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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought we already did authorship in alphabetical order so as to avoid any implied hierarchy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought I was hot shit with a low-priority B name, but the Adams in my collaboration showed me just how truly mid I am. If he wasn't on my dissertation committee... and also a cool dude... and a good scientist..., I would have some choice words for him!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Get rid of that guy! And you don't have to do it alone. B names of the university, unite! You have nothing to lose but your second place and all the first places to gain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'll make him rue the day he was born. I will make the kerning on the copy of my dissertation I send him just slightly weird so that it gives him uncanny discomfort while reading it. Any plots I cite from his work will be slightly lower resolution. He won't know what hit him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

They talk about alphabetical order in the introduction, you can see a bit of it in the screenshot. It feels just slightly unfair because you'll always get Adams et al. and never Zimmer et al.