From the school-to-prison pipeline to gifted testing and workplace hierarchies, society runs on invisible algorithms that decide who gets opportunity and who gets left behind. In this episode of Lipsticks on Labcoats, we explore how survival isn’t always “of the fittest,” but of the most orchestrated — through systems designed to test our strength, endurance, and compliance. Drawing parallels between science, stress biology, and social structures, we ask: are you surviving someone else’s algorithm, or learning how to rewrite the score?