Breaking: Trump's higher-ed compact is open to all, I confirmed for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... “We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,” a source told me.

Wow. China now installs more industrial robots each year than the rest of the world combined. Robot density (robots per 10,000 workers) leapfrogged Germany, the US, and Japan. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Shutdown-related reduction in force / federal layoffs by agency H/T @washingtonpost.com Other federal agencies are considering RIFs for possible execution in the next few weeks

If you haven't already, you'll want to watch this @brookings.edu recording ft @chrismurphyct.bsky.social "Beyond productivity: The pursuit of purpose in the age of AI" Kudos to @mollykinder.bsky.social and our Brookings colleagues for organizing this discussion. www.brookings.edu/events/beyon...

I'm hiring at @newamerica.org! Are you a savvy project manager or technical assistance pro? Want to help build the capacity of #communitycolleges to deliver #workforce strategies for #emergingtech sectors? Join us! Priority deadline: Oct 17 newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/Icvr6G...

Harris-voting states were hit hardest by Department of Energy award cancellations, but not every blue-state project was cut. Politics might play a role.

How many Einsteins have we "lost?" 🧠 Here, our policy experts @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social and @lisaguernsey.bsky.social detail how steep cuts to #STEM funding and canceled research grants have jeopardized opportunities for young and underrepresented scientists—and how we can re-engage them.

🆕Ellen Hause of the American Association of #CommunityColleges (AACC) and I are out with a profile on Dr. Celeste Carter, who recently joined @newamerica.org as a #FutureofWork & Innovation Economy initiative fellow and led NSF's ATE program for 16 years #scipol www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Young scientists are speaking up. They talked with us about what the future looks like right now for scientific discovery. They described the pull to go to Europe instead, where countries are investing and recruiting our best scientific minds. Congress must reverse this trend and invest in STEM Ed.

📢 Conference announcement! Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation. If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

💡 Meet our new #FutureOfWork fellows! Over the next year, these experts will help us advance scholarship and technical assistance related to science, #workforce, and industrial policy. Welcome, all!

POLITICO Playbook shout out here - www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Excited to welcome our 2025 cohort of @newamerica.org Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative fellows! Thanks to @politico.com for covering the news. Welcome Francie Genz, Phil Singerman, Celeste Carter, @adamfagan.bsky.social, and @techiewonk.bsky.social! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

I’ll be speaking tomorrow (9/23) at 9am EST at the DC campus of Arizona State U on a project by @rti.bsky.social to calculate the long-term impacts of technologies invented at NIH labs. See cspo.org/event/ntfa09... Register to attend in-person or online. #techtransfer #sciencepolicy

@lisaguernsey.bsky.social and I are out with a new article for @newamerica.org capturing #student voices that have been caught in funding cuts and grant cancellations over what we refer to as a "summer of despair for #STEMeducation" Please read it and share! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

How Indirect-Cost Reform Will Affect University-Industry R&D Partnerships Join @newamerica.org along with former NSF Director France Cordova, former White House OSTP Director Kelvin Droegemier, UIDP CEO Anthony Boccunfuso, and Microsoft's Elizabeth Bruce. Moderated by @politico.com's Erin Schumaker

Pleased to share that Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) will be joining Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) in speaking at this event. Register below!

Join us on Sept 15 for a webinar w/ the U.S. National Science Foundation on NSF Regional Innovation #Engines, a new model of place-based S&T investments promoting industrial strategy Feat @brookings.edu @slaughteram.bsky.social @repbillfoster.bsky.social & others www.newamerica.org/center-educa...

Thanks to Research!America intern Scott Brown for this nice profile of some of our work analyzing NSF's #workforce evolution in recent years www.researchamerica.org/blog/nsf-and...

Commerce Secretary Lutnick pulls $7.4B CHIPS funding from the independent Natcast back into NIST. What will that funding be allocated to? Not the soveriegn wealth fund according to Lutnik. Could reallocate to synergistic investments in other agencies? www.manufacturingdive.com/news/commerc...

After more than 50 years of rapid growth, the nation’s immigrant population is now in decline reflected in a new @pewresearch.org analysis as of June 2025 www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

FABBS is hiring a short-term Tech Policy Fellow to focus on behavioral science and AI (link below). Share with early career policy wonks @ilpfoundry.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @scipolguy.bsky.social @abankston.bsky.social @matthourihan.bsky.social @snapcoalition.bsky.social #scipoljobs

What exactly does it take to scale AI education at the skilled technical workforce level and through community colleges? Read on: How Community Colleges Can Realize the Promise of AI Action Plan dcjournal.com/how-communit...

The future of American science event coming up from our friends over at @stpolicy.bsky.social featuring Rep. Brian Babin Aug 27 from 3-4 PM, available live and in-person www.bakerinstitute.org/event/future... @kennyevans.bsky.social @abankston.bsky.social @snapcoalition.bsky.social

🆕Tiffany Thai is out with a new article for @newamerica.org's Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative, drawing on insights from our research on #AI education at #communitycolleges, including our capture of #students experiences in these programs. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Really cool to see @mcuban.bsky.social's foundation support Miami Dade College in expanding #AI education opportunities with high school partners. This is the sort of career development efforts the Trump admin's #AIActionPlan should be expanding through our 1,000+ CCs: dcjournal.com/how-communit...

@tcfdotorg.bsky.social is out with two reports worth a read - Beyond Job Placement: Reimagining #WIOA for Economic Mobility and Workforce Resilience: tcf.org/content/repo... #Manufacturing Prosperity: Insights from the Midwest: tcf.org/content/repo...

Judge rules that the Regional Education Labs and Comprehensive Centers funding must be appropriated by the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences (IES) Deadline for Ed to disburse the funding to existing or new recipients is Sept 30. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I'm out with a new op-ed today for InsideSource's DCJournal: How #CommunityColleges Can Realize the Promise of #AI Action Plan 4 priorities for interagency collaboration, on the heels of the newly dropped action plan & the workforce development plan. dcjournal.com/how-communit... @newamerica.org

"With more employers seeking to accelerate implementation of AI, workers are poised to continue to see ways to negotiate their uses. Resources like the UC Labor Center’s inventory can help workers & labor leaders stay current on the sector’s collective negotiations." www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

The LAUNCH Pathways Initiative establishes a new Community of Practice and invests in big bets on #youthpathways in five #states Learn more from my @newamerica.org colleague @lindseyannphillips.bsky.social: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Smart @thehill.com op-ed around the appropriation cuts facing NSF thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Thanks for sharing the story, @burnescenter.bsky.social!

⚒️ “The University of California-Berkeley’s Labor Center has announced a new data tool to help labor union negotiators, researchers, media, and policymakers better understand the state of play of union negotiations around the digital economy." buff.ly/QqcAsTZ @forbes.com @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social

#scipol job alert at @pewresearch.org: Project Director, State Science Policy Fellowship Initiative Salary range: $159,200 USD - $177,900 USD pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Trusts...

Judge Declines to Order Trump Administration to Restore Research Cuts "A group of 16 states sued after the National Science Foundation terminated hundreds of millions of dollars in funding that had previously been awarded to research institutions." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/n...

America's run as the premier techno-superpower may be over writes @rossandersen.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... #scipol #STS #scicomm

My latest in @techpolicypress.bsky.social Policymakers should foster partnerships between #workers and #tech R&D leaders to identify productivity bottlenecks, overlooked implementation challenges, and solve industry problems. Why & how: www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-resea...

Nice to see modest #EDA #TechHub funding included in still-in-progress FY 2026 #appropriation bills. $50M in the #House and $60 in the #Senate, building on the $500M #Congress gave EDA in FY 2025. Though still a long way from the $10B authorization over 10 years. Same goes for #NSF #Engines.

Policymakers should study and pilot programs that foster partnerships between the labor sector and researchers, which can help technologists identify productivity bottlenecks, overlooked implementation challenges, and solve industry problems, @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social writes.

What?

My latest @forbes.com story revisits the state of play around how# labor #unions are navigating #AI and digital #technologies. A new database from UC Labor Center aggregates decades of collective bargaining agreements, revealing new insights, definitions, and trends. www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

Don't miss this @forbes.com article by @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social on our brand new searchable inventory of contract provisions from over 175 union agreements that address workplace technologies, protect worker rights, and shape technology adoption, use, and oversight. www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

For @forbes.com I covered the semifinalists for #NSF Engines awards, a signature #CHIPS Act program. Applicants are banking on NSF having enough $ for awards. House Approps seems happy with Engines despite a 2B cut to NSF (Senate Approps seeks to maintain $ levels) www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

An update on the @bipartisanpolicy.org Commission on the American Workforce. Challenging work in these times, but pleased to contribute to this effort as a member of the Workers & Workforce committee. Stay tuned for the commission report next year bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/commiss...

White House unveils AI action plan www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

New for @forbes.com: NSF Announces Candidates For Tech-Based Economic Development Funding As 29 teams seek NSF Regional Innovation Engines awards, a signature CHIPS Act program, funding hangs in the balance as congressional approps. finalize the NSF's final numbers www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

What losing billions in federal grants means for universities & the nation www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n... "Government-university-industry partnership built the American economy in the 20th century: iPhone, GPS, fortified vitamin D has roots in federally funded research."— @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social

Labor Department to take on day-to-day management of Dept of Ed's CTE programs Career and technical education is among the workforce development programs to be jointly administered with the U.S. Department of Education. www.highereddive.com/news/educati...