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The Science and Technology Policy Program provides a space for policymakers and scientists to engage in substantive dialogue on critical scientific issues facing the U.S. and the world. Through this program, scholars address a broad range of policy issues
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Join Us! Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy on Mar-4-2025 for the Civic Scientist Lecture: Science and Innovation Policy in the Age of AI featuring Dr. Dario Gil. To register and learn more, visit our website www.bakerinstitute.org/event/civic-.... #SciencePolicy #AI #CivicScientist

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Baker scholar Kenny Evans reviews the role of OSTP in developing science advice in this commentary for The Conversations. theconversation.com/white-house-...

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With the new US President inauguration coming soon, I wanted to highlight some recent research on science advice to the president we published last month. The paper reviews PCAST and makes recommendations on how it can be more effective i the future. www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...

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🎧 Baker Institute S&T Policy’s Kirstin RW Matthews and Rekha Lakshmanan explore vaccine skepticism in the post-COVID era and what’s ahead for vaccine policy under the #Trump administration on our the Baker Briefing podcast, www.bakerinstitute.org/research/bak...

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📣ICYMI: Baker S&T Policy Program hosted a discussion earlier this fall on Stem Cell Therapy for Cardiac Care. The presenters discuss the current basic, applied and clinical research as well as ethical and policy concerns. The video is online here: www.bakerinstitute.org/event/stem-c...

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Stay up-to-date on Baker Institute Science & Technology Policy new research and upcoming events by signing up for event invites and our monthly newsletter here: bakerinstitute.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

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The 2025 Baker Institute Summer in DC Policy Research Internship Program, open to Rice University undergraduates enrolled through Fall 2025, has an application deadline of January 24, 2025. Contact faculty director Steven W. Lewis at [email protected], or visit www.bakerinstitute.org/summer-dc-in...

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The Baker Institute has a series of policy brief with recommendations related to S&T policy for the new administration including #space #vaccines #research #innovation #researchsecurity #synbio #S&TLeadership #pandemicpreparedness - Read here: www.bakerinstitute.org/election-202...

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📢 A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that 60% of Americans probably won’t get the updated COVID-19 vaccine this season. 👉 Learn more:

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Sharing without clicking on news in social media www.nature.com/articles/s41... - 75% share without clicking - conservatives do so more (76.94%) than liberals (14.25%) - Most false info (76–82%) from conservative domains Sum: Political content & misinformation "driven by superficial processing..."

submitted 98 days ago • 13 comments

Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying solving it, but this limits our potential impact. A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

Couldn’t find a dedicated stem cell biology starter pack, so started one here: go.bsky.app/UTW4d7b Feel free to repost/share and let me know if you would like to be added. #stemcell #pluripotency

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Local health departments receive up to 70% of monies that fund the CDC. through the CDC. Reduce support of the CDC and you reduce public health initiatives in states across the Nation. You know 'chronic disease.' www.statnews.com/2024/09/05/c...

submitted 98 days ago • 10 comments

📣ICYMI: Nov 19, we hosted a discussion on vaccine policy, hesitancy, the new Trump administration, and the 2025 Texas Legislative Session. There are many challenges ahead, but hopefully opportunities too for public health. 📽️The video is available now here: www.bakerinstitute.org/event/2024-t...

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Hello! The Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice University provides a space for policymakers and scientists to engage in substantive dialogue on critical scientific issues facing the U.S. and the world. Learn more about us here: www.bakerinstitute.org/program/scie...

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