Tag: funding

Oct242011October 24, 2011October 23, 20110Commentby L.

Armchair quarterback the NIH budget

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Think you could do a better job allocating the NIH budget? This is your chance…

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Jul232011July 23, 2011July 23, 20110Commentby L.

Tell the NIH what to spend money on

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There’s an RFI (request for information) out now for the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience (the structure that cuts across different institutes that all support neuroscience: NINDS, NIMH, NEI, etc.). These RFIs are an…

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Jul032011July 3, 2011July 3, 20110Commentby L.

Papers per person per year

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The subject of prolificacy came up in lab the other day. A study from the 80s (pdf) plotted the number of papers from a lab versus the number of people in the…

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Feb142011February 14, 2011February 14, 20110Commentby L.

White House budget proposal 2012

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Funding is tight all over. The question is only: How tight? The White House released its budget today. It’s just a proposal, and is…

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Oct022010October 2, 2010October 1, 20100Commentby L.

NIH grants: Score correlations

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NIH grants are scored on five dimensions:
1. Significance
2. Investigator
3. Innovation
4. Approach
5. Environment
(link)

What are the correlations between these different dimensions and ultimate grant funding success?
Here’s a table of all the NIH institutions, and the correlation coefficients for these scoring dimensions and ultimate funding success.

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Sep292010September 29, 2010October 1, 20100Commentby L.

Citizen science article in NN

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Nature Neuroscience has a great article on citizen science in the September issue (link, subscription required).

In the article, they discuss that although the public already recognizes the value of publicly funded research, the…

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