A philosophy-of-science newsletter by statistician William Briggs that critiques scientism and misuse of probability, uncertainty and concepts like entropy, often through close readings of popular claims. Recent issues cover a Thursday class on entropy, a book launch update, and a critique of Bryan Johnson's immortalism manifesto.
Website: https://wmbriggs.substack.com
A personal newsletter exploring biology and biological engineering through essays on research experience, scientific reasoning and speculative synthetic biology. Readers get reflective, well-explained pieces that examine why scientific claims hold up or fall apart.
Essays by a social scientist that examine how research and common sense interact, the limits of progress in psychology, and why people reflexively assume cynical explanations for higher motives. Readers get argued, example-driven analysis of how social science works and where its claims are strong or weak.
A newsletter that uses the history and philosophy of science and technology to analyse where AI is heading. Issues combine historical narrative, such as Bell Labs and neural network history, with argumentative essays on scaling, paradigms and the effects of AI and robotics.
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