Really strong manifesto on the structural issues in science funding. That 42-45% admin burden stat is just wild when you think about how much actual research time gets lost. The point about younger scientists losing out hits hard too, since people in their 30s often produce the most disruptive work but can't get thru the funding gantlet. One thing I'd love to see more of is how funders could use retrospective evaluations to figure out what actualy worked.
Thanks! It is unfortunate that the federal government so often disappears old webpages. Linkrot is bad enough everywhere else, but the federal government could maintain them (at a relatively expense).
Really strong manifesto on the structural issues in science funding. That 42-45% admin burden stat is just wild when you think about how much actual research time gets lost. The point about younger scientists losing out hits hard too, since people in their 30s often produce the most disruptive work but can't get thru the funding gantlet. One thing I'd love to see more of is how funders could use retrospective evaluations to figure out what actualy worked.
It seems that the https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2015/03/25/age-of-investigator/ link is taken down.
Last successful snapshot is from 5th of April 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250405062435/https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2015/03/25/age-of-investigator/
Thanks! It is unfortunate that the federal government so often disappears old webpages. Linkrot is bad enough everywhere else, but the federal government could maintain them (at a relatively expense).