I once sent three e-mails and made four phone calls trying to track down a possible collaborator.
Most seem happy to close ranks and swallow the "naive, silly ass" defence that Wodehouse himself put forward to MI5 when they questioned him in 1944 as a possible Nazi collaborator; forgetting that, before the war, Nazi admiration was not uncommon in certain echelons in the UK – call it the "Edward VIII position".
They might come in as ringers to help script or consult on a television project, they might be hired to be a talking head, they might be in the rolodex of people in the field as a possible ghostwriter or collaborator.
She mentioned as possible collaborators the avant-garde rock vocalist Mike Patton, the Inuit throat-singer Tagaq, the "human beatboxes" Dokaka and Rahzel, and the R. & B. superstar Beyoncé.
The brazen nature of the killing suggested that Hamas, which governs Gaza, intended it as a blunt message to other possible collaborators with Israel, which is believed to have an extensive network of informants here as part of its underlying battle with the group.
Her main scholarly collaborator has been her husband, David H. Romer, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has himself been mentioned as a possible nominee.
The laboratory leadership, through Makerere University, played a big part to alert possible collaborators of the available opportunity for collaboration.
If you include all possible collaborators you'll create a bloated, unproductive team and as PI, you'll be in the uncomfortable position of needing to cut people later.
Created by EMBO in February 2004, the consultancy offers a series of searchable databases pointing European life scientists to sources of funding, training, jobs, and possible collaborators, useful for those wanting to stay put as well as those on the move.
