Timeline for My supervisor uses my scientific jokes and metaphors in his talks. What's a healthy way to deal with this?
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| Jan 12, 2023 at 7:44 | history | edited | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2023 at 1:23 | comment | added | Ben | @Tanaya: Perhaps too formal; I'd be open to alternative framing. My goal of framing it as "brainstorming" is to raise the issue in a way that does not assert a required method and does not pre-empt the position of the other person, while still showing a desire to get a different outcome than is presently occurring. This is just in case the supervisor reacts badly to the matter being raised, in which case it is easy to de-escalate. | |
| Jan 10, 2023 at 20:46 | comment | added | Tanaya | Asking to brainstorm ways to offer credit seems... very formal? For something that is very much a kind of throwaway flattery. It's worth remembering that when you are a professional in your own right, you'll still be making your jokes and observations in your talks, and he'll still be listening to them and reusing them in his! | |
| Jan 10, 2023 at 12:50 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Indeed, if you come up with something original, it's going to be reused, and may even go viral. I once made an original remark on a forum that turning PDF into XML was like turning hamburgers into cows; I was in the audience when a presenter used exactly the same analogy at a conference talk ten years later. Nothing you can do about it. Just take it as an indicator that you're a successful communicator. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 17:19 | comment | added | user166549 | Thank you. This answer helps me the most to look at this in a more relaxed way. | |
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| Jan 9, 2023 at 13:28 | comment | added | fectin | You could make an IP issue of it. Similarly, you could jump from a second story balcony to see what happens. Neither seems remotely like a good idea. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 13:09 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @WoJ There's a lot of criticism of copyright law, in many fields. Even academic norms, old as they may be (in certain fields), are often at odds with the requirements of copyright law: various legal actions are plagiarism, and various common practices are illegal. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 11:20 | comment | added | WoJ | The copyright law would like a talk with your old saying :) | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 5:22 | history | edited | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2023 at 21:55 | history | answered | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |