I am not sure that's inadvertently scooping. That's malicious.
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Even if their excuse is "sorry I forgot you came up with that"... Well, if they are indeed sorry they publish a correction stating as such!
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This is exactly that situation in which a preprint can only strengthen your argument and demonstrate to others you came up with it.
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IMHO this is one of the rarest ways people scoop. Needs so much data and experimental overlap for them to steal your method of idea.
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Ah, def a field difference: in astro this is probably more common b/c there’s a lot of methodological overlap even for v diff sci results
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I addressed this in a side thread. Solved by preprints in many cases. That's certainly in part observational data vs exp data, like you say.
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I'm for example working on an big open observational dataset, I suppose I can say doing ML in polsci (not my field), and I'm completely
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silent on what I'm doing exactly because it's not written up fully yet. Once it's a preprint with a website etc etc i.e. the project is done
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then I'll discuss freely outside lab.
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Disagree; no obligation to tell you about it, but an obligation to cite/credit you for sure.
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OK, same thing though at the end of the day. If they cite you you will find out. It seems really antisocial to me for somebody to use your
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unpublished idea without discussing it with you.
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How can they cite you if you've not published it? That was the point of my "they must tell you".
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Footnote O Guest p.c. Is the standard way
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My assumption is that in private communication there is an implicit or explicit feel for what the conversation is about and a quasi informed
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consent from both parties that what is discussed might be used by the other and then as you say cited. The context above was not only about
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private communication but also other things like presentations, posters, etc. Those aren't under pc as far as I'm concerned. Regardless, I'm
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