Funniest Moment in Science This Year

By Bouvier Grant Group

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An amateur video was posted on YouTube last January and rapidly developed a cult following among people who have survived the trials and tribulations of biomedical science graduate programs. To date, it has over 3 million hits and I would be embarrassed to tell you how many of those hits came from my computer. I find this video to be among the funniest and most creative science bits I’ve ever seen. I also find it spot-on about the grad school experience –despite the fact that, unlike the video’s star, I was one of the lucky ones who *did* finish grad school in less than 5 years, and I *was* first author on a two-author paper in the Journal of Neuroscience (which my department chair blithely referred to as JBD–“The Journal of Big Di**s.”)

So as I face yet another holiday season where I will be working straight through the holidays on a center grant, and find myself in need of a chuckle, I invite you to join me in viewing the Zheng lab’s classic parody, “Bad Project”:

Dr. Meg Bouvier

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Margaret Bouvier received her PhD in 1995 in Biomedical Sciences from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. After an NINDS post-doctoral fellowship, she worked as a staff writer for long-standing NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins in the Office of Press, Policy, and Communications for the Human Genome Project and NHGRI. Since 2007, Meg has specialized in editing and advising on NIH submissions, and began offering virtual courses in 2015. She's recently worked with more than 40% of the nation's highest-performing hospitals*, four of the top 10 cancer hospitals, three of the top five medical schools for research, and 14 NCI-designated cancer centers. Her experience at NIH as both a bench scientist and staff writer greatly informs her approach to NIH grantwriting. She has helped clients land over half a billion in federal funding. Bouvier Grant Group is a woman-owned small business.

*Our clients include 9 of the top 22 hospitals as recognized by the 2023/24 US News & World Report honor roll

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