3 ms·
This is exactly what my proposal is designed to do. No reporting or progress needs to be given each year. The recipients would have total leisure to do what eve
by danieltillett 10y ago
This is exactly what my proposal is designed to do. No reporting or progress needs to be given each year. The recipients would have total leisure to do what every they wanted with no pressure to produce results. Sure some of the recipients will do nothing, and some will try and fail, but what we are looking for are the 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 that produce an amazing breakthrough.
- dasmoth 10y agoSure. But I'm pretty sure that people on 10 year fellowships will still very much have their eye on what comes next. 10 year fellowships with a guaranteed pension at the end might just do it -- but funding those for youngish researchers, even in pretty small numbers, would be expensive indeed.
- danieltillett 10y agoA fellowship of 10 years would give people enough time to take a risk, but still leave enough time to salvage a career if things didn't work out. People would devote the first 5 or 6 years doing high risk / high reward research that had a low chance of success. If things didn't pan out they could spend the last 4 or 5 years generating iterative results and publications. These fellowships would not be a replacement for a normal academic position, but a way to give young scientists the breathing room to take a risk on high reward research. Given the chance many would - I certainly would have.
- nonbel 10y ago>"approximately US$28,000,000,000 (US$28B)/year spent on preclinical research that is not reproducible" http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165 http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...