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Insight · Applied Physics

Why "AI for science" is undervaluing the bottleneck it is best placed to fix

Most AI-for-science investment chases discovery. The higher-leverage use is making the experimental record reproducible and machine-readable.

Discovery captures attention; infrastructure captures compounding returns. Funding agencies and platforms that systematize how experiments are recorded, indexed, and replicated will create more cumulative value than the next foundation model trained on papers.
Prof. Daniel OkaforMay 2, 20263 min read
Insight · Ecology

Carbon offset markets are quietly outsourcing the work of climate science

Voluntary carbon markets have become the largest unregulated funder of forest-carbon measurement — and the methods are diverging from what the science actually says.

When commercial registries certify methodology, the result is rules optimized for issuance volume rather than measurement accuracy. The corrective is not better registries — it is independent, public-good measurement infrastructure.
Dr. Helena VegaMay 2, 20262 min read

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