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The amount for a non-modular (i.e. the default, you don't have to have a super detailed budget) NIH R01, which is the basic unit of biomedical science funding, has been stagnant since 1999.

Budgeting for a separate person to do this would eat up a tremendous amount of said budget.

Which is fine, except if we think about this from a productivity standpoint, the person who budgeted for that person is probably short a graduate student compared to the person who didn't, on the outside chance that someone cares about their stuff. For example, I looked at my lab's publicly available repositories linked to papers on Github.

Watches: 15 (probably half of these are people involved in the project) Forks: 3 Stars: 4 Visitors in the Past Month: 4

That's it. For all of them. While I keep doing it based on principle, if I stopped tomorrow, it would impact me not at all.

And undergraduates, candidly, are not usually time savers.