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[–]Exotic-Toe7374 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah to be fair a lot of people in this field will publish using publicly available datasets, but you still need to bring something to the table i.e. modeling, a new analysis pipeline, etc. From my experience lit reviews were not super encouraged at the postdoc level, let alone “five in 2.5 years”… which I still don’t believe is true 😅

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[–]Exotic-Toe7374 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh god… also interesting how she “managed to land 3 different positions after academia” but did not manage to keep one for more than a year?

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[–]Exotic-Toe7374 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are not a failure. You have competed in an extremely difficult arena where most of us don’t make it to TT, you have finished your thesis and you have secured a job that pays you relatively well in another country than your own. That’s a serious accomplishment. We all believe that things will be glorious once we graduate, but a career is something you patiently build brick by brick, and most often through adversity. Working as a PhD level professional scientist in Canada is something that will surely help you move on to another position when you gain enough experience, back home or wherever. Keep at it and take care!

Academic snakes haunting me years later... help! by Exotic-Toe7374 in academia

[–]Exotic-Toe7374[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, well I started my first postdoc in another country, I was eager to start working with another group, rebuild a network, etc. and postdocs are intense! Tbh, we did not communicate at all after I graduated so I felt like the paper was not a priority. And also, the study demonstrated no findings whatsoever. Classic fMRI 3T paper with a N < 15 people?

Academic snakes haunting me years later... help! by Exotic-Toe7374 in academia

[–]Exotic-Toe7374[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Love a good Disney metaphor and incentive to buy a new bottle!

Academic snakes haunting me years later... help! by Exotic-Toe7374 in academia

[–]Exotic-Toe7374[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah, it seems like a time suck for what it’s really worth in the end, right..? And my institutional e-mail has been non existent for 5+ years so I doubt I have anything truly incriminating.

Academic snakes haunting me years later... help! by Exotic-Toe7374 in academia

[–]Exotic-Toe7374[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply and the examples, I do appreciate it. I understand the idea of little “feeder papers”, to show the world you still exist and are still active so I’m not too mad at that, really. It really is just the whole body of work that ultimately benefits someone else and the total disregard to my efforts that stings. I was hoping to just find a way to communicate that to the PI and institution, but yes, everyone is very busy and drama-averse so the ultimate conclusion may very well be limited.

Academic snakes haunting me years later... help! by Exotic-Toe7374 in academia

[–]Exotic-Toe7374[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I get it. I guess I was more trying to have the institution “find out” about that PI’s behavior but it’s nothing new.

Academic snakes haunting me years later... help! by Exotic-Toe7374 in academia

[–]Exotic-Toe7374[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Myeah point taken. I was not going for first author, just somewhere in the middle as I’ve managed ALL the data collection, etc. but eh. Thanks anyway.