Scienceblogs.com Press Release on Traffic

The Seed Media Group media center has a press release out [ pdf ] bragging on how awesomez we in the Scienceblogs.com stable are. Key stats include:

• Visits for the quarter ending March 31 grew by 41% year-over-year to approximately 13 million, and page views topped 25 million. Monthly unique visitors grew to 2.4 million worldwide and in the US surpassed 2 million for the first time this March.
• Total visits for 2009 grew by 55% year-over-year to 45 million and average monthly unique visitors climbed 49% to 1.9 million.
• ScienceBlogs.com has achieved high double-digit traffic growth (at least 50%) every year since its launch in 2006.

Nice job sciblings!!

Repost: NIH Basics: The Study Section

A recent comment revisits a perennial issue for those new to the NIH grant game. It is initially not clear to all grant writers that you do not need to pitch your grant to an audience of all biomedicine or even to your subfield at large. You need to pitch it to a set of about 15-30 people, most of whom you know specifically because they are serving 4 (*or 6!) years terms of service on the panel. The rest you can easily phenotype by reviewing the types of individuals who have served recently in an ad hoc capacity on the panel in question. This post originally appeared July 30, 2008.

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A comment from drieken on a previous post asks:
Can anyone provide some context (eg, what’s a study section that’s not in the library?) for us not-yet-researchers?
This was echoed by a recent comment over at Evil Monkey’s pad.

is there an online resource that explains the entire grant review process (NIH, NSF, whatever)?

There was also an email I received some time ago asking for an overview of the NIH system (sorry for the delay on that!).
Let’s start with the NIH study section and how you should go about educating yourself with the information that you need to guide your own grant writing.

Repost: NIH Basics: The Study Section

A recent comment revisits a perennial issue for those new to the NIH grant game. It is initially not clear to all grant writers that you do not need to pitch your grant to an audience of all biomedicine or even to your subfield at large. You need to pitch it to a set of about 15-30 people, most of whom you know specifically because they are serving 4 (*or 6!) years terms of service on the panel. The rest you can easily phenotype by reviewing the types of individuals who have served recently in an ad hoc capacity on the panel in question. This post originally appeared July 30, 2008.

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A comment from drieken on a previous post asks:
Can anyone provide some context (eg, what’s a study section that’s not in the library?) for us not-yet-researchers?
This was echoed by a recent comment over at Evil Monkey’s pad.

is there an online resource that explains the entire grant review process (NIH, NSF, whatever)?

There was also an email I received some time ago asking for an overview of the NIH system (sorry for the delay on that!).
Let’s start with the NIH study section and how you should go about educating yourself with the information that you need to guide your own grant writing.