🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down. 🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts. 🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Leaders at @ukri.org should be seriously looking at the lottery first idea. 68% lower economic costs, increase in diversity of award holders and well received. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New publication about funding! In this new piece in @natcomms.nature.com we present data from an evaluation of the lottery-first approach to funding: an initial lottery controlling entry, followed by peer review. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #funding #metascience #scienceofscience #peerreview

1st post on bsky - about bsky! I was fascinated with academic starter packs and made an interactive network to see academic communities and how they connect - a map of knowledge! link to an interactive & searchable network: ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade...

"our scientific representations are not, as many hoped in the heyday of logical empiricism, a super vending machine to which we can feed in facts about the questions we are interested in, turn the crank of logical derivation, and pick up answers that fall out." —Cartwright, The Tangle of Science