Hustling for grants
Iâve been trying to write grant and fellowship applications today â what a pain! Obviously, Iâm trying to get money out of these people, so I donât want them hating me for naming names (though they are all much the same), but the application forms are driving me crazy. To give one example, they ask for aims and objectives â whatâs the difference, for crying out loud? Then, to cap it all, they ask you to outline the outcome of the project and publication plans. The outcome. What, am I psychic or something? And if I knew what would happen, there wouldnât be a lot of point in doing the research in the first place. Of course, Iâd like to produce 4 papers a year from the project (all in Science or Nature naturally), but this is the real world, and the Harvard Law of Animal Behaviour applies: âlaboratory animals under carefully controlled conditions do as they damn well pleaseâ.
Does anyone make an application to write grants for you? GrantWriter v.6, or grntgrb for the command line junkies:
starving_biologist% grntgrb --bigmoney --now
