Box 1 EGU21 - Mind your Head Examples of means of and workplace in academia , and are typical Behaviours and actions may have a broader range with means of and workplace mobbing. blurry boundaries and increasing severity over time, e.g.:

Harassment, such as using abusive, insulting or Setting the target up to fail, through, for instance, o ensive language or any other form of unwanted witholding information vital to workplace performance, (physical) behaviour towards a target setting unreasonable deadlines or constantly changing them, setting tasks that are far beyond the target’s skill level. Ostracism (), such as through deliberately Humiliating the target, through, for instance, excluding the target from work meetings, team activities, setting tasks that are unreasonably low, and through jeopardizing the target's ridiculing or belittling in front of colleagues, collaborators, etc., (work-related) relationships spreading rumours to make the target look like trouble/enemy. Limiting the target’s freedom, through, for instance, Intimidation, including verbal, physical and making up rules/standards that apply only to the target, psychological intimidation, such as threatening with falsely accusing of wrongdoing (”blaming the victim”), contract termination, vandalising target's laboratory denying chances to communicate (e.g. interrupting). equipment, or staring at the target Hindering , through, for instance, Scan this QR code to read the EGU blog post: denying access to resources or opportunities, denying credit for scientic ideas and results (authorships), ‘Mind your Head: An introduction to Workplace discrediting the target in front of (future) collaborators/employers. Bullying in Academia’

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