Read it on medium (recommended). In academia, authorship can be a touchy subject that is all too easy to sidestep. However, it’s always simpler to have a contentious conversation prior to submission. Authorship can be a sensitive topic in academia, but let’s talk about it. My goal with this post is to throw out ideas and open paths for discussion, thus helping break the taboos around this topic and putting to rest some misconceptions. Discussion and prevention are always preferable to addressing issues after they arise. And authorship discussions don’t have to be as frosty as a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron.