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When academic collaborators struggle with competitive undercurrents

My research partner and I have been co-authoring papers for two years and we're both ambitious academics, but lately every conversation about our next project becomes an unspoken negotiation about whose career benefits more, and I hate that we're starting to think of our collaboration as transactional.

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