Chart of trends in recovered organs from circulatory deaths
The number of organs available for donation has risen massively in the past five years.
It seems to be the result of technological advances in preserving organs after circulatory death.
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You'll understand our campaign more from this launch video than anything else. We gave it our heart and soul. Give it a watch.
Line graph of the number new and competitive renewal grants funded by NIH in fiscal year 2026 through February 20, compared to fiscal years 2020-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves.
New and Competitive Renewals
Only 803 grants have been made compared to ~2650 in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 through February 20.
All institutes and centers (include OD now) have made awards except NIAAA, NLM, NCCIH, and FIC.
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Grumpy opinion:
Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.
First up, Nolan Pope presents (with @jeffdenning.com, Rachel Nesbit, and Merrill Warnick):
"Easy A's, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation"
The paper explores the labor market effects on students of being assigned high school teachers that are more lenient graders.
Elie is awesome and the Givewell story is a huge part of why we built Good Ventures to do leveraged philanthropy at scale.
Some amazing jobs here! Our science and global health R&D team works on funding breakthroughs for neglected, high mortality/morbidity diseases and does a ton of great and interesting work -- see job links in Jacob's thread!
🚨 Hiring scientists to help give away money 🚨
At Open Philanthropy, we have given away $600M in biomedical research since 2016. Now, we're expanding the team to do more.
We're hiring:
* Up to 3 Senior Program Associates
* Program Officer in strep A
Remote OK, salaries in links! (Thread below)
Challenge accepted. No models: simple over-performance (House - pres) by caucus. This way we don't have to argue over the definition of "moderate". In sum:
Blue Dog > Blue Collar > New Dems > The Squad
Candidates who want to win in tough districts would do well to mimic over-performers.
Deadline to apply to these positions is today! Big opportunity to accelerate growth and progress in housing, energy, clinical trials, and more.
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...
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.
Are these scores intended to be stationary (comparable across time) or more accurate within a time period?
Exciting update: @open_phil is doubling down on our YIMBY, innovation, and metascience success by launching a >$120m Abundance & Growth Fund to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific & technological progress. Funding from @goodventures.bsky.social, Patrick Collison, and others.
Why now? 🧵
It’s the last day to apply to this very cool position!
