About the ERC gate. The ERC fetichism is quite damaging, IMHO. Yes it's great for a scientist to get a lot of money, but as a model of public research funding, it's very bad. I wrote some related thoughts a while ago:
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Brilliant young scientists are struggling to obtain a stable faculty position, all over the world. It seems that “publish or perish” was actually quite hopeful. Now clearly, at least in biology, it…