Ashley Kopec
@ashleykopec.bsky.social
Mom, wife, former neuro PI happily recovering as a Scientific Review Officer at CSR
I’m so sad to not be at SfN this year! Go get inspired for me and report back please.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m so sad to not be at SfN this year! Go get inspired for me and report back please.
I am on it SO HARD 🤣
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I am on it SO HARD 🤣
You are not a schmuck. You cared enough about your colleagues to do everything in your power to get them a fair and thorough review. Because when the SROs return, we can only move to reschedule as quickly as we have all scores to know what will be discussed. You value your community. Thank you.
Did the reviews, like a schmuck. Only about 1/4 of the reviews were submitted. lolsob
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
You are not a schmuck. You cared enough about your colleagues to do everything in your power to get them a fair and thorough review. Because when the SROs return, we can only move to reschedule as quickly as we have all scores to know what will be discussed. You value your community. Thank you.
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Schrödinger's employment.
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Schrödinger's employment.
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.
October 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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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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.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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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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 Your application will be withdrawn if you don't have that.
August 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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.
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!
There are good people at NIH working very hard for every grant that is successfully funded. Congratulations all around.
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.
July 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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!
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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."
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
July 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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."
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."
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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.
Yas! Parent F32 (PA-25-423) and F30s (PA-25-426, PA-25-425) are also published.
simpler.grants.gov
simpler.grants.gov
June 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
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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...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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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
April 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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...
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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"
1/n
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"
1/n
April 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"
1/n
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"
1/n
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OK. Do you have a picture in your mind?
It's worse than that...
It's worse than that...
March 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
OK. Do you have a picture in your mind?
It's worse than that...
It's worse than that...
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 .
media.tenor.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Folks, my rescheduled review panel has been submitted to FRN
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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.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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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Among the best articles I've read on the capture of NIH.
Seeing all this laid out, it's plain that the motivation is to destroy the university and scientific system.
#academicsky
#neuroskyence
Seeing all this laid out, it's plain that the motivation is to destroy the university and scientific system.
#academicsky
#neuroskyence
By @katherinejwu.com
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”
The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Among the best articles I've read on the capture of NIH.
Seeing all this laid out, it's plain that the motivation is to destroy the university and scientific system.
#academicsky
#neuroskyence
Seeing all this laid out, it's plain that the motivation is to destroy the university and scientific system.
#academicsky
#neuroskyence
🤣🤣🤣 we love to see it. Hang in there everyone!
January 29 is now PO / SRO appreciation day in my book.
In case I need to say it, today is a good day to drop an email to your fav PO or SRO and let them know you appreciate them.
January 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🤣🤣🤣 we love to see it. Hang in there everyone!
Way more people here!
Anything you want to know about NIH peer review? Ever wondered why you can’t get your grant scores at meeting end? The SRO has to check them against in-discussion notes! Every meeting there are typos that take a day or two to fix. Trust me, you want those scores to be right!
Anything you want to know about NIH peer review? Ever wondered why you can’t get your grant scores at meeting end? The SRO has to check them against in-discussion notes! Every meeting there are typos that take a day or two to fix. Trust me, you want those scores to be right!
November 12, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Way more people here!
Anything you want to know about NIH peer review? Ever wondered why you can’t get your grant scores at meeting end? The SRO has to check them against in-discussion notes! Every meeting there are typos that take a day or two to fix. Trust me, you want those scores to be right!
Anything you want to know about NIH peer review? Ever wondered why you can’t get your grant scores at meeting end? The SRO has to check them against in-discussion notes! Every meeting there are typos that take a day or two to fix. Trust me, you want those scores to be right!
A little over a year ago, I left academia, transferred my R01, and became a Scientific Review Officer at NIH. In celebration of my one year anniversary, let’s demystify the process! Any burning, *anonymous* questions you have about leaving academia?? ngl.link/ashleymkopec
@ashleymkopec: Send me anonymous messages!
NGL: Anonymous Q&A
ngl.link
July 24, 2024 at 4:12 PM
A little over a year ago, I left academia, transferred my R01, and became a Scientific Review Officer at NIH. In celebration of my one year anniversary, let’s demystify the process! Any burning, *anonymous* questions you have about leaving academia?? ngl.link/ashleymkopec
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Changes in review coming. I think there are a number improvements to the fellowship applications & review criteria that will help focus on the training plan & potential. nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/04/...
Changes Coming to Applications and Peer Review in January 2025
NIH is implementing multiple changes that will impact the preparation and peer review of most grant applications submitted to NIH for due dates on or after January 25, 2025. Although each of these ini...
nexus.od.nih.gov
April 4, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Changes in review coming. I think there are a number improvements to the fellowship applications & review criteria that will help focus on the training plan & potential. nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/04/...
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Yes. Sitting on SS really helped cement to write more simply/clearly and embrace white space.
February 25, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Yes. Sitting on SS really helped cement to write more simply/clearly and embrace white space.
Anyone here have sinus surgery? I have a chronic infection and a deviated septum that need to be corrected. How bad is this going to be? 😬
February 22, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Anyone here have sinus surgery? I have a chronic infection and a deviated septum that need to be corrected. How bad is this going to be? 😬
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When you reimpose child labor laws vs making kid lunches free
February 7, 2024 at 10:34 PM
When you reimpose child labor laws vs making kid lunches free