I agree wholeheartedly. Total overreach. See also putting multiple bylaws changes in one vote.

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

An internal document from NIH which states that documentation must be provide for each funded grant but that no documentation need be provided for applications that are not selected for funding including those that are skipped back on overall impact scores.

This is concerning.

NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).

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I’ve always thought the sessions you speak of are kind of a waste of time an marginalize the real expertise needed to successfully do data science. I do worry that faculty or former faculty now working elsewhere think they can have AI do the coding and expect grad students to do it in no time.

Yes indexing matches PMID article even though abstract is correct in embase record.

BREAKING NEWS over in Inside Medicine:

Censorship at the CDC. Again.

Two dozen websites were removed, including resources for health equity, disability, and LGBTQ+ care.

Here’s what we know:

"I'm not on that committee" is a longstanding #medlibs joke but preferable than termination & 2 consultants when it comes to advisory feedback about MEDLINE. More about that & a Sept 25th update about a European alternative PubMed project. eagledawg.blogspot.com/2025/09/medl...

Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…

This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
#MedLibs

21 is truly amazing! He’s lucky to have you.

Mine is on it 2x/day. He acts totally normal even so! He had a partial urinary blockage earlier this year and is a very anxious kitty now diagnosed with FIC. So hopefully helps w/pain and anxiety.

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership

What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.

Failure of reconstruction has no videos attached to the content.

Native American societies before contact has daily video 2 without daily video one. European exploration in America's has daily videos 2 and 3 with no #1.

Interactions between American Indians and Europeans is missing daily video one

Slavery in the British colonies is missing both daily videos one and two while still showing 3

College Board deleted vids for multiple classes on AP Classroom about issues dealing with American Indians, Slavery, Racism, and sexism. For APUSH the first two videos on Slavery in the British Colonies were deleted, videos on Native American societies and Euro conquest, and Reconstruction. #edusky

I am majorly underwhelmed with the update.

If someone doesn't hire Carrie ASAP, they're almost as foolish as the people/reason she's back on the job market.