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Re:Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Ski... by yid on Friday March 20, 2015 @10:53PM (#9241705)
> You don't have a phd, you can't be first author on this paper

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that either you're in a very archaic field or institution, or that your PI is not a nice person. In the US at least, even undergraduates are routinely first authors on papers where they did the majority of work.

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Re:Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Ski... by spiritplumber on Friday March 20, 2015 @11:49PM (#9241803)
This was in tandem with a Canadian researcher, so maybe.

I suspect that part of it is that I'm not in any sort of academic pipeline (I got out of school with a BSc, essentially apprenticed myself under a nautical engineer for a few years, then opened a workshop).

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Re:Online Learning Platzi (YC W15) Gives You Useful Tech Ski... by tomjen3 on Saturday March 21, 2015 @06:08AM (#9242311)
If you don't need the publication, use that to your advantage: refuse to publish unless you get named first (were applicable) - the other guy can either accept or perish.
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