Annika Barber (Scientist and Molecular Biologist)

You know, if we assume roughly 100 grants would have gotten reviewed at each meeting, you know, we're talking about at least 18,000 grants that didn't get reviewed. Wow. Wow. And that's 18,000 grants across all kinds of things. I mean, you know, very basic science. You know, just scrolling through here, I've got things like adaptive immunity and bacterial virulence.

But then we also have things like addiction risk and learning and memory and decision making and therapeutic immune regulation. We have training neuroscientists and physician scientists. And we have studies looking at dentistry and eye diseases. Those aren't meeting.

But then we also have things like addiction risk and learning and memory and decision making and therapeutic immune regulation. We have training neuroscientists and physician scientists. And we have studies looking at dentistry and eye diseases. Those aren't meeting.

But then we also have things like addiction risk and learning and memory and decision making and therapeutic immune regulation. We have training neuroscientists and physician scientists. And we have studies looking at dentistry and eye diseases. Those aren't meeting.

We all made the time and people were there and people gave the same quality of review that I have always experienced in these meetings and the same level of scientific discussion, but it felt so real.

We all made the time and people were there and people gave the same quality of review that I have always experienced in these meetings and the same level of scientific discussion, but it felt so real.

We all made the time and people were there and people gave the same quality of review that I have always experienced in these meetings and the same level of scientific discussion, but it felt so real.

weird to be having these scientific discussions in this climate where you could only wonder like, yeah, you know, we have all these amazing scientists in this room reviewing the future of the next five years of research in the areas of molecular neurogenics, but is any of this going to be funded? Are any of these studies going to go forward? Is the NIH going to give these people any money?

weird to be having these scientific discussions in this climate where you could only wonder like, yeah, you know, we have all these amazing scientists in this room reviewing the future of the next five years of research in the areas of molecular neurogenics, but is any of this going to be funded? Are any of these studies going to go forward? Is the NIH going to give these people any money?

weird to be having these scientific discussions in this climate where you could only wonder like, yeah, you know, we have all these amazing scientists in this room reviewing the future of the next five years of research in the areas of molecular neurogenics, but is any of this going to be funded? Are any of these studies going to go forward? Is the NIH going to give these people any money?

Did anybody ask? Did anybody ask? No. No. No, every grant gets 15 minutes for discussion and we needed to get through 50 odd grants. So there's no time to think about anything else.

Did anybody ask? Did anybody ask? No. No. No, every grant gets 15 minutes for discussion and we needed to get through 50 odd grants. So there's no time to think about anything else.

Did anybody ask? Did anybody ask? No. No. No, every grant gets 15 minutes for discussion and we needed to get through 50 odd grants. So there's no time to think about anything else.

You know, it feels like we're fiddling while Rome burns, talking about some cool genes and worms and mice and all the interesting genome-wide association studies that we could do if money keeps existing. And yeah, are we chumps? Are we participating in furthering something or nothing? Are we just wasting our time?

You know, it feels like we're fiddling while Rome burns, talking about some cool genes and worms and mice and all the interesting genome-wide association studies that we could do if money keeps existing. And yeah, are we chumps? Are we participating in furthering something or nothing? Are we just wasting our time?

You know, it feels like we're fiddling while Rome burns, talking about some cool genes and worms and mice and all the interesting genome-wide association studies that we could do if money keeps existing. And yeah, are we chumps? Are we participating in furthering something or nothing? Are we just wasting our time?

And so I need the data of how bad is it? You know, I think a lot of us are used to approaching problems as something that we can...

And so I need the data of how bad is it? You know, I think a lot of us are used to approaching problems as something that we can...

And so I need the data of how bad is it? You know, I think a lot of us are used to approaching problems as something that we can...

not necessarily solve with data, but that we can find the edges of with data and get our arms around the problem and define the problem by figuring out what the data are and what the... But it might be possible that that's not going to happen in this case, that there might not be... That does say I'm starting to get that vibe.