Graph showing funded providing to Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, and the success rate of proposals, each year since 2002. The success rate has declined sharply since 2020, and is now at its lowest point ever (16.3%). The funding in this graph has been adjusted for inflation to 2023$.
Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing
It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia.
The @arc_gov_au Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%.
Only 1 in 6 grants are funded.
Why? The funding available has plummeted.
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Crossposting from @xuyiqing on that other place: a nice meta-analysis of 37 studies published in top PoliSci journals finds that TWFE estimates are highly correlated with imputation-based estimates a la Borusyak/Jaravel/Spiess ....
yiqingxu.org/papers/engli...
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Lots of new polisci folks lately!
Find folks to follow by looking through people that have liked the polisky feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...
If you want to post to that polisci feed, you need @profmusgrave.bsky.social to whitelist you (just ask him).
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Looking for friends from the bird site? This is working pretty well on Chrome: github.com/kawamataryo/...
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