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by tikej 1999 days ago
If getting as many as possible and as big as possible grants is incentivised, that isn’t a surprise.

More permanent positions, longer funding (like for 10 years), funding good people, letting them do risky projects without penalising them for failures, and relying less on underpaid PhD students and postdocs would probably lead to more explorations. Nowadays , funding incentives are placed in such way, that incremental discoveries of known/expected things for largest possible amount of money are expected and praised.