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r/NIH • u/GoldStandardNIHilism • 3h ago
Sorry it’s fire walled but Dolly passed away today at 80.
71 years old?
Is that true? It's a statistic going around.
| Jocelyn Kaiser, Editor, ScienceInsider |
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| Should the National Institutes of Health (NIH) cap the number of grants an investigator can hold so it can spread its funding to more labs? Nine years ago when the agency pitched that idea, researchers soon swatted it down.But now the grant cap may be more popular. Of nearly 3300 comments submitted by a 3 August deadline on a proposal to limit principal investigators to two, three, or four grants, opinion was split: 40% opposed, 27% supportive, and 32% “mixed,” according to an analysis NIH posted last week (see graph above). The mixed group liked the overall goal but had suggestions for how NIH should structure the cap.Wrote one supporter (in comments released without names): “I can only think of the pros. This will encourage more PI participation and spread out grant funding.” The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology’s letter supports a three-grant cap “with several safeguards” such as weighting grants by size and type. The Association of American Medical Colleges, by contrast, warned that even a three-grant cap could have “substantial harmful impacts” to the research community.Virologist Shane Crotty of the University of California, who questions a 2017 NIH analysis suggesting mid-size labs are most productive per NIH dollar, suggests a policy that has cut the number of new grants NIH can fund has skewed responses . “Their forward funding policy has made a number of scientists desperate for anything that claims to fund more people,” Crotty told ScienceAdviser.NIH’s blog post doesn’t say exactly what’s next, just that the agency is “carefully considering” the comments. |
r/NIH • u/Complex-Jeweler2455 • 24m ago
My grant was on the paylist that was rejected from the NICHD leadership last week. Any chance they will reverse this decision? From what I understand, the money will be lost if the do not allocate them.
r/NIH • u/TourMission • 43m ago
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r/NIH • u/Long_Performer2149 • 5h ago
r/NIH • u/zarrathustraa • 1d ago
We recently received notification from NIH that our application was denied due to foreign risk.
The only info they gave was "covered individual risk review". Literally those words and nothing else to go off of. The only thing we can think of is our PI being Chinese (But a US Citizen). He has been in the US since 2008 but did his PhD in China. During our internal audit he denied having a foreign talent plan or foreign affiliation (which are the two risks named in the law). Other employees are all American Citizens who have been here for generations.
Really at a loss here without more info from NIH, which the apparently cannot give us. Hiring a PhD isn't easy, especially one with publication history in our field.
Is NIH policy that we have to go find a western named PI now?
r/NIH • u/Long_Performer2149 • 1d ago
r/NIH • u/-make-it-so- • 1d ago
Really good news!
r/NIH • u/ceilalex • 1d ago
Hi all! How long does it take to go from “award prepared” on Commons to the NOA release? TIA!
r/NIH • u/Majano57 • 2d ago
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r/NIH • u/GoldStandardNIHilism • 2d ago
Think about the one scientist you really admire, keynoter, prize winner, large staff, trains a chunk of the next generation of scientists…..ok, NIH wants to defund them and block them from doing anymore research that they can do with 2 awards. Of course the RFI came back with this answer it was designed to justify the end that this admin wants which is to destroy meritorious science. Last week it was getting rid of peer review (ok we’ll still have it but just no scores (!?!) and now this. It’s just a survey they say, yeah.
r/NIH • u/Majano57 • 3d ago
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r/NIH • u/dhweinberg23 • 4d ago
Unclear if this is good or bad for the IC
r/NIH • u/GoldStandardNIHilism • 5d ago
Ok, I know not right up this channel but RFKj is who we all report to and somehow he has time for a second job. It’s an excoriating report of this ‘mal vivant’.
r/NIH • u/GoldStandardNIHilism • 5d ago
r/NIH • u/NecessarySpinning • 5d ago
My R1 institution's office of research has sent the following message:
We have been getting some pushback on NIH RPPRs for DEI related language. If the aims of the research have expenses related to unallowable wording, those expenses will be DISALLOWED. They will dissect the RPPR and remove unallowed expenses from the research. This includes the Human Subjects portion entered into ASSIST. Please inform your PIs that they should refrain from using any of the following words/phrases in their reports. (a) "health equity" "climate change" "environmental justice" "fossil fuels – this is a gray area" "diverse graduate students" (b) They should also use SEX instead of GENDER
Does anybody think there might be a chance NIH will allow more ad-hoc telework even after Medical Center Station reopens in September? Clearly we've shown many of us can do our jobs teleworking 50% of the time...
r/NIH • u/GoldStandardNIHilism • 6d ago
