Btw, for non-NSF folks, transformative research is an NSF merit review criterion https://www.nsf.gov/about/transformative_research/merit_review_criteria.jsp It is often used as stock critique; a panelist says your research is not transformative and your proposal is dead in the water, even though most funded proposals aren’t particularly transformative either.
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Smashing!
Ha!
Transformative costume.
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Btw, for non-NSF folks, transformative research is an NSF merit review criterion
https://www.nsf.gov/about/transformative_research/merit_review_criteria.jsp
It is often used as stock critique; a panelist says your research is not transformative and your proposal is dead in the water, even though most funded proposals aren’t particularly transformative either.
Brilliant! I came up with a few of these too that you might find funny: http://jasonya.com/wp/academic-halloween-costumes/