In my grad school biological research ethics class the professor said you shouldn’t get authorship on a paper for “just moving test tubes around” and I wanted to strangle this man in front of the class. Motherfucker if the people moving those test tubes don’t show up your precious research doesn’t exist. Are you gonna move the test tubes? No? Then shut the fuck up!
In my grad school biological research ethics class the professor said you shouldn’t get authorship on a paper for “just moving test tubes around” and I wanted to strangle this man in front of the class. Motherfucker if the people moving those test tubes don’t show up your precious research doesn’t exist. Are you gonna move the test tubes? No? Then shut the fuck up!
I would turn the argument around: there are people who only move test tubes around? Why don't you integrate them more into the process?
Most professors just want to have dictatorial power over who gets authorship. The priority list is:
Themselves
Whoever they like and can vaguely justify as first author.
Whoever any collaborators firmly say should be on the paper even if they didn't work on it.
Anyone else they're forced to put on it through direct pressure.
Don't forget
-students/assistants they want to fuck
I regret these omissions immediately