Intermittent Blogging Ahead
Well, it looks like 2011 will be as bad as 2010, with regards to my professional life (among other things).
(Yes, my mother died last June, but I don't expect anyone from my immediate family to pass away this year ...)
Back there, I explained how the CIHR screwed me around. This time, I got royally reamed by them (I'll spare you good folks with the gory details).
In any case, I'll find myself without funding from any recognized agency or foundation starting at the beginning of April.
What this all means is that I'll be spending the next 2-3 months, at the very least, writing research grant applications left and right - again.
Ironically, that's in addition to all those research stipends, grant applications and scientific papers I have to peer-review myself - just this January alone (no need to worry - I am fortunately not a petty person who spills his frustration onto others. I have principles after all, ya know?)
Hence, blogging on my part will be quite intermittent for the time being. This is not fun for me, especially since I'd managed to resume blogging on a more regular basis since the end of November 2010.
So, it's back to the drawing board, I suppose.
However, I'll be remaining on Twitter - so, at least that's that.
But hey - that's life, eh?
Lastly, I would be quite remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to thank our Prime Douchebag and his gang of egregious incompetents for this frustrating - and difficult- turn of events in my scientific career ...
(Yes, my mother died last June, but I don't expect anyone from my immediate family to pass away this year ...)
Back there, I explained how the CIHR screwed me around. This time, I got royally reamed by them (I'll spare you good folks with the gory details).
In any case, I'll find myself without funding from any recognized agency or foundation starting at the beginning of April.
What this all means is that I'll be spending the next 2-3 months, at the very least, writing research grant applications left and right - again.
Ironically, that's in addition to all those research stipends, grant applications and scientific papers I have to peer-review myself - just this January alone (no need to worry - I am fortunately not a petty person who spills his frustration onto others. I have principles after all, ya know?)
Hence, blogging on my part will be quite intermittent for the time being. This is not fun for me, especially since I'd managed to resume blogging on a more regular basis since the end of November 2010.
So, it's back to the drawing board, I suppose.
However, I'll be remaining on Twitter - so, at least that's that.
But hey - that's life, eh?
Lastly, I would be quite remiss if I didn't take this opportunity to thank our Prime Douchebag and his gang of egregious incompetents for this frustrating - and difficult- turn of events in my scientific career ...
I'm sorry for your loss even if it was 6 months since your mother passed away.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm angered by your CIHR grant situation, Mentarch. Not just in how it frustrates your ability to do what you do to advance our understanding of and ability to treat gastro-intestinal diseases, which is a benefit to us all, but how it reminds me of Harper's anti-science ideology that is another plank in his quest to destroy the Canada we believe in.
I hope your grant application receives full funding and wish you the best with your research, teaching and general well being. I will miss checking in and reading your well researched outrage.
word verification = sucki (and I concur)
BY: thanks for the kind and encouraging words.
ReplyDeleteHowever, note that I used the word "intermitent" - as in, "not regularly" - with regards to my blogging.
So, please do feel free to come by APOV as usual ;-)
I would also like to offer my belated condolences on your loss. (I would also like to apologize for not checking up on your blog more often since last February and noticing earlier...)
ReplyDeleteI also hope that you're successful with your new grant applications.
It's always a puzzle with regards to how regressives (a more fitting term than "conservatives") fail to remember the importance of research, science, and technology in the "glory years" that they are supposedly trying to return to.