A disconnect I've been struggling to articulate is that there are few things in academia that have a more "market-style" sensibility than NIH funding, in which researchers go through hyper-competitive expert peer review to fund their work *and often their salaries* - ThreadSky

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adrianna.bsky.social • 16 days ago

A disconnect I've been struggling to articulate is that there are few things in academia that have a more "market-style" sensibility than NIH funding, in which researchers go through hyper-competitive expert peer review to fund their work *and often their salaries*

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adrianna.bsky.social•16 days ago

My colleagues in hard money positions can do the work that's important to them. Love that for them.

I and colleagues in soft money departments are limited to work we can *convince others* (funders) is important. It's a form of "eat what you kill" not unlike what you see in consulting and law firms.

adrianna.bsky.social•16 days ago

My husband "gets" what I do more than most of my family members, not because he once worked for CMS — though that certainly helps with the acronyms — but because applying for grants (a big part of my work) looks awfully similar to going after competitive RFPs (a big part of his work)

adrianna.bsky.social•16 days ago

This exactly — the disconnect is between the idea of NIH grants as "entitlements" and NIH grants as one the purest distillations of the notion of a "marketplace of ideas" that actually exists in U.S. science

afrakt.bsky.social•16 days ago

A big difference is that the market of which we speak is not one in which the average American participates (e.g., grants and papers vs gasoline and groceries). We are, therefore, easily characterized as in an out-of-touch bubble, whether warranted or not (same for billionaires, by the way).

aoeverhart.bsky.social•16 days ago

The whole schtick about how universities challenging these funding freezes is indicative of an "entitlement mindset" kills me.

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