The Macroscience Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Metascience 101 - EP9: "How to Get Involved"
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Professor Heidi Williams, Professor Paul Niehaus, and Matt Clancy walk through academic, non-profit and private sector paths to resea...
Metascience 101 - EP8: "Invention vs. Diffusion"
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Derek Thompson and economist Eli Dourado investigate the bottlenecks standing in the way of the invention vs. the diffusio...
Metascience 101 - EP7: “Science and Political Legitimacy"
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Dylan Matthews leads a conversation with Open Philanthropy CEO Alexander Berger, Professor Tyler Cowen, and IFP Co-CEO Cal...
Metascience 101 - EP6: “Safety and Science”
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Dylan Matthews sits down with Professor Tyler Cowen, Matt Clancy, and Jacob Trefethen to discuss whether there are tension...
Metascience 101 - EP5: "How and Why to Run an Experiment"
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Professor Heidi Williams, Professor Paul Niehaus, Emily Oehlsen, and Jim Savage dive in on a practical “how-to” for experimentati...
Metascience 101 - EP4: "ARPAs, FROs, and Fast Grants, oh my!"
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Stripe Press’s Tamara Winter talks through the broad range of scientific funding institutions with guests Professor Tyler Cowen, Ar...
Metascience 101 - EP3: "The Scientific Production Function"
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Kelsey Piper interviews Convergent Research CEO Adam Marblestone and Professor Paul Niehaus on the inputs to scientific pr...
Metascience 101 - EP2: “Is Science Slowing Down?”
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: OpenPhil CEO Alexander Berger interviews economist Matt Clancy and Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison to talk about whether science i...
Metascience 101 - EP1: "Introduction"
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IN THIS EPISODE: Journalist Dylan Matthews sits down with economist Heidi Williams and IFP co-founder Caleb Watney to set the scene. They talk about t...
Macroscience Podcast Ep3: Jon Askonas
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Macroscience podcast: an interview with Jon Askonas, a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and an assistant profe...
Macroscience Podcast: Matt Clancy
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Macroscience podcast we interview Matt Clancy, proprietor of the excellent living literature review New Things Under The Sun and a Re...
Macroscience Podcast: Ben Reinhardt
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Good news: Macroscience is officially starting up a new podcast. We’ll be interviewing researchers, scientists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and oth...