I still can’t believe Devon ☀️ pulled off a month-long pop-up camp packed with doers and their weird-but-important ideas.

Trump tells The All-In Podcast that if you graduate from a US college, you should automatically get a green card with your diploma. "We need brilliant people" 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This morning, Nature published two papers on bridge editing, the new genome engineering technology from @ArcInstitute: nature.com/articles/s4158…, nature.com/articles/s4158…. I'm quite excited about its potential! Since the whole thing is pretty arcane, I fed the blog post

"haha what if"-ing too close to the sun and throwing a forest night market with friends, powered (mostly) off battery/solar x.com/nhfoley/status…

Re-upping: this is the best Statecraft interview I've done so far, and it's even better in pod form. statecraft.pub/p/how-to-ban-b…

On July 9-10, join CGD experts for the World Bank & Center for Global Development Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics as they tackle critical challenges the world is facing. 🌟Ft: Rachel Glennerster, Lawrence H. Summers, @MasoodCGD, Kehinde Ajayi, Eeshani Kandpal, & Thomas Ginn. RSVP: bit.ly/4aRjUo8

“Cities are the platforms that we build our lives on.” -Devon ☀️, who joins Possible to discuss her vision for new livable, multigenerational communities like Edge City

Bipartisan recognition that eliminating paper barriers and replacing them with pro-growth land use policies would greatly increase the availability of housing and boost upward mobility.

.Our World in Data does amazing work & this grant is well-deserved. Philanthropists please take note: The 7-year commitment is arguably the most important part. General multi-year funding is so much more valuable for effective non-profits than short-term, project-based grants.

🔍 Curious about Convergent Research (Convergent Research) and FROs? 🚀 Try asking our FRO GPT your questions! 🌟 chatgpt.com/g/g-Bbee1Y7ir-… Post your most interesting response here! Disclaimer: this GPT is still in beta and is very much an experiment.

Thanks to Federation of American Scientists🔬 for publishing my blog post on steps that policy entrepreneurs can take to increase the maturity of a policy idea. Pls let me know in comments what you would add - I'd like to make this a living document! fas.org/publication/in…

Who'd start their first company in a country they’d never visited to solve an unsexy climate problem that nobody ever thinks about? Louis, that's who. Inspired by his audacity, I flew to SE Asia to visit and write his story. Read it now (link in🧵)

We don't need to wait for Congress to act before we can make real progress on high-skilled immigration. The impact of agency clarifying guidance is underrated!

The best wordcels conjure shape rotations

we should call this what this is: another vindication of the effectiveness and utility of prediction markets

The J-1 skills list is based on the State Department asking sending countries: "which postdocs should we *require* to return home after five years?". Michael Clemens and colleagues point out: we could instead just decide ourselves, at least for some fields, no leg change required.

If you are a curious, thoughtful, mission-driven technologist aged 18-23, consider applying to Interact! Deadline is tomorrow. joininteract.com

YIMBYs have been taking victory laps this week on the back of some great speeches at the DNC. Open Philanthropy has been the movement's biggest funder for most of the past decade, and I’m super proud of the progress. But we’re still very early in this fight: 1/ x.com/JerusalemDemsa…

Under Rachel Glennerster leadership, CGD is going to be a very exciting and fun place to work.

Certain types of scientific misconduct are so bad that they should be prosecuted, including through a new statute specifically targeted at scientific fraud. @kelseytuoc makes the case in Vox. vox.com/future-perfect… Frank Lucas Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sen. Maria Cantwell Rick Scott