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Metascience
Building a Better NIH
...risk-taking. First, administrative data (which contains information about applications, not just funded grants) could be used to study whether the “risk-taking penalty” is present at the stage of a grant’s initial cycle. Second, the...
Emerging Technology
Catalyzing a Golden Age: A Blueprint for Strategic AI R&D Investment
...threats. Part I: Using AI to accelerate science and build public goods 1. X-Labs: Institutional block grants to maximize the potential of AI for science See Launching X-Labs for Transformative...
Emerging Technology
Teaching AI How Science Actually Works
...like biotechnology, advanced materials and manufacturing, or micro/nanotechnology. Institutional block grants, expert-review-based tranches, and default sunsetting will give the labs the freedom to pursue unexpected directions while maintaining oversight. A...
Emerging Technology
Request for Proposals: The Launch Sequence
...Bradley, secured grants from IFP and other philanthropic funders to explore founding a nonprofit to eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities in open-source code & critical infrastructure A bill based on The...
Metascience
Funding Delays Are Slowing Scientific Progress
...the privately funded Fast Grants program, which made award decisions within two weeks, won praise. Less well known is that the NSF also makes some awards within one month —...
Emerging Technology
How to Make the NSTC a Moonshot Success
...investment agendas should pursue paradigm-shifting moonshots. While Congress laid out clear goals for the manufacturing grants in the CHIPS and Science Act, it left its instructions for the NSTC vague....
High-Skilled Immigration
A Prescription for Fixing the Prevailing Wage System
...most employment-based green cards (most immigrants in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories). In the NPRM, DOL states that its role in the immigration system is “to ensure that the introduction...
Metascience
Broadening the Knowledge Economy through Independent Scholarship
...grants, and/or are outcompeted for grants by well-recognized names and affiliations in academia. Finally, though independent scholarship is growing, there is still relatively little concrete data on who is engaging...
