We were so thrilled to help host @stuartbuck.bsky.social for conversations with @meganranney.bsky.social of @yalesph.bsky.social and Michelle Hahn of the Tobin Center about the importance of reproducibility in science. bit.ly/4tnu7Dl

@stuartbuck.bsky.social update on metascience in the budget goodscience.substack.com/p/update-on-... Emphasis on #replication should be good news, but my concern is it’ll be used for policy-based evidence creation. #NIH Study registration, strong methods & commiting to publish are key

It’s a debate between @jdworkin.bsky.social and @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the value of replicating research!

Members of the Yale community: Please join us on Jan. 21 & 22 for two conversations with @stuartbuck.bsky.social on reproducibility in science. Register to attend on 1/21 at bit.ly/3Z5IZbu or on 1/22 at bit.ly/4qdXZAi

An interview with me that came out today: fasterplease.substack.com/p/funding-ou...

New post on NIH! goodscience.substack.com/p/a-top-scie...

New post! goodscience.substack.com/p/ai-and-ped...

New post on the proposed compact with American universities: open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...

(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...