Matt Clancy
@mattsclancy
Senior Program Officer for the Abundance and Growth Fund @open_phil. Creator of http://newthingsunderthesun.com. See https://mattsclancy.com for more.
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…
I'm hiring a Director of Housing!! Come help us develop creative approaches to increase housing supply. In my completely unbiased opinion, we're doing really exciting & impactful work on one of the most critical policy issues of our time. Join our team! linkedin.com/jobs/view/4265…
PODCAST | Remote working and the future of cities 🎙️ @AndrewCities is joined by @mattsclancy to discuss hybrid working, productivity, cities and the future of work. Listen to the pod 🎧👇 buff.ly/4sDHZTF
🚨Open Phil is hiring for some awesome roles to build out our >$120m Abundance and Growth Fund 🚨 Apply for a chance to work with @mattsclancy on accelerating scientific & technological progress and boosting economic growth x.com/mattsclancy/st…
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…
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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…
A single calendar year in 2025 “contains” more human life than a year in 100,000 BCE, simply because today’s population is thousands of times larger. The graphic divides history into ten equal “blocks” of experience: each block represents 170 billion people-years.
As part of our upcoming transit costs series we're looking for authors interested in writing policy briefs for how to lower transit costs. We're focused federal policy and proposals for the Surface Transportation Reauthorization. x.com/ArnabDatta321/…
🚨 Calling transit policy experts: @IFP is seeking actionable, technically sound ideas to reform federal transit policy. Selected proposals will get a $2,000 honorarium + support to turn your idea into a full memo. Details: ifp.org/call-for-propo…
Nice write-up in @Nature of the UK Metascience Unit's experiments with Distributed Peer Review. (Link follows...)
1) It takes *way* longer than anticipated to actually build/deploy custom AI agents for large enterprises. AI makes the engineering fast. But sales, product, system integration, and implementation are *incredibly* slow. Customers don't know what they want, getting stakeholders…
1) It takes *way* longer than anticipated to actually build/deploy custom AI agents for large enterprises. AI makes the engineering fast. But sales, product, system integration, and implementation are *incredibly* slow. Customers don't know what they want, getting stakeholders…
Relatedly, how many normal journals should plan their obsolescence?
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…
Thread from #metascience2025. 1/ Learned about the new pop-up journal from @mattsclancy! It's a 5-year timeboxed academic journal on a single question—what’s the return on government support for R&D? As @stuartbuck1 says, it's "the first FRO of journals." Very interesting.
1/@EpochAIResearch doubles down on preiction AI will drive 20%+ annual GDP growth. Economists remain skeptical. This is the defining debate of today: AI builders see infinite prosperity ahead. Economists see the same limits that constrained every technological revolution.🧵 1/13
📢New WP on networks in innovation Collaborating innovators form a network. Does the network position matter for outcomes? Is it helpful to have well-connected collaborators? Empirical answers based on over 28k corporate innovators. A summary 🧵👇 🔗papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Awesome initiative by @mattsclancy and @open_phil !
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…
This is so great. Happened during Covid with Covid Economics but a focussed question is fascinating.
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…