🚨 #DiscoveryProjects EOI #DPEI27 announcement:
❗️Outcomes for Expressions of Interest should now be available in your RMS account ▶️ rms.arc.gov.xn--au-lmy
ARC should also email Lead CIs with their outcomes (may take a while & be staggered).
Full apps open 2 Mar, due 22 Apr.
List of the 5 funded #DiscoveryProjects led by the School of #ComputerScience:
🏆 A/Prof Tongliang Liu, Dr Yu Yao: Understanding, Identifying, and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in LLMs (DP260102466)
Congratulations to our researchers on their 5 ARC #DiscoveryProjects! This is over AUD 3.5M towards cutting-edge research in areas as diverse as biomedical foundation models, robust logic-based planning, ML-aided algorithms, computational design with living materials, and LLM vulnerabilities! #DP26
#DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement cont.:
Outcomes summary:
Approved / requested (%)
Apps: 526 / 1111 (47.3%)
Funds: $376.37M / $888.78M (42.3%)
Approved grants requested $411.50M; 91.5% provided.
🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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#DiscoveryProjects #DP26
Assessor reports should now be available in RMS for Discovery Projects 2026.
Hands up who didn't get their ARC Discovery grant shortlisted today?!
🙋🏻♀️
#academicLife
#DP26 #DiscoveryProjects
#DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement cont.:
Outcomes summary:
Approved / requested (%)
Apps: 536 / 1132 (47.3%)
Funds: $342.17M / $855.49M (40.0%)
Approved grants requested $396.06M; 86.4% provided.
🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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So, despite reports of ARC staff saying that #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 recommendations were sent to the Minister before 1st Nov., this cannot be true because they do not appear in the #ARCSenateOrder list just published.
#DiscoveryProjects
Several sources reporting ARC sent DP25 recommendations to the Minister on/before 29 Oct.
If true, recs will be public by 15 Nov, guaranteed by the ARC Senate Order.
Minister has mostly been approving recs within 2 weeks so ARC may announce outcomes earlier.
Final results for poll on number of peer assessors for #DiscoveryProjects, after adding the votes from other platforms:
1: ⬜️5.5%
2: ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 32.6%
3: 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦39.0%
4+:⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️23.0%
344 votes
Screenshot of search results in Federal Register of Legislation showing the new ARC grant scheme guidelines.
ARC Board have approved Guidelines for all upcoming schemes.
These aren’t on GrantConnect yet, but they’re already available from the Federal Register of Legislation.
For example, I don’t see major changes to #DiscoveryProjects there (e.g. same assessment category weightings).
How many #DiscoveryProjects peer assessors (a.k.a. detailed assessors) did you receive reports from?
(full applications only, not EOIs)
I put a poll on the other platforms, but there's no polls here at Bluesky (?!), so just DM/Chat me your answer, if you don't want to post it publicly here.
#DiscoveryProjects #DP25
Rejoinders have opened.
Assessor reports are now available in RMS ▶️ rms.arc.gov.au
#DiscoveryProjects
Reviewer reports available tomorrow (7 Aug) for #DP25. Normally ~11am AEST.
Good luck!
But with ~1140 proposals & ~3500 reviews, there'll be some #BadReviewers. Unfortunately, this is where ARC could make real improvements, as summarised in this old 🧵👇
Excerpt from the ARC website entitled “Identifying and Handling a Conflict of Interest in NCGP processes” where I’ve highlighted the following phrase: “An individual may also be considered to have a conflict of interest if that individual has a material personal interest that is in conflict with their obligations to the ARC: as an ARC assessor…”.
Excerpt from Section “2.2 Definitions” of the ARC Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Policy. The screenshot shows highlighted portions show definitions of “material person interest”, “conflict of interest” and “perceived conflict of interest”.
Hi ARC 👋
You’ve asked some #DiscoveryProjects applicants to be detailed assessors (same as previous years).
Some perceive this as a conflict of interest (COI).
Your policies appear to preclude applicants being assessors coz it's a perceived COI ↙️↘️
Comments?
#DiscoveryProjects
Peer reviewers should start getting full apps to review today.
Q: Can people who submitted full apps be reviewers?
This used to be the case, but has it changed with the 2-stage process? Only a third as many to review, so there’s an opportunity to change.
Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC pointing to updated information about the assessment of Discovery Projects Expression of Interest.
#DiscoveryProjects #DP25
ARC has included a bit more information about the assessment of the Expressions of Interest.
In particular, some explanation that there may or may not be some overlap between the 3 College assessors on an EOI and the 2 on the corresponding full app👇
#DiscoveryProjects #DP25
Has anyone managed to get a straight answer from the ARC about whether the two College assessors of a full app will be
(a) definitely the same;
(b) definitely not the same; or
(c) possibly the same
as 2 of the 3 EOI assessors?
🙏
Here's a report on the #DiscoveryProjects Expressions of Interest stage, by Jenny Sinclair for Research Professional News.
TL;DR: Seems OK so far but let's get a proper assessment later.
Features Palli Thordarson (Roy. Aus. Chem. Inst.) (& me)
[No paywall]
Twitter Direct Message to me from a “research director” indicating a good correlation between their own perception of quality in “>25 EOIs” (in their own field) and the outcomes of the EOI shortlisting process.
The problem with trying to assess whether #DiscoveryProjects EOI process was good/bad/better/worse is we don't have proper data.
Here’s a perspective from someone with a different vantage point👇
@arc_gov_au should do proper analysis of scoring disparities vs previous years🤞
ARC has opened full applications for #DiscoveryProjects #DP25.
EOI info is copied across to full app form, without possibility to change it. Good.
I wondered whether EOI 2-page Project Description would be included in full app & available to assessors. DMers report it isn't.
Excerpt from ARC’s summary of EOI selection process showing number of EOIs submitted to each of the 5 different panels. BSB: 1088; EIC: 1119; HCA: 386; MPCE: 768; SBE: 786
ARC has provided some info about the #DiscoveryProjects EOI shortlisting process ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/sites/defaul...
🔹27.5% success rate – 1141 shortlisted of 4147 EOIs
🔹EOIs with "disparate scores" shortlisted if median score put it above threshold
🔹All EOIs reviewed by 3 assessors
For those asking how ARC will announce EOI outcomes for #DiscoveryProjects #DP25:
I don't know.
My guess: No public list. They'll just post on their website that outcomes are available in your RMS account. I hope they just email outcomes directly to applicants (like for #IM24).
#DiscoveryProjects #DP25
Only just submitted your EOI, right? Well, outcomes are due Mon–Wed next week!
ARC want 50% of full apps funded. With 4149 EOIs submitted & 421 funded in DP24, expect ~20–25% of EOIs to be invited to full app.
Tough, but at least you'll know next week!
#DiscoveryProjects #DP25
Apparently*, 4149 EOIs were submitted to the ARC.
If, like last year, 421 are eventually funded, that’s a 10% success rate 🤪
Also means ~20% of EOIs will be invited to submit a full app coz ARC previously said full apps would have ~50% success rate.
#DiscoveryProjects
For those who missed the ARC's (technically challenged) presentation about the EOI stage of #DP25 yesterday, the recording is at youtu.be/gEFrZABjVPQ
#DiscoveryProjects #DP25
In case this matters for anyone's planning, the ARC has pushed back the EOI & full application submission due dates by 1 day. They're now 27 Feb & 4 Jun 2024, respectively.
Details ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
