Metabo_Dave

I have heard through the grapevine that the January Council will be rescheduled

What about the January councils? A lot of these rescheduled study sections are for end of January. Will they add another council, or shift the January council meeting to accommodate?

My grants that did not get reviewed in October due to the shutdown will now be reviewed at the end of January. I think this means they'll miss the January 2026 Council - anyone have any insights into how this will be dealt with? Lumped into May Council? That's going to screw us

But I suspect they may add another council to deal with this, but others would know better.

Same boat. Just got notification that my app will be reviewed the day before the council meets. Not sure what that means but, honestly, I'm not sure it really matters. I'm expecting more or less total paralysis at the NIH for now.

NIH FY26 might be worse than FY25.

We have a CR and the NIH still citing the presidents budget request, an unofficial multi year funding mandate, apparently no paylines, IC leadership turnover, continued OMB/Vought interference, more shutdowns likely

This is a recipe for total paralysis.

Comparing performance of within-payline and "select pay" pickup NIH grants at NIAID Well, well, well. How timely. We were just discussing the situation in which some ICs of the NIH fund some subset of their grant applications out of the order of initial peer review. And what shoul…

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This is awesome as long my grant gets paid.

But wasn't FY25 basically FY24 levels?

I'm quite sure the NIH position will continue to be "the president has requested a 40% cut so we're going to act like that's the reality"

Which poor person or immigrant will they find to put in jail for this?

I'll be glad when the word "effectuate" is permanently removed from my memory.

The same thing happened during the 35 day shutdown. We rescheduled our late October meeting for Dec 19-20. We did 50 To 60% ND. It was a pain but not impossible. The 70% ND seems reasonable because reviewers can always call for discussion. IOW this is really not unprecedented.

NIH is chaos. USDA is chaos. It looks like we put all the effort into wrapping a grant in proper shape and form, and now they've extended the deadlines.

I just don't think a conversation with the PO changes much, at least based on my experience.

That's the giveaway that a total noob wrote this 🙄

Even in a fully functional NIH, which this clearly is not, getting the cancelled fall study sections done before council seems almost impossible.....unless drastic measures are taken.

You think they'll come to their senses here?

NIH has never changed deadlines before - just allowed late submissions (eg, could allow PIs to use Continuous Submission deadline). Sit tight, leave your app there - none will be withdrawn. The loss of institutional expertise is obvious in this “Notice” (& in more ways than updated deadline).

Won't this just bleed into the Jan/Feb deadline (i.e. next cycle)? That will make the next round a total and absolute nightmare.

Plus there is likely another shutdown coming at the end of January.

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What if you have already submitted a grant in Oct/Nov? Will it be withdrawn?

Doesn't this mean that the entire cycle has effectively been cancelled?

What a nightmare.

If paylines stay around 5%ile for some ICs, this might save everyone a lot of time. You can meet for a few hours in the morning and be done with the grants that even have a chance at being picked up.

With a shutdown likely end of Jan, the NIH will struggle to spend it's appropriations this FY.

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The gift that keeps on giving.

Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us.

Good time to email the PO or nah? 😉

Oh oh

Responding to a 2017 message that Trump was 'so gross', Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was "worse in real life and upclose."

Every Democratic senator who votes for this should be primaried.

A CR until January 30th at FY24 levels will mean continued ultra conservative funding policies at the NIH. Expect the MYF "policy" to continue too. Not a great scenario considering the appropriations bills on the table look promising.

Democrats man. What a bunch of twats.

"Whilst his discoveries were real and continue to be cited by other scientists, they have been undermined by his actions.."

Huh?