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Science Works retweeted
Jun 11
New @sci_works essay 🧵
British innovation strategy is fixated on a simple story: unis generate ideas, start-ups commercialise them, government helps them scale.
This is legible, politically attractive, & wrong.
Policy built on it will deliver neither breakthroughs nor growth.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 10
Good to speak to Research Professional about public trust in science and what may be coming down the tracks for the sector.
researchprofessionalnews.com…
@sci_works @ResProfNews
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 10
i'm extremely excited for this
all my favourite physicists (Faraday, Maxwell, Newton, Rutherford, Dirac, Hawking, Penrose, Chadwick), science writers (Deutsch, Ball, Rutherford, Cox, Dawkins), and philosophers of science ARE BRITISH (or studied/worked in Britain, like Popper, Lakatos, Feyerabend)
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Excellent initiative. Finally UK has an org dedicated to applied metascience. @Lyan82, @ersatzben, and the rest of the team are fantastic.
We need a serious, ambitious, and 'radical but sensible' plan for the UK's technoscientific future. I encourage people to support them :)
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 8
Really excited about this. Theres been cross-party consensus behind science funding, but very little attention into how to make that funding maximally effective.
UK can be the the most innovative nation.
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 8
This is an exciting new project and I'm glad to be involved in a small way.
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 8
extremely excited about @sci_works, this new, much-needed institution dedicated to accelerating scientific dynamism here in the UK
particularly looking forward to their writing/analysis and building new software & institutions
congrats to @ersatzben, @Lyan82 & team!
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Super excited for @ersatzben and @Lyan82 announcing Science Works today!!
As an outsider who got pulled into UK science AI policy in gov, I saw how much more was possible if we could get deep technical knowledge into the room. This is the answer
Delighted to be contributing
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
People should be very excited for this.
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 8
Delighted to be part of Science Works, working to accelerate progress in British science and technology.
Get in touch to discuss how we can do that by reforming funding and government's institutional architecture.
science.works/
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 8
Big news. @ersatzben and @Lyan82 are some of the sharpest minds when it comes to metascience, R&D policy, and institution design. They bring a rare combination of deep expertise in research with hands-on experience of trying to make government work better.
Excited to be helping in a v small way.
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 8
There is no one better than Laura & Ben to tackle this problem! A very exciting project that I am delighted to be a little bit involved in helping out.
Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
The UK is fundamentally a scientific nation. Our place in the world was built on our creativity and imagination.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 8
If that sounds appealing to you and you want to get involved, please visit us at science.works and give us a follow at @sci_works -- we'd love to hear from you.
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Jun 8
Today @Lyan82 and I launch SCIENCE WORKS – a new policy and research studio for accelerating progress in British science and tech.
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Science Works retweeted
Jun 6
*New analysis*
Government claims that new stats show "progress" and a “strengthened” UK performance in Horizon.
But we’re still way below par (~18% in, 9% out). Only time will tell how far that gap will close.
But the stats pose three more immediate questions.
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Science Works retweeted
Mar 27
I love the idea of British AI for science missions.
But can they work? Are they even real? Could they be?
me and @ersatzben ponder
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Science Works retweeted
Mar 12
This is a great competition by @AsteraInstitute @seemaychou
I particularly like the public posting requirement to spark some real metascience dialogue!
Mar 11
ICYMI an essay competition specifically for active researchers: 1st prize $30K, 2nd $10K, 3rd $5K. Public submissions only:
astera.org/essay-competition… 🧵
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Science Works retweeted
17 Dec 2025
Part 2 of the podcast is now live :)
Link in next tweet
15 Dec 2025
Was great to do this podcast w/@Lyan82 and the Anglofuturist team!
We covered a lot of ground, part 1 is mostly on the need for new approaches to organising and funding science.
Link in next tweet.
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Science Works retweeted
15 Dec 2025
Was great to do this podcast w/@Lyan82 and the Anglofuturist team!
We covered a lot of ground, part 1 is mostly on the need for new approaches to organising and funding science.
Link in next tweet.
15 Dec 2025
Frederick Sanger: 2 Nobel Prizes, 3 papers in 20 years.
Today he'd be fired for low productivity.
The academic system now demands papers every 6 months. Everything must show positive results. Take safe projects. Never fail publicly.
Peter Higgs couldn't discover the Higgs boson today.
Sydney Brenner's smartest colleagues? Left academia.
Not because they failed—because the system is fundamentally broken.
James Phillips and Laura Ryan's solution: Lovelace Labs. 15-year funding. No grant applications. No publish-or-perish. Just ambitious science.
Full episode out now.
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Science Works retweeted
15 Dec 2025
Frederick Sanger: 2 Nobel Prizes, 3 papers in 20 years.
Today he'd be fired for low productivity.
The academic system now demands papers every 6 months. Everything must show positive results. Take safe projects. Never fail publicly.
Peter Higgs couldn't discover the Higgs boson today.
Sydney Brenner's smartest colleagues? Left academia.
Not because they failed—because the system is fundamentally broken.
James Phillips and Laura Ryan's solution: Lovelace Labs. 15-year funding. No grant applications. No publish-or-perish. Just ambitious science.
Full episode out now.
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