Heterodox STEM
Dorian Abbot, Randy Wayne, Anna Krylov, Sergiu Klainerman, Kent Osband, Coel Hellier, Jay Tanzman, Suzannah Alexander, Evan D. Morris, Nan Zhong, Mark D'Souza, Shivaji Sondhi, Thomas J. SnodgrassHeterodox STEM is a collection of posts by heterodox thinkers in STEM fields.
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Jason Arday and the Corruption of Science
This essay was first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 9, 2026.
Image via The Chronicle
One of the more distressing changes in science is its infection by politics and ideology, a change visible in what I call “j...
The Diversity Hypothesis – A literature Review
Last week, Jordan Beck, Sam Wilson and I had a paper published in Theory and Society entitled “The diversity hypothesis: A rapid scoping review of diversity and scientific output and impact in the natural and social sciences.” The goal of t...
AI will not make mathematicians obsolete
On September 8, 2026, OpenAI announced that one of its internal, unreleased models had solved the Navier–Stokes problem — the question, open for close to a century, of whether the standard equations of fluid flow (the mathematical model und...
Stealing Credit: Part II
This is Part II of four-part essay (read Part I here). Carefully allocating proper credit to the people who contributed to a discovery or an invention is not only reasonable and fair, but it also can build a solid foundation for continued p...
Postdocs Aren’t Burger-Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea.
“Have a nice weekend, Mike. I’m off to Florence to see the latest by the scribbler, Macky Velli. The ceiling is really shaping up. You’ll be done in no time. BTW - Please remind Big Pappy that my salary will be increasing July 1. Union orde...
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I am a professor at the University of Chicago.
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences at Cornell University. I call myself a natural philosopher as I see no real divisions between the scientific disciplines. My research is on the nature of light.
Anna Krylov is a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. She received her professional training from Moscow State University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Higgins professor of mathematics at Princeton University
Economic historian, finance theorist, and fan of reasoned debate
I'm a scientist. Posts here are likely to be about the nature and philosophy of science, and about societal issues such as secularism and free speech: reality above ideology; free speech above taboos.
TBA
Whistleblower, but on my off days I can bake an enviable pie or spin a yarn. Wielder of a dry wit, hobbies include fist shaking, compulsive questioning, and running with dogs in cold rain.
Evan D. Morris is Prof. of Bioimaging at Yale. He develops models to analyze PET images. He led 25 Yale profs to Israel and produced, "Indivisible. The Israeli Academy after Oct 7th": https://www.indivisibleyale.com . He doesn’t use AI for drawing.
President of SWORD (Students Who Oppose Racial Discrimination)
Mark D’Souza is a practising Canadian physician and author of Lost and Found: How Meaningless Living is Destroying Us and Three Keys to Fix It
Wykeham Professor of Physics, Oxford
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