I'm a co-I on a grant and the postdoc worked with me tangentially on their PhD too. PD used some of my data and collected a load more and it went into a chapter of their PhD.
I think that more work on the original data plus their data would make a good paper and I suggested this.
PD says "I don't know if I have the capacity to write something with you what with this grant etc."
When I was a PD TBF in my first postdoc I was in a very time consuming lab that was also way outside my PhD field and I didn't write anything. But in my second PD I just was a) expected to take time to write up my PhD work and b) took it for granted that I would and c) would have been grateful for such a suggestion as otherwise their paper will be adapted-thesis-chapter with no additional data.
Am I just doing the whole "well I wrote papers from my PhD at the same time as doing my postdoc so why shouldn't the postdocs of today, they don't know they're born" or is it normal to tell a senior academic you might not have capacity to collaborate (and I worked in a very unhealthy environment when I was a postdoc)?
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Am I being precious and "if I had to do it so do they"?
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worstofbothworlds · 23/07/2020 09:30
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