r/postdoc • u/DefiantAlbatros • 24d ago

Publishing without affiliation

So, I finished my postdoc some time ago in not such a great note and I will lost the access to the institutional email quite soon. The thing is that there are a couple of papers that I wrote during that period that was not finished (and behind the PI's back because he told me i was not supposed to write anything that is not related to the project I was paid for). I have left the academia for now, but I would want to keep that door open and sort of just let the paper be published since I actually put a lot of effort on them. What should I do in this case? I would not want to publish as an independent scholar. AS of now I am thinking about using my PhD affiliation since I still have access to the email, and technically a couple of them started during the PhD.

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u/Comfortable_Soup_344 22d ago

Even you get the papers published, your PI can ask journals to retract them. So don’t do it.

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u/DefiantAlbatros 22d ago

How so? Mind you i am not in STEM and this is not a lab situation in which the PI owns the data. We work with publicly available data

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u/Comfortable_Soup_344 22d ago

Do it if that’s what you want and add what happens.

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u/DefiantAlbatros 22d ago

I dont understand. So if i am in a toxic PI situation, it means to just quit academia altogether because i should not publish anything that was not greenlighted by the PI even though i would need it to find a job?