Biomedical research in
Australia is largely funded through the National Health and Medical Research
Council (NHMRC https://www.nhmrc.gov.au),
which is the Australian equivalent of the NIH. Multiple...
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The United States would not be the world leader in science
today if science and technological innovations were not supported. An average
US citizen may not grasp the real value of scientific disco...
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This document contains my comments to the
National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Optimizing Funding
Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of
Biom...
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the nation, it is with great disappointment I say that we, the scientific community, have failed you. We have hidden on our false intellectual pedestal. We throw around phra...
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On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the blog post
“Eroding
Benefits for UMD postdocs?” caused quite a stir (Benderley,
2015). Such a stir, in fact, that the post was soon taken down, and revised
(you can ...
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One of the ways that early career researchers can
effect change in the academic research system is to make their voices heard,
particularly when their input is solicited. Two agencies are solicitin...
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In their letter, "Ailing academia needs culture change" (1), V. Callier and N. L. Vanderford highlight the inherent institutional instability that has been generated by flooding academic science wi...
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In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the biomedical research agency, equivalent to the NIH in the US, the ANR in France or the CIHR in Canada that distributes t...
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The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
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Open science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in
2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we
publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
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