https://www.chronicle.com/article/academe-is-a-hotbed-of-craven-snitches
It is regrettable that the recent article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (linked above), from which I have drawn the title of this post, is restricted behind a paywall. Nevertheless, and setting that limitation aside, the subject it touches upon—particularly the issue of spineless academic informants—brings to mind an insightful paper published in 2017. In that work, one finds a discussion of a practice that is just as abhorrent as the cowardly act of academic snitching: the insidious “war on science through acts of public shaming”
PS – On that note, let us also not overlook those within academia who have elevated “backstabbing and bullying to a fine art“
Pacheco-Torgal 