(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

Maybe we should have a Department of Government Efficiency: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

Carl Bergstrom blocked me for this post! Didn't know he was like that.

New guest post! goodscience.substack.com/p/nasa-is-wo...

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:

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

New piece on NIH reform: paragoninstitute.org/public-healt...

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...

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...

New piece: issues.org/unfunded-gra...

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.

New post! goodscience.substack.com/p/academic-c...

New piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...

Another new post about a ton of new policy briefs on R&D and industrial policy! goodscience.substack.com/p/the-techno...

New post! goodscience.substack.com/p/opportunit...

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...

(#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:

New piece: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear...

Latest piece: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Got quoted in the New York Times today: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social. Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...

As someone who loves spending part of a weekend digging into indirect cost regulations, here's a new piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/federal-in...

There is plenty of scope for reducing bureaucracy for the benefit of research, @stuartbuck.bsky.social argues. However, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are going about this completely the wrong way. buff.ly/aLkxKhC

Science Under Threat in the United States How to make science more efficient by @stuartbuck.bsky.social DOGE needs to completely rethink its efforts to increase the efficiency of the federal agencies that fund research in the US. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

New piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/whats-goin...

Yet another piece on NIH and indirect costs: open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...

Amazing that DOGE is so focused on massively increasing bureaucracy and inefficiency: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

That's a wrap! Many thanks to our amazing speakers & @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social for co-funding the BITSS Annual Meeting. Great discussions on meta-research, reporting, & reproducibility. @carsonchristiano.bsky.social @stuartbuck.bsky.social @dariosidhu.bsky.social @mariaruthjones.bsky.social

In the NIH's guidance proposing reducing indirect rates, it cites the fact that private foundations pay much less than the NIH But experts I talked to said it's not a fair comparison — here's why: ft. @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social 🧪🔬🩺 www.statnews.com/2025/02/27/w...

New story in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/inexplicab...

Good article (caveat: it quotes me throughout) www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Great piece on NIH reforms from @stephaniemlee.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/here...

New piece at the Good Science Project, from Aishwarya Khanduja: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-slow-c...

Just listened (again) to one of my favorite pieces: Aaron Copland's Third Symphony. The last movement ("Fanfare for the Common Man") especially gets to me. So powerfully moving and intense and melodic.

Just read this book today. Well-written, fascinating, and terrifying:

New post! You don't often hear someone speak publicly with this degree of candor about a funding agency or its director. goodscience.substack.com/p/some-candi...

Anyone interested in my Daylight Savings Time compromise? Now that all our clocks are digital, we could have them move forward 20 seconds per night for 6 mos. (just about equalling one hour forward), and then backwards 20 seconds per night for the other 6 mos. Easy!

Wouldn't it be nice if u could read a published pharma-sponsored clinical trial about some new drug & be confident that the results are what they appear to be? @chrisdc77 & I think it's very achievable using the @RegReports peer review model. Our proposal ⬇️ www.openpharma.blog/blog/transpa...

New piece from David Lang! goodscience.substack.com/p/small-fast...

Hospitals: "we demand to charge $15,000 for a service that costs $5,000 in Australia. We never tell the patient the price in advance" Insurance company: "That is too high, we will only pay $12,000" Commenters: "The insurance company is so heartless and cruel!!"

Whether it's FOIA or the Federal Advisory Committee Act, there's a presumption that full transparency is good. Yet everyone knows that if you want to have an honest discussion about anything, you have to promise "Chatham House Rules." Time to rethink FOIA & FACA?

so true

NEW at Good Science Project: an interview on science policy with Daniel MacArthur. goodscience.substack.com/p/interview-...

A new piece published today: inquisitivemag.org/articles/the...

Just published a piece on the proposed Department of Government Efficiency: open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...

@devezer.bsky.social I'd be interested in what you think about the 1 hour mark for the next 5-10 minutes. podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/235/...