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Principal Instigators Podcast

@scienceforhaters.bsky.social
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A science podcast for the haters. Find us on all your favorite podcast apps at link.chtbl.com/principalinstigators

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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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The Retracted Mifepristone Papers
Questionable research was retracted long after the damage was done in the federal court case that will allow the Supreme Court to restrict mifepristone access. We need to prevent shoddy research from…
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Lol, lmao even Also nice image choice 😉
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
They're calling us the most vindicated science podcast in history www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
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Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You can find a playlist of our musical interludes here: open.spotify.com/playlist/23Q...
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Principal Instigators Tracklist
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today on Principal Instigators Liv forsakes her physical, mental, and emotional well-being to explain why space datacenters are never going to work but everyone is wrong about the reasons why. Listen on Pocket Casts: pca.st/episode/73e1...
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today on Principal Instigators Liv forsakes her physical, mental, and emotional well-being to explain why space datacenters are never going to work but everyone is wrong about the reasons why. Listen on Pocket Casts: pca.st/episode/73e1...
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Principal Instigators: more popular than the Washington Post
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Liv, short for Livid 🏳️‍⚧️ @shookegg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The science impacts were near-apocalyptic and if you want to hear about that we talked about it on @scienceforhaters.bsky.social but every aspect of it was awful and crucially. WE ALL KNEW IT WOULD BE LIKE THAT AT THE START
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We released 2 episodes last year and even we deserved a Pulitzer nomination more than "The Protocol"
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Does this mean we have to release episodes more regularly?
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We're proud to unlock our inaugural March Sadness episode, where we celebrated Liv by getting her to rank the brain damage she's suffered from the world's best* and smartest** political pundits! pca.st/episode/7f75...
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March Sadness [UNLOCKED FOR NON-PATRONS]
On this very special (unlocked) episode, Sandra and Dan(i) shepherd Liv through the listener-created March Sadness™ bracket, and witness apotheosis
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year, listeners! We resolve to release at least one episode in 2026
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hello everyone! You may have noticed some episodes missing from our feed in addition to the extended radio silence. We at Principal Instigators LLC can neither confirm nor deny any fair-use policy issues with our hosting platform but we are happy to announce that all our episodes are back online!
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
My friend and colleague Remco Heesen once told me study of social epistemology of science made him "less trusting of any particular scientific paper but more impressed by science as a whole." I honestly think that's the right lesson to draw. But I think holding both attitudes doesn't come naturally.
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Friendly reminder that LLMs are overhyped and can cause tremendous harms, but we shouldn't automatically trust science/tech reporting just like we shouldn't automatically trust AI companies. 🧵
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The people who die are still dead
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Also we should note that we recorded this in February and things have only gotten worse since, but everything we said is still true and relevant
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
On this quarter's episode of Principal Instigators we discuss the Trump administration's unprecedented attacks on science, which are so wide-ranging and indiscriminate that they threaten our society's basic ability to "do science" in any meaningful sense. Happy Saturday! pca.st/episode/5d3c...
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A special issue of a prestigious medical journal with "more research" on vaccines & autism would be an excuse for every paper in that special issue to cite all the others - and the papers in that special issue would be well-positioned to gobble up citations from future papers on this topic.
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
tfw ALAB series has a faster release schedule than you
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
24 What can you even say
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Barry Westfall @bwestfall55.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is exactly why we have to keep NIH and NCI publicly funded research. A cancer cure will cost them billions. Why would they do that? Republicans always cut research budgets and years of progress are lost. Many stem cell biologists left the USA when GW Bush severely limited cell access. Morons!
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Sid @polychromie.didnotaskfor.skin · 11/12/2024
Listen to the @scienceforhaters.bsky.social podcast for more on this nightmare of a human
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Scheduling a recording session this week like
Screencapture of the Well There's Your Problem podcast 9/11 episode paused at the exact moment Rocz learns RBG has died
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
If we ever end up on one of these lists something has going horribly wrong www.vulture.com/article/new-...
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The Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far)
Including a look into the checkered history of the New York Police Department and a tech podcast with an alt-weekly bent.
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
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Introductory Statistics for Unwashed Rationalists
What happens when you combine internet libertarians’ favorite woman, questionably-supported statistical analyses of human sexuality, and show tunes written by g
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
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Introductory Statistics for Unwashed Rationalists - Principal Instigators
A science podcast for the haters. https://bsky.app/profile/scienceforhaters.bsky.social
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Today on Principal Instigators we're discussing Mark Andreesen's favorite amateur sexologist and data science enthusiast. Curiosity, statistical understanding, and showers not guaranteed. CW, topics include sex, sexual assault, and transphobia Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4qa7...
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Introductory Statistics for Unwashed Rationalists
Episode · Principal Instigators · What happens when you combine internet libertarians’ favorite woman, questionably-supported statistical analyses of human sexuality, and show tunes written by guys fr...
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Today on Principal Instigators we're discussing Mark Andreesen's favorite amateur sexologist and data science enthusiast. Curiosity, statistical understanding, and showers not guaranteed. CW, topics include sex, sexual assault, and transphobia Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4qa7...
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Introductory Statistics for Unwashed Rationalists
Episode · Principal Instigators · What happens when you combine internet libertarians’ favorite woman, questionably-supported statistical analyses of human sexuality, and show tunes written by guys fr...
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Great news for all you nerdy, horny gremlins: our next episode (filename: statistexxx.mp3) is coming out soon & it's >2 hours long 🍆🔢🍑💻🌭📊🌮
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
If/when Well There's Your Problem does a climate change episode they should have us as guests
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
It was a real mistake to release the word “priors” into general circulation. It created an entirely new Guy and made several extant classes of Guy worse.
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Congratulations to @linden.bsky.social, our grand prize winner who gets all four prints!!
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Sid @polychromie.didnotaskfor.skin · 22/06/2024
I know what this is about and I am ready to inflict psychic damage on so many of my friends when it's released!!!
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
*googling "hangover cure for 4 hour podcast recording session"
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Our next episode is gonna be even more Principal Instigators than all previous episodes. I hope you sickos are ready to learn the difference between confidence intervals vs. prediction intervals in the context of sex positions other than missionary.
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Sid @polychromie.didnotaskfor.skin · 19/06/2024
If you're not listening to PI it's time to start!
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
We’re thrilled to announce our first-ever giveaway - for a series of lino prints with our podcast logo, designed / drawn / carved / printed by hand by one of the cohosts of Principal Instigators.
Lino cut #1: Our podcast logo (a chemistry flask containing a burning coffin, emblazoned with the word “science”) sitting on a table. The opening of the flask is giving off a golden yellow halo of light. The image is printed with black ink on off-white paper, with the exception of the flames, in red ink.Lino cut #2: The chemistry flask from our podcast logo, inverted, flying through the black sky as a hot air balloon. It is powered by the flames from a coffin that is on fire, emblazoned with the word “science.” The image is printed with black ink on off-white paper, with the exception of the flames, in red ink.Lino cut #3: The chemistry flask from our podcast logo, descending into the flames of hell, powered by its wings which are a mix of an angel’s bird wings (feathers) and a demon’s bat wings (anatomical structure). The image is printed with black ink on off-white paper, with the exception of the flames, in red ink.Lino cut #4: Our podcast logo (a chemistry flask containing a burning coffin) reimagined as Baba Yaga’s house, complete with chicken legs. The logo is wandering away from dark woods full of pine trees. The image is printed with black ink on off-white paper, with the exception of the flames, in red ink.
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Sid @polychromie.didnotaskfor.skin · 06/06/2024
PI is great!!
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Today is a huge anniversary for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger; he released some amazing preprints one year ago. We have all the details for you in our new episode, with plenty of twists and turns. open.spotify.com/episode/5hNR...
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You say Land Back, Lee Berger says out to space
Listen to this episode from Principal Instigators on Spotify. The past year and a half has been quite eventful for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger. He has made big claims about fi...
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chrs @y2ckt.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
me, stupid and half-awake: oh boy a new episode of @scienceforhaters.bsky.social i can't wait me, 20 minutes in, screaming at the racist explorers: i was happier 20 minutes ago
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
The people have spoken. And they have said, loud and clear, that they enjoy episodes where I make my cohosts sad. They enjoy hearing Oliver and Dan experience psychic damage. Great news: there will be plenty more of that in future episodes, including our forthcoming second episode on Lee Berger.
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
In the late 1990s when National Geographic was gearing up to launch its cable channel, this new venture raised the question: would NatGeo TV make scientific information even more accessible, or would the pressure for ratings lead NatGeo to sacrifice accuracy + integrity for viewership?
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Today's episode about celebrity scientist Lee Berger: a NatGeo favorite who inherited the job of an anti-apartheid hero but chose to invent a fake race of small-brained island dwellers after writing some hilariously inaccurate books. Spotify link: open.spotify.com/episode/1PiH...
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Fossils and Cannibals and TV Cameras, oh my
Listen to this episode from Principal Instigators on Spotify. Scientists are encouraged to share their findings with the general public; organizations that communicate scientific discoveries, such as ...
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chrs @y2ckt.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
The reason I know that @scienceforhaters.bsky.social is made by real nerds is that Sandra actually pronounced the Broad institute the correct freak way instead of how it looks
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2024
guys like this genuinely believe they were put on this earth to rule over and dominate the rest of us
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
We thought about an episode on Dr. Gupta's no-dark-matter paper but when Oliver saw it his screams scared the NYC and Philly metro areas
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
In this episode, we discuss the retracted scientific papers about mifepristone that were cited in the case that allowing the Supreme Court to limit medication abortion. Plus bonus discussion of whether we can prevent this from happening again. open.spotify.com/episode/0mA7...
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The Retracted Mifepristone Papers
Listen to this episode from Principal Instigators on Spotify. Questionable research was retracted long after the damage was done in the federal court case that will allow the Supreme Court to restrict...
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Can't wait to learn how good judges are at interpreting scientific literature.
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Principal Instigators Podcast @scienceforhaters.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that may greatly restrict mifepristone access in the US. It all started in Texas, where a judge cited scientific papers that have since been retracted. In our next episode we'll dive into those papers and how they got published.
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