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Provisional acceptance via email. Woohoo!

Got a transcript request this afternoon at 5pm.

Nothing yet.

Here's a place we can channel our anxieties as we wait to hear from SSRC about the IDRF. Supposedly transcript requests start to come in February...

Reviews (or at least mine) are up on Fastlane now.

To be clear, I was asking about legitimate use of multiple grants, since we don't know when we apply if we will get any of them funded, much less more than one. Also: as multiple people have pointed out, granting agencies like NSF, Wenner-Gren, SSRC, etc. already have rules and procedures so that you don't use two sources for the same expenses at the same time (most of them actually work with your budgets directly to help you figure out legitimate ways to use funding from more than one source if you secure it). In my case, I found out about one grant before another (both submitted during the same period), and then am now submitting for a third, which will cover some areas of the research that the others would not. Unless you flat-out lie, none of these funders are going to give you the full amount of the grant for the same project if you already secured funding from someone else; instead, they might give you a few thousand, particularly if they have different internal rules about what's covered (e.g., some funders pay for insurance and some don't; either way, it's good to have insurance). The fact is, that particularly for people doing research in expensive places like Western Europe, the maximum that any of these grants gives you on its own is not nearly enough to actually live and do research; budgets must therefore be artificially low to make a case for feasibility. Additionally, there are legitimate reasons to expand the scope of your project, do comparative work, etc. I hear the ethical argument at a broader level, but in this specific case I don't think there are any ethical issues with applying to multiple grants and if one is lucky enough to get more than one, proposing an honest and reasonable project that could benefit from multiple funders. At the end of the day, the decision is up to the funders and they are not idiots: they can generally differentiate between a legitimate, feasible proposal and one that is purely constructed to secure more money.

I emailed one of the Program Managers to ask about something else and they let me know.

I received unofficial word via email today that my proposal (cultural anthro) was not marked high enough to receive funding in the first panel that met last week. The second panel is meeting now, so supposedly those of us who were not successful this time around will have reviews within the next 3-4 weeks. Thankfully, I got a Wenner-Gren, but more money would have been nice! Best of luck to others.

Thanks, all.

Does anyone have tips on the best ways to reconcile multiple grants so that someone can keep the most money from 2 or more grants?

So got a follow up email today saying they were making final decisions by November 1st, which is much longer than the 1-2 weeks for snail mail acceptance that others have reported. A bit confused.

Wow- that is exciting. Best of luck to all!

I received notice at 1pm today that I do not need to resubmit and asking if there were any budget changes, though it stated that my application was still pending. Anyone else? What does this actually mean?

Tired of waiting. Do we think it will be next week or the week after?

Also found my notification of moving to the second round in my junk mail. Good luck to all.