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FAS Taps Jon B. Wolfsthal as New Director of Global Risk

The Federation of American Scientists is excited to welcome Jon B. Wolfsthal as the organization’s new Director of Global Risk. The Global Risk will encompass nuclear policy, FAS’ longstanding Nuclear…

10.02.23 | 3 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Risk and Reward in Peer Review

…piloting this approach on a series of proposals in the life sciences that we have collected for Focused Research Organizations, a new type of non-profit research organization designed to tackle…

10.02.23 | 6 min read
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FAS
Press release
FAS Launches ‘FRO-casting’ Tournament on Metaculus to Solicit Ideas for Focused Research Organizations (FROs)

…program applies an expected value the forecasting methodology developed by FAS and Metaculus to proposals for Focused Research Organizations (FROs) in the life sciences, sourced by Convergent Research. FROs are…

10.02.23 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Truly Open Science Needs Knowledge Synthesis

organizations such as the famed Cochrane Collaboration have provided models for standardized, rigorous synthesis within the health and medical sciences, and institutions across various other fields have followed.  A Changing…

09.27.23 | 4 min read
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Environment
Blog
Ahead of the Wildland Fire Commission Report Release, a Roundup of FAS’s Efforts to Provide Input on Wildland Fire Policy

…days. Over the past year, together with partner organizations COMPASS, Conservation X Labs, and the California Council on Science and Technology, FAS recruited diverse experts to participate in our Wildland…

09.26.23 | 3 min read
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