Absolutely. 
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This all being said, if you do know labs with such unethical tendencies: STAY THE FUCK AWAY and feel free to warn others. 100%.
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Also if you are confident somebody in your lab is acting as a spy whether they realise it or not, again: stay away & maybe talk to your PI.
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I have actually myself raised such issues quite a few times in various labs I've worked in. This can be done without use of dramatic "spy".
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In other words, tactful explanation of why you are concerned works and usually is met with respect from others.
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As I've said before in conversation with Rik and
@maria_ndrnh [at least those 2!] bluebricks are the worst. The more prestige the more BS.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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you have the coolest slang but I'm not very hip :). bluebricks?
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Here's a Limerick on the blue bricks: https://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=blue%20brick%20university …
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And a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_university …
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It's meant to be a way of segregating UK unis into blue and red bricks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_brick_university …
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It's now customary to refer to Ox & Cam (and others!) as blue and Russel group as red, so both carry prestige — but obv the blues more so.
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ahh kind of "ivy league" but with a few extra hundred years added on :)
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