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#1 Discovery by Axial
Life Sciences Analysis Every Monday
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#2 Aether Pirates of the Matterium!
clif high's 5GUW reporting. And Woo. Lots of Woo. Explorations of this Matterium & its inhabitants including Space Aliens on the Moon!
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#3 The Researcher Daily
Subscribe to my newsletter for exclusive insights and updates from researchers and scientists. Your support helps me deliver valuable content straight to you.
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#4 Unacceptable Jessica
Jessica's Substack about all things SCIENCE and IMMUNOLOGY
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#5 Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Conversations on genetics, history, politics, books, culture and evolution
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#6 Savant In Space
Join 10K other readers and evolve as you inch towards the next frontier.
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#7 Natural Selections
If it evolved, it's fair game.
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#8 ScienceDaily Newsletter
ScienceDaily's official newsletter. Subscribe to your source for the latest research news.
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#9 Love, Death & Demons
MY NEW BOOK IS FINALLY HERE! Dragon's Prey: Will China Invade Taiwan in 2024?
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#10 Everything Is Amazing
A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.
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#11 Science of Creativity
Scientific research on creativity, delivered twice a week
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#12 Popular Rationalism
Logic. Reason. Science.
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#13 Scienza in rete Newsletter
Newsletter di attualità e cultura scientifica
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#14 Where are the numbers? by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil
A newsletter about use and abuse of science and statistics.
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#15 The Century of Biology
Data, companies, and ideas from the frontier of biology.
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#16 Mendelspod
The 21st is the Century of Biology. A radical advancement in the knowledge of basic biology and human disease is transforming our world. We interview the heroes beneath the headlines.
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#17 The Palindrome
Mathematics for engineers, scientists, and other curious minds. Explaining things like your teachers should have, but probably never did.
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#18 Brian’s Bullshit-Free Zone
Separating Reality from Bullshit, Information from Misinformation: UFOs, conspiracy theories, alternative medicine scams, and all the other crap out there we must be wary of
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#19 What's New Under the Sun
What academia knows* about innovation
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#20 ./sunday_science.sh
The newsletter for engineers.
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#21 Everyday Occurrences
Demystifying UAP: a pilot's perspective on safety, secrecy, and disclosure.
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#22 Science Fictions
Good writing about bad science
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#23 Privatdozent
Featured Substack Newsletter 🥇🌟 10k+ subscribers.
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#24 Latest in space
*Actually* interesting space news in just 5 mins. Sent weekly.
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#25 Decoding Bio
Your missing guide to breakthrough biotech
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#26 John’s Substack
My personal Substack
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#27 Era of the Research Bots 🤖
A newsletter about cutting-edge of AI in Scientific Research. I test gazillion AI research tools, and share the ones truly worth your time - no BS, trust me! Get bonus curation of (actually) useful AI tool guides & lots of other freebies when you join.
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#28 Just Emil Kirkegaard Things
No filter science
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#29 Ruxandra's Substack
Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.
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#30 BIOS+
Nucleus of Life Science Innovation 🚀
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#31 Beyond Euclid
Beyond Euclid! A digital publication that brings you only the high-quality math and science stuff to ensure you are having a good week.
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#32 Science Blog Newsletter
A digest of stories from ScienceBlog.com, the destination for straight-from-the-source research news and big brains in science.
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#33 Brain Pizza by Shane O'Mara
Explore the mysteries of your brain and the magic of life by Shane O'Mara, Substack Featured Writer, best-selling author, and Professor of Experimental Brain Research. Book: Talking Heads - The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds
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#34 Periodycal – The Compound Interest Newsletter
Topical chemistry graphics and other interesting chemistry-related nuggets
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#35 Tornado Titans
What happens when weather nerds and photography nerds unite? You get Tornado Titans. Will you join us? We write about upcoming chase setups, show off incredible imagery, educate about weather and photography, and we have fun doing it!
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#36 Scientific Progress
Scientific Progress Foundation: pure science against whore science.
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#37 Critical Mass
Science, Culture, Reason, Public Policy, & Fascinating Ideas
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#38 Structural Basics
Stories about structural engineering, new technologies that help improve our workflows and personal experiences from the industry.
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#39 Alien Insect On Drugs
I write about the the science and culture of psychoactive drugs, neuropharmacology, and consciousness.
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#40 matt’s microscopy
Microscopy, Citizen research, old school science experiments, bloodwork, graphene, CBD's / morgellons , treatment news, Carnicom, Rife , colloids, etc
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#41 Editores de guardia
Editamos libros de ciencia en Next Door. Algunos han sido un absoluto fracaso, pero con otros lo hemos petado muy fuerte. Aquí vas a encontrar mucha divulgación y bastante salseo.
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#42 Future Minds by Prof Joel Pearson
Get the latest science and ideas on aphantasia, hyperphantasia, intuition and mental imagery.
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#43 Disambiguation
Walls of words about how brains and minds disambiguate the ambiguous
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#44 Weather 20/20 Ultra Long Range Forecasting
The Weather 20/20 team keeps you informed with the Difference In Weather Forecasting through the LRC Model for all weather sensitive businesses
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#45 Coming of Age in the Solar System
Reflections of a scientist and veteran planetary explorer, newly home from the frontier, on humankind and our evolving sense of cosmic place
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#46 next BIG future
Nextbigfuture.com is the top-ranked Science News Blog. It explores various cutting-edge technologies and trends such as Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
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#47 The SciCommer
The SciCommer brings you the latest news from science communication around the globe in one email. It's for anyone in research or practice. Sign up for the free weekly email. It arrives in your inbox every Tuesday. f4bnxmhezdmyl6b
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#48 Boletín Catacrocker
Chiribitas en el cerebro
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#49 Res Obscura
Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.
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#50 Macroscience
A newsletter about macroscientific theory, policy, and strategy
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#51 Earthquake Insights
An earthquake just happened - why, and what does it tell us? Keep up to date with expert insights into latest events and research.
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#52 The Good Science Project
Improving the funding and practice of science
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#53 Unsafe Science
Social science, common sense, and skepticism applied to controversial topics, and occasional personal takes and twists.
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#54 Research4life Newsletter
Gli aggiornamenti sulle news e gli eventi di Research4life.it
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#55 Karl.C’s Substack
Citizen research on biotech
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#56 Aleph 0
A math newsletter which features math exposition and problem solving.
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#57 Counting Stuff
The less sexy (but very important!) side of the data sciences, every Tuesday morning.
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#58 LIL Science
Exploration of next-generation biotechnology and leading-edge advances at the nexus of technology and biotechnology. All educational content on COVID is freely available, subscribe for deeper tech reviews.
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#59 Remote Sensing News
A newsletter with the most recent news, tips, tutorials, conferences and more about Remote Sensing and Geoscience. Feel free to subscribe!
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#60 A Biologist's Guide to Life
Alex Washburne's efforts to make sense of Life
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#61 Transportist
A newsletter on transport
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#62 Science Forever
Science and science, music, central FL, mental health, and DC. Views not necessarily those of AAAS.
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#63 Through the Looking Glass
Science, Art & Poetry
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#64 Logging the World
I try to make sense of the world using numbers, and this free newsletter explains how mathematics and statistics ideas can help a general audience. My book "Numbercrunch" was published in March 2023.
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#65 Unglossed
Biology without the groupthink. Also: criticism of science media, media, liberalism, etc.
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#66 Heterodox STEM
Heterodox STEM is a collection of posts by heterodox thinkers in STEM fields.
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#67 The Science of Sex
Understanding Human Sexuality Through the Power of Science
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#68 FreakTakes
I want to help people start historically great labs. Operational histories on history's best R&D orgs.
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#69 arg min
arg min: a blog of minimum value. on the history, foundations, and validity of "optimally" automated decision making.
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#70 Elite Human Capital 💯
Biosingularity is preferable to paperclips or Idiocracy
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#71 Seeds of Science
Seeds of Science (ISSN: 2768-1254) is a journal publishing exploratory and non-traditional research articles - visit theseedsofscience.org to learn more.
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#72 Science For Everyone
Everyone needs science, and science needs everyone.
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#73 ScicommOps
Scicomm Opportunities: a newsletter comprising job offers in science communication.
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#74 IET Evolve on Substack
The Contactee's Perspective; Emotional Intelligence, Consciousness, Humanity Evolving, UFO's, Planetary Shift and Preparation, Geomagnetic Changes
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#75 A Space To Think
In-between knowledge and creativity. A collection of curated insights in research, science, and innovation to spark your curiosity on the go.
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#76 The Spatial Edge
Helping you become a better geospatial data scientist in less than 5 minutes a week.
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#77 John D. Cook Consulting Substack
Highlights from blog posts
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#78 Modern Discontent
Publishing Independent Science Papers on COVID-19 and Occasional Opinion Pieces about Science and Culture. Be evidence driven not narrative driven.
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#79 CFD Dose
Making CFD fun for everyone! Computational Fluid Dynamics made 100x more enjoyable.
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#80 Unauthorized Science
Radical Empiricism at unauthorizedScience.org
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#81 Technosignatures - The Search For Alien Technologies
Aliens, UFO's & Humanity's True Origins
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#82 FILWD
Data Visualization & Beyond ... with an "Academic Tint."
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#83 DoorlessCarp’s Scientific Literature Reviews
Independent Researcher & BioMed writer. Step-by-step reverse engineering of the ongoing public health disaster, together with alternative approaches. SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY MEDICINE
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#84 Weather with a Twist
Short, free, whimsical dispatches about the latest research in meteorology, courtesy of the American Meteorological Society's education team.
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#85 Anglo Reaction
Blog posts on my research or whatever else interests me.
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#86 The Hypothesis
How do science, history, and storytelling help us make sense of our lives?
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#87 ASeq Newsletter
A Sequencing technology newsletter
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#88 The Boom Review
Where we pick everything apart that doesn't make sense and piece it back together again so it does. Want to get a handle on why are there so many booms, fires, viruses and insane media stories? Everything you need is here.
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#89 \\_ooFWIRED -- hosted by Mark Changizi
Be Aloof -- Loofs of the World Unite! A magazine of science and real world philosophy by cognitive scientist and freedom fighter, Mark Changizi.
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#90 ᴋʟᴀᵾs
Patterns tell stories.
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#91 The Turnstone
I believe that the science behind important issues should be accessible to everyone
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#92 I've moved! Visit newsletter.chanda.science.
As of July 29, 2023, I am using newsletter.chanda.science and will no longer be updating this substack.
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#93 Rewire With Nicole Vignola
Welcome to Nicole's Neuroscience, a weekly newsletter about everything brain!
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#94 The Polymerist
A newsletter primarily about how polymer chemistry influences and enables modern life.
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#95 Shriek of the Week
A bird sound in your inbox every weekend
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#96 Science without the gobbledygook
Sabine on all things science
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#97 De Novo
All things synthetic.
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#98 Reasonable People
Psychological science on rationality, reason and persuasion
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#99 Probably Overthinking It
A blog about data science, Bayesian statistics, and more.
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#100 Alice in Futureland
Exploring every rabbit hole there is.
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