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Note also that collaborations compete with other collaborations for program grants, and R01s (the measure of a "real" PI) are inherently not collaborative. The

by apathy 10y ago

Note also that collaborations compete with other collaborations for program grants, and R01s (the measure of a "real" PI) are inherently not collaborative. They are by their very nature competitive. And they are the metric by which principal investigators are judged.

jsprogrammer 10y ago
Many real PIs support collaborating researchers and students though.
- apathy 10y ago
  Right, but students are written into the grant. Ultimately, nobody gives a shit which post doc or student you put on a project; the assumption (often flawed) is that they're all the same as far as the modular budget is concerned. If they were special, the reasoning goes, they'd have their own F32 or T32 to work on the project.