Hey,

I am a second year PhD student. I did my Masters with the same advisor so we understand each other very well. Last year, we had a collaboration with another lab and the new PhD student in that lab had no experience. As we spent more time together, we got super close to each other and became really good friends.I taught him how to do almost everything and was trying to be nice to him. Once we got stuff working, we had our separate projects. I worked really had last year and was able to get some really good results. The problem first started when that new student started to present what was supposed to e my project, then we had a big meeting and the advisor clearly gave him my project and my data. I was fine with it as I wanted to help him get a kickstarter. Everything got worse afterwards, the new student started to be fully dependent on me and complain when I couldn’t help him work on his project. I tried to help him as much as I can but then I just started focusing on my project, and got really good data over the past year. Whenever I show my results at the joined collaboration meeting, their lab would say that my work would be better suited for their student project ( the one who just started his PhD). It reached a point where they suggested that we should be co-authors on my paper even though I did 90% of the work. I reached out to my advisor and let them know how I felt about them stealing my work, my advisor suggested that I should drop everything and work on another project with my name still attached to the collaboration project.

I don’t know what to do, I am just angry because they are trying to take away a year’s work for me