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Ashley Kopec

@ashleykopec.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, former neuro PI happily recovering as a Scientific Review Officer at CSR

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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hey folks! If you haven’t seen this, take a look and consider submitting comments. RFIs help shape the resulting policies, so if you are in favor or opposed, it is valuable to speak up. Would also ask your PO what they think, as they would be most impacted by this… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hey folks, CSR has undergone a massive reorganization. The macro framework is in place and can be viewed online, and the micro details will come in the next couple of rounds. The new framework will structure your application review starting next (summer) round. Worth a peak for applicants!
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ok maybe just a *little* furloughed 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Hand to god, I thought I was going to be furloughed again next week 🤣 all my summary statements will be out tomorrow, all my reviewers trained, all assignments out… just in case. Just gotta role with the insanity at this point 🧘‍♀️
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“The quiet power of program officers lies not in control, but in care. Care for the science, for the people who conduct it, and for the public it is meant to serve.”
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I’m so sad to not be at SfN this year! Go get inspired for me and report back please.
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I am on it SO HARD 🤣
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
You are not a schmuck. You cared enough about your colleagues to do everything in your power to get them a fair and thorough review. Because when the SROs return, we can only move to reschedule as quickly as we have all scores to know what will be discussed. You value your community. Thank you.
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Elizabeth Sypek @elizabethis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Schrödinger's employment.
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Wouldn’t it be wild if after the shutdown ends, I turn on my computer and work phone for the first time (I’m not permitted to now), and one of my missed emails is a RIF layoff? What a world.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Postdocs applying for K99s, particularly if it's your last opportunity: DO NOT forget to include a foreign justification document if you have any sort of foreign collaboration. Your application will be withdrawn if you don't have that.
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
And a whole lot of reviewers who want to give their colleagues and field a fair shot at progress, even as they themselves struggle. SROs and POs can’t do anything if we can’t get those grants through peer review!
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M. S. AtKisson @igrrrl.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
H/T to my NORDP colleague MV. New NIH policies on AI just dropped. (Don't) Also "no more than six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year."
grants.nih.gov
NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. NIH
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Also be sure to read the instructions a Forms I SF424. These Fs will have the new format/review instructions so there are different components from the previous NOFOs.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If you were planning to submit Neuroscience related T32s to PAR-22-265, PAR-24-126, or PAR-24-108, note those are now expired and you need to submit through PAR-25-168. See this notice: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov
NOT-NS-25-020: Notice of Change: NINDS and Blueprint Participation in PA-25-168: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T32)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Change: NINDS and Blueprint Participation in PA-25-168: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Digging into the reinstated NIH grants. This story is an evolving doozy. The reinstated grant is an R21 from Seattle Children's Hospital I was very confused when I read the title: "An intervention to promote healthy relationships among transgender and gender expansive youth" 1/n
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OK. Do you have a picture in your mind? It's worse than that...
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Folks, my rescheduled review panel has been submitted to FRN
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a man is walking down a hallway with a suitcase and a backpack .
ALT: a man is walking down a hallway with a suitcase and a backpack .
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Among the best articles I've read on the capture of NIH. Seeing all this laid out, it's plain that the motivation is to destroy the university and scientific system. #academicsky #neuroskyence
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🤣🤣🤣 we love to see it. Hang in there everyone!
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Way more people here! Anything you want to know about NIH peer review? Ever wondered why you can’t get your grant scores at meeting end? The SRO has to check them against in-discussion notes! Every meeting there are typos that take a day or two to fix. Trust me, you want those scores to be right!
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
A little over a year ago, I left academia, transferred my R01, and became a Scientific Review Officer at NIH. In celebration of my one year anniversary, let’s demystify the process! Any burning, *anonymous* questions you have about leaving academia?? ngl.link/ashleymkopec
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@ashleymkopec: Send me anonymous messages!
NGL: Anonymous Q&A
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Changes in review coming. I think there are a number improvements to the fellowship applications & review criteria that will help focus on the training plan & potential. nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/04/...
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Changes Coming to Applications and Peer Review in January 2025
NIH is implementing multiple changes that will impact the preparation and peer review of most grant applications submitted to NIH for due dates on or after January 25, 2025. Although each of these ini...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
Yes. Sitting on SS really helped cement to write more simply/clearly and embrace white space.
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Anyone here have sinus surgery? I have a chronic infection and a deviated septum that need to be corrected. How bad is this going to be? 😬
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
When you reimpose child labor laws vs making kid lunches free
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
THAT'S BECAUSE PREGNANCY IS BODY HORROR like even if it is a wanted, cherished pregnancy holy shit the things that are happening in there are TERRIBLE
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Hey folks! New SRO app just dropped! My branch is hiring (Aging and Neurodegeneration) so feel free to reach out with any questions!
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
NIA R36 dissertation award has been reissued with a larger salary and increased research expenses budget. www.nia.nih.gov/research/blo...
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Supporting underrepresented graduate students in aging research: The NIA R36 Dissertation Award
Graduate students - use our tips to apply for the R36 Dissertation Award, now with a larger salary!
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2023/12/20/p...
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Perfect trainees and perfect mentors
I often remark that the online science community is populated exclusively by two types: Hard working brilliant trainees doing the work of a PI in all but name (often held down by their evil, lazy, …
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Sharing here as well. Spread the word about R36s - they are fantastic and under utilized!
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I think the recovery time for the collective trauma we all lived through might be longer than imagined. And it doesn't help that more and more things keep piling on.
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
It was fun working on this piece with @avaskham.bsky.social and @thetransmitter.bsky.social ! I’m proud of my decision, and I’m happy as a SRO. No regrets. Just peace. If you are considering a career change, there is a reason you feel that way. Trust yourself.
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Folks, please. I don’t want to call them skeets.
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
PS - if you want to review for me lmk 🤣🫡
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Upcoming webinar related to the new NOFO for NIGMS IMSD & GRISE T32 training grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov
NOT-GM-24-016: Notice of Informational Webinar on the NIGMS G-RISE and IMSD Programs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Informational Webinar on the NIGMS G-RISE and IMSD Programs NOT-GM-24-016. NIGMS
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Hey folks! There is a new SRO/PO job ad open through 11/29. This is for social and behavioral scientists. Apply! Usajobs.gov/job/760808800
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
We are thrilled to announce the launch of The Transmitter, a publication for the neuroscience community that offers news and analysis of the field, written by journalists and scientists. Explore thetransmitter.org
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Day 2 SfN and I know just what you’re thinking. How does NIH grant review work? You’re a broken record! But I’m willing to indulge you from 2-4 at the CSR booth. Come say hi and ask me all the worlds questions about review!
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Ashley Kopec @ashleykopec.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Come see me and @philrivera.bsky.social tonight! There are over 30 tables on all different topics with at least 2 mentors per table who will share with you informal, real life info. Something for everyone - bring a friend!
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Calling all stress neurobiologists - the 2024 Stress Neurobiology Workshop will be held in Boston June 4-7, and the scientific program is now live! www.stress2024.com/speakers The website also has info on applying to be a postdoc speaker, as well as travel award submission.
stress2024.com
Scientific Program — Neurobiology of Stress 2024
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
If you identify as Black In Neuro and are presenting at #SfN2023, please fill out this form with your poster or talk details, so we can share it with the community! Tags: 🧠🟦 #BlackInSTEM forms.gle/7Szrw6avu6m8...
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BIN Member SfN Abstracts
Black In Neuro would like to highlight our members and their work from this year's Society for Neuroscience conference. This information will be shared with other BIN members who are presenting and al...
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs
Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
"The reframing...serves to focus reviewers on three central questions reviewers should be evaluating:  How important is the proposed research, how rigorous and feasible are the methods, and whether the investigators and institution have the expertise/resources necessary to carry out the project"
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Simplified Peer Review Framework | grants.nih.gov(link is external)(link is external)Lock
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
The new NIH approach to grant review is a GO and will apply to submissions after Jan 25, 2025. One more year to work that reputational bias, friends. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov
NOT-OD-24-010: Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Project Grant Applications
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Project Grant Applications NOT-OD-24-010. NIH
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