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DSIT's AI for Science Strategy, highlighted this week in Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture, commits to identifying areas for "AI for Science Missions". In a report out today for @britishprogress, I outline three promising options: pathogen detection, environmental forecasting and metascience, plus a new prize to unlock "dark data". 🧵 (1/6)

If you are a journalist that wants to catapult the British Cræft Prize deeper into the world, I made a lovely press release. I will be your friend forever if you write about it! glen-jumbo-527.notion.site/British-Cr-ft-…

BIG nuclear news: today the Government has released its plans to implement @JohnFingleton1’s landmark nuclear review. The headline: ‘Building our Nuclear Nation’ is very good news for British nuclear, implementing almost all of the transformational recommendations, but not quite everything. The Government has committed to almost every recommendation and outlined a detailed plan to implement them. The Government says it will fix the outdated radiation rules, revise effective ban on SMRs across swathes of the country, set up a nuclear regulatory commission and more! Last year @BritishProgress launched our Nuclear Taskforce Tracker - today is the first HUGE update. nuclear.britishprogress.org/?new=true

BIG nuclear news: today the Government has released its plans to implement @JohnFingleton1’s landmark nuclear review. The headline: ‘Building our Nuclear Nation’ is very good news for British nuclear, implementing almost all of the transformational recommendations, but not quite everything. The Government has committed to almost every recommendation and outlined a detailed plan to implement them. The Government says it will fix the outdated radiation rules, revise effective ban on SMRs across swathes of the country, set up a nuclear regulatory commission and more! Last year @BritishProgress launched our Nuclear Taskforce Tracker - today is the first HUGE update. nuclear.britishprogress.org/?new=true

“Britain is uniquely placed to make the Lab work. We can shift focus from trying to outspend the market to fundamentally changing how it operates. We can embrace openness and agility.” Excited to publish this piece by @BramhavarSuraj over on the @BritishProgress newsletter. He explains more about the thinking behind @ARIA_research's Scaling Inference Lab, announced today. He also describes how his team responded to a huge shift in the private markets since launching the first part of their programme. Seeing your thesis validated in massive raises is gratifying, but presents a new problem: what challenge can we solve that the VC community would never fund? The solution, he argues, is providing validation and credibility for startups by becoming their highly risk-tolerant first customer. That in turn gives greater confidence to other potential buyers. “Think of it as that much-needed shop window with a six-month rotating display.”

.@ShabanaMahmood is right. Our migration system needs reform. Today, @BritishProgress is publishing our ideas to fix it. We need contributors, but we also need consent. The current system delivers neither. 🚩 Flat thresholds don't select for lifetime contributors A flat