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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Natalie Bomstad writes, “For collective well‑being work, measurement can’t be a rigid, one-and-done design. It has to move with the community, respond to change, and reflect what’s actually happening, not our assumptions.” Read more on systems change and shared learning: issues.org/wisconsin-we...
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We Created a Survey to Measure Community Well-Being and Activated a “Messy Middle”
A Wisconsin county realized that systems change requires shared sensemaking as much as innovative metrics, writes Natalie Bomstad.
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
On our podcast, @kumargarg.bsky.social, president of Renaissance Philanthropy, shares his journey of finding and implementing big ideas within and outside of the government. Listen to the full episode of The Ongoing Transformation podcast here: issues.org/kumar-garg-f...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
An environmental knowledge commons could support evidence-based policymaking, but it will require long-term coordination across the many communities monitoring pollution and local conditions. Read @sdosemagen.bsky.social and Gwen Ottinger‘s essay in our Spring 2026 issue: issues.org/environmenta...
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Constructing a New Knowledge Infrastructure
A knowledge commons could support evidence-based policymaking, but it will require coordination with the communities monitoring pollution.
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Fitgi Saint-Louis Aunties, 2022
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In our Spring issue, Foundation for American Innovation research fellow Lars Erik Schönander argues that the latest reforms of the Small Business Innovation Research program fall short. Read the full feature essay here: issues.org/sbir-reforms...
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Reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research Program Isn’t Enough
Reforms to America’s seed fund should be a catalyst for policies that help more small businesses bring new technologies to market.
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Freeman opines that “We should be living with nature, not imposing ourselves on it; accepting it, letting it exist with us; observing it quietly, just letting it be around us.” Read more of Freeman’s “If These Walls Could Talk” exhibition in our Spring 2025 issue: issues.org/kathryn-free...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Kathryn Freeman Hunting Season, 2024
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
On our podcast, Emily Packard Dawson, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School, speaks with ISSUES managing editor Jason Lloyd about the ethical and policy challenges that assistive reproductive technologies raise for egg donations. issues.org/the-future-o...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“When institutions privilege a narrow range of cognitive practices as legitimate knowledge,” Michael Crow, David Rosowsky, and William Dabars write, “they marginalize the exploratory, embodied, and relational forms of intelligence through which innovation often emerges.” issues.org/pluralistic-...
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Building Pluralistic Intelligence Into the American Research University
To respond to societal challenges, universities must deal with the mismatch between how knowledge is generated and what academia teaches.
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
See related content: Taking Aristotle to the Moon and Beyond: issues.org/aristotle-ph... Zach Pirtle Explores Ethics for Mars Landings: issues.org/science-poli...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In our latest piece, US Representative Brian Babin argues that a disciplined division of labor between government agencies and commercial actors is critical for the US to maintain leadership in space. Read: issues.org/america-next...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
How should the public fund science? How can research improve the quality of life in local communities? Our new Spring 2026 issue explores these questions and more to better understand how the social contract between science and society is evolving. issues.org/issue/42-3/
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Strachan’s series “Six Thousand Years” merges art and science in surreal landscapes to uncover often overlooked histories in mainstream narratives. Read more about Strachan’s recent exhibition “The Day Tomorrow Began” in our recent issue: issues.org/tavares-stra...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Tavares Strachan Shadow Maps (The Snowy Owl), 2022
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In the latest installment of our podcast, Edward You, a former special agent in the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, joins ISSUES editor-in-chief @lisamargonelli.bsky.social to discuss how You helped reframe how policymakers understand biosecurity. issues.org/edward-you-p...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
What would you buy if you had unlimited storage? In response to Gunnar Anderson’s “The Pocket Box™,” the newest short story in the #FutureTenseFiction series, @thekibosch.bsky.social looks at how mass consumption transforms technological breakthroughs. issues.org/futuretensef...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How long does it take for a ground-breaking scientific discovery to become a mass consumer product? Gunnar Anderson’s “The Pocket Box™,” the new #FutureTenseFiction story, explores when a world-changing breakthrough in physics becomes a commodity with next-day shipping. issues.org/futuretensef...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“...AI chatbots are chimeric: They contain multitudes, shifting from one role to another in the course of a conversation, including that of learned intermediaries like doctors, lawyers, therapists, financial advisers—and trusted friends.” -Joshua Joseph & @zittrain.bsky.social
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“We’ve seen this movie before with the rise of social media, when we allowed companies to use kids as guinea pigs for a massive, uncontrolled experiment. It gave way to a full-blown mental health crisis….We cannot make the same mistakes with AI.” —Amina Fazlullah
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“Vulnerable elders may be especially prone to forming unrealistic beliefs about AI companions’ capacities for genuine care and emotional reciprocity” —@csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“...when an AI system learns autonomously, generates unbounded content, and is optimized to sustain user engagement at any cost, the possibility of meaningful correction diminishes rapidly. These are precisely the circumstances where red lines become necessary.” —Marc Rotenberg
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Marc Rotenberg, @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, Amina Fazlullah, and Joshua Joseph & @zittrain.bsky.social respond to @jbbranch.bsky.social‘s piece on regulatory frameworks for AI companions in our Forum section. Read the discussion here: issues.org/reducing-pot...
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Reducing the Potential Harms of AI Companions
AI companions and chatbots present novel risks to vulnerable people and communities. Can regulatory efforts keep up?
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Nathalie Miebach’s series "The Floods" explores how experiencing data through art can deepen our engagement with the realities of climate change. It asks not how art can explain science, but how it can help us feel the systems we seek to understand. Read: issues.org/sculpting-th...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Warren & Rhoades detail how this state-based research model builds trust between academic institutions, state policymakers, and local communities for efficient research that redefines “what publicly funded science looks like and how it impacts everyday lives.” Read: issues.org/north-caroli...
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The result: Within months, researchers were able to produce a cost-effective resin designed to capture the water’s contaminants—a process that would typically take much longer with traditional models of federal funding.
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In 2017, Wilmington, North Carolina, was faced with what seemed to be a worst case scenario: a chemical pollutant had been found in the region’s drinking water, and researchers weren’t sure how to remove it. So the state’s General Assembly called the NC Collaboratory. issues.org/north-caroli...
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Research That Solves North Carolina’s Problems
The North Carolina Collaboratory is working to make publicly funded science accountable to the people of the state.
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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“We should be deeply skeptical of the promotion of AI as a solution to the fog of war, which imagines that the right technology will find the important signals amid the noise.” In our Winter 2024 issue, Lucy Suchman questions the narratives underlying AI-enabled warfare. issues.org/ai-pretense-...
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AI Aids the Pretense of Military “Precision”
We should be deeply skeptical of the promotion of AI as a military solution to the fog of war, Lucy Suchman writes
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