Jordan Dworkin

@jddwor

Innovation policy @coeff_giving. Previously metascience @scientistsorg and neuroimaging statistics in a past life

Seattle, WA

Joined August 2015

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Jordan Dworkin
@jddwor
Aug 17
Saloni is incredible, and her TED talk is characteristically rigorous, beautiful, and inspiring. A must watch
Saloni
@salonium
Aug 17
It's finally here! I gave a TED talk in April in Vancouver, and it was released online today. You can watch it here: ted.com/talks/saloni_d… I've also adapted it into an article, which was published last week: worksinprogress.co/issue/future-o…
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Jordan Dworkin
@jddwor
Jul 30
click for the criminally underrated 2023 Caleb Watney tweet, stay for the excellent economics of innovation content
Matt Clancy
@mattsclancy
Jul 30
Now you can be like Caleb! A double dose of Jones in the first two lectures of IFP’s online course about the economics of innovation, now free on YouTube. macroscience.org/p/chad-jones-o… macroscience.org/p/five-reasons…
Jordan Dworkin
@jddwor
Jul 29
In 1843, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend after seeing her first daguerreotype: “The very shadow of the person lying there fixed for ever! … I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced.” Our lives and homes
Ordinary Abundance
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Jordan Dworkin
@jddwor
Jun 16
If half of scientific fields are accelerated 5x by AI and half aren’t, is that better or worse than if all fields are accelerated 3x? And how should you allocate resources in that scenario to maximize discovery? Proportionally? More to the accelerated fields given their potential
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Jordan Dworkin
@jddwor
Apr 15
To date, NSF has spent ~70% less on new awards than it typically does by this point in the year. NIH is ~50% behind pace, with some institutes faring even worse (the National Cancer Institute, for example, is 79% behind)
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