andrewgerard
@andrewmgerard
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Metascience at https://t.co/9e7G58U0Ir
Joined August 2025
RT @alexwcohen: @albrgr @metaculus Cool to see so many comments, too, explaining the rationale for these forecasts. e.g.: .
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Not only are forecasters expecting no cuts in terms of congressional budgets for science, they are expecting actual obligations (i.e the executive branch spending appropriated money) to basically match appropriations. Which, uh, yes please.
Excited that Open Phil is funding this @metaculus forecasting tournament on the future budgets and spending of NIH and NSF, and surprised that forecasters are expecting basically no cuts
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Solar is huge in Africa, due in large part to cheap and accessible panels from China
I’m bullish on solar globally, but especially in developing countries. There the alternative is no power rather than 100% reliable power. In just the last year, Sierra Leone’s solar panel imports are equivalent to 61% of the country’s ***entire 2023 electricity generation***
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RT @AlecStapp: Reminder: one of China's biggest fears is that someday we might actually fix our broken immigration system (instead of activ….
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It is now this Sunday. Submit your ideas!.
Deadline to pitch your ideas for the Transit Policy Playbook (a collaboration between @IFP and Slow Boring @mattyglesias) is this Sunday. Submit your idea! All your transit friends are doing it.
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RT @BenSchifman: The Department of the Interior ordered a nearly complete, 700MW wind farm to stop work, citing unspecified national securi….
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Today I learned that Duolingo came out of a series of National Science Foundation grants. Muy bien! .
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Deadline to pitch your ideas for the Transit Policy Playbook (a collaboration between @IFP and Slow Boring @mattyglesias) is this Sunday. Submit your idea! All your transit friends are doing it.
Final reminder:. The deadline to submit ideas for our Transit Policy Playbook is this Sunday. Submit here: The bar for submitting is low! Just need to explain the problem (<200 words) and the solution (<200 words). If selected, we'll work with you to
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RT @BenSchifman: For the first time since graduating law school ~15 years ago I have a new employer!. Excited to announce that I have begun….
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Americans have much to be proud of here. US research led to life saving innovations; US global health programs spread those innovations. One estimate credits USG-funded global health with 32% of the drop in <5 mortality in developing countries
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USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the...
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It’s a truly incredible achievement that in the poorest parts of the world, kids have the same chance of survival (and increasingly, living a long healthy life) that they had in Europe 70 years ago.
Still think about this every time I hear someone romanticizing the pre-industrial era
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RT @naina_bajekal: Come work with me at @open_phil ! We're hiring an Editor to help us create, refine, and distribute thoughtful content ac….
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RT @open_phil: We’re hiring for an editor to join our communications team! Apply by August 27 to be considered. Pl….
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RT @AlecStapp: 🚨 Announcing the Transit Policy Playbook 🚨. @IFP is teaming up with @mattyglesias to crowdsource federal transit ideas that….
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RT @rSanti97: We want YOU to help us improve federal transit policy. For context: Congress reauthorizes highway/rail/transit programs ever….
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A policy competition from the Institute for Progress
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RT @AlecStapp: mRNA technology is miraculous and has so much potential. This is such a massive own goal.
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