What Does the New NIH Scoring Rubric Mean for You?
New Scoring System for Proposals Submitted in 2025 Why? The NIH announced that proposals submitted after January 2025 will be…
Get your Diversity Plans in Shape for 2024 Submissions
(Meaningfully) Improving Your Diversity Plan in 2024 I recently read a set of reviews for a proposal that scored well…
Help Your Grad Students Succeed
How to Help Your Grad Students Succeed This winter I taught a proposal writing course for graduate students wanting to…
2024 Will be Here Before you Know it – Get Your Proposal Ducks in a Row
What Will the 2024 Funding Climate Look Like? Full disclosure: I cannot answer that question. I am seeing signs that…
New Year, New Policies for Research Projects
The Time to Read Up on New Policies is Now Two agencies recently rolled out new policies that affect many…
Happy New Year (of the rabbit), And some news about C3 Science
Welcome to 2023! I have been so bad about sending out newsletters, partly because I know the last thing anyone…
Getting back to in-person research: Excitement, and some hurdles
I hope everyone is starting back to in-person research. I have heard from many of you and know you have…
Stuck at Home: Is there Anything I Can Apply For? (Answer: yes)
All Zoomed Out and Nothing to Apply For? There's got to be something you can apply for during this time…
Funding Lines by NIH Institute…and More
As 2018 comes to a close, I wanted to send out a couple of links and resources that may be…
Welcome to 2018, year of the NIH Podcast!
What's New at NIH in 2018 It was hard to prioritize changes at NIH or other federal science funders given…
Mentored Career Awards
Hello in 2017. 2016 went by in a blur without C3 Science sending a single newsletter, mostly because I was…
Goals for 2015
Since 2014 is winding down, a year-end newsletter seemed apropos. Congratulations on another year in research! Given funding lines lately,…
It’s Fall… And Investigators Thoughts (Should) Turn to Public-Access Requirements
I hope everyone had a good summer, and got a break from the demands of looming proposal cycles. So, maybe…
Putting the ‘Broad’ in Broader Impacts
Nearly all federal funders are increasing emphasis on “broader impacts”—whatever they choose to call this section—from making it part of…
Changes to the Biosketch Format—How You Can Prepare
The NIH has announced that changes to the biosketch format are at hand, slated for applications going in early 2015…
It Seems Like New Journals Come Out Every Day! How Do I Select One to Submit To?
The number of journals-particularly online journals—is proliferating. How can you separate the wheat from the chaff as far as submitting…
Funding Alternatives to NIH and NSF
Federal grants often come under criticism for favoring established investigators and not recognizing outside-the-box thinking. Regardless of whether these claims hold…
CAN SECOND TIME BE THE CHARM: IS IT POSSIBLE FOR AN UNSCORED PROPOSAL TO GET FUNDED ON RESUBMISSION?
We do alot of NIH proposals, so we looked first at NIH’s website for data to help answer this question…
First the Good News
Funding bodies are acknowledging the unfortunate fact that, in lean times, younger researchers shoulder a disproportionate burden of the “less-to-go-around” phenomenon: when…
Introducing C3
We are pleased to send out C3’s first newsletter. Writing about our collaborative work style to introduce ourselves seemed apt…