Shows
Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)We should stop burning pharma trials’ lab notes, with Ruxandra TesloPatrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Ruxandra Teslo to discuss why drug development keeps getting more expensive despite revolutionary new treatment modalities from GLP-1 agonists to gene therapies. They discuss Eroom’s Law (Moore’s Law in reverse) and Ruxandra's Common Technical Document Project, which aims to build the "Stack Overflow of clinical development" by making regulatory submissions publicly accessible. This will fill a present hole in the education of researchers, lower barriers for small biotechs, and accelerate drug discovery.–Full transcript available here: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/ruxandra-teslo/ –Sponsor: FramerBuilding and maint...
2026-01-221h 18
Frames of SpaceElena Bridgers on Why Modern Motherhood Feels So HardElena Bridgers is the writer behind the Substack "Motherhood Until Yesterday." She is known for her writing on evolutionary biology: specifically, the nature of hunter-gatherer societies, and how that explains why motherhood is so difficult in the present.
In the episode, I got a chance to speak with her about the tradeoffs that come with gender equity, how parenting has changed her conception of contemporary feminism, and the ways in which hunter-gatherer societies were neither patriarchal nor matriarchal.
Show Notes
"Regan Arntz-Gray on the Different Interpretations of Feminism" from Frames of Space
2026-01-151h 09
Asimov PressClinic-in-the-LoopClinical trials are engines for scientific discovery. Better drugs require not just more trials, but also improved data collection, to create therapeutic feedback loops. By Ruxandra Teslo.Read all our work, for free, at press.asimov.com.
2025-12-2916 min
The Briefing with Albert MohlerTuesday, November 18, 2025This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the push for advanced reproductive technologies in politics, new research that shows teenage girls want to be married less than their male counterparts, and that 1 in 5 U.S. women say they want to leave the country.Part I (00:14 – 07:12)Politics and IVF: There is a Big Push for Advanced Reproductive Technologies, and Politics Makes for Strange BedfellowsThey Can’t Stand Trump. But His I.V.F. Policy Might Help Them Have Childr...
2025-11-1825 min
Plain English with Derek ThompsonFertility Needs a Scientific RevolutionCouples are having kids much later in their lives. As young people spend more of their 20s and 30s getting established in their careers, and marriage is delayed, and home buying is delayed, the unstoppable force of delay runs up against the immovable object of human anatomy. It is harder for a 40-year-old to get pregnant than for a 20-year-old to do so.
The best solution we have for the fertility dilemma of the modern age is in vitro fertilization. IVF is a decades-long practice based on science, so you might think that the procedure is highly...
2025-07-1647 min
Just Asking QuestionsDebating the Science and Ethics of IVF: Emma Waters vs. Ruxandra TesloHow should the government treat in vitro fertilization (IVF)? Should they regulate it more? Should they subsidize it? Just asking questions.
The above are all questions that the Trump administration is actively considering in the wake of an executive order seeking to expand access to IVF. President Donald Trump previously declared himself "the fertilization president" while speaking at a women's conference.
Today's guests have thought about a lot about reproductive technology, birth rates, and family policy, each arriving at some very different conclusions at times. Ruxandra Teslo is a genomics Ph.D. student at the U...
2025-06-061h 37
Pod Your WayFertility on demand - by Ruxandra Teslohttps://www.worksinprogress.news/p/fertility-on-demand; OpenAI; alloy; 20750317
2025-05-0129 min
The Good FightWhat Elites Really BelieveYascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss luxury beliefs and the concept of "elite misinformation."
Ruxandra Teslo is a PhD student in Genomics at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She writes about science and culture at Ruxandra’s Substack.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss Rob Henderson’s concept of luxury beliefs, its key insights, and the misleading ways in which it’s often used; the academic study of “misinformation” and why we should be skeptical of (much of) it; and how cultural ideas about progress shape outcomes in the real world.
This transcript has been condensed...
2024-10-051h 02
The Good FightWhat Elites Really BelieveYascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss luxury beliefs and the concept of "elite misinformation."Ruxandra Teslo is a PhD student in Genomics at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She writes about science and culture at Ruxandra’s Substack.In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss Rob Henderson’s concept of luxury beliefs, its key insights, and the misleading ways in which it’s often used; the academic study of “misinformation” and why we should be skeptical of (much of) it; and how cultural ideas about progres...
2024-10-051h 03
AI Article ReadingsPro-progress will win when it wins women - By Ruxandra TesloAI Narration of Pro-progress will win when it wins women - By Ruxandra Teslo.https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/pro-progress-will-win-when-it-wins?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe
2024-08-1312 min
The Hanania ShowThe Tragedy of WomanhoodThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThis week, I begin by discussing two recent articles by and about women: “How Feminism Ends” by Ginevra Davis, and “Female neediness is real, but it’s not a tragedy” by Ruxandra Teslo. These essays have a common theme in that they both emphasize the difficult hand nature has dealt women. Davis focuses on the physical pain they feel, and has a compelling explanation of the trans phenomenon that I hadn’t considered before. Ruxandra criticizes the so-called Reactionary Feminists, and makes clear...
2024-02-2912 min