EvolBiol

Thanks!

Banting success! beside myself right now... (finally looked this morning)

I see, sounds great! I am currently on an NSERC PDF, hopefully that helped my cause in the Banting ranks....

who me? haven't looked yet. I have to finish a talk for tomorrow, and don't want bad news clouding my brain! I didn't get an email from researchnet though... Would this have been your first postdoc?

down a bit from last year though (214)....still can't look.

did it say how many total applicants there were?....i can't look.

did you get an email telling you the results were online first?

hopefully letters make it over the border today, we should get mail friday and saturday...

I think potentially both. The results might get posted online first (you should get an email telling you they are up). Depending on how far from Ottawa you are, the letter may be a bit later...That's what I figure anyways, judging by last year's forum posts.

That should apply to PDF letters as well. The timing of my PDF letter from 2011 was the same for everyone else, PGS/CGS, etc.

i am on pins and needles too,...and flinch every time my email application chimes. The 29th sounds promising for an online posting of results on researchnet. It seems from last year's board that people got emails notifying them that the results were online (but not what the result was), and this seemed to happen faster than mailed letters arrived. So friday it is I guess! Does anyone know where the results will be posted once you log on to researchnet? Will it be on the "completed activities" page?

have you TAed? even with a strict rubric there is plasticity.... that doesn't mean they aren't giving it everything to stick to the guidelines (ie., no acting on a whim), variability in scoring just happens.

People, reviewers not excluded, are influenced by perception. Elements of an application may be evaluated differently under such perception than if each element was scrutinized individually and absolutely. Reviewers will almost certainly be more/less forgiving of weak elements of an application given their overall perception of candidate quality. Happens all the time. There are so many elements to the applications. You can write an awesome proposal but if they've already read your weak reference letter they may view it in a different light,... As much as we can wish/hope the review process is robotic enough to be completely objective, the reviewers are human, and most likely tired overworked humans,…! Is this good or bad, not sure. Is it fair,...most of the time I suppose?! I don't think it means they give any less of a damn. ....that's why I think its important to treat your application, with all its components, as an integrative dynamic whole. Each section should feed off of and into the next (cross reference throughout!). Synthesize, and don't rely on any one piece to carry you through.

or news from researchnet?

College and Community Innovation Program, CCIP. CCIP supports collaboration between colleges and industry on research and development projects that focus on company needs, helping firms to become more innovative and productive.

I interpret that as an additional $15million to nserc, as a part of the $37mil increase to industry-academic partnership to all three councils. Someone posted previously that the PDF budget alone is the ball park of $15-16mill per year... so maybe thats good news for the industry types? the rest must be about the same as years previous.

I imagine a lot of grad/scholarship offices choose not to respond to each inquiry with personal results, maybe to save time, and simply say "we don't know yet". Its an easy punt. (I've heard nightmares about McGill's biology grad admin offices,...so people waiting for news from them will likely be better off waiting for their letters!!)

Was Banting about the same? Does any one know if results were up on researchnet very soon after budget day!?!...not that I'll be able to look....

in 2011 the budget was released on the 22nd, I think my letter was dated the 18th and I got it about a week later in Alberta. I think as we've all been guessing here that everything is ready to go, they just need the final ok and they all get dumped in the mail,...or so I hope! scholarship offices should know sooner than you'll probably get your letter.

Sorry MTL18! your post came in after i loaded mine. yours in an interesting experience. And I guess it doesn't take much of adjustment in funds (maybe only a few % of nserc's total budget) to punt students from the awarded list,...

I've suspected the scenario as bluejayek puts it, but I imagine it is more of a standard protocol for any council that ultimately depends on federal fund allocation than a decision making event for nserc. I think the budget release date will mean more about when we will all hear news. They likely need to wait till the budget is released because they simply cannot commit money to students they don't know is there for sure. Even if there have never been surprises, and no one has ever been cut off after the budget is released, the order of events must stay the same. Can't promise people money before you have been told how much you have! Annoyingly I saw a release date of March 29th for 2013,...hopefully this was just based on last year, and will be earlier this year!!

budget release dates: March 29 in 2012 and March 22 the year before...no 2013 date set yet.

Last year was late because the federal budget was released so late (very end of March or something). The year before my letter (successful PDF) was dated March 18th and I received it in Alberta around the 23rd of March. I think last year was anomalous and we can expect hearing end of March again (20th onward?!). Do we know when the budget will be released this year?