My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain, 1889 The more I hear about dysfunctional leadership in Academia, the more frustrated I get. I think there is a lot of discontent brewing under the surface. I’ve heard of professors who delay publications, put their names on publications they have nothing to do with (“gift” authorship, actually a case of plagiarism), who try to remove the (post-)docs name from his/her work or place it second, even let a post-doc prepare a symposium completely alone and then suddenly jump in at the start of the symposium and imply it was all their work, shocking the post-doc and leaving that person in total confusion and betrayal. I don’t think that these professors are the majority of professors, perhaps they are only a small percentage, but they exist. And people talk about them. While there are people who bash others without an actual reason, there is a certain pain in the faces and voices of the docs and post-docs when they talk about the negative experiences they have had. You know it when something really did [...]
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