yeah you could keep the separate pots for small, large, treasury…

you could also allow people to rarely flag “fatally flawed” or “absolutely must do” for some further review

quick distributed peer review… every proposer scores 10 proposals 1 to 5 within a week of submission (or else their proposal is withdrawn) followed by a lottery where each proposal is weighted by its average score using some logistic-like function.

Right now, academic freedom is under attack in the United States. Actually, "under attack" undersells it. "Existentially threatened" is better, along with "already lost in many places."

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