no, you're doing research. I know some postdocs who practically don't do research, they manage labs or write software, but their names go on the papers that com

no, you're doing research. I know some postdocs who practically don't do research, they manage labs or write software, but their names go on the papers that come out of the lab which is frequently good enough. and usually, the postdocs do research. my advisor said that being a postdoc was the best time of their life (they has tenure) because their responsibilities were ~0, they had no one to manage / no one they was responsible for, but they also had effectively no superior or supervisor because the PI was busy managing the graduate students and expected that the postdocs see to themselves.