NIH Advice for Noobs on the Twitts today
March 19, 2012
Your roving reporter, @doc_becca (of the Fumbling Towards Tenure blog) has a few observations rolling under the #NIHsekrits hashtag on the Twitts today. Check it out.
DrugMonkey
biomedical research, just another job…
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DrugMonkey 
March 19, 2012 at 11:06 am
As far as I can tell to date, the advice goes pretty much, “Were you reading DrugMonkey? Yes? Ok then.”
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March 19, 2012 at 1:17 pm
I think the best lesson is that people on the study section might very well be reading your twits.
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March 19, 2012 at 1:20 pm
The whole lot of tweets has generously been storified by @biotimylated here: http://storify.com/kumokasumi/at-doc-becca-s-nihsekrits Yay!
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March 19, 2012 at 3:14 pm
As far as I can tell to date, the advice goes pretty much, “Were you reading DrugMonkey? Yes? Ok then.”
Ha, you are too kind. but I’m sure there are always differences and nuances which is why I think people should seek out many different sources of advice….
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March 19, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Yes, DJMH, except the answer to the question was a resounding “who?” (No offense, DM). Amazed that in a room of 200 FACULTY, half of whom apparently had K awards, so few seemed to understand basic NIH things like the difference between a PO and an SRO, or what qualified someone as a New Investigator.
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March 19, 2012 at 9:44 pm
That’s kind of sad. And while I’m heartened these ones had the gumption to attend this thing you went to….think of all those that did not. Ahh, well, it puts the blogotariat a tinch ahead of the game. Good.
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March 20, 2012 at 8:42 am
To think, if I had gone to the bar on Sunday night, I might have met Becca.
In reply to a question about future changes in procedure, which have been discussed at length here, the reply was: watch the RFIs, and did you know Sally Rockey has a blog?
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