Jim WoodgettShiny, happy, oblivious scienceThe government of Canada released a budget on April 19th, 2021, the first for two years. It was, as anticipated, a high spending, deficit…May 7, 20211
Diego MacriniOpenCCV: An Inclusive Approach for the Canadian Common CVThe research community has justly criticized the Canadian Common CV (CCV) for its cumbersome interface, unreliable up times, slowness, and…Oct 30, 2016
Nassif GhoussoubNSERC has lost its bearings … againThe last time I used this title was in 2012. Canada’s Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) had grown embarrassed by…Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021
Jim WoodgettGroundhog Day —an extended Winter?The Canadian Institutes of Health Research runs two primary funding competitions a year, in the Spring and Fall. The one last Spring…Feb 2, 20211Feb 2, 20211
Jim WoodgettBack in the CIHRIt’s been awhile since posting anything about the Canadian Institutes of Health Research but given there are no other distractions today…Nov 6, 2020Nov 6, 2020
Jim WoodgettShiny, happy, oblivious scienceThe government of Canada released a budget on April 19th, 2021, the first for two years. It was, as anticipated, a high spending, deficit…May 7, 20211
Diego MacriniOpenCCV: An Inclusive Approach for the Canadian Common CVThe research community has justly criticized the Canadian Common CV (CCV) for its cumbersome interface, unreliable up times, slowness, and…Oct 30, 2016
Nassif GhoussoubNSERC has lost its bearings … againThe last time I used this title was in 2012. Canada’s Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) had grown embarrassed by…Mar 12, 2021
Jim WoodgettGroundhog Day —an extended Winter?The Canadian Institutes of Health Research runs two primary funding competitions a year, in the Spring and Fall. The one last Spring…Feb 2, 20211
Jim WoodgettBack in the CIHRIt’s been awhile since posting anything about the Canadian Institutes of Health Research but given there are no other distractions today…Nov 6, 2020
Jim WoodgettA Modest Proposal to CIHRThe CIHR Spring Project competition was running well. By February 5th, 2020 some 2716 applications had been registered and the deadline…May 12, 20205
Jim WoodgettLet’s Talk CIHR (Part 3)So now the spotlight is on the Institutes… CIHR has 13 virtual institutes that each have a budget of ~$8 million and change and a mandate…Jun 10, 2019
Jim WoodgettPeer review and the real cost of popularism (or how to get 640 comments on an article)[Skip the first few paragraphs if you recall the CIHR reforms mess and reasons for it. They recap the situation as background for a CBC…Dec 7, 2018
