The amount for a non-modular (i.e. the default, you don't have to have a super detailed budget) NIH R01, which is the basic unit of biomedical science funding, has been stagnant since 1999.
Budgeting for a separate person to do this would eat up a tremendous amount of said budget.
Which is fine, except if we think about this from a productivity standpoint, the person who budgeted for that person is probably short a graduate student compared to the person who didn't, on the outside chance that someone cares about their stuff. For example, I looked at my lab's publicly available repositories linked to papers on Github.
Watches: 15 (probably half of these are people involved in the project)
Forks: 3
Stars: 4
Visitors in the Past Month: 4
That's it. For all of them. While I keep doing it based on principle, if I stopped tomorrow, it would impact me not at all.
And undergraduates, candidly, are not usually time savers.
Budgeting for a separate person to do this would eat up a tremendous amount of said budget.
Which is fine, except if we think about this from a productivity standpoint, the person who budgeted for that person is probably short a graduate student compared to the person who didn't, on the outside chance that someone cares about their stuff. For example, I looked at my lab's publicly available repositories linked to papers on Github.
Watches: 15 (probably half of these are people involved in the project) Forks: 3 Stars: 4 Visitors in the Past Month: 4
That's it. For all of them. While I keep doing it based on principle, if I stopped tomorrow, it would impact me not at all.
And undergraduates, candidly, are not usually time savers.