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by Fomite 4y ago
No data for it, but several times we've told companies if they think it can be done cheaper elsewhere for the same quality that they should do that. We've had no takers. Heck, one of my major sources of consulting income is "
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by Fomite 4y ago
It's also extremely hard to generalize even in grant-heavy fields based on source. The NIH and the CDC don't even really have a conception of summer salary, and often cover way more salary than NSF grants do.
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by Fomite 4y ago
One of my recent grants for comparison. I'm a computational epidemiologist. Like the OP, I'm effectively on a 9 month appointment, but for me it's 75% for all 12 months. Tenured at an R1 institution. This is an NIH grant, and
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by Fomite 4y ago
Happy to be corrected.
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by Fomite 4y ago
It is at least intended to reflect the cost of the grant. The building might need to be cleaned, but one could expect things like the library, a laboratory, support folks in IT and grant administration, the IRB, etc. to go up.
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by Fomite 4y ago
The problem for large capital expenditures is they will last well beyond the grant, but they need to exist in order for the grant to be done. But a lot of funders don't want to pay for things that will last well beyond the project they
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by Fomite 4y ago
Overhead also pays for people.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Because different institutions have different needs. As a particular example, the Scripps Institute has an astonishingly high, >100% overhead rate, because in order to do their research, they need to be able to maintain research ships. W
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by Fomite 4y ago
At my university when you look at it as a whole, we barely break even on indirects. While there is a lot of need to have a conversation about how the system currently functions, I'd suggest cutting indirects completely as step one is
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by Fomite 4y ago
I think this is the biggest thing. Universities have to report all of these things separately - private industry gets to tuck it into things. Having seen the comparative rates for private research companies...they're not cheaper than u
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by Fomite 4y ago
I'd like to know how many of these companies actually made money.
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by Fomite 4y ago
He also gets goodwill from it. The number of people, including fairly significant figures in the 3D printing world, will knock some of his logical competitors (Bambu) for not being open source. Each Prusa printer has some of its price premi
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by Fomite 4y ago
This. As a lawyer friend of mine put it, when working between academics and industry in other countries: "Contracts and licenses are not deflector shields. You have to be willing to sue in that country. If you don't trust your par
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by Fomite 4y ago
Word has it the Sovol SV06 is giving the Mk3S+ a run for its money.
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by Fomite 4y ago
In such a vague sense, "exposed to germs", it doesn't matter if you use disinfectants or not - you'll encounter plenty in your daily life. The purpose of disinfectants is to target surfaces that harbor massive population
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by Fomite 4y ago
C. difficile spores or norovirus particles would be better examples, imo
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by Fomite 4y ago
There's concerns for resistance in some non-bleach compounds, especially chlorhexidine. Bleach though remains pretty much microbial napalm, with some exceptions (prions, norovirus & C. difficile spores at the dilutions a lot of peo
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by Fomite 4y ago
In my first year of college, as not an Econ major, I had been exposed to both an avowed socialist economist, and one of the leaders behind the push to deregulate the airline industry. The idea that they represent a single orthodox is a li
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by Fomite 4y ago
Probably.
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by Fomite 4y ago
In my sort of informal "How would I like to use this?" testing, this ranges from easily verifiable facts (i.e. "Did you get where I got my degree right?") to structural misunderstandings of important concepts. The former
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by Fomite 4y ago
Turns humans from writers into fact checkers, which it turns out is a harder skill.
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by Fomite 4y ago
This is one of the things that LLMs seem to be struggling with. They're very good at tone, and feeling right without actually being write. My current test is to ask them to write a three paragraph introduction to me for a departmenta
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by Fomite 4y ago
Instead, we're bending over backwards just to appease a bunch of slightly younger monopolists.
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by Fomite 4y ago
For human subjects research, studies involving prisoners, along with members of the military, get a higher level of scrutiny precisely because there's very real concerns about their ability to meaningfully provide informed consent.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Most people I know in research were horrified of what was coming out of Neuralink.
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by Fomite 4y ago
On the second point we agree - but I have seen people absolutely torn apart for sloppy sample size calculations when it comes to animals.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I know a couple veterinarians who bounced off this during large animal medicine training, but those that did take an approach not dissimilar to a lot of Heroic Defense Lawyer Protagonists on television: This is going to happen, and its thei
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by Fomite 4y ago
Two thoughts: 1) Vet techs have been some of the kindest, most patient people I have met. They are humans, which means some of them are nasty, but between the compassion fatigue, the relatively low pay for the amount of training, etc., I do
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by Fomite 4y ago
I never said it wasn't - I know people who work in those facilities, and it takes a massive emotional toll. I'm just suggesting that the scientists who don't deal with their own animals aren't doing it because they&#x2
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by Fomite 4y ago
It's not as grim as you're considering. One of the things you want is people who know what they're doing taking care of the animals in question. When we're working with humans taking blood draws, we want trained phlebo

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