Around the millennium there was briefly a religion in Boulder Colorado whose official doctrine was that any human soul could, by its inner radiance, declare itself a religion in order to have tax-exempt status. The IRS found this too meta.

thanks! yes, it's part of this group show by Wasps Studios artists: glasgowartclub.co.uk/events/23rd-...

open to the public 11-5 most days through 22 Nov. The club is a bit of a Glasgow hidden gem!

yeah, it's called total in the original dataset but it must mean "all of UKRI". Including some entities and short-lived programmes that I omitted (like Innovate UK and the recent Cross-research-council call).

And I suspect that at least some of these are award rates on full proposals, omitting the outline-stage filter.

notochord buddy!

this is the exact opposite of what you're asking but a good story: yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/21/c...

"Finally, after eighteen years of walking campus wearing silly masks, I seemed to hold no interest for the crows. I am mulling these results."

It is literally tautological for the funders of research to equate "unfunded" with low quality and lack of seriousness. It's just an assertion that "we don't want to pay for what we don't want to pay for" masquerading as an argument.

Also: how many years is it at your institution between "We are closing the X Department bc we are doing too many things" and "Why aren't our staff bidding for this major funding initiative in X? We want to see more grant activity."

I'm going to generously say 10. Too short to easily fix, anyway.

well, figuration and symbolic thought are great if you're happy to churn out "employable" graduates chasing job-market trends, but I try to focus on fundamentals in my teaching: chewing on a bone while staring at the sky. Students really respond.