Caleb Watney

Mar 20, 2024 | ifp.org | Alec Stapp |Caleb Watney

IFP is currently hiring. See below for an overview of the organization and a description of each open position. We will pay a bounty of $3,000 for a referral that leads to a successful hire. Applicants can mention who referred them in the application form. About IFP:The Institute for Progress (IFP) is a non-partisan think tank focused on innovation policy. Our organization works to accelerate and shape the direction of scientific, technological, and industrial progress.

Nov 29, 2023 | mattsclancy.substack.com | Matt Clancy |Caleb Watney

Dear readers,Regular programming will be back next week or so; today’s post is two quick announcements that may be of interest to readers working on or completing PhDs.This spring, the Institute for Progress is once again organizing a free online PhD short course on the Economics of Ideas, Science, and Innovation. We did this last year and it went really well.

Apr 21, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Samuel Hughes |Caleb Watney |Stuart Buck |Eli Dourado

19th October 202016 Mins Electrical interference has restricted what humans can observe with telescopes. To make leaps as a species, now’s the time for us to build a telescope on the far side of the moon. In 1929, Bell Labs was frustrated by persistent electrical interference on its transatlantic wireless telephone link.

Feb 23, 2023 | instituteforprogress.substack.com | Alec Stapp |Caleb Watney |Brian Potter

The letter below is from IFP co-founders Alec Stapp and Caleb WatneyHello,The Institute for Progress (IFP) is celebrating our one-year anniversary!When we launched IFP, we said that “progress is a policy choice.” We wanted to accelerate the pace of scientific, technological, and industrial progress by identifying key policy areas that are important, tractable, and neglected. Our mission led us to focus on three initial policy verticals: metascience, high-skilled immigration, and biosecurity.