🚨 @ucdavis.bsky.social NIH is requiring personnel documents for all submissions due May 8 and after to be created using the Common Form in SciENcv (NOT-OD-26-079). This affects proposals, RPPRs and JIT submissions.

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Give Day starts tomorrow. A gift to the Office of Research fuels the foundation behind breakthrough research and helps accelerate innovation and success. Each gift – no matter the amount – moves us one step closer to unlocking multiple sponsored challenges. Make a gift here: bit.ly/3OwyWut

2026 Research Expo The annual UC Davis Research Expo showcases the latest research-related opportunities, insight, resources and tools to help you advance your research. The event includes exhibits, presentations, works...

🚨 @ucdavis.bsky.social community, come join us at the annual UC Davis Research Expo on April 29!

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💡 Grant Writing Tip: Proposal Brainstorming You want to write a grant but are not sure where to begin. Or you have ideas but need help narrowing them down and developing them into a project plan. If either is true for you, read on for steps to ...

Are you getting started on a new grant? If so, check out our grant writing for #tuesdaytip on proposal brainstorming!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 2026 NSF CAREER Series: Winners' Roundtable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Learn from successful NSF CAREER awardees about their tips for a winning proposal! This panel discussion is available to UC Davis faculty and associates looking to build successful NSF CAREER grant pr...

@ucdavis.bsky.social early career investigators, we have our second NSF CAREER event on the schedule! Join us to hear from previous NSF CAREER awardees about their experience, tips, and suggestions for a successful proposal.

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Call your Program Officer Yes, you. Schedule a phone call. This is the hidden curriculum.

Excellent advice from @hormiga.bsky.social - Call your program officer! Wherever you are in the proposal process, speaking with your PO about what you want to do and getting feedback about where you went wrong is always a good strategy. #academicsky

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💡 Grant Writing Tip: Preparing to apply for NSF CAREER in 2026 Our team is ready to support University of California, Davis faculty applying for the 2026 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER, so it's time to share what we have planned for our researchers this...

It's #tiptuesday and the start of our NSF CAREER support for @ucdavis.bsky.social early career investigators! Read about this opportunity, updates for 2026, and how PDS can help.

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Welcome back and happy first day of Spring Quarter, Aggies! We hope you all had a great spring break!

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Reminder for @ucdavis.bsky.social early career faculty! Tomorrow is the first of our NSF CAREER infosessions! #academicsky #nsfcareer #nsffunding #grantwriting

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Prof. Luca Comai studies plate genomes to help crops grow better, faster and stronger. His federally funded research looks at how plants like potatoes, grapes and fruit trees change over time, especially plants grown from cuttings instead of seeds. Learn more: ucdav.is/FLTL. #FromLabsToLives

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2026 NSF CAREER Series: Getting Started Get ready to kickstart your proposal writing with the first infosession in our 20265 NSF CAREER series!

Our team is getting ready to support early career investigators at @ucdavis.bsky.social prepare NSF CAREER proposals!

Join us March 18 from 1-2 pm to learn more about eligibility, key components of an NSF CAREER, and how to get started.

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@departmentofenergy.bsky.social Early Career Research Program has been posted! Pre-applications due March 24, full proposals due June 2.

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💡 Grant Writing Tip: Reviewing The Review Criteria Reading an RFP (request for proposals) can sometimes seem daunting – especially if you’re new to grant writing or it’s for a funding agency that you’re not as familiar with. RFP’s contain key details ...

This #tiptuesday we are revisiting one of our grant writing tips on the importance of clearly addressing an RFP's review criteria - the rubric reviewers use to evaluate your proposal!

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Water connects us — marsh to ocean, coast to community.

So does public science. Federally funded research protects lives in emergencies, strengthens fisheries, and builds the long-term knowledge we depend on every day.
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Good impact narratives must connect to our everyday lives - LSE Impact Research impact is often communicated in abstract and bureaucratic language. To be meaningful it needs to connect to peoples' everyday lives.

Sharing this great piece on moving the bar for discussing research impact from an abstract concept to concrete changes in people's everyday lives.

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💡 Grant Writing Tip: How to demonstrate feasibility One of the most critical questions grant reviewers ask is, “Is the work feasible?” Feasibility hinges on three primary factors: 1) investigator skills and experience, 2) logistics of project scope, bu...

Grant writers need to be able to justify not just why the work should be done, but also that the work CAN be done. In this week's #tiptuesday, we discuss how to demonstrate feasibility in your next grant proposal.

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Early Career: Planning for concurrent proposal deadlines In 2026, disruptions in federal grant programs have led to an unusual convergence of early career proposal deadlines that were previously more staggered. In many cases proposal preparation time – the ...

@ucdavis.bsky.social al A shift in deadlines this past year resulted in many EC funding opportunities due concurrent with NSF CAREER. Read on for how careful planning can help you successfully apply for multiple opportunities this year. #academicsky

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@ucdavis.bsky.social If you're wondering how @orcid.org data can help you out, check out this "day in the life" of an ORCiD account for #lovedata week.

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In 2025, we were reminded of the value of UC Davis and its profound impact on lives. Our commitment to research, teaching and public service continued to drive progress and create opportunities for the next generation of leaders, scientists, engineers, athletes, artists, doctors and veterinarians.

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A slide that reads: This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, helping turn lab discoveries into insights that could improve everyday diets.

UC Davis research shows that sauerkraut could be good for your gut. Researchers found that fermentation changes cabbage in ways that support digestion and help the gut stay strong. This work was supported in part by the USDA,.
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How to write even when the words won’t come Books, articles and grant proposals do not arrive in a single stroke. They are created, like sculptures, through a thousand small movements. Here, Catherine De Vries explains how to develop ‘skill pow...

"How can we keep writing when we don’t have the spark (which, truthfully, is most of the time)?"

This @timeshighered.bsky.social article discusses skill power for academic writers - to make progress even when inspiration is missing.

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UC Love Data Week is a week-long offering of presentations and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation. Open to all @uofcalifornia.bsky.social campuses. @ucdavis.bsky.social #academicsky

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How to write for skim-readers - Richard Berks In this blog, we’ll look at ways to make sure your content works for people in a hurry, and how to write easy-to-navigate and digestible copy.  First thing: please could you count 15 seconds? (humour ...

Reviewers faced with high proposal volume and limited time may not be able to read every word of every grant. This post discusses that the question isn’t 'how do we write for skim-readers?', but 'how do make writing easier for everyone to read?'”

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@ucdavis.bsky.social @usdagov.bsky.social Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Strengthening Agricultural Systems (SAS) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)

LOI due Feb 26
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