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  1. …in reply to @Shooshan5
    @Shooshan5 But they can severely influence the path of a grad student, for instance by refusing to finance conferences, by retaining joint work for publication for a long period of time, by refusing to write recommendation letters, and so on
    1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
      @Shooshan5 On top of the psychological aspect, academia is a system of cooptation and the first step is through the supervisor I’m not saying it’s impossible to do without a good supervisor, but a bad one will have severe consequences
      1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
        @Shooshan5 I know many PhDs whose careers absolutely felt apart because of their bad supervisor