What Will the 2024 Funding Climate Look Like? Full disclosure: I cannot answer that question. I am seeing signs that worry me, though, so this newsletter will cover a few items related to budget proposals, which is the best we can do…
The Time to Read Up on New Policies is Now Two agencies recently rolled out new policies that affect many researchers working in biomedical fields. As always, the best time to acquaint yourself with the policies is now, not when…
Welcome to 2023! I have been so bad about sending out newsletters, partly because I know the last thing anyone needs is another email. Yet, my business model relies on having investigators reach out to me. SO, I am here!…
I hope everyone is starting back to in-person research. I have heard from many of you and know you have been working hard on proposals. Talking to my students, I hear a lot about how much they have struggled to…
All Zoomed Out and Nothing to Apply For? There's got to be something you can apply for during this time when we're stuck and not able to be in the lab as much as we'd like. I've rounded up a…
As 2018 comes to a close, I wanted to send out a couple of links and resources that may be helpful to C3 Communication clients as they think about applying for funding in 2019. This site https://writedit.wordpress.com/nih-paylines-resources/ has a list of paylines…
What's New at NIH in 2018 It was hard to prioritize changes at NIH or other federal science funders given the, shall we say, uncertainty at federal levels of government. But here are a couple of highlights that may have…
Hello in 2017. 2016 went by in a blur without C3 Science sending a single newsletter, mostly because I was so busy! So I decided to start 2017 discussing mentored career awards since it’s always a good time to look…
Since 2014 is winding down, a year-end newsletter seemed apropos. Congratulations on another year in research! Given funding lines lately, doubtless everyone will be putting in proposals in 2015, so, along those lines, here are a few things to pay…
I hope everyone had a good summer, and got a break from the demands of looming proposal cycles. So, maybe it’s been months since you thought about the NIH Public Access policy, which has now been around long enough that…