This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
