👀 Your Friday must-read: a really thoughtful piece on ICBMs and nuclear risk by my brilliant Federation of American Scientists🔬 colleague Eliana Johns, whose grandfather was a missileer involved in one of the most famous "broken arrow" nuclear accidents in history! inkstickmedia.com/faith-as-small…

China is now dominant in highly-cited physical science and engineering—critical disciplines underlying emerging industries. economist.com/science-and-te… The Economist

Little known fact: Recent legislation (both IRA and BIL) includes resources that districts can tap to make schools more resilient to extreme heat. See the full list of actions the Department of Education can take:

Federal investment in education research is distressingly low. politico.com/newsletters/we…

Love how both Matthew Yglesias and Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 have now launched ideation competitions among their readers. Amazing way to source new policy entrepreneurs and ideas.

NEWS: CTOs of major companies just issued a call to action to Speaker Mike Johnson Chuck Schumer Leader McConnell Hakeem Jeffries to fund U.S. National Science Foundation at the levels authorized in the CHIPS and Science Act. Thanks to these Task Force On American Innovation businesses for speaking up. innovationtaskforce.org/wp-content/upl…

I agree with Marcia McNutt that we need a federal strategy and coordinating function - but not just for scientific research. Also commercialization, talent and innovation / competitiveness.

Lots of very cool science/innovation papers ICSSI this week. Here are some semi-randomly selected ones 🧵

Thanks to Federation of American Scientists🔬 for publishing my blog post on steps that policy entrepreneurs can take to increase the maturity of a policy idea. Pls let me know in comments what you would add - I'd like to make this a living document! fas.org/publication/in…

Why we need the NEED Act, per FAS CEO Daniel Correa ⤵️

I've laid out a vision of how #FESI might maximize its impact Federation of American Scientists🔬 with 3 main points Jetta Wong Tanya Das Daniel Correa Levi Wyatt Patterson Adria Wilson Farah (Far-ah) Benahmed Kumar Garg Rich Powell fas.org/publication/pu…

Great to see the policy entrepreneurship movement spread. Starting with Federation of American Scientists🔬 Day One Project and Institute for Progress in the U.S., and spreading to UKDayOne and now ProgressIreland.

The policy entrepreneurship model continues to spread because it works.

Am in SF this week for Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 Reboot 2024 and b/c Federation of American Scientists🔬 is co-hosting the Bottlenecks Summit, focused on identifying barriers to abundance and scoping ideas to overcome them. If you're here, let's chat

Excited to share that Federation of American Scientists🔬 is hiring our first ever Chief Science Officer. If you are a compelling communicator on the nexus of science/tech and policy, and a visionary who likes to build and lead, then you might just be our first CSO. Details: fas.org/career/chief-s…