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Business Insider: Workplace power dynamics have shifted further away from workers and toward employers — and it's only getting worse. Here's how workers can push back.

Featuring insights from SFI External Professor Suresh Naidu, originally broadcast in the Pitchfork Economics podcast.

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Singularity FM: Melanie Mitchell on AI: Intelligence is a Complex Phenomenon

Interviewing SFI Davis Professor Melanie Mitchell.

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Pitchfork Economics: The Powerlessness of Forced Labor (With Suresh Naidu)

Featuring SFI External Professor Suresh Naidu.

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New Scientist: The purpose of sleep appears to change when we are toddlers

Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Van Savage, Shannan Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West, and their colleagues.

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Smithsonian: Researchers Say Purpose of Sleep Shifts During 'Terrible Twos'

Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Van Savage, Shannan Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West, and their colleagues.

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Cosmos: Surprising insights into sleep's purpose

Featuring new research by SFI External Professor Van Savage, Shannan Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West, and their colleagues.

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Scientific American: How New Mexico Controlled the Spread of COVID-19

Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers.

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Santa Fe Reporter: Listen Up

Highlighting Episode 41 of SFI's Complexity podcast, with Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Greffenstette.

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Los Alamos Daily Post: Neeper: Has Social Complexity Acquired AI?

Quoting SFI Professor Cris Moore.

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The Good Men Project: Let the Institutional Innovation Begin!

Featuring work by SFI Professor Sam Bowles and SFI External Professor Wendy Carlin.

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Ensia: Opinion: We need massive societal change if we're going to survive and thrive on Earth

Citing a recent Aeon essay by SFI Professors Jessica Flack and Melanie Mitchell.

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KSFR: The Last Word: September 10, 2020 Gary F. Bengier

Interviewing SFI Trustee Gary Bengier on the topic of his new sci-fi novel, Unfettered Journey.

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Aeon: Origin story

Featuring SFI Professor Chris Kempes, External Professor Eric Smith, External Professor Sara Walker, and President David Krakauer.

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Washington Post: Experts warn U.S. covid-19 deaths could more than double by year’s end

Quoting SFI External Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers.

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Financial Times: Fears for US recovery grow as virtual schooling continues

Quoting SFI External Professor Ross Hammond.

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Computer Business Review: Why Musk’s “Bionic Pig” Represents an “Uncomfortable Dialectic”

Quoting SFI External Professor John Krakauer.

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KSFR: SFI-Led Study Asks "Political Divisiveness Or Political Games?"

Interviewing SFI Omidyar Fellow Vicky Chuqiao Yang on the subject of her recent study in SIAM review.

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The Atlantic: All That Performative Environmentalism Adds Up

Citing new research by SFI External Professor Matthew Jackson.

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The Week: Learning from the collective wisdom of animals

Featuring work by former External Professor Deborah Gordon, first published in Knowable Magazine.

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Sustainability Times: Invest in forest, wildlife protection to prevent pandemics

Featuring research by SFI External Professor Andy Dobson and his collaborators.

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