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I've been told that being a successful researcher will require pivoting, adapting, & a willingness to "scrub" grants of "contentious" words. But I worry that as researchers self-censor, we will also inadvertently promote this administration’s misguided agenda. This isn't how science works.

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Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

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Some good-ish news from NIH “Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again” As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Congratulations to our outgoing PhD Clinical Psychology Trainees as they move on to finish their final clinical training year! Once again our department gets to celebrate a 100% match rate!

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In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back. discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...

submitted 107 days ago • 48 comments

UF has 520 NIH grants totaling $212,488,586. Do the math. And check your school here: report.nih.gov/award/index....

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 19 days ago • 270 comments

“We at the American Journal of Public Health have no interest in following the president's prohibitions on language," said Georges Benjamin, MD, publisher of AJPH 👏👏👏 www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

A Comment article in Nature Medicine argues that clinical research should recruit participants from LGBTQIA+ populations, which requires specific actions and policies to create affirming and welcoming environments. https://go.nature.com/3WILuQi 🧪

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

Data point: I heard from the SRO on a grant application that should have been reviewed last week. He indicated that they were allowed to start rescheduling study section meetings as of this afternoon.

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 25 days ago • 231 comments

I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 26 days ago • 3624 comments

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submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Amid chaos after federal grants were frozen, know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more Are we really halting this? #NIH #MedSky

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Just implemented a new email sign off.

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

Mood:

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 30 days ago • 1664 comments

Our country is hailed worldwide for our technical and scientific ingenuity But it is federal grants that serve as the engine of innovation. Pausing scientific grantmaking — by NSF, NIH, and more — is NOT a recipe for American greatness. Consider reminding your senators & reps of this fact.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

This week is an opportunity to explain things about how NIH works to your friends, family, etc that aren’t in the biz. This is the last available data from NIH, Fiscal Year 2023. The percentile rank is the relative merit score voted by various study section. Lower is better in the NIH parlance.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/...

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

An excellent resource on the economic impact of NIH funding in the U.S. with an interactive link for state specific information here: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

No study section...no grant reviews No grant reviews...no grants awarded No grants awarded...no research No research...no functional NIH

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

Me, editing my own work

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods: Factorial clinical trial designs allow for the simultaneous evaluation of multiple treatments and their interactions. ja.ma/4gTWOB8 #MedSky

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t love the cold this time of year but I love that it brings in the manatees! Bonus anhinga, turtles, and monkeys. The springs are my absolute favorite part of FL 🚣

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

A reminder to all potential #NIH #NRSA fellowship applicants (e.g., F31/F32s): some big changes are being made to the application forms on January 25! Read more here: grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 53 days ago • 35 comments

Yet here I am on Dec 31st, trying to wrap up my CE 🫣

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

it's called "Public Health"

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

We’re collecting open-ended data on Prolific, and it has become clear to me that people are using chatGPT to answer the questions. This is so depressing. Like, is it really worth the time to copy and paste questions and answers instead of just…telling us what you think?

submitted 69 days ago • 32 comments

Updating my Spring MPH Research Methods in Social & Behavioral Sciences course, and want to share interesting articles for students to use as part of class activities. Hey #publichealthsky and #medsky , what are your favorite peer-reviewed journal articles from the last year or so?

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Microsoft's New Future of Work Report 2024 is out! More than 50 of us contributed to this! If you like hot, fresh citations about AI & productivity, you'll find hundreds here: aka.ms/nfw2024

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research don't meet basic standards of reproducibility...

submitted 71 days ago • 18 comments

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