Category Archives: Funding

A Proposed Four Percent Funding Rate at the National Cancer Institute

Posted on July 24, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

On Wednesday, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at NIH released its funding policy for fiscal year 2025. In it, NCI claims they will be able to fund four percent of applications. That’s not a typo. Four percent. While a few … Continue reading →

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Will Democrats Fight for Science Funding? And Some Thoughts About Primaries

Posted on May 20, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Unclear, according to Josh Marshall (boldface mine): I know there’s been a push from biomedical researchers and, for lack of a better word, Team Science over at the NIH to have members come over to the building and meet with … Continue reading →

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With the Shutdown Averted, a Divided Nation Can Return to the Important Business of Investigating Hunter Biden’s Penis

Posted on October 2, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

So there won’t be a shutdown after all–at least until November 15, when the continuing resolution ends. I won’t say that I boldly predicted this outcome, but I did argue that there was no endgame for the Freedom Caucus (the … Continue reading →

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Scientific Infrastructure Is Still Not Well-Supported: The ProMED Edition

Posted on July 20, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

One point I’ve made on this crappy blog is that, despite popular culture depictions to the contrary, scientific infrastructure isn’t well supported. No gleaming labs that look like something out of an architectural design magazine. Most labs (#NotAll) have to … Continue reading →

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A Cohort of Scientists Is About to Be Crushed

Posted on May 18, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

I find it remarkable that Science Twitter isn’t in absolute panic over the likely capitulation by the Biden administration* to House Republicans regarding the debt ceiling. If Republicans get their way, we’re looking at 22 percent cuts in all non-military, … Continue reading →

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Going Manhattan Project on Long COVID’s Ass

Posted on April 20, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Some asshole with a blog vaguely remembers using the phrase “Going Manhattan Project on [X]’s ass”, by which said asshole meant that there are certain kinds of science and research objective that need far more top down direction from NIH … Continue reading →

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So You Don’t Like ‘Defund the Police’? What Would You Do Here?

Posted on March 27, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

A while ago, some asshole with a blog noted this about the reality of ‘defunding’ the police: But reallocating much of the funding, especially if some of that funding goes towards more investigative/regulatory purposes, such as preventing wage theft and … Continue reading →

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A Quick Thought about NIH Collaborative Mechanisms

Posted on April 11, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

A couple weeks ago, Vanity Fair had an article about the path by which Peter Daszak wound up with the NIH funding to sponsor viral research here and in China–which has been seized on by both the lab-leak hypothesis advocates, … Continue reading →

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What Defunding Looks Like: The Community College Edition

Posted on June 17, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, some asshole with a blog noted this about the whole defunding kerfuffle: …when teachers have to go on statewide strikes to get better wages and living conditions, there’s the capacity to cut things, when we want to do so. … Continue reading →

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Public Health Big Data: The Wages of Privatization

Posted on May 20, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

I spent a significant part of my career in and around these kinds of data, and I think the article below, while very good in terms of description of the failures of COVID-19 data collection, misses the larger picture: this … Continue reading →

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