I'm hiring a Director of Housing!! Come help us develop creative approaches to increase housing supply. In my completely unbiased opinion, we're doing really exciting & impactful work on one of the most critical policy issues of our time. Join our team! linkedin.com/jobs/view/4265…

🚨Open Phil is hiring for some awesome roles to build out our >$120m Abundance and Growth Fund 🚨 Apply for a chance to work with Matt Clancy on accelerating scientific & technological progress and boosting economic growth x.com/mattsclancy/st…

PODCAST | Remote working and the future of cities 🎙️ Andrew Carter is joined by Matt Clancy to discuss hybrid working, productivity, cities and the future of work. Listen to the pod 🎧👇 buff.ly/4sDHZTF

My pitch for BITS is very simple: we coach you to make your “big if true” R&D idea even better, and measure our success by whether government agencies (or philanthropists) step up with the capital to make it happen.

Deadline is today for Open Philanthropy Abundance and Growth Fund roles! See nested tweet for more.

Applications due today!

Strongly agree with the conclusion of this Matthew Yglesias post - more people should be funding the YIMBY movement. (And we’re happy to be a resource to any other funders who’re interested!) Still early days but wracking up impressive successes left and right.

We are in the unusual position to hire a promising young economist for a pre-doc position this month. It’s off-cycle, but we’re anxious to work with you if you’d like to apply! I’ve got some fun projects coming up I think. Spread the word!

Very excited that Saloni will spend part of her time working with the Abundance and Growth Fund as a volunteer advisor on clinical trials!

Most people think “indirect costs” for government-funded scientific research have grown out of control (some universities charge >60% rates). In response, the Trump admin tried to cap them at 15%. But this whole debate rests on a false premise: While ***negotiated indirect

It's important to double check things that "everyone knows to be true" by actually looking at the data. For example, people think indirect costs for publicly-funded research have exploded, when in fact they've been pretty stable over the last 40 years:

1/ 🚨 Calling all ambitious researchers + engineers! 🚨 We’re launching the FRC Launchpad (FRCL), a new programme with ARIA bringing together world-class engineers and researchers, part of the UK Horizons program to supercharge the UK's R&D ecosystem.

Great thread. And TIL is an amazing name for a survey firm!

These are aimed primarily at practitioners and organization leaders to hopefully spark new ways of doing things on the ground. Check it out at reinvent.science

THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE A new collection of 16 essays on how to accelerate AI for science & security: ifp.org/launch The AI revolution is already delivering enormous consumer benefits. But AI progress won't automatically solve humanity's most important problems first. To

Nice piece by Oliver Kim that some mix of understating Chinese consumption and overstating production would “explain” the puzzle of Chinese underconsumption which is the basis of the global imbalances narrative global-developments.org/p/does-china-u…

Open Phil blog post covering the great work of one of our grantees, the I4R! openphilanthropy.org/research/how-t…

1/ 📢 Cosmik Network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and Astera Institute! These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!

Xi Jinping announced to the Central Committee the goal to be competitive in talent competition by 2035. Fortunately, the US has a natural advantage in this competition, but it’s one we can't afford to lose.