Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck.bsky.social
Executive Director, Good Science Project
We were so thrilled to help host @stuartbuck.bsky.social for conversations with @meganranney.bsky.social of @yalesph.bsky.social and Michelle Hahn of the Tobin Center about the importance of reproducibility in science. bit.ly/4tnu7Dl
@stuartbuck.bsky.social update on metascience in the budget goodscience.substack.com/p/update-on-... Emphasis on #replication should be good news, but my concern is it’ll be used for policy-based evidence creation. #NIH Study registration, strong methods & commiting to publish are key
Update on Metascience-Related Language in the NIH Budget
Earlier this week, the House and Senate appropriations committees released a bipartisan bill on NIH funding, along with a Joint Explanatory Statement that has a few paragraphs of metascience interest.
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It’s a debate between @jdworkin.bsky.social and @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the value of replicating research!
Back and Forth on the Value of Replication
From Stuart:
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Members of the Yale community: Please join us on Jan. 21 & 22 for two conversations with @stuartbuck.bsky.social on reproducibility in science. Register to attend on 1/21 at bit.ly/3Z5IZbu or on 1/22 at bit.ly/4qdXZAi
New post! goodscience.substack.com/p/ai-and-ped...
AI and Pediatric Cancer Research
The Trump Administration recently issued an executive order titled “Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer with Artificial Intelligence,” with an accompanying announcement from the Department of Health ...
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New post on the proposed compact with American universities: open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...
A Compact Between Universities and Government?
Recently, the federal government released a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” based on a proposal from investor Marc Rowan.
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(1/5) Once, eccentric patrons funded wild dreams — radar in a mansion, secret codes in Shakespeare, scrolls from Vesuvius. Today, philanthropy feels safe and bureaucratic. What if wild giving could revive science, health and imagination? 🔗 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/t... @stuartbuck.bsky.social
The Case for Crazy Philanthropy
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Maybe we should have a Department of Government Efficiency: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
The Case for a "Department of Government Efficiency"
There ought to be a federal department exclusively focused on making government work better, that is, government efficiency.
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Carl Bergstrom blocked me for this post! Didn't know he was like that.
Stuart Buck@stuartbuck.bsky.social · last yr.Good point. In fact, one might as well denounce anyone who has ever criticized anti-Semitism because they are somehow responsible for Trump weaponizing that idea against Columbia and Harvard.
Showing which proposals do AND don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science, @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy write. In fact, US funding agencies are required by law to provide much of this data already:
Let Unfunded Grant Applications See the Light of Day
Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · last yr.“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
This 2017 "classic" from @edyong209.bsky.social might as well have been written today including the quotes from me, @stuartbuck.bsky.social, @cragcrest.bsky.social, Hilda Bastain, and others. "How the GOP Could Use Science’s Reform Movement Against It" www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Actual quotes from the Dallas Fed's monthly manufacturing report: "Business sucks" "DOGE has killed us. Our customers are fighting tariff increases and dramatic funding cuts from USDA and USAID." "We have a large order delayed until 2026." www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
Texas manufacturing production flat, new orders fall
Texas factory activity held steady in May, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. The production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions,...
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Federal science agencies rarely share publicly what grant proposals they choose *not* to fund. @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy make the case for why they should: issues.org/unfunded-gra...
Let Unfunded Grant Applications See the Light of Day
Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.
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Im sorry for empowering trump to attack science by my asking people to use better data management and statistical practices. I take full responsibility for my actions and apologize to those who could so obviously see how my efforts would be responsible for ending American science.
Another new post about a ton of new policy briefs on R&D and industrial policy! goodscience.substack.com/p/the-techno...
The Techno‑Industrial Policy Playbook
Just released today:
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The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security. More here: medium.com/@eblissmorea...
This will kill us: restricting animal research
Tuesday, as my lab gathered to celebrate the completion of one of our big studies, the National Institutes of Health announced that they…
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(#metascience) A good article by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the Fluoride and IQ meta-analysis: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear.... Summarizes some of the points in our forensic review of it (see the forensic review as a pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/os...). Very nice excerpt below:
