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December 14, 2012
Mind bogglingly out of touch statements from people at the higher echelons of the NIH, that’s what.
DrugMonkey
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biomedical research, just another job…
Mind bogglingly out of touch statements from people at the higher echelons of the NIH, that’s what.
DrugMonkey 
December 14, 2012 at 10:06 am
Maybe he meant “follow my bliss”
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December 14, 2012 at 11:17 am
Maybe NIH bigwigs need an equivalent to Cory Booker’s “live on food stamps for a week” challenge. Spend five years in a soft money position with shit benefits trying to solve some obscure topic, in a field whose society journals have an IF no higher than 4.
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December 14, 2012 at 11:37 am
Ha! I looked back at my #nihsekrits tweets from that same meeting. Sadly didn’t record that gem, but the best was “there’s something called the BRAINS award, but none of the panel members remember what the acronym stands for.”
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December 14, 2012 at 12:44 pm
@A postdoc
This is basically what every scientific memoir by a Great Scientist seems to say — “The secret of my success was to be me and have my interests and approaches to problems; go forth and emulate me”.
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December 14, 2012 at 5:05 pm
At least there’s your blog.
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