ERC has toughened up its rules to discourage weaker applications and prevent a flood of submissions: Unsuccessful candidates whose proposals receive a low score in 2014 will be barred from applying again in the following 2 years, instead of one. (sciencemag.org)
Maybe authorizers are getting smarter at differentiating strong from weak applications. (qualitycharters.org)
Kagan didn't manually chuck each weak application. (inc.com)