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Surreal endnotes section to have in an official government report
In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age. This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century.
LFG! Great leadership from @mkratsios47 and @POTUS -- the vision here for US science in an age of AI and autonomous labs is awesome to see. If US is going to stay ahead of China we need to change how we do our lab-based science. This is a great blueprint.
In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age. This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century.
This administration was vilified for cutting fundamental R+D sources like NSF. And there were instances where they cut too deep but these institutions became consenus-driven and thus dysfunctional. There are no statues of committees. Great step to bring the scientist to the forefront.
There are very few government documents from any administration that I can guarantee you, sight unseen, will be a banger. This is one of those documents. Congratulations to all involved for getting this out the door. https://twitter.com/mkratsios47/status/2079692038627532896
Bullish on many of these ideas, if implemented thoughtfully
There are some exceptionally good ideas here for reforming and accelerating science. Some of my favorite proposals: Apply the scientific method to science funding (track applications, reviewers, funding decisions, and outcomes, then experimentally test which grantmaking methods actually produce breakthrough work) Build a portfolio of funding mechanisms instead of treating peer review as universal (fast grants, long-horizon funding, golden tickets, regranting, prizes, and advance market commitments) Create organizations between the university lab and the national lab (Focused Research Organizations and X-Labs built for time-bounded, engineering-intensive scientific missions) Turn federal scientific infrastructure into a true research commons (open national-lab facilities, compute, cleanrooms, instruments, testbeds, and technical expertise to startups and outside researchers) Use precompetitive consortia and grand challenges for shared bottlenecks (Human Genome Project-style efforts to build datasets, standards, tools, and infrastructure no company would build alone) Elevate technicians, makers, and tacit technical knowledge (fund apprenticeships, technician fellowships, machine-shop training, practitioner residencies, and nonacademic pathways into scientific research) Treat AI-for-science as a full stack, including verification (models, curated data, negative results, compute, interoperable instruments, robotic labs, replication, and machine-auditable evidence) Reform publication around research objects, not papers (publishing datasets, code, protocols, null results, methodological notes, and evolving “dynamic papers") Disagree with some of it -- mainly the overtly political bits -- but overall an excellent blueprint!