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"content": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>ct_bergstrom</span></a></span> </p><p>Nice work. </p><p>Don Braben (<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Braben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_B</span><span class=\"invisible\">raben</span></a>) was making a related argument (minus the modelling) in the 1980s (<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/316401a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">doi.org/10.1038/316401a0</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>).</p><p>He argued that revolutionary research (e.g. Planck, Einstein) would not get funded under 1980s state funding arrangements (and it's arguably worse now). He identified funding by committee and peer review as the culprits (so, systemic incentive mechanisms - as you investigated).</p><p>For a while he ran a research funding scheme that attempted to fund revolutionary research. It was bankrolled by BP as an act of philanthropy before the "shareholder value" crowd caught on to what was happening.</p><p>There is a snapshot of Braben's old website on the Internet Archive: <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20060421040238/http://www.frontier.co.uk/VentureResearch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">web.archive.org/web/2006042104</span><span class=\"invisible\">0238/http://www.frontier.co.uk/VentureResearch/</span></a></p><p>His BRAVERI index is amusing in a gallows-humour way: <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01065-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(02)</span><span class=\"invisible\">01065-8</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/MetaScience\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MetaScience</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/ResearchFunding\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ResearchFunding</span></a></p>",
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"en": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>ct_bergstrom</span></a></span> </p><p>Nice work. </p><p>Don Braben (<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Braben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_B</span><span class=\"invisible\">raben</span></a>) was making a related argument (minus the modelling) in the 1980s (<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/316401a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">doi.org/10.1038/316401a0</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>).</p><p>He argued that revolutionary research (e.g. Planck, Einstein) would not get funded under 1980s state funding arrangements (and it's arguably worse now). He identified funding by committee and peer review as the culprits (so, systemic incentive mechanisms - as you investigated).</p><p>For a while he ran a research funding scheme that attempted to fund revolutionary research. It was bankrolled by BP as an act of philanthropy before the "shareholder value" crowd caught on to what was happening.</p><p>There is a snapshot of Braben's old website on the Internet Archive: <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20060421040238/http://www.frontier.co.uk/VentureResearch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">web.archive.org/web/2006042104</span><span class=\"invisible\">0238/http://www.frontier.co.uk/VentureResearch/</span></a></p><p>His BRAVERI index is amusing in a gallows-humour way: <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01065-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(02)</span><span class=\"invisible\">01065-8</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/MetaScience\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>MetaScience</span></a> <a href=\"https://aus.social/tags/ResearchFunding\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ResearchFunding</span></a></p>"
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