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When your postdoc mentor prioritizes other researchers over you

My mentor keeps assigning me to projects that go nowhere while giving the promising research to other postdocs, and I am three years into what was supposed to be a two-year position.

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Your mentor keeps handing you dead-end projects while the good work goes to others.

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