cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/66179165
"We cannot resign our research community and the laboratory and university staff who support them to die the death of a thousand ten-minute tasks,” said OSTP Director Michael Kratsios in a speech last month at the National Academy of Sciences.
Says the guy that is Science Advisor in an administration that just cut the budget for support staff like janitors and animal care??
Responding to the administration’s interest in deregulation, the National Academies formed a committee earlier this year that will suggest ways to reduce the administrative burden placed on researchers. Lynne Parker, principal deputy director of OSTP, participated in the panel’s kickoff meeting on May 21.
Ways to reduce the administrative burden placed on researchers? Interesting, wonder what that could possibly mean? Anyway, totally unrelated but here’s a 2023 article about Parker: