Essential Technology

Come build what science needs next: Convergent Research’s UK FRO Founder Residency returns in 2027

What if some of the biggest bottlenecks in science and technology could be overcome by building entirely new kinds of organizations? Convergent Research…

Oct 22 • Essential Technology

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May 2026

Searching for X-Lab-Shaped Bottlenecks in Quantum Interconnect and Integrated Photonics

What’s already being built, what we’re unsure about, and where the FRO-shaped gaps might actually be

May 29 • Adam Marblestone and Anastasia Gamick

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NSF Just Did Something Important

And so can you: how to reach out to Convergent about X-Labs

May 18 • Anastasia Gamick and Adam Marblestone

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April 2026

Introducing Meridial and Echo Labs

Launching Two New FROs in the UK

Apr 21 • Anastasia Gamick, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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February 2026

Our Responses to the NSF Tech Labs RFI

Metascience, AI, biotech, and more

Feb 23 • Mary Wang, Anastasia Gamick, and Adam Marblestone

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The evolution of CHI-FRO

Three principles from an engineering-heavy partnership to build out tools for probabilistic programming

Feb 18 • Anastasia Gamick, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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January 2026

Announcing Merge Labs

A neurotech FRO takes root

Jan 15 • Anastasia Gamick, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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December 2025

What is the future missing?

A video portrait from 2025 + happy holidays from our team to you and yours

Dec 24, 2025 • Adam Marblestone, Anastasia Gamick, and Joseph Fridman

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The Future of Focused Research Organizations:

Working with Convergent on the NSF Tech Labs Initiative

Dec 16, 2025 • Adam Marblestone, Anastasia Gamick, and Joseph Fridman

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November 2025

Securing Critical Components of Cyberphysical Systems

Bridging foundational capability gaps to spur an AI resilience renaissance, a follow-up

Nov 14, 2025 • Evan Miyazono, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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Advancing Foundational Cyber-resilience

AI technology could spur a resilience renaissance; we just need to mind the gaps

Nov 14, 2025 • Evan Miyazono, Adam Marblestone, and Joseph Fridman

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October 2025

Forging new institutions and alliances for metascience

A Metascience 2025 keynote address

Oct 2, 2025 • Anastasia Gamick and Joseph Fridman

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