bad relationship with your professor can affect your academic career: you may not get a good reference letter or contract extension in your current laboratory. Of course neither of these should prevent you from having a good academic career anyway.
To be perfectly honest (but this is again an opinion), I think you should not make a big issue out of this and follow your professor's suggestion to add the pronoun (even though you may be right that leaving it out will not cause any problems). In work and life, things cannot always go the way you want. Politics, religion, and egoism do not belong on the work floor (a valuable lesson for both parties in this conflict). If, in your own words "it is very obvious what my pronouns are from the way I look", no harm will be done by adding that pronoun to your name on the course outline. If it hurts your pride, accept it and move on.

I guess one question is whether the professor thinks pronouns should be stated because she believes this is important, or whether the professor actually thinks there is no "evident" pronoun for the OP for some reason (beyond rejecting "evident" pronouns as such). You seem to make an implicit choice here which is not necessarilyh suggested by the post. - Also, note that your last paragraph equally could be applied to the professor.

I did note that the last paragraph applies to both sides, and do side with OP (given the limited information in the question), but I do not believe that it is beneficial to anyone to escalate this into a big political / religious conflict. And (unfortunately?) the professor is the boss here.

But you don't give a (good) argument why the OP should give way. Except that they are in the weaker position, but this is not a good justification. (Then, the professor should always be right.) Since it seems  that the relation to the professor is more fundamentally damaged (since they have very different world views and at least one of them finds it difficult to work with someone with opposing worldview), it might not matter so much, and they should move on anyway.

The professor is not asking for advice here. If she was, I would advise her to give in as well. The situation needs to be de-escaleted, not escalated.

Fair point. It might help to clarify that your point in the last paragraph is de-escalation, and not to take the party of the professor (being it because of her point of because of her power) over the OPs.

If your students do not know how to address you - One is not specifying 2nd person pronouns, but 3rd.  Knowing someone's preferred pronouns isn't about how to address them, it's about how to talk about them and knowing something about how they self-identify.

@Kimball - How to address somebody can usually be deduced from the pronouns. If it cannot be inferred how to address them the situation described in my answer occurs. That is exactly the point the professor is making and that is not completely unreasonable, just like my answer (and other highly upvoted answer) describes.

@Kimball if the TA is not a "dr", wouldn't it be normal to address them with "mr/ms"?

@FedericoPoloni Fair point, using Mr/Ms may be normal at some schools, though in my experience (as a student and a TA) TAs were just called by first names.  That said, often students have no idea who has a PhD and don't know what titles to use anyway, so if a TA (or instructor) cares, this is something they should address when introducing themself.

@Louic See the end of my last comment.   I wasn't trying to criticize other aspects of your answer, just point out that knowing 3rd person pronouns doesn't tell you how someone wants to be addressed (which of course may change in context).

The best way to win this kind of fight is to not start it in the first place. It is probably too late for you to take this approach.
University administrators are used to getting their emails ignored, and they are used to getting incomplete replies because people didn't read the email properly.
I would just ignore the question about your pronouns, reply to everything else in the email, as if the pronoun section didn't exist. If they send a follow up email just ignore it. If they show up in person at your desk then it's clearly a big deal and you won't win the fight by ignoring it.
If you had followed this approach then I think there would have been a 90% chance that your name appeared without pronouns. However, it's too late now as they know that you don't want pronouns by your name, so lack of pronouns can't be written off to laziness/incompetence.

Update - There is a precedent for using one's name as a pronoun
I have detailed this in the EDIT at the end of this answer.
I suggest you copy the article to anyone who challenges you.  I did one brief search. If you search further I'm sure you will find the name  option in other universities.
I suggest you use the search term university gender pronouns

suggested to use my name instead! For instance: poman's stuff, poman
said, I deliver it to poman. That is how we keep mutual respect. I
always do this. I call people with their names, and I will ask about
their names if i don't know.

"poman" is a perfectly good pronoun when we consider the general proliferation of pronouns these days. It also has the advantage of being your name. It indicates that you are friendly enough for everyone to address you this way and leaves no worrying doubt in the minds of students.
Some people profess to being of fluid gender and they presumably would not want to commit to a fixed set of pronouns. Using a name seems ideal. In syntactic and semantic terms, it makes the meaning of sentences much clearer by describing who is being talked about.
I cannot see how anyone could logically or legally argue against this.

EDIT
With very little effort, looking at the first few results of a google search, I found that at least one university is allowing the use of names as a pronoun so there is a precedent for this.

"We ask everyone at orientation to state their pronouns," says Sara
Bendoraitis, of the university's Center for Diversity and Inclusion,
"so that we are learning more about each other rather than assuming."
... At the University of Vermont, which has led this movement,
students can choose from "he," "she," "they," and "ze," as well as
"name only" - meaning they don't want to be referred to by any
third-person pronoun, only their name.
... Most people stick to the default option, "none", which means they
are not registering a pronoun - presumably because they are content to
let people decide whether they are a "he" or a "she".
At the University of Vermont, which has led this movement, students
can choose from "he," "she," "they," and "ze," as well as "name only"
meaning they don't want to be referred to by any third-person pronoun, only their name.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34901704

One argument against this: it makes text completely unreadable if the name is long and/or occurs many times in the same sentence or paragraph. This argument may not apply to this case, but you state that it is impossible to argue against this: it is not.

@Louic - If someone has a long and complicated name, they can elect to use a short nickname. For example, poman (although short already) could be abbreviated to po.  Alternatively we could simply use the initial, e.g.  I saw poman yesterday. P was reading a book.  That is no more onerous than repeating "he" or "zie" for example. Not only that but it immediately translates into other languages.

@Louic what about trying to remember long list of pronounces? that would be even more confusing especially in academic settings, where people usually are not English native speakers. They already struggles with "it" especially people whose their native language has only masculine and feminine.

@Louic  -  P.S. You say,  "you state that it is impossible to argue against this"  If you read what I actually said, it was not this. I try to be careful with my words.  Specifically I did not use the word "impossible". It is always possible to argue with any statement. If you say "Grass is green" I can argue and say "Not in the height of summer if there has been no rain."  or I can simply say, "Grass is pink" - that is an argument of sorts.

@chasly-supportsMonica - Sorry for mis-quoting you: I like that you have chosen your words carefully and try to do so as well (not always successfully but I do my best). I do not dislike your answer and have not downvoted it, but just wanted to add a possible reason to use pronouns.

What "general proliferation of pronouns"?

@Azor Ahai -him  -  I'm not an expert but if you search online for "gender pronouns" you will find lists and explanations. Here's a link that seems genuine. https://what-the-heck-gender-am-i.tumblr.com/pronouns  - It's worth reading the side box with disclaimer - I think this is a serious attempt to make a comprehensive list.  Last century, most of these didn't exist.

@chasly-supportsMonica No one is using any of those.

@AzorAhai-him- I know someone who uses ey/em pronouns, though that's the only one on that list I have personal experience with in real life (Besides the standard he/she/they which are on the list too). I've seen a few more in online forums/chat rooms, although I can't vouch for any more it feels like a relatively accurate list.

@Azor Ahai -him- I'm sorry but sweeping statements like that are not useful. Have you done any checks? For example have you searched online to see whether any are used? I'm assuming you didn't follow my suggestion of searching online for "gender pronouns". If you had, you would find such pronouns recommended in official university literature. I'm adding to my answer to address this specifically - including the name option.  Meanwhile here's something from the University of Milwaukee  https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/  You will notice a considerable list.

@chasly-supportsMonica Yes, many have been proposed, but not very many are being used. So I wouldn't call anything a "proliferation" - maybe 1% of people want to use "they," and very few use anything else. So the idea that there's a crazy list of pronouns to memorize is specious.

@Azor Ahai -him-  I never complained about memorising lists - please check. In this answer I address the possibility of using one's name as a pronoun, following a suggestion to that effect by the OP.   If you want my personal opinion, I happily use "they" if I'm not sure of someone's gender on this site, but that is my choice. Some users on https://ell.stackexchange.com/ have thought my username meant I am called Monica and have addressed me that way. I don't mind in the least. It's an honest mistake and I don't care if someone thinks I'm female when I'm not.

If you were here in the UK, it very likely would affect your career path and there's little reason to suppose geography will be any defence.
The UK press, if not radio and TV media, almost daily reveals examples of institutions insisting any possibility that students might be confused trumps however obvious your pronouns might be from the way you look.
It's very likely your contract of employment requires you to do whatever the institution deems reasonable. Since in most circumstances "the institution" comes down to "the professor" again, yes, it very likely will affect your career
"Poman's stuff; Poman said; I deliver it to Poman" should be acceptable to any open mind but your professor's ideas of "should" and "open-minded" are more likely to influence your career path than yours or mine; the more so since - according to your description - "once she found that I am on the opposite spectrum of her social/political opinions… she wants to escalate this…"
A quick look around SE's English Language Learners/Usage pages should show why this problem won't go away any time soon.
However much work open-minded people put into using the language carefully, people on the other end of a social/political spectrum which only they define, seem bent on insisting not only "he" or "she" but even "he or she" must be subverted by "they."

I don't really follow paragraph 5.

Par 5 because Par 6… their definition, their insistence, you can't win

Saying what your pronouns are is more and more common. To lots of us it feels awkward, because we are not used to it. But in fact it is like curb cuts for wheelchair users making life easier for people pushing baby carriages or using shopping carts, it actually solves a lot of problems.  For example, I am a woman who codes, even with my picture and what to me is an obviously female first name, people assume I am male. On SO or mailing lists they say "sir" or "he."   It's annoying and draining to constantly correct but also draining and discouraging to have my identity denied if I do not correct.
By having everyone declare their pronouns rather than just the people who get called by incorrect pronouns, it makes things better and less awkward for everyone.  By having the leaders of the course do this, it makes it more comfortable for the students in the course to do this.
Since you clearly have a set of pronouns you want to be addressed with, I don't understand why it's a big political statement at all for you to share that with people. Don't get sidetracked by your feelings about the issue of recognizing other people's preferred pronouns that may not match what you think they should use. Your supervisor has made a simple request to provide that information about yourself.  The problem of what you are going to do if you have determined (somehow) that someone is using the "wrong" pronouns from your perspective, then you can deal with that issue when the time comes.
Just to answer the specific issue of will it impact your career, I would say that in general if you want to pick a fight with your supervisor who may in the future be someone you need a reference from that is a choice you have to make.  It depends how important the issue is to them and whether you are able to make up for your defiance of their instructions in other ways.

This answer is very biased and it does not answer any of the questions. It is not "political" and it is not "feelings". Please stop simplifying the issue and twist it around. I also do not ask about the benefits of pronoun. Secondly, SO has people from all over the world. 80% of them don't know English well, and when they speak will translate what is in their native tongue to English.  There are languages who address an unknown person with a masculine pronoun. It is not sexist, it is language structure.

Exactly, that is why it would possibly be better if pronouns were declared rather than leaving it to people to guess.

@poman The fact that you dislike it does not mean the answer is biased.

@poman Incorrect. It is deeply political.

"Since you clearly have a set of pronouns you want to be addressed with" How is this clear? I cannot find any indication in the question. Perhaps (and statistically likely) OP falls into the category of people who do not care one bit about which pronouns others use to refer to them. But I wouldn't dare state this as a clear fact; I'd ask poman if I cared.

Well they are very clear that they do not believe people should use pronouns other than associated with the sex assigned at birth or by the way they "look" (it's a bit confusing which is the one their religion objects to).  So by inference poman has said that there are clear pronouns based on appearance.

First, you may think that

it is very obvious what my pronouns are from the way I look.

but not everyone's pronouns can be inferred from the way they look.
Second, providing one's pronouns is becoming increasingly common. So is the singular "they" in unknown situations. I am learning to do so even though it makes an old language conservative like me uncomfortable.
I don't know whether or not your professor can insist that you provide your pronouns. But I think you should honor his/her/their request if you can.
If you have religious reasons (beyond just social reasons) that make it really uncomfortable to specify your (presumably traditional and noncontroversial) pronouns you may need to take that up with your professor.

You of course raise fair points, but it doesn't answer the two questions raised: "Am I legally obligated to do so? If not, will this effect my academic career?"

@user151413  True. To the first, I don't know. To the second, I think probably not. But in any case I thought the things I said worth saying her.

@Morgan Sure, I'm just saying that the answer above does not answer the question.  Your comment would be a better answer.

@Ethan "Her" or "here"? ;)
In any case, I fully acknowledge that the points you raise are worth being said; they just don't constitute an answer (unless academia.SE has a different notion of "answer" - especially since it now says "You may use answers ONLY to provide a solution to the specific question asked below.")

"but not everyone's pronouns can be inferred from the way they look." is rather a moot point; most people's pronouns are obvious, and OP seems to be quite certain they fall into this category.

I also don't understand the distinction between "religious reasons" and "social reasons", but that may just be a consequence of being raised in a mostly non-religious environment.

I would certainly not pick a fight over such a minor issue and I definitely see no "religious reason" that would prevent me from openly declaring that I'm a white heterosexual male and, thereby, should be normally addressed as "he" (in my case). If something is, as you said, obvious, why to refuse to state it openly? It is like stating that "the sky over lake Erie is normally of grey color" and if somebody I respect wants me to put it as an official statement, I'll oblige even if I may consider it somewhat silly. There is no real harm made to anyone.
This said, I usually do not put my pronouns or make any other statements of that kind on my syllabus and I am openly anti-Woke. This has nothing to do with supporting or not supporting transgender, etc. people; they have their own "scoring boards" in my mind and I just add or subtract 1 to the corresponding group scores after every individual encounter like I do it for any other group of people. I merely generally dislike people who are too eager to tell me how I should think and behave in general when those requirements go beyond the restrictions imposed by the US law and contract terms. However, I certainly make an exception from that rule when somebody I respect asks me to do something I normally won't.
In general, my advice is to value individual relationships over political views. We are separated and polarized enough here, so we'd better try to learn to yield to each other on minor issues like that whenever possible and the one who yields will definitely look smarter in the end. Stand your ground firmly only when you really have something important to defend and only against people whom you unquestionably classify as your enemies. Your workplace normally should not be a battleground. Turning it into one is detrimental for everybody involved.
Just my two cents :-)

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I can't comment on the legality.  However...
Will it affect my career?
Your career depends on working with people.  Sometimes you have to do things which seem like a waste of time to you, but which help other people.
You may think that stating pronouns only relate to trans people.  This is not correct.  "Hilary" used to be a man's name, and you still occasionally find men called that.  (We have a male politician in the UK called Hilary Benn.)  There are various spellings of Lesley/Leslie, and they do not always correspond to gender.  Jean could be a female name, or a male French name.  And that's before we get to less well-known names, which of course hits its peak with the African-American tradition of inventing names where a name could be genuinely unique.
If you've met the person, you know whether to say "he" or "she".  (Or perhaps something else.)  If you've only ever corresponded with them on email, you have no idea.  So knowing what to call them makes life easier for everyone.  Maybe it doesn't apply to you so much, but it certainly will apply to other people.
If you're unable to put yourself in other people's shoes for this, and see the benefits of applying this across the board, then it certainly will affect your career.  Not specifically for this, but from the point-of-view of you being unable to understand how a large organisation is administered and being able to work with other people who have slightly different requirements to you.  You have also created significantly more work in fighting this than it would have taken just to do it, and you've affected your relationship with your superior.  You have started creating a reputation for yourself as being inflexible and unreasonable about things which have little or no practical cost to you.  As a TA, your natural progression is into teaching at the same university, and if people don't want to work with you then they won't hire you, whatever your other skills may be.
Beyond that, your statement about a religious objection suggests that you may have issues working with gay or trans colleagues or students.  There is a difference between having an opinion where people can agree to differ, and an opinion where you believe certain groups of people should not be allowed to exist.  The latter case would affect your ability to do your job, and employers would then be entitled to fire you or to refuse to hire you in the first place.  If your superior is concerned enough to escalate this, it seems likely that you are in this situation.  In that case you should not just be concerned about having an academic career but concerned about ever being employed by anyone down to sweeping floors at Target.

"your statement about a religious objection suggests that you may have issues working with gay or trans colleagues or students." I don't think you ever read my question

@poman It's easy to claim that you don't treat people differently, but subconscious bias can have a massive effect on how you actually treat them.

@JSLavertu what about other religions? do people from different religions treat each other badly in the US, for instance? What about cultural difference? What about political difference? All of this can cause "subconscious bias". You want everyone to be a copy of each other and I think you equalize the disagreement with disrespect. Since you give such a general statement, I'd say it reflects what you have in your mind not mine.

@poman I never said you're the only one with subconscious bias, everyone has their own. What I did say is that subconscious bias makes it harder/impossible to recognise our own discriminatory behavior. There's a difference between our own perceived behavior and our actual one. It's entirely possible you don't discriminate at all, but it's also possible you discriminate in ways you don't even notice.

@JSLavertu you just gave general sentences that contain all possibilities. I don't understand what you want to say. "discriminate in ways you don't notice." like what?

@poman Your attitude might be different towards certain students without you noticing it is. You might be more/less friendly, be willing or not to accept excuses, spend more/less time helping, etc. For example: research shows that resumes with "foreign" names are less likely to be selected than those with more traditional western names, even when the content is exactly the same. Most recruiters don't consider the name to be a criteria, but it can still affect their decision unconsciously.

@JSLavertu Attitude/friendly/helping can vary between very negative to very positive. I guarantee you my attitude will be "good" at least for all students. If I find a student where we have a common thing, for instance, one of my former students became my training mate, then the attitude/friendly will develop to "very good". Does that mean such a student will make his life easier than the other in the class? NO. Rules apply on him as the same as the others. Will I accept excuses I do not accept from other students? No.

@poman Perhaps you truly are completely fair. Here's a question: how can you make sure if you aren't willing to consider the possibility you aren't? Just food for thought.

@poman My reasoning is that I think your superior is unlikely to have taken the step of escalating this simply because of how you stated it in your edit. So I've not only read your question, I've considered possibilities. I did say "if this is the case", not that it definitely is.

@poman ... I do have to ask whether you read the rest of my answer though, or just the last paragraph. There are more reasons than just transgender people for stating a pronoun to be helpful, as I said. And your resistance to a fairly trivial request certainly does affect things at work.

Your last sentence ("In that case you should not just be concerned about having an academic career but concerned about ever being employed by anyone down to sweeping floors at Target.") is frankly nothing more than a veiled threat. Are threats good behaviour? Are they needed in order to 'convince' or 'coerce' others to adopt one's views?

@user21820 How can that be a threat when I have no authority over the OP? It's a general warning of what has already happened.

It is a passive-aggressive threat to conform to your views. And that sentence is not at all "what has already happened".

@user21820 It is literally impossible to threaten someone you are unable to contact. And yes, people have been fired in many cases where their belief that they should discriminate against another group affects their perceived ability to work with others. Most notable examples are people with racial, sexual, religious and homophobic views, because equal rights for these groups have a longer history. But Maya Forstater was fired for transphobic views in 2019, and this was upheld at tribunal, so yes, we do have it actually happening.

@Graham: Mentioning the pragmatic risks is one thing. There is absolutely no reason to phrase it as "down to sweeping floors at Target". Enough; I have no more desire to engage with you, because you insist on staying on your high horse.

@user21820 My point was that this is an issue for employment at all levels, and if it causes you to be fired from anywhere, it will equally affect your chances of employment everywhere else. Yes, including unskilled work at stores. (I can give you examples of people fired from there too for holding discriminatory views, if you like.) This is simply a fact of how employment history works. I'm quite happy for you to not like my answer, but it is rooted in fact, however much you dislike it.

You can very easily edit your answer to state "This is an issue for employment at all levels, and if it causes you to be fired from anywhere, it will equally affect your chances of employment everywhere else, including unskilled work at stores." in the last paragraph, instead of using the antagonistic phrasing in your original. I don't have anything against the factual point. What I object to is the way your original phrasing was distasteful. (And I didn't even vote on your post, so the downvotes you got are not even mine!)


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How can I publish an accepted IEEE Paper after the conference and before official publication?
I would like to publish my accepted and presented IEEE paper, since the proceedings probably will be published next year. I did not publish any preprint (since I just finished at conference deadline :-)) How do I do this? As far as I understand their policy, this is not possible. Is this right?
The terms state the following:
"Personal Servers. Authors and/or their employers shall have the right to post the accepted version of IEEE-copyrighted articles on their own personal servers or the servers of their institutions or employers without permission from IEEE, provided that the posted version includes a prominently displayed IEEE copyright notice and, when published, a full citation to the original IEEE publication, including a link to the article abstract in IEEE Xplore. Authors shall not post the final, published versions of their papers."
As I understand it correctly, I can use the CRC version that I submitted and add the "IEEE copyright notice" to it for posting it on my personal website of my university?! Is there any definition what the "prominently displayed IEEE copyright notice" means and how do I add it? How do you add it?
Or do I need an earlier version than the Camera Ready Copy (CRC), e.g. the previously submitted one?
After the proceedings are published, I add a link to the published version, right?
Thanks in advance!

Ask IEEE. Seems doubtful, though. Who has copyright? If they do, do you have a license?

IEEE allows for this as long you have a boiler plate or the version you are posting is different to the accepted version.  I post all my conference papers on my web page.

@VitaminE: what do you mean with boilerplate? With different: do you mean with different? How much different?

What is CRC? Cyclic Redundancy Check?

@VitaminE Camera Ready Copy ...

@VitaminE I added some information in the original description. Can you help further, please?

Accepted Version is defined by IEEE as follows:
"An accepted article is a version which has been revised by the author to incorporate review suggestions, and which has been accepted by IEEE for publication."

What other steps are necessary for authors who would like to post their accepted articles?  The following copyright notice must be
displayed on the initial screen displaying IEEE copyrighted material:
© 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or
future media, including  reprinting/republishing this material for
advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works,
for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any
copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Upon publication, authors are asked to include either a link to the
abstract of the published  article in IEEE Xplore®, or the article’s
Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

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How to handle well-known english acronyms and names for an abstract in the local language?
I have to provide a translated version of my abstract in my local country language. There are some concepts / names / acronyms that are also in my country language mostly used in english, for instance, Semantic Web. I think calling it in my local language does not make much sense because it is known under that term. What is the common way to handle this? Also if I want to abbreviate it with (SW). Thanks for your help!

write "for instance, Semantic Web (ST)" so you can then use ST and it will refer to Semantic Web.
I still wonder why ST and not SW or SeW.

Why do you feel the need for the abbreviation?

I guess the answer to this probably depends a bit on why you need the translated abstract, and who it's for. If you're translating it for the benefit of a class of school children (say), the situation is different from if you're translating it for a group of professionals who can be expected to already be familiar with the English terminology.
Can you find other documents written in your native language on this/similar topics? How do they deal with this issue? If it is common to just use the English term, then I would think it's appropriate to also do so in your 'translation'.
Note that you are producing a 'translation', not a 'transliteration'. If appropriate, you can add a sentence/footnote/similar to the translated version to clarify the issue, e.g. to say "A literal translation of this term would be XYZ, but we will use the English term in this document".

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A reviewer of my paper told me that "TABLES & FIGURES: too many and difficult to follow in text" What does this mean?
A reviewer of my paper told me that "TABLES & FIGURES:  To many and difficult to follow in text.  Not optimized for readers"  What does this mean? What should I work on to improve my paper?

It means what it says:

there are too many figures and tables
In the main text those are difficult to follow
It appears that they are not there for the reader.

So reduce the number of graphs and tables, and improve their discussion in the text.

A paper should tell a story, where tables and figures are story-telling aids. They should convey your message effectively and reduce the dependency on the main text body; i.e. a reader should be able to understand your message more easily by looking at figures/tables than by simply reading the whole manuscript text.
Now, like any aid, these should be used appropriately. It is possible to overload the reader with information, and make him/her lose track of the central theme. Since visual tools are more striking than text, unwisely used figures can distract more than poorly written text.
In order to avoid such mistakes, I suggest doing the following; in this paper and beyond:
(1) Ask yourself if any table duplicates information already in the text. If so, remove the table.
(2) Question if any the information presented in figures and tables is essential to the paper. If not, consider removing them. Also see point 5.
(3) Check if each figure/table is mentioned in the text or not. Ensure that a reader has a fair idea about what the figure/table is about from the text, before (s)he actually sees the figure/table.
(4) Ensure that the figure/table captions are adequate and self-sufficient. A reader who sees the figure/table before reading about it in the text should be able to know what data is shown and what it represents, even if the significance is not clear. Scale bars, axis units and numbering (Fig. 1 (a) etc.) is essential.
(5) Avoid separate instances of similar figures/tables. If there are four graphs representing different stages of process A, see if they can be combined into a single graph. Colours, linestyles, multiple axes are your friends for graphs, as are inset images for other figures. If several similar tables exist and are essential, consider moving them into an appendix.

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Presenting Review article at an International Conference
Can I present my already published review article at an international conference?

We would like to see some additional content to make the question specific. Otherwise, we might vote for closing it as "too broad".

I do not fully agree with the answer by @All.
The question is pretty "unclear". The answer is highly dependent on the factors like research field, the type of conference, theme of the conference, the type of your published article, and suchlike. Here one more question is there:
Is it your own review article that has been published?
IF
the answer to the above question is NO, THEN you CAN NOT. (I am not sure about any existing rarity in which this didn't hold.)
ELSE
I would answer based on my own research field with positive assumption that it holds for your case as well -- That is what computer science guys do a lot of times.
You can actually publish review article as a poster (if at all the conference is okay with poster presentation). Note that a published article can not be re-published in a different venue with identical content. It would be like a small talk on the review, rather than more research oriented discussion. The Computer Science conferences are true publication venues that publishes full research articles that are citable.
AGAIN,
IF you are not from an engineering discipline like CS/Mech/Electrical, rather from a pure science stream like Physics, Biology, Chemistry, then you can actually talk (poster or PPT) about it in the conference. Try speaking with the conference chair/organiser.
Hope this helps.

No, you cannot.
The review-style presentations in conferences are normally Plenary Lectures, which are given by the eminent scientists in the field.
Of course, for publishing a review article you should be a leading author in the field. Then, it is likely to be invited for a Plenary Talk.

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What are differences between various indexing service: SCI, SSCI, SCOPUS and others?
I wanted to submit a paper to "Computer & Education (IF: 3.819 and indexed in many other indexing system)" journal by Elsevier, but unfortunately submitted a paper to "The Internet and Higher Education (IF 4.238 and indexed in few services compared to previous journal)" journal by Elsevier. I have only checked the impact factor and ranking of journal in the ICT and education domain but forgot to reconfirm whether it is indexed in SCI or SSCI.
My most of the peers talk about the SCI and SSCI papers, and they ignore SCOPUS indexing papers. My paper that I submitted to "The Internet and Higher Education" has already gone for review process. Is there any way to get rid of it?

I don't understand your question. What do you mean by "get rid of it"?

There are lot of questions embedded in your question. Follow the following links:

Difference between SCOPUS and Web of Science
What is the difference between SCI and SCIE?
SSCI-Wiki

Googling further would result in more comprehensive answers. See the related question on the right-hand side of your academia SE page.

My paper that I submitted to "The Internet and Higher Education" has already gone for review process. Is there any way to get rid of it?

Answer is YES and NO. YES: You can write email to editor and ask for withdrawal. NO: You should not do it.


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Do non-ACM events/conferences publish & index their final proceedings in the ACM digital library?
I am looking into options to submit my research paper to this conference:
- http://www.icbdr.org/ or - http://www.iccbdc.org/index.html
Both of the links indicate that after acceptance, the paper will be published in ACM library and indexed in Scopus and EI. But after I discussed with my colleagues they said that there is a chance of being a scam.
I checked the ACM main events but did not find any of the above-mentioned conferences but instead, I found them in Non-ACM Events http://www.acm.org/conferences/non-acm-events.
Does it mean that the work will be published and archived in ACM library?
UPDATE: I contacted the Elsevier Ehelpdesk and got the following reply:

Dear xxxxxx, Thank you for reaching Elsevier Ehelpdesk regarding
  Scopus Indexing.   The 2017 International Conference on Cloud and Big
  Data Computing (ICCBDC 2017) is set to be published under the
  International Conference Proceedings Series by  ACM as seen on their
  site http://www.iccbdc.org/index.html.   I can confirm that the
  International Conference Proceedings Series by  ACM is already indexed
  in Scopus which has several conference titles already indexed.   Once
  a conference is is published, the publisher will be processing the
  title to be included in Scopus to be indexed.   I hope I have provided
  you with everything you need. Should you have further query, please
  don't hesitate to email me back. Kind regards,

I would not submit my work to any of these. This looks like easy business model.

@Coder i am only considering them because the accepted papers will be indexed in ACM.   Why do I have to care about their business model since my work will be indexed in ACM? In other words, why do I have to submit the work to an IEEE ranked conference and wait for 2 months in order to get feedback ? and most probably in both cases you will be paying the same fees and the reviewers will pass the work to their masters students to check the work up and got the same quality feedback from the less ranked one...

Links are down. Link 1: icbdr.org // link 2: iccbdc.org

Yes, but there are rules.
There are three ways for conferences to have their proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library.
What most people mean by an "ACM conference" is a conference that is sponsored by ACM or one of its special interest groups.  Proceedings of all ACM-sponsored conferences are published in the ACM Digital Library.  ACM sponsorship must be advertised in all conference publicity, including the conference web site and call for papers.
Conferences can also be held in cooperation with ACM.  In-cooperation conferences can apply for their proceedings to be published in the Digital Library, but not all such applications are approved.  Cooperation with ACM must be advertised in all conference publicity, including the conference web site and call for papers.  In particular, in-cooperation conferences cannot claim to be sponsored by ACM.
Conferences can also apply to publish their proceedings in ACM’s International Conference Proceedings Series without sponsorship or cooperation.  These conferences are allowed to use a special ACM-ICPS logo on publicity materials to advertise the publication agreement, but they cannot claim to be sponsored by or held in cooperation with ACM.  This is the agreement advertised by ICCBDC.
Nothing on the ICBDR web site suggests that their proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library, so they almost certainly won't be.
(Indexing is a separate question.  A very small number of proceedings series like VLDB are indexed in the Digital Library even though they are not published by ACM.)

I would like to answer to this question along with a combination of the replied comment provided to my own comment here.

I am looking into options to submit my research paper to this conference: - http://www.icbdr.org/ or - http://www.iccbdc.org/index.html
Both of the links indicate that after acceptance, the paper will be published in ACM library and indexed in Scopus and EI. But after I discussed with my colleagues they said that there is a chance of being a scam.

I visited the first link, but I could not find a detail in which says that it is going publish the proceeding in ACM.(probably I missed it.) Regarding the latter, it does indicate that in their homepage. It is quite possible that ACM might publish it. Moreover, you should also note that the ACM website might be quite lazy in updating it and the agreement has recently been made.

I checked the ACM main events but did not find any of the above-mentioned conferences but instead, I found them in Non-ACM Events http://www.acm.org/conferences/non-acm-events.

This could be true if ACM is sponsoring the event in some way. Probably, just by publishing the proceedings. I would suggest checking with ACM or the conference committee first.

Does it mean that the work will be published and archived in ACM library?

Probably YES. But I would advise checking with the Program Chair or Conference Chair before submission. You would not want an unprecedented mail after the acceptance saying that we never promised such thing.
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I would not submit my work to any of these. This looks like easy business model. – Coder
@Coder i am only considering them because the accepted papers will be indexed in ACM. Why do I have to care about their business model since my work will be indexed in ACM? In other words, why do I have to submit the work to an IEEE ranked conference and wait for 2 months in order to get feedback ? and most probably in both cases you will be paying the same fees and the reviewers will pass the work to their masters students to check the work up and got the same quality feedback from the less ranked one... – Krebto

You must care about the business going on in academic research. Because it is your original hard-work and you don't want your work to be in vain after the publication. Nobody is citing your outcomes and the article, or nobody talking about it.
Your assumption that the quality of review will be same is wrong. The quality does vary with the quality of the conferences. You always get top quality review and rigor in top quality conferences.

If none of the above points matter to you then go ahead and submit your work to one of these (but, not both).
Still, I would advise you as well as the people visiting academia.SE to take care of the quality of the conference before submitting their work.

Coder, you are very confused!   $500 USD for a conference is very much par for the course, if not on the low side.  And all conferences expect at least one author to register for the conference (note that students pay the discounted rate of $450) and be there to present the paper.  Different conferences have different levels of competitiveness, which is a totally different matter.  But to dismiss the conference because it charges $500?  Please don't say such absurd things.

@FredDouglis I might be.(mark the ..) All registrations include: ...and lunche and dinner for the Sep 19. ... In a paper with more than one author, all the authors attending the conference most complete their registration individually. Such a careless web page would suggest what?

Suggests to me that someone was inattentive and/or English isn't their first language.  Doesn't mean it's a scam.  Certainly your claim that $500 is unheard of and unreasonable doesn't hold water and can lead people to the wrong idea, and to generalize beyond this conference, no?  I'm not saying this conference is or is not legit (though it appears to be OK at first blush, just sloppy webmastery).  I'm just saying using the cost to justify maligning it unfairly puts down not only this conference but every conference I attend.

@FredDouglis True. I might be wrong. Anyway, it was my justification which could be refuted with other directional logic. Thanks for correcting me.

Sure.  And if you take out the discussion about the cost of the conference being an indication of the scam, I'll remove my negative vote :)   I think the general sense -- be sure of quality before submitting work -- is absolutely valid.  And the idea of a non-ACM conference publishing in the ACM DL is indeed unusual (though probably not unheard of).

@FredDouglis Thank you very much. Your inputs really helped me in updating my conscience on such a topic.

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Unintentionally Left Out Authors
I'm presenting a poster at a conference in the coming months and I unintentionally left out authors (the senior authors) on my work due to my lack of familiarity with the submission program on the website. Unfortunately, I did not go back to correct this until it was too late and the deadline for adjustments had passed.
I'm now faced with presenting the poster without all authors listed on the poster. I'm fairly embarrassed that I let this happen. I've reached out to the organizers and was told no more adjustments can be made. How do I handle it from here? Do I just disclose during presentation that I unintentionally left them out and credit them at that point?

Did you contact the author who you left out? And, what did she say? If this had happened, then why did you register for the poster presentation?

Add them with a sharpie marker?

You probably don't need to worry.  Posters are typically not a big deal; certainly "getting credit" for a poster won't matter career-wise to anyone who is not still a grad student (unless you win a prize for it, I suppose).  Just tell your collaborators what you've written here.

It is what it is, at least as far as the official program is concerned -- tell the missing author about it and apologize.
What's more important in practice is that all authors are listed on the actual poster you will be presenting. That's what people really see and will notice, so make sure it is complete.

Agreed. The conference abstract book will be inaccurate, but as long as all authors are listed on the poster itself, you're fine.

From a CV perspective, it will be harder for the omitted authors to prove that they were part of the poster. That said, this is the best you can do. Definitely apologize!

Presumably if they are senior researchers, they won't particularly care about being an n-th author on some poster. Even as a graduate student I don't think I would care about getting left off of some n-th author conference proceeding and only include them in my most painfully complete CV.


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Lack of passion from the beginning of my PhD
I chose my current PhD position because of funding limitation and the reputation of my institute last year. After a year, it's a disaster, because I have no interest in my PhD project. I haven't read any papers in my personal time since I started my PhD. I'm not interested in what my labmates are doing whenever they are presenting. Though my project works perfectly fine, I just don't care about it.
Many rumors prevail in our lab regarding our supervisor; for example not supportive to graduating PhD students. Therefore, the morale and atmosphere in our laboratory has been strange. Yet, I've managed to maintain a moderate relationship with him. I have worked as a summer student in several labs and understand that no lab is free of anecdotes from the supervisor.
My only concern is that my passion in science will decay with my project. A year ago, I still had the lust to ask infinite questions in the summer lab, but I'm like a dying whale on the beach today. I feel very sad, because my family and my friends have great expectation from me.
I would like to change labs or start from a master's degree level again, but I'm not sure if it is feasible, especially since my supervisor is rather special. Please help me and give me some suggestions.

Can you elaborate on why your supervisor is rather special? What is it that would prevent you from transferring to a master's program?

Is there some kind of graduate program advisor in your school? Or any counseling services for students? I think it will help you by considering their suggestions regarding this complicated issue.

No publication and no reference in general
Chaotic supervision
there are ~20 scientists in the lab working on projects in different fields
Insufficient knowledge in our individual projects
Amazingly powerful who sits in committee of several funding bodies and editorial boards of several journals

Sometimes I feel I'm too thick. I enrolled in a bioinformatics program. But I showed up 200 times more frequently in vascular biology department seminars and journal clubs.

Sounds a bit like marriage. You start with a lot of passion but eventually the day-to-day grind of reality makes it less exciting. Welcome to the human condition. No reason to get a divorce. Love can remain even after passion fades. If you love science -- stick to it. In any event, the real fun in life begins after your Ph.D., when you have more ability to pursue your own interests. The best way to rekindle your passion might be to grind through your current program and finish it as soon as possible. Just my opinion of course -- you need to make your own decision.

Thank you John. The major point is not due to day-to-day grind of reality. I'm not interested in my field from the start. Basically, my decision last year is heavily based on the influence of my supervisor, funding opportunity and reputation of my institute. I know many people try to marry to someone who is rich and powerful, it does not necessarily lead to a fulfilling and happy life. The happiness begins when the spouse died and they received an insane amount of property from their spouse.

I'm afraid to say that I think you've worked this one out for yourself.
Completing a PhD requires passion and determination to get over the finish line. I remember someone once saying to me that they had done two PhDs but hadn't written either up... So they had actually not done a PhD at all. The point is that in a lot of ways, the writing up and creating a thesis is the hardest part because it requires so much time, energy, and dedication. If you don't feel like you have that for your subject then I would really consider your options.
As for your family (and friends)- they don't love you because you're on a PhD programme, that doesn't even come into it. More than anything in this world, they want you to be happy doing what makes you happy and I'm sure if they read your post just now they would tell you to stop and find something you really want to do.
Right now, it may be best to have a sit down with your supervisor and discuss how you're feeling and see if there is a way for you both to move forward that suits you both.

Thank you. I'll talk to him. Probably I have nothing to lose because if the worst case scenario is leaving. But I wish to settle everything in less than a month. Do you think I should seek a secondary/ co-supervisor? I'm just afraid that I'll find another shit....

There are so many factors involved that it's difficult to give a precise and helpful answer.
Firstly, what you are feeling is not rare at all as a PhD student. Because of how the scientific career is designed, labs have to focus on paper production, and in too many cases students are seen (and feel) as "resources to produce papers for the lab".
Supervisors are often very busy or absent from the lab for many reasons and they don't meet often enough with students, know their research in detail, or give them appropriate and individual credit and encouragement.
Successfully completing a PhD consists in dealing with that too, apart from publishing papers. And I am not justifying it, because I personally think that things could be easily improved, but unfortunately we have to deal with how things are.
I suggest you start taking more care of yourself and rely less on your professor and your group. A good book is this one: https://www.amazon.com/Research-Chicago-Writing-Editing-Publishing/dp/022623973X/
If the situation is intolerable but you still want to be in research, try to change to another lab, even though that's always risky. If research by itself does not drive you, then try in industry.
Lastly, even if your family sacrificed so you could study a PhD, this doesn't mean you have to live the life they want you to live. Your life is yours and you are the one having to deal with it. If you don't live your life, you'll always be frustrated, bitter, and angry.
From Asian colleagues I know that in many Asian cultures family pressure for their kid to get educated, successful, and rich, is tremendous and linked to "honor" and "betrayal". If this is your case, you might need to have a small family talk too...

You are right. I'm Asian so I do feel very stressful when I first exposed to Western culture. To be honest, I love my colleagues and friends in the campus. The only thing that doesn't feel right is my science because I don't feel the drive to work in my current lab.

I do feel ashamed because an Indian colleague reminded me that I'm indeed super fortunate to have a fully funded position in a prestigious institute. Million people from his country would like to take my place. He also reminded me that PhD is not about doing something I like but on developing an unique skills. He asked me to stay.

My answer to him is that I don't even enjoy what I'm doing so how is it possible for me to develop skills instead?
I'm the only one who works on this field in my whole department. Nobody ever teaches me anything or give a critical suggestion on whether my work is okay in the fields.
My skills is not qualified.

Then, he asked me how could I justify that I'll not just leave another PhD? I'm so depressed now.....

Have you considered that you may be suffering from a clinical depression?  What you have described surely sounds like it.   Sometimes people think that they are depressed because of their circumstances while in fact it's the other way around. At any rate I would have talked to a mental health professional before quitting.
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2017/04/phd-students-face-significant-mental-health-challenges Here is an article in Science about this. It's important to know that you are not alone with this kind of struggle and help may be available.

One key message for scientific trainees that are struggling with
  these types of challenges, write co-authors Katia Levecque and
  Frederik Anseel of Ghent University in an email to Science Careers, is
  that “you are not alone.” Beyond that, the authors encourage Ph.D.
  students to appreciate how important it is to take care of themselves.
  “Mental health problems can develop into serious threats to one’s
  wellbeing and career, and can have detrimental consequences in the
  long-term,” they write. So, if you’re struggling, it’s important to
  “[s]eek professional help or seek help in your personal environment,
  even if you think it’s probably a temporary thing.”

Thank you. May be because my family has depression history. I would say I'm pretty happy outside the lab with my friends. Just the feeling is not right when I reach the lab because I have been stagnated for a year.

I wish you all the best!

Have you considered graduating with an MPhil after one year? You can then have a break or do research projects elsewhere, perhaps in industry, before coming back to a PhD.

I do consider it because anyway I'll have nothing to do in the next year. But do you think I should apply to other program while I'm still on my PhD. Some people recommended me to do so but I just think that it is unethical....

I think you should try to answer clearly to yourself what is the source of your problem. Is it a project per se? Or this is a non-supportive supervisor? Or you  became less excited with the field of research in general? Or this is about Phd in general and you will prefer to switch to the industry. Otherwise, you might take the actions that might only do things worse or in best case will not help.
Try to see whether you feel excited with other projects. But keep in mind that the grass is always greener on the other side. Probably once you start other project you will fast become bored with it as well. If you reach firm conclusion that this is about the project per se, talk with your supervisor about the problem and ask him/her how he/she can help. Maybe it is possible to change the topic or to add additional directions. If this does not work,  I do not think that this inconceivable to start the PhD from the beginning. Probably, you can do that in a neighboring lab. Suffering several more years is probably not a solution. Then, if you decide to continue to a postdoc all your experience will be in a field that does not interest you. What you will do then?

Thank you. I try to normalize all the environmental factor for example supervisors and rumors. I would say it is rather on the field itself. I don't care anything about the field.
I'm thinking of doing a master again at another institute. In the meantime, I'll do lab rotation and investigation to see if I may fit into the field and people in the lab. In that case, undoubtedly it is difficult to justify that I'll not quit again.
The bad decision is probably due to the fact that I was anxious about I'll have nothing to do after I graduated.

Therefore, when I got this prestigious offer, I just accepted without careful consideration....