> What put me off academic research was essentially the utter lack of "genuine" teamwork - when a lot of interactions with a colleague become negotiations about

> What put me off academic research was essentially the utter lack of "genuine" teamwork - when a lot of interactions with a colleague become negotiations about whether your name goes on their paper and if so in what place it all becomes a bit tedious. At least the "in what place" problem is solved quite elegantly in mathematics, where the names on a paper are simply in alphabetical order. Being a mathematician I'd wish that other sciences would also apply this practice.