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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 26 Jun 2019

    Health Nerd Retweeted Bryan William Jones

    Most scientists are immured to the system that requires this nonsense but seriously look at that Each grant takes hundreds of man-hours THIS IS A TABLE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF WASTEhttps://twitter.com/BWJones/status/1143616543470710784 …

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    Bryan William JonesVerified account @BWJones
    Junior scientist struggling w/ grants asked for advice. I agreed to help them out, but also wanted them to see this image. This image shows the grants that I’ve been involved with going back to 2012. The green dots are the successes, the red dots are failures. Keep submitting. pic.twitter.com/wsXm1SLv9p
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      2. Todd Cameron AZ x2  💥 💪‏ @TcameronTodd 26 Jun 2019
        Replying to @GidMK

        A rubbish way to waste talent There must be many better ways

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      3. Allen Cheng‏ @peripatetical 26 Jun 2019
        Replying to @TcameronTodd @GidMK

        Yep, hell of a way to earn a living! (my funding success rate wouldn't be much better than that, but I don't write as many applications)

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      1. Dr Horsey McHorseface  ⚫‏ @IncitatusAlpha 26 Jun 2019
        Replying to @GidMK

        We once worked out that completing 10 large grants applications per year represented a full time job

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      2. Dr. The unified self is just my MacGuffin.‏ @GregCfollows 26 Jun 2019
        Replying to @GidMK @WiringTheBrain

        Exactly. Would love an economist to look at the interaction of grants written, funded on science production. I got out because it felt like I was writing and doing experiments only for study sections. My CV says otherwise, but many scientist would agree with that feeling.

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      3. Dr. The unified self is just my MacGuffin.‏ @GregCfollows 26 Jun 2019
        Replying to @GregCfollows @GidMK @WiringTheBrain

        OK, this made me look. This paper maybe identifies the right dynamics, though I don't know about the psychology of a lottery element. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000065 …

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      1. Travis Gerke‏ @travisgerke 26 Jun 2019
        Replying to @GidMK

        I liked, retweeted, and am now replying WHY ISNT THERE ANOTHER REACT BUTTON I CAN MASHpic.twitter.com/2nHIIvRexd

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      1. Claudio Paganini  💉 💉‏ @the_happyproton 26 Jun 2019
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        Add in that now most institutions employ people to support scientists when writing grants. They litterally spend money to get money. The grant system produces soooo much overhead it is ridiculous.

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      1. Stephen Wells‏ @EssayWells 26 Jun 2019
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        @kamerlinlab and I have talked about how an actual lottery would be better. Put in a two page proposal. Referees check only that it's coherent. Put them in a tombola.

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      1. William Lee‏ @drdrwlee 27 Jun 2019
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        IIRC there was a study from the Netherlands doing the same for choosing medical students. The lottery-after-quality-standard students did worse. Either because they really were worse candidates, or because knowing you are there by chance affects something, or something else.

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      1. Meghan May‏Verified account @DrMay5 27 Jun 2019
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        I've been doing serious reflecting on this system of late, notably on how study sections are assembled, priorities determined, and scores considered. There must be a better way.

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