Please, NIH reviewers, if you do ONE thing, do this

I’m finally getting around to completing a post-study section survey and I noticed a number of questions are related to the online / zoom review format.

Questions such as “rate your attention span….[from]really struggled to concentrate to…no problem concentrating”. And ratings on “reviewer engagement” and “productivity of discussions”. Statements to evaluate such as “discussion helped the panel evaluate the applications”.

A full on request for your preference for in-person versus Zoom.

If you do one productive thing, people, do what you can to communicate to NIH what a total disaster it has been not to have in-person study section meetings.