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    At the Good Science Project, we’ve been featuring regular interviews with practicing scientists. One of the chief difficulties in doing so is that many scientists aren’t willing to be quoted publicly, for fear of retribution from folks at NIH, NSF, etc.

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    • INTERVIEW: Geneticist at a Top 5 University. Lots of truth about nih funding from ⁦@stuartbuck1⁩ https://t.co/YJXclIRYsm

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    At the Good Science Project, we’ve been featuring regular interviews with practicing scientists. One of the chief difficulties in doing so is that many scientists aren’t willing to be quoted publicly, for fear of retribution from folks at NIH, NSF, etc.

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    • In contrast with the Nature piece on academics fleeing to pharma, this has good points Well done @stuartbuck1 https://t.co/GZmCIGQGVc

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    At the Good Science Project, we’ve been featuring regular interviews with practicing scientists. One of the chief difficulties in doing so is that many scientists aren’t willing to be quoted publicly, for fear of retribution from folks at NIH, NSF, etc.

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    • I had heard this...maybe I need to get w/the program: 'It’s an open secret people write grants for stuff they’ve already done– they know it’s feasible & has good prelim data, & by time it gets funded, they can take money & do something else.' @stuartbuck1 'https://t.co/IQmzDvrXc7

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    One of the biggest problems in scientific funding today is that younger scientists are increasingly shut out of funding, and are forced to stay in “training” for years on end or else drop out of academia. I recently met a young biology professor at a major university who did not want to be quoted by name: He/she had recently gotten a first NIH grant at age 40, after spending 8 years doing…

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    • Bringing Greater Balance to the Force (the Scientific Workforce, that is), by @stuartbuck1 https://t.co/inJhbbXk7P

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    We’re all familiar with meteorologists’ forecasts: a 5% chance of rain, a 95% chance of rain, etc. It would be far less useful if you turned on the Weather Channel only to hear on every occasion that there were two possible forecasts: “Rain will happen today,” or “rain will not happen today,” with the forecast being wrong half the time.

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    • Why Peer Review Should Be More Like Meteorology, by @stuartbuck1 https://t.co/MlfX8BnNwI https://t.co/JOeMkGOcLg

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    With science funders like NIH and NSF, we need to dramatically expand their capacity to assess reproducibility, as well as to investigate the more extreme case of research fraud. Otherwise, we could be wasting easily several billion dollars a year on fraud and irreproducible research.

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    • RT @gbiondizoccai: Why We Need More Quality Control in Science Funding https://t.co/bWesydEtzf @stuartbuck1 https://t.co/qvTCEKwWYX