Working on a grant? Check out my free, interactive worksheets. They include a pre-submission checklist and action steps for writing your next fundable grant. You can download them here: thegrantwritingguide.com/worksheets Please share if you know someone who might be working on a grant!

Using consistent presentation and organization will go far towards reducing cognitive load, allowing reviewers to focus what is key.. your ideas! Here, @bettyslai.bsky.social discusses why and where to be consistent in your grant proposal. #academicsky scholarfoundations.com/blog/post/be...

Well, with the rejection of my BBRF Young Investigator Grant application and a local foundation grant application, I am now more than halfway towards my goal of 100 rejections (54/100 to be exact)! I learned this philosophy from @bettyslai.bsky.social (thread continues below) #rejection #grants

Just ordered Make Your Manuscript Work! Cant wait to apply the advice to my manuscript. @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social is one of my favorite authors. 💜

For some, talking (or writing) about yourself can be uncomfortable, but in this recent blog post, @bettyslai.bsky.social discusses how you can (and should) adopt a swagger mindset when writing your grant's personal statements! #academicsky #grantwriting scholarfoundations.com/blog/post/pe...

I love this book! A great time to snag a copy (and while you're at it, The Grant Writing Guide is also 50% off)! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A very important op-ed. ⬇️

If you're looking to: +Establish your public profile. +Make connections. Then LinkedIn can be really useful to you, even as a scholar. Join me for a free webinar with marketing expert Tracey Shell: lnkd.in/evUp8-6H

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Interested in working in Madrid as a teacher educator for ESL? Universidad Complutense is hiring PhDs for initial ESL teacher education. Apply here today: www.ucm.es/convocatoria... and in April, 4 more vacancies will be open :-)

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

Bring your ☕️ to hear the tea on non-federal funding for #impsci research!

The times for A Meeting With Your Writing in Australia and NZ are a bit weird in March due to DST shenanigans up north, but settle down again from either 31 March or 7 April. See updated times here: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/australians-...

How can scholars use LinkedIn to: +Position yourself as a thought leader. +Connect with others. Join us to learn how. Free webinar with marketing expert Tracey Shell. Sign up here: scholarfoundations.com/linkedin

New preprint! Ever heard that personality doesn't change? Do you believe that? (you shouldn't) Using data from an online survey (n = 887) & eight longitudinal datasets (n = 166,971), we compared perceived vs. actual lifespan changes in personality and 20+ individual differences (1/8) osf.io/ytmxp

How’s your TBR stack? We have episodes featuring the authors of all of these books, sharing their work. 🎧 📚💙⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I got promoted to Full Professor. 💜 I'm grateful to my mentors, students, and family.

Are you a graduate student interested in learning more about industry? Apply to the Digital Health Industry Internship program! Current listings are due March 15 and April 1. tyde.virginia.edu/internships/ #digitalmentalhealth

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

And the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with the NPS has been terminated under Trump's Executive Order. Take a look at all this amazing work while you still can. And shout out to all the people working to find news ways to support these scholars. 🗃️ www.nps.gov/orgs/1296/in...

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

The largest private employer in Baltimore just lost $800 million in federal contracts and grants. This recession is going to be a doozy.

Are you wondering if you need a research collaborator? @bettyslai.bsky.social says it depends: 1️⃣ Are collaborators expected? 2️⃣ Do collaborators it more competitive? 3️⃣ Am I ready to write a grant on my own? Be sure to read the blog post via the link below! scholarfoundations.com/blog/post/do...

NIH just posted this news announcement. "Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"

Here's my new WaPo op ed: abortion rights are a personal liberty and represent the right of patients to access the freedom of the medical market. Done.

Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year. @altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH

There are six RDRCs across the country providing essential research on the wellbeing of older adults and people with disabilities. They employ staff who will soon lose their jobs. I received stop work order on my grants from the New York RDRC on Friday. 1/

My colleague, Haorui Wu, is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar on climate change and resilience. Please share! dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/18246

"Keep typing until it turns into writing." —David Carr, quoted in Nick Bilton's acknowledgements for "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road"

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

What has grant funding ever done for anyone? A lot, it turns out. Grants spur innovation and discoveries. Not just in science. For example: NSF supported research that laid the groundwork for MRIs. and...

Dear NSF scientists and staff: If you're looking to talk to a journalist about what's going on at the agency, please reach out (from a non-governmental phone/computer) via signal @jonlambert.12

New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Saw this crab-sized Huntsman spider in our apartment. Australian colleagues: Great! It will eat the mosquitos.

🥴🥴 Hey so, we’re all volunteering our time pulling this together in a couple of months with zero funding. FEMA cannot legally give us the submissions. You have the option to literally just upload the same pdf. It should not take more than 3 minutes.

I am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Beautiful day at UNSW.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I created a R script to see how many times one of those words came up in my recent NSF grant submission. The answer was 355 (!) times. Laughing but crying. Mostly crying. Here's the code if you want to try it on your grant: github.com/calvinklai/d...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Some updates from NSF today, including some FAQs. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

Just called my senators and representative to oppose the federal funding freeze. If you want help deciding what to say my colleagues created this template - customized for Tennessee concerns about research grants but easily modifiable for other states and issues. 1/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Working w/ a reporter on the consequences of the NIH/NSF freezes (e.g., training pipelines, how grants support clinical time for trials) If you've had a grant impacted, some organizational perspective (e.g., in APPIC leadership/DCT role) + are willing to share your experience please shoot me a DM

In response to orders from the Trump White House, the National Science Foundation has canceled all of its grant review panels for this week. This follows the National Institutes of Health canceling its grant review panels earlier. This is a huge disruption to US science.

Know a talented undergraduate who wants to pursue a PhD in neuroscience but has had limited research opportunities? Our 2-year postbacc program, iDREAM (Iowa: Diversifying Research Experiences And Mentorship) is accepting applications now! idream.sites.uiowa.edu (Review begins Feb.3)

🚨 Trump’s order halting NIH communication is catastrophic: 🔬 Grant funding delayed = stalled research & careers. 👨‍🔬Science can’t wait—contact your reps & demand this harmful pause be lifted NOW! #ScienceNotSilence #SupportNIH www.science.org/content/arti...