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Tatjana Scheffler
Tatjana Scheffler
@tschfflr@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

SNF (Switzerland) restrictions proposed: only 1 concurrent research grant per PI (plus maybe one coop), only 1 proposal per year.

🔥 Hot take (since I'm not at all operating like this currently): I actually think this might be a good idea? It would curb some of the biggest "research mills", where one PI has a huge pyramid scheme underneath them, and might encourage more careful grant proposals, slower science. And might even put more emphasis back into the basic research funding (instead of the grant lotteries)?
(Maybe naive, I know, and I have no idea how this would be implemented)
#academicChatter #researchGrants

https://www.snf.ch/de/7qymWfJMG1z9XR2S/news/einschraenkungen-in-der-projektfoerderung

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Cerstin Mahlow
Cerstin Mahlow
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@tschfflr There had been restrictions already, they're now just double as hard. And chances to get funding are going down anyway. No, it’s in no way in favor of research, instead of slow science we'll get no science and researchers leaving academia

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Olga Lovick (she/her)
Olga Lovick (she/her)
@transitionalaspect@fnordon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@tschfflr I don’t hate it either, for the reasons that you mention.

(I try to operate like this personally and like it. But I’m in a secure position…)

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sonja dolinsek
sonja dolinsek
@sonjdol@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@tschfflr Agreed. Also because research funding seems to privilege previously successful applicants, which is kinda unfair

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