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Friday Christmas cocktails
December 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Another signal from this period (1994-1997) correlates with the development of tools that improve clinical care for HIV patients, which is notable because behavioral and social science advances are less likely to be recognized with major prizes 10/15
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Each historical CCN is like a time capsule: they contain only data that would have existed if time stopped in that year. We strung together different years, following the trajectory of our prize-winning gold standards as the topic evolved and gained recognition. 6/15
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The first step in answering our ambitious question was to agnostically and systematically define every possible research topic by applying regularized Markov clustering to the co-citation network (CCN) of all of PubMed – that’s more than 18 million papers! 4/15
December 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
US R&D spending on fundamental research in constant 2005 dollars

from 2013 Press, W. Science 342:817
December 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Proportion of #NIH awards to medical schools versus other institutions, 1952-1961

from: Basic Data Relating to the National Institutes of Health, 1961 -1965
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
percentage of #NIH R01 applications by priority score, using human subjects as a (useful but imperfect) proxy to identify clinical research

from 04 Kotchen et al JAMA
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thinking about new beginnings.

Timeline for the first 20 years of #NIH

from 96 Mandel, A Half Century of Peer Review
December 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM