For my masters thesis project I was told on day one with all the other students that we would not get to publish a paper on the research and that the research supported PhD students and professors research. And that we would , and I quote, “need to get over it”.

However, I noticed multiple times that PhD publications had 3 supervisors listed. When only one was the actual one student’s supervisor. The others weren’t even in the same area at all.

They were all 3 on every PhD paper published from that department. Always.

Yet the masters students who did all the experiments were not allowed to be included on the publications.

It was a weird setup because the masters students ran the PhD students experiments.

We did all the grunt work !

It’s like. Whatever. If they don’t want to put our many names on the paper they could at least mention us in the acknowledgement. And it seemed unfair that we, who did the work were forbidden from being in the papers, but 2 other professors who had nothing to do with the projects were always added.

Idk. I thought it was sketchy AF. But I hear this sort of thing is common.