“The system of funding science is fundamentally broken. In some respects, it’s been an unmitigated disaster. It was a house of cards, and it’s not surprising that it’s now falling apart.” -Mike Lauer, former director of extramural research 🧪 www.statecraft.pub/p/whats-wron...
What’s Wrong with NIH Grants?
“Science is fundamentally different than remodeling a kitchen”
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I had a great time talking with Santi Ruiz @ifp.bsky.social about how to reduce infrastructure costs. Here's the podcast. www.statecraft.pub/p/what-is-am...
What is America’s Infrastructure Cost Problem?
“I'm part of the problem”
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A lot of the credit goes to Santi Ruiz for being really well prepared and asking great questions … but this is probably the best market wide and historical conversation I’ve had on apartments. And how it affects “apartments for families” open.spotify.com/episode/63C6...
Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families
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Development econ legend Dean Karlan, on DOGE, RCTs, and how to fix foreign aid. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...
How to Fix Foreign Aid
USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE
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Amtrak says it'd cost more than $100 billion to build high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor. @alonlevy.bsky.social says Amtrak's wrong. New Statecraft on why. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-cheapl...
How Cheaply Could We Build High-Speed Rail?
“Amtrak and the commuter rail agencies have a mutually abusive relationship”
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Map showing every general-purpose local government in the US. "The most eye-catching thing about this map is that the Northeast and Midwest are administered very differently from the South and West". More insights at source: fakeisthenewreal.org/local/. h/t @salimfurth.bsky.social from LinkedIn.
Apparently before the St. Lawrence Seaway opened when they wanted to get large ships into the Great Lakes they just brought them up the Mississippi and shoved them through the Chicago River
Statecraft crossover event: @kyla.bsky.social and I talk DOGE, Direct File, and deficits with the former #2 at Treasury, Wally Adeyemo. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-run...
How to Run the Treasury Department
Kyla Scanlon & I talk Direct File, Democrats, and debt with Wally Adeyemo
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Really great interview and deep dive into transit financing and the politics of the MBTA Green Line Extension (as well as the Big Dig). There's a lot to talk about here on costs, planning, etc about how things turned out. But this is a very good discussion about how things actually played out.
Stephanie Pollack@@stephanie-pollack.bsky.social · last yr.We need to talk more about how government can do better at delivering what people want and need, including infrastructure. Santi Ruiz and I talked about this in his recently-posted Statecraft podcast on rescuing the troubled Green Line extension from cancellation. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-sal...
We need to talk more about how government can do better at delivering what people want and need, including infrastructure. Santi Ruiz and I talked about this in his recently-posted Statecraft podcast on rescuing the troubled Green Line extension from cancellation. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-sal...
How to Salvage a Transit Project
"When you give yourself too much rope, you hang yourself"
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In most states and counties, different "human services" systems aren't synced up. You can't easily cross-reference CPS calls with substance abuse databases, for instance. In Allegheny County, you can. Here are the results. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...
How to Fix Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
"If we took an index card and wrote down everything we know works well, we'd have a lot of white space left"
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Before EcoHealth Alliance got NIH money to do gain-of-function research in Wuhan, it pitched the project to DARPA. Today's interviewee reviewed that pitch. New Statecraft on risky research, Ebola, and why the CDC is not a response organization. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-bui...
How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital
DARPA maverick Eric Van Gieson on Ebola, the Ecohealth grant proposal, and the CDC
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So far my impression of the culture on here is that it incorporates all the most annoying features of 2019 Twitter with none of its strengths relative to 2024 X.
reggie seidman@ennui.org · 2y agoI’m in The Free Press this AM, outlining how the next administration can make the federal government more effective and efficient. www.thefp.com/p/the-five-t...
The Five Things President Trump Should Do on Day One
Hire the right bureaucrats, set clear, ambitious goals, and experiment, experiment, experiment.
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cool piece from @regressstudies.substack.com https://regressstudies.substack.com/p/why-writing-needs-speaking into the idea of talking as ~ first draft tool! also the concept of "intonation units"…could be a useful step in the drafting process, like songwriting techniques applied to prose
that scene from Tár where she corrects her wife on the BPM in that Duke Ellington song but it’s me correcting Nicole on move order in the Tarrasch Swedish Variation
would it be so wrong to put pasta sauce over stray pantry carbs? stale bread, chips, crackers, etc
the day my kid catches me sneaking into the kitchen at night for one more slice of cheese it’s over for household discipline
you guys should try posting your good stuff whenever I’m up burping the baby. could be fun for all of us
We need a complete and total shutdown on GPT-aided poetry posting
