There are two things that matter in science: reputation and funding. While there is more and more funding available for mission-driven science, we’d be excited to see projects that would try to increase the reputation of impactful science. We think that increasing the reputation of impactful work could over time increase substantially the amount of research done on most things that society care about.
Some of the ways we could provide more reputation to impactful research:
Awarding prizes to past and present researchers that have done mostly impactful work.
Organizing “seminars of impact” where the emphasis is put on researchers who have been able to make their research impactful
Communicating and sharing impactful research being done. That could be done in several ways (e.g simply using social media or making short films on some specific mission-driven research projects).
Making Impactful Science More Reputable
There are two things that matter in science: reputation and funding. While there is more and more funding available for mission-driven science, we’d be excited to see projects that would try to increase the reputation of impactful science. We think that increasing the reputation of impactful work could over time increase substantially the amount of research done on most things that society care about.
Some of the ways we could provide more reputation to impactful research:
Awarding prizes to past and present researchers that have done mostly impactful work.
Organizing “seminars of impact” where the emphasis is put on researchers who have been able to make their research impactful
Communicating and sharing impactful research being done. That could be done in several ways (e.g simply using social media or making short films on some specific mission-driven research projects).