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In this section the Steering Committee will invite specific contributions on important issues. for each item click on the title to read the full post.

New metrics for assessing researcher productivity impress in pilot study

May 17, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

An RBR Writing Program post by Eve Granatosky In today’s hypercompetitive environment, properly evaluating the productivity and success of researchers is critical for tenure and promotion decisions, grant funding decisions and many other aspects of research and career advancement. Some basic metrics, such as a researcher’s number of peer-reviewed publications or amount of grant funding, […]

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NIH approves citation of preprints and other interim research projects in grant applications

March 28, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

By Brittany Aguilar Last Friday, the National Institutes of Health released a notice specifying that researchers can cite academic preprints and other interim research products in NIH grant applications. “This is a pretty big step,” said Chris Pickett, director of Rescuing Biomedical Research. “Allowing investigators to cite their preprints in grant applications will give the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ASAPbio, grant applications, preprints, Rescuing Biomedical Research

Scientists speak out against Executive Order on immigration

January 31, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

By Swagata Basu On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order banning refugees and immigrants, including green card and travel visa holders, from seven countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days. Syrian refugees have been banned indefinitely from entering the country placing them further in limbo. At least 18 percent of the entire U.S. […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: foreign scientists, immigration, RBR Writing Program

Collins to remain as NIH director at beginning of Trump administration

January 24, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

By Sonia Hall Francis Collins will continue as director of the National Institutes of Health during part of the Trump administration. Just like all of President Obama’s nominees that cleared the U.S. Senate confirmation process, Collins tendered his resignation as NIH director effective noon on Friday, Jan. 20. However, the announcement that Donald Trump asked […]

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The financial woes of postdoctoral training

January 18, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

By Swagata Basu A recent paper in Nature Biotechnology shows how postdoctoral training in biomedical sciences can affect early career outcomes. Despite a dearth in available academic tenure-track positions in and a drop in National Institutes of Health success rates, there has been sustained growth in the number of biomedical postdocs due to an abundance […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: postdocs, postdoctoral scholars, RBR Writing Program, staff scientists

GRE scores are a poor predictor of graduate student success

January 11, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

By Brittany Aguilar A new study published today in PLoS ONE from researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill demonstrates that some of the quantitative metrics used by graduate-admissions committees are poor predictors of productivity. Specifically, the authors suggest undergraduate grade-point average and Graduate Record Exam scores do not correlate with some standard metrics […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: biomedical research enterprise, diversity, gender, graduate students, RBR Writing Program

New study shows the GRE is a poor predictor of graduate student success in the biomedical sciences

January 11, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

By Sonia Hall In a paper published today in PLoS ONE, Moneta-Koehler et al. demonstrated that scores on the Graduate Record Exam are not predictive of success in biomedical graduate school. Taking the GRE is required by nearly every biomedical graduate school, and higher GRE scores have been assumed to be indicative of success in […]

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U.K.’s Medical Research Council encourages use of preprints

January 5, 2017 By RBR Writing Program

By Kelsey Hampton On Tuesday, the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom released a statement “actively encouraging” researchers to share pre-peer reviewed manuscripts on preprint servers such as bioRxiv and others. The MRC’s endorsement of including preprints in grant applications adds to the increasing support in scientific communities to adopt a rapid, effective system […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ASAPbio, bioRxiv, grant applications, preprints, publication

Encouraging and expanding research collaborations

December 16, 2016 By RBR Writing Program

By Elizabeth Moses Recent political events in the U.S. and the U.K. have cast significant doubt on the future of international research collaborations. The decision in the U.K. to exit the European Union has generated uncertainty about the future of the U.K.’s international research partnerships. In the U.S., some scientists have expressed concern that president-elect […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: collaboration, collaborative science, diversity, immigration, RBR Writing Program

21st Century Cures Act now law

December 14, 2016 By Chris Pickett

Yesterday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law. The bill passed both houses of Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support. The 21st Century Cures Act is nearly 1,000 pages with 25 separate Titles, or sections. Titles I and II deal specifically with the National Institutes of Health and the conduct of basic research. […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 21st Century Cures, biomedical research enterprise, NIH, Rescuing Biomedical Research, science funding

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Comments by Andrea Repetto

Posted: November 3, 2016

Non-PhD level positions undervalued

Comments by Andrea Repetto

Posted: November 3, 2016

Reward negative results

Comments by Holly Hamilton

Posted: September 13, 2016

(1) The training model thus far is that of the medieval apprentice- a trainee is to become a clone of his/her supervisor. (2) Trainees are rarely permitted to conduct work not expressly assigned/approved by supervisor. (3) Training goals for postdocs at a national level are unspecified. (4) All postdocs are trained as if they will become academic research professors.

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