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The Ghost Guns Haunting National Crime Statistics

Colorado is the 12th state to ban “ghost guns”. The use of unserialized firearms has grown 1000% since 2017.

06.06.23 | 3 min read
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Science Policy
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Cultural Burning: How Age-Old Practices Are Reshaping Wildfire Policy

The Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission called for input from diverse stakeholders and FAS, along with partners Conservation X Labs (CXL), COMPASS, and the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), answered the call. Recruiting participants from academia, the private sector, national labs, and other nonprofits, the Wildland Fire Policy Accelerator produced 24 ideas […]

06.05.23 | 8 min read
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Ecosystems & Entrepreneurship
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Systems Thinking In Entrepreneurship Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems”

Ecosystems aren’t just for biologists anymore. Here is how and why entrepreneurs and policymakers should look at innovation communities as ecosystems.

06.05.23 | 13 min read
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Social Innovation
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We have the data to improve social services at the state and local levels. So how do we use it?

Good data is a critical component of delivering effective government services from local to federal levels. But now, too much useful data lives in a silo.

05.25.23 | 4 min read
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How do you clean up 170 million pieces of space junk?

The space economy is enormous, but one of its biggest challenges is tiny: space debris.

05.24.23 | 6 min read
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Technology & Innovation
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The bold vision of the CHIPS and Science Act isn’t getting the funding it needs

The CHIPS and Science Act establishes a compelling vision for U.S. innovation and place-based industrial policy, but that vision is already being hampered by tight funding.

05.23.23 | 10 min read
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What Should Come Next for the NSF Innovation Engines Communities? (And What About Those That Just Missed Out?)

There are exciting things ahead for communities that participated in the NSF Engines grant program, even for those that missed out on securing funding.

05.17.23 | 6 min read
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Technology & Innovation
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CHIPS and Science Funding Update: FY 2023 Omnibus, FY 2024 Budget Both Short by Billions

Here’s how CHIPS and Science funding is shaping up in the battle over the federal budget.

05.12.23 | 12 min read
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Social Innovation
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Five Ideas for the Education Sciences Reform Act

If the 118th Congress decides to reauthorize the ESRA, ALI urges the HELP committee to strengthen our education system by prioritizing the following policies.

05.11.23 | 3 min read
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Technology & Innovation
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How Do OpenAI’s Efforts To Make GPT-4 “Safer” Stack Up Against The NIST AI Risk Management Framework?

Before releasing a new, powerful system like GPT-4 to millions of users, we must ask: “How can we know that this system is safe, trustworthy, and reliable enough to be released?”

05.11.23 | 9 min read
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State Department Must Urgently Update the Exchange Visitor Skills List To Safeguard American Interests

The J1 visa Exchange Visitor Program, a pivotal mechanism fostering global cultural exchange and dissemination of specialized knowledge, remains regrettably stagnant since its last renewal in 2009.

05.11.23 | 2 min read
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Science Policy
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Using Effective Communication To Bridge the Gap Between Wildfire Science and Policy

In an environment where fire seasons are turning to fire years, and summer skies across North America are filled with wildfire smoke from as far away as another coast, the need for scientifically accurate wildland fire policy has never been greater.   Over the past several months, COMPASS Science Communication has been working in collaboration with […]

04.24.23 | 5 min read
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