Grant Specialist STEM

USA focused grant specialist aiming to make grant applications more accessible and straightforward

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

I'm an X account that seeks to improve the accessibility/visibility of grant funding for #SmallBiz and #AcademicTwitter

I tend to repost any STEM-focused & US-based (or multinational) grant solicitations, especially if #SciTwitter and "grant" happen to be in the post

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Need a public holiday to celebrate the interlibrary loan system

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

That's one cool tool!

[NM FAST @NM_Fast]

Our short quiz helps you assess your eligibility in under a minute—and we’ll send you a free roadmap to show what comes next.

Take the quiz: https://t.co/TYeWuxUZYM

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

This includes citizen scientists!!

And you can get grants for it too

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

If you do science, you are a scientist 💯💯💯

You have every right to ask questions, propose solutions, express doubt. No matter what level you are when you're doing scientific experiments

The best moments in my workday are when our intern asks why or how

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

Not a great figure to convey a message...

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

If you understand how it works, you will always remember it

It's easy to forget a formula. It's more difficult to forget how electrons move

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Understand. Don't memorize.
Learn principles, not formulas.

- R. Feynman

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

There are also journals that charge $0 to publish. ACS is one of them

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Let me put my @mbeisen hat on for a second ….

We can avoid all of this and a lot more by completely getting rid of journals. They are a massive obstacle to scientific progress - the @NIH should refuse to allow ANY of its money to be spent on journals.

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

This could be good, or it could tank the quality of research.

[Razia Aliani @RaziaAliani]

We're about to create the 1st gen of scientists who can't research without AI. And honestly? I'm not sure if that's evolution or devolution!

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝘁𝗼:

— Extract key findings from dense papers in seconds
— Design entire experiments from scratch
— Turn complex studies into engaging content for public
— Generate survey questionnaires that would take days to create
— Respond to peer reviewers (yes, really)

& this book does a great job going through these details!

But missed the elephant in the room:
⤴️ research inequality.

Universities with AI access will accelerate faster than those without. Researchers fluent in prompt engineering will outpace those who aren't.

We're creating new divides in an already unequal system!

It doesn't address how AI might bias research directions:
⤴️ We're training AI on biased research. Now it's teaching us. See the problem?

Overall, this isn't another "AI will save us all" book.
Authors actually tested ChatGPT on real research tasks & documented both the wins and the spectacular failures.

𝐌𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: We need AI-literate researchers, not AI-dependent ones!

💬 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴?
Comment if you'd like a link to download this book!
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[NM FAST @NM_Fast]

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[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

You cut out the jargon and make a stronger statement with a slight rework. If you want to keep the jargon, the next sentence could start with:

These ocean-dwelling, microscopic phototrophs...

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

Good guideline, but I would do it in fewer words with stronger language.

For example, I'd start out with:
Phytoplankton produce half of the organic matter on Earth, directly affecting the abundance and diversity of marine organisms and, consequently, influence climate processes

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

Nature's guide on how to write effective abstracts

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

Good checklist for making sure your research question is well-formulated for writing your grants

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Quality indicators for literature reviews

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

She is a phenomenal woman

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

-- Maria Skłodowska-Curie

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

Best event to happen, especially right before grants are due!

[John Streicher @JohnStreicher1]

Got a truly life changing result in the lab today. One of the most significant of my career. Let’s hope I get to follow up on it…

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

Read this and my initial thought was, wow! A PhD student running a lab, how cool!!!

And this, everyone, is why commas and punctuation save grant proposals from the reject pile

[Andrew Kern @pastramimachine]

latest paper from the lab led by PhD student Gilia Patterson. Gilia has developed a spatially explicit deep learning method for close kin mark recapture that we think will be extremely useful for conservation biology https://t.co/UtTAEc3Gn9

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Academic publishers make USD 19 billion+ in sales based on our work.

5 websites you can google to get access to paywalled papers if you can't reach the authors:

1. Sci-Hub
2. Unpaywall
3. 12ft ladder
4. Paperpanda
5. Open Access Button

[U.S. National Science Foundation @NSF]

NSF announces a new funding opportunity through the NSF Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems program to support research and technology development, improving the next generation of wireless communication systems, NextG. https://t.co/4umVdHdlrv

[Office of Naval Research (ONR) @USNavyResearch]

🔔 BAA call: ONR seeks performers for OEX, an ultra-large autonomous undersea vehicle w/ modular payloads & rapid prototyping needs.
📅 Learn more at Industry Day, June 30–July 1 at ONR HQ.
Links in the thread below!
#ONRIndustryDay #OEXIndustryDay #WorkWithONR #DefenseTech

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

One of the biggest barriers to getting funding 👇

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Or we will use such complex, convoluted language that even other PhDs struggle to pinpoint our conclusions

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

All they need to do is increase salaries to be comparable with US salaries and it would happen overnight

But the money is in the US. It always has been and it likely always will be

[nature @Nature]

Countries must cooperate to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the top destination for scientists, says Maria M. Mota

https://t.co/R7D04AsOyC

[Grant Specialist STEM @Grants_STEM]

Selfishly, all of the start-ups everywhere would love the results to be available for the public

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Scientists: "The discoveries we make and advances we deliver are completely dependent on taxpayer support."

Also scientists: "We won't make the results of taxpayer funded research available to the public unless you force us to."