キャリアニュース2020年11月26～12月4日

“While I recognise that she thinks she had a major contribution to the project it will be difficult to show that she did more than a technician's job.” This was the infuriating response I received in a long email thread with former colleagues about work I had done as an undergraduate researcher. During my 7-month internship, my colleagues in the lab told me I would be an author when they wrote up the work. A few months ago, I was shocked to learn that the resulting paper had already been accepted for publication—and that my contribution had been relegated to the acknowledgments section. This was my wake-up call about the need to speak up for myself regarding authorship, and to speak out against the unfair convention of diminishing the contributions of undergrads and technicians to scientific research. > “When I insisted that I should be an author … they told me I had ‘just’ been a technician.” As an undergraduate, I was just excited to be involved in science and making discoveries