The important thing to realise is if another lab makes your science harder to do that's malicious behaviour for all intents and purposes.
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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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In all honesty, if you're presenting a poster / talk you should ideally be at the write up stage. So it's quite hard to be scooped this way.
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I think it's an ecology thing but people with long term projects can easily have similar data to hand already, so more of a risk.
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Preprints. If you put it online they can't steal/accidentally steal it anymore in good faith.
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But it's also poss they just thought of it too independently. But if you both came up with it, then you should share credit.
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