Low success rate in early career grants ‘deeply disappointing’ - Research Professional News “Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate

Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia.

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It seems that the birdie also wanna learn some bioinformatics from #ABACBS2025

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DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran).

What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…

DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8

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Holy shark, it’s an academic shark tank in #ABACBS2025

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The Shark Tank has begun! A fantastic initiative by the postdoc community to help build collaboration and support postdocs in pitching their grants. @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025

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