Imagine you team up with great and successful scientists, write 100 pages of what you think makes an excellent EU grant proposal thats intended to directly help many fellow scientists doing a better job. You submit. Next day you submit an updated version... (1/4)
...fixing some typos, polished all a bit. You’re late, only a few minutes left before submission closes. Done! Submitted!!! #happyness #satisfaction
Then... SHOCK! Creating the submitted PDF from Word on Mac stopped on page 70. No error message, just 30 missing pages! (2/4)
You write to the EU. They should evaluate the doc you uploaded the first time around... or... you have the Word file on Google Doc with a time stamp from before the deadline... maybe they even take the latest version? (3/4)

What do you think should be sent out to reviewers?
It took us almost 6 weeks to reach certainty of what the EU’s decision is. After the poll ended I’ll let you know what happened, ok? #cliffhanger (4/4)
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