John Gillaspy @NSF: We use the textbook test. If your research is wildly successful, will it be in textbooks 20 years from now? #aqsw2019pic.twitter.com/Vj7xFhhfsz
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This utterly shocked me. At the time I was a prof at a research U with multiple project-based grants. Reflecting on this was a big part of why I left the field and academia. I think the approach taken by NSF and other agencies leads to minor, incremental work.
(There are exceptions, e.g., they deserve a world of credit for LIGO. But in general I think their practices need to be redesigned from scratch.)
