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As a PD you will design and manage a ~£50M programme to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone.
Applications open August 2026 for a May 2027 start - register your interest: https://bit.ly/418ltvy
happy Saturday! My first piece of academic work is out. What can tidal flexure tell us about ice in grounding zones? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Joseph, psychologists would benefit from thinking about future roadmaps -what are the big questions psychologists need to make progress on and how can we set up the supports needed to do that 9/
Biggest mistakes academics make. Tessa, need to be incredibly clear & not undermine your case w unnecessary nuance.
Joseph, we're used to due process after submission (at least a desk reject), but pitching you often just hear silence. Need to be persistent even when getting nothing in response. 7/
Opeds go to a limited elite audience, short form videos go out to a broad audience of the public. Think about who you want to reach and why.
When writing think about more prescriptions than descriptions - describe what ought to be. 3/
Most op-eds are of the form A, but B, therefore C. Everyone thinks A, but they're missing B, therefore we should do C. This is what we know, but here's what I know, therefore here's what I do/what you should do.
Learn more at their next workshop.
www.beyondtheivorytower.com 4/
First up is @josephfridman.bsky.social on communicating w the public
Whether you're doing op-eds, podcasts, blogs, when you start you're trying to get from 0 to 1. Just start. Then 1-10 find your rhythm & keep doing it. 10-N do you want to keep scaling up, if so how. Small steps at each stage 2/
Title slide SPSP 2026 ANNUAL CONVENTION CHICAGO FEBRUARY 26-28 Global Impact: Communicating Psychology for Policy and Public Good Organizer: Andrés Gvirtz, SPSP United Nations Committee February 27, 2026
Session Goals Empowering personality and social psychologists to effectively communicate their work to public audiences and policymakers worldwide Exploring strategies to translate academic findings into actionable insights for sustainable development and global policy solutions Helping scholars discover how to leverage their expertise to inform critical discussions on the world stage
Increasing psychology's impact on policy and public good - symposium at #SPSP2026
How can researchers communicate with the public, government decision-makers, and industry? Economics tends to have large impacts on policy, psychology doesn't -how can we better reach people? 1/
If you're curious about our submission (alongside many fantastic partners!) to the NSF Tech Labs RFI, we've just posted our responses to our blog, Essential Technology: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/our-respon...
The focussed research organizations enabled by @convergentresearch.bsky.social are driving forward an ambitious agenda !
youtu.be/L5W-lV1K_xQ?...
And while we were all in one place, we took a few hours to pull some members of the team aside, to ask them some questions about what we're working on, and why. Here’s the video we made about Convergent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5W-...
It's been an incredibly exciting year in metascience at large, and for us at Convergent.
Last week, the NSF announced their Tech Labs Initiative.
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-future...
we publish because we deeply value the chance to share our writing and thinking with you (and to hear from you about it) - but the art sure makes it nicer to look at 🌸 🚀 🔬
and from the very first piece kicking off our blog, wherein
@agapakis.com inaugurated this aesthetic mode for our posts, which it has been a joy to extend
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/how-to-bui...
from our beginner's guide to scientific roadmapping
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/scientific...
from the launch of v1.0 of our gap-map.org
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/introducin...
from our essay on the fundamental capabilities we're prioritizing in the intelligence age
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/prioritizi...
from our essay on our UK FRO Founder Residency, powered by @aria-research.bsky.social
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...
from our two piece series laying out a plan to advance a cyber-resilience renaissance, with research fellow @miyazono.bsky.social
pt 1: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/advancing-...
pt 2: www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/securing-c...
happy wednesday from new orleans! here's some @convergentresearch.bsky.social Essential Technology art that doesn't hit the feed (only the frontispiece gets shared here) - first from our most recent piece on the @NSF's new Tech Labs Initiative
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-future...
Last Friday, the @NSF released an RFI for a new Tech Labs Initiative, to "build and scale next-gen independent research organizations to advance science."
If you've been interested in FROs, you'll want to see this from NSF:
sam.gov/opp/7332ade9...
"sustained... support to... independent organizational structures operating outside of existing academic, start-up, and industry constraints... a dedicated, full-time team... operational independence..."
This community is building foundational capabilities for technological progress.
Its nonprofit initiatives allow broadly sharing these capabilities.
I am happy to support this mission 🚀
What does it take to identify critical science & tech capability gaps—and then build organizations dedicated to addressing them?
@adammarblestone.bsky.social, @anastasiag.bsky.social, Mary Wang, & @josephfridman.bsky.social on creating @convergentresearch.bsky.social: issues.org/focused-rese...
Earlier this year, @parallelsq.bsky.social hosted a research fest.
We began with a broad perspective:
◾️ A century of remarkable progress! Proteomics drove conceptual discoveries and medical treatments.
Listen to what's next!
Proteomics: The arc of progress
youtu.be/Sc2QLXb84XI?...
Proud of @e11bio.bsky.social's early progress here, and excited for so much more to come (that I've seen previews of as a FRO board member 😍).
Optics + expansion + barcoding + AI + molecules = beginning of infinity for scalable brain circuit mapping, with wide implications across science.
👀 Our latest Substack is live – discover:
– The launch of Innovator Circles
– Insights into the FRO-Founder Residency with @convergentresearch.bsky.social
– A Q&A with @micromotility.bsky.social on natural computation in single-celled microorganisms
+ more ↓
link.aria.org.uk/sepsubstack-bluesky
Join our team and help realize a bold vision.
Earlier this year, Imprint came out of stealth on the TED Mainstage to share our vision:
What if the immune system holds the key to curing chronic diseases—and we just need the tools to read it?
We’re building those tools.
Our TED talk is now live 👉 go.ted.com/beckbrachman
