tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post4847939626099793911..comments2024-03-12T03:23:42.976-04:00Comments on NeuroDojo: The root of problemsZen Faulkeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post-65995426605205607762012-06-12T20:07:11.712-04:002012-06-12T20:07:11.712-04:00Tiffany: This blog does is published using a Creat...Tiffany: This blog does is published using a Creative Commons license. it's the last thing on the right hand sidebar.Zen Faulkeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post-10887754339262327572012-06-12T15:13:19.205-04:002012-06-12T15:13:19.205-04:00love this post! i'm a new faculty at an R1 and...love this post! i'm a new faculty at an R1 and our OSP takes.......59.9% of grants now! makes a million seem like gas money...so frustrating. may i re-blog this to my blog? newfaculty.wordpress.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post-69990317457285820322012-06-12T06:54:54.835-04:002012-06-12T06:54:54.835-04:00Sigh. "it’s so deeply embedded into the curre...Sigh. "it’s so deeply embedded into the current granting structure in the United States that it’s hard to envision how it could be extricated or reformed" is really depressing. As an individual graduate student, it's sometimes difficult to imagine having an impact on such deeply structural issues like this. I'll console myself with the belief that the more we keep bringing it up, the more likely it is that the necessary changes will start to take place. So, of course, I blogged about it :)<br /><br />http://mattertomorrow.blogspot.com/2012/06/where-have-i-been-or-science-outreachs.htmlScience Refineryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03391083965108348139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post-61827597069192466392012-06-08T09:59:15.051-04:002012-06-08T09:59:15.051-04:00In Canada it's still true that federal researc...In Canada it's still true that federal research grants, at least from NSERC, don't need to budget for overhead. But there's still overhead paid. What NSERC does is total up the value of all the NSERC grants obtained by the faculty at a given university, and then pay the university a set fraction of that (I think 20%) as overhead. So if the faculty at Calgary collectively get $100 in grant funding, they get to spend $100, and separate from that, NSERC pays the university $20 in overhead.<br /><br />Whether this weakens the perverse incentives you identify, I'm not sure.Jeremy Foxhttp://oikosjournal.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3522311.post-87265128908722731852012-06-07T09:56:23.096-04:002012-06-07T09:56:23.096-04:00Was discussing overhead w a PI who was also member...Was discussing overhead w a PI who was also member of a particular NIH task force several weeks ago. According to hit, it overheads originated w govt funding agencies, NIH in particular I think. The idea was, if university faculty were doing federally funded research, then they should help offset institution's cost as well (I'd have to check but seems like this was 60s? I'm sure someone will correct me). <br /><br />Principle was a good one, but this has perhaps developed into an unhealthy reliance by institutions on overheads. I think you're quite right that in some ways overheada can create peculiar incentives - and disincentives - for researchera and institutions alike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com