Jordan Dworkin

🚨 @I4Replication released my experiment with a new academic-literary form, a “replication opinion.” I made myself judge in a debate and wrote an opinion that is more credible than either party could muster. Piece: econstor.eu/handle/10419/3… Post: davidroodman.com/blog/2025/05/0… 🧵 follows

The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) openphilanthropy.org/research/annou…

What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, @open_phil and @SloanFoundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal. Today, we’re inviting organizations to bid on a five-year contract to…

LAUNCH DAY 🚀 Today I’m launching a new podcast, Hard Drugs, with Jacob Trefethen (@JacobTref) Our first episode is about lenacapavir — a new HIV drug that blocks infections with an efficacy rate of nearly 100%, and which could completely change the fight against HIV worldwide.…

We @navigationfund are looking for proposals on how to move scientific publishing into the future. If you think we can do better, stop complaining and come build by applying AI towards open science os.nav.fund/ai-for-os/

we made a map! gap-map.org is a tool we built to help you explore the landscape of R&D gaps holding back science - and the bridge-scale fundamental development efforts that might allow humanity to solve them, across almost two dozen fields

🚨 We're hiring! Join @IFP's metascience team to rethink how science gets funded and organized. Fellow & Senior Fellow roles open — $3K referral bonus if we hire your recommendation. Apply by May 11: ifp.org/come-work-with…

Very excited that we're launching @open_phil's $120M Abundance and Growth Fund to accelerate economic growth and make essential goods like housing and infrastructure more affordable! (1/n)

Exciting update: @open_phil is doubling down on our YIMBY, innovation, and metascience success by launching a >$120m Abundance & Growth Fund to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific & technological progress. Funding from @GoodVentures, @patrickc, + others. Why now? 🧵

Metascience and AI news (part 2): we're proud to announce 23 new metascience research projects, funded in partnership with @open_phil, on how we can make science and science funding work better. Details of the projects here: ukri.org/opportunity/uk…

Zoogle! Our new tool from @arcadiascience for picking research organisms. Even if you’re not a scientist, you should care that we spend >$50B/yr on clinical trials based on organismal models (>90% failure rate). Read more about Zoogle here: arcadiascience.com/blog/zoogle

New post! Looking at three recent papers on the productivity impacts of government funded research, both in the US and OECD. Across different methods, all find positive impacts.

New post on the big two U.S. science funders: the NIH and NSF. Here are 5 reforms that don't require more money, & could be implemented now. The arguments/evidence lean on the metascience community & personal lessons over the years in science philanthropy blog.jacobtrefethen.com/nih-and-nsf/

Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress. Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵

Little Friday metascience treat: We've launched the @UKRI_News Data Sandpit for Metascience It gives metascience researchers an opportunity, for the first time, to access sensitive UKRI administrative data in a secure way, to power research into how R&D funding works.

Applications for the second cohort of the Brains Research Accelerator are now open! 1/

New post! In unrelated news: come work with me! I am hiring someone to work on Open Philanthropy's Innovation Policy program (which I lead). Link to job info in the reply. newthingsunderthesun.com/pub/4bnobp5q/r…

How does funding uncertainty affect science? Every Oct, we get headlines bemoaning the impact of the federal budgeting process on science. Does it matter that grant $$ takes a bit longer to get out the door, or is it just a nuisance we can deal with?

New @scientistsorg: Promoting Reproducible Research To Maximize The Benefits Of Govt Investments In Science NSF/NIH should -Launch initiatives re: rigor/reproducibility -Study use of transparent/credible methods -Expand support for 3rd-party replications fas.org/publication/pr…

I really enjoyed working on this proposal, and would love to chat about it with anyone interested. Also important to note that @davidtlang is an incredibly sharp and bold thinker on this topic and his excellent piece from two years ago is a must read: commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/pf9dplcq/r…