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The first empirical evaluation of New York's congestion pricing has just been published. Spoiler: It worked really, really well🧵

Another interesting set of datapoints: 1. Foot traffic went up. That's the type that's relevant for businesses. 2. Broadway ticket sales? Also up. 3. Honking complaints? Went down by two-thirds. Every sign points to benefits.

The NIH Director’s Early Independence Award is one of the most competitive, coveted and transformative early career scientific research awards in the US…

"The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights." — President Eisgruber writes in @theatlantic. bit.ly/4iDZ2Fx

Science cannot thrive without the next generation.

“We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the federal government’s recent treatment of Columbia University.” nybooks.com/online/2025/03…

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim.

“It’s a bloodbath,” a source from the NIH told me today, regarding the sweeping cancellation of research grants.

The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers go.nature.com/4cbUXX0

“The future of the U.S. scientific enterprise is at risk.” More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are speaking out as the Trump admin’s actions dismantle the foundations of American science ⬇️

The meteorology community does not really understand how bad things are going to get. And frankly, neither do I. science.org/content/articl…

Fixed it: --> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined** --> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity --> more than 1.1M foreign students come to the U.S. each year

And, just like that, the top journal in the field of Environmental Health, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a part of the NIH, goes dark...

Conventional wisdom says interdisciplinary research is valuable but harder to get through peer review (need to please diverse reviewers, etc). In new PNASNews paper, Sidney Xiang Daniel Romero and I partnered with IOP Publishing to test this wisdom and add nuance (1/3)