Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02082-7
If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding
Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02082-7If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to bre…