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Conversations with working researchers
SciFrontiers is our first series of reports. For scientific knowledge that is strategic, future-facing, or historical in character, sometimes the best method is actually just to hold technical interviews with working scientists. That is to say, the knowledge is "already there" in the community – latently so – and can be drawn out through detailed discussion. In SciFrontiers research, James plays a role that is somewhat akin to that of a "science journalist" in order to surface information that he sees as pertinent to the future of promising research fields.
SciFrontiers No. 1
[Mathematics]
Arithmetic Geometry
How did the anabelian school develop at RIMS (Kyoto)? Where is it going?
With TAMAGAWA Akio (玉川 安騎男), MOCHIZUKI Shinichi (望月 新一), HOSHI Yuichiro (星 裕一郎), and Benjamin COLLAS.
Topics: Anabelian geometry (e.g., combinatorial, birational, p-adic), Grothendieck's anabelian conjecture, resolution of non-singularities, inter-universal Teichmüller theory, cyclotomic synchronization, Grothendieck-Teichmüller theory, the section conjecture, etc.
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SciFrontiers No. 2
[Biomedicine]
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
What are the basic and translational imperatives in pluripotency and reprogramming research?
With YAMANAKA Shinya (山中 伸弥), Steven FINKBEINER, Bruce CONKLIN, Benoit BRUNEAU, and TOMODA Kiichiro (友田 紀一郎).
Topics: Reprogramming efficiency, cocktail choice, reproducible differentiation, the Waddington landscape, transdifferentiation, translation-initiation factors, CiRA/Gladstone, etc.
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SciSci Research is a science organization founded in 2025 by James Douglas Boyd, who is the former Co-Founder and CEO of the Wolfram Institute.
SciSci's goal is to make fresh contributions to the scientific literature with novel content through new forms of scientific production. With respect to form, it is a "publishing laboratory" for new kinds of scientific literature products. In terms of content, it is a kind of "science think-tank" that uses new forms to gain perspectives on the past and future of research fields.
The reports that SciSci produces will arise from work at the borderlands of code repository building; data visualization; "anthropology" and interviewing; archival and historical research; etc. This scope will flesh itself out in 2025.
SciSci has a team of size 1: it's just James. Thus, it is sometimes asked what the difference is between James and SciSci.
In a sense, the SciSci organization is both a concept and an experimental vehicle for new types of scientific labor and production. As an entity, it gives James a medium through which new institutional modalities can be embodied. That's one difference; SciSci is an organization through which James, a person, toys with questions of the future of scientific institutions. Additionally, as an entity, it provides a structured channel through which James can, in his own way, contribute to the scientific community; whence the byline "science for scientists".
