My interview with #TavisSmiley is now live 🎧 BONUS: Scientist, inventor, and the subject of my new book, Jim West, is also on the program! www.spreaker.com/episode/aini... #Science #WomeninSTEM 🧪 #BlackInSTEM #BellLabs #inventor #scientist #HiddenFigures #BlackSky @mitpress.bsky.social

Read. Reading. Will Read. Books on walking. @therealkenwilson.bsky.social @shawnmicallef.bsky.social @laurenelkin.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, "The Unconscious" by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. Coming in February! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205102...

"They have brilliantly associated themselves with ... good times, happiness, and fun." @murray-journo.bsky.social and @thepulse.whyy.org discuss how Coca-Cola has influenced consumer habits & perceptions:

Generative AI shows real promise for content moderation, but also introduces new risks. In an excerpt from “Governing Babel,” John Wihbey explores how AI offers tools that can help human moderators, but also raises the risk of disinformation and digital chaos:

For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book. Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been. ZEN AND SLOW GAMES Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...

Folks attending next week's @appam.bsky.social fall research conference can sit in on a roundtable with "Corporations at Climate Crossroads" author @lilyhsueh.bsky.social. The roundtable begins at 10:15 am on Thursday, November 13th. Link for details: convention2.allacademic.com/one/appam/ap...

“Listening carefully to how ordinary people remember their lives under socialism isn’t an endorsement; it’s an effort to understand what they valued and why.” Thoughtful, endlessly quotable, apropos essay, courtesy of our friends @dukepress.bsky.social

@casssunstein.bsky.social doesn't just write books for @mitpress.bsky.social He publishes articles with us as well, including this recent overview of the connection between the rule of law and equality direct.mit.edu/ajle/article...

Join author @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social next week on November 11th when he will discuss his new book "What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds." A Q&A and signing will follow. Link for details: www.semcoop.com/event/blaise...

The beautiful cover for my new book: "The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self." Coming June 2026. (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...). @mitpress.bsky.social

Get award-winning Press titles that interrogate important questions surrounding computer science, machine learning, and technology. Pay what you want for this ebook bundle @humblebundle.com and help support Sandy Hook Promise: www.humblebundle.com/books/human-...

"A nice, high-level view of some of the issues surrounding the adoption of artificial intelligence....a good read to help people understand key issues in having AI make the major impact on society that it will." -- @forbes.com Now is paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255392...

🚨 OUT TODAY 🚨 The Cory Arcangel Hack Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice By Eivind Røssaak Preface by Alexander R. Galloway @mitpress.bsky.social A deep dive into the last 25 years of my non-sense w/ theories of Flow Cuts, Breaks, Remixes and Parodies 🎓 mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552547/

The authors of "Designing the X" are celebrating the release of their book with a joint book launch at MIT Morningside Academy for Design! Thursday, Nov 20th, examine #design as an essential partner to science & technology and its role across scales. Link to register:

So thrilled that this great reference tool is publishing today! The Guild Handbook is the graphic arts business bible! Get yours today!!

"Ando’s visual depictions, in deeply saturated indigo, capture rain’s moods and modes, its shifting dripping misting drenching temperaments." Lovely review of WATER OF THE SKY by Miya Ando @mitpress.bsky.social , out today! ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/2000-words...

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

Congratulations to Linguistic Inquiry founder Samuel Jay Keyser on this distinguished honor!

New month, new books! This month: the fascinating story of gravity; the new edition of the industry bible for graphic arts professionals; an elegant visual dictionary of 2,000 Japanese words for rain; and more: mitpress.mit.edu/november-202...

We'd love to hear how we can support your library! Visit us tomorrow, November 4th, at booth #2 during the 2025 #CharlestonConference to chat about all things MIT Press, including our #openaccess model for scholarly books, Direct to Open (D2O). #CHSConf25

These books are practically shouting, "Read me"! McCray's new book takes a fun look at the literary history of computers, explaining the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular & pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... Out December 2nd!

Warm congratulations to author Chris Collins, whose book "Principles of Argument Structure: A Merge-Based Approach" is a finalist for the Linguistic Society of America's 2026 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254827... @lingsocam.bsky.social

💡 New Essential Knowledge In "Carbon Removal," Howard Herzog, a senior research engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative, and Niall Mac Dowell provide a vital book on proposed methods of removing carbon from the atmosphere as a means of mitigating climate change: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255136...

Thurs. Nov. 20th, join @drtomfrieden.bsky.social & Chelsea Clinton for a free public event at the New York Public Library! Learn how to protect your health and more lessons from Frieden's book "The Formula for Better Health." Livestream & in-person. Register here: www.nypl.org/events/progr...

Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, Sharon Sliwinski's book offers a captivating look at how dreams provide a powerful way to understand & change our world. Celebrate the launch of "An Alphabet for Dreamers" with her at @peoplesbooktakoma.com! 📅 Sat. Nov. 8th 🕓 6:00 PM

Join us at the MIT Museum on November 12th for an evening with the author of "Shared Wisdom," @alex-pentland.bsky.social, and receive essential guidance for ensuring that AI amplifies rather than replaces human wisdom. Featuring special guests Larry Lessig & John Werner. Register here:

From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris — including the Cabaret du Néant — captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.

Whatever your plans tonight — cemetery stroll, movie marathon, or just snacking on your kid’s candy — we hope you have a safe and happy Halloween! We’ll be cozying up with Adrian Dannatt's selected obituaries celebrating the obscure and eccentric, "Doomed and Famous," published by Sequence Press.

"When you really get to know someone, you start to see the world through their eyes — and it’s not always the way that you imagined."

Drawing extensively from unknown or little-known works and previously unpublished documents from the artist’s archive, Lisa Lee's "Thomas Hirschhorn from Graphic Design to Art" explores the formative decade of 1984 to 1994. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204973...

"As the historian Graham St. John illustrates in 'Strange Attractor,' his delightful new biography of the man, McKenna was a 'master bullshitter.'" @reason.com reviews a new biography of the 20th century’s psychedelic Renaissance man, Terence McKenna:

What is at stake when categories like color, race, and ethnicity are transformed into a common language, lexicon, or industry standard? Lida Zeitlin-Wu launches "Color Protocols" with a virtual seminar hosted by @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social at noon EST today: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

NEW✨ Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore by @drjamiew.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #Review by Andrew Karvonen @lund-university.bsky.social #UrbanStudies #Environment

"If you’re interested in the social science around AI as a phenomenon, this is an important book for you." A @forbes.com review of @alex-pentland.bsky.social's "Shared Wisdom," out November 11th:

📢 Excited to share that my 🌟first book talk🌟 will be with @osome.iu.edu! Join me Nov 19, 12-1 pm ET (online) as I discuss key themes from #ContentConfusion (@mitpress.bsky.social). Don’t miss this opportunity to dive deep into the challenges impacting our news media today.

Robots weren’t always just tools in the service of human productivity.

A terrific week spent at Tongji University and the China Academy of Art celebrating the 40th anniversary of our journal Design Issues. The hosts put on a remarkable conference and exhibit that showcased the profound impact of the journal on design thinking and research. @mitpress.bsky.social

Event update: Tickets are now free with registration!

"Sick Architecture confronts our worsening apocalyptic condition head-on." 4Columns reviews a new collection that examines the intertwined histories of built environments and the scourges they harbor, house, and cause:

HUGE NEWS! 🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that the legendary Mark Moffett—"The Indiana Jones of Entomology"—has officially endorsed #BecomingMartian! Ready to pre-order your copy? mitpress.mit.edu/978026205151... #BookEndorsement #SpaceTravel #Mars #Science #Evolution #NewBook @mitpress.bsky.social

"We don’t read Pynchon to learn about physics and military history; if we read him seriously we read him to learn about his vision of contemporary reality."

"Nobody's going to slap sunblock on you or move your legs to exercise... [But] we collectively as a community can do things ... that will allow each of us to live longer." @pbsnews.org interviewed @drtomfrieden.bsky.social about "The Formula for Better Health":

1) ***Announcement*** The new Fall 2025 issue is online! Read articles by Marc Trachtenberg, @aaronbateman.bsky.social, @ajmount.bsky.social, Dong Jung Kim, and @mikegoldfien.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/isec/issue @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social

"A gift of a book that keeps on giving, and this edition gives even more to its readers." @hyperallergic.com includes our new translation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s "Rabelais and His World" in a list of 10 art books to read this month:

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

The most intriguing robots aren’t built to work but to make us imagine other worlds, writes Laura Tripaldi:

"A timely, fundamentally humane book that points the way to a more honest, forgiving, and principled society." — @michael.muthukrishna.com "The Hypocrisy Trap" by @mhallsworth.bsky.social is available now: bit.ly/3KPISNK #BehavioralScience 📚💙

Cities@Tufts welcomes author Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani this Wednesday, Oct. 29th, for a virtual talk! @gabriellebv.bsky.social will make visible how seemingly unimportant places can lay the foundation for a functional interconnected society, so necessary for public health & social justice. Register:

"Due to St John’s intellectual reach, the book has, like a dark planet, drawn an entire menagerie of late 20th-century weirdness into its oblique orbit." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews "Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna" by @gmantic.bsky.social: