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CT via Brooklyn. Stay calm.
Welcome to 2025.
February 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
requesting "verification of permanent resident status". Please know that this particular postdoc has a very obviously not American first/last name and remember from my first post - "every person on the grant has to be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or permanent resident of the U.S."
February 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
They're sent in, everyone is happy, we never hear about them again. Today, they requested one from someone who's been on the grant for a year or two but forgot to submit it, so they filled it out and sent it off. Horray! Then, I got an email from the NIH,
February 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
riot. One of the benefits of being a 54 year old white woman is that NO ONE would ever suspect me. I'm invisible. I'm nobody, but I'm smart and I'm sneaky and I'm at the end of my tether and it hasn't even been a full 3 weeks.
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I don't even know how I want to end this string of posts, and I'm not great at math, but 18 out of 70 doesn't take anything away from anyone. I'm tired. I'm sad. I'm furious. Just fuck this. Also, if this grant is rejected because of minority recruitment, WHICH IS ESSENTIAL, I may actually start a
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Forbidden DEI. Again, 18 out of 70, over 20+ years. Most of the 70 have gone on to do amazing things. They've started companies, they head hospital departments, they work on machine learning algorithms, they're working on their own cutting edge research. Your tax dollars - yours - fund this.
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Success - 18 of 70. The most recent competing renewal of the grant was submitted on January 27. Today, February 5, I found out that SOMEONE from the government had reached out to the school asking for the names of all of the PIs on any T32 and the titles of the grants, no doubt to check for
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Equally qualified white or asian applicants. Ours is considered a huge success in this regard. Over the 20+ years of funding, we've had, let's say 70 postdocs - although that's not the exact number. Of these, 18 have been underrepresented minorities. 18 of 70. And again, this is considered a huge
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
One of the primary goals of this grant has always been the recruitment of highly qualified minority postdocs. It's written into the grant's text, we do outreach to HBCUs, it's really important to the future of science and medicine that everyone has a voice. This is not to the detriment of
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is just in Connecticut, but it's a start: "Comptroller Sean Scanlon said that following conversations with Anthem, the provider for the state employee health plan and many others throughout Connecticut, Anthem will no longer be implementing the policy to limit coverage of anesthesiology."
December 5, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Comically large hammer, mid CABG.
December 5, 2024 at 5:36 PM
This is Moss.
November 25, 2024 at 12:40 AM