Seeds of Science
Publishing independent research and curating the best science writing from across the blogosphere.
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- 11
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Where Do the Children Play? (opens the original)
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Eli Stark-Elster is the author of Unpublishable Papers and a PhD student in Anthropology at UC Davis. He studies the subjective effects, neural dynamics, and cross-cultural uses of psychedelics. He conducts fieldwork in Southern Africa, where he recently documented the first clear evidence of indigenous psilocybin use outside the Americas.<div class
Michael Levin made me believe in gods (opens the original)
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Eli Stark-Elster is the author of Unpublishable Papers and a PhD student in Anthropology at UC Davis. He studies the subjective effects, neural dynamics, and cross-cultural uses of psychedelics. He conducts fieldwork in Southern Africa, where he recently documented the first clear evidence of indigenous psilocybin use outside the Americas.<div class="prea
Are the Brooms Multiplying Yet? (opens the original)
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Maarten Boudry is a philosopher and independent author writing on human progress and human (ir)rationality. His upcoming book, The Betrayal of Enlightenment, will be published by Pitchstone Publishing. You can find him on Substack here and buy him a coffee here. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<f
There is a path to meat without misery (opens the original)
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Aidan Kankyoku leads research on AI values and character at Anima International, specifically on how to teach frontier AI systems to reason responsibly about the welfare of animals. He writes about this work on the animal welfare alignment newsletter, and separately writes about lessons from ten years in farmed animal advocacy on his personal blog Sandcastles. I wrote this post in part to draw attention to two new impact incubator programs that are doing some of the most seriou
How to build a cancer vaccine, and whether they will work this time (opens the original)
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Abhishaike Mahajan is a senior ML engineer at Dyno Therapeutics, a biotech startup working to create better adeno-associated viral vectors using ML. He also writes a blog (http://owlposting.com) focused on the intersection of biology and ML.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="emai
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