science-in-society
In the previous article on grant lotteries, I ended on a note that the core problem with scientific funding is not just about how you allocate a scarce resource, but about how scarce that resource has become, and how much collective energy is now spent competing for it. There is
science-in-society
Meier, Dillard, and Lappas (2026) published "The naturalness bias" in Current Opinion in Psychology, and it only runs to about two printed pages - probably the shortest paper I've ever read. Despite it's length, the paper touches upon an interesting topic: what's
science-news
Something I keep hearing more around me (and have noticed myself) is that getting funding for your scientific research is getting structurally worse. The number of proposals for a call seems to be going up every round, success rates are dropping, and somewhere in there a researcher's focus