A rant, Christopher Sweat

Negin is a long-time friend of mine and someone whose perspective I value. She started her career as a journalist in Iran and later moved to London to join BBC Persia as a news presenter on-air, where she worked for over a decade. More recently, she formed a community organizing and political activist network called Azadi Network, which in English means Freedom Network. Her critiques of the Iranian government are direct and incisive. She has much knowledge as a practitioner, which she will share during our continued collaboration. I want to introduce her to the platform here as a semi-regular contributor. Much of her perspective spans politics and women’s rights broadly in the U.S., Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East. She is active in the Women Life Freedom movement and the Gender Apartheid movement. I’m excited for you to listen and look for future collaborations from Negin.

If you prefer, here is the video version of our discussion on YouTube.

You can find more on Negin through the links below:

Azadi Network - https://azadi.network/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/neginsh

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@UC83iTuAQOCiVcpZupL5g29g

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/neginshira/

Negin addressing the UN Human Rights Council during her time at BBC Persia -

You can play the audio in the player above or click here to watch the video of our conversation on YouTube!

We talked about cosmology, string theory, joining Joe Rogan on his podcast, Eric Weisteins's call for physicists to come together and build new solutions and theories, hanging out with Ben Shapiro, academic freedom, and the ongoing situation in Israel.

I hope you enjoy it!

You can find Dr Brian Keating’s content at the following links.

Brian Keating Website

Brian Keating YouTube

Hi everyone.

I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format as well.

Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead.

Hi everyone.

I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format.

Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead.

Hi everyone.

I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format as well.

Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead.

Hi everyone.

I posted this episode in video format, but I realize many of you prefer audio, so I am re-releasing this one in audio format.

Here is the video episode if you decide to check it out instead.

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Razib Khan is a brilliant mind with a fascinating perspective on genetics, history, and society. I have been a long-time listener and reader of Razib’s, so it was nothing short of an honor to host him. We use some explicit language on the podcast, but Razib discusses how he got into genetics, his views on politics, and some of his interpretations of data. His takes can ruffle feathers, but he does deep analysis, and you can see more of his work here on his substack:

I enjoy reading Razib’s work and listening to his content on clubhouse and Twitter spaces. You can follow Razib here on Twitter:

One of Razib’s missions is to use genomics to give us insight into our world and use these insights to make it a better place.

“Better self-knowledge means better choices.”

-Razib Khan

This is a fascinating conversation I hosted with Anna George, a DPhil doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OIO.) Anna has a social data science, statistics, and organizational-social psychology background. We discuss hate groups, political extremists, and how this behavior occurs online.

I share some of the overlaps in my political science studies and discuss various political movements, the diffusion of messaging online, and the impacts technology has on spreading misinformation.

You can find more about Anna here:

OII - Profile - Anna George

Anna George on Twitter