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1. Guide to the taxonomy of collaborators: The disappointment - "I know I promised you the data three months ago & three months before that I promised you the data 3 months before that but I swear we are doing the experiment RIGHT now so you will have the data in three months."
2. The hustler -"we started doing the experiments we agreed that we would do & they turned out really great so some people in my lab started doing more experiments on this & they were even MORE AWSOME & we are basically going to be pursuing this full time now, thanks for the tip"
3. The big shot - "I know we said we would do these experiments but we need to prioritise & we have this collaboration w/ a nobel prize winner & once we are done with that collaboration & the Cell paper is in press in about a year from now we& #39;ll see if i can find time for you"
4. The Optimist: "I know you are waiting for this data for your revision & we said we would do these experiments & although they failed the first 25 times we tried them we are tweaking & I really believe we will have this data for you in the very near future, fingers crossed!"
5. The perfectionist:"the experiment worked & we got the data you asked for but we so far only managed to repeat the experiment 8 times & our N is only 10000 & the P value is still only 0.00005 so you will have to wait 6 more months until we can send you publication quality data"
6. The disappearing act: "sorry for not replying to any of your 15 emails or retuning the 7 phone calls, I was away at a conference, in fact I am at one right now and can& #39;t really talk about the collaboration. Why don& #39;t you send an email out next week?"
7. The life saving angel: "I know we said the experiment you asked for would take a year but we finished it in 3 months. Since it worked out so well we did these other 3 experiments & have 3 extra figures worth of data for you, thank you for including us in this awesome story!"
8. The arguer: "I read your manuscript & completely disagree with how you structured it, your interpretation of the data & the model you propose. I have taken the liberty to completely rewrite the manuscript focusing on what I find most interesting"
9. The innovator: "I know we discussed us doing a simple antibody staining on wild type moue kidney sections, but we got to thinking, what if we did electrophysiology on Drosophila larva fed high fat diet instead. Wouldn& #39;t that be the better experiment?"
10. The absent minded professor: "did we not send you the data already? I thought I had it somewhere on my desk on a napkin but I can& #39;t find it right now. But I did just find this excellent Moussaka recipe that I was looking for 3 months ago, happy to send that to you for now"
