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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 8d

I'm hiring at @newamerica.org! Are you a savvy project manager or technical assistance pro? Want to help build the capacity of #communitycolleges to deliver #workforce strategies for #emergingtech sectors?

Join us! Priority deadline: Oct 17 newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/Icvr6G...

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 9d

Harris-voting states were hit hardest by Department of Energy award cancellations, but not every blue-state project was cut. Politics might play a role.

Harris-voting states were hit hardest by Department of Energy award cancellations, but not every blue-state project was cut. Politics might play a role.

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Education and Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · 11d

How many Einsteins have we "lost?"

🧠 Here, our policy experts @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social and @lisaguernsey.bsky.social detail how steep cuts to #STEM funding and canceled research grants have jeopardized opportunities for young and underrepresented scientists—and how we can re-engage them.

A Summer of Despair for STEM Education

STEM Education Funding Cuts and Thousands of Canceled Research Grants are Cutting Off Opportunities for Young Scientists, K-12, and Community College Students

NSF’s Impact on Community Colleges and the Skilled Technical Workforce: An interview with Dr. Celeste Carter

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 11d

🆕Ellen Hause of the American Association of #CommunityColleges (AACC) and I are out with a profile on Dr. Celeste Carter, who recently joined @newamerica.org as a #FutureofWork & Innovation Economy initiative fellow and led NSF's ATE program for 16 years #scipol

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New America and the AACC interview Celeste Carter, who recently completed a 16-year tenure as one of the U.S. National Science Foundation's leading figures for community colleges and skilled technical...

A Summer of Despair for STEM Education

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Lisa Guernsey @lisaguernsey.bsky.social · 16d

Young scientists are speaking up. They talked with us about what the future looks like right now for scientific discovery. They described the pull to go to Europe instead, where countries are investing and recruiting our best scientific minds. Congress must reverse this trend and invest in STEM Ed.

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 20d

@lisaguernsey.bsky.social and I are out with a new article for @newamerica.org capturing #student voices that have been caught in funding cuts and grant cancellations over what we refer to as a "summer of despair for #STEMeducation"

Please read it and share! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

STEM Education Funding Cuts and Thousands of Canceled Research Grants are Cutting Off Opportunities for Young Scientists, K-12, and Community College Students

Announcing New America's 2025 Future of Work & Innovation Economy Initiative Fellows

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Daniel P. Gross @danielpgross.bsky.social · 18d

📢 Conference announcement!

Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation.

If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 19d

#CallForPapers - Conference on Public Policies for Innovation
ESRC, London Business School, @fuqua.duke.edu & CEPR invite submissions for a #conference on Public Policies for Innovation at LBS on 19-20 March 2026.
cepr.org/events/confe...
Organisers: Paolo Surico & @danielpgross.bsky.social
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Education and Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · 18d

💡 Meet our new #FutureOfWork fellows!

Over the next year, these experts will help us advance scholarship and technical assistance related to science, #workforce, and industrial policy.

Welcome, all!

New America welcomes new experts to support public problem-solving at the intersection of science, workforce, and industrial policies and their implementation.

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 18d

POLITICO Playbook shout out here - www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Rethinking the Outcomes of Biomedical Research - CSPO

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 19d

Excited to welcome our 2025 cohort of @newamerica.org Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative fellows! Thanks to @politico.com for covering the news.

Welcome Francie Genz, Phil Singerman, Celeste Carter, @adamfagan.bsky.social, and @techiewonk.bsky.social!

www.newamerica.org/education-po...

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Jeff Alexander @techiewonk.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll be speaking tomorrow (9/23) at 9am EST at the DC campus of Arizona State U on a project by @rti.bsky.social to calculate the long-term impacts of technologies invented at NIH labs. See cspo.org/event/ntfa09... Register to attend in-person or online. #techtransfer #sciencepolicy

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 20d

@lisaguernsey.bsky.social and I are out with a new article for @newamerica.org capturing #student voices that have been caught in funding cuts and grant cancellations over what we refer to as a "summer of despair for #STEMeducation"

Please read it and share! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

A Summer of Despair for STEM Education

STEM Education Funding Cuts and Thousands of Canceled Research Grants are Cutting Off Opportunities for Young Scientists, K-12, and Community College Students

www.newamerica.org/center-educa...

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 20d

How Indirect-Cost Reform Will Affect University-Industry R&D Partnerships

Join the Future of Work & the Innovation Economy initiative to discuss the concern about indirect costs, the FAIR model, and the potential impact it would have on university R&D partnerships with indu...

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · 20d

How Indirect-Cost Reform Will Affect University-Industry R&D Partnerships

Join @newamerica.org along with former NSF Director France Cordova, former White House OSTP Director Kelvin Droegemier, UIDP CEO Anthony Boccunfuso, and Microsoft's Elizabeth Bruce. Moderated by @politico.com's Erin Schumaker

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Sep 9

Pleased to share that Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) will be joining Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) in speaking at this event. Register below!

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us on Sept 15 for a webinar w/ the U.S. National Science Foundation on NSF Regional Innovation #Engines, a new model of place-based S&T investments promoting industrial strategy

Feat @brookings.edu @slaughteram.bsky.social @repbillfoster.bsky.social & others

www.newamerica.org/center-educa...

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Sep 8

@weisenthal.bsky.social @viewfromarchstreet.com @matthourihan.bsky.social @scientistsorg.bsky.social @fedscoop.bsky.social @educationwork.newamerica.org @newamerica.org @markmuro1.bsky.social @entanglement.bsky.social @techiewonk.bsky.social @policyhound.bsky.social #scipol #industrialpolicy

The NSF and the Next Generation of STEMM Workers - Research!America

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us on Sept 15 for a webinar w/ the U.S. National Science Foundation on NSF Regional Innovation #Engines, a new model of place-based S&T investments promoting industrial strategy

Feat @brookings.edu @slaughteram.bsky.social @repbillfoster.bsky.social & others

www.newamerica.org/center-educa...

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks to Research!America intern Scott Brown for this nice profile of some of our work analyzing NSF's #workforce evolution in recent years

www.researchamerica.org/blog/nsf-and...

To remain a leader in the science and technology (S&T) space, the CHIPS and Science Act, enacted in 2022, is intended to harness public-private partnerships to revitalize America’s innovation capacity...

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Commerce Secretary Lutnick pulls $7.4B CHIPS funding from the independent Natcast back into NIST. What will that funding be allocated to? Not the soveriegn wealth fund according to Lutnik.

Could reallocate to synergistic investments in other agencies?

www.manufacturingdive.com/news/commerc...

Commerce Department cuts $7.4B CHIPS funding from Natcast

Secretary Howard Lutnick accused the Biden administration of violating a law that prohibits the federal government from establishing an entity not included in the CHIPS and Science Act.

www.manufacturingdive.com

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 28

After more than 50 years of rapid growth, the nation’s immigrant population is now in decline reflected in a new @pewresearch.org analysis as of June 2025

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.

As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 27

We’re Hiring: Technology Policy Fellow – FABBS

Location: Washington, D.C. (hybrid) Salary: Approximately $7,000 per month Deadline to Apply: September 15, 2025 Duration: 3 months, with potential for longer P

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 27

FABBS is hiring a short-term Tech Policy Fellow to focus on behavioral science and AI (link below). Share with early career policy wonks

@ilpfoundry.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @scipolguy.bsky.social @abankston.bsky.social @matthourihan.bsky.social @snapcoalition.bsky.social #scipoljobs

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 21

What exactly does it take to scale AI education at the skilled technical workforce level and through community colleges?

Read on: How Community Colleges Can Realize the Promise of AI Action Plan dcjournal.com/how-communit...

How Community Colleges Can Realize the Promise of AI Action Plan – DC Journal - InsideSources

Last week, the Trump administration released its Artificial Intelligence action plan, outlining government efforts to secure American leadership in AI,

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What We've Heard About AI Education at Community Colleges

Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 21

The future of American science event coming up from our friends over at @stpolicy.bsky.social featuring Rep. Brian Babin

Aug 27 from 3-4 PM, available live and in-person

www.bakerinstitute.org/event/future...

@kennyevans.bsky.social @abankston.bsky.social @snapcoalition.bsky.social

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Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social · Aug 20

🆕Tiffany Thai is out with a new article for @newamerica.org's Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative, drawing on insights from our research on #AI education at #communitycolleges, including our capture of #students experiences in these programs.

www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Amid federal funding cuts, New America revisits expert and student perspectives on AI education at community colleges.