Take Two: SfN Annual Meeting 2008
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Take two on possible SfN 2008 meetups
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September 30, 2008
Should we be funding projects or laboratories?
Category: Day in the life of DrugMonkey
If you were designing a support mechanism what would you adopt? Funding based on "The PI seems good and works on interesting stuff, give 'em a pile of money to play"? or the often-stultifying and laughably discordant-with-actual-science project-based award system?
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:24 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 29, 2008
Your Grant In Review: Voting Outside of the Range
Category: Grant Review
Can one member of a study section torpedo your NIH grant application?
Posted by DrugMonkey at 5:27 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
OpenLaboratory 2008
Category: Blogging
Why let the 'Borg bloggers have all the fun? Submit some of your favorite posts from professor and postdoc blogs to the Open Laboratory 2008 anthology.
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September 28, 2008
No Way Am I Doing That Experiment
Category: Peer Review
There has been some interesting discussion over at Blue Lab Coats concerning how to respond to peer reviewer comments on a manuscript submitted to a journal. If a journal editor concludes that a submitted manuscript is potentially suitable for publication,...
Posted by PhysioProf at 2:48 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 26, 2008
NIH to Postdocs: You Have Ten Years to Get Your R01
Category: Careerism
Well that was quick. I was just appreciating that the "Early Stage Investigator" (ESI) designation is significantly different from the older "New Investigator" (NI) designation in NIH-speak. There is now a Guide notice out to clarify....
Posted by DrugMonkey at 4:18 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why is this a "gaffe" or a "mistake"?
Category: Tribe of Science
This is an honest question. The following picture has been all over the Sb'ers' blogs since brought to our attention by one brilliant guy (awaiting permission to link-Update: It was Ed). Bora titled his post "Oooops!" and called it a...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:55 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2008
NSF Funds Researcher Who Was Sanctioned for Misconduct
Category: Conduct of Science
Can this possibly be true? Nature reports Days after being sanctioned for research misconduct, bubble-fusion researcher Rusi Taleyarkhan was back in business -- with a $185,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). More on the Taleyarkhan mess from...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 4:28 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Repost: Eye on the Prize...
Category: Careerism
What I've really been pondering is style of approach and how to have a real impact for the issues you favor. Be they gender participation, opportunities for scientists in training, opportunities for ethnic minorities or what have you. Ranting feels good but it just DOESN'T GET THE JOB DONE!
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September 24, 2008
Zerhouni to retire, let's all dance the Director Shuffle
Category: NIH
Zerhouni has announced he will retire as the Director of the NIH. (h/t: Sci Am blog): Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., the director of the National Institutes of Health, today announced his plans to step down at the end of October...
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