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Cake day: March 12th, 2024

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  • Sad. A quick story, my wife, then girlfriend, began doing research as a tech for a group on a specific task that no one the lab had been able to solve. She busted her ass off and got it working, received praise and authorship for the work. However, because she worked with a PhD student who did some simple work, mathematical modeling but nothing substantial concerting the paper, and needed authorships to graduate was given first authorship, which generally means they did most of the substantial work in the publication. She was pissed and let down, but didn’t care as she was heading into medicine and didn’t really care about the authorship.