Research project conflict

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Well, if it was a project that you had worked on with the person, I hope that they at least listed you as a co-author on that project (which would presumably be why you would add it to your own resume) that they got the awards for. If this was presenting at a conference or publishing a paper based on work you did together, the right thing to do is discuss it all with you in advance.

However, at your stage of training, you may or may not be fully aware of authorship expectations with some things. It sounds like this was a peer issue so assuming that this was something you both contributed equally on, then yes, they should have. If you are going to list someone as an author, you generally run the work by them. Hard to tell though without any more specifics.
 
Well, if it was a project that you had worked on with the person, I hope that they at least listed you as a co-author on that project (which would presumably be why you would add it to your own resume) that they got the awards for. If this was presenting at a conference or publishing a paper based on work you did together, the right thing to do is discuss it all with you in advance.

However, at your stage of training, you may or may not be fully aware of authorship expectations with some things. It sounds like this was a peer issue so assuming that this was something you both contributed equally on, then yes, they should have. If you are going to list someone as an author, you generally run the work by them. Hard to tell though without any more specifics.
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They listed me as co-author because they used the same poster we presented at a previous conference. But I was not informed of anything.
Well I am not looking at my ethics code, but it sounds like they tried to get an award from a poster. That's probably not a big deal but they should have told you about it since you were a co-author. Sounds like relational aggression to me.

If they were presenting the same poster at a different conference, then that would be an ethical issue because you shouldn't duplicate the same work and get credit twice.
 
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