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The Brain Map Initiative Needs Rethinking. Http:/ www.livescience.com/28505-map-the-brain.html. As a biomedical research scientist I am concerned about President Obama's broad new research initiative. To map the human brain.". Senior scientists in the president's administration have compared the brain-mapping initiative to the human genome project, but in a recent New York Times article. In an article last month, also in the New York Times, Tim Requarth pointed out. Other critics say the project is too o...
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Why start a blog at this stage of life? Do my thoughts on higher education and scholarly research carry more weight than anyone else's? Not really, but there are a lot of things that worry me about the future of education, science and our country itself, so I'd like to get some discussion going. I think we are. I also think we need to fix some things and they won't get fixed unless people directly involved are willing to debate the issues and suggest some specific solutions. So I want to try this Blog.
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Women's Society for Health Research: Post-doc Travel Awards. My wife and I believe it is critically important to help support young scientists to advance their careers in our field of research. One area that has not received as much funding and interest is women's health and neuroscience. So we asked the Women's Society for Health Research to help us. The WSHR decided to create four travel awards. That would allow winners to present their results at any professional meeting of their choice. How can a you...
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THE NIH, THE VALLEY OF DEATH, AND A CALL FOR BOLD IDEAS - Don Stein
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THE NIH, THE VALLEY OF DEATH, AND A CALL FOR BOLD IDEAS. January 4, 2013. Sharon Begley, a former science editor and senior science writer for. What’s going on here? Is Big Pharma the culprit? We have met the enemy and he is us. A widely noticed recent article in. So where does all this leave us, especially as we face the prospect of ever-diminishing NIH and other Federal support for research? Where do we go from here? How can institutions foster out-of-the-box thinking? Over 40 years ago Thomas Kuhn the...
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Hard Money/Soft Money: The Two Cultures - Don Stein
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Hard Money/Soft Money: The Two Cultures. How can a young investigator hope to build a career in research at a research university if all the funding for her very survival must come from grants and contracts at a time when fewer than 8% of grant applications get funded? Why would you even try to make close friends if most of your peers, or you, are not going to be around in the next couple of years? What kind of “community” is this? How much of a community spirit will be built under such conditions? This ...
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HUMAN CAPITAL FOR US SCIENCE: TRAINING OUR BIOMEDICAL GRADUATE STUDENTS. Can NIH Renovate the Biomedical Workforce? Sciencecareers.sciencemag.org [1]. This recent article in. Faculty and administrations in research universities all know this to be true, so why do we need a special advisory panel to tell us what is so clear to all? Given these conditions is it any surprise that so many laboratories are filled with students and post-docs from overseas, mostly from China and India? This happened over 15 yea...
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Kudos to Cardiology for an Amazing New Marketing Strategy. I used to think that companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook were the masterminds of marketing, but an article in the May 31st. With a stroke of a pen, the relative value units[1] of millions of people will dramatically increase. Can you imagine how General Motors would respond if it found a marketing strategy that could increase its sales by millions of customers just by issuing a report? So congratulations, cardiologists- you are the ...
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First Post! - Don Stein
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Why start a blog at this stage of life? Do my thoughts on higher education and scholarly research carry more weight than anyone else's? Not really, but there are a lot of things that worry me about the future of education, science and our country itself, so I'd like to get some discussion going. I think we are. I also think we need to fix some things and they won't get fixed unless people directly involved are willing to debate the issues and suggest some specific solutions. So I want to try this Blog.
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The Brain Map Initiative Needs Rethinking - Don Stein
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The Brain Map Initiative Needs Rethinking. Http:/ www.livescience.com/28505-map-the-brain.html. As a biomedical research scientist I am concerned about President Obama's broad new research initiative. To map the human brain.". Senior scientists in the president's administration have compared the brain-mapping initiative to the human genome project, but in a recent New York Times article. In an article last month, also in the New York Times, Tim Requarth pointed out. Other critics say the project is too o...