For what it is worth. i found out last week I was excluded as a credited inventor on a patent that I worked for 2.5 years on. Industry does this stuff too…
Becoming et al.
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fermion@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I know it may not be worth pursuing, but that specifically can invalidate a patent.
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Correct. I have already reached out to my former company and I have a stack of paperwork coming to “correct the oversight” it helps that the company didn’t know that the patent application had been filed by the client.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Umm, that sounds very illegal?
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 8 months ago
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
scholars: “become a scholar! it’ll give you more opportunities in the future!”
also scholars: “there are too many scholars!”
stelelor@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
No scholar would ever tell anyone else to become a scholar. More like “Run! Run while you can! Get away from this cursed existence!”
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
you’re right. fixed
gmtom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Has any researcher ever tried legally changing their name to “et al” ? Like in day to day life you could just be Al but you would also be the most published scientist in history.
Belgdore@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It would also mean being involved in the most lawsuits, unfortunately.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Glass half full approach: “I am the single most cited author in existence”
taiyang@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Some disciplines use alphabetical order. I’d like to see a study that looks into if in this fields, does it impact the prosperity of tenure and grant funding?
PositiveControl@feddit.it 8 months ago
On the opposite side, being the only person working in the lab (especially when dealing with animali models) can be absolutely miserable - ask me how I know…
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How do you know?
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This guy follows documentation.
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“The movie star…and the rest!”
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
One tiny difference between the pain Israeli commercial pilots feel once they graduate
HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
What the fuck are you talking about?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 8 months ago
Simple fix, change legal name to Al.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
This is why workers forced movies and shows to put everyone in the closing credits.
Y’all need to unionize.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 8 months ago
From what I can tell, et al. is not about socio-political power*. It’s just a necessity for ease and efficiency. In-text citations need to be short to limit wasted space. Otherwise, we’d have lots of text dedicated to unnecessary names. An in-text citation that reads (Perez et al., 2023) is much more efficient than (Perez, Washington, Smith, Iwukuni, Johnson, Patel, Boofy, Yamirez, Tate, Hendrix, Apple, Man, & Gargamel, 2023).
Using 7th ed. APA, the citation entries in the bibliography/references include upto the first 20 authors, so contributors are rarely omitted.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It’s not like these are written on literal paper. It’s the 21st century, There’s no reason to save space in digital documents when you can just format them differently.
averyminya@beehaw.org 8 months ago
The idea being that when you go to view the citation, you see the details that were previously et al.
Whereas on movie credits, that’s your one chance to be seen credited on the work, outside of IMDB maybe.
PositiveControl@feddit.it 8 months ago
And at the same time, you can still get credit for the paper in your resumee etc.