Archive - Macroscience

Field Essentialism, Field Realism, Field Pragmatism

Scholarly fields – economics, physics, computer science – are the basic units for thinking about metascience.

Aug 12 •

The Strong Researcher Hypothesis

There’s a tension between two basic metascientific instincts.

Aug 1 •

July 2024

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.

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.

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.

Sep 13, 2023 •

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