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Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We've been checking with contacts inside the NSF and they are saying it is **not true** that X-labs is responsible for this. X-labs is not anywhere close to big enough to make up this hole. As far as I have heard, this program is coming out of TIP funding.

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Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🚨 We're hiring! Join @ifp.bsky.social’s metascience team to rethink how science gets funded and organized. Fellow & Senior Fellow roles open — $3K referral bonus if we hire your recommendation. Apply by May 11: ifp.org/come-work-wi...

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Come Work with IFP | IFP

IFP is currently hiring — join the team!

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@calebwatney.bsky.social of Institute for Progress on much-needed reforms of US funding for investments in science that make a lot more sense than DOGE slash-and-burn. via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...

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Frank S. David @franksdavid.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Smart piece on need for more risk-taking in US science www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o... by @calebwatney.bsky.social of @ifp.bsky.social (Learn more abt IFP’s smart sci/med ideas — including some stuff by me & others on clinical trials — on their website.)

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Opinion | DOGE Needs a Different Playbook for Science

We need less administrative bloat in science.

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Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

🎯🎯🎯 marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

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Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A very interesting argument from @mtabarrok.bsky.social that credential inflation in education (without corresponding real gains in human capital) has made the Great Stagnation look a bit worse than it actually is. www.maximum-progress.com/p/is-the-gre...

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Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

macroscience is back today with @calebwatney.bsky.social thinking about how data limits the promise of metascience, and arguing for the need for a census-style effort in the space www.macroscience.org/p/a-census-f...

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A Census for Science

The potential of metascience rests on its promise to offer an unparalleled account of the determinants of scientific and technological progress. Whereas earlier efforts to understand progress have rel...

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Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I enjoyed having the opportunity to testify a few days ago before the House Science Committee on the areas where federal AI R&D funding can go the furthest: progress.institute/where-can-fe...

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Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

My mom is reading Dune because she wants to connect with me and have me explain the plot 😭

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Heidi L. Williams @heidiwilliams.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

New spring 2023 Journal of Economic Perspectives issue: housing/urban economics, universal health insurance, mental health, + a bonus teaching-oriented piece on event study models from Doug Miller: aeaweb.org/issues/721

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

Montana is on track to adopt perhaps the most ambitious state-level YIMBY reform package yet: legalizing duplexes, establishing as-of-right permitting, and requiring that zoning be informed by realistic assessments of housing need, among many reforms.