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Jordan Harrod Wants You in the Room Where AI Decisions Happen
A scientist who started explaining algorithms on YouTube now advises institutions, teaches the public and co-owns a creator platform. Her recurring question is simple: who gets to understand the technology before it shapes their life?
Tom Scott Learned When to Stop Counting Mondays
For ten years, a new curiosity arrived every week. Now the British presenter is driving through 39 historic counties, giving each story more room - and keeping the ending in sight.
Robert Miles and the Art of Explaining the Difficult Question
A chance meeting in a university barbecue queue led Rob Miles from computer science research to a career explaining AI safety. His videos and the community-built AISafety.info turn difficult questions into conversations people can join.
ENTENTE Network and the Last Mile of Science
The bottleneck in biotechnology is not always discovery. Sometimes it is the sentence that makes an investor, patient, regulator, or reporter understand why the discovery matters. ENTENTE built a consultancy - and a set of intelligence tools - for that last mile.
The Fact Sheet Lost the Argument. Unbiased Science Built an Escape Room.
A public-health data scientist discovered that being correct was only the opening move. Six years later, her company pairs evidence with empathy, jokes, risk tools and a training game in which clinicians escape by having a better conversation.
The Agency That Put a Price Tag on Attention
JDI sells something every difficult technology needs and few can manufacture alone: a story that survives contact with the real world. Its more interesting invention may be the candid operating system behind the work.
The Agency That Put on a Lab Coat
Most agencies know the language of persuasion. Brandwidth Solutions built a business by learning the language of the laboratory - then wiring every campaign to the sales pipeline.
The Scientists Who Decided Science Needed an Agency
Researchers are trained to discover things, then largely left alone to explain why those things matter. Stellate built a business in that missing step.
The Most Expensive Word in Health Care Might Be “Placebo”
Health Literacy Media built a business around a stubborn idea: medical information is not clear until the people who need it say so. Its real product is the revision that happens after an expert discovers what a reader did not understand.
The Field Trip That Never Needed a Bus
A small Ohio PR agency found its sharpest idea in a stubborn constraint: people wanted to see modern agriculture, but farms could not simply open the gate. The answer was a live field trip with no bus, no biosecurity breach and, eventually, an audience of more than 1.6 million.
The Little Agency That Learned to Make Science Travel
From a card table and a rented answering machine to billion-impression nutrition campaigns, Communique built a business around one stubborn problem: facts do not move unless someone teaches them how.
The Quiet Machine Between the Lab and the Front Page
Newswise built a business around a stubborn little gap: researchers have discoveries, reporters have deadlines, and neither side has time to hunt for the other.
HKA’s quantum bet: make the science worth a story
Thirty-five years into its life, HKA turned toward quantum technology. Its work reveals how a complicated scientific claim becomes something a journalist can explain - and a reader can care about.
Eyes of the World Media Group makes the complicated watchable
A Culver City studio put brain science, engineering ethics and world population data into forms people could actually use. Its most revealing product comes in three parts.
Technica Communications knows what to say before the plane can fly
A delayed test flight. A heat pump with three weeks to make an impression. Technica Communications turns complicated technology into stories that give customers and investors a reason to pay attention.
Thermal knows when science needs a story
A biotech PR firm put Scribe in the news one day before its co-founder won a Nobel Prize. The timing was a gamble. The preparation tells you more.
Sean Carroll Wants the Equations Left In
The physicist and philosopher has spent his career refusing the false choice between rigor and wonder. His trick is simple to describe and hard to copy: keep the equations, invite everyone in, and let the questions stay difficult.
Adrian Ebscins Bet on Attention Before It Became Everyone's Business
A biochemistry graduate turned radio host turned B2B operator, Adrian Ebscins has spent his career translating complicated systems into stories people can act on. His latest assignment brings that habit to small-business banking at Relay.
Hasti Nazem
Hasti Nazem is the Co-CEO and Head of Product and Education at Kindra, a New York-based, science-backed women's health brand building estrogen-free solutions for menopause, vaginal health and intimate care. With roughly a decade at the intersection of life sciences, consumer brand-building and wellness, she co-leads the company alongside Afshan Dosani, grounding products in 160+ clinical studies and patent-pending peptide technology. She came to the work through a winding path: a family of physicians, a pre-med start, a detour into finance before the 2008 crash, and a return to school that led her to build wellness companies focused on sleep and, later, women's health.
The New York Academy of Sciences
The New York Academy of Sciences is one of the oldest scientific organizations in the United States, founded in 1817. A nonprofit professional society with more than 20,000 members across 100 countries, it convenes scientists, students, policymakers and the public to advance research, education and expertise. Its work spans flagship recognition programs like the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists and the Tata Transformation Prize, global STEM education through the Junior Academy and Global STEM Alliance, crisis-response coordination via the International Science Reserve, and the long-running peer-reviewed journal Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Andrew Huberman
Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and the host of the Huberman Lab podcast - regularly ranked the #1 health and science podcast in the world with over 400 episodes. His Stanford lab investigates visual system repair, neural plasticity, and stress resilience, publishing in Nature, Science, and Cell. A former skateboarder who once wrote for Thrasher magazine and lobbied the Palo Alto city council to build a skate park at age 13, Huberman translates complex neuroscience into actionable protocols for millions of listeners globally.
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Philipp Dettmer is the founder, CEO, and head writer of Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, the Munich-based animation studio and YouTube channel with over 25 million subscribers and 3.6 billion views. Starting as a university passion project in 2013, Kurzgesagt has grown into a 70-person studio that transforms dense scientific, philosophical, and technological ideas into visually stunning, widely-shared short films. Dettmer is also the author of 'Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive' (2021) and co-creator of the video game Star Birds, launched in early access in September 2025.
Derek Muller
Derek Muller is a Canadian-Australian physicist turned YouTuber who runs Veritasium, a channel of 20+ million subscribers built on the idea that learning science starts with admitting you got it wrong. His PhD thesis argued that confusion is a feature, not a bug, and he has spent fifteen years engineering that confusion on camera.
Katelyn Jetelina
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist, data scientist, and one of America's most influential science communicators. She founded Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE) in March 2020 as a few sentences to update her UT Health students about COVID-19 - and somehow that turned into a 365,000-subscriber newsletter reaching people in 133 countries with over 500 million total views. Named a TIME100 Most Influential Person in Health, she translates complex public health science into actionable insights twice a week, covering everything from vaccines and bird flu to gun violence and federal health policy. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, consults with the CDC, and serves as an adjunct professor at Yale School of Public Health - all while raising two daughters and having visited 50+ countries.
Katherine Wu
Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. is a staff science writer at The Atlantic and one of the most respected science journalists working today. A former Harvard bacteriologist turned acclaimed writer, she translates complex biology - from pandemic viruses to the sex lives of deep-sea creatures - into stories that are simultaneously rigorous and riveting. Winner of the 2024 Kovler Prize and the 2022 Schmidt Award for Science Communication, she has reported for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Smithsonian, and holds a PhD in Microbiology and Immunobiology from Harvard. She writes the newsletter The Pivot, covering science and health.
Katie Mack
Dr. Katherine (Katie) Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist, science communicator, and author who holds the inaugural Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Known online as @AstroKatie with over 400,000 Twitter/X followers, she studies the fundamental questions of how the universe will end - dark matter, vacuum decay, primordial black holes - and makes it all thrillingly accessible. Her 2020 book 'The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)' was a New York Times Notable Book. She publishes 'The Last Star' newsletter, co-hosted a podcast with John Green, is an instrument-rated pilot, and was name-dropped by Hozier in a Grammy-winning album.