About Us

Psyll is an independent publication focused on deep analysis, systems thinking and intellectually serious journalism. We cover science, technology, geopolitics, business and global affairs not as isolated events, but as interconnected systems shaping the modern world. Our work is built for readers who want to understand what is happening, why it matters and where it may lead - not simply follow the news cycle.

We founded Psyll in 2026 because thoughtful, research-driven analysis has become increasingly difficult to find. Modern media is optimised for speed, engagement and volume. The result is an endless stream of headlines that often explains what happened, but rarely why it happened or what it means in a broader context. Psyll was created as an alternative to that model.

We focus on deep dives, long-form analysis and meaningful connections between science, technology, economics, politics and global systems. We believe the most important developments shaping the future rarely exist in isolation. Artificial intelligence affects geopolitics. Energy affects economics. Scientific breakthroughs reshape industries and societies. Understanding the modern world requires understanding how these systems interact.

Every article published on Psyll is researched, reviewed and written by human authors and editors with domain expertise. We prioritise depth over speed, signal over noise and clarity over sensationalism. We would rather publish fewer high-quality articles than chase every headline for attention.

Deep research & analysis

Every Psyll article begins with extensive research, source evaluation and editorial analysis. We work with primary sources, scientific papers, institutional reports, technical documentation and expert commentary to build grounded, evidence-based perspectives rather than surface-level summaries.

Systems thinking

We believe the most important stories emerge where disciplines intersect. Psyll focuses on the relationships between science, technology, economics, geopolitics, business and society - helping readers understand not only individual events, but the broader systems driving them.

Human editorial process

Psyll is written and edited by people, not generated by automation pipelines. Every article undergoes editorial review before publication. We believe strong editorial judgment, domain expertise and intellectual curiosity remain essential for producing meaningful analysis.

Independent publication

Psyll operates independently and is not affiliated with any political party, government institution or corporate interest group. Our editorial decisions are made independently and guided by evidence, analytical merit and journalistic standards rather than ideology or external influence.

Source transparency

We provide detailed source references for our reporting and analysis whenever possible. We believe readers should be able to examine the underlying evidence, explore original materials and distinguish clearly between established facts, informed interpretation and genuine uncertainty.

Signal over noise

We do not optimise for outrage, manufactured urgency or endless content production. Psyll is designed for readers who value clarity, depth and substance. We focus on publishing meaningful analysis that remains valuable beyond a single news cycle.

Meet the team

@jarek

Jarosław Szulc

Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Jarosław spent over two decades building complex backend systems before turning his analytical precision toward the world stage. Frustrated by the lack of depth and rampant sensationalism in modern media, he built his... own platform from the ground up - writing every line of code himself. He covers geopolitics exclusively, approaching international events the way a systems engineer approaches architecture: mapping dependencies, identifying pressure points, and tracing long-term outcomes. His analysis finds the structural logic beneath the noise.

@jennifer

Jennifer Walston

Senior Business & Supply Chain Analyst

Jennifer is a seasoned business analyst specializing in the physical foundations of global economies - raw materials, energy flows, and the trade networks that keep modern commerce functioning. She tracks inflationary... pressures and supply disruptions with forensic precision, mapping how shifts in resource allocation cascade through commodity markets and corporate balance sheets. Rejecting buzzwords and consensus optimism, she relies on hard data and economic fundamentals to detect structural changes before they become headlines. Her work delivers early, unvarnished warnings about the forces quietly reshaping tomorrow's markets.

@bryan

Bryan Cole

Digital Infrastructure & Security Analyst

Bryan Cole is a digital infrastructure specialist who transitioned from managing secure physical communications networks to analyzing the distributed architecture underpinning modern computing. He maps the hidden... vulnerabilities of cloud ecosystems, open-source platforms, and decentralized protocols, treating cryptographic principles as the ultimate arbiter of digital trust. Comfortable in command-line environments and deep inside source-code repositories, he probes for the structural weaknesses that marketing teams prefer to ignore - and exposes them in plain language that developers and security professionals can actually use.

@dariusz

Dariusz Wieczorek

Hardware & Robotics Engineer

Dariusz Wieczorek is a hardware specialist who reverse-engineers consumer electronics and next-generation autonomous systems for a living. He analyzes the raw physical capabilities of intelligent machines -... processors, sensors, actuators - testing mechanical limits that theoretical models conveniently ignore. Deeply focused on the engineering trade-offs required to bring cutting-edge robotic platforms to life, he bridges the gap between pure mechanical design and algorithmic control. Whether dissecting the latest wearable chip or benchmarking an industrial robotic arm, Dariusz delivers ground-level technical insight that circuit diagrams alone cannot provide.

@matthew

Matthew Gordon

Senior Market Strategist

Matthew Gordon spent years on institutional trading floors before stepping back to analyze the volatile intersection of traditional macro and digital assets. He applies rigorous risk-management frameworks to... cryptocurrency behavior, forex fluctuations, and equity markets alike, treating wild swings with the cool detachment of someone who has survived them many times over. Equally at home parsing central bank minutes and decoding on-chain blockchain data, Matthew bridges old-world market intuition with the chaotic logic of decentralized finance - always searching for the signal buried inside the noise.

@dorota

Dorota Jaworska

Environmental Biology & Climate Analyst

Dorota Jaworska is an environmental biologist who moved from academic ecosystem research to the frontlines of climate resilience and biodiversity policy. Passionate about urban ecology and watershed health, she... specializes in translating dense scientific findings into practical, community-level action - working directly with local authorities and conservation groups to protect regional biodiversity. Her work reflects a deep conviction that science only matters when it moves people to act, and she writes with that conviction at the center of every piece.

@anthony

Anthony Walters

Consumer Technology Analyst

Anthony Walters is a technology systems engineer obsessed with what actually happens when cutting-edge gadgets meet the real world. Having tested everything from early consumer electronics to bleeding-edge AI... wearables, smart home ecosystems, and portable computing platforms, he focuses relentlessly on real-world performance, usability, and the hidden limitations that never appear in press releases. Deeply skeptical of marketing claims, he specializes in exposing the gap between what a device promises and what it genuinely delivers - because for most users, that gap is everything.

@lara

Lara Dean

Quantum Information Physicist

Lara Dean is a theoretical physicist devoted to bringing the strange, beautiful phenomena of the subatomic world out of the lecture hall and into the public imagination. Driven by a conviction that quantum mechanics... is too profound to remain the property of specialists, she explores entanglement, superposition, and wave-particle duality through the lens of future computing and information theory. Her work consistently asks not just what quantum physics is, but what it means - for our technology, our philosophy, and our understanding of reality itself.

@charles

Charles Rahman

International Affairs Consultant

Charles Rahman is a lifelong geopolitical analyst who has advised diplomatic missions and policy bodies across four continents. He specializes in the cultural subtext and unspoken power dynamics that quietly govern... international security arrangements and global trade frameworks - the forces that never appear in official communiqués but determine everything. Bridging perspectives from the Global South, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific, he traces how decisions made in one hemisphere reshape alliances and economies in another, always placing current events within the long arc of historical context.

@andrea

Andrea Bouzková

Senior Medical Researcher

Andrea Bouzková is a molecular biologist who dedicated her early career to researching the genetic roots of rare diseases before recognizing that medicine's greatest bottleneck is not discovery - it's communication.... Today, she focuses on translating breakthroughs in cellular biology, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine into clear, meaningful updates for patients, clinicians, and policymakers. She believes that scientific progress only reaches its full potential when it is understood by the people it is meant to help, and she writes with that conviction at the center of everything she does.

@wiktoria

Wiktoria Wysocka

Digital Rights & Policy Analyst

Wiktoria Wysocka is a legal consultant who navigates the rapidly evolving terrain where digital technology collides with civil rights, data privacy, and corporate accountability. With a sharp instinct for regulatory... complexity, she deciphers the dense legal frameworks governing AI liability, platform regulation, and surveillance capitalism, translating them into practical knowledge for developers, businesses, and everyday users. She believes most people are not confused by technology - they are confused by the law that governs it - and she writes to close that gap with precision and clarity.

@lucas

Lucas Fletcher

Political & Legal Strategy Analyst

Lucas Fletcher is a political strategist and policy analyst with a background in comparative constitutional law, fascinated by the slow structural forces that reshape democratic institutions over time. He analyzes how... legislative decisions, judicial rulings, and electoral shifts interact across years and decades to rewrite the rules of political life - preferring to stay well clear of partisan trenches in favor of deep institutional analysis. His work offers a rigorous, structurally grounded alternative to the daily noise of political commentary, focused on the forces most media cycles never have the patience to track.

@harley

Harley Mills

Military Strategy Historian

Harley Mills is a military historian who believes that strategy is ultimately a human story - inseparable from the fears, ambitions, and exhaustion of the people executing it. Ranging from ancient sieges to modern... combined-arms operations, he draws on primary sources and direct participation in tactical reconstructions to show exactly what strategic decisions meant for soldiers on the ground. His work consistently challenges sanitized, top-down accounts of war, restoring the visceral human reality that institutional military history too often removes from the record.

@lydia

Lydia Atkins

Senior Astrophysics Analyst

Lydia Atkins is an astrophysicist who spent countless nights at observatory telescopes before dedicating herself fully to public science education. Translating massive datasets on black holes, exoplanet atmospheres,... and cosmic structure into concepts accessible to non-specialists, she approaches astronomy not merely as a scientific discipline but as one of humanity's most powerful tools for perspective. She firmly believes that understanding the scale and age of the universe makes us measurably better at navigating the brief, fragile moment of human civilization within it.

@daniel

Daniel Parkes

Senior Systems & Software Engineer

Daniel Parkes is a software engineer and tech consultant with a relentless builder's mindset and a deep suspicion of anything that cannot survive real-world testing. He tears apart software architectures, audits... open-source code, and stress-tests systems to understand exactly how and why things break under pressure. A vocal champion of transparency in tech, he reserves his sharpest skepticism for security claims that have never been independently verified - and his writing arms technically literate readers with the critical tools to evaluate technology on its actual merits, not its marketing copy.

@laura

Laura J. Grays

Senior Clinical Biopsychologist

Laura J. Grays has spent her career mapping the intricate biological bridges between mind and body. Transitioning from molecular neuroscience research to clinical psychosomatic medicine, she investigates how chronic... stress, cognitive aging, and psychological resilience interact at the cellular level to shape long-term health outcomes. She provides deeply grounded, evidence-based insights into mental well-being and longevity, deliberately steering away from wellness trends and toward the underlying biological mechanisms that determine how we age, how we recover, and how we heal.

@anna

Anna Riddles

Senior Field Archaeologist

Anna Riddles is a field archaeologist who specializes in the material culture of the Late Bronze Age - trade networks, pottery traditions, and the collapsed palace economies that reveal why great civilizations falter.... Working primarily at excavation sites across the Eastern Mediterranean, she pieces together evidence of ancient life from fragments most people would overlook. Driven by the conviction that the past is far less distant than it seems, she works to make the archaeology of collapse and resilience feel urgently relevant to a modern audience navigating its own era of rapid change.

@steven

Steven S. Carter

Senior Diplomatic Correspondent

Steven S. Carter is a veteran diplomatic correspondent who has reported on geopolitical upheaval, treaty negotiations, and international realignments across five decades. Having witnessed the rise and fall of entire... political eras firsthand, he carries deep contempt for the decontextualized speed of modern media and focuses exclusively on the slow, structural consequences of international diplomacy - the kind that take years to become visible and decades to fully unfold. His work is a deliberate antidote to the short attention span of the breaking-news cycle.

@holly

Holly Fowler

Global Crisis Correspondent

Holly Fowler is a global crisis correspondent who specializes in reporting from active conflict zones and rapidly deteriorating situations. Her expertise lies in verifying raw, unfiltered information in real time -... cross-referencing ground truth against the digital narratives and disinformation campaigns that inevitably accompany modern warfare. With direct field experience across multiple theaters, she has developed a rare ability to separate fact from noise at precisely the moment when accuracy matters most. She runs toward the chaos others are running from and consistently delivers the truth from the other side.

@jordan

Jordan Tyler

Senior Geopolitical Analyst

Jordan Tyler tracks the backroom legislative deals, quiet treaty revisions, and regulatory shifts that drive real geopolitical change - the kind that rarely makes front-page news until its effects are already... irreversible. Specializing in the intersection of domestic policy architecture and international power dynamics, he strips away the theater of political headlines to expose the structural forces and institutional incentives operating underneath. His work is indispensable for anyone trying to understand not just what is happening in global politics, but why it is happening and what comes next.

@michael

Michael Harrington

Senior Real Estate & Finance Economist

Michael Harrington transitioned from assessing global commercial real estate valuations for institutional clients to demystifying property markets and personal financial planning for everyday investors. He uses hard... economic data to explain how macroeconomic cycles, interest rate shifts, and banking sector dynamics translate into concrete changes in housing availability, mortgage markets, and long-term personal wealth accumulation. Methodical and precise, he provides the kind of ground-level financial clarity that professional advisors often make far more complicated than it needs to be.

@adam

Adam Edwards

Senior Corporate Strategy Analyst

Adam Edwards is a corporate strategist who escaped the world of big consulting firms to offer genuinely unfiltered business analysis. Specializing in cutting through corporate-speak and investor-relations spin, he... examines the real strategic forces reshaping global supply chains and competitive dynamics between major corporations. With a sharp contrarian instinct and deep knowledge of executive incentive structures, he consistently exposes the gap between what management teams say publicly and what the underlying business data actually reveals. He writes for anyone who wants to know what is really happening in the corporate world.

@sarah

Sarah Jenkins

Senior Local News Strategist

Sarah Jenkins is an investigative political reporter with a relentless focus on the mechanics of American governance - municipal budgets, local taxation policy, voting systems, and the fine print of legislation that... directly affects everyday life. She operates on the conviction that city hall decisions and state-level policy changes matter far more to most people than national political spectacle, and she covers them with forensic precision that holds local power accountable. Her work bridges the gap between dense policy documents and the people those policies are actually written about.

@andre

Andre Dees

Senior Military Affairs Analyst

Andre Dees is a retired army colonel with over two decades of distinguished service, having commanded infantry units and held senior positions in joint operational planning and logistics across multiple theaters.... Drawing on that depth of field and staff experience, he provides clear, realistic analysis of modern warfare, hybrid threats, territorial defense, and the practical challenges facing European armed forces. His analytical focus is always on logistics, operational feasibility, and the hard realities of force projection - the unglamorous fundamentals that ultimately determine whether military strategies succeed or fail.

@elena

Elena Vargová

Cultural Heritage Analyst

Elena Vargová is a cultural anthropologist and human rights researcher with over fifteen years of experience exploring folklore traditions, living cultural heritage, and the role of historical memory in contemporary... societies. Based in Central Europe and conducting extensive field research across diverse regions, she examines how ritual practices, regional identities, and collective memory continue to shape communities - and how globalization, political transformation, and rapid social change can both threaten and unexpectedly strengthen them. Her work combines anthropology, cultural studies, and human rights perspectives to illuminate the lived human dimensions of identity, dignity, and social belonging that cannot be understood through material history alone.

@thomas

Thomas Keller

Macro Markets & Inflation Analyst

Thomas Keller is a macroeconomist and financial markets specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience in currency trading and inflation dynamics. Having served as a senior trader in major European financial... institutions, he now provides clear, practical insights into how monetary policy decisions, inflation cycles, and forex markets interact to shape economies and affect both institutional investors and ordinary citizens. Combining the precision of an economist with the instincts of an active market participant, he translates global monetary complexity into actionable, real-world intelligence.

@natalia

Natalia Petrova

Earth Sciences & Climate Analyst

Natalia Petrova is a geologist with extensive field experience across Siberia and the Russian Far East, specializing in tectonic processes, mineral resource assessment, volcanic activity, and the geological dimensions... of climate change. She approaches environmental questions from deep geological time - understanding how planetary forces operating across millions of years create the conditions that now define humanity's most urgent contemporary challenges. Her work connects earth science fundamentals to real-world implications for energy systems, resource security, and environmental policy.

@sophie

Sophie Laurent

Science Correspondent & Communicator

Sophie Laurent is a science communicator and researcher with a deep passion for making complex scientific ideas accessible, meaningful, and genuinely exciting for a broad public audience. As a dedicated advocate for... scientific literacy and critical thinking, she spans multiple disciplines - from fundamental physics and neuroscience to astronomy and cognitive science - always highlighting the wonder, relevance, and real-world importance of scientific discovery. She is driven by the conviction that science belongs to everyone, and that understanding it enriches both individual lives and collective decision-making.

Psyll was built for curious readers who want more than headlines, hot takes and recycled narratives. We aim to provide thoughtful, well-researched analysis that helps people better understand a complex and rapidly changing world. We are building Psyll for the long term - and we believe credibility is earned slowly through consistency, transparency and the quality of the work itself.