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Wait what???

Thank you sir

Hearing rumors about HHS RIF activities today. Has anyone heard anything credible or received notifications?

Thank you sir

A friend sent this email she got for a seminar

“Mass Spectrometry Across the NIH: Complementary Core Capabilities Driving Biomedical Discovery”

The panel includes representatives from:
NIDCR Mass Spectrometry Core
CCR Mass Spectrometry Resource
NIAID RTB Proteins & Chemistry
NINDS Proteomics Core Facility
CCR Protein & Metabolite Characterization Core
NIEHS Mass Spectrometry Research Center

And I’m guessing this is probably common across a lot of other NIH technologies too : sequencing, imaging, flow cytometry, microscopy, bioinformatics, etc.

A friend at NIH told me this kind of duplication exists across multiple technologies and may just be historical/institute-driven, but they didn’t fully understand the rationale either.

So I’m curious how people inside the system think about it. Is there a strong reason to maintain many institute-specific cores instead of consolidating more infrastructure into larger shared centers with specialized groups?

I’m 56 now, but earlier in life I spent my youth and 20s in the UK trying to find work. I eventually worked as a waiter at Pizza Land on Princes Street in Edinburgh for about £3/hour. I moved to the USA when I turned 30 and the rest is history. Living the dream.

Today, I’m a Federal Scientist in the U.S., still working after 16 years of federal service.

Current situation:

Salary: ~$193k due to increase by 20% next year.

Eligible for Social Security

FERS pension: I contribute 0.8%; government contribution is much higher, around 17%

FEHB federal health insurance

~$1.2M in 401k/TSP-style retirement savings

~$1.3M house

It’s been a long path from low-paid service work.

How am I Stacking???

Why are so many staff scientist positions at the National Institutes of Health listed as internal-only, are these actually open jobs, or just formal postings to convert people already in the lab?

Thank you in advance