“Less than half of this round of MATS scholars were funded for independent research.”
-> Its not clear to me what exactly the bar for independent research should be. It seems like it’s not a great fit for a lot of people, and I expect it to be incredibly hard to do it well as a relatively junior person. So it doesn’t have to be a bad thing that some MATS scholars didn’t get funding.
Also, I don’t necessarily think that orgs being unable to hire is in and of itself a sign of a funding bottleneck. I think you’d first need to make the case that these organisations are crossing a certain impact threshold.
(I do believe AIS lacks diversify of funders and agree with your overall point).
Fair point about the independent research funding bar. I think the impact of CAIS and FAR are hard to deny, simply because they both have several impressive papers.
“Less than half of this round of MATS scholars were funded for independent research.”
-> Its not clear to me what exactly the bar for independent research should be. It seems like it’s not a great fit for a lot of people, and I expect it to be incredibly hard to do it well as a relatively junior person. So it doesn’t have to be a bad thing that some MATS scholars didn’t get funding.
Also, I don’t necessarily think that orgs being unable to hire is in and of itself a sign of a funding bottleneck. I think you’d first need to make the case that these organisations are crossing a certain impact threshold.
(I do believe AIS lacks diversify of funders and agree with your overall point).
Fair point about the independent research funding bar. I think the impact of CAIS and FAR are hard to deny, simply because they both have several impressive papers.