Thinking about my thread this morning on why independent research is hard, and what it would take to make it possible, and whether it’s within the reach of private investors who ALL complain endlessly about how they have far too much capital and don’t know where to put it.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …
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Yes basically. the only relevant detail is, if federal money gets cut in half for overhead, but private money can give to uni and specify no overhead, then private can fund ~50% more people, compared to same dollar amounts from NSF. Makes it even better for private to give
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Who’s paying the independent researcher’s rent, utilities, lab space, maintenance, wifi? That’s what we spend it on. That model only works if the researcher pays those out of pocket, works at home. If I rent off campus, my overhead goes down to 25%, but I pay the rent.
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