In the September issue of @restatjournal.bsky.social, Jetson Leder-Luis analyzes private antifraud enforcement under the False Claims Act, which compensates whistleblowers for litigating against health care providers who overbill the US government:

"One might ask: Why is repetition bound to pleasure? The answer begins with the observation that Homo sapiens is not the only creature equipped to make same/except judgments. Even bees do it. This smacks of evolution."

"Scientists have tested whether individuals diagnosed with psychopathy truly fit the 'boogeyman' image that is part & parcel of the psychopathy diagnosis. The findings are striking: they don’t." Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen on his book "Psychopathy Unmasked": www.rorotoko.com/11/20250915-...

Available #OpenAccess, Michael Kirchhoff's "The Idealized Mind" brings together ideas from the philosophy of cognitive science and the philosophy of science to reconcile scientific realism with model-based science: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...

"If we do what's proven to save lives, and we empower people with information, we empower people with easy steps to live a longer, healthier life." "The Formula for Better Health" author @drtomfrieden.bsky.social on @kera.org's Think with Krys Boyd:

www.bbc.com/news/article... if this seems a bit odd, it’s useful to know that for a long time the most popular site on the so-called Dark Web was Facebook! Lots more about this in my book - Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy available here mitpress.mit.edu/978026254818...

Now live: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

"In his wise & gracefully written new book, [Erard] highlights the human talent for connection that undergirds language from its beginnings, through its apex, and into its decline." @juliesedivy.bsky.social reviews @michaelerard.bsky.social's "Bye Bye I Love You" for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social:

"The spectacle of overt repression serves as a warning to others. Equally powerful, though, are economic carrots and sticks that have been used to discipline the media."

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society hosts @blaiseaguera.bsky.social on Sept. 24th to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?" Learn how the evolution of life and even the development of AI can be understood as stages in an ongoing process: computational symbiogenesis. Learn more & RSVP:

"For anyone interested in the genre or the era, this selection provides essential background on the rise to dominance of superhumans in our own pop culture." The Toronto Star sci-fi book roundup reviews "Before Superman": @thestar.com

Still glowing after last night's event at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social, talking about social change with a big, brilliant group of people. Special thanks to @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for great questions. This was the first stop for the Somebody Should Do Something book tour. More info below!

"It’s an uncomfortable time for academia, and misconduct has been part of that story, but I hope that we’re making good progress toward more robust and more replicable social science." @bostonglobe.com interviewed Max Bazerman about his new book on an alleged fraud that happened on his watch:

"It would come as no surprise to Arendt that we are now trying to replace human bureaucrats with AI bureaucrats in order to create a nihilistic utopia: a society where finally no human should ever have to risk taking responsibility."

"The fact that grammar can break down in such specific ways suggests that our capacity for language really is special ... a dedicated system with its own neural architecture." @psychologytoday.com featured an excerpt from "Wired for Words" that examines the neurology of syntax:

An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents, writes James Lovelock, the scientist behind the Gaia theory, in his book "Novacene." Lovelock died in 2022 on his 103rd birthday.

Who owns the future of knowledge and how do we avoid making past mistakes? A new article from @mitpress.bsky.social Director Amy Brand. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Offering an alternative to both futurism and communism, Russian Cosmism imagined a world where science and technology could conquer death and unite humanity.

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Did you know a few months ago we released a Spanish-language #graphicnovel called ¡Conectados!? Check out some of the Spanish-language press coverage. mitpress.mit.edu/hispanic-her... #conectados #poweron #csforall #hispanicheritagemonth @mitpress.bsky.social

"Be open to surprises … biology will surprise you. Let the animals tell you something different about the world than what you thought."

Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail is now available for pre-order from @mitpress.bsky.social! The thread below describes the premise of the volume and its contributors. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262...

"Open-mindedness is not incompatible with having opinions."

@jonathanmoreno.bsky.social lectures on his new @mitpress.bsky.social book ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL @upenn.edu

This Friday, Sept. 19th, join Cass Sunstein at Brookline Booksmith to celebrate the release of "On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom." Link for details: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0... @casssunstein.bsky.social @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social

More on the long history of shaping public memory and erasure… "Black Americans exist on the periphery of the national family, and documentary photographs illustrate this repeatedly." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-absence-...

New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚 👇

"Paints a vivid picture of the good society Americans fought for, and believed they had won, in the war against fascism." — @rauchway.bsky.social Cass Sunstein argues for a new vision of FDR and our current political scene in "The Second Bill of Rights": mitpress.mit.edu/978026255384...

"The tension between surveillance and self-improvement, between control and liberation, is a recurring theme in the history of wearable technology."

Americans want to be able to protect themselves and their loved ones from preventable disease. Secretary Kennedy’s actions are deeply unpopular.

New article by me for @mitpress.bsky.social on the rise of "Nihilistic Violent Extremists" and why David Brooks is wrong to think that Church and "believing in belief" is the solution to nihilism rather than recognizing such empty rituals as the cause... thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/returning-to...

Looking forward to a public discussion on October 28 with Princeton sociologist @shamuskhan.bsky.social about my new book "Coming Clean" published by @mitpress.bsky.social. On campus at @princetonpl.bsky.social. princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/14389483

QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:

Co-author @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social celebrates the launch of "Somebody Should Do Something" at Greenlight Bookstore in NY this Wed., Sept. 17th! Join him and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for a discussion on the power of individual choices. Link for details: greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

"Power has really gone to the tech companies, who have enormous influence over the government. And unless people get out of their apathy, that’s ... certainly where the U.S. is likely to stay." @garymarcus.bsky.social discussed what we need to do to prevent AI tools from undermining democracy:

Two top papers from Volume 5 (2024) of the journal Neurobiology of Language were honored today at @snlmtg.bsky.social. Congratulations to all the authors! @jneurolang.bsky.social is completely #openaccess. Links to the award-winning papers below 👇 #SNL2025

T minus 3.5 weeks to launch of "Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna" Advance copies arrived and looking Fabulous. Preorder now from MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957... Praise, excerpts, launch info, etc at: www.edgecentral.net/terence-mcke... @mitpress.bsky.social

If you haven't had a chance to swing by table 113 during #APSA2025, now's the time! Come by and browse some of our latest books and journals. Here are some of our recommendations 👇 @apsa.bsky.social

Come by @mitpress.bsky.social booth at #SNL2025 to pick up a snazzy @jneurolang.bsky.social tote bag while supplies last. I’ve got about 25-30 to give away.

"That one has to make a case for reading books should indicate the stakes of this moral panic." @bigthink.com spoke with Adam Szetela about "That Book is Dangerous!" and what he learned through the authors & industry insiders navigating the challenges of what he calls the "Sensitivity Era":

We're in D.C. for the Society for Neurobiology of Language @snlmtg.bsky.social, sponsored by #OpenAccess journal @jneurolang.bsky.social. They are now accepting manuscripts for a special issue on the cellular & molecular neuroscience of language disorders. Swing by table 2 to find out more! #SNL2025

We're all set up at #APSA2025 in Vancouver! Visit us at table 113 and meet our excellent Environment and Urbanism Acquisitions Editor, Beth Clevenger. Attendees can claim a free book by signing up for the newsletter during the conference. @apsa.bsky.social

🎮 🕹️ Happy National Videogames Day! To celebrate, we've gathered a collection of #OpenAccess MIT Press books on gaming, game design, and streaming that you can read freely and immediately: mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-...

Come join us at the @mitpress.bsky.social booth at #SNL2025 to learn more about @jneurolang.bsky.social the official journal of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. #neuroscience #language #speech

AoIR is pleased to congratulate the winners of this year’s Nancy Baym Book Award ‪@aramsinn.bsky.social‬ & @jesgilbert.bsky.social for The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance (@mitpress.bsky.social). Congratulations! aoir.org/2025nb_booka...

Born on this day in 1921, Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a visionary writer whose prose pushed the limits of science fiction and philosophical inquiry. We're proud to offer a collection of his stories to a new generation of sci-fi readers 📚💙: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254506...

"A queer feminist approach ... would not frame chemically-poisoned frogs as pitiable freaks of nature, as well-intentioned scientific and media coverage tends to do."

Congrats to @aramsinn.bsky.social and @jesgilbert.bsky.social! Their wonderful book "The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance" won the 2025 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award. 1/2 aoir.org/2025nb_booka... @aoir.bsky.social @nancybaym.bsky.social

Esoteric languages challenge coders to think way outside the box. In a conversation with @spectrum.ieee.org, author and artist Daniel Temkin dives into the coding exercise/art form. Look for his new book, "Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code," later this month:

"Clear solutions for today’s deadliest health threats." —Elizabeth Kolbert "The Formula for Better Health" by former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden releases Sept. 30th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205096...

It was great discussing my @mitpress.bsky.social book Sweet and Deadly, about Coke, health and disinformation, with Peter Biello of Georgia Public Broadcasting for the Narrative Edge podcast: www.gpb.org/podcasts/nar...