Roots of Progress Institute

Announcing a career exploration summer program for high school students: *Progress in Medicine* Learn from experts and be inspired by heroic work from the past to build an even better future. Now accepting applications

2023: @rootsofprogress launches a fellowship 2026: one of our fellows is on the Nasdaq board in Times Square with the book she co-authored Huge congrats @Madeline_Zimm! Looking forward to reading

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How do we apply the model of policy philanthropy to the abundance movement? @EconDerek broke it down at the @rootsofprogress conference, explaining how to operationalize abundance and why donors should think in terms of outcomes, not just issues. Check it out –>

“Some kind of turning point,” Elon on Dwarkesh, a social network for AIs, and lots more in the latest @rootsofprogress links digest: newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-sh…

Progress Conference 2026 will be October 8–11 in Berkeley, CA at Lighthaven. More info coming later this spring!

This is the last collection of videos from Progress Conference 2025. All the videos, including prior years talks, are available on the RPI YouTube channel: @rootsofprogress" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@rootsofprogre…

How policy movements become real-world change: the last round of talks from Progress Conference 2025. Watch @pahlkadot's keynote, along with talks from @tkalil2050, @EconDerek, @AlecStapp, @RyanPuzycki @mishachellam, and @mnolangray. newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/policy-from-…

Can aging clocks predict biological age? The field has been building them for years, but we still don't know if any of them work. "No one has run the obvious experiment: take interventions we know change lifespan in mice, measure the clocks, and ask the clock developers to predict which mice will live longer, blind. This hasn't happened for 13 years. At this point, I'm frankly pissed off." - @MartinBJensen, @NornGroup founder & @GordianBio CSO, speaking at the @rootsofprogress Progress Conference 2025 The good news: this is a solvable problem.

RPI fellow @drlauramazer wrote a dispatch about this track at the progress conference: bigthink.com/health/progres…

Would that all diseases had but one neck! | @leportfr

How can we live healthier, longer lives? Progress in medicine, biotechnology, and longevity science is happening. @ludomitch, @RuxandraTeslo, @jburnmurdoch, @MartinBJensen, and @leportfr each spoke at Progress Conference 2025 about ways to extend human flourishing. newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/health-biote…