







Brandon Yates on Twitter / X
I wrote a cosmology paper that's under peer review.I can't post it to arXiv because I don't have a university affiliation.If any of you happen to have published in astro-ph. CO, gr-qc, or hep-ph and can endorse me, I'd owe you one.#AcademicTwitter #PhysicsTwitter #Cosmology…— Brandon Yates (@bmichaelyates) March 13, 2026
Cosmo-localism
Chapter 6, part 3 of Technological Metamodernism


The era of precision cosmology with voids
Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational...

The Astrosky Ecosystem
We're building social media tools for the astronomy & space science communities. From feeds to hosting, we're billionaire-proofing scientific discussion for good.

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America
Space to Grow — the privatisation of the solar system
A useful primer explains how cosmic exploration has been commercialised and explores the challenges in policing this new wild west

The Philosophical Implications of the Second Scientific Revolution
Notes from my history of philosophy course lecture on Darwin, Maxwell, Einstein, and Bohr

Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…

The Coming Second Copernican Revolution | NOEMA
Astrobiology is rewiring our understanding of the intimate connection between life and planets as they appear in the universe.
Shareouts from ATScience 2026 in Vancouver - ATScience Notes
Since when do science conferences have such wild energy?
What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - CAIROS Blog
The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley
Rebuilding the Architecture of Science
Science built the modern world. It’s time to rebuild the world of science.

What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - Cosmik Labs
The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley
The Ambidextrous Universe
The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe. It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity is ever violated, which had been proven experimentally in 1956.

Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
