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  1. Hi, Yes he may edit something and the submit that version. He is very lazy to do it himself, and has done that several times even with postdocs. He tends to disappear for weeks and do not do anything at all related to his job (paper writing, refereeing, grant writing). And then he shows up and wants to do all very fast and then disappear again, that is why he does that. He already has tenure, so I guess he thinks he does not have to worry about anything anymore. Thanks for your response
  2. Hi, I am Ph.D students in life sciences in U.S, and my advisor asks me to referee the papers the journals send him to referee. Is not that illegal? He sends me about one per week, but sometimes up to 3-4, and sometimes it takes me time to read, check,etc. I think he should be doing his job, since this does not help me at all. I can not even add it to my CV/resume. What should I do? I do not want to keep doing his job of reading, evaluating, refereeing research papers other researches submit to life sciences journals. Any advice? Thanks in advance!
  3. Thanks fuzzylogician, yes all my options are in tenure track, weather or not they will get tenure I am not sure (I hope they do). It is hard to recognize it for me, but your totally right it is just a matter of time until he leaves. I will do that, finish all this semester. I am not sure how does this helps, but he is single and around 50 years old. I believe he suffers some form of depression but is under medication. There is too much hidden that I do not even know. The thing is he hides all this from me, and he always tells me we are fine and we still have money and funding. But of course we do not, otherwise our group would be bigger, or we would have a better lab space. Thanks for reading and always helping me, I need to get away from him before is too late
  4. I have other three PI options, their funding is better for all of them. None of them is full professor though. Changing PI would not change anything about my fellowship, other than paper work. I guess I will wait until my qualifiers, that are in about two months. After that I do not know what to do, if to burn the bridge and change PI. Or wait until I publish everything and he leaves, this way the bad of the story would be him and not me. What do you think? Thanks for your help and response
  5. Thanks for your response fuzzylogician. I really appreciate your advice. He is already a full professor, in the past he was able to bring an enormous amount of money and publish several publications in a short amount of time. I though the conversation was going to help. Right now, he seems motivated and willing to write grants and all that. However, I am not sure how long this motivation will last. Furthermore, since I am the only member I basically have to do lots of experiments, since he is very hands off in this aspect and never does any experiment. I have not talk with anyone from my department yet because I am sure in the first moment I say something, he will know it immediately. My plan was to pass my orals, publish the work that needs to be written and re-evaluate and decide. However, I am not sure how long I am willing to pass through all this problems. Thanks!
  6. HI, I'm starting my third year of Ph.D in Chemistry. I have been in a very productive group and published 4 papers and still have some unpublished material. Right now, I'm preparing for my oral examinations. However, my adviser run out of money, we were moved to a smaller lab, and I am the last person working in his lab (before there were around 12 people). Fortunately, I have a great fellowship , so I do not have to worry about teaching. My adviser is actively searching for other jobs and I know he is going to an interview to another university next week. Also the relationship student-adviser is bad, although he is happy with my advance sometimes he is abusive (review the submitted articles he is supposed to review, do all kinds of administrative work, does not want me to go to conferences, internships,etc) and I tend to do not say anything about it. He was used to disappear form the lab for several weeks from the lab and not doing anything (no submitted grants,etc). Recently I told him all that and we yell me and we both were very angry. At then end we did not get to any agreement, he just simply refused to see all his errors, and take responsibility for the reduction in people and space of the lab. Also for personal reasons (family) I am not willing to move to another university if he gets a job some where else. I do not know what to do, if search for another adviser after obtaining Ph.D candidacy? or wait until he leaves if he gets another job? Because If I change adviser, I may need to change other people from my committee since two of them are their friends. Thanks in advance for your time and advice
  7. Thanks to all of you for your nice advice. You are completely right, I guess I am just scared about the oral exams. Plus I had hear of people who take 3-6 months off to prepare. Thanks I will definitely balance my time
  8. Hello, I am studying a Ph.D in Medicinal and Organic Chemistry (starting 3rd year), and I am presenting my oral exams in later October. I already wrote a research proposal and my committee accepted for defense. Half of it will be defending that proposal and the other half random question about course work and things I am supposed to know. What is the best way to prepare for that? I think I should take 2 months off the lab to fully study everything (I already started the proposal studying part). However I told my adviser and he got very angry, even if I am doing well in regards of publications and advance. How do I explain him I need that time to study? If it helps I have a fellowship, so he does not pay anything. But, I am the only student and person working in his lab right now, since he does not have money. Thanks and please give any advice.
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