The dark truth about academic ghosting

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“… and then I added just half a microlitre of Rhodamine, and the whole culture lit up like a Christmas tree. That’s how my master’s research resulted in solving a bottleneck that had been plaguing biochemistry for over two decades.”

Said one of the better cover letters I’ve received over the years. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a position for her, but I knew someone who did and was able to refer…