Heterodox STEM
Dorian Abbot, Randy Wayne, Kent Osband, Jerry Coyne, Thomas J. Snodgrass, Sergiu Klainerman, Nan Zhong, Anna Krylov, Evan D. Morris, Coel Hellier, Shivaji Sondhi, Zachary PattersonHeterodox STEM is a collection of posts by heterodox thinkers in STEM fields.
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Will AI kill us all—or just make mathematicians obsolete?
Abstract
AI’s recent advances have fueled predictions of human intellectual obsolescence and fears for the future of mathematics. I argue that, impressive as these achievements are, they do not establish AI’s capacity to invent new con...
Social advocacy should not cloud scientific detachment
Widespread malnutrition is one of the major reasons why kids in many nations don’t do as well at school. At least, that’s the impression given by a recent article in Quillette. The authors argue that malnutrition in pre-school children is a...
Yale Bans Right Turns: The Latest Campus Safety Crisis
This article appeared originally in The American Spectator on October 10, 2026.
Image created by Chatgpt for The American Spectator
Yale University, in collaboration with the city of New Haven has taken a preemptive step to head off the n...
Stealing Credit: Part IV
This is Part IV of the four-part essay, following Part I, Part II, and Part III. Intellectual property theft and credit misassignment is a potential issue. Therefore, some methods for dealing with these problems are introduced and considere...
Stealing Credit: Part III
This is Part III of the four-part essays, following Part I and Part II.
A continuation of the catalogue of problematic episodes involving the theft or misattribution of credit for intellectual property contributions is presented. These rep...
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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.
Economic historian, finance theorist, and fan of reasoned debate
Emeritus professor of evolutionary biology, atheist, eater, and ailurophile.
Is it STEAM or STEM?
Higgins professor of mathematics at Princeton University
President of SWORD (Students Who Oppose Racial Discrimination)
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.
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.
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.
Wykeham Professor of Physics, Oxford
Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
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