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Elizabeth Sypek @elizabethis.bsky.social · 1d

Schrödinger's employment.

Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t it be wild if after the shutdown ends, I turn on my computer and work phone for the first time (I’m not permitted to now), and one of my missed emails is a RIF layoff? What a world.

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 4d

CVS is doing it?! I couldn’t get one at Publix. Making appt now…

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · Aug 22

Postdocs applying for K99s, particularly if it's your last opportunity: DO NOT forget to include a foreign justification document if you have any sort of foreign collaboration. Your application will be withdrawn if you don't have that.

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Aug 14

❤️🤜🏻

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Jul 25

Peer review isn’t perfect. But in some ways, that wasn’t the point of the post, was it?

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Jul 25

And a whole lot of reviewers who want to give their colleagues and field a fair shot at progress, even as they themselves struggle. SROs and POs can’t do anything if we can’t get those grants through peer review!

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · Jul 24

There are good people at NIH working very hard for every grant that is successfully funded. Congratulations all around.

Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · Jul 24

So delighted to receive an NOA yesterday for a new R01! Our proposal went from Not Discussed to 6th percentile! The start date was supposed to be April 1… 115 day delay is crazy, but so thankful for NIH POs who are doing their best to keep science afloat.

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M. S. AtKisson @igrrrl.bsky.social · Jul 17

H/T to my NORDP colleague MV. New NIH policies on AI just dropped. (Don't)
Also "no more than six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year."

NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. NIH

grants.nih.gov

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · Jun 13

Also be sure to read the instructions a Forms I SF424. These Fs will have the new format/review instructions so there are different components from the previous NOFOs.

I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · Jun 13

Yas! Parent F32 (PA-25-423) and F30s (PA-25-426, PA-25-425) are also published.
simpler.grants.gov

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · May 11

Retiring to post under new Simplified Review Framework?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 25

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · Apr 25

If you were planning to submit Neuroscience related T32s to PAR-22-265, PAR-24-126, or PAR-24-108, note those are now expired and you need to submit through PAR-25-168. See this notice: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-NS-25-020: Notice of Change: NINDS and Blueprint Participation in PA-25-168: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T32)

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Change: NINDS and Blueprint Participation in PA-25-168: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (...

grants.nih.gov

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Apr 18

It’s dead

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 7

Digging into the reinstated NIH grants. This story is an evolving doozy.

The reinstated grant is an R21 from Seattle Children's Hospital

I was very confused when I read the title:

"An intervention to promote healthy relationships among transgender and gender expansive youth"

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 28

OK. Do you have a picture in your mind?

It's worse than that...

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Mar 15

Contact the review branch Chief

Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Mar 13

It would be staggering

Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Mar 7

lol yes you can search for published meetings there, but no there isn’t a place to see pending publications

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Mar 7

It’s panel-by-panel still, but we are working hard to reschedule as best we can. You can monitor the Federal Register by searching for your SRO’s name.

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Mar 7

*it’s been submitted for posting! But that wasn’t happening before, so it’s just a matter of time before it’s posted

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Mar 7

Yes, sir!

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · Mar 7

Folks, my rescheduled review panel has been submitted to FRN

a man is walking down a hallway with a suitcase and a backpack .

ALT: a man is walking down a hallway with a suitcase and a backpack .

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · Mar 5

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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