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That sounds like a misunderstanding. Federal grants usually have excessively strict restrictions on what you can do with the money. To the extent that labs can'
by jltsiren 2y ago
That sounds like a misunderstanding. Federal grants usually have excessively strict restrictions on what you can do with the money. To the extent that labs can't pay many reasonable expenses if they don't have other sources of funding.
Unless the project is particularly material-heavy, direct costs should be mostly labor costs, such as PhD student stipends and tuition, postdoc salaries, and summer salary for the PI.
- thehoff 2y agoI agree that this may be a misunderstanding. Federal grant proposals require budgets that outline how you intend to spend those dollars along with text describing those line items. Some of this can be extremely detailed. These agencies have a lot of restrictions so yes, other sources are required in many cases. Then as you spend those funds many of these grants will require monthly or quarterly (or even more frequent) text and budget updates.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoGranted I didn't see the budget breakdown, just the total and what I saw spent. Could have been salaries towards people whose work was invisible to me but still important to the grant.