Elizabeth Sypek
@elizabethis.bsky.social
Pain program person. Views are my own. Living in a dumpster fire.
Im supposed to use AI more so Im generating memes to add to my emails.
December 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Im supposed to use AI more so Im generating memes to add to my emails.
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I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
PAR-26-121: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35 - Clinical Trial Optional)
files.simpler.grants.gov
December 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
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New #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication:
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
www.challenge.gov?challenge=re...
Submission deadline is in one month!
Challenge.gov
Challenge.gov is the official government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to publi...
www.challenge.gov
December 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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RFK, Jr. should absolutely be removed. He is gutting of CDC and destroying NIH.
Sadly, @nytimes.com emphasizes this as a political stunt by Steven’s, instead of calling out RFK’s damage or the many Republicans who have acknowledged it but refuse to act.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Sadly, @nytimes.com emphasizes this as a political stunt by Steven’s, instead of calling out RFK’s damage or the many Republicans who have acknowledged it but refuse to act.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
RFK, Jr. should absolutely be removed. He is gutting of CDC and destroying NIH.
Sadly, @nytimes.com emphasizes this as a political stunt by Steven’s, instead of calling out RFK’s damage or the many Republicans who have acknowledged it but refuse to act.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Sadly, @nytimes.com emphasizes this as a political stunt by Steven’s, instead of calling out RFK’s damage or the many Republicans who have acknowledged it but refuse to act.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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NSF will host virtual office hours next week. Please register if you’d like to know more
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
NSF BIO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences
Please join the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences for a virtual office hour on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
www.nsf.gov
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NSF will host virtual office hours next week. Please register if you’d like to know more
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
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This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing.
THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
I missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read.
Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing.
THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
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"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
New NIH Policies Make It Easier to End Grants, Ignore Peer Review
Also, long-time AIDS leader was reassigned
www.medpagetoday.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
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Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Our story on mechanosensation in baroreceptor cells of the kidney is finally out! Well worth the wait on this project we began in 2020 that turned into a massive collaborative effort within the kidney field. 🫘 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
A budget request is a request, not a requirement of award, don’t dream too big just yet.
🚨The #NIH will no longer require an over-the-cap request for applications over $499,999.99/year. Furthermore, we will no longer require letters of intent.🚨
NOT-OD-26-019: Updated Application Policies: NIH Administrative Burden Reduction Effort Removal of Requirements for Letters of Intent and Unsolicited Applications Requesting $500,000 or More in Dire...
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Application Policies: NIH Administrative Burden Reduction Effort Removal of Requirements for Letters of Inten...
grants.nih.gov
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A budget request is a request, not a requirement of award, don’t dream too big just yet.
Why yes I do have a toddler, how did you know?
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Why yes I do have a toddler, how did you know?
I really truly love my job. I just don’t love doing on the deck of the Titanic where the captain says everything’s fine.
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I really truly love my job. I just don’t love doing on the deck of the Titanic where the captain says everything’s fine.
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it's like a goddamn cockroach... www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
it's like a goddamn cockroach... www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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An important write up from the NYT on the funding changes at the NIH.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
An important write up from the NYT on the funding changes at the NIH.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
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Call for Poster Abstracts
Join us in Philadelphia for an unforgettable experience of learning, sharing, and networking. This is your opportunity to share your groundbreaking research and insights with the pain research community!
Deadline: Friday, December 5th at 11:59 pm EST
Join us in Philadelphia for an unforgettable experience of learning, sharing, and networking. This is your opportunity to share your groundbreaking research and insights with the pain research community!
Deadline: Friday, December 5th at 11:59 pm EST
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Call for Poster Abstracts
Join us in Philadelphia for an unforgettable experience of learning, sharing, and networking. This is your opportunity to share your groundbreaking research and insights with the pain research community!
Deadline: Friday, December 5th at 11:59 pm EST
Join us in Philadelphia for an unforgettable experience of learning, sharing, and networking. This is your opportunity to share your groundbreaking research and insights with the pain research community!
Deadline: Friday, December 5th at 11:59 pm EST
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“Summary statements will be simplified. Narrative paragraphs summarizing committee discussion will not be used. Instead, summaries will have a sentence describing the degree of consensus in the committee vote, plus bullets listing the main score driving points.” FYI
Updated guidance on NIH grant application due dates (10/1/2025-12/5/2025), along with some other Info. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-012: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations NOT-...
grants.nih.gov
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Summary statements will be simplified. Narrative paragraphs summarizing committee discussion will not be used. Instead, summaries will have a sentence describing the degree of consensus in the committee vote, plus bullets listing the main score driving points.” FYI
Reposted by Elizabeth Sypek
Updated guidance on NIH grant application due dates (10/1/2025-12/5/2025), along with some other Info. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-012: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities Following the October 1, 2025 - Lapse in Appropriations NOT-...
grants.nih.gov
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Updated guidance on NIH grant application due dates (10/1/2025-12/5/2025), along with some other Info. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Dont call it a payline grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions | Grants & Funding
grants.nih.gov
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Dont call it a payline grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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When is pain relief in a trial clinically meaningful? Join Christopher J. Miller and John T. Farrar as they explain how MCIDs help define real improvement in acute pain.
📅 Dec 3, 2025
🕚 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
💻 Online
Register: painresearchers.com/events/151186
📅 Dec 3, 2025
🕚 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
💻 Online
Register: painresearchers.com/events/151186
Minimum Clinically Important Differences in Acute Pain
PURPOSE Web Series: Navigating Careers in Research
Wednesday, December 3, 20252:00 PM- 3:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM PT
Topic: Minimum Clinically Important Differences in Acute Pain
Featuring:
...
painresearchers.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
When is pain relief in a trial clinically meaningful? Join Christopher J. Miller and John T. Farrar as they explain how MCIDs help define real improvement in acute pain.
📅 Dec 3, 2025
🕚 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
💻 Online
Register: painresearchers.com/events/151186
📅 Dec 3, 2025
🕚 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
💻 Online
Register: painresearchers.com/events/151186
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Updates for how to request childcare supplements for individual fellowships and institutional training grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-165: Updated Frequently Asked Questions for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Childcare Costs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Frequently Asked Questions for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Childcare Costs NOT-O...
grants.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Updates for how to request childcare supplements for individual fellowships and institutional training grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Nothing is guaranteed, even after notice of award. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-009: Updated Terms and Conditions of Award Termination and Compliance with Court Orders
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated Terms and Conditions of Award Termination and Compliance with Court Orders NOT-OD-26-009. NIH
grants.nih.gov
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nothing is guaranteed, even after notice of award. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
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So happy to share that many of my NINDS colleagues will be attending SfN!! Learn more and find them here www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/...
www.ninds.nih.gov
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So happy to share that many of my NINDS colleagues will be attending SfN!! Learn more and find them here www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/...
So happy to share that many of my NINDS colleagues will be attending SfN!! Learn more and find them here www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/...
www.ninds.nih.gov
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So happy to share that many of my NINDS colleagues will be attending SfN!! Learn more and find them here www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/...