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Today, I was asked for any documents that explain "how your team got so much done" in Obama White House. I sent them this -> mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.116…
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Kumar Garg
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Kumar Garg
@KumarAGarg
8 yrs @WHOSTP44, 7 yrs with @EricSchmidt, now leading @RenPhilanthropy. https://t.co/ftaXIKFiAb
Washington, DC Katılım Aralık 2010
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Kudos to @NSF and the TIP Directorate for pursuing new funding models to support breakthrough team science.
Big step. It's hard to imagine NSF doing this even five years ago, before:
a) the important groundwork laid by CHIPS and Science to create a new directorate with a mandate to pursue new funding models;
b) the philanthropic community de-risking core aspects of the FRO model;
c) a new crop of science policy entrepreneurs helping to make the case; and
d) the work of visionary leaders at NSF, our most important federal institution dedicated to pushing the scientific frontier
U.S. National Science Foundation@NSF
NSF announces $1.5B NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science efforts. NSF X-Labs will scale a new generation of transformative independent research organizations to advance breakthrough science outside of traditional institutions. nsf.gov/news/nsf-annou…
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Huge win for everyone working on new models for science.
The willingness of philanthropy to bet on new things, the active experimentation to make it real, the policy entrepreneurship to sell it, and public servants willing to take the leap.
It all adds up!
Dan Turner-Evans@DanTurnerEvans
X-Labs lives! The initial topic areas are: 1. Scientific Instrumentation for Sensing and Imaging 2. Quantum Systems: Interconnects and Integrated Photonics I am really excited to see and someday use the new technologies that come out of the initiative! nsf.gov/news/nsf-annou…
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This is a great example of betting on talent, and high ROI use of philanthropic funds.
For when @ilangur scoped the idea of @activatefellows and raised the initial philanthropic funding, this is more than a 1000x return in value created.
Ilan Gur@ilangur
I'm so proud of what @TimMLatimer and @JackNorbeck have built with Fervo -- both in its impact and the grace with which they executed their vision since day 1 (when every onlooker was certain geothermal was a dead end). The goal of @activatefellows was always to help more leaders like this win and have a bigger role in shaping the future. Big win for all of us today!
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NEW: I’m excited to announce our latest BiTS Accelerator open call.
This is our second cohort with @SPRIND, Germany’s innovation agency, and it is great to see them double-down on the model.
In fact, 2 participants from the first round were recruited to run large-scale programs
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy
If creating conditions for breakthroughs is a better use of your technical expertise than running one more experiment, then @RenPhilanthropy's Big if True Science (BiTS) Accelerator, in partnership with @SPRIND, may be for you. We have now opened our second cohort. Read more here: renaissancephilanthropy.org/insights/appli…
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Kumar Garg retweetledi
Increasingly convinced that many frontier fields are no longer bottlenecked by scientific possibility, but by institutional capacity.
- Who creates legitimacy before consensus exists?
- Who coordinates actors who never normally speak?
- Who absorbs the risk of being early?
- Who builds deployment pathways before markets or regulation exist?
- Who funds public goods that create progress in AI and other fields?
A lot of what we do at @RenPhilanthropy is holding the chain of cause and effect together long enough for a field to become legible, fundable and deployable.
Today, we released our annual report. $533 M catalysed, 22 funds/programmes, $1.6B+ in government action activated.
Proud to have spent the last year working across catastrophic climate risk, frontier R&D with @ARIA_research , AI-for-science data infrastructure with the @SciTechgovuk, and programmes spanning mental health, food systems and scientific field-building.
renaissancephilanthropy.org/annual-reports
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy
Our second annual report is live! Two years ago, we launched @RenPhilanthropy to fuel a 21st century renaissance by increasing the ambition of philanthropists, scientists and innovators. Here's what we've achieved: 🧵
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Every scientific subfield should build a “data for AI” roadmap.
Norn Group@NornGroup
Scientific breakthroughs often look sudden once they arrive, but they rest on years of patient, under-recognized work. AlphaFold was a real breakthrough. It was also a reminder of the decades it took to build one of it's data foundations: the Protein Data Bank. The teams choosing to build the next “Protein Data Banks” now are also doing unglamorous work. But the impact could be enormous. We should be paying more attention to them now. Here are some of them:
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UPDATE: @RenPhilanthropy is officially two-years old and we have been busy!
In particular, I am heartened that our model for time-bound, thesis-driven, philanthropic funds is meeting the moment for donors and doers.
My huge thanks to all of our partners for betting on us.
Tom Kalil@tkalil2050
I am very proud of the progress that @RenPhilanthropy and its partners have made in our first two years – $533 million in funding for science and technology, launching more than 20 programs, training 45 scientists and innovators to design transformative, ARPA-style programs, partnering with the UK, German and Japanese governments, and publishing our first 10 playbooks on the “how” of innovation. Our field strategists are accelerating progress in areas such as AI for fundamental math, AI for early literacy, geologic hydrogen, stabilizing the Arctic climate, low-cost space telescopes, and open-source software for life sciences. Thanks to all the philanthropists, foundations, and governments that have supported our work – and please reach out if you’d like to collaborate. The best is yet to come!
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Kumar Garg retweetledi
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
more seriously, something like “uplifting”, in many senses and along many dimensions.
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy
Hard to put into words. Easy to believe in. 🎂 We turn 2 this week and we asked our founders, staff, and fellows to describe @RenPhilanthropy in one word. Watch to find out 🎬
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@KumarAGarg Yeah - this was so good I had to follow up.. Basically there exists an institutional imperative towards outcome-shaped organizations for which the existing slate of social-value mechanics are fundamentally compromised to one degree or another.
zachill.substack.com/p/outcome-shap…
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Kumar Garg retweetledi
Always great to see other funders supporting this important space, especially in this moment when the users are both humans and agents so much needs to be rethought
Chris Anderson@chr1sa
We at @RenPhilanthropy are launching a new $20m fund to support open source scientific software os4science.org
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@RenPhilanthropy Will there be programs in the natural sciences too?
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The AI revolution in science is powered by open source software. Let's fund it.
Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund @os4science, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by @RenPhilanthropy, seeded by @biohub and @wellcometrust, with support from @KavliFoundation and Research Software Alliance.
🧵os4science.org/news/open-sour…
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Kumar Garg retweetledi
Very exciting!
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy
The AI revolution in science is powered by open source software. Let's fund it. Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund @os4science, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by @RenPhilanthropy, seeded by @biohub and @wellcometrust, with support from @KavliFoundation and Research Software Alliance. 🧵os4science.org/news/open-sour… 1/4
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Kumar Garg retweetledi
if you are working on the OSS stack that underpins science, consider applying!
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy
The AI revolution in science is powered by open source software. Let's fund it. Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund @os4science, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by @RenPhilanthropy, seeded by @biohub and @wellcometrust, with support from @KavliFoundation and Research Software Alliance. 🧵os4science.org/news/open-sour… 1/4
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@JacobSwett @nanransohoff @AGamick @emiyazono Our submission to the syllabus: renaissancephilanthropy.substack.com/p/philanthropy…
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With @nanransohoff's GM piece, @AGamick's solving piece, and @emiyazono's field strategist piece, there's basically a new playbook on solving the world's hardest problems: scope it, own it, fund it to the finish (links below).
Recommend you read them all!
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Kumar Garg retweetledi
We are proud to join this coordinated philanthropic effort to strengthen today’s scientific infrastructure. As science becomes more AI-driven, it's important for our systems to keep pace. Learn more about the Open Source for Science Fund: os4science.org
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy
The AI revolution in science is powered by open source software. Let's fund it. Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund @os4science, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by @RenPhilanthropy, seeded by @biohub and @wellcometrust, with support from @KavliFoundation and Research Software Alliance. 🧵os4science.org/news/open-sour… 1/4
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NEW: I’m so excited to announce the Open Source for Science Fund, with $20M in anchor commitments from @biohub and @wellcometrust.
Given the fast progress on AI, building this connective tooling could not be more timely or important.
First RFP goes live in a week.
Renaissance Philanthropy@RenPhilanthropy
The AI revolution in science is powered by open source software. Let's fund it. Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund @os4science, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by @RenPhilanthropy, seeded by @biohub and @wellcometrust, with support from @KavliFoundation and Research Software Alliance. 🧵os4science.org/news/open-sour… 1/4
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