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Last week the NIH released an RFI proposing a change to how it uses and reports peer review scores. Instead of receiving a numerical impact score and percentile, applicants would learn only which of three bins their prop…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past week, it’s that people love quote round-ups. If there’s another thing I’ve learned, it’s that scientists have a lot of feelings about AI in science. With their powers combine…
Last week Refine announced partnerships with the AEA and the Econometric Society, both of which will now use its AI-assisted technical review in their publication process. The current implementation is narrow, only a “pr…
Meme from the Internet The science sleuth Sholto David recently uncovered a mix up that’s affected hundreds of papers in biology. Scientists who were intending to work with the p16-INK4a antibody, to flag a tumor suppres…
On a happier note: This week the Astera Institute announced Radial , a new division committing up to $500M over the next decade to experimenting with how life sciences research is organized, funded, and shared. Early pro…
There was a good back-and-forth on NIH funding in the Good Science Project last week. Aishwarya Khanduja and Stuart Buck first made the case that science funders would benefit from adopting some VC-style practices, then …
STAT reports on a growing number of state-level science funding proposals. Massachusetts’ governor has proposed a $400 million DRIVE initiative, a coalition of medical schools and researchers is pushing New York to creat…