Your Grant In Review: Voting Outside of the Range

In a footnote to a prior post I noted that a single grant reviewer was unlikely to have a very large impact on the fate of a specific NIH grant proposal. I’ve been thinking about this in terms of one of the more technical aspects of grant review as conducted by the NIH study section: voting outside of the range.

OpenLaboratory 2008

The organizers behind the Open Laboratory anthology project are back again for a third consecutive year. The goal is to collect some of the best science and science-related blog posts from a one-year interval into a print anthology. Those of you who enjoyed reading prior editions of Open Laboratory or Female Science Professor’s collected works (Academeology; available here) will need little argument as to why you might want to be selected for inclusion of a print anthology of blog posts. If you are unfamiliar with such efforts, a description of the creation of the 2006 and 2007 editions of Open Laboratory are worth a read.