# Taking Stock Newsletter

Curating science news on the state (and art) of livestock and agricultural development in poorer countries. For better lives and lands. Weekly (mostly).

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## [Taking Stock: Things rising](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-things-rising)

_2026-08-05 · Susan MacMillan_

Sahel water rising & Great Green Wall growing | 3 minutes on the Sudan genocide | New drug-resistant, city-loving malaria | America's growing tick problem | AI escape artists & crack mathematicians

## [Taking Stock: AI in real life](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-ai-in-real-life)

_2026-07-23 · Susan MacMillan_

AI and the Africa Gap | AI and CRISPR | AI and good science (and scientists) | Meeting new antimicrobial resistance targets | Ebola update | Goat brains after headbutting

## [Taking Stock: Heated up](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-heated-up)

_2026-07-09 · Susan MacMillan_

AI oversight | El Niño is here | Livestock boom | Gaza's farms | Homemade cell | Ebola treatment trial | Vaccination shortfalls in livestock | Dolly the sheep at 30 } Climate finance | Chicken die-off

## [Taking Stock: AI 'warp-speed' science?](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-ai-warp-speed-science)

_2026-07-02 · Susan MacMillan_

The scaling frontier in food systems | Claude Science: An AI workbench for scientists | Operation Warp Speed 2.0 needed for vaccine development | Lessons of the eradication of rinderpest

## [Taking Stock: Health of lands and people](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-health-of-lands-and)

_2026-06-26 · Susan MacMillan_

Restoring Ethiopia's landscapes | Electrifying Africa | Threats to global food markets | Calamitous, and remote, ancient plagues | Life and death in treating Ebola | Migrant and global health

## [Taking Stock: BIG biomedical breakthroughs](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-big-biomedical-breakthroughs)

_2026-06-18 · Susan MacMillan_

New breakthroughs for cancers, obesity, rare diseases, high cholesterol, hepatitis B ... | Vast fungal networks | Ominous ocean 'cold blob' | Trading compassion for efficiency in factory farming

## [Taking Stock: Surreal suffering](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-surreal-suffering)

_2026-06-12 · Susan MacMillan_

Surreal suffering from food, fertilizer, & fuel scarcities as the Iran War drags on| The fly in the screwworm | Looming El Nĩno | Ebola contact tracing | AI goes public | Climate update

## [Taking Stock: Baby busts](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-baby-busts)

_2026-06-05 · Susan MacMillan_

The surprising baby bust in India (and the world) | The rise of agritech funding | Pointing AI at the right problems | Cells killing pathogens from 'within' | The way we treat pigs is sin

## [Taking Stock: Ebola is back, bigtime](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-ebola-is-back-bigtime)

_2026-05-29 · Susan MacMillan_

Ebola rising (out of control and out of time) | Demographics as destiny | School meals for Eastern Africa

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## [Taking Stock: Gender norms](https://takingstocknewsletter.substack.com/p/taking-stock-gender-norms)

_2026-05-22 · Susan MacMillan_

Tackling gender norms | Humanitarian relief disaster | German aid | Preparing for the next pandemic | Ebola on top of Hantavirus | GenAI insights