Archive - Macroscience

RFP on Negative Metascience

A few weeks back, I wrote about negative metascience. While “traditional” metascience is about studying what makes science work well, or faster…

Jul 12 •

June 2024

Macroscience Podcast Ep3: Jon Askonas

Unpacking the aesthetics and ideology of progress

Jun 21 •

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Dr. Jonathan Askonas

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As part of my work at IFP, I’m helping to co-organize the Bottlenecks Summit, which will take place in September in collaboration with the Abundance…

Jun 13 •

Capital-S Science

It’s not every day that philosophy of science ends up as the main character of a social media beef. But, then again, you don’t always have a…

Jun 6 •

May 2024

Macroscience Podcast: Matt Clancy

May 31 •

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Negative Metascience

I was inspired recently by an offhand joke from Jordan Dworkin that a major new cause area for the progress community could be metaparascience — the…

May 21 •

Macroscience Podcast: Ben Reinhardt

Announcing a new podcast

May 17 •

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February 2024

Progress Deferred: Lessons from mRNA Vaccine Development

I’m excited to announce the release of Progress Deferred, my research report looking at the multi-decade development of mRNA vaccines, and the factors…

Feb 20 •

November 2023

A Census for Science

The potential of metascience rests on its promise to offer an unparalleled account of the determinants of scientific and technological progress. Whereas…

Nov 9, 2023 •

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September 2023

Will Funders Have The Patience to Reform Science?

Discussions about metascience are frequently not about science, but about money. From reforming grantmaking regimes to new frameworks for evaluating the…

Sep 13, 2023 •

Funding Against the Tide

The last edition of Macroscience focused on the curious fact that many scientists and industry insiders considered mRNA vaccines, ex ante, to be a dead…

Sep 6, 2023 •

August 2023

The Frontier of Scientific Plausibility

As part of my fellowship at IFP, I’ve been embarking on a longer-term research project that seeks to produce a retrospective of the development and…

Aug 25, 2023 •

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