Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.
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10 replies on “Grant writing status report”
Stay strong homes! Alternate considerations-Schmalternate considerations! ..and damn the power analyses.
I hope you get some sleep tonight.
Tomorrow I take a probability midterm for a double-fast summmer class (it is a ten week class squeezed into four weeks, with a chance to take the next in a series during the next four weeks… which I will not do). For some reason I cannot do probability problems. Fourier transforms and eigenfunctions are fun… but doing properly laid out conditional probabilities elude me. AAAGH!
At least you’ve got some GYBE going, perfect insomnia/overwork music!
That song won’t do, it ends far too optimistically.
It’s residency all over again!
True, but it does set a perfect mood.
Grant writing…ugh.
its worse when you get back responses like I just did (dept of energy grand challenge) to paraphrase:
stengths:
This proposal has strong scientific merit
this proposal has a large commercial prospects
this proposal can be completed in the specified amount of time
weaknesses:
The proposal is completely applicable in one small market mentioned
The proposal didnt properly address some formatting issues
DENIED
ugh
specific and accurate information, we really hope to continue along that path ..
But what if I’ve already done the alternate considerations and had my biostatistician done the power analyses? Last night I was doing the Vertebrate Animals section and trying to decide what preliminary data to keep and what preliminary data to leave.
Of course, even getting the grant in and approved doesn’t matter…I’ve got my score but am waiting for the interim budget decisions based on the continuing resolution funding.
Could take months…