Michael Kratsios
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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It's always easy to like take a headline that you're increasing funding in XYZ domain.
And the work is actually like quite hard.
It's not easy to go through.
$47 billion worth of funding and figure out, you know, what's working and what isn't.
And I think that's what we try to introduce.
I think there's this concept of meta science that's introduced in the report where we're setting up meta science units both at NSF and at NIH, where we're actually gonna start running experiments.
Maybe there are different ways that we should be doing, we should be doing funding.
And then we can analyze those and then course correct and direct money towards places where innovation.
Well, I think you start by figuring out what experiments you want to run.
So I think, you know, take for example in the National Science Foundation, almost all the grants are done in a very standard typical format.
There's a a a set of peer reviewers or m that do this merit-based review, it's maybe three or four people from a particular field.
They take all the applications, they review them, and they select the ones that as a group they believe are more most meritorious.
You know, one could argue that, you know, it is merit-based, of course, but it also
Also in many times incentivizes scientists to not necessarily propose crazy, bold, innovative out-of-the-box ideas.
They tend to want to propose ones that are in the strike zone that the board, for example, will all support.
So, one thing that we're going to be testing at at National Science Foundation is a concept called golden tickets, where each of the evaluators are going to be given one or two or three golden tickets.
And this was initially actually tested in Denmark and some other places.
And the theory is that the reviewer will then be able to unilaterally, without the rest of the of the committee agreeing, can make a selection of a particular grant.
So you incentivize folks to have more um more interesting grants.
But I think what's also kind of cool about this concept is that you actually incentivize the
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