I should also point out that some of you are starting to use AI-assisted emails, and we can tell. Use your own words, own thoughts, be honest, be real, dig a little deep and ask yourselves "what really excites me about this" and please stop with the cookie cutter, AI copy-paste emails. End of PSA.

When the turtle is more powerful than god

An orthogonal but relevant question is what financial/political dynamics are preventing institutes from being able to adequately staff themselves to appropriately manage portfolio volumes?

Depends on who’s reading my answer.

Sort of, but it’s still a scaling problem.

There is a semi-correlation between how strictly an institute sticks to the pay line cutoff and how many total grants they have to evaluate.

NHGRI has never relied on funding lines, the biggest challenge with the change is documentation of reasoning. A small Institute like NHGRI is fine, the portfolio is small, but NCI?

It is 100% transparent (not touching the fairness part) council records on decisions are open, e.g.: www.genome.gov/about-nhgri/...

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

Right? One of the great live albums!

From the terminal you can use rclone

Congrats Richard! And more proof Philip moving to the UK was a huge loss for us here at NHGRI!