Researchers are tired. They spent their days looking for funding and when they find it, it comes with a myriad of bureaucratic and objective-driven strings attached. A chosen few may get their hands on big fundamental research grant, the holy grail of science. Others are stuck on a hamster wheel, racing to deliver the list of outcomes they promised in their proposal, feeling constrained and demotivated.
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