It's kind of depressing there doesn't seem to exist any funding scheme for important, yet 'incremental' work.
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Replying to @micahgallen
I mean, doesn't the 'we only fund exceptionally high impact research' incentivize a lot of the reproduciblity crisis?
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This is a product of the budget flatline. When funding lines were ~30% incremental work was easier to fund. The *really* depressing 1/
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aspect of grant agencies is the lack of funding for infrastructure. PsychToolbox & PsychoPy should be getting sustained 150k every year 2/
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It's true that PsychoPy just got a huge grant, but that's not a sustainable source of support. NIH and NSF should support upkeep 3/3
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Replying to @bradpwyble @micahgallen
Yes, great to have a grant for PsychoPy but it took 15 years to get there, and still not considered “real” as worthy as running a study :-/
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Also, many researchers consider PsychoPy more worthy than running a study. The institutions need to acknowledge better, though.
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Yes, indeed. We feel very much appreciated by *users*. It’s the institutional level that’s the problem.
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I don't even use PsychoPy (because I don't do exp with participants) directly and this still fills my heart with happiness for the love and
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sadness for the lack of love from institutions.
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So much other crap gets so much $$$ from institutions... like Matlab. *ehem*
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