Substacks recommended by Brain Pizza by Shane O'Mara

Recommended by Brain Pizza by Shane O'Mara

Tom Hayes’ Substack

Random Thoughts on Labour Relations Today... and Politics

Always enjoy Tom's well-informed thoughts on matters EU

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Brain for Business

By Laurence Knell

Insights into the brain, behavioural and organisational sciences

This pod series is great - if you're interested in the relations between brain, behaviour and business! Lots to listen to.

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European Tomorrow

By Pascal LTH

Europe, climate change and international politics

Excellent, thought provoking reads on the future of Europe.

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Sustainability by numbers

By Hannah Ritchie

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

Data-driven analyses rather than 'vibes' are more important than every. Here's a great place to start.

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Shatter Zone

By The Only Robert Evans

Things falling apart.

Futura Doctrina

By Mick Ryan

A conversation about technology, ideas, people and their convergence in contemporary war and competition. Also covering issues related to the war in Ukraine, Chinese aggression against Taiwan and Indo-Pacific defence.

Matthew’s Writing

By Matthew Tejo

Various things I feel like sharing, programming, rants, stories

The Garden of Forking Paths

By Brian Klaas

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever changing world.

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Interested in organisational life and beyond? This one's for you.

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Phillips’s Newsletter

By Phillips P. OBrien

Whatever intrigues me--these days the Russo-Ukraine War with regular departures

The Maple Moon

By Courtenay Schembri Gray

A Newsletter containing Op-Eds, Literature, Poetry, Film, and other things on the charcuterie board.

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

Taking notes is at the core of writing. Here are lessons...

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Neural Newsletter

Summarizing the week's biggest neuroscience discoveries in plain English!

Scientific Discovery

By Saloni

A newsletter to keep you updated with great new scientific research.

matt

By Matt Zamudio

A place for writers and readers to geek out

Jonathan’s Quality Kvetching Newsletter

By Jonathan Weiler

Quality kvetching about the political world, with occasional digressions into sports and other topics.

How About This

By Mark Dykeman

Thinking in paragraphs and paper, reflecting on knowledge and ideas both old and new with a particular interest in psychology and sociology; also featuring replies from interesting people about their creative passions. Canadian, Atlantic.

Atlantic Canada, and much more besides, FTW. Consistently interesting

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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Orient to the currents that are shaping our times and the unseen forces driving politics that are rarely discussed on cable news

Science Fictions

By Stuart Ritchie

Good writing about bad science

The Fitzwilliam

By Fitzwilliam Staff

New ideas for Ireland

high-quality discourse about policy, philosophy, science and literature in Ireland and Europe

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Substack Reads

Your guide to great writing happening on Substack, plus the home of “The Active Voice,” a podcast by Hamish McKenzie.

A great serendipitous reading trip round the 'stacks 👍

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Your Creative Letter

By Keva Epale

A letter that sparks conversations and inspiration. A series of lessons and insights on the creative entrepreneur journey. Infused with inspiration, ideas, opportunities and prompts to empower your creative journey.

Experimental History

By Adam Mastroianni

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Really great (social) psych writing

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Wonk Watch

The politics of the policy world

Excellent pieces on the (dys)functions of government and governance

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Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Deeply insightful writing on current and historical conflicts

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Inside-Out, political commentary from Philip Stephens

Insight and analysis making sense of the new global disorder. Free subscription

Really great pieces from a former FT writer

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Virginia's Newsletter

By Virginia Postrel

Commerce, culture, and curiosity

Ground Truths

By Eric Topol

Facts, data, and analytics about biomedical matters.

Physiologically Speaking

By Brady Holmer

Physiologically Speaking is a publication dedicated to providing the latest science-based information on health and human performance.

Chris Arnade Walks the World

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Want New York? Here's New York!

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Can We Still Govern?

By Don Moynihan

improving the quality of government, public policy, reducing administrative burdens

This week in Brexitland

By Nick Tyrone

Proving Brexit was a bad idea, one week at a time

Sardonic and enjoyable pieces on an act of national self-sabotage; brexit is rubbish, but few say it better

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The Empty City

By david allen green

Commentary on law and policy from D A Green. Formerly the law and lore blog.

Matt Carr’s Infernal Machine

Independent Critical Commentary for Difficult Times

The UnPopulist

By Shikha Dalmia

Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.

Lucid, compelling arguments, making the case for preserving democracy (bc we need to)

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Citizen Scholar

A community of readers who value the study and discussion of important ideas that shed light on the past, present & potentially, our future. Join hundreds of Citizen Scholar subscribers by signing up below - launched September 2021!

Publishing Confidential

By Kathleen Schmidt

News and analysis about the book publishing industry that you won't read anywhere else.

If you're interested in book publishing, this is the inside track: you will learn lots...!

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Rozado’s Visual Analytics

By David Rozado Newsletter

Underexplored Research Topics

The Social Identity & Morality Lab | New York University

By NYU Social Identity & Morality Lab

Learn about our latest research and insights on group psychology, polarization, intergroup conflict, misinformation, and morality each month.

Jay Van Bavel is one of the rising stars of social psychology: insightful, thoughtful, interesting

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The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

A novelist and neuroscientist, all in one: what's not to like?

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Dr Paddy Barrett

Preventive Cardiologist writing on how to prevent heart disease and live longer.

Excellent, front-line, advice from a practitioner

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The Power of Us

By Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel

Our newsletter is designed to help people get smarter about groups and make groups smarter. Each week, we share science and the stories of social identity, group dynamics, and collective behavior in organizations and society.

Thinking about...

By Timothy Snyder

Opening the future by understanding the past.

Timothy Snyder, perhaps the preeminent historian of eastern european conflict - no more to be said than that

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Lucid

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

The Other Hand

By Jim Power & Chris Johns

Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Business, Finance and Markets. It's all connected.

Great commentary and analysis on economics and politics

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Imperfect notes on an imperfect world

By Christopher Hobson

Japan-based scholar and writer Christopher Hobson reflecting on a world of crisis and change.

Polemology Positions

By Matt Osborne

Conflict History

'You May Not Be Interested in War, But War Is Interested in You'

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A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

Bill Emmott's Global View

Analysis and commentary on world events, current affairs and ideas from a former editor-in-chief of The Economist with a special addiction to Japan and Italy

Excellent and insightful synoptic views from the former EiC of The Economist

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Faster, Please!

By James Pethokoukis

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

Truth and Consequences

By Michael A. Cohen

A no-holds-barred look at the absurdities, hypocrisies, and surreality of American politics

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Consistently interesting data-driven analyses of the state of the (economic) world

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Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

The Common Reader

By Henry Oliver

Essays for interesting people about talent, literature, and biography. "One of my favourite Substacks." Helen Lewis

literature and biography (and opsimaths too!) - great stuff

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Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

The Works in Progress Newsletter

By Works in Progress

Get the latest updates on our magazine, featuring new and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

Lots of interesting, thought-provoking, well-written pieces.

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Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Always a thoughtfully different and interesting pov. Been following since the Slate Star Codex days.

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The Bulwark

Analysis and reporting on politics and culture in America. Home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL and more. No partisan loyalties. No tribal prejudices.

SpyTalk

By Jeff Stein

Intelligence for Thinking People

Persuasion

By Yascha Mounk

The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.

ProductiveGrowth

By Steve

A newsletter helping leaders & entrepreneurs get to the next level through improved leadership and the 3Ps: productivity, personal development & process building.

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

What's New Under the Sun

By Matt Clancy

What academia knows* about innovation

deeply-researched writing on the social science research on innovation; important

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Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

The Cosmopolitan Globalist

By Claire Berlinski

Edited by essayist Claire Berlinski, this is Substack's top forum for the discussion of international news among readers and writers, around the world, who are concerned about the future of liberal democracy and the gathering storm of global war.

SHuSH, by Kenneth Whyte

By ken whyte

The world of non-fiction from Sutherland House (and beyond)

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Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.