{"id":1382,"date":"2011-09-14T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2011-09-14T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T18:17:56","slug":"bazinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/09\/14\/bazinga\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not insane. My mother had me tested."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent conversation at <a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/drugmonkey\/2011\/08\/29\/structural-aspects-of-revising-your-nih-grant\/\">DrugMonkey&#8217;s place<\/a> about responding to previous grant reviews has proved very timely; I&#8217;m currently working on the first grant resubmission for which I&#8217;ve been chief wrangler. There have been some unbloggably hilarious emails pinging around between the various PIs, including much discussion about country- and funding agency-specific conventions regarding the <em>tone<\/em> of such responses (a PI who trained overseas feels that Canadians are far too polite and passive in the face of bad reviews, and may well be correct).<\/p>\n<p>The chief impact on me, however, has been the recurring dreams about responding to reviews. In last night&#8217;s edition, the grant was in the format of a <em>Big Bang Theory <\/em>script, and I was rewriting it to take into account a reviewer&#8217;s comment that Sheldon&#8217;s lines weren&#8217;t funny enough.<\/p>\n<p>This is rather appropriate, in fact, since we&#8217;re effectively knocking at a door while saying &#8220;<del>Penny?<\/del> Dollars? <del>Penny?<\/del> Dollars? <del>Penny?<\/del> Dollars?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone really should scan my brain during a grant deadline week. I&#8217;m sure it would prove most illuminating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent conversation at DrugMonkey&#8217;s place about responding to previous grant reviews has proved very timely; I&#8217;m currently working on the first grant resubmission for which I&#8217;ve been chief wrangler. There have been some unbloggably hilarious emails pinging around between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/09\/14\/bazinga\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48,25,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-grant-wrangling","category-silliness","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}