yeah, they're not from my PhD though, I'm second author, but I'm hoping that still counts (it will be a different institution to 1st author).

thanks Bug! is it 2 papers from young/early career academics that they want, cos I reckon I'll have 2 high profile ones (up)

its a presentation about research though. I've had a look at the website, does that mean that you have to have published stuff before Nov 2013 for it to count?

ok, the interview is going to be about the REF, I've had a bit of a tip off.

When is the REF? When do you have to get publications in for it?

hmmm, maybe she needs a bargaining chip (which doesn't necessarily have to happen later on) i.e. you let me be an equal contributor and I'll add your name to my PhD publications.

And when it comes to PhD publications maybe more "oh, well my postdoc sup is so mean, he won't let me add anyone elses names to the publications, even though they're from my PhD! so sorry, I'll add you in the acknowledgements though"

yes, I have 2 cats and a dog, but it also means we can't sell up and rent if we need to move nearer work for example, which is a bit of a pain.

Work going ok this morning. Need to make a surge through with it. I also have 4 10,000 word documents to read through for students today :-( and I'm getting chasing emails from them.

I like Ady's idea, although presumably it comes with the risk that she could pull her data (or what she's contributed) making your work un-usable (is that a word?).

I would identify the journal its going to and looking through their rules, they're bound to have a 'contribution of each author' rule - which you could spout back at her and say you feel its unfair that you're not equal contributers.

oh dear, how petty. so basically she's getting in a huff about a tiny footnote that says you did work on the project, that no other employer of hers or probably funding institution will ever care about!

Given that this is important for your PhD and you have your supervisors support I'd suggest bringing it up again with her. Is there any way you can produce your own paper and say something like 'building on the data provided by a study by....' or something?

I'm guessing the postdoc's surname would go after yours in the alphabet, meaning it would look like you were first author if given the 'equal contribution' tag.

Its a tricky situation, is there any way you could take all your analysis and write up a separate thing without her on it? or just an acknowledgment? GIven the threat of that, she may well back down and let you go on jointly.

thanks bug! I think my back up plan will be continuing to work with the organistion who sponsored my PhD, but its good to show that I've looked at other funding options other than ESRC.

maybe she does always go in the other room and thus far had you convinced that she didn't sleep all day lol. my cats spend all day eyeing up my laptop keyboard trying to sit on me. :-s

you probably heard me shrieking too - no one was in the house so my poor dog had to put up with it. They're so fast - why?? I don't think they're that fast to catch flies etc. I think they're that fast because they're going to take over the world. :$

Also - how did they get in? I reckon they pushed the catflap open, they were THAT big.

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I have a job interview in 2 weeks. I need to talk about what funding I will apply for.

I'm going to look into the ESRC schemes, but are there any sources I coud look at - charities etc? (I'm in social sciences).

I went for the same role last year and one of the other candidates said she was torn apart in her interview because she said what funding she would go for and they said "what happens if that falls through?" and she didn't have an answer - I need an answer!

ETA - this is for postdoc funding, while being a lecturer.

Well I stayed up late last night, my eyes and typing went blurry so stopped PhD work but did get some marking done, which has eased the pressure a teensy bit.

Although I mainly stayed up because i was backed into a room by 2 huge spiders. I've trapped one under the dog bowl this morning. The other remains in my bedroom (I assume) and was huge so its freaking me out a bit. I slept with my mini-dyson in hand just in case :$

I'm hungry, but at the same time I feel full - how does that work?

Getting there with this chapter, but starting to get tired :-(