Timeline for Is it fair to my PhD student if I ask them to do "miscellaneous" work for a paper they're not going to be a coauthor of?
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 22:06 | comment | added | user168715 | @DanielWagner New equipment needs to be installed, test tubes need to be cleaned, figures need to be generated for the group web site, etc etc. Who is going to do this: (1) the professor with multiple imminent grant deadlines, editors complaining about late paper reviews, all while dealing with a schedule completely full of student meetings, course planning and teaching, and committee work; (2) the PhD student with extremely copious spare time, relatively speaking? | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 0:19 | comment | added | Tobias Hagge | The number of appropriate and/or required menial tasks is probably greatly field-dependent. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 15:14 | comment | added | Daniel Wagner | @Gaius Would you mind explaining why the role of a PhD student should be performing menial tasks for the all-powerful wizard? | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 13:10 | comment | added | Flyto | @Gaius no it isn't, at least in any of the few universities I've been associated with. Unless you count "doing research as part of the advisor's research programme" as a menial task... As to whether the task in question is menial... that's borderline in my head, and I'm guessing that's why the question was asked. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 7:33 | comment | added | 2801001 | Yes, but in an healthy PhD/postdoc context you will get credit for it! | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 18:26 | comment | added | Gaius | Well, it kinda is, you just don't understand why yet | |
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| Sep 6, 2017 at 19:45 | history | answered | Gautam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |