2026-03-13
Last week, Abundance NY put out The Abundance Agenda , a roadmap to, well, Abundance for New Yorkers. I’m a fan of just how concrete the document is, both in terms of the big picture and the small. On the big picture, th…
The Senate passed the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act 89–10 on Thursday — a landmark pro-supply package that streamlines housing regulation, creates new building incentives, and modernizes federal programs. A…
Meanwhile, closer to home, Governor Hochul’s EXPRESS NY initiative is accepting submissions through April 3 from anyone who can identify a state regulation or practice that adds unnecessary burden — with a focus on housi…
Federal permitting negotiations have re-started in the Senate, following the first steps of an apparent thaw in solar permitting. Alex Trembath of the Breakthrough Institute has a timely piece in response, discussing the…
In a previous post , we noted that Congress largely preserved science budgets for FY26, rejecting large proposed cuts. Unfortunately appropriations are only step one. A few weeks ago Nature reported that OMB has been wit…
On a happier note: This week the Astera Institute announced Radial , a new division committing up to $500M over the next decade to experimenting with how life sciences research is organized, funded, and shared. Early pro…
This year has seen AI agents break through in a serious way among social scientists I respect . So it was only a matter of time until social scientists designed an AI benchmark to see how good agents really are. Meysam A…
Adam Kroetsch has a new post arguing that if we want to make trials more efficient, we need to pay attention to the boring stuff , in other words, the unglamorous work of clinical operations like setting up trials, recru…
I’ve also been following the BioNTech announcement that co-founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci will leave the company by year-end to start a new biotech focused on next-generation mRNA therapeutics (their third startup)…