&gt; What put me off academic research was essentially the utter lack of &quot;genuine&quot; teamwork - when a lot of interactions with a colleague become negotiations about whether your name goes on their paper and if so in what place it all becomes a bit tedious.<p>At least the &quot;in what place&quot; problem is solved quite elegantly in mathematics, where the names on a paper are simply in alphabetical order. Being a mathematician I&#x27;d wish that other sciences would also apply this practice.