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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy
Why Agencies Should Look for the Least Restrictive Way of Doing Something
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How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?
Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer
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NSF and Math Education: We Need More Randomized Trials
The National Science Foundation sponsors a ton of STEM programs across the US, but far too rarely does it include a randomized evaluation of whether…
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The NIH Should Reform Funding for Graduate Students and Post-Docs
The NIH sponsors far more biomedical graduate students and post-docs than could ever have a full-time academic career. We need “academic birth control…
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Why Science Funders Should Try to Learn from Past Experience
Science funding agencies feel political pressure to fund only research that is easy to explain and defend to lay members of the public and to Members of…
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Looking for a New NIH Director
A New NIH Director—What Should We Be Looking For? By Stuart Buck and Eric GilliamThanks for reading The Good Science Project! Subscribe for free to…
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New Thinking on Peer Review at NIH
The NIH has called for comments by April 24 on a proposed policy that would streamline peer review of grant proposals. Here’s a graphic of the proposed…
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