🌐 AI for science just became science diplomacy. On October 4, the US and 16 other countries, including Japan, South Korea, the UK, Germany and Singapore, endorsed the "Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science" at the STS Forum in Kyoto. I only learned about it today, from a friend. In case you missed it too, here is the short version. 💡 The one-page text covers a lot of what I care about. More diverse funding, from long-term awards to fast grants and prizes. Room for new institutional models. Metascience and reproducibility. AI for science, including autonomous closed-loop discovery. Early investment in young talent. Much of this I support. Closed-loop, AI-driven experimentation is at the core of what we do in the Theis lab, and funding systems everywhere could use more experimentation themselves. The declaration builds on the White House report "Science: A New Golden Age" from July, which goes further, for example in rethinking the role of universities. Not trivial. How these ideas translate will differ between national systems. Germany's research ministry, for instance, calls the paper a non-binding basis for discussion and stresses that freedom of research and the independence of science remain non-negotiable. 🌍 For me, the test will be concrete: shared access to compute, data and automated labs, and collaboration across borders. Researchers should help shape what this means in practice. How do you see it? Will it change how science is funded where you work? 🇩🇪 BMFTR statement: bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/Kur… 📄 Kyoto Vision: bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/Dow… 📘 Science: A New Golden Age: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up… 🇺🇸 White House release: whitehouse.gov/releases/2026… #AIforScience #ScienceDiplomacy #Metascience