Post #1655936
2026-04-20 06:45 UTC
Option #2: Develop new signals/assessment measures
Feasibility seems increasingly important. If anyone can write a good proposal with AI, that doesn't mean that anyone can implement that research plan. Indeed, me and you could submit the same proposal and it would be completely inappropriate for me to be funded and completely appropriate for you to be
Does that mean that funders need more investigation of feasibility in proposal review?
It's sort of "prospective reproducibility"?
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@tomstafford@mastodon.online 2026-04-20 06:50
Option #3: New funding mechanisms Give the money out in different ways. Is the proposal dead? One suggestion from Galdin & Silbert (https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/when-trusted-signals-collapse) is that employers (i.e. funders in my context) need to trial more short term contracts, so they can collect reliable signals from workers before committing to longer jobs More radical is push funding - rewards for research achievements rather than plans https://goodscience.substack.com/p/the-case-for-pull-funding-at-the There must be others. Let me know! /7