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24 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
"without deliberate efforts to mitigate these disparities in NIH research grant funding, what mechanisms will ensure that these new PIs will experience the success that they rightfully deserve?" -@ASCBiology Public Policy Committee:
ascb.org/science-policy…
provides important and necessary suggestions from two recent commentaries, one by a nationwide network of BME women faculty: #FundBlackScientists cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
and the second from @effatma and @The_Gilp:
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Racial inequity in grant funding from the US National Institutes of Health
elifesciences.org/articles/65697
this piece was published to coincide with the most recent Meeting of the Advisory Committee to the @NIHDirector happening Friday: acd.od.nih.gov/documents/agen…
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26 Feb
watching now: videocast.nih.gov/livew.asp?live…
increase in success rates for AA/B applicants from ~22% to ~43% for K grants and from ~12% to ~23% for R01 grants from 2013-2020

"still very small number of investigators"
"incremental improvement"
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11 Feb
👋🏽 Happy #WomenInScience Day!

Do what you can to fix this (from pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27587850/):
👋🏽 Happy #WomenInScience Day!

Do what you can to fix this (from pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27852433/):
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Do what you can to fix this (from nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2021/02/01…):
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9 Feb
Who is this dude and what's his fucking point?
I CANNOT RN
yes PLEASE explain your rationale for using flood gates instead of whirlwind 🙄
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9 Feb
Love this idea of @big_data_kane using his talk @ucsc @ucscgenomics to illuminate the ontogeny of his ideas and the evolution of his thinking to the learners in the audience: "I move as I am inspired."
This talk is both a discussion of the science in his lab and its foundation in personal history and interests: What effect does environment have on scientific processes? How does context affect protein evolution, viral transmissibility and who GETS TO DO science?
Advice for young scholars: Be a historian of your own field. Studying the past can inform how you think about and do science now. It also lets you find people and ideas that you identify with.

Highlights his discovery of John Maynard Smith and this paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5411867/
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18 Nov 20
THAT paper is what happens when you don't recognize that gender bias is systemic and structural in academic STEM
LOOK: I have remained SANE in academic STEM b/c of my women mentors, both senior and peer, b/c we are honest about the reality of being women in STEM: the joy of doing science, the connection with trainees AND the persistent devaluation of our work, most evidently in peer review
This world *waves vaguely around*, in which academic STEM is FIRMLY situated, consistently devalues the contributions and work of women, particularly BIWoC.
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17 Nov 20
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nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2020/11/16…
Is the NIH...unaware that access to NIH funding is often a major determinant in whether women ascend the academic hierarchy?
And I don't just mean success rates, which the NIH is good at reporting! I mean:
ability to get add'l R01s, which can be linked to promotion at some institutions
not consistently getting scores that are borderline and having to navigate that cognitive load and risk assessment
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