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by Fomite 5y ago
Indeed I have a position without a teaching obligation (though I do teach a bit because I want to), and it's vanishingly rare to find one of those in my field outside of a medical school.
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by Fomite 5y ago
At my institution, arguably my customers are the People of $State, followed by my grant funders. Indeed, "The student is the customer" is the source of a lot of really pretty flawed reasoning about how universities can and should
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by Fomite 5y ago
This. It depends very much on field. Pretty much every paper I didn't solo write in the past three or four years has had my grad students first (Epidemiology).
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by Fomite 5y ago
As noted elsewhere, that's not how overhead works, and vanishingly few grants are in-kind. Also, expressly, large capital expenditures like equipment are exempt from indirect costs at most universities. HN's notion of how univer
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by Fomite 5y ago
As has been previously noted, HN seems to be convinced 50% overhead means that 50% of the grant is taken to cover overhead. This is inaccurate. That would be 100% overhead, which is vanishingly rare (I've only encountered one instituti
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by Fomite 5y ago
Gonna be awkward to shut down a major children's hospital in a city for an indeterminate period of time.
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by Fomite 5y ago
"It's hard to know how many of the stories about ridiculous stuff happening on campuses to believe, but even if a small fraction of them are true, these are clearly no longer places hyperfocused on learning." College students
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by Fomite 5y ago
I remember when I was in Boston a discussion of how to expand one of the T-lines under Tufts Medical Center without causing vibrational problems for the equipment in the hospital right above. That's a non-trivial engineering challeng
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by Fomite 5y ago
Indeed. That's the point of the example. "You will almost certainly die in this room, but you won't die of an infection. So if we just look at infection-related mortality, everything is fine."
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by Fomite 5y ago
Given the complexities of the human body and how central strong circulation is to them, "Near death from heart failure, ineligible or outside the window for another transplant, but lacking any life-threatening non-cardiac comorbidities
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by Fomite 5y ago
Define "slightly better shape". Because that's now your inclusion criteria. You have to be sick enough that "Or this might not work and kill you" seems like an acceptable risk, but not as sick as the guy they chose
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by Fomite 5y ago
Choosing someone not next to their deathbed is very likely something that would never get approved by an ethics board.
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by Fomite 5y ago
I have a slide in a lecture somewhere noting that no one would ever die of a healthcare-associated infection if, when admitted to the hospital, they were put in a room full of ozone or hydrogen peroxide fog and intense UV light, while never
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by Fomite 5y ago
You're not overestimating the problem - and it's not an easy one to solve. Cause specific mortality is hard , which is why measures like all-cause and excess mortality are often used. For example, the whole "With vs. From CO
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by Fomite 5y ago
No. It and measles are currently our two best targets for genuine eradication.
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by Fomite 5y ago
This is also somewhat complicated because, as the article notes, sewage monitoring in Israel picks up polio virus with some degree of frequency, despite there being no recorded cases - there's definitely shedding going on, and it'
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by Fomite 5y ago
This is hugely important. It comes up rarely, but when it does, it's essential. Like millions of dollars, people's careers essential. For things like this, or scientific misconduct cases.
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by Fomite 5y ago
That's not really true. The example I used was a very large effect size, because it's causal in a way few things are (there's a reason you can use Koch's postulates in infectious diseases, but rarely in anything else). A
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by Fomite 5y ago
I mean, I applied for one despite my lab being very well funded, it was maybe 30 minutes worth of work? But that was merely a note for "How this could have gotten on Nvidia's site" that isn't "Nvidia paid for it all
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by Fomite 5y ago
NVIDIA has GPU grants for research.
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by Fomite 5y ago
The unexposed aren't at zero risk, but are often quite close. For example, cervical cancer without HPV infection is extremely rare, but non-zero. Or someone at the party who didn't eat the potato salad could still come down sick
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by Fomite 5y ago
One interesting issue with plausible effect sizes is that they are very context dependent. During a graduate seminar, someone asked for a show of hands for people who thought a relative risk of 1.10 (i.e. the exposed are 10% more likely t
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by Fomite 5y ago
How national labs are funded is its own completely bonkers system.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Candidly, my hit rate isn't high enough to assume it was me ;) I didn't keep track of most of my cohort from that program, but the ones I have had been fairly successful. Mostly, I think the benefit was structured time and an avai
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by Fomite 5y ago
Especially once we're talking about staff. Keeping a $100,000 scientific software developer on staff, at 10% hit rates (not out of the ordinary for the NIH), means writing a million dollars of grants per year . And if one of them is s
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by Fomite 5y ago
NSF proposals are expressly not designed around funding 100% FTE research positions. "A single focused year" isn't what they're funding.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Coming from NIH-land and occasionally dabbling in NSF-funding via EEID, RAPID and some collaborations with CS folks, the broader impacts section remains the thing that's most opaque to me.
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The NSF heavily pushes the idea that there should be a mentorship and teaching component to most/all of their funded proposals.
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by Fomite 5y ago
It's not clear that "more attractive" is actually necessary - as mentioned, they're already hugely competed for. But to address your comments: 0% or negative overhead? - While indirect cost return, which is where I get s
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by Fomite 5y ago
`The sad truth is $500k for a career grant seems like a lot when you're in the university, but when you get out and see where else money is being spent you realize how poor academia really is.` This hits me every now and again. But you

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