I got this in my NIH grant info listserv email today: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-19-020.html Wherein the requirements for institutions to report and communicate to the NIH suspected and/or confirmed scientific misconduct promptly, confidentially, and thoroughly are laid out as a reminder to institutions that receive NIH...

We at Scientopia like to support DonorsChoose, and today I have a special request. One of our highest poverty high schools in the metro area where I live has a newly developing choir program. They have the opportunity to go on their first long-distance choir trip this spring--but they need help raising the funds. This is the kind of trip that suburban...

This is so fascinating: Charles Darwin's Health I came across it from a Tenure She Wrote post linked to by sweetscience here on Scientopia. Charles Darwin's lifelong intermittent symptoms are SO similar to some of the crap that I deal with (and that I have heard personally from many other scientists at many career levels)--crazy heart irregularity...

So, an online friend had a fantastic idea: to spend a day sharing the impact that a certain Scientopia blogger has had on us as scientists trying to navigate the NIH game. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that Drugmonkey has majorly influenced my success onto and through the tenure track. I first started reading back in about 2007-2008, when I...

Perspective-taking (stepping into another's shoes and trying to see things from their position) is a fundamental requirement of empathy. I can imagine myself in the shoes of my black neighbors who grow up to the realization that they cannot operate on the assumption that they get the automatic benefit of the doubt that comes with white privilege, and...

*Sigh* Another paper came out recently by another group in my small sub-field, whose work is pretty darn close to ours, and whom, despite 6 years of us citing their work in everything we publish, have NEVER. ONCE. cited ours. Initially I was unaware of their work--despite thinking I had done all my due diligence and dug up everything potentially related...