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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

To celebrate the debut of the Atlas of Innovation, a guide to funding innovation from IFP and the Market Shaping Accelerator, a thread of my favorite Atlas illustrations (by R. Kikuo Johnson)! First: “milestone payments” - get it? (Atlas explainer here: www.abundanceandgrowth.org/p/an-atlas-o...)

A backpacker crosses a wide river using stepping stones.

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Joshua Rosenbloom @jlrosenbloom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

@mattsclancy.bsky.social as usual offers useful insights about the fate of social science funding at NSF Social science at the NSF open.substack.com/pub/abundanc...

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Social science at the NSF

History rhymes

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Are you a PhD student interested in the economics of innovation? The Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Online short course, hosted by IFP, is back for the third time! ifp.org/economics-of...

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Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation Online PhD Short Course | Institute for Progress

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Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Excited to share I'm joining @openphil.bsky.social under @mattsclancy.bsky.social as the housing program officer for the Abundance & Growth Fund! Launching Niskanen's housing team has been a blast, & I'll remain a Senior Fellow with them But I'm thrilled to start supporting housers everywhere!

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Gaétan @gderasse.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🔎 Patent citations are everywhere in innovation research. But do they really trace how ideas spill over between inventors—or are we mistaking legal paperwork for knowledge flows? 🧐 New on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit... #patents #innovation #spillovers

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Patent citations: Tracing spillovers or chasing shadows?

Measuring how ideas move across firms and regions

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Excellent retrospective approach to a timely prospective question.

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?

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Chris Elmendorf @cselmendorf.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

If you're a thinker or do-er in the housing space and you haven't subscribed to @michaelwiebe.bsky.social's substack, you're doing it wrong! It's a living urban econ lit review, inspired by @mattsclancy.bsky.social's New Things Under the Sun. Great stuff! Here's an example ⤵️.

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Nice article on returns to R&D in MIT Tech Review, ft. our own @mattsclancy.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/...

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Otis Reid @otisreid.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Deadline to apply to these positions is today! Big opportunity to accelerate growth and progress in housing, energy, clinical trials, and more.

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...

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Announcing Our New $120M Abundance And Growth Fund | Open Philanthropy

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Abundance and Growth Fund, which will spend at least $120 million over the next three years to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific and tech...

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Nicolás Lillo @nicolillo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Este es el futuro.

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Sebastian Buhai @sbuhai.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Enter the 1st pop‑up journal, true living R&D ROI lab for Zvi Griliches: revisiting his seminal question, catalyzing his legacy in real‑time policy, and promising impact no posthumous Econ Nobel (which he more than deserved!) ever could. Arguably the wisest academic publishing initiative in decades.

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Shane McHugh @shanemchugh.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Such a clever idea. You could imagine its application to all sorts of wicked problems…

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Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is a really cool kind of initiative: a pop-up journal on the returns to public R&D: popupjournal.com. Pop-up journals to coordinate research on questions that matter!

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The Pop-Up Journal Initiative

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Sam MacAulay @sammacaulay.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Interesting initiative!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Love this - need more innovation in academic publishing

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation @sloanfoundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Very excited to join with Open Philanthropy on an all-out sprint to answer some of the thorniest practical questions in economics. First question: What return do we get when we invest in R&D?

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Good luck with this! An interesting innovation in the organization of the study of innovation.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

interesting idea. we need more innovation in the research publication/curation space.

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Interesting metascience experiment: a pop-up journal! Read @mattsclancy.bsky.social's thread for details and how to apply.

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Alex Everhart @aoeverhart.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Very cool!

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.

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Karthik Ram @karthik.io · 25/04/2025

✴️ REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS! ✴️ @navigation.org is seeking bold projects at the intersection of AI and Open Science. We support innovative applications that make science more transparent, efficient, and trustworthy. Deadline: July 15, 2025. os.nav.fund/ai-for-os/ #openscience #AIforScience

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AI for Open Science - Request for Proposals

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've been told the US Patent and Trademark Office is expected to terminate its PatentsView contract, meaning all the datasets and disambiguation available at patentsview.org will likely go offline March 28. Associated github repository might also go offline.

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PatentsView

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...

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Research Group of J. Cabana @cabanachemistry.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is very much worth a careful read. It strikes a very good balance of what’s good and what could be better. “Science is done by people” is an under-appreciated principle

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New post! Frequently Asked Questions about US Government Funding for R&D. Short answers in the thread, longer answers at the link in the replies.

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 17/02/2025

Fascinating conversation between @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @mattsclancy.bsky.social about drivers of innovation in #TheEconomicsShow My favourite bit was the discussion after John asked whether wars could speed up innovation by making it more urgent podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Join us for the University of Göttingen Replication Games on April 7th! We are looking for researchers and graduate students; all social science fields. Teams will also have the opportunity to reproduce a study focusing on deforestation if they want. Register here: surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 12/02/2025

How important is government funding to economic growth? @mattsclancy.bsky.social digs into the data: mattsclancy.substack.com/p/government...

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Great blog from @mattsclancy.bsky.social on measuring returns to government R&D! One key finding: when govt funds a 1% increase in R&D “capital stock," the whole economy gets ~0.2% more productive a decade later. Compelling evidence we should invest more in research.

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com invited me to talk about a post I wrote on his own viral article about changing attitudes towards progress. We ended up chatting about lots more! If this stuff interested you, here's a thread of links to learn much more. www.ft.com/content/3412...

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Lisa L. Ouellette @handle.invalid · 10/02/2025

A reminder that the US gets more $$ back for every $ spent on R&D. There are a lot of ways that the NIH and other grantmaking agencies could be improved, but even under the status quo they are generating enormous value, including lives saved, new jobs, and economic growth.

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New post! Looking at three recent papers on the productivity impact of public R&D, all find positive impacts. mattsclancy.substack.com/p/government...

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Government Funding for R&D and Productivity Growth

Estimating the returns to public R&D, using data

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 05/02/2025

Great article, clearly addressing a fundamental question about literary change. Events matter, retirements matter, but what really matters is:

8. One birth at a time
Does literature advance one funeral at a time? We have analysed a corpus of over 23 000 books by more than 6000 authors and arrived at an answer that is more nuanced than a simple 'yes' or 'no.
The turnover of cohorts does play an important role in the change of literary topics, but the role of authors' retirement is not large, being twice as small as the effect of the arrival of new authors.
Literature does not advance one funeral at a time— it advances one birth at a time. The arrival of new authors with fresh ideas is enough to keep the wheels of literature moving. And the reason why the collective 'push' of the newcomers is more important than the influences of the retirees lies in the unequal career lengths.

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 05/02/2025

New op ed from Tom Wein, @garrisonlovely.bsky.social and I on PEPFAR and giving up the legacy of US power in Africa: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/05/p...

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Trump Has Put George W. Bush’s Lifesaving Legacy in Danger

PEPFAR is a critical part of U.S. soft power in Africa.

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Since AI’s impact on jobs is in the discourse, reposting this explainer I did in June on economic models of automation and labor outcomes. www.newthingsunderthesun.com/pub/4bnobp5q

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When the Robots Take Your Job

Some Intuitions From Recent Models of Automation

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Join us for the Minnesota Replication Games on March 17th! We are looking for researchers and graduate students; all social science fields! Participants get coauthorship to a meta-paper combining reproductions/replications! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New post! Looking at who benefits more from technologies that make discovery easier; literal maps, genome wide association studies, and machine learning.

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Do Prediction Technologies Help Novices or Experts More?

It can go either way

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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Who benefits from prediction technologies? The usual great and helpful stuff from @mattsclancy.bsky.social. Dropping this straight into my course reading! mattsclancy.substack.com/p/do-predict...

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Do Prediction Technologies Help Novices or Experts More?

It can go either way

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

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Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

My take on BlueSky vs Twitter is that they’re both bubbles, but different kinds of bubble, and the best option is to use both.

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