One of the most unexpected and arguably most negative professional interactions I've had over the past few years was meeting somebody who said: "Hi, I haven't read any of your papers but I can't see why they were published nor what they add to our understanding". 
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I mean sure it's absolutely fine not to read my papers, and it's also fine to have negative views about me and my work and everything, but to say that to a junior colleague is really strange.
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Replying to @o_guest
I had rockstar Profs walking up to my posters and then saying without reading about it: "Have you read my paper xyz. It's all in there. Good luck.", and going to the next one. I could fill a book with these and other infantile tricks.
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Replying to @BerndPorr @o_guest
This exact thing happened to my grad student. Made us double check if he was right (we had read his paper). And big shocker his paper had nothing in it that was relevant. And big shocker he was a he. And big shocker even if he read this tweet he would not know it’s about him.
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Replying to @BoyleLab @BerndPorr
I think it terms of "even if he read this tweet he would not know it’s about him." it's so painfully true for all these people. Like the married with kids PI who attempted to ply me with alcohol when I was a 2nd year PhD student and my friends has to physically put themselves
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between us and he ended up taking back to his hotel room another (much older PhD student, in fact prob older or same age as him).
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Replying to @BoyleLab @BerndPorr
The funniest thing is that even to this day events such as this don't stick in my mind and it takes conscious effort to recall them and even when I do they are misty. I had to send my friends emails from back then to check this story was true the first time I remembered it.
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Not only is it true but since I have seen it essentially happen again on loop.
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Also thank you! The fact you think it's bad is actually how we all can change the culture. 
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