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In Praise of the Disappearing Art of In-Person Peer Review

Scientific research pre-1950 was a far smaller and less organized effort than what is currently offered. As the enormous value of…

Aug 12

In Praise of the Disappearing Art of In-Person Peer Review

Aug 12

A dosage of champagne

A memorable visit to a grow-op extraordinaire

Sep 18, 2023

A dosage of champagne

Sep 18, 2023

Shiny, happy, oblivious science

The government of Canada released a budget on April 19th, 2021, the first for two years. It was, as anticipated, a high spending, deficit…

May 7, 2021

Shiny, happy, oblivious science

May 7, 2021

Groundhog Day —an extended Winter?

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research runs two primary funding competitions a year, in the Spring and Fall. The one last Spring…

Feb 2, 2021

Groundhog Day —an extended Winter?

Feb 2, 2021

Back in the CIHR

It’s been awhile since posting anything about the Canadian Institutes of Health Research but given there are no other distractions today…

Nov 6, 2020

Back in the CIHR

Nov 6, 2020

A Modest Proposal to CIHR

The CIHR Spring Project competition was running well. By February 5th, 2020 some 2716 applications had been registered and the deadline…

May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020

Funding, funding everywhere and not a drop to drink

There’s a federal election in Canada this Fall and all of the political parties are already jockeying for attention of potential voters…

Jul 22, 2019

Funding, funding everywhere and not a drop to drink

Jul 22, 2019

Let’s Talk CIHR (part 4)

This is also the last input I intend to submit and it concerns the Project grant competition. There are two other survey topics on…

Jun 11, 2019

Let’s Talk CIHR (part 4)

Jun 11, 2019

Let’s Talk CIHR (Part 3)

So now the spotlight is on the Institutes… CIHR has 13 virtual institutes that each have a budget of ~$8 million and change and a mandate…

Jun 10, 2019

Let’s Talk CIHR (Part 3)

Jun 10, 2019

Let’s Talk CIHR (part 2)

In this episode, I’m answering the survey question, “How should CIHR spend its money?”

Jun 7, 2019

Let’s Talk CIHR (part 2)

Jun 7, 2019

Jim Woodgett

Jim Woodgett

Toronto researcher working on diabetes, stem cells, cancer & neuroscience. 140 chars are my own pithy but open access thought-lets.

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