My friend gave me her phone to look at her friend’s CV, it was incredibly impressive with accolades and awards, I then asked if I can have the CV sent to me (I intended follow up on the friend’s research as it was relevant to what I am doing my own research on). My friend instantly said “No!!” And was a bit angry with me…
I have no clue if I did something wrong or ill mannered. Did I do something wrong??
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Maybe you should have provided more context and a bit more nuance haha. Chances are she felt sidelined or insulted
No. A CV isn’t exactly a private document. Many people have them on their websites, for example.
If you were worried just message and say something like ‘I’m sorry if I offended you when I asked for the cv. I just wanted to follow up on the research because it looked very interesting’. I would leak it at that if they don’t offer to send the references to you though.
Based on how you’ve framed it here, their response sounds a bit odd.
You should ask your friend why they reacted that way.
Why, though? Is the friend not on Google scholar, orcid, or similar sites?
I find the way you have written this post to be a red flag. You have left out an enormous amount of contextual information. In my experience, people who communicate in this way are deliberately leaving out information which would make them look bad.