My old lab which I left two years ago suddenly sent me some manuscripts to review a few weeks ago so that we can quickly publish a paper that my professor has b

My old lab which I left two years ago suddenly sent me some manuscripts to review a few weeks ago so that we can quickly publish a paper that my professor has been sitting on. This era is far different from the 50s and 60s, it is now a publish and perish era. Scooping is a threat to your career. Also, side note, Sydney Brenner is quite famous also for developing C. elegans as a model animal system. Open worm is a result of the tremendous amount of research done on that animal.