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<div>This just came up on my social media...:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">A cat co-authored a scientific paper in 1975, when his owner, a physicist named Jack H. Hetherington, decided to add him as a second author to avoid changing the plural<span id="ms-outlook-ios-cursor"></span> pronouns in his manuscript. The cat’s
name was Chester, and he was given the pen name F.D.C. Willard, which stood for Felix Domesticus, Chester. Willard was also the name of Chester’s father. The paper was about atomic behavior at different temperatures, and it was published in Physical Review
Letters, a prestigious physics journal.
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Chester’s co-authorship was revealed when Hetherington sent some signed copies of the paper to his friends and colleagues, and included the cat’s paw prints as his signature. The story became widely known and amused many people in the scientific community.
Chester even published another paper as the sole author in 1980, in a French popular science magazine. He died in 1982, but he is still remembered as the first and only cat to have authored a published scientific paper.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> PhD-BehSci <phd-behsci-bounces@lists.stir.ac.uk> on behalf of Till Stowasser <till.stowasser@stir.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 12, 2023 1:46:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> phd-behsci Mailing List <phd-behsci@lists.stir.ac.uk>; Kevin Kim <hyungseo.kim@stir.ac.uk>; 230251379@aston.ac.uk <230251379@aston.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Phd-behsci] Authorship: COPE links</font>
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<div class="">General:</div>
<a href="https://publicationethics.org/authorship" originalsrc="https://publicationethics.org/authorship" shash="XpH7dwg9h9jBhWHCAyiQNhMLGSgP6Lf0LpLAobFsJGYkdSlsELElnLr3v64PgSFUswBn5EhMP3owRem1vLT4jpRZ1T/X9hIwRbszFo8PNyBPRReaTYoLaRXEH1q8dxGyl6viN3tyN2Iv6WKyPA3Iq1EPe5XFI0p6/ITtQF/Ad9Y=" class="">https://publicationethics.org/authorship</a>
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<div class="">Authorship:</div>
<div class=""><a href="https://publicationethics.org/sites/default/files/COPE_DD_A4_Authorship_SEPT19_SCREEN_AW.pdf" originalsrc="https://publicationethics.org/sites/default/files/COPE_DD_A4_Authorship_SEPT19_SCREEN_AW.pdf" shash="DF7oUi9Chctqx4xFR5a8u1R/dz+vLLpwXDeex9/CS/VRPkyY4rYlEoTWoGqI5hmfqTvFCZbAmLay8hdvPF73T2YkI6RVeEADFurLRMo4w+KCIQMS1KmwSkiCwBvv/mS0wU27ZK7wY5DSxoLR9Wal5jzBmsKoWgdNFJI357eMQdo=" class="">https://publicationethics.org/resources/discussion-documents/authorship</a></div>
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<div class="">Ghost, guest, or gift authorship:</div>
<div class=""><a href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/ghost-guest-gift-authorship-submitted-manuscript" originalsrc="https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/ghost-guest-gift-authorship-submitted-manuscript" shash="RwhNpYOSgolaOhfyFNv8qf1msX9SDVcmbjuQyh8bHSBinA6YFPzB9myOfsEc+R8Ruk/DJRnIvR/XOXrHUoMVhfJlLsqokxncjoat1GUnrMk/DnlciPLdcYjwypjTYK4S4Swep7PPdkwMg/294DY3EvVSp/oX1pYM18wKW0kW5G8=" class="">https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/ghost-guest-gift-authorship-submitted-manuscript</a></div>
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<div class="">How to handle authorship disputes:</div>
<div class=""><a href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/how-handle-authorship-disputesa-guide-new-researchers" originalsrc="https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/how-handle-authorship-disputesa-guide-new-researchers" shash="kMNdutERR3sZYc8LAIr90PGWnJw4mUXZjxJtV3YqtYCWPfA1UyTWuhd4impYZgIC3JeuLggRtrP3tX1yCq2kEHkJ2Fwz6qddiiA/cwOJuF6tdPebWBZrx+YQFeqj2g/C9+mDDJQa/3b+K97FBlSrv040lnPYOkbBVwKdgFZvgW0=" class="">https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/how-handle-authorship-disputesa-guide-new-researchers</a></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="gray" size="2">The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159<br>
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