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The fact that your job title exists is a crime. Do you get summer salary lol?

• ISL 7y ago
  Grantwriting is a skill. Writing grants requires a huge amount of time away from research. I'd love it if our group were able to have a grantwriter on staff, integrated with our research team. We would be able to get so much more science done, because our awesome researchers could do... research.
  • alpineidyll3 7y ago
    The whole enterprise of grantwriting is demonstrably a wasteful activity. Grant award decisions are largely due to historical reputation, nepotism and other sorts of special interest. The idea of outsourcing writing research plans to people who don't understand them to generate meaningless pages of feel-goodery is everything that's wrong with science today. People who talk about "the skill of grantwriting" perpetuate this cycle of wasted intellect. Faculty at the top 5 laugh at how many faculty elsewhere are tricked into pursuing this quixotic idea.
    • alpineidyll3 7y ago
      To this point: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769156/