Judging in an informal and biased way, I think some impact is in the public debate being marginally a bit more sane—but this is obviously hard to evaluate.
To what extent more informed public debate can lead to better policy is to be seen; also, unfortunately, I would tend to glomarize over discussing the topic directly with policymakers.
There are some more proximate impacts like we (ACS) are getting a steady stream of requests for collaboration or people wanting to work with us, but we basically don’t have capacity to form more collaborations, and don’t have capacity to absorb more people unless exceptionally self-guided.
Judging in an informal and biased way, I think some impact is in the public debate being marginally a bit more sane—but this is obviously hard to evaluate.
To what extent more informed public debate can lead to better policy is to be seen; also, unfortunately, I would tend to glomarize over discussing the topic directly with policymakers.
There are some more proximate impacts like we (ACS) are getting a steady stream of requests for collaboration or people wanting to work with us, but we basically don’t have capacity to form more collaborations, and don’t have capacity to absorb more people unless exceptionally self-guided.