Science Stimulus Spam II – Double Yuck

And another science stimulus spam, this one from Perkin Elmer

PerkinElmer self promotional statement deleted to not help them distribute it.

“As you know, the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is providing large opportunities for grant funding through the NIH.

NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1)
Recovery Act Limited Competition: High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research Core Centers to Enhance Research Resources (P30)
View More NIH Grant Funding Opportunities
PerkinElmer is here to assist you. “

More self promotional text deleted.

More yuck.

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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

4 thoughts on “Science Stimulus Spam II – Double Yuck”

  1. i don't mean to be a pessimist… but, what did anyone expect?? pour gazillions of dollars into somewhere and all the folks who might get a piece of the action arise from the slime.unfortunately, this is where universities are headed. its all about indirect (oops… F&A) costs. and if you get a 'friend' at P&E who will 'take a v.p. to dinner' — all the better…

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  3. I thought the ARRA spam was bad, but I had to register on grants.gov so my consulting company could complete an NIH SBIR application, and now I’m getting 3 or 4 “How to Win Government Contracts” dreck-mails a day. I wonder if the government is selling their mailing list to pay off the debt!

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