Naloxone helps mitigate the effects of an overdose, it doesn’t prevent overdoses (or at least isn’t used for that purpose). An overdose is not always lethal.

The research suggests that the observed reduction in overdose deaths was not primarily due to increased use of naloxone.

There are limits, but they are still too large and preparing an ERC grant application takes weeks of fulltime work.

I think you can ethically, if not bureaucratically, toss all the grant applications in the garbage and just look at the resumes and publication records, and you’d probably get better results in terms of ensuring the best scientists obtain funding.

This rise is attributable, in part, to the ease of writing applications with artificial-intelligence tools.

This is definitely one of the better uses of AI. Billions are wasted every year on utterly pointless grant application writing. I have long been in favour of laws severely restricting the maximum length of scientific grant applications, but now technology has made that unnecessary. In many cases scientists simply chose not to apply for grants they might have a chance of getting because the process is so cumbersome and bureaucratic, now they can just have an LLM write it so they can get back to their actual job.

But being competent in your field doesn’t make you a good manager or leader.

Except it kind of does. Surviving in academia requires being able to sell yourself well, and to be able to network and set up collaborations with other groups. Stereotypes and some exceptions notwithstanding, professors usually have good social and management skills.

Well, the hiring process for professors varies by university, but usually other professors and the dean or similar role (typically also someone with an academic background) play important roles.

One of the positive aspects about a career in science is that HR essentially has no role in hiring decisions. The hiring is done mostly by professors, who are usually highly competent in their field.

This article is about some professors (and other supervisors) being toxic. The world of science is extremely cutthroat and competitive (much more so than the world of business), and the kind of people who survive in it long-term tend to be extreme workaholics. I was personally lucky with my supervisors during my time in science, but some of them can put a lot of pressure on grad students and postdocs and expect them to be the no-lifers that they themselves usually also are.