{"id":2544,"date":"2014-06-07T19:28:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2014-06-07T19:28:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T19:28:27","slug":"things-i-learned-at-a-funding-agencys-community-engagement-session-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2014\/06\/07\/things-i-learned-at-a-funding-agencys-community-engagement-session-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned at a funding agency&#8217;s &#8220;community engagement&#8221; session this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Your stupid new metrics are irrelevant to <em>my<\/em> field of research&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s not fair that chemists get bigger awards, even though I acknowledge that their research is much more expensive than that of the other fields that fall under your agency&#8217;s mandate&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You can&#8217;t make me change the way I format my CV! I&#8217;ve done it this way for years!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s not fair that you&#8217;re no longer asking people to attach their CV as an .xml file generated by the Common CV system. I spent <em>days<\/em> figuring out how to hack that code to include more publications than the format allows!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Postdocs waiting to submit fellowship applications until the final year they&#8217;re eligible, rather than diving in at the first opportunity when they have fewer publications, is &#8216;gaming the system'&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(all quotes paraphrased, but only a little bit. I don&#8217;t know any of the PIs involved &#8211; this was an event held at the campus of one of the universities with which my institution is affiliated. I went as my institution&#8217;s representative, and didn&#8217;t recognize anyone else there. The funding agency rep handled everything way better than I would have in her position. From my position in the audience, it was a very entertaining afternoon).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your stupid new metrics are irrelevant to my field of research&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s not fair that chemists get bigger awards, even though I acknowledge that their research is much more expensive than that of the other fields that fall under your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2014\/06\/07\/things-i-learned-at-a-funding-agencys-community-engagement-session-this-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-grant-wrangling","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}