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@VPrasadMDMPH As a public health professional, I would hope that you understand the need for equity. The AI search doesn’t differentiate between diversity in thought/opinion and preparing students for diverse careers. The search for “divers” doesn’t mean that the work isn’t important & needed

Probably many of the cancelled grants mentioned diversity or equity-- which were buzzwords used to get favorable reviews under Biden, and now are liabilities used to decide what to cut. If anything it speaks to how broken the system is. Buzzwords get you funded. Europeans often stunned these grants needed to fund salaries as universities pocket indirects and don't provide security.

@VPrasadMDMPH 3/3 Indirect costs are negotiated recovery of funds so that the gov’t doesn’t have to foot the full bill for all research. It increases the impact of US science. We pay for the direct research costs but not infrastructure. China will take the lead and not share data. That’s fun.

In the epilogue of my book Malignant, which I wrote in 2018, I explained how broken the NIH is, and called for a randomized control trial of NIH Grant giving. This was my schematic. My views on this topic have been the same for the last decade.

@VPrasadMDMPH 2/3 I followed you during Covid and basically agreed with much of your thinking. However, the US is more nuanced. Who can self-diagnose a co-morbidity? Who would tell their kid that they can’t go to school because they are obese or have a neurological disorder? Think broadly.

@VPrasadMDMPH 1/3 I can’t find an NIH grant that you were awarded nor a study section that you have served on. I agree that the system sucks. But it doesn’t have enough funding to pay for the grants that receive great reviews. The top 30% could be awarded by lottery when we can only fund 10%

@VPrasadMDMPH Well that’s not actually true. They added the need to address Rigor and Reproducibility. They added the need to validate key reagents. Publishers added requirements for all raw data files to be attached and the need for a full methods section. Your NIH funding is on what exactly?

In 20 years, NIH leadership and universities have done literally nothing to address this issue. If you just try to recreate experiments. You can only do it 10 -40% of the time. No one stood up for reproducible science

@SenBillCassidy How do you trust him to enact policies to improve health when he doesn’t follow the science? As you are well aware! He’s just going to use cherry picked data &debunked sources to provide fodder for more litigation against corporations to line his own pockets. You’ve been bought.

I’ve had very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House over the weekend and even this morning. I want to thank VP JD specifically for his honest counsel. With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes.

@SenBillCassidy You know what you did. You took an oath and then you sold your soul for your own benefit-another term -you could retire. Honest?? I can’t imagine how you sleep at night or that you believe in the afterlife. Good luck with that. Your 18yo patient meant nothing?? Power over lives?

@AGAndrewBailey Politically motivated crap. If you were THAT CONCERNED, you would have contacted the schools. And then you would have learned that you are not correct. Instead, the superintendent sends a note to the district explaining why you are a POS. Nice job. Hope it backfires wrt votes.

Billie Jean King just dropped the ceremonial first puck for the PWHL! So excited for this league! Let's GOOOO! Happy New Year!

@KyleCottrell 💯 Agree!!

The best part of Thanksgiving is leftover pumpkin pie for breakfast the next day! Generous application of whipped cream is suggested.

@AdrianoAguzzi That's the most amazing part of the story IMHO!

@AdrianoAguzzi NIH now lists the institutes that supported "their work" in their Nobel Laureates table, but in fact, it is my understanding that work in particular was never supported by an NIH grant. Had they done so, she may have been retained by UPenn(?) Instead, she moved on and kept going!

@awn_wustl @wi_stem I hope you are following the inspiring story of @kkariko, who was terminated by UPenn and found a way to continue her Nobel-prize winning work, while simultaneously raising Olympic/World Champ rower @zfrancia @iFit. 🎉🦾Resilient Women!

@wi_stem @awn_wustl I hope you follow @kkariko 's inspiring story. She was terminated from UPenn, found a way to continue her Nobel Prize - winning work, and simultaneously raised an Olympic/World champion rower @zfrancia @iFit. 🎉🦾Resilient Women!

@GarciaLabMS Yes, indeed. I know several from different departments that have been denied. I think it comes down to the funding guarantee issue for small departments and that could, in theory, be changed in some way to support it more broadly.

@GarciaLabMS As it stands now, departments differentially restrict promotions in general and it's a pain point for many PIs and a source of frustration for PDs and senior scientists etc.

@GarciaLabMS Personally, I think there should be a path to promote outstanding PDs to Research Asst Prof early so that they are eligible to apply for grants. If they successfully secure funding, they will stay, and be competitive for jobs, IMHO. Decrease the timeline for some, essentially.

@GarciaLabMS In addition, those clinical instructors don't get promoted on time lines that seem equitable. I believe that it's always the biggest gender difference category for promotion at WUSM.

@GarciaLabMS Study sections always have 1-2 people that do some digging and say "this person isn't Really independent" or "they are X yrs post-grad and still Asst Prof". If paylines were >12% maybe. Those arguments change scores, increased timelines hurt, including women having kids. I say no

@nieminm I'm starting the right players from my weak roster this year but obviously the draft didn't go so well for me this year. I won last year, but I'm about to be 0-2 so clearly in need of a new strategy 😂

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