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UK scientists get funding ban reprieve

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Serially unsuccessful applicants can still apply for grants.

After a campaign by scientists, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has softened and delayed its controversial policy to bar serially unsuccessful grant applicants from making funding bids for one year.

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Van Noorden, R. UK scientists get funding ban reprieve. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459020b

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