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p=1156 It looks, to me, like the predictors of success are probably having a robust social network presence, etc. and modest funding expectations. …

Best case: The next funding cycle. … Final levels of FY 2013 funding may be reduced by a sequestration. …

It very much depends on the grant in question. For example, while most grants in the United States need a PhD (and often university rules dictate more than a PhD, like not giving grant-writing privile …

Or score you rather poorly, which in today's funding environment is essentially the same as saying No. … Depending on how much you need, there are however a number of Kickstarter-esq crowd funding platforms for science. …

A "bad deal" for who? I find it disheartening to find how much of a cut of total grant awards are taken by a university. Note that for many grant mechanisms, and indeed probably the largest si …

Related question: maybe I am naive, why don't NSF and other funding agencies publish the full proposal of the ones that were accepted, say 5, 10 years after the funding ends? …

Additionally, since grants need fairly strong preliminary results sections these days, one is essentially forced to use current funding to do the research for "future" projects. …

For example, many fellowships, NIH training grants etc. have rules about what other funding you can get (especially for the same project). …

Especially in soft money positions, a significant portion of your salary, much of the funding for your lab, etc. all come from grant funding. … As long as you're comfortable with you, your office, and whatever salary is hard money being the entirety of your research group, you don't need to ever find funding. …

It very much depends on the field, the researcher, and the grants. To give you a picture of someone who works in public health - in a soft money position - here's some things that occupy my time. I am …

Research funding means you can get a "burst" of productivity to answer a particular question without having to hire and maintain an employee. … Funding steers the direction of research. If a company thinks there's a topic that needs more exploration, making funding available is a good way to foster that research. It adds credibility. …

It is absolutely possible to have a postdoc funded by a private organization - there's nothing about a postdoc inherently tied to a particular type of funding. … This can occur either by funding a fellowship directly, or allowing funds from a grant to be used to hire a postdoc. …

If you're a graduate student or (depending on the grant) a postdoc, it's reasonable that you wouldn't be the PI, because you can't be the PI by institutional rules, or because in the current funding climate … Never the less, putting it on your CV shows that you're thinking about funding and participating in the process, even if you aren't heading it up. …

I'm going to answer this by looking at my early biosketches and seeing what I did. Basically, I very much doubt your research support section is blank. Research support is not necessarily just the gr …

supported by large grants that were well beyond my "pay grade" to pursue, and where the priorities for postdocs were producing research and doing the things that kept funders happy, rather than chasing new funding … : Given you don't have a track record of getting external funding, you need to be able to articulate how you will go about getting one. …