FRO advocate: research grants require approval from dozens of people, not a bank account
iskander · x · 2026-10-04
Responding to the story of a professor unable to afford LLM subscriptions, iskander argues this is why he's been won over by the FRO model and light-admin academia: grants aren't bank accounts — they typically require approval from dozens of people who balk at anything new.
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