#cihr — Public Fediverse posts

Working on CIHR grant reviews. So many talented people proposing terrific research and yet it is crushingly depressing that only a tiny proportion will be funded. We are dead last in the G7 for govt funding as a proportion of GDP and there is no end to that in sight.
#Canada #Research #CIHR #NSERC #Science

#AntiScience #AntiDEI #NSERC #SSHRC #CIHR
-- Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data --

"The recent motion by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is incredibly damaging, unscientific in its approach, unethical, and puts equity deserving researchers and graduate students at risk."

"the CSCR just passed a motion to force the Tri-Councils to release [...] funded and non-funded scholarship and project applications, including confidential data about funding applicant's EDI questionnaires and information about their institutions, peer reviewer comments and more."

🔗https://x.com/OCUFA/status/1985391484254711843

SRSR Committee Meeting; Minutes
🔗https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/SRSR/meeting-6/minutes

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

The UK Cass report advocates clinical trials for all hormone-blockers and gender-affirming medications. A feasible, established practice in Canada and the UK for many therapeutics.

Individuals receiving trans care can participate in affordable research using routinely-collected data, an approach that is supported by the public and adheres to strict privacy and ethical standards—akin to vaccine surveillance during the pandemic. #CIHR #TransHealth #CassReport #PublicHealth #ICES #HDRNCanada

🔓 "An Open Letter on Open Access" by John Willinsky of PKP, published at #SLAW

Willinsky calls for movement in Canada beyond embargo periods toward sustainability in the Tri-Agency review of the Open Access Policy on Publications ⤵️

https://www.slaw.ca/2024/01/12/an-open-letter-on-open-access/

#OpenAccess #SSHRC #NSERC #CIHR #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing #Copyright

"Canada risks losing its future scientists to other countries because the dollar amounts of annual grants have remained stagnant for nearly 20 years.
A Canada Graduate Scholarship from one of the three federal research funding agencies is $17,500 per year for a master's student or $21,000 per year for a doctoral student. Those amounts have not changed since 2003."

I got 16k in the early 1980s from SSHRC topped up to 18 by the univ.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/graduate-student-research-funding-nserc-sshrc-cihr-1.6692545

#SSHRC #NSERC #CIHR #research #Canada