In his latest article, tells a striking story: much early life science research software was created as non-commercial passion projects; the field got "spoiled" by free labor, now doesn't know how to directly fund software dev for science.
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The suggestion (which seems good!) is that labs should be able to hire professional research software engineers (and designers and PMs), at competitive rates. What changes would be needed to the NIH funding process to permit this?
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hire me, labs!!! hire MEEEEE
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Labs should certainly hire you!