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Matt Hourihan
@matthourihan.bsky.social
Dad (x3) and hub (x1). R&D policy @ AAU.
Banger essay on the importance of federally funded R&D to American entrepreneurship from David Singer of Maverick Ventures. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
May 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
May 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Great reporting on the enormous value of science to the nation. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
April 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The new House rules package includes a continuation of the Select CCP Committee in the 119th Congress. docs.house.gov/floor/
January 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Trump's new nominee for NASA Administrator, Jared Isaacman, offered a strong call for saving Chandra X-Ray Observatory in the face of proposed cuts. His letter to NASA as a private citizen: static1.squarespace.com/static/65ef9...

More from @science.org @voosen.me: www.science.org/content/arti...
December 5, 2024 at 2:42 PM
This week, we published a progress report on achieving funding targets for NSF, NIST and the Office of Science - agencies slated for big boosts in CHIPS and Science. So far, Congress is missing the mark badly. fas.org/publication/...
October 5, 2023 at 1:04 PM
This week the House Budget Committee released a budget resolution featuring similar spending levels to the Limit Save Grow Act from this spring. budget.house.gov/press-release/…

I estimated it would cost nearly $500 billion in federal R&D over the decade. s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.fas.or 
September 21, 2023 at 2:13 AM
Daniel Gross and Bhaven Sampat continue generating insights pulled from the WWII OSRD thread. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2023…
September 16, 2023 at 11:53 PM
Reskeet with a tweet you still think about
September 11, 2023 at 3:00 AM
Excellent job, whoever named this
August 29, 2023 at 3:37 PM
This includes several expected topics like climate, AI, health, but also this intriguing language on experimenting with research funding models and processes.
August 18, 2023 at 2:20 AM