Mike Feigin 🥯 @mike_feigin Twitter profile

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Mike Feigin 🥯

3 months

The latest paper from @TheFeiginLab is out in @RNAJournal ! Abdul ( @mrabdman ) identified the endonuclease CPSF3 as a novel target in pancreatic cancer!

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@RNAJournal

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Chemical inhibition of CPSF3 attenuates pancreatic cancer cell proliferation by disrupting histone mRNA processing #chromatin #PDAC

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

This is an actual package that arrived in my lab today. Please note the ONE packing peanut.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

I’m going to go ahead and say it. There are too many kinds of immune cells.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

4 months

If you are considering a PhD in my lab, please read this thread and do the complete opposite of what’s written.

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

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A Machiavellian Guide to Doing a PhD Rule One: Never Outshine Your Supervisor

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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2 years

5 years of being a PI, and walking into the lab, seeing people doing experiments and chatting and laughing is still the coolest thing ever.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

🚨🚨ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FEIGIN🚨🚨

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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21 days

Someone in my lab referred to a paper from 1984 as “semi-ancient.” In unrelated news, we have an unexpected opening for a postdoc.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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2 years

3 Specific Aims? In this economy?!

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

3 months

From the “no fucking shit” department.

eLife - the journal

@eLife

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This study follows the career trajectories of the winners of an #NIH early-career funding award and finds that researchers with greater mobility, men, and those hired at well-funded institutions experience greater subsequent funding success.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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2 years

Holy crap, I got a grant. What is happening?

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@mike_feigin

1 year

I need a hobby. Preferably one that can be done on my couch in the 1 hour between when my kids go to bed and I fall asleep. Suggestions welcome.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

Dear administrators: just let me do science.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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2 years

Dad, who’s the most famous scientist you’ve ever met? Uh, I guess Jim Watson. Tell me about him. (20 minutes later) AND YOU DIDN’T PUNCH HIM RIGHT IN THE FACE?!?!

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

TFW the department that didn’t hire you starts to follow you on Twitter…

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@mike_feigin

2 years

These are the Slack messages PIs live for.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

6 months

Labs over about 10 people shouldn’t exist.

Scientists Who Lift

@ScientistsLift

6 months

What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

Today I submitted a grant 13 days early. #scienceconfession

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1 year

Wow, ok @eLife , what if I choose to fight rather than submit?!

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

8 months

Photoshoot time! How many “mistakes” can you find?!

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

Today I completed 4 tasks I had been putting off. The secret is finding something you want to do even less.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 months

One thing I love about science is the opportunity to learn new stuff. One thing I hate is when it’s immunology.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

How has no one found that Markov model yet?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

Wow just saw that leaked memo where Elon says he bought Twitter just to shut down the endless eLife discussion.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

I’m planning a complete makeover of my office. What’s the right number of old copies of Molecular Biology of the Cell to have sitting on the bookshelf?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

The best grant advice is already to have a lot of grant money. Fight me.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

When Dr Pepper gets interviewed by the NY Times.

Books and Wine

@booksandwine76

1 year

Rude

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

Why don’t science labs have corporate sponsors? @TheFeiginLab can be bought! Currently taking applications for official bagel and beer sponsors.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

When grad students get optimistic…

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

5 months

A retiring professor just dumped a pile of books on my desk. Do I have to keep these until I retire and pass them along to the next sucker?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

This is how I’m signing my reviews from now on.

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@iamcardib

1 year

I’m not as mean as I could be and I want people to be more grateful for that.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

When an adjacent lab moves out, how does one claim this territory as their own?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

Former undergrad in the lab just got accepted into all the PhD programs that rejected me. So yes, I am taking all the credit.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

11 months

If you need me, I’ll be trying to get 13 people from 9 institutions to sign the same PDF.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

Exercise tip: want to increase your morning step count? “Forget” your ID badge in the car, walk all the way to your office, back to the car, search the car, then realize the badge was around your neck the whole time. Please follow for more exercise tips.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

WE GOT A GRANT!! Huge thanks to @AmericanCancer for continuing to support @TheFeiginLab ’s studies on pancreatic cancer biology! Very excited for this collaboration with @Wagnerlab_RNA !

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

So far Associate Professor life is very similar to Assistant Professor life. It’s not even 10:30am and I want lunch.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

I just got the nicest, most positive grant review I’ve ever seen in my life. No idea if I’m getting the grant, but at least two people believe in me!

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

WTF is this. Cancelling my free subscription to Cell. #GPCRnightmares

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

8 months

My dad passed away this morning after a long battle with cancer. I’m going to miss him so much.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

7 months

I have a story that is going to seem impossible to many, but is 100% true. A person came to me with a problem. I sent one (1) email. A policy was changed. The problem was solved. I am still reeling from this event and will take the rest of the week off.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

My 10 year old wants to know why the brain has two sides. Help me out neuro people.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

Worst part of virtual meetings is that no one will see my awesome Hanukkah sweater!

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

7 days

How do people design PCR primers these days?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

5 months

Not only do I tell my students how much they cost, I also tell them where they rank on my favorites list. (Since everyone is on edge, this is obviously a joke.)

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

If you don’t want me to ever find a paper referenced in your talk, please just list the PMID.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

10 months

I’ll admit it. I’m a sucker for certain institutions on a CV. For example, if you worked at Wegman’s, you’re hired.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

Anyone else not able to get any work done until that little bowl gets out of that big bowl?

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@mike_feigin

2 years

Well I should be practicing the big talk I have tomorrow but instead I’m snuggled up with the kids watching some terrible Little Mermaid prequel because what is even the point.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

6 months

I am ready to be hurt again.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

4 months

Well, time to move I guess. Bulb is out and I have no idea how to reach it.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

As a lab leader, I never even considered wrestling with my postdocs.

nature

@Nature

2 years

Lab leaders wrestle with paucity of postdocs

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@mike_feigin

2 years

Not Wordle, but as much of a GPCR as Twitter will allow. 🟩🟩🟩 🟩 🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩

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@mike_feigin

2 years

Wow, I just wrote* a whole page of my grant! (*copied and pasted from a rejected grant)

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 months

Bioinformatics people, be honest. How many coding languages listed on your CV are just made up?

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@mike_feigin

2 years

Uh, I’m just going to work, if that’s ok.

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@mike_feigin

6 months

Big news!! @TheFeiginLab is moving!! Moving from hand poured protein gels to pre-made! Please continue to follow us on our new adventure!

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@mike_feigin

2 years

I need some new grant writing music. Must be sad and slow, like my grants.

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@mike_feigin

2 years

Me: Wash your hands, you just pooped. K2: But I didn’t even touch my poop this time! THIS TIME?! 😳

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@mike_feigin

2 years

1) Publish paper. 2) Make all code to generate all final figures publicly available. 3) See new paper that uses code on different tumor type, gaining novel insights. 4) Find out they cited you appropriately. 5) Be happy that open science worked as it should!

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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7 months

About to start a zoom and I could really use a glass of water right about now.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

3 months

Tomorrow @TheFeiginLab is setting aside time for career development - updating CVs, IDPs, LinkedIn, ORCID, Google Scholar, personal websites, discussing long term goals, practicing elevator pitches. What other discussions/exercises have people found useful?

Mike Feigin

@mikefeigin

5 years

Next week my lab is setting aside an afternoon for career development - updating CVs, IDPs, biosketch, discussing long term goals. What other discussions/exercises have people found useful?

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1 year

This is fine.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

2 years

What advice would you have for a new PhD student attending their first scientific conference?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

It’s so rare to have truly good news in the pancreatic cancer field. This is really exciting, and I hope it holds up in bigger trials.

The New York Times

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1 year

Breaking News: A pancreatic cancer vaccine provoked an immune response in half of the patients treated in a small trial, a finding that experts described as very promising.

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10 months

Any newish PIs in the cancer field who maybe need to bulk up their CV before promotion want to give a talk here? Let me know! (So many people gave me this opportunity so I want to pass it on!)

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@mike_feigin

2 years

“We heard all your feedback about (hating) Teams. However, we will still use Teams.” Academia in one sentence.

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@mike_feigin

2 years

Can someone please tell me the optimal amount of single cell sequencing to propose in my R01 to get equal numbers of “too much hypothesis” and “fishing expedition” reviewer comments?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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2 years

Just sent an email with no exclamation marks. Do I have tenure now?

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Mike Feigin 🥯

@mike_feigin

1 year

Ah twitter, where a picture of pizza gets more likes than a new manuscript representing 4 years of work…

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2 years

I try to stay relentlessly positive but holy shit just give me a fucking break.

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5 months

Today my dad would have been 72. Fuck cancer.

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5 months

Is there a place I can take the kids on half days where there’s tons of activities for them, but also a sound-proof room where I can work and keep and eye on them, but also it’s a bar?

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1 year

My (supposed) daughter just took a whole bagel, spread cream cheese on the top, without cutting it, and ate it. I am truly at a loss for words.

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6 months

How to make faculty meeting more exciting? Wrong answers only.

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Mike Feigin 🥯

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2 years

Grant submitted. Times New Roman. Left-justified. What are my chances?

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1 year

I’m taking over as director of graduate studies for our program next month. I need ideas. What’s something cool your grad program does?

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10 months

🎉🎉 ACCEPTED!!! 🎉🎉

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2 years

Having a PI crisis. Lab member likes one of my ideas. Not sure how to react to this new experience.

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1 year

Left justified is uglier AND takes up more space. I don’t understand how people prefer this.

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2 years

I can’t believe this year is going to end and then we just have another year right after that.

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1 year

Happy (something) anniversary to my first day as a postdoc! I was so excited to start that I didn’t realize it was a holiday, showed up at 8am and sat outside the lab for 4 hours waiting for anyone else to come in. They never did, so I went home and tried again the next day.

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2 years

How it started…How it’s going. Happy 5 year birthday to @TheFeiginLab !

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Did not expect to have to assure the daycare teacher that no, my son’s middle name is not “Fart,” despite what he claims.

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1 year

When your manuscript gets accepted on the first round of review.

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1 year

Everything you need to know about cancer was discovered in this paper. (Ok, not everything, but you’d be shocked at how much of what we know today was noted in this manuscript.)

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Woke up to a paper acceptance! Not a bad way to start the day!

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1 year

Still snowing.

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1 year

This is fine.

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3 months

I’ve been in meetings all day, just opening twitter. Any weird rat-related images I missed today?

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2 years

Holy shit I just checked my calendar for next week and what the fuck was I thinking.

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2 years

Student: This paper is so old I wasn’t even born yet. Me: Looks at publication date. Spontaneously combusts.

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1 year

Just invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal that rejected my first paper! I’ve made it!!

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2 years

Wait, once I finish the Aims page I have MORE to write??

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1 year

I can’t wait until this grant is submitted and I can treat myself to (check notes) renewing my IACUC protocol!

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2 years

I’ve just given up on parenting this week. Cupcake and hot chocolate in the school drop off line.

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1 year

Oh hey, I’m officially Director of Graduate Studies for the department!

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@mike_feigin

2 years

So disappointed that the Ada Twist Netflix show is teaching our kids that they should form hypotheses. Ada, just single cell sequence those sad looking plants!!

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I did it. 5 years of work in 60 slides.

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@mike_feigin

2 years

Ok let’s do this.

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I need an app that determines the amount of time I should spend writing a grant based on dollar amount, page count, number of soul crushing associated required documents, and likelihood of success.

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@mike_feigin

1 year

“I have more of a comment than a question.”

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@mike_feigin

4 months

1) This is hilarious. 2) This reviewer needs to be kicked off study section forever.

Mark Moehle Lab

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4 months

Grant unfortunately not discussed. This was at least comic relief when reading the summary statement. I guess connecting flights aren't a thing for the best scientists. Should have pushed for a GNV to SFO flight in my offer letter.

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Grant submitted!!

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