Funding

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funding

Title text: That's just professor hair, not an affectation.

Votey

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Holly?? You're homeless now.2 you were such a hotshot scientist! Do you need a job in my lab?

Oh, I'm not homeless. I just need money for a microscope and to pay for some assays.

Anyth helps

If I apply for a small grant, it'll take 25 months to get it written and approved by everyone, then have maybe a 10% chance of

Working. If you multiply time through probability, that's 2 years of labor!

If I go panhandling, I get the funds working part time outside! If I get too much money, I give it to a shelter, and if I get too little I just come back out with the sign.

And there's no

Paperwork/

Newton's blessings, sir.

Best of all there's no kowtowing to tenured profs! No more playing the game! No more "thank you wise master for this insightful rejection" there's so much more dignity here!

Can I join you-

This is my turf, bitch.

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Votey Transcript

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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I wasn't crushed to death by giants. M 11

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