Timeline for Can a postdoc conduct collaborative research with people that are not their PI?
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| Jun 25, 2022 at 16:11 | comment | added | Spark | The PI manages their funding. They are in charge of deciding who to hire, they are held accountable for their grant’s progress, they are the ones who decide whether the postdoc stays or goes, they’re the ones who need to answer why a goal wasn’t achieved. For most intents and purposes they’re in charge of the postdoc. That’s a simple fact. When a PI directs a person hired by a grant to do X and not Y, it’s precisely because they’re acutely aware that it’s not their money, so postdocs (or grad students and the PI too) can’t do whatever they want. | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 2:07 | comment | added | paperskilltrees | "The PI is paying for the postdoc's time and efforts." I don't know where such arrangement is common, but this is certainly not universally true. From what I have seen, postdocs are employed by universities and their salary comes from a government agency or an industrial partner. Some PIs behave as if they can do whatever they want with the grant money, propagate this misconception or even truly believe in it. How a postdoc can remind them this is not the case without risk to postdoc's career is a separate question. | |
| Jun 8, 2022 at 19:18 | history | answered | Spark | CC BY-SA 4.0 |