There are edge cases where your family or friend could trick you into letting them in to your house and then steal your stuff.
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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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At the end of day, like with everything, there's risk. That risk should be minimised but it'll never disappear. Bad actors always exist.
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If fear of being scooped stops you doing good work, that's certainly an indication something is very wrong.
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*or not of. Also they need to jump into action so quickly as presumably you're already at the write up stage.
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If you're not writing up, you should question why this person is asking you such detailed questions about your work.
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Maybe they reviewed it though?
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Yes, if they're reviewing your work at a journal they can delay it and scoop you. I didn't realise you meant this, this is more common.
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This one is exactly where a preprint saves you and gets you the chance to get their work retracted.
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If you send the evidence they were your reviewer, they created a similar study while delaying your work, and here's the preprint.
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Well, they will be screwed. Even if it doesn't get retracted they will be ridiculed and shamed.
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So yeah, preprints.
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