Vascular plants return to the water, shed their roots, are truly free. And I sit here envious.

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If the EU wants to put their money where their mouth is, they will pull an extraordinary budget and increase the success rate. Otherwise, it's just set for failure 🧪

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It's going to torque the power balance, empower favorites and bias, and leave out even more completely, anything remotely creative. Leading to even crappier science. Aren't scientists up to break out of this constructed-hierarchy mode - or just bad methods? - yet?

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Then there is the Matthew Effect for future Consolidator and Advanced Grants (not to mention that the effect can start at the undergraduate level).

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The general greying of society will lead to a lot of things happening simply due to less young people that various people will claim are clearly actually due to whatever bullshit they’re on about. It’s gonna be very irritating.

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