From one section to a publication

About Unrubric

Teenage ideas should not need prior approval from a rubric, prize, ranking, or algorithm before they are taken seriously.

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Here’s how that happened

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The beginning
The project began as STS Fieldnotes, a place for its founder to record and share thinking about science, technology, and society.
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The realization
It expanded after a simple realization: teenagers have competitions, assignments, and social media, but very few places to develop, organize, publish, and discuss ideas for their own sake.
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What it became
That wider editorial space became Unrubric.

What we mean by Unrubric

A strong question matters more than the résumé attached to it.

Writers pursue questions because they are worth pursuing, not because somebody assigned them.

Editing and feedback are welcome. The thinking and authorship must remain genuine.

We value evidence, careful reading, and the willingness to change one’s mind.

Serious disagreement is part of thinking together; contempt and bad faith are not.

Editing should make an argument clearer without sanding every writer into one house style.