Let me, a young man in my desperation, go and hunt. Maybe I will kill an elephant, or the elephant will kill me, but either way, my poverty ends. Birth and death are inevitable elemental aspects of human nature.
MSCA has received 21,627 proposals for the 2026 call, more than double the 2024 figure. As someone with an MSCA Seal of Excellence & an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, I could not help but think about the scale of this competition.
With an initial budget of €399 million & around 1,600 fellowships, the success rate is roughly 7%. The European Commission estimates that preparing an MSCA proposal costs €11,800–€35,600.
Meaning applicants collectively invest an estimated €255–770m in proposal preparation, much of it for applications that wont be funded. That excludes evaluation costs, institutional overheads, opportunity costs, & the enormous human cost. There really must be a better way.
Hey @duolingo 👋
I’m off to a monastery to pray and fast, and I’ll be completely offline for the next 21 days.
Can I preserve my 64-day streak somehow? 😭
I only have two Streak Freezes.
Please, @duolingo , don’t make me choose between my spiritual journey and my streak. 😂🙏
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Seeing ants survive 2 mins inside a microwave & casually walk out untouched has genuinely ruined my day.
I was not emotionally prepared to discover that ants apparently have better microwave survivability than I do. 🐜😭
Science is beautiful until it personally disrespects you.
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