Metabo_Dave
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Mourning the days when all we talked about was font choice, reference styles and glam humping.
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So, how are you guys listing your pubs in the contribution to science section in the new SciENcv?
January 30, 2026 at 9:37 PM
So, how are you guys listing your pubs in the contribution to science section in the new SciENcv?
What we also need to factor in now is that a lot of A0s with very competitive scores will be coming back in as A1s. That would have an enormous impact, even under normal conditions, but now it's just a total disaster.
I have been thinking about Dave's comment a lot over the last 12 hours. This round has been brutal, good scores are few and far in between (and still not sure if they're even fundable) so as I am meeting with clients, I have been pondering myself what other strategies are there.
What other strategy is there? Resubmit, resubmit and resubmit?
January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM
What we also need to factor in now is that a lot of A0s with very competitive scores will be coming back in as A1s. That would have an enormous impact, even under normal conditions, but now it's just a total disaster.
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Calafiori and Havertz in the starting XI. I got my joy back.
January 28, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Calafiori and Havertz in the starting XI. I got my joy back.
3 new R01s funded by NIDDK this FY.
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
3 new R01s funded by NIDDK this FY.
Everything is a "resubmit" right now.
Abroad?
I don't know. Sitting on a 9th and a 5th percentile R01 that both are not funded and PO advised to resubmit.
But we can only submit 6/year. And I have already 3 in (2 R01 and a P01).
I don't know. Sitting on a 9th and a 5th percentile R01 that both are not funded and PO advised to resubmit.
But we can only submit 6/year. And I have already 3 in (2 R01 and a P01).
January 28, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Everything is a "resubmit" right now.
We stop talking about percentiles, paylines etc like it's the before times. Admin and leadership are still doing that because it still hasn't hit them yet. POs don't even know what the rules are anymore so grant reviews are just performative.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
Even people who score well (10th or even 5th %ile) are left without funding. Where do we go from here?
January 28, 2026 at 1:08 AM
We stop talking about percentiles, paylines etc like it's the before times. Admin and leadership are still doing that because it still hasn't hit them yet. POs don't even know what the rules are anymore so grant reviews are just performative.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
We're working back channels to get our grants funded.
I do not trust the Democrats to get this DHS/ICE funding/shutdown thing right. They have demonstrated over and over again that they are pathetic in opposition.
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I do not trust the Democrats to get this DHS/ICE funding/shutdown thing right. They have demonstrated over and over again that they are pathetic in opposition.
We're definitely facing another NIH shutdown now. The organization is already essentially frozen, so I expect that to just continue. Absolute shambles.
The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
January 25, 2026 at 11:02 PM
We're definitely facing another NIH shutdown now. The organization is already essentially frozen, so I expect that to just continue. Absolute shambles.
Now applications are getting kicked to SEPs due to a "surge in applications". Everything is fine.
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Now applications are getting kicked to SEPs due to a "surge in applications". Everything is fine.
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A reminder for the reviewers of #NIHGrants
"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...
"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...
“Nice” NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile.
I often write blog comments about NIH grant review matters that exist in an uncomfortable tension between what NIH wants us to do on study section and what I see as our professional obligation to t…
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January 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
A reminder for the reviewers of #NIHGrants
"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...
"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...
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🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26.
Buried in the bill-
Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr.
Russel Vought is behind this.
Buried in the bill-
Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr.
Russel Vought is behind this.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 AM
🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26.
Buried in the bill-
Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr.
Russel Vought is behind this.
Buried in the bill-
Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr.
Russel Vought is behind this.
Please make it stop.
Trump at Davos: "After the war, which we won, we won it big. Without us, right now, you‘d all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps. After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?!"
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Please make it stop.
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Trump's speech is so excruciating that it's actually making me sympathize with the greedy bastards at Davos.
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Trump's speech is so excruciating that it's actually making me sympathize with the greedy bastards at Davos.
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Reposting with comments.
NIDDK budget appears to be cut because there is a separate fund for diabetes, elsewhere in the bill.
NINDS budget is increased because of funds transferred from the Office of the Director (OD) for ALS, Alzheimer's.
NIEHS seems like a real cut.
OD cut is related to NINDS.
NIDDK budget appears to be cut because there is a separate fund for diabetes, elsewhere in the bill.
NINDS budget is increased because of funds transferred from the Office of the Director (OD) for ALS, Alzheimer's.
NIEHS seems like a real cut.
OD cut is related to NINDS.
January 21, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Reposting with comments.
NIDDK budget appears to be cut because there is a separate fund for diabetes, elsewhere in the bill.
NINDS budget is increased because of funds transferred from the Office of the Director (OD) for ALS, Alzheimer's.
NIEHS seems like a real cut.
OD cut is related to NINDS.
NIDDK budget appears to be cut because there is a separate fund for diabetes, elsewhere in the bill.
NINDS budget is increased because of funds transferred from the Office of the Director (OD) for ALS, Alzheimer's.
NIEHS seems like a real cut.
OD cut is related to NINDS.
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Considering the impact of Multi-Year Funding at NIH drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...
Considering the impact of Multi-Year Funding at NIH
Somewhere in the back of my head I have been thinking that the worst impact of NIH allocating ~50% of funds via Multi-Year Funding would be FY2026 if, and that is a huge IF, the overall budget stay…
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January 21, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Considering the impact of Multi-Year Funding at NIH drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/c...
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Good news for NIDDK
I did not include a special fund for diabetes that is administered through NIDDK.
This likely accounts for the difference, but I am trying to find the numbers in the bill.
More to come...
I did not include a special fund for diabetes that is administered through NIDDK.
This likely accounts for the difference, but I am trying to find the numbers in the bill.
More to come...
Now for the money...
Overall, the budget is essentially flat.
The biggest winner is NINDS with a 5.9% increase. The biggest losers are NIEHS and NIDDK.
4/5
Overall, the budget is essentially flat.
The biggest winner is NINDS with a 5.9% increase. The biggest losers are NIEHS and NIDDK.
4/5
January 20, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Good news for NIDDK
I did not include a special fund for diabetes that is administered through NIDDK.
This likely accounts for the difference, but I am trying to find the numbers in the bill.
More to come...
I did not include a special fund for diabetes that is administered through NIDDK.
This likely accounts for the difference, but I am trying to find the numbers in the bill.
More to come...
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The language is strong enough that they cannot do that. Though they might find other ways. The fact that Vought threatened a White House veto over this actually makes me think this language mattered a lot. That he doesn't have an easy way around it.
January 20, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The language is strong enough that they cannot do that. Though they might find other ways. The fact that Vought threatened a White House veto over this actually makes me think this language mattered a lot. That he doesn't have an easy way around it.
Celebrating this "compromise" on LinkedIn like this is an interesting choice.
January 20, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Celebrating this "compromise" on LinkedIn like this is an interesting choice.
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Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
Disaster
The language in the bill restricts the amount of multiyear funding to the level is fiscal year 2025. The Senate bill limited it to that level in fiscal year 2024.
This is not good news...better than nothing, but thousands of lost projects.
3/5
This is not good news...better than nothing, but thousands of lost projects.
3/5
January 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Disaster
MYF and a 4% budget cut for NIDDK. This is absolutely awful.
Now for the money...
Overall, the budget is essentially flat.
The biggest winner is NINDS with a 5.9% increase. The biggest losers are NIEHS and NIDDK.
4/5
Overall, the budget is essentially flat.
The biggest winner is NINDS with a 5.9% increase. The biggest losers are NIEHS and NIDDK.
4/5
January 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM
MYF and a 4% budget cut for NIDDK. This is absolutely awful.
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What's been lost, so far.
"Program officers steward research portfolios. They don’t just process applications. They understand scientific contexts, see connections across studies, mentor investigators, and help translate broad priorities into fundable research programs."
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"Program officers steward research portfolios. They don’t just process applications. They understand scientific contexts, see connections across studies, mentor investigators, and help translate broad priorities into fundable research programs."
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When Experts Leave: What NIH Lost in 2025
I remember moments like this from my 22 years at NIH.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:25 PM
What's been lost, so far.
"Program officers steward research portfolios. They don’t just process applications. They understand scientific contexts, see connections across studies, mentor investigators, and help translate broad priorities into fundable research programs."
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
"Program officers steward research portfolios. They don’t just process applications. They understand scientific contexts, see connections across studies, mentor investigators, and help translate broad priorities into fundable research programs."
substack.com/inbox/post/1...