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Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

This is a great archive. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

Reminder: Applications for the Neuro-EM Scholars Program are due soon for K12 Scholars and Pipeline Program Participants! Application guidelines and forms are posted on our website.
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Reminder: Applications for the Neuro-EM Scholars Program are due this Fall for K12 Scholars and Pipeline Program Participants! Application guidelines and forms for 2025 are posted on our website.

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Good video! Share with staff and friends.

Great example of educating your neighbors, friends and family outside the university. This is important to do and do often!

Resignation letter from FDA’s Peter Marks (he was director of its Center for Biological Evaluation and Research)

It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter.

Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...

Another obscenity...

The Neuro-EM Scholars Program has a new website, which now houses a page of resources for early-career emergency medicine researchers. We list funding opportunities, training resources, and research opportunities. Check it out here: www.neuroemscholars.org

Federal judge temporarily blocks NIH rate cut University officials argued in court filings that the effects of the policy change “will be immediate and devastating.”

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Trump Team Dismantles Efforts to Find a Cure for Cancer and Other Deadly Disorders and Diseases President Trump’s Administration is imposing a new policy to cap indirect costs for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants at 15 percent, which would cut billions of dollars in funding fo...

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HEADS UP: If anyone is submitting an app this week or soon, check with your grants office to make sure they have language that allows them to correct indir cost recovery if the 15% level is modified. It is likely that they will be on top of this, but it's possible to lock in the low rate by mistake

This is a distribution of indirect cost rates for R01 grants. These data are relatively old (2013) but these rates are relatively stable.

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A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

NIH declares 15% indirects. This will decimate research universities. Budgets will be cut by 70%. Science in the US going down hill in this administration. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Ur-Fascism | Umberto Eco I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contra...

A convoluted thread led me to this 30 year old timeless article by Umberto Eco. www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

Give the grant-writing monkeys another banana You’re probably familiar with the concept that if you had a million monkeys typing on a million computers for a million years, you would eventually get Sha

Great piece by @statfourwork.bsky.social

"Should a university be based on a model in which researchers are only valued for their revenue-generating potential, or do we still have any reverence for the pursuit of knowledge that is not obviously translational or even (gasp) fundable?"🧪