[edu-ap]

Academia can be very toxic and PhD students are the most vulnerable as their Prof holds all the cards. This needs real checks and balances.

[unishark]

Getting a paper into nature and being a top-ranked school almost certainly says it was a high-pressure environment.

But there is certainly a process for handling advisor-advisee issues at a big school like Stanford:

https://deanofstudents.stanford.edu/who-we-are