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2026-03-02 20:16 UTC
@JubalBarca Honestly, I think we'd get more and higher quality research out if every professor just got a flat rate, no matter what institution they're at or how large their group is.
yes, it would lead to much smaller groups, And some bad ideas not getting filtered out, but I think on average it would be a win
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social 2026-03-02 23:17
@Canageek Yes, I sometimes wonder about things like that. Even just having much shorter grant applications and review processes where everything gets a "is this basically sane, OK, it goes in the pool and then it's a lottery" would probably produce basically the same outcomes as now with considerably less work for everyone. I fear academia is so desperate to believe in the possibility of absolute scientifically (or rather, scientistically) ranked meritocracy that it's killing us sometimes.