Exploitative behavior by academic supervisors who deny proper credit, obstruct progress, and mentally harass researchers. It includes stealing unpublished work, manipulating power dynamics, and creating a toxic research environment. Though informal, the term highlights serious ethical violations in academic mentorship.
Every time Kiran submitted a draft, Manikandan would return it unread, demanding revisions on work he hadn’t even reviewed—classic Academic BDSM.
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