A couple of weeks ago I wrote, in high spirits, about finding an NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement that matched perfectly with something I’ve thinking about doing. It was an R21…
There is Life After the Bench
I take career development very seriously, and spend a fair bit of time on and offline talking to postdocs who are looking for help in moving their careers in new…
Postive Discrimination
From the BBC News site: "Two people are dead, including a gunman, and up to eight others are wounded in a shootout near New York's Empire State Building, officials say.…
New & Early Stage Investigator
It is a much remarked fact that the age to first award of substantial independent funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been steadily increasing, such that "new…
Deadlines
You know what's really, really, really annoying? Finding a grant application announcement that PERFECTLY fits some directions your group is moving and getting all excited and calling collaborators to ask…
No spare time
I was going to write about the broohaha over at Freethought Blogs and Thunderf00t accessing an email listerserve he was removed from. But then I thought, what an odious little…
New tech, new woes
This is a rant. We had money left in our budget at the end of the financial year so it was a great chance for us to upgrade our computers.…
Yes Virginia, there is non-NIH money
I think the majority of my (US-based) scientist friends, and perhaps even you, Dear Reader, work in biomedical sciences of some sort or another. From early in our training we…
You shall douche no moar!
~Quickpost> I am a huge fucking fan of invective. Invective snaps are instinctive and contain power. But Power needs to be used carefully or else it becomes tyranny. A child…
Is there a chef in the house?
My wife cooks a great breakfast. Eggs, bacon. Brilliant. Waffles? Hell yeah. We even have a waffle "maker" she's used. Steak dinner? with brussels sprouts. And cous-cous? Well. As one…
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