Talk Academia

That's not true. I know lots of people that got it the first time. It is also true that their bosses wrote the application for them after knowing the magical formula (and also having a very competitive project). The supervisor's write the grant application? That's just terrible. Well, sometimes it ...

I know there is life, i just said that it is not for me, and that i would find it boring. Maybe in the future i will change my mind, at the moment I am committed to do science in academia, that's it! Dealing with rejection is a must. It is most likely that in our careers we have had, have or will ha...

I guess we will never know :lol: In my case, i do this because I can't see myself doing something different. Science is my passion, rather than being a source of having a (low :lol: ) income every month. Some people would say that I don't know how it is outside academia; i think it would be extremel...

It says expert are so i guess has nothing to do with us! Keep clam we will know in few days! "The Profile Registration and Editing, Identity, Bank Account, Contracts and Payments functionalities in the Experts Area will be unavailable on Wednesday, 23.01.2019, between 07:30 and 08:10T CET." Game on?...

That is very interesting and very well thought from the applicant. Of course applying with a big name in the field is not going to give the fellowship. Also going in with high impact publications; i have heard of people saying "i have a publication in a top journal and they did not gave it to me". O...

I don't think increasing the evaluation fees would help, as they are quite high already. Everyone can apply, actually i have applied just to see how it works. Maybe, they should train extensively the evaluators and examine them before evaluations. However, this won't change a rejection if they don't...

Well, I mean, is a large group of evaluators, so the diversity in it also cover, let's say, poor evaluators :lol: As you said, luck is important. People are now considering or investigating a lottery system for grant selection. Just yesterday I have read a paper on plos biology about it, here is the...

Thanks for raising this. Regarding your first point: that is a major problem in academia, it has been like this forever and is something that journal are trying to address by making the authors of a paper in review anonymous. In academia there is a lot of competition and if you don't like someone or...

This is the standard european life sciences panel, so you are safe :D . What you have raised is an interesting point i did not think about it, as i am not from your field and do not know anything about social science. Can you raise this point to the EU? Can you maybe propose a project that consider ...

I have the feeling is going to increase for the ST-EF-LIF panel, hopefully not because last year was 93 :P Hopefully it wont go up too far. Cut off last year for IF ES was 91, which was considerably lower than previous years (from memory: 2017 92.8, 2016 92.2, 2015 92.8)...heres hoping it stays some...