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Communicating with your peers can be one of the largest hurdles for some in regards to manners in academics. Many researchers are often introverts, and this can lead to miscommunication and lack of communication between peers. Without constant and timely communication with your peers, such things as collaboration can come to a grinding halt. Therefore, I advise students and colleagues who are interested in optimizing their academics and, specific for this chapter, manners in academics to prioritize and maximize communications. This can be as simple as updating collaborators as to the timeline of a publication or keeping them abreast of abstracts when they are published.

Lastly, if a colleague calls or emails you, respond to them in as reasonable a time as possible. A rule that has yet to be well defined is how quickly an academic colleague should respond to missed phone calls or emails from other colleagues, students, or research assistants. My rule of thumb is to do so within one day of the initial contact. This is not always possible, such as when one is out of the country or at a meeting, but for me, it has resulted in a fruitful co‐existence with colleagues. Collaborators will not only appreciate your timely response but will equate these to your enthusiasm for their contact and as a potential future collaborator. In other words, don't burn bridges by simply being inattentive to your peers and their phone calls/emails.