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Abel Pharmboy pointed to a piece in The Scientist entitled "Losing Your Lab" which discusses the plight of the soft-money researcher who has run out of funding. Actually, the plight of one researcher in particular. The commentary is, however, getting...
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Posted on May 9, 2008 10:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The NIH grant applications which will be reviewed Jun/Jul are going out to reviewers right about now. Poking through my pile of assignments I find that I have three R01 applications at the A2 stage (the second and "final" amendment...
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Posted on May 6, 2008 2:22 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As purely entertaining as it is to watch PhysioProf troll the Open Access Nozdrul, these discussions always raise at least six interesting avenues for further thought. For example a comment from bill touches on the notion that private "ownership" of...
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Posted on April 24, 2008 7:46 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[The motivating context for this has been removed because subsequent developments made it obvious that it was such a unique event that my post would violate the confidentiality of all concerned. In both minor and major ways. -DM] I keep...
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Posted on April 18, 2008 6:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm dragging up a post from the archives of the old DrugMonkey blog today. It was originally published July 6, 2007 and outlined a few thoughts I had on changes that might improve NIH funded careers in the biomedical sciences....
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Posted on April 2, 2008 1:27 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I added a couple of additional scientist blogs to the Blogroll, I think you will enjoy them. These are blogs are each recently launched, from active biologically oriented research scientist and are already discussing issues of careerism and the science...
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Posted on April 1, 2008 1:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni, has scheduled a press conference for later in the day and he is anticipated to announce broad ranging changes in the NIH. An official high up in the Office of...
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Posted on April 1, 2008 3:38 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship I noticed a commenter musing: I'd be interested to know how many readers of this blog have actual formal training in the task of review (here I make a strong distinction from training...
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Posted on March 27, 2008 3:12 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Writedit ponders a recent Nature piece on PIs who hold largish numbers of awards and dollars from the NIH. The post from writedit covers some recent policy proposals seeking to limit the total number of awards any one PI can...
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Posted on March 21, 2008 9:48 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I previously noted a new website (brokenpipeline.org) and glossy report on the career "pipeline" problem currently experienced by biomedical research science in the US. This report catalyzed more discussion in the blogosphere on the issue (SciGuy, Jonathan Gitlin, Greg Laden,...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 8:20 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
