Researcher stands by pushback in authorship dispute: colleagues call senior collaborators' emails threatening
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-06
AI researcher Soumitra Shukla revisits an authorship dispute with senior collaborators: when he asked for clarity on the initial byline before drafting results, he was told to finish the analysis first and the authorship question would be revisited later. He refused to keep working with the byline unresolved.
He says he has since shown the email exchanges to several senior and junior faculty members, all of whom described them as threatening, inappropriate, or unethical — and he fully stands by his decision to push back firmly. Posted amid ongoing discussion about senior faculty conduct in academia.
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