This is a terrific template for an NIH proposal. The best. It’s got class and it’s got energy.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
This is a terrific template for an NIH proposal. The best. It’s got class and it’s got energy.
I’m very concerned the PI didn’t include how classy his labs would be. Because that is very important: having classy labs. And classy equipment, too. The very best.
And let’s not forget his cell lines. They will be the classiest, most fantastic cell lines ever! No cell lines have ever been classier!
Yep, he’s gonna build the biggest, classiest biology lab ever, with the best cell lines and everything. And he’s gonna get the physicists to pay for it.
I’m not sure I believe the PI is the real deal. He didn’t threaten to sue anybody.
Doesn’t have Drumpf’s weird ending-with-a-verb tick
This will probably get it rejected because
You can not do a thing that has never been done before again since when you do a thing that has never been done before it then becomes a thing that has been done before and which thing is qualitatively different in its having been doneness from the thing that has never been done before which now no longer exists.
Nor can you do this thing that has been done before again even though it is termed a thing that has been done before because, paradoxically, as a thing that has been done before it has never actually been done before because the prior doing was upon the now non-existent qualitatively different thing that has never been done before (vide supra).
Aims: To make biology great again
And there’s a typo in the research strategy section: Big Data.
Why squander the perfect opportunity to put in an annoying tech/science buzzword? It might not be relevant, it might not even be appropriate in the context but … buzzword!
Can’t you just put a glock to them or something?
I was hearing this like an old Monty Python skit but Orac ruined it. Or maybe made it better. I’m still undecided.
No genetics of minerals? And you call yourself innovative…
hehheh
He’s going to be your President.
Unless you do something.
Seems legit. Over 30% of reviewers like it better than the other proposals.
I made the tactical error of taking a sip of my drink just before I got to the Equipment section.
Um, I don’t want a centrifuge that does that, thanks.
Yes, it does need a bit of work. Drink sprayed out of the mouth is usually rather “blobby”, non-uniform. Tends to go up the nose. You want a fine mist, so much the better to coat the lab, colleagues, and other incidentals with a thorough covering layer. Also, does the centrifuge spin fast enough to discharge a typical researcher’s mouthful through a full 360deg, but without dislodging the researcher or inducting additional discharges from the previously swallowed drink and food? Also left unclear is exactly how one attaches the researcher to the centrifuge. Possible ethical issue there, traumatized centrifuges are prone to dizziness.
I have to mark off points because the applicant spelled their name wrong. Everyone knows it’s Drumpf, with a D.