“Applications voted…to be in the middle third will be designated as “competitive but not discussed” and applications in the lowest third will be designated as “not competitive and not discussed”. Applications in the middle third will be considered for funding, along with the discussed applications”

You are correct. In the past, it was okay to say that the application was funded because it received a 4th percentile and the payline was the 10th percentile.

Now additional justification must be provided.

But, in the past, if a 4th %ile app was not funded, documentation was required. Now, nothing

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If you are asking about the mechanics of submitting a NIH grant, as far as I can tell (having put one in during the shutdown) these are accepted and go into Recent/Pending esubmissions as usual. I assume (ymmv) that these will be stuck there in "pending verification" until the gov opens up again.

Number I heard was 164 canceled by end of this week, approximately 12000 applications.

Sure - folks will argue any tool that makes this easier is an improvement. But I'd argue it does not make it easier. It emphasizes the armchair science part and diminishes the actual experimental work. Without which the armchair part doesn't have any value. YMMV.

We initiated this open letter yesterday, before the solicitation came out. We made an update this morning, and are working on additional response and actions focused on the eligibility change.

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