NEW blog from Stuart Buck: "The Evidence Act and Health: How We Can Do Better." academyhealth.org/blog/2023-03/e…

New article on why federal agencies and IRBs should pursue the "minimum viable bureaucracy" so as to reduce the time scientists have to spend on forms, reports, letters, etc.

Another great post by Stuart Buck: goodscience.substack.com/p/minimum-viab…

Glad to have partnered with The Brookings Institution and IFP on this project!

• “Building a Better NIH” from IFP, The Brookings Institution & Good Science Project • Charlie Anderson to head Arnold Ventures infrastructure initiative • New book from Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson • Blueprint for a new Great Exhibition by Dr Anton Howes • and more rootsofprogress.org/links-and-twee…

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Good article featuring Patrick Collison, tylercowen, Brian Nosek (@[email protected]), Schmidt Futures, and more. philanthropy.com/article/quick-…

It's Saturday night, and I'll probably post about this again, but I just wrote up well over 20k words on my personal history as a metascience venture capitalist (so to speak).

For science journalists: The Good Science Project is joining with Johns Hopkins to sponsor a set of awards for reporting on science policy issues (e.g., funding high-risk, high-reward research). advanced.jhu.edu/good-science/

🚨 New Science Journalism Fellowship! The Johns Hopkins Science Writing program and Good Science Project are awarding $5K reporting grants for articles that reveal flaws in science policy, practice, or funding. Grateful for RTs and help spreading the word. advanced.jhu.edu/good-science/

Nature picked up on some quotes from my newsletter about the NIH nomination hearing: nature.com/articles/d4158…

New podcast interview with Monya Baker at Issues in Science and Technology: issues.org/episode-40-bet… podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L… open.spotify.com/show/2NRvvlDtB…

New column on why NIH-sponsored post-docs would be better off working for a Texas gas station: goodscience.substack.com/p/texas-gas-st…

New essay: "Texas Gas Stations, NIH-Sponsored Post-Docs, and the Foolishness of Artificially Subsidizing Demand." goodscience.substack.com/p/texas-gas-st…

There are few things more important to our civilization than understanding how to better do R&D. Thankfully, Eric Gilliam has dedicated himself to studying this question. As a result, he's become the foremost scholar and historian of 19th and 20th century R&D labs. 1/🧵

# Lessons from history’s greatest R&D labs: A historical analysis of what the earliest electrical and great applied R&D labs can teach Answer.AI, and potential pitfalls. Note from Jeremy: This is a guest post from Eric Gilliam, cross-posted from FreakTakes

New piece at the Good Science Project, on a recent academic paper about delays/gaps in NIH funding. We need to have mechanisms for bridging gaps in funding. Otherwise, scientists are left to scramble for resources, and often have to fire people. goodscience.substack.com/p/the-value-of…

A recent piece: Why Are We Screwing Over Researchers Who Make Innovative Discoveries? The piece delves into the effect of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which basically allowed universities (rather than government) to patent discoveries made with federal funds. But what about

One thing about philanthropy that has bothered me for about a decade is how inefficient, bespoke, and ad hoc it is, especially when it comes to high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Lots of people who have more money than they could ever spend on themselves, and who