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Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 25d

Bat boy says what?

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 26d

If I benchmark it to 1998 dollars, NIAID is seemingly the big outlier, 3.2 (FY04) to 3.4 (FY09) times the size they were in nominal dollars. most of the others cluster from 1.8 to 2.2 x.

annual appropriations for NCI, NIAID, NHLBI, NIGMS and NIDDK represented as a % of the 1998 allocation to emphasize the impact of the doubling on the nominal dollars from FY03 onward.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 26d

spot checking....

Nominal dollars appropriated to NIA, NIDA, NIEHS, NEI and NIAMS, as representatives of medium size ICs, from FY1990 to FY2009 to illustrate the effect of the NIH doubling, which ended in FY2003.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 26d

Did it? or did Congress give NIH more money for that purpose?

NIH budget from FY90-09 represented as a percentage of the 1990 budget. These are nominal dollars and of course the grinding erosion of inflation means the spending power did not increase 400% across this interval.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 26d

Compared with...some other ICs, well.

The % of the NIH budget allocated to NIGMS FY90-FY09 relative to the amount awarded to NIDA, NIAAA, NEI and HIMHD. The latter, of course, is supposed to handle health disparities across the entire NIH set of health focii and missions with what was 0.7% of the budget in the 2000s and is only about 1.1% now. Sort of like NIGMS is tasked with covering basic research across the scope of the rest of the NIH Institutes or Centers, except with 6.5% of the budget and up to 7.1% now.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 26d

NIGMS has held roughly the same position ~forever. here's FY90-FY09 for the top-5.

Chart of the % of the NIH budget allocated to NCI, NIAID, NHLBI, NIGMS and NIDDK for FY1990 - FY2009 to refute highly motivated assumptions that people who seek funding from NIGMS have been greatly disadvantaged in the grant getting game. Self-declared "basic scientists" love to complain about their disadvantage and yet the NIGMS has the fifth largest share of the kitty. Year in, Year out. and of course other ICs also support basic science. Whereas NIGMS rigorously boots any proposal that has even the slightest hint of any sort of translation or direct application to a health concern.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 27d

496,769 comments on the OMB proposed rule asserting numerous political interferences in government agency operations. Only about 53,000 have been posted but they skew massively (~94%) against the OMB proposals.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 28d

“We’re not sure why Officer Thunderhoof’s bison cam was switched off but we’re looking into it.”

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· 28d

341,699 comments submitted to the OMB Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance Proposed Rule. Very nice work, internets.

screen grab confirming the comment total and indicating the agency will only publish the ones it wants to.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jul 2

The academic tenure process is exploitative and all Assistant Professor hires should come with the job protections traditionally associated with tenure.

Man, standing motionless in a crowd with his hand raised.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 26

Participation is broad.

Participation list: NHGRI, NIDCD, NIEHS, NIAID, NIDA, THRO, NIA, NIMH, NIAAA, OAR, NEI, NIDCR, INCLD, NICHD, NIAMS, NCCIH, NIGMS, NINDS, NCI

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 25

I'm not saying this proves anything but if one did try to cosplay as the kind of guy who would unapologetically fleece the taxpayers of $14million by getting his buddy Trump to give him a no-bid contract he was incompetent to fulfill, one would dress up like this.

Man with an unconvincing toupee implausibly uninterrupted by grey hairs, sporting a greying gangster moustache and the look of a confessed felon avoiding a news microphone.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 25

It is hard to believe this guy has ever earned an honest dime in his life.

Man apparently cosplaying an early 20th century gangster alongside a woman many decades his junior apparently cosplaying as a "gun moll".

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 15

Median Lab size: 11 scientists

Histogram of the percentage of labs with X number of scientists. Median is 11.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 8

This one may be new to you, it’s not gotten much traction on the socials. SRO term limits on a given study section have been mentioned.

Description of the impact of new policy that “assignments of SROs to study sections, and promotions of SROs to review branch chief (RBC) positions within CSR have been determined irrespective of expertise (e.g., a neuroscientist may be assigned to a cardiovascular disease review branch).”

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 8

I disagree that this is bad. It’s opt-in so any ECR can decide if the burden outweighs the benefit.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 8

CSR language on study section membership diversity before and after the new regime. “Geographic” (aka Red State affirmative action) diversity is the sole remaining mandate.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· Jun 2

Drug Test not required. Which may or may not explain things you have come to believe about the PO assigned to your grant.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· May 20

Look, I don’t know anything about relative ability to become a good physician. I am just providing information for all of the new experts on MCAT scores at elite US medical schools.

The average MCAT at Baby Doc School of Med is 492 but no worries, there is no minimum cutoff.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· May 20

Just a simple correction. All good right? No intent to mislead.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· May 18

This dumbass pick me who has been desperately trying to attract the attention of the right wing anti NIH grievance brigade keeps on flailing. He seems to think this is some sort of excellent burn. It is not.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· May 16

Argued? ARGUED????

Science mag alleged profession at work to try to make a clear fact of the rule of law look debatable.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· May 16

Here’s the bullshit workaholic defense.

Nonsense lawyer claim the poor guy was just a workaholic on vacation.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey· May 11

Mere weeks before things got really bad. From the Archive: More advance compliance with anti-diversity forces from the NIH drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/m...