sandyo

Thank you for letting us know! OK well I get that's that.

If they can't quite accomplish efficiency, at least a little transparency on their part would go a long way. The whole "please be advised" thing on their FB page was quite patronizing.

I'm guessing they haven't posted awards for Biosciences. Since it has one of the highest absolute numbers of awards, seems like there would be someone who'd been able to log in, otherwise.

I'm biosciences & no word yet one way or the other.

Congratulations to everyone who got it!!!

LOL! Or even more likely, until April 15 at 11:59pm. They did say "by" April 15th not before.

But if it's all sorted, why would they not have sent out emails??

They're like a student who has four months to write an essay and still has to stay up all night writing it the day before it's due.

I keep checking it... keep getting the Pink Box of Death...

Not necessarily, Slu... there have been ~80 people on here all day. With the 10% award rate, that means we're still under represented in terms of winners. Plus there might be a self-selection bias for the more aggressive competitors to be on here, which means winner should be over-represented. OK. Obviously I have nothing better to do than analyze this to death. I wish they'd just send out the emails!!!

Good call, waterworld... keep the hope alive!

Has anyone gotten emails?

I still can't log in - guessing that's a bad sign.

Congratulations!! Did you also get an email?

Since it's closing time on the east coast, I guess I can tear myself away from the computer to go get lunch. Sigh.

Last year they sent it out on the 16th, right? So lame.

Yep you're so right synorg! We write about the work we do, and maybe it seems 'in line' with research priorities to the reviewers and maybe it doesn't.

But isn't that sales pitch is at the heart of every application?? Seems like a given. There's probably also a significant role for randomness here - like the research agenda of your reviewers and which applications they looked at diretly before yours. (Sigh) Does anyone know how many reviewers there for each application? And if we get feedback, like with the NSF? So even if we don't get it this year, we can improve our chances in the future?

I saw on this thread that some of you have done research with a branch of the military - has anyone done biosci research with them? I do tropical disease research in collaboration with a Naval Medical Research Unit in South America and I'm curious how that fits into the bigger picture of applicants' experience & if you all think it is an advantage.

Thank you for staying on top of them! (I woke up this morning wondering if anyone had heard)