A reason to become an NSF reviewer!

Washington, DC-based Sunlight Foundation used open data on the National Science Foundation to find a "clear correlation between the universities with the most employees serving on the NSF advisory committees and the universities that receive the most federal money." They caution that this is merely correlative data, and they don't know that it's causative, but "even when controlling for other factors, we find that for each additional employee a university has serving on an NSF advisory committee that university can expect to see an additional $125,000 to $138,000 in NSF funding."

Seems like more than a coincidence?

You can read the whole article on their blog.