Angela Andersen
@angelaandersen.bsky.social
Loves science and scientists. Mom, wife, science consultant, runner, Canadian transplant. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality" T.S. Eliot. Life Science Editors Foundation www.lifescienceeditors.org & Life Science Editors www.lifescienceeditors.com
What you can control:
→ Write for the tired, out-of-field reader
→ Give your champion words to repeat
→ Name your biggest risk first
→ Read harsh reviews generously
You can't choose who reads your proposal. You can make it hard to misread.
→ Write for the tired, out-of-field reader
→ Give your champion words to repeat
→ Name your biggest risk first
→ Read harsh reviews generously
You can't choose who reads your proposal. You can make it hard to misread.
September 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
What you can control:
→ Write for the tired, out-of-field reader
→ Give your champion words to repeat
→ Name your biggest risk first
→ Read harsh reviews generously
You can't choose who reads your proposal. You can make it hard to misread.
→ Write for the tired, out-of-field reader
→ Give your champion words to repeat
→ Name your biggest risk first
→ Read harsh reviews generously
You can't choose who reads your proposal. You can make it hard to misread.
The randomness is real. In an analysis of Australia's national medical research funder, more than half of funded grants would have missed out under some plausible versions of the same panel.
A rejection often says more about the draw than about you.
doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4797
A rejection often says more about the draw than about you.
doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4797
Funding grant proposals for scientific research: retrospective analysis of scores by members of grant review panel
Objective To quantify randomness and cost when choosing health and medical research projects for funding.
Design Retrospective analysis.
Setting Grant review panels of the National Health and Medica...
doi.org
September 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The randomness is real. In an analysis of Australia's national medical research funder, more than half of funded grants would have missed out under some plausible versions of the same panel.
A rejection often says more about the draw than about you.
doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4797
A rejection often says more about the draw than about you.
doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4797
I'm looking at you @cellcellpress.bsky.social and @nature.com for some of the same 😉
August 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I'm looking at you @cellcellpress.bsky.social and @nature.com for some of the same 😉
Heart and Terminator 1. Throw in The Matrix and This is Spinal Tap and... I don't know what this creates, but most definitely a conceptual advance of broad interest and therapeutic potential.
August 1, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Heart and Terminator 1. Throw in The Matrix and This is Spinal Tap and... I don't know what this creates, but most definitely a conceptual advance of broad interest and therapeutic potential.
Reposted by Angela Andersen
@angelaandersen.bsky.social - Watch out for our blog today. It answers some of your questions.👀
July 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
@angelaandersen.bsky.social - Watch out for our blog today. It answers some of your questions.👀
Only about 1% of these pairs landed in CSN, and that tier is revised more on average. It'd be interesting to compare them at the full-paper level, to see what kind and the extent of new data added.
July 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Only about 1% of these pairs landed in CSN, and that tier is revised more on average. It'd be interesting to compare them at the full-paper level, to see what kind and the extent of new data added.