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Keep in mind that many researchers are given a huge startup package at the beginning of their career to jumpstart a research agenda. They also don't pay for any
by ModernMech 5y ago
Keep in mind that many researchers are given a huge startup package at the beginning of their career to jumpstart a research agenda. They also don't pay for any rent for lab space, electricity, and other campus resources. All of those expenses are basically paid for by the overhead tax. It's the lifeblood of any academic research institution.
- Fomite 5y agoWhile "huge startup package" varies wildly - epidemiologists are cheap, for example, you are by and large correct. The data center where my nodes for HPC are kept? Indirects. The salary of the folks who review and submit the proposals, manage the budgets, and make sure we're complying with neat things like human subjects protections? Indirects. Journal subscriptions? Indirects. Direct costs cover remarkably few things.