A retired lawyer and novelist writes polemical essays on academic controversies, including the Jason Arday affair, the legal and institutional dynamics behind it, and the politics of moral mascots. Shorter pieces also cover curiosities and evolutionary explanations of social patterns, such as the Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck.
Website: https://www.notonyourteam.co.uk
Essays on economic history by an academic economic historian, covering medieval economies, long-run growth debates and developments in scholarly research. Posts combine engagement with the historiography and data such as Domesday Book and Malthusian benchmarks with commentary on the profession.
A newsletter on statistical genetics that critically examines heritability claims, academic policy and the use of AI in research. Readers get data-driven analysis of published datasets and hands-on experiments from a practicing researcher.
Psychologist Paul Bloom writes short, argumentative essays on psychology, philosophy, AI and everyday decisions, plus occasional podcast conversations with Robert Wright. Readers get a contrarian but reasoned take on topics like lottery tickets, AI peer review and chatbot companionship.
A science newsletter examining the institutions and incentives behind research, science journalism and academic careers. Issues combine reporting from conferences, critiques of press coverage of studies, and explanations of how the German-speaking academic system works.
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