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Is Mx. the default title for Male non-phd holders?
A journal drop-down menu for selecting a person's title has four options but none of them are Mr.

(I definitely scrolled down enough.)
As a male, non-PhD holder should I select Mx., or is this a mistake by the journal?

Can you provide a link?

Mx = maxwells, unit of flux.

@Najib Idrissi I learned something from the question.

As noted in an answer, Mx is gender-neutral. Allowing Ms but not Mr is probably a mistake. You could query it if you care, or you could select Mx.

@NajibIdrissi - Certainly no question the form is very poorly designed. :-)

I think required these title questions are ridiculous, especially in academic contexts. I always select either “Miss” or “His Holiness”.

For what it's worth, are you sure this is a real journal? It seems likely that such a problem would have been caught and fixed long ago for a real journal and would only persist on a predatory/fake one. It might even be a filter, like the bad grammar in Nigerian prince scams, to drive away submissions from people who'd quickly realize it's a scam.

"Mx"... looks to me like a gender-neutral alternative to "Mr./Ms."

Mx is a gender-neutral honorific.  It's probably not a typo.
Dr would typically be used if you have a doctoral degree, and Prof if you are employed in a professor-like capacity (it means different things in different countries, but generally any semi-permanent faculty job is reasonably included).  Otherwise, you can decide which of Ms and Mx fits you better.
If you feel that there isn't an option that's appropriate for you, you can take it up with the journal.

Not including Mr. does seem like an oversight, especially since Ms. is included.

@Thomas - indeed, be gender neutral if one wants, but to put up Ms. and Mx. as the two options seems to negate gender neutral status for Mx.

Ms. is not gender neutral and is female in its inference in English, however, it is possible in some countries that this is not the case.

Or this is the deepest act of chauvanism ever and men are assumed to all have PhDs?

@Thomas Ms. is likely for the masters degree, not for the gender.

@Polygnome I disagree (see my comment on the answer by somethingsomething).

I read "gender-neutral horrific", kinda fits too though.

@TobiasKildetoft I'm sorry but I disagree. MSc is strictly for masters of Science, while Ms. is the fairly common shorthand for Masters (of all kinds) and Bs. the common shorthand for Bachelors degrees. Wikipedia lists MS or M.S. as shorthands for a masters title as well. Maybe this is a cultural thing, since we do not know anything about the county of origin of the journal, and some of the abbreviations might be more or less popular depending on where you live.

@Polygnome "Master" is not a title in the same way Dr. and Mr. are.

NB: in Dutch, Mr. is the title for a Master of Laws (M.L., L.L.M.)

@TobiasKildetoft Why wouldn't it? Its an academic title just as Dr. or Dipl.-Ing.

@Polygnome As far as I am aware, it is not, no. Getting a master's degree does not mean people ought to refer to you as master lastname (as cool as that would be).

@TobiasKildetoft its not common to actually use an Ms(c) title, but it was quite common for Dipl. and Dipl.-Ings. to use them. But there is no difference. If you want to be known as Msc Lastname you can be. I've even seen letterheads with bachelors degrees in some organizations.

@TobiasKildetoft - Cool as long as your surname isn't Bates. (He said, lowering the tone...) ;-)

@Polygnome That's a very, very country specific thing. In Austria at least for a very long time "Dr." was part of your name, while "Dipl.Ing" and co weren't. Meaning you didn't have to list your engineering degree on official documentation, but had to list Dr. That hasn't been the law for a few decades now though, but similar things probably exist/existed in many European countries.

@Voo I've never heard of a title being required, and this answer also contradicts that. You are not allowed to use any title you have not earned, but omitting titles is usually always allowed.

@Polygnome How exactly does an answer about the UK contradict an answer that tells you how the law is different between countries and then gives an example about Austria? Here's some article that talks about the history in Austria, I doubt you'll find much information about the history of Austrian laws in English if you don't speak German though.

@Voo OP has still not said where the journal is based, so assuming any one culture is futile. In my very second comment I already said that this is likely culture dependent, so pointing out that there are multiple cultures where Ms is indeed the valid title for masters degrees seems highly relevant here.

@Voo furthermore, your article exactly makes my point. "as war bis 1966 so. Seither ist es beispielsweise jedem Dr. phil. freigestellt, ob er ein Schriftstück mit "Dr." oder ohne "Dr." unterfertigt, ob er im Reisepass, im Führerschein den Doktor stehen hat oder nicht.". You are not required to use the title and may omit it. Exactly as I said, even is Austria.

@Polygnome I said exactly that if you read my comment ("hasn't been the cast for decades"). The point still is that there was at least one legislation in which one specific academic title was part of your name while most others aren't. As you rightfully said the OP hasn't specified the legislation, so certainly this could still be the case in some other region.

@TobiasKildetoft Actually, Master is a title: it is the title for a male who is not yet old enough to be Mr.

@Polygnome Wikipedia lists MS as an abbreviation for the title of the degree, not as the title of a person. It says MS is used in the US, where holding a masters degree does not give you a title. Post-nominal letters are not titles.

Using "Master" as an academic title in speech is awkward for several reasons—it's use as a title for pre-pubescent males in recent historical times, it's use as a title for Masters in the skilled trades, and (at least in the US) most importantly it's lingering suggestion of institutionalized slavery. Yikes!  Personally I woudn't touch it.

@JessicaB It's also a title for some men in the BDSM community, but that's neither here nor there in this context. (&, for what it's worth, "master" as a title for young gentlemen is archaic to the point of roleplaying these days.)

@lly Err.. not it's not. Boys are still called master, if something is required.

@JessicaB Yeah, I got from your initial comment that you weren't aware. Even the OED knows this is archaic to rare now. It's really not a thing anymore, except among people pretending they're living at an 18th century boarding school. If you've got to give a boy a title, you just go with Mr and move on.

@lly My basis for believing that it is used is that I have seen it being used. Therefore, it is still in use.

One of my grandmothers used to address envelopes containing letters to me using "Master McKee" in the 1970s and 80s. But her habits in such matters were set around the Great Depression, so while I consider it historical it doesn't speak to me of pre-Victorian times.

@dmckee It should. More recent usage have been archaisms and usually in reference to slave, mason, &c. masters rather than upper-class boys. JessicaB is an example of someone who still upholds the custom and there were even more holdouts in the '30s, doubtless, but it's not a normal thing and hasn't been for awhile.

@TobiasKildetoft Well, people insist on calling me magistr(=magister,mistr,master) all the time because they see the Mgr. in front of the name (required by the university, I wouldn't include it myself) all the time. Often, They ignore the PhD., because it is behind the name...  But our country is silly, we have even people actively using the BC. title and wanting to be called batchelors... And the extremely weird "ittle doctorate" thing.

Since no one else answered your actual questions:

Is Mx. the default title for [m]ale non-[P]h[D] holders?

No,
it is not. It's a recent gender-neutral form of the usual English titles Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms which might be allowed for those not wishing to signal or accept a binary gender. It's not standard, and Mr. remains much more common. More common still would be for an untitled person to simply be untitled.
This use seems bizarre to the point of inviting a sex-discrimination lawsuit. They require that you provide a title, with lower-level academics forced to declare themselves either female or other. The only rationale for such a setup besides trolling (cismen who complain have their applications filed circularly) would be if they intend to assign extra credit to applications by self-declared women.

As a male... non-PhD holder should I select Mx... or is this a mistake by the journal?

Yes, you should select it if you plan to continue your application, despite knowing your gender will probably hurt your chances.

Or they meant to remove all gendered options and forgot one of them...

I don't really see anything in Nate's answer that disagrees with me here, as he does not make any guesses about why Ms is there while Mr is not.

-1 for the gratuitous rant that they're going to "discriminate against men" without any evidence. It's more likely that they wrongly deemed Prof.  a masculine honorific applicable to any non-PhD-holding man in this context, and for the recommendation to choose Mx if it's not a title the OP uses.

@R.. You're welcome to prove my point by circular binning my post while going on a gratuitous rant about a straightforward analysis, but you'd get further by suggesting any alternative reason for such an obviously sexist required field in your own answer to OP.

(No, "Ms" for "Master of Science" is not remotely plausible, pending some thorough evidence of its use in some other language that led to its appearance here.)

"They require that you provide a title, with lower-level academics forced to declare themselves either female or other." I'd vote this up multiple times if I could :3

I personally understand it like this:

Dr => Doctors (PhD, medicine.. we czechs have Mudr, PaeDr, etc.)
Ms => Masters (of Science, Art, Business, etc)
Mx => Gender specific (Mr, Ms, Mrs)
Prof => Professors (and maybe candidates?)

I do not necessarily see it as a flaw per se as it seems logical to divide per earned title. Just a bit unclear spec..
It is flawed by the idea of having Ms understood as Miss instead of M-s, but other than this it is completely logical!
Small advice:
Tell the official to clear things out by giving a hint.

"Ms" is not being understood as "Miss", it is being understood as "Ms", which is a common title (at least where I come from) for women who do not want to signal their marital status.
I have never seen Ms used as a title for "somebody who holds a masters degree", though I guess it is possible that is used that way somewhere...

'it seems logical to divide per earned title': except that you do not acquire a new title for a masters. Ms is the title for some women, and absolutely nothing to do with academia.

Based on the context, the options most likely are:

Dr: Doctor (PhD)
Ms: usually written MSc (master of science)
Prof: Professor
Mx: Ms/Mr/x (no academic degree/title)

So you would fall either under Ms or Mx depending on your level of education.

I don't think this is correct. These are titles, not degrees, so MSc would also not be a possible option. And I don't see any reason to assume that this journal would include specifically MSc (spelled in a massively incorrect way) and not other master's degrees, such as MA.

While not the accepted answer (and something I had not considered on looking at the list originally), I think this is probably the correct interpretation.

Do you imply that  MA (master of arts) can not send manuscript to the journal?

@scaaahu I think that any interpretation of the list will lead to some offense, for example why would they have Ms and not Mr ? Perhaps Ms is not strictly MSc but is meant as "MasterS" of either arts or science?  It's clearly a poorly chosen set of options though.

@Christophe My comment above was not directed to you, it was meant for the OP of the answer.

@TobiasKildetoft According to wikipedia MSc can also be spelled MS, which might be automatically converted to Ms by some crappy frontend.
Depending on which field this is, I don't think MA/MBA/... are very likely to be considered as possible authors.
But there's no doubt that it is very unclear and incomplete regardless of what they are trying to achieve.

The possibility of bad conversion does not explain why the list of titles would include a degree.

It most certainly makes little sense, but I'd consider the odds to be way higher than them explicitely putting the female and a neutral honorific there, while forgetting about Mr.

We don't know what field the OP of the question is in, so we don't know if MA/MBA holders are not likely to send manuscripts. I think your answer will make sense if you say MS  means Masters degree holder (i.e. take out master of science)

It's a good thought, but the field is clearly for a title, and I can't find any evidence of "Ms." as a title for someone with a master's degree, at all. And my, wouldn't it be confusing (given the other meaning of the title "Ms.").

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Corrigendum submitted by my PhD supervisor 1.5 years after I left?
During my PhD studies, I published a journal article (1 of total 4) in a prestigious journal of my field. My PhD advisor wants to commercialize my PhD work and wanted me to help him without willing to credit me for my efforts.
I found his emails harassing, malicious and blackmailing and have stopped responding him by directing his emails to spam folder. I have long left his lab after getting PhD and am currently working in industry. Suddenly, I received an email from the Journal that a corrigendum to my paper is submitted with me included as an author.
I think there are some new experimental results that my advisor want to publish. Should I write to the journal and request to withdraw my authorship from the corrigendum?

A correction to a paper is unlikely to be new experimental results. Request a copy of the corrigendum from the editor.

I have accessed the corrigendum that have resulted in the following question link. Please, have a look and make suggestions.

I concur with the comment. This would be a highly unusual way to add new experimental results. Surely if the person was interested in applying or extending your work and had new experimental results they would publish on their own!
I would email them and ask what the contents of the changes are. Ethically, it's up to you if you think that you shouldn't be listed as an author on the corrigendum. There has been discussion about corrigendum authorship in the past, see here. The answer at that link agrees with what I've seen in practice: corrigendum authorship is identical to the original paper authorship even if not everyone worked on it.

Agreed, and I would also suggest tactfully flagging the situation to the journal e.g. "Please be aware that Prof Jones and I are no longer in contact, so I was unaware of this corrigendum - I appreciate the opportunity to review and sign off any material to be published under my name". This should be standard policy for any academic publisher but unfortunately I can testify from personal experience that sometimes things slip through the cracks.

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Changing links in Google Scholar Profile
I'm sorry if this has a very obvious answer, but I've looked around and haven't been able to find one.
I set up my GoogleScholar Profile and added my publications to it without a problem. So far, so good.
However, most of them are linking to publisher websites that people won't be able to access. Is there any way to change this so that the links point to, for instance, my institutional repository instead?
Clarification: The links are definitely there under the different "versions," but I'd like to have them be the FIRST link.

In addition to the accurate answers so far, it's worth pointing out that GS can take quite a while to index papers from repositories - think in months rather than days.

The answer would be both Yes and No.
Yes -- If your university repository articles are (also) indexed in Google Scholar, then these are absolutely citable. Now, when viewers click a particular article from your page--say "An article on the behavior of rat after cutting its tail"--they should be able to see two versions of the same article like the following:
[v1] An article on the behavior of rat after cutting its tail [publisher page]
[v2] An article on the behavior of rat after cutting its tail [pdf-univ. link]
No -- If your university repository is not indexed by Google Scholar.
You can check this by searching an article from your univ. repository in Google Scholar.

As Coder's answer states, not all databases/websites are indexed by Google Scholar. Two open access ones that are are arXiv and the Open Science Repository. You can also use OpenDOAR to find open access repositories that would be suitable for your work.

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Summer Internship - A very well-known Professor
I want to send an e-mail to a very well-known professor in the field of my interest. I have read most of his papers and I am 90% sure that I like to work under his supervision at least for some months. I am an undergraduate student but being realistic, I hope to be considered a good student in my field and recently, I published a paper in JHEP. My question is:

The professor has a research group in a French university. I want to let him know I will pay for my costs and I just want to do a 3-month or even more research under his supervision. Since I guess I have good accomplishments in my CV, how I can ask him politely for a summer internship (or a visit, I am not familiar with these names) and potentially guarantee to receive a reply message from him?

Thanks!

I want to let him know I will pay for my costs

This is not how things are supposed to work. It is normal that young researchers visit other institutions, but these visits are normally paid either by their current institution, or by the accepting one. What you're doing is explicitly proposing to do unpaid work, which is a bad practice and you don't want to work with someone who agrees to that.
What you can do instead is find 5-10 places where you'd like to go for an 'internship' or 'placement', etc and send emails with inquiries. It is fine to ask a professor whether they can hire you as an intern, but I don't think you should propose unreasonable arrangements.

In France, internships longer than 60 days must be paid, by law. But the stipend is low (was ~480€ per month in 2009 when I interned in labs).

@DSVA As I understood, OP is not doing this as part of their undergrad course, and in this case I don't think it is acceptable to do an internship for free, although I agree that working culture in different countries would be different.

@Guillaume I imagine, the compensation is small because the internship was mean for a student who lives in France and is thus eligible for benefits from the state? (I know that some students in France have their housing costs covered, but I don't know the details)

@AlexeyB. I have no idea how this compares for international students, but I suspect the internship stipend is probably constant, no matter where you're from. Now, international students can apply for scholarships from their country or there might be scholarship from French entities to attract international students? That's definitely something to look into.

You should start by sending a polite email explaining succinctly (researchers are always very busy: a short email will more likely be read) who you are and why you are interested in an internship in this researcher's lab (focus on what you can bring to the lab, and what you want to learn from them). The email shouldn't be longer than a few sentences. Attach your CV and a more detailed motivation letter: if the brief email manages to get the researcher interested, they will have more detailed material available right away.
Try to make sure your email will arrive in the early morning (often, people start their work day by scanning their inbox; emails they receive at other times can get buried quickly); which means take any time difference into account if you're not in the same time zone. A polite follow-up email a week later if you still have no answer at that time is OK.
Do not bring up that you will pay for your costs in the first email; this is completely irrelevant to the application (your application needs to focus on science). In France, interns must be paid if their internship lasts longer than 60 days (at least this was the case 10 years ago; I don't think this has changed), and large research centers often pay interns even for shorter internships. The internship stipend is insufficient to cover an apartment rental in most cities, but you can figure out practical details once your internship is secured. The researcher can point you to relevant resources to find affordable housing, but keep in mind that this is not their job and you should expect to figure this out mostly on your own. Some research centers or campuses might have guest houses. For example, Paris has the Cité Internationale Universitaire which provides affordable housing for visiting students. This is the kind of resources you want to look for, once you know you're going.

Of course. A lab in France must pay interns a minimal stipend (by law). Some places may pay more than the legal minimum (but I wouldn't count on that). And of course, any lab will only hire an intern if they can afford at least the legal minimum stipend for the entire duration of the internship. What I meant by "your costs are irrelevant" is that the lab doesn't care how much it costs to rent an apartment versus how much the stipend is (and the stipend won't be enough to rent an apartment, this I am sure; unless maybe shared rentals with several roommates).

I get your point. :-) Now, luckily pretty much nobody in France would think about hiring an intern for free anymore, at least in the sciences. Which is why we had this misunderstanding (not working for free, even for an internship, is so deeply rooted in my culture that I didn't correctly understand what you were talking about).


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How to send an email to a well-known professor for a possible PhD student position?
I am applying for graduate physics and I was wondering to work with a well-known professor in Caltech. He is a pioneer in the field that I am interested in. I have a kinda outstanding background, however, I am not sure if the professor is looking for exotic genius students who have completed their master at 18 or something! In this sense, I am very ordinary. How should I send an email to the professor and finally understand if I have any chance to do my PhD under his supervision or not?
P.S. I just want to know how one should contact a professor to make themselves sure that whether the professor is willing to accept them as a graduate student. I do not ask please decide on behalf of me.

Also "exotic genius students who have completed their PhD at 18": I'm pretty sure this type of person doesn't exist (and if they did, why would a professor want them as a graduate student?).

@astronat I edited the question :)

"Exotic" has bad connotations. I would probably change that phrasing.

Your email may run something like this (names and subject areas can be changed, of course):

Dear Professor Carroll,
Are you accepting PhD students at the     moment? I am planning to apply to CalTech this year for a PhD in physics and I am really interested in cosmology and in particular, your work on the arrow of time. I am currently a 3rd year undergraduate at University of Somewhere and have taken courses in differential geometry and astrophysics.
Best wishes,
mathvc_

@GürayHatipoğlu Is it a good idea to put "Possible Prospective Graduate Student"?

@GürayHatipoğlu and also put a part of their paper in the title of e-mail — I think you meant “and also say something of technical substance about the paper in the body of the email, so that you look like you actually read it, understood it, and appreciate it, rather that just blindly pasting the title”.

@JeffE Is it really worth adding to your email some note about one of their papers when you're inquiring about whether they have grad student slots open? It just seems like noise.

@AzorAhai Rockstar faculty get dozens of these requests a day, almost all cookie-cutter form letters from people who are obviously completely uninformed about their research. Writing something substantial about your research interests and how they fit your prospective advisor’s research program puts you in a tiny minority of cold emails that might actually spark some professional interest. The probability of a response is still tiny, but tiny is infinitely larger than none at all.

@jeff right, but being informed about their research is different from commenting on a specific article

The only way to get this done is just to do it. If you don't do it, nothing will happen. While your chances may be small it is probably worth your effort if for no other reason than it will get you to think about yourself and your goals.
The professor will want to know a few things about you before he will consider you. First, what can you offer as a student? Part of this is your enthusiasm for the task, but it also involves some things about your preparation and background.
But you need to convey to the professor why you are an interesting candidate for this. He will have a lot of applications for any position. Many of them will be highly qualified. But there is ordinary highly qualified and there is interesting highly qualified. Have you done something in this field? Have you any ideas for research problems yet unsolved. Have you any ideas about recent work that might be extended?
But, don't assume success in this. It may or may not happen. Have a backup plan in place in case it doesn't.

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Responding to low-key insult from lecturer
A lecturer for a course I am attending was late for a class, and as they had sent an e-mail a few days before mentioning a different classroom, the class was confused about whether we should go to this classroom or not. I decided to send the lecturer an e-mail to clarify whether the class location had changed.
In the end, the lecturer appeared about ten minutes late. That could've been the end of the story, but the lecturer sent an e-mail today (to me only) stating that I "was the only one confused [about the matter]!". I find this rude and inappropriate - they could have just let it slide, or at least apologised for being late.
I realise that I caused some minor noise in their inbox through my e-mail - but it is not enough, in my opinion, to respond rudely.
My University is running a campaign on respect among students and teachers. I would like to respond in a way that clarifies that I think they were rude, while keeping in mind that I will have the class for the rest of the semester with this lecturer.
Should I respond - in that case, how? - , or should I simply ignore it?

If the lecturer was late, it is implied that he or she was also "confused."  Perhaps he or she meant to type that you were "not the only one confused about the matter" but forgot to write the "not" by mistake?

@Joel I'd like to think that that were the case, but the phrasing implied how astonished they were that I would even consider the possibility of the classroom changing. But I appreciate the angle!

Surely, you have more important things to spend your time on. Just let it go.

@Roland Thanks. Feel free to add this as an answer

You should consider that the lecturer was late for an unavoidable reason (parents or sponsors phoning etc) - and some institutions say students have to wait 10 minutes after the prescribed class start time, then after that the students can leave with no penalty. As for respect, how often are students late for class and how often lecturers?

@SolarMike I am not (very) concerned that the lecturer was late. That happens. I was concerned that the lecturer responded to my e-mail - written in a friendly manner to ensure the lecture could proceed as soon as possible in case of a misunderstanding - by implying that I am the only one in the class that is not able to follow instructions. I would have appreciated an apology, but I don't consider this issue specifically rude.

@FerventHippo and if the lecturer had ignored your email how would you feel? Since the original email contained the room information which would mean that he/she expected you to have read and acted on the original instructions...

It os not clear from the post whether it was really an insult, or just an unfortunate wording that happens with people when answer mails. He might also found your email suggesting there was a widespread confusion.

@Greg The specific wording was "you were the only one that was confused!". In fact, there was widespread confusion as the entire class was getting ready to migrate in the moment that they arrived. The reason I find it (low-key) insulting is because they felt the need to tell me directly that I was [inferredly] stupid enough to actually believe the class was taking place somewhere else. I don't think this is an unreasonable interpretation of their wording.

In this specific case I agree with other commenters that it would make the most sense to let it go - but it is still interesting that I have no idea how I'd reply if I wanted to!

What was the text of your original email? Did you copy the whole class in?

Sounds like someone ate a not up in a mail and probably other things on the lecturers computer. What could the purpose of that be?

@geometrikal Original text was "Hi Dr. X, There is some confusion about where today's lecture is. Are we supposed to be in [Original classroom] or [Classroom mentioned in their email]? Best regards, FerventHippo
Sent to the lecturer only.

If be interested to know exactly how he knows that you were the only one that was confused...

I'd be interested to know whether you really signed it "Best regards, FerventHippo".

If your first email was really really polite and that is the reply he gave you well he is a person you should not worry about too much. In other words, don`t waste your time, let mr lecturer go .... ...... and move on ;)

Given the context with the lecturer being late, I would bet that  JoelReyesNoche's comment is correct.

Your instructor says you were the only one confused, and now Stack Exchange says you're the only one who gets bothered by this sort of thing...

There's an element to this exchange that the answers haven't addressed. The (yes very rude) implication that you were the only one confused is really a fallacy. The professor says you were the only one confused when really you were the only one who asked. Most people have in their nature to not ask questions even when they desperately need to know the answers. We can add to this psychological phenomenon the very real possibility that multiple people needed to ask a question and elected one individual to ask it on everyone else's behalf.

Your professor and Stack Exchange alike seem to want you to sit down and shut up. But you're like me. You ask questions. Take comfort in knowing that you're better off than those who are comfortable with their ignorance. Your dedication to understanding things will lead to more success in both school and life. (Yes, I may be reading too much into this.)

It sounds to me like he interpreted your email as a passive-aggressive message about him being late (when in fact it was a genuine message of confusion caused by him being late), and responded rudely in kind.

It sounds like the instructor was about 10 minutes late to class, leading to the entire class being confused about whether or not to go into the classroom?
That's somewhat embarrassing for the instructor.  By being late and forcing a bunch of students to wait, in addition to apparently having some confusion about location, they dropped the ball.  And especially if they're worried about getting tenure, they may've been concerned about coming off as unprofessional in the eyes of the students who'll be writing their teacher evaluation at the end of the semester.
In short, their response sounds mostly defensive to my ear.  They were basically trying to say,

I was just 10 minutes late, and I don't think that there should've been confusion about the classroom location.  Please don't dock me on the evaluation later!

The appropriate response might be to be supportive.

Directly emailing them back would probably be the wrong way to go, as it'd seem to make the issue larger.  Rather, what's needed is for everyone to move on.
If they're a more secure type, then basically not bringing it up again's probably enough, since they're over it.
If they're a less secure type, then a nice-but-subtle gesture can clarify the issue.  This might mean asking a good question in class that they'd enjoy answering (on an interesting point; not a gotcha-question, but also not trivializing), followed by a quick-but-sincere "thank you" after they answer.

And, that basically covers their side of it.  Then there's your side of it.
The way I see it, you've got two approaches:

@ThorstenS.'s approach, for the reasons they'd stated.
Emperor Palpatine would recommend dwelling on it and internalizing such injustices into an inner ball of fury, if you'd like to transition to the Dark Side.

Now @ThorstenS.'s position has its advantages.  Stuff like having a happy life and healthy mind set can be enjoyable.  But then again, anger leads to hate, hate leads to... something... and, in the end, there's cookies and possibly lightning hands.  So, ya know, personal preference there.

Minor confession:  Yes, yes I did answer this question primarily to make a Star Wars reference.

I'd accepted @ThorstenS's answer, but yours gave me some concrete suggestions in different situations, and also the Empire did nothing wrong.

Your 2nd approach seems less Emperor Palpatine and more Bowler Hat Guy from Meet the Robinsons.

Sincerely? Let it go. The tone is also not "low-key insulting" (that means a personal disparaging attack on you), it is dismissive/snotty/irritated (do not bother me with this stuff).
The thing is that you are reading a lot (IMHO too much) into this. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but it sounds that you are in danger of spending precious lifetime for collecting perceived slights. You have already used approx. 1 hour of your lifetime to ask this question, and probably several hours of suppressed anger pondering his answer.
Really, the easiest way is to think "Perhaps he has eaten something bad today/has relationship problems", or whatever. Remember: once is chance, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern. If it happens three times, then it is time to act.

Ian Fleming wrote, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action."

@Nat He and Darthie are also the most notorious violators of the Evil Overlord List. And what happened to them, hm? HM?

Yes, "is it worth my time" is definitely the best advice in many, and especially this, situation.

@Malvolio I thought happenstance and coincidence were synonymous; what is the implied difference in that quotation?

@JNS -- "happenstance" just means, whatever happened.  You were late for a party, you're elected Pope, you pee your pants, whatever.  It happened.  A coincidence means two (or more) things happened, and they coordinated in a surprising but accidental way. For example, the Wiktionary quotation for "happenstance" is ...  "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action."  That was just coincidence!

The professor's tone may well have been do not bother me with this stuff, but the professor does not get to dictate what is/isn't important for their students, who are the ones paying for the tuition. I'm sure the students, such as OP, expect a certain level of professionalism and politeness for a service they are paying for.

I can remember a time when you actually had to talk about someone's mother or call them a bad name to really offend them.  People sure seem to have awfully thin skin these days.  Maybe the biggest lesson you can take away is that when you grow up and are an adult, not everything is just special to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.  Get over yourself a little and stop acting like this was some sort of huge insult.

@EdmundReed I do not know where the university is located, but in many countries students do not effectively pay for tuition (university education is government-sponsored and much, much cheaper than in the USA, students could even get support from the government), so in this case your argument is void.

@Delta_G, it's perhaps ironic that your feathers seem far more ruffled than the OP's.

My feathers aren't ruffled.  I just think it is a bit ridiculous what they call an insult these days.  It has a detrimental effect on society when everything is an insult and nobody can say anything without fear that some other person is going to perceive it as a slight.

@ThorstenS.I'm not from the US but the UK, and whether or not the cost is cheap or expensive is irrelevant. If it is completely free, then yes it's a void argument, but it's more likely to not be.

I concur that you're wound too tightly.
But if you cannot rest or sleep without responding, then use self-deprecating humor, e.g. "I was so confused [about the matter] that I cannot remember it today!  :-)"
A note like this essentially forgives the lecturer for being late, and communicates that you hold no grudge.  It also communicates that you are not a powder-keg ready to explode at the slightest offense... any other kind of response would do the opposite.
The smiley face is important to communicate that you are not taking this seriously.  (Even though you are.)  Several years ago the NY Times recommeded using emoticons in email to communicate tone, because that can be otherwise hard to do in a short note.
Bottom line: if you transform the incident to something mildly humorous, the lecturer will think of you in a positive light.  You don't have to suck up, but in life one has to pick one's battles.  When battle is not joined, it's best to leave the other person in a good frame of mind.

I wouldn't respond back, because that sounds like a PS, or a tag. So, like, instead of saying "kind regards", he said that as he left the conversation. The guy or girl is probably busy and wrote that on a half a thought. I wouldn't be a dick about it. Yes, I think there's a chance that you're the dick here by trying to rub it in and not just going for the fact that he messed up when he confused everybody by the classroom change, but that he also messed up his communique with yourself.

A common problem with emails (or written form in general) for such small topics is that they can be over-interpretated.  Another email would make things even more complicated.
Tip: at the end of next course, go talk to him/her briefly and say "Sorry for bothering with my last email about  ..., it's just that ...", this is in fact not a real "sorry"  to apologize, but just a way to introduce the topic. Then he/she'll probably answer in a nice way, and both you and he/she will be happy at the end.

I would not bother with arguing with lecturer since it can probably hurt you more than you can him. And if he is so unprofessional to send you mail like that chances of him apologizing are slim.
What I would do is when this professor is mentioned in peer group tell everybody how "great" he is so my friends know who they should avoid(it is a weak signal but if this lecturer is as nice to everybody as he is to you it will accumulate into enough useful information for your friends).
That being said beware of a sampling error, you should not claim this lecturer is the worst person ever, you can only testify for this brief interaction.


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Habilitation in Germany as a nonresident
I am a young scholar about to complete my PhD. in Finance from an Asian country. I am interested to know whether it is possible to pursue Habilitation from Germany (or any other European country) while working as an Assitant Professor in my home country. I have the following subqueries:

Is it possible to do the Habilitation similar to a traditional part-time individual doctorate while working in the industry which provides a lot of flexibility?
I also came to know that Habilitation can be completed through a series of good publications in a specific field. Is this route possible while not working in Germany or any other European country?
Are publications during Postdoctoral Fellowships in Germany or any other European country (with funding usually lasting for 2/3 years) considered for Habilitation through cumulative publications route?

Although I want to pursue habilitation for its own sake, I am  also interested in permanent posts as a Professor in Germany. Apart from Habilitation, one way is to work as a Junior Professor, which is temporary in nature( usually lasting for 6 years). In my home country, it is much easier to get a permanent post as a Professor, usually promoted from Assistant Professor rank (also permanent in nature). Thanks

Why do you "want to pursue Habilitation for its own sake"? I've never heard that before.

Besides gaining a sense of achievement for obtaining a German higher doctorate, it puts me in a good position among my peers.  Habilitation is better than obtaining a double doctorate. Secondly, Habilitation can be  a byproduct of good cumulative scholarship in a specific field. So publications will come anyway.

I just want to confirm that it is possible to receive Habilitation without the need of teaching at German university, because I just received my habilitation without the need to teach. If you have taught in the past in internationally recognized universities (especially in USA) and you can demonstrate the excellence in teaching by providing a "University Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award" from your University you can ask to be liberated from teaching obligations during your Habilitation process. You only need to deliver a single 2 hour sample lecture during your 3rd or 4th year of habilitation while the students evaluate your teaching performance and are giving you score on a predetermined score-sheet. You just need to score above 50 % to get an OK.
 Furthermore you can perform your research elswhere, and not in Germany. I also know this from experience. However you do have to be accepted by University and get some kind of post. Now it gets tricky here in your case, since you do not wish to be employed by German university during habilitation. I guess you can become associated as a University fellow who does not receive salary, and if your habilitation supervisor is OK that you are not present at university you may do your habilitation remotely, and visit university only during the habilitation meetings and your accomplishment presentations (usually 1-2 days per year). But this absolutely depends on who is your habilitation supervisor and whether he will allow it.

Heartfelt congratulations @habilguest on being awarded Habilitation. I had this intuition that similar to PhD a lot of things depends on the supervisor.

Some small queries: Is "University Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award" needed to be eligible for a single 2-hour sample lecture during your 3rd or 4th year of habilitation?  Is this sample lecture  also qualifying criteria for junior professors in Germany? Do one need the award before being eligible for this  sample lecture? What   other things considered in lieu of this award? Thank you

I think you have a few misconceptions about what a habilitation is.
To answer your first question: Yes, you can apply for a habilitation as an external candidate; just like a doctorate, this procedure is formally totally independent from your employment status. (But just like for a doctorate, it is much harder to get them to take you on if you are an external candidate.)
For your second and third question: This is very much field (and university) dependent; some will accept a stapled thesis (i.e., just submitting a list of published papers written after your doctorate), others require you to actually write a book. In any case, it is irrelevant where you wrote these.
However, the main part of the habilitation is to obtain the venia docendi -- the right to teach at this specific university. This means:

You must demonstrate to the committee your ability to teach at university level; again, it wildly differs how you need to do so -- some places will accept student evaluations of classes you taught elsewhere, others require you to give an example lecture in front of the full faculty (which, needless to say, can be rather a tough gauntlet). The easiest way is to already have a habilitation at a different university. (This is called Umhabilitieren.)
More importantly, if you are not interested to teach at this university (and even more importantly, they are not interested to have you teach), the university will not confer a habilitation on you. (To put it bluntly, universities take a dim view of "degree collectors" who are only in it for the title.)

So, no, a crucial part of the habilitation can not be done remotely.
Since you wrote you are also interested in a full professor position in Germany: You are correct that a habilitation is a formal requirement for obtaining a full professor position is Germany, but the hiring committee can consider other accomplishments as equivalent. The most frequent one now is a positive evaluation as a junior professor, but another possibility is a tenured position at a university in your home country. In any case, your accomplishments in research (and getting grants) will be a much more critical part of getting a position.

Thanks such a comprehensive answer. I certainly interested to have a full professor post in Germany but it is much easier to get a permanent assistant professor position in my country. So I plan to first having a stable career then applying for permanent professor posts in Germany. Kindly elaborate a bit on venia docendi. How many lectures are needed to be delivered? Is it like a single lecture How many attempts one get? And other significant details. It would be nice if we could get a flow chart of pursuing habilitation. Thanks again.

Sorry, the procedure differs too much between different fields and universities (every department has their own traditions). In any case, this would be a different question and should be asked as such (use the link at the bottom of the page, but it probably will be closed as 'too broad').

Kindly post the link.

No, it's usually not possible to do a remote habilitation. All habilitation regulations that I know require you to teach a certain amount of classes at the university where you want to obtain your habilitation, which typically requires that you be present at the university.
If you want to become a professor in Germany, the most effective way is to apply for post-doc, junior research group leader, or assistant professor positions in Germany.


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Am I allowed to republish / distribute abstracts?
Example: I have a document containing 1,000 abstracts of research articles from different publishers. Am I allowed to distribute this document for free online? If not, has anyone being sued for doing so?

While one might imagine that this would be good PR for those publishers, I tend to suspect that those abstracts are copyrighted, so, literally, this would be illegal without permission. Thinking of USA copyright and intellectual property law. No, I'm not a lawyer, etc.

Am I allowed to distribute this document for free online?

I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt it.  Copyright certainly applies, but you might be able to argue that this falls under fair use, depending on what you are doing with the abstracts.  As I understand it, some things are definitively covered by fair use, while others may fall in a grey area.  If this matters to you, then you should consult a lawyer, because no one else can give you a definitive answer.

If not, has anyone being sued for doing so?

In the U.S., I doubt you'd have to worry about being sued or facing criminal charges for this sort of copyright violation in practice (although I repeat that I am not a lawyer).  The most likely scenario is a DMCA takedown notice.  If your university or ISP receives such a notice from a publisher, they will remove the file from your web site.  You could try to convince your university to take a stand based on fair use, but it's not at all clear that you would succeed.  Even aside from whether it really is fair use, universities can be risk averse and may well decide it's not worth the effort to contest the issue.
Perhaps you could restrict your attention to papers with a suitable Creative Commons License.  For example, PLOS journals use the CC BY license, which allows this sort of reuse (with attribution).  If you just need some collection of abstracts, for example as a test case for text processing or data mining algorithms, then this might work fine.
On the other hand, you may want to use very specific abstracts.  For example, you might want to compile the abstracts of all the papers you can find in your subfield.  This seems riskier, since big commercial publishers typically don't want competition for their search tools.  You could always try asking the publisher for permission (I have no idea how likely they would be to grant it).


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Releasing all lecture materials at once vs. releasing materials lecture by lecture
Some teachers decide to release all lecture materials (e.g. prepared lecture notes, slides for presentations) at once at the beginning of the term, while some others release their materials gradually (i.e. releasing the lecture materials a few hours/days before the corresponding lecture), even though all materials are the same as the previous year.
What are the pedagogical advantages of not releasing all lecture materials at once at the beginning of the term?
I am especially interested in graduate-level computer science (machine learning) education in the US, in case the answer is country, field or level dependent.

Related to http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27347/is-it-common-to-provide-digital-notes-slides-or-handwritten-for-students but not an exact duplicate.

I'm not convinced pedagogical reasons play much of a role in this phenomenon.  My impression is that it's mainly for flexibility, to allow changes as you go along.  Even if you don't plan any changes, you might as well keep your options open.  And it's common to make no major changes but occasional small changes (fixing typos, rearranging something that was confusing the last time you taught the class, etc.).  Doing all this before the semester starts is more of a pain than doing it as you go along.

If a teacher has all their lecture material prepared and ready to release at once before the class starts, I'm impressed with their planning and preparation! I try to finalize material 1 week before class and that is a challenge.

As a CS student, I experienced both types. In my opinion, there are many practical disadvantages and psychological effects to consider when releasing everything at the beginning of the semester.
However, it is very nice to be able to view the materials from previous years in full, and almost none of the disadvantages listed below apply for this case.
Practical considerations:

If everything is available at the beginning of semester, students might deem it not necessary to check the course website during the semester, as they already know that "everything is there". They will miss announcements and updates to the website.
If the lecture materials are changed or revised during the semester, students might miss these updates if they downloaded everything at the beginning of the semester.

Psychological effects:

Information overload: Students may think that the course will be too difficult if they take a look at later slides at the beginning of the semester and thus might drop the course.
Frustration: Eager students may try to understand the contents of later slides (e.g. a few weeks in advance), but get frustrated if the slides are not completely self-contained and there is information missing (that would have been given in the lectures).
Lazyness: If everything is there at the beginning of the semester, students may not feel the need to keep up with homework/reading week by week, as there is less of a weekly reminder that things have changed (the page is static and does not change every week). If the materials are released weekly, there is more of a motivation to not fall too far behind, as students are reminded every week of how far behind they are. Also, students might not be motivated to go to the lecture if they already know that all the material has been released.
Inattentiveness: Students that have already read the slides of the coming weeks may be bored or inattentive during the lectures. This may be important if the slides "give away" too much of the thought process if students read ahead. In some lectures, homework is only mentally stimulating if the slides of next weeks' lecture are not available in advance.
Students may also get the impression that the professor is just "phoning it in" for this year, even if that is not the case. If slides are released every week, this gives more of an impression that the lecture was tailored to this specific year, and to the questions asked during this year's lectures.


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Does adding "All rights reserved" have no legal usefulness?
My University requires students to add the mention "All rights reserved." on their thesis. The full required copyright notice is "© 2008 Jane Doe. All rights reserved."
However, I have read in a couple of places that the mention "All rights reserved" has no legal significance:
http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/allrightsreserved/ :

The phrase was a required element in the 1910 Buenos Aires Copyright
  Convention. This was a treaty between the United States and most South
  and Middle American countries. Article 3 of this Convention states:
The acknowledgement of a copyright obtained in one State, in conformity with its laws, shall produce its effects of full right, in
  all the other States, without the necessity of complying with any
  other formality, provided always there shall appear in the work a
  statement that indicates the reservation of the property right.
Adding the phrase "All rights reserved" was enough to comply with this
  article.
The phrase "All rights reserved" indicates that the copyright holder
  does not want to give up any of the exclusive rights he has under
  copyright law. This is only relevant for members of the Buenos Aires
  Copyright Convention.
Today all members of the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention are also
  member of the Berne Convention. The Berne Convention states that
  unless explicitly stated otherwise, all rights are reserved. Further,
  a copyright law may not require any formalities as a condition for
  copyright protection. Therefore "All rights reserved" has no legal
  significance anymore.

Wikipedia echoes the same information:

The requirement to add the "all rights reserved" notice became
  essentially obsolete on August 23, 2000 when Nicaragua became the
  final member of the Buenos Aires Convention to also become a signatory
  to the Berne Convention. As of that date, every country that was a
  member of the Buenos Aires Convention (which is the only copyright
  treaty requiring this notice to be used) was also a member of Berne,
  which requires protection be granted without any formality of notice
  of copyright.

Is adding "All rights reserved" only a legally insignificant reminder to the reader that author is by default the copyright holder of the piece of work and that he did not give up any of the exclusive rights he has under copyright law? Has the mention "All rights reserved" turned to be useful in the jurisprudence since its legal obsolescence?

I wonder whether it even needs the “© 2008 Jane Doe” as “a copyright law may not require any formalities as a condition for copyright protection”.

@BenCrowell: But filing a copyright form is something different than just writing “© 2008 Jane Doe” – so, what’s the advantage of the latter? I can imagine that it is required for said form to be effective; but even then, this does not make an argument for doing nothing but writing “© 2008 Jane Doe”.

@BenCrowell: Interesting. US-American law is weird.

Currently, copyright is assumed to the authors unless explicitly declared otherwise, and no rights are granted unless explicitly declared.  Thus, de facto your work is "all rights reserved" even if you don't explicitly state it.
Please do make sure you explicitly state copyright information, however, including name and durable contact information!  The assumption of strong copyright protection even without explicit notification is actually a big problem for effective sharing of information both inside academia and outside, because people often reserve more rights than they intend to, and lack of good copyright information makes it difficult to correct this.
A number of organizations are building systems intending to simplify this type of interaction.  One of the most notable is Creative Commons, whose licenses your see all over Wikipedia.  Other similar ventures and consortia exist for software, electronic hardware, mechanical blueprints, DNA, etc., each of which has its own unique set of IP problems, often intensified by the interaction of copyright with patents and less well-known IP systems such as EU sui generis database rights.

I don't quite see how this answers the question...

@DavidZ I see that I made a few too many conceptual jumps in the answer; I've expanded and clarified to try to make it clearer.