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How can I deal with a lecturer ridiculing me in front of class for making a mistake?
The fact that this answer is still the 2nd most voted by a hair in what could possibly be a case of egregious bullying is very worrying. I say possible, because whether or not OP’s story is accurate, mine (recounted below) was very real. I now have a position in academia as a researcher and I still stand by my words of my awful experience. So yes, it can happen, and what this answer is doing is blaming the victim based on a just world hypothesis cognitive bias. It’s not OK at all.
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How to cite paper with several co-first authors in APA style?
"Managing author credit effectively" might have been a secondary goal initially, but this is what is used nowadays by deciders to direct funding...
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Should I hide the fact that I did a group assignment completely by myself?
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Early career advice for Jr. Researcher on selectivity of authorship credit for collaboration in areas outside one's specialization
@JeffE Concretely, I would rather just not work with this kind of person in the first place. If I already started and I cannot get the data at any point in time, I will not give the end results. But you need to keep a level of control, which is not always possible. Also, if you do not think a paper is correct or cannot assert it, you always have the choice to ask to be removed from co-authors (even if you worked on it, it's better to not be mentioned if you do not approve the final paper).
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Early career advice for Jr. Researcher on selectivity of authorship credit for collaboration in areas outside one's specialization
@JeffE By coworkers I mean "other" coworkers, not the one acting unethically. If you block a co-author like this, other coworkers might point at you rather than at the unethical co-author. As we say, not guilty until proven, so at the point in time when you report the bad behavior, the burden of proof is on you. And other coworkers might burden you even more, particularly if you are a young researcher... But I agree this is only political problems, should not happen in research, but still it does, so OP should be prepared to face this burden if s/he takes the "righteous" path.
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Early career advice for Jr. Researcher on selectivity of authorship credit for collaboration in areas outside one's specialization
@JeffE Yes that's a possibility but then you will be labeled by all your co-workers as a bother, blocking stuff and making things more complicated instead of discussing with your co-authors directly (even if you did and it led nowhere, the messenger is always the one's blamed).
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After publishing many articles in the last few years, why does my work have few citations?
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Is it fair that a PhD student should be allowed to review a research paper?
@Emilie +1, in my field, half of the PhD students already published an article during their Master.
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Open-source the project code before or after publication?
"This may have an impact on credibility": that's a big issue with academia, and is only happening because of software (and human nature) illiteracy. In any software, bugs are bound to happen. Noone can prove a software to be bug-free, Church-Turing proved that. Publishing the sourcecode, even if bugs are found, are in my book proof of seriousness and scientific rigorousness, because you can reproduce experiments and the authors accept the possibility to be wrong and be corrected. This is totally the scientific methodology, so why should this possibly impact credibility is beyond me.
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What to think of zero feedback at a conference
I agree with this point. I am genuinely curious and interested by very diverse fields, even if very remote from mine. I often happened to be the only auditor asking questions during a whole track. When discussing with my collegues that also attended the same tracks about why they didn't ask any question, they usually say that it wasn't particularly interesting for them. On the other hand, in some fields like neuroscience, you often get lots of questions from layman people that didn't understand anything. So the motivation is primordial and not related to the actual value of your presentation.