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Useful primer for trainees/those new to nih funding. For Jan apps, while some councils have met, not all applications has finished review, so the process may be longer. If you haven’t, reach out to discuss next steps with your PO. www.nigms.nih.gov/about/counci...

Yowsa!

I hope you were swilling pints of beer like the Belgian fans do....

bones heal. :-)

(and cyclocross is, as it happens, a winter sport. there's even a crazy effort to try to get it into the Winter Olympics.)

My thought is that lots of the obscure (and not so obscure) Olympics sports have grass roots and tiered continuing recruitment to try to drum up US talent. They don't just wait around for Richie Rich to show up from his family's third generation ski chalet.

I do actually recall an open tryout at RFK stadium in Washington DC towards the next bobsled team, I think 1990? Hell I considered it!

The role of a path to professional employment is often referenced to explain relative draw to given sports in various countries for the most athletically gifted. Watch some cyclocross racing and take a good look at the spectating crowds in Belgium. This may clarify some things for you. :-)

YouTube video by NPR's Planet Money What it costs to be an elite figure skater like the 'Quad God'

well possibly. I saw a summary about this report so I haven’t listened to the whole thing youtu.be/wDDjZ_PRv4o?...

Do people have to own their own sled to get in the sport in Muskegon MI?

Elana Meyers Taylor family tree: Meet former NFL player dad, sons, husband and more from Georgia roots | Sporting News American bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor isn't the only athlete in her family.

Elena Meyers Taylor sure doesn't sound like she comes from generational wealth. www.sportingnews.com/us/olympics/...

Look, I dunno for sure but I find it hard to believe that bob sledding in the USA is done by athletes who can afford their own sled and track. Back in the Lake Placid days, wasn't the USOC doing cold tryouts for anyone who could push? One of my current neighbors did that based on being a track guy

Like everything that costs money, it is easier if you have more. I'm not contradicting that. I'm just fired off about the "generational wealth" threshold thing. (and the crack about "some cross country skis" as if that were cheap...for reasons)

families don't set that up for their kids out of whole cloth based on generational wealth. That's what I'm saying.

oh and one more semi-related thought. you can't buy Olympics level talent for your kid. I know we love the good old American hard work tales related to the Games but it is fantasy.

They have to have really special talent to build upon.

anyway it is hard to think of too many paths to the olympics, summer or winter, that don't require a lot of family investment after kids show signs of real talent. Money matters. But the "generational wealth" claim seems overblown.

Heck, I live in SoCal and a local kid showed some snowboard talent. His parents absolutely threw down from elementary school onward. and he came within a place or two of making last Olympics team (not sure how far off this year), has a pro career. not "generational wealth", although obv they had $.

Obv for any person headed to Olympic glory there is a damn good chance they had to have parents willing to pay for youth participation. Including travel to events as well as equipment. Coaching, etc. This is not, however, the stuff of "generational wealth".

I don't know for sure but bobsled and luge seem like sports kids would only get into if they happened to live near Lake Placid or maybe Utah if they kept their tracks going.

I was in a town far to small for a hockey rink but in larger communities (cities) playing hockey would be far cheaper for parents than cross country ski racing. also see figure skating- huge cost diff based on geographical location.

The public high school I attended had a small Nordic jump and skis/boots people could use. "a pair of cross country skis" betrays a lack of appreciation for how expensive racing equipment (skis, poles, boots, bindings, gloves, suits) is and was. And if a kid showed talent, travel was necessary.

Prospects of GLP-1 Therapies for Addiction and Mental Health Comorbidities-Quo Vadis?: A Review - PubMed The rationale for studying GLP-1 therapies for ASUDs is supported by preclinical and observational clinical evidence. RCTs are emerging and critically needed at this juncture to determine the safety and efficacy of GLP-1 therapies in people with ASUDs. Pending results from RCTs, GLP-1 therapies have …

Timely review on GLP-1-based therapies for addiction treatment from Mehdi Farokhnia and Lorenzo Leggio

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41563749/

Study sections cancelled in Oct/Nov 2025 were reviewing Cycle II submissions (June/July 2025), slated to go to Winter 2026 Council with first possible funding April 1. We won't see the impact of that debacle until April/May-ish.

You are a Cycle off. Competing grants being awarded now should be Cycle I, first possible start date Dec 1. They went to council in the fall rounds and were reviewed in June/July 2025 after being submitted in Feb/Mar 2025.

Deadly shooting at Rhode Island youth hockey game was 'targeted event,' authorities say Pawtucket Chief of Police Tina Goncalves said Tuesday the victims were the shooter's ex-wife and adult son. The shooter injured three others during the shooting Monday afternoon in Pawtucket.

Pawtucket Chief of Police Tina Goncalves said the victims were the shooter's ex-wife Rhonda Dorgan and adult son Aidan Dorgan. The shooter injured three others during the shooting Monday afternoon in Pawtucket. https://to.pbs.org/4tEhGTS

No? Isn’t that basically the super hero landing pose?

Watched her grab the gold last night and was amazed—she’s got like six medals over a career of 20 years!? Amazingly consistent. So happy she finished with a gold.

Bronze also won by an American athlete. Fuck yeah.

That sled weight is minimum 357 pounds.

Let’s see Growlin Leather and Meth Rock push that up to speed with their chicken legs.

41 year old mother of two. Amazing.