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<div class="gmail_extra">Hello Postdocs, </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I am a postdoc in the Biology department. I am also leading an MIT Think Tank (MIT3) project, which is working on a project about the current academic funding crisis. We are trying to give academics a bigger voice and raise awareness
of the problem in order to hopefully impact policy during this critical juncture. One way we are doing this is to create a short video clip (5-10 minutes) of people talking about their experiences with funding, grant writing, and problems related to it. If
you have a story to tell about your experience please consider doing a short 5 minute interview with us. Here are the questions that we would ask you:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">1. introduce yourself- title, institute etc</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">2. in layman's terms what are you hoping will be the impact of your research?</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">3. what do you think about current US academic funding levels?</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">4. how has the funding climate personally impacted you or people you know- in terms of time, research that could be done etc.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">We will email the final video to you for your approval and will only have you in the final product if you are comfortable. Also, if you know anyone
else in the community (students, professors, MIT and other Universities) that may be interested in being video taped please pass this email along.</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">We appreciate any help:)</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">Viva Science Funding! </span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 13.32px;">Christin</span></font></div>
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