Comments for DrugMonkey http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com biomedical research, just another job... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:18:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Where to put your Preliminary Data in the new 12-page NIH grant application by Yves http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/where_to_put_your_preliminary/#comment-10980 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:18:49 +0000 http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/where_to_put_your_preliminary/#comment-10980 The reduction in the number of pages was a needed reform, though one that obviously disadvantages less established investigators. However, this change in section organization was a pointless distraction to writers and reviewers. If it has any effect on the way grants are written, it will be a short-lived effect similar to the results of the altered scoring system.

]]> Comment on A rare photograph of PhysioProf in his work environment by carlos http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/a-rare-photograph-of-physioprof-in-his-work-environment/#comment-10963 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:57:53 +0000 https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/?p=916#comment-10963 And he uses a Bentley

]]> Comment on Open Thread by Beaker http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/open-thread/#comment-10952 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:44:25 +0000 https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-10952 Thank you for taking my call. Lots of little DrugMonkeys have been pressing the lever like, uh, Drugmonkeys.

]]> Comment on Open Thread by drugmonkey http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/open-thread/#comment-10951 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:20:04 +0000 https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-10951 “job”? um….you know that this is a vanity hobby run by volunteer effort, right? tis nobody’s “job” to do anything around the Scientopia Blogs

]]> Comment on Open Thread by Ola http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/open-thread/#comment-10950 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:56:10 +0000 https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-10950 I hope whoever is responsible for letting the domain lapse loses their job over this. How frickin’ stupid do you have to be to let that happen?

]]> Comment on Your Grant in Review: Productivity on Prior Awards by mikethemadbiologist http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/your_grant_in_review_productiv/#comment-10943 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:52:23 +0000 http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/your_grant_in_review_productiv/#comment-10943 In my experience, R grants are pretty open-end, while U grants are much more milestone-driven. The funding mechanism matters.

]]> Comment on “Postdocs always overestimate their intellectual contributions” by ThePhDScientist http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/postdocs-alway-overestimate-their-intellectual-contributions/#comment-10940 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:39:54 +0000 http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/postdocs-alway-overestimate-their-intellectual-contributions/#comment-10940 This makes me laugh hard and it’s indicative of the fantasy
world that many PIs live in! At least at the very elite research
institutions in the United States – PIs hire post docs who can
independently run their own projects with little supervision. My
boss entered a new field for which grants were easier to get. He’s
a great basic scientist but he had never even seen a tumor before.
Most of his scientific suggestions to our project are off base and
come from a very naive perspective from someone who knows little to
nothing about the field. He can write well and spell out the cig
picture of where we want to go – I.E. he can get the grant funded
but he relies dearly in his post docs to get him there. He, like
the poster here, would probably never want to admit that either ;-)
oh and for all this trouble and scientific expertise post docs at
prestigious university in super expensive city are paid about 1/3
what they could earn on the free market…what a joke! My advice to
post docs – get out as QUICKLY as possible! First chance to exit a
d transition to a full time position anywhere…Take it!

]]> Comment on Spousal Hiring is Unethical? Puhleeze. by Anonymous http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/spousal_hiring_is_unethical_pu/#comment-10936 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:54:53 +0000 http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/spousal_hiring_is_unethical_pu/#comment-10936 1. Spousal hiring is unethical because of the pressure
other tenured faculty feel when a colleague wants a spouse hired.
2. How many spouses working in one department are too many? If one
couple is acceptable, what is the limit? Two? Four? Six? 3. How can
widespread spousal hiring be justified at tax-payer funded schools?
4. Italy, here we come:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2011/08/widespread-nepo.html

]]> Comment on “Postdocs always overestimate their intellectual contributions” by Vivian http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/postdocs-alway-overestimate-their-intellectual-contributions/#comment-10930 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:27:46 +0000 http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/postdocs-alway-overestimate-their-intellectual-contributions/#comment-10930 petty reply…this is not a petty issue for postdoc’s (with families, and much time and energy invested)

]]> Comment on “Postdocs always overestimate their intellectual contributions” by A Woman prof http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/postdocs-alway-overestimate-their-intellectual-contributions/#comment-10929 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:02:35 +0000 http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/postdocs-alway-overestimate-their-intellectual-contributions/#comment-10929 Actually, many women/URM PIs also consistently get bad postdocs, particularly in male-dominated fields such as science and engineering.

I have had several postdocs (including women), and while they in theory applied to work with me, they turned out to be much more interested in collaborating with my slightly-more-senior-and-about-equally-good men colleagues than with me. Of course they were all very interested in getting _paid_ by me, because my colleagues had no funding to support them.

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