2026-09-09
Matt Clancy : This week I wish I was reading “What’s a PhD cost and what’s it worth?” a new NBER working paper. The paper (would) trawl through the last few decades of NSF and NIH PhD training programs to identify quasi-…
Jordan Dworkin: Four years ago, in “ A Vision of Metascience ”, Michael Nielsen and Kanjun Qiu asked the reader to imagine they were “ a science fiction writer depicting a scientific discovery made by an alien species. ”…
Willow Latham-Proenca: Maybe more Calvino than Borges, but I’d like to be looking at a constellation of new papers following a huge geographic and sectoral expansion of (something like) the Critical Mineral Project datas…
Nisha Austin: This week I wish I were reading something about which ~five numbers tell you a policy field is growing rather than just getting louder. I'd like to see some metrics around things like how many paid jobs the…
Alex Armlovich: This week I wish I were reading an analysis of the consequences of the regulatory cliff between America’s single-family “International Residential Code” (IRC) 1 and our multifamily “International Building…
Saloni Dattani: Last week I thought, “I’d love to read more about Australia’s clinical trial system and how it compares with the United States!”, since Australia is known for having a much faster process for starting ear…