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		<title>CIHR Updates:  Budget 2012 and Science Policy Fellowships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is actually two mini-posts &#8211; one on CIHR&#8217;s response to Budget 2012 and the other on the announcement of their Science Policy Fellowship program. Response to Budget 2012 Earlier this month, CIHR President Alain Beaudet released a message concerning &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/04/13/cihr-updates-budget-2012-and-science-policy-fellowships/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Difficult Pill to Swallow: The Harsh Realities of a 15% Funding Rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=1563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A country&#8217;s biomedical advancement and innovation is intimately linked to its investment in academic research (Measure for Measure: Chemical Research &#38; Development Powers the U.S. Innovation Engine). Funding for research comes almost entirely from government and private donors (Stossel, T.P., &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/04/12/a-difficult-pill-to-swallow-the-harsh-realities-of-a-15-funding-rate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quarterly Summary:  Jonathan Thon starts with a flourish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were thrilled this quarter to welcome Dr. Jonathan Thon to the Black Hole in the capacity of regular contributor.    He&#8217;s enthusiastically launched himself into the online blogging world with several articles and I&#8217;ve tried to scatter in a &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/04/04/quarterly-summary-jonathan-thon-starts-with-a-flourish/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CIHR Grant Reform: Speak now or forever hold your peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=1533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last months, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have conducted an extensive review of their grant programs and have released a document to describe these changes.  In a demonstration of top tier accountability, they have opened a &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/03/12/cihr-grant-reform-speak-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Taxes for Postdocs: Dredging up the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A landmark decision was made late last month by the Ontario Labour Relations Board regarding the status of postdoctoral fellows.  Jesse Greener, President of the University of Toronto&#8217;s Postdoc Association has recently, and nicely, summarised the impacts of this ruling &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/02/21/2012-taxes-for-postdocs-dredging-up-the-past/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pitching solutions:  Transition awards and Targeted Hiring</title>
		<link>http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/02/16/pitching-solutions-transition-awards-and-targeted-hiring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read Jonathan&#8217;s earlier related entries to catch up on the series: Making the Case for Increased Federal Support of Biomedical Research and The Problem: A lack of faculty positions at top-tier Canadian Universities and Research Institutes One approach, in which Canada is &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/02/16/pitching-solutions-transition-awards-and-targeted-hiring/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who do universities want to hire &#8211; scientists or politicians?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his article The Vanishing Voter, Harvard professor Thomas Patterson makes a statement about modern political campaigns that made me a little nauseous: Ambition, manipulation, and deception have become as prominent as issues of policy and leadership You might scoff at &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/02/09/who-do-universities-want-to-hire-scientists-or-politicians/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Case for Increased Federal Support of Biomedical Research</title>
		<link>http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/01/28/making-the-case-for-increased-federal-support-of-biomedical-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Black Hole is extremely pleased to welcome Dr. Jonathan Thon to its team of regular bloggers.  Jonathan approached us last month to publish a series of articles on building a better support structure for young biomedical scientists in Canada &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/01/28/making-the-case-for-increased-federal-support-of-biomedical-research/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Google Scholar &#8220;My Citations&#8221; &#8211; Useful tool or the height of narcissism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I first read about it on the Piece of Mind blog by UBC Professor Nassif Ghoussoub, I have been trying to figure out whether or not Google&#8217;s new &#8220;My citations&#8221; is a useful tool for researchers.  Essentially, this tool &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/01/08/google-scholar-my-citations-useful-tool-or-the-height-of-narcissism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quarterly Summary: A Busy Autumn + Goodbye and Good Luck to Beth!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 2012 everyone. The end of 2011 was very busy, but it was worth it to gather some momentum behind the ideas and conversations from the site in the form of our session at the Canadian Science Policy Conference as &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/01/02/quarterly-summary-a-busy-autumn-goodbye-and-good-luck-to-beth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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