Matt Clancy

Deadline to apply to these positions is today! Big opportunity to accelerate growth and progress in housing, energy, clinical trials, and more.

City Talks: Remote working and the future of cities - Centre for Cities Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Matt Clancy, Senior Programme Officer at Open Philanthropy and the creator of New Things Under the Sun, a

PODCAST | Remote working and the future of cities 🎙️

@andrewcities.bsky.social is joined by @mattsclancy.bsky.social to discuss hybrid working, productivity, cities and the future of work.

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External Referrals - Open Philanthropy External Referrals

Apply by July 27 for full consideration! Know someone who might be a good fit? Earn $5k if your referral results in a hire: shorturl.at/S3N8j (4/4)

Senior Program Associate/Program Officer, Abundance and Growth (Specialist Track) Open Philanthropy is looking to hire up to four new team members to join our Abundance and Growth https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/abundance-and-growth/#:~:text=This%20fund%20supports%20efforts%...

There are two kinds of position posted, which we’re calling specialists (who will focus on 1-2 of the above areas) and generalists (who will have a broader portfolio). Full job descriptions below. (3/4)
Specialist: shorturl.at/yF9Hq
Generalist: shorturl.at/aWGnm

We’re interested in putting together a team with expertise across many different possible areas: housing policy, energy, infrastructure, state capacity, healthcare and clinical trials, economic dynamism, and more. (2/4)

Announcing Our New $120M Abundance And Growth Fund | Open Philanthropy We are excited to announce the launch of our new Abundance and Growth Fund, which will spend at least $120 million over the next three years to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific and tech...

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) www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...

Este es el futuro.

Enter the 1st pop‑up journal, true living R&D ROI lab for Zvi Griliches: revisiting his seminal question, catalyzing his legacy in real‑time policy, and promising impact no posthumous Econ Nobel (which he more than deserved!) ever could. Arguably the wisest academic publishing initiative in decades.

Such a clever idea. You could imagine its application to all sorts of wicked problems…

This is a really cool kind of initiative: a pop-up journal on the returns to public R&D: popupjournal.com. Pop-up journals to coordinate research on questions that matter!

Interesting initiative!

Love this - need more innovation in academic publishing

Very excited to join with Open Philanthropy on an all-out sprint to answer some of the thorniest practical questions in economics. First question: What return do we get when we invest in R&D?

Good luck with this! An interesting innovation in the organization of the study of innovation.

interesting idea. we need more innovation in the research publication/curation space.

Interesting metascience experiment: a pop-up journal!

Read @mattsclancy.bsky.social's thread for details and how to apply.

Very cool!

We are lucky to be supported in this initiative by a fantastic advisory board that will help us select the winning bid for this journal and select the big questions for future Pop-Up Journals:
Matt Clancy
Doug Elmendorf
Ted Gayer
Danny Goroff
Jonathan Haskel
Margaret Levi
Paul Niehaus
Heidi Williams

Finally: we think Pop-Up Journals will be a useful way to help the academic community coordinate on answering big questions of all kinds and communicate those answers to the policy world. This Pop-Up Journal is only the first we plan to support.

What if you’re a researcher interested in this topic? Several funders have expressed interest in supporting this kind of research. More details at popupjournal.com/individual-r.... The five-year contract is designed to give researchers time to start and finish new projects.

What else will it do? That could be up to you! We welcome ideas from organizations interested in running the journal.

We expect it will also publish work that helps answer its main question, but isn’t a good fit for a typical journal: replications, reanalyses, new datasets, etc.

Each issue’s synthesis essay will help make these contributions legible.

Each issue will lead with an essay, accessible to non-specialist policymakers, that assesses the probability that the ROI of public R&D is various values, based on a synthesis of all relevant work (including work published elsewhere).

Each issue seeks to make progress on one question: what’s the ROI on public funding for R&D? To that end, it will be one home for new research on the topic. But it will do more as well.

Today, we’re inviting organizations to bid on a five-year contract to organize and run the Pop-Up Journal on the returns to public R&D: popupjournal.com

The journal will publish several issues and then sunset after five years.

What’s the return on government support for R&D?

To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.

✴️ REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS! ✴️ @navigation.org is seeking bold projects at the intersection of AI and Open Science. We support innovative applications that make science more transparent, efficient, and trustworthy. Deadline: July 15, 2025. os.nav.fund/ai-for-os/ #openscience #AIforScience

I've been told the US Patent and Trademark Office is expected to terminate its PatentsView contract, meaning all the datasets and disambiguation available at patentsview.org will likely go offline March 28. Associated github repository might also go offline.

Frequently Asked Questions About US Government Funding for R&D How much? On what? What's the ROI? Etc.

Cool blogpost by @mattsclancy.bsky.social on (US) Government R&D spending.

tldr: It is a good thing.
#science4policy

mattsclancy.substack.com/p/frequently...

Generosity Why should we have to pay for projects in foreign countries with our tax dollars? Well, we don't have to. It is a decision. At the moment the decision costs $15 per month each, $200 per year. The Uni...

New blog post: Why should we have to pay for projects in foreign countries with our tax dollars? blog.jacobtrefethen.com/generosity/