Kristine Willis

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Systems biologist, data scientist, policy wonk, runner. Former NIH-funded investigator, former NIH program official. Founder, Woodley Park Institute. Writing about understanding and accelerating scientific progress at theprogressbarwpi.org

New at The Progress Bar: How do we give our system for allocating scarce grant funds an update for the 21st century? Approach it like any other empirical problem and use data.

https://theprogressbarwpi.org/p/signal-over-noise?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Your word list and my word list are not the same.
Current status: making questionable decisions about caffeine consumption.
A thought I find myself coming back to lately.

New at The Progress Bar: The system for funding science is fundamentally broken. To fix it, we need to do more than change who gets funded, we need to change how funding decisions are made.

https://theprogressbarwpi.org/p/doing-experiments

Happy almost New Year from Zoo Lights!
For comparison, here are the top 5 high-level topics of papers published in 2000. If you’re thinking biomedical research has shifted in a clinical/translational direction … you’re right! 2/3
PubMed wrapped: categorizing the top 5 high-level topics of papers published in 2025. LLM-based classification of 1,783,299 documents in total 1/3