Getting an acceptance on a Friday: 😃 "You have 48 hours to reformat your manuscript to comply with our style requirements": ☹️

It's one thing to take down pages talking about diversity in science. It's another thing entirely to take down research databases that are used for observational studies -- it is literally just throwing away government money already spent collecting data. It's blocking science.

girl, are you the British Museum because you've stolen my heart

🚨Re-upping this since the website for HRSA's Area Health Resources Files is now down The data in this Mendeley Repository were archived prior to the 1/31/25 purge

On Data Purge Eve, many people stayed up late to save the CDC website. Charles Gaba ✡️ downloaded the whole thing. 👑 A group of us are working to make these preserved data an accessible & publicly available resource. More to come, but get started here 👇🏻 acasignups.net/25/02/02/llink…

I can have a little hour of doomscrolling on Monday morning. As a treat.

2017 -> 2024 ☹️

NEW STAT: Members of NIH study sections confirmed that some study sections have resumed reviewing grants this week, along with some NIH communications and travel via Megan Molteni and anil oza statnews.com/2025/02/04/tru…

What NIH purports to do here is illegal. In annual appropriations bills for the past several years, Congress has specifically banned NIH from changing indirect costs: congress.gov/118/plaws/publ…

Drastic NIH cuts are existential threat to U.S. research By ⁦Harlan Krumholz⁩ statnews.com/2025/02/08/nih…

There's no good time to announce slashing the NIH budget, but announcing it on a Friday afternoon to go into effect on Monday when all early career award proposals are due on Wednesday seems extra cruel (to me, specifically).

The best study I know estimates that each dollar of NIH spending generates $1.40-$2.80 in value counting *only the private return from drugs*, ignoring consumer surplus, med devices, public health, behavioral science, etc...

RE: reforming NIH funding, my view is -- keep total $ the same or increase it, but: a) Do fast review (<1 month) based on 2 page applications & email exchanges for clarifying questions b) Give $ directly to investigators with broad discretion aside from "don't pocket it"

Happening in one hour, webinar on foundation funding hosted by the AcademyHealth Health Economics Interest Group! Join us for a panel discussion featuring leaders from the Commonwealth Fund, Arnold Ventures, and the Donaghue Foundation. Register here: wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Did anyone have a grant reviewed and scored by AHRQ in May? Kind of convinced the meeting didn't happen, but maybe I can't tell the difference between no meeting vs not discussed on eRA Commons.

Dropping a new metrics note for the first time in years tomorrow

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Logarithms are ubiquitous in economics. They allow you to conveniently express percentage changes. However, your data includes a zero, the log representation breaks. It turns out that there is no solution fully robust to the choice of units used! 1/