Do you think there is nepotism in the allocation of research grants (i.e. the probability of receiving a grant is increased by knowing someone on the panel or by having someone from your institution on the panel)?
- Yes 51
- No 10
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why do mobile genetic elements transfer host DNA - another interesting collaboration with Mick Vos and others - sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
a fascinating look at peer review of grant applications by @JohnPeterJerrim low consistency between reviewer scores, nominated reviewers over-scoring and single bad reviews sinking proposals tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
www.tandfonline.com Are peer reviews of grant proposals reliable? An analysis of Economic and Social Research Council... Peer review is widely used throughout academia, most notably in the publication of journal articles and the allocation of research grants. Yet peer review has been subject to much criticism, includ... with @afilipamoutinho no evidence for an interesting hypothesis - that selection at synonymous sites will affect patterns of non-synonymous evolution - academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…
academic.oup.com No Evidence that Selection on Synonymous Codon Usage Affects Patterns of Protein Evolution in... Abstract. Bias in synonymous codon usage has been reported across all kingdoms of life. Evidence suggests that codon usage bias is often driven by selectiv @GenomeBiolEvol appears to be unbiased with respect to gender for acceptance rates, time to first decision, no. of revisions and no. of referee requests, but female first authors slightly lower citation rates academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…
academic.oup.com Editorial 2024 Welcome to 2024 at Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE). After a few turbulent years due to the Covid pandemic, this last year has felt relatively normal. La