It looks like Founders Pledge could be useful for thinking, specifically, about climate change. At the moment, I’m really unsure about whether, practically, it would make more sense for me to try to implement a general framework for evaluating the criticality of our research portfolio vs. trying to rank the criticality of potential interventions within one small sub-section of our research portfolio to give the organization an example of what ranking criticality looks like (e.g., climate change). The answer is probably that I’ll need to do both. I will definitely keep Founders Pledge in mind as a resource.
Re: open access publications—Thank you for raising this point! This touches on a larger, tangential problem I’ve been thinking about: namely, lack of meaningful, public access to academic research, and how that relates to the gap between research and policy. I think there is certainly room for ideas like these as I get further along in the implementation process. I will add that idea to my idea tracker which includes all the things I need to create momentum around until they’re implemented. (It’s amazing how long each small idea will probably take to implement.)
As an aside: I recently learned that the word “scooped” is used to refer to when someone else publishes similar results to yours first. Like, “Oh no! We got scooped!” I think it’s a funny word to use, so I thought I’d share it in case it brings joy to others as well.
I will look into it! Off the top of my head, RTI may not want research published there as I think Vox is perceived as somewhat “left” leaning, and RTI fancies itself a deeply non-partisan organization.
Thank you for these suggestions!
It looks like Founders Pledge could be useful for thinking, specifically, about climate change. At the moment, I’m really unsure about whether, practically, it would make more sense for me to try to implement a general framework for evaluating the criticality of our research portfolio vs. trying to rank the criticality of potential interventions within one small sub-section of our research portfolio to give the organization an example of what ranking criticality looks like (e.g., climate change). The answer is probably that I’ll need to do both. I will definitely keep Founders Pledge in mind as a resource.
Re: open access publications—Thank you for raising this point! This touches on a larger, tangential problem I’ve been thinking about: namely, lack of meaningful, public access to academic research, and how that relates to the gap between research and policy. I think there is certainly room for ideas like these as I get further along in the implementation process. I will add that idea to my idea tracker which includes all the things I need to create momentum around until they’re implemented. (It’s amazing how long each small idea will probably take to implement.)
As an aside: I recently learned that the word “scooped” is used to refer to when someone else publishes similar results to yours first. Like, “Oh no! We got scooped!” I think it’s a funny word to use, so I thought I’d share it in case it brings joy to others as well.
I will look into it! Off the top of my head, RTI may not want research published there as I think Vox is perceived as somewhat “left” leaning, and RTI fancies itself a deeply non-partisan organization.