@xtaldave

I agree with barring reviewers of grants and papers from using AI because they risk disclosing confidential information that the reviewer does not have the right to disclose.

But if it's your own findings, I say knock yourself out!

#ScienceWriting #Publishing #GrantReview #GrantWriting

Bring back the Gantt chart. #grantwriting #NIH

Currently writing a proposal for funding to pay people to help write a proposal for funding.

See my Not Amused Sheep (TM) in photo.

#academia #AcademicLife #Granting #AcademicFunding #GrantWriting #Sheep

Ugh. The dreaded 3 letters of recommendation.
#academia #research #grantWriting

Hey #writingcommunity #Mazeldon #jewdiverse: is anyone able to do some pro bono grant #writing for @shekinahcancook’s new nonprofit? #Jewish #GrantWriting

From: @shekinahcancook
https://babka.social/@shekinahcancook/110855625423139102

So here's the weird thing. Because I've spent almost all day today working on grant writing incl meetings with grant people who are lovely but obviously stressed; when I have the opportunity to sit and wait for openssl to fully install on this mac, which takes approximately 2hrs at the 'make test' step; I'm kind of pleased that it's allowing me a natural break.

#coding #academicChatter #openssl for #pycurl on a #mac #m1 #grantWriting

AcademicMastodon,

where in the #UK (also #Europe) would you go to write & swim?

Anglesey (North Wales) and Stintino (North Sardinia) have given me the #HeadSpace when I had to get a big project across the line.

I need a remote space again for a final writing push this summer where i can also swim but be properly online.

Where do you dream of and/or have 1st hand experience of?

#AcWri #WritingRetreat #GrantWriting #HigherEducation #AcademicWriting

Without worrying about the impact of my research rising to the top of the field, I might not take the time to enunciate the implications of my work in a way that motivates me and my team to keep pushing for success.

Without the excuse of trying to improve my grant, my colleagues might find it difficult to find time to really think about my science and suggest transformative approaches or ideas.

#Academia #PILife #GrantWriting

There are things to hate about grant writing, but I think it ultimately helps me do better science. Maybe it is just me, but without a looming deadline, I find it hard to carve out time to sit and think deeply about where my science should be going. Without the worry that a reviewer knows some article with data that tanks our premise, I find it hard to carve out time to do a deep dive into the literature.

#Academia #PILife #GrantWriting

1) Biosketch lacked contribution to science-this tanked a renewal.

2) Biosketch lacked sources of support references cited---our fingers are still crossed on this one.

3) Current support not submitted-proposal administratively rejected

4) Letters of support too long-our fingers are still crossed on this one.

5) Submitted a R35 as a renewal when the previous years renewal was still pending (on the advice of PO)-proposal administratively rejected.

#Academia #GrantWriting #NIH #MIRA

Are other researchers finding the R35 application instructions problematic?

Things that have happened in my department-a short thread

#Academia #GrantWriting #NIH #MIRA

We will help you unlock the key to Grant Writing Success. Hear what our workshop participant has to say and visit our website to know more 👀https://researchimpactacademy.com/workshops/

#researchimpact #grantwriting #TestimonialThursdays

On #research, and #dreams, and what I do all day.

Nearly all of my work consists of using absolutely standard #bioinformatics and #biostatistics techniques. These methods were long ago worked out in excruciating detail by people much more knowledgeable in their subspecialties than I’ll ever be. Although I grumble about the quality of #scientific #software (and there’s a lot to grumble about) I almost always use mostly-reliable packages rather than writing my own. There are only so many hours in a day, days in a year, and years in a career.

The truth is, that’s the way most #science jobs are, at least in #biology and #medicine—I’m honestly not sure about others. #Methodological research, working out entirely new ways to do things, is largely a privilege of dewy-eyed grad students and slightly more cynical but still idealistic postdocs. #Faculty get to do some, but less the higher up the food chain they get: full #professorship is at least half administration and half overseeing other people’s research and half #grantwriting, and if you’re thinking that’s one too many halves, you’re right. There are probably a couple of other halves in there I don’t even know about.

#Industry scientists like me? The #PhD is an entry-level qualification. We’re not paid to come up with new ways to do things better. We’re paid to use old ways to do things faster. Ultimately, the goal is something new, sure, usually a new #drug for a particular #disease. The process of making that happen is a bunch of painstaking and carefully programmed steps. There’s about as much room for creativity as there was when I was in the service—which BTW is more than people often assume, but with pretty sharp limits. And almost always, the clock is ticking. Loudly.

This may all sound kind of bitter. Yes, there’s some bitterness, but I know I have plenty of company.

No one goes into science for the money or the prestige: without any false modesty at all, I can say that anyone who is capable of becoming a #scientist is capable of doing lots of other things too, and most of those things pay better and get more respect. We start our long and winding road because we see, or think we see, something at the heart of reality no one else has seen before. We think we can bring that into the light and show it to the world. We can make a difference. We believe.

Eventually we come around. It’s not just an adventure, it’s a job.

My point—I swear I have one—is that we grumble about this, and think back wistfully to the days when we could sink into one project, and recall with tolerant amusement our conviction that we alone could reveal the Truth unto the world … and mostly accept it. Do the work, be the cog in the machine, and small-t truth will be revealed. Not just by us alone, no. By us and by everyone who came before us in the chain and everyone after, and a year or five or twenty down the line, someone who would have died will live. They’ll never know our names, and we’ll never know theirs. It’s okay.

And every once in a while, in the middle of this daily grind, we realize that what we have to do to solve this particular problem, get at this particular small truth, no one else has ever done.

So we do it.

We do it, and go back to the grind. Nobody else may ever know we did it. If they do, it will probably be buried in the methods section of a multi-author article in a mid-tier journal. If ten people in the world ever read it, we’ll be pleasantly surprised. A citation, and we’ll be over the moon. And there’s no guarantee of even that much. Locked away in a tech report gathering e-dust, just as likely.

But we know. And sometimes we dream again, for a little while.

#grantwriting is no fun. But at least there are worse places I could be #Writing from.

#Split #Croatia

Today I learned that the IRS activity code for Protestant churches is x21. #grantwriting

Just pressed send on a grant application. They take so long to write and I don't like the "sell my soul" nature of it. #GrantWriting #AcademicChatter

👋 𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫!

Thank you to all who registered for our first webinar this year! Looking forward to seeing you and learning about communicating the NHMRC Ideas Grant.

#researchimpact #impactacademy #nhmrc #ideasgrant #webinar #grantwriting

@Sophie
I found the virtual #GrantWriting training session based on TNA's advice very informative:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/finding-funding/

Hey #library, #archives, #culturalHeritage friends

I’m prepping a #class on #preservation (primary physical material, digital mater is another class)

I’ve got a good start, but would love to hear what you think. Any recent work to recommend on:

- #disasterPlanning,
- #security,
- preservation #policies,
- #managing a preservation program,
- preservation #grantWriting,
- #ethical considerations around preservation?

In this week's blog, we share 3 things that you must keep in mind while writing your grant.

👉https://researchimpactacademy.com/blog/3-tips-to-surviving-the-grant-writing-process/

#researchimpact #impactacademy #grantwriting #MasteryMonday