Given the importance of getting AI talent into government, would love to crowdsource ideas that ideally get put into the package:
- legislative SMEQA
- designated funds for rotators like NSF
- multi-agency non-expiring hiring pools
- ability to quickly bring back ex-feds

NTSB releases preliminary report on the March 26 contact of the containership Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and subsequent bridge collapse in Baltimore: ntsb.gov/investigations…

Amy has dozens of actionable ideas that help more STEM talent stay in the U.S. Read her latest:

Be still my nerd heart! 🦋🤓❤️The House of Reps has an oral history project with a video archive of professional staff interviews. Link: history.house.gov Thank you Congressman Mike Carey for noting it in the House Admin. Committee GOP hearing this week.

I’ve handled the review of > 1000 papers at @nature. Over time, you notice aspects of presentation on which reviewers tend to comment. In the interests of minimizing hassles during review, I offer the following suggestions (a bit targeted to climate papers).

ANNOUNCEMENT: after much reflection, I’ve decided that my last five years of aging doesn’t count, as they took place under strange and unusual circumstances. please respect my decision and feel free to join me

dc weather report: have you always wondered what it felt like to swim in split pea soup in business casual? then wow does DC have the perfect climate for you

I’m excited to announce that I’m launching a new non-profit organization today: Renaissance Philanthropy.

Renaissance will work with philanthropists to design and implement ambitious efforts leveraging science, technology, and innovation. renaissancephilanthropy.org

I am excited to announce the launch of Renaissance Philanthropy, with a phenomenal team including Kumar Garg. Our goal is to help foundations and philanthropists promote a 21st century renaissance, fueled by advances in science, technology and innovation.

Canada introduced an innovation visa so entrepreneurs could move to Canada and start companies.

That led to a 69% increase in the likelihood U.S.-based immigrants would make startups in Canada.

We could be doing much better at recruiting the world's most promising young people to build their careers here

Our immigration system is mostly designed for people already established—not future superstars

In a new piece, Hamidah Oderinwale and I discuss how to fix this huge blindspot⬇️

WMATA is planning to renumber its buses.
In the meantime, here's what all those route numbers actually mean, for Metro and others:
beyonddc.com/files/busnumbe…

In her #NAS161 President's Address, Marcia McNutt notes that in 4 years, the readership of Issues in Science and Technology, a journal of the NAS and Arizona State University, has more than quadrupled, providing a growing audience with leading policy conversations on AI, biosecurity, and more. ow.ly/qTeI50RpW3K

🍻ESEP's Happy Hour is back! 🍻 Join us & our #SciPolPals at Prost DC on Wednesday, May 1, at 5pm.

A huge congrats to Sarah Rovito Sarah Rovito for her election as a 2023 @AAAS fellow for Section X Societal Impacts of Science & Engineering. Such a well-deserved honor for someone I deeply admire in the world of science policy!

Excuse me, is that not a Sarah Rovito I see in the Section X fellows list? 👀👀

Cannot think of anyone who would deserve it more, HUGE congrats to Sarah! You've done so much for the scipol community and will continue to do amazing work.

Working for Congress in a civil-engineering-adjacent role means that sometimes people say 'AOC' and I have to think for a minute before I can figure out whether than mean Rep. Ocasio-Cortez or the Architect of the Capitol.

Always wanted to spend your Thursday night listening to a budget talk? Join me on April 18th as I show lots of neat graphs about science funding.

There's also food, if you're in person.

Most importantly, we need to evaluate metrics and interventions empirically with reliable social science. Otherwise, we’ll just “pied-piper” academia toward the next iteration of dysfunctional #openscience tools, as our paper led by Isabelle Freiling outlines: academic.oup.com/joc/article/71…

#ECRchat Why and how academics become interdisciplinary researchers early in their careers