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Student of the brain. Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Duke University, Durham, NC
Joined October 2019
A few possible consequences 1. If the total budget remains the same one possible consequence is a modest but immediate increase in paylines (funding cutoff points). e.g. from 12% to 15%. Of course in future years budget cuts are certainly possible. 2. Hiring freeze. In my field I expect a dramatic reduction in tenure track positions available. No more new soft-money positions in med schools. 3. Med school departments will have much smaller budgets 4. Many will leave biomedical research field: both administrative and research staff. Layoffs/voluntary. 5. Rich universities will use endowment to cover some research-related expenses 6. Possibly no more new research buildings.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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The most drastic change in the grant system since I started. Will probably destroy many med school departments that rely on indirect.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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Grade inflation has reached a point where even the students are starting to complain about it. A student told me that GPA is almost meaningless, as it's hard to tell the difference between 3.95 and 3.92. These days you pay a lot of tuition to get the grade you want, but everyone wants the same grade. So you end up with the grade you want but not necessarily the education that you want.
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RT @CoryMillerMarmo: New paper in @pnas led by @vickey17singh! We present an innovative head-mounted eye-tracking system to study vision i…
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I am thrilled to share the published version of our study on how neuropeptide signals regulate feeding in the hypothalamus! We imaged endogenous peptide signals in subcellular compartments during behavior. Below is an updated summary:
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Getting questions about the NIH. All I can say is that I'm working on a grant now and plan to review another later today. Recently submitted grant reviews on era commons
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As a PI, most of my lab skills have deteriorated. I barely know how to do anything in the lab, but I'm pretty good at multi-factor authentication, paperwork, electronic signatures... I also tell myself that I'm good at thinking about the big picture, whatever that means.
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RT @aliceyting: Tetanus on demand! (not for bioweapons, but for neuroscience research) Tetanus toxin induces paralysis by using a protease…
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DeepSeek prompt write a poem about a lonely cat in the style of Wallace Stevens. Not bad.
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Researchers paid $8.968 billion for their findings to be freely accessible. 🧵1/10
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RT @MIT_Picower: A new technology developed at MIT enables scientists to label proteins across millions of individual cells in fully intact…
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Modeling of Blood Flow Dynamics in Rat Somatosensory Cortex #mdpibiomedicines via @Biomed_MDPI
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