“grantsmanship”—the ability to write winning project proposals.77 “There is a hidden curriculum for navigating grants, and it is critical for success as a scientist today,” Azoulay said. “But those skills are weakly correlated with scientific potential, and they might be negatively correlated.”78 We have—even if by accident—designed a system that often privileges the game of performing the act of science over the actual practice of science.
