"Cats and dogs both experience sounds at far greater intensity than humans. Fireworks appear for them as discordant noise without warning. Studies suggest up to 50 percent of dogs are afraid of fireworks."

❤️ A historic day for astronomy — and the perfect occasion to learn about the scientist behind the observatory's name: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254723...

Today we launch the debut book in our "Imagination, Annotated" series with @mitpress.bsky.social, "From the Earth to the Moon: Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age" edited by @anaklimchy.bsky.social. 20% off code: READMIT20 30% off code [TODAY ONLY]: MITP30 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814346...

Great article about an important new book, AMERICA UNFINISHED: 250 Years of Law and Governance, via @hls.harvard.edu Today. bit.ly/4gOGbK2 @mitpress.bsky.social @anatapoff.bsky.social

Two new releases today. Congrats authors and editors! 📚👇

Congrats to @paultremblay.bsky.social on his new book ("Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep") — and thanks for the kind words about Christof Koch's "The Feeling of Life Itself" in Rolling Stone! For our German readers:

@rusirius.bsky.social and I talking (separately) about the legacy of cyberpunk for Decrypt

IVF, surrogacy, and other reproductive technologies are reshaping family-making. But as Harvard Law professor I. Glenn Cohen writes, “the current silence on what the Constitution means feels deafening.”

"One half of the brain quite literally does not know what the other half is doing, which leads to situations somewhere between tragedy and farce."

We’re ready #ALAAC26. Swing through @mitpress.bsky.social booth 4726.

How computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem. Fenwick McKelvey's "SimPolitics" is available now, in paperback and #openaccess editions: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205319...

Brain health before a stroke is an important factor influencing recovery, according to a study published last year by Céline Gillebert in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social. How some people's brains make an extraordinary recovery from stroke:

Instead of that New York Times article, please have a look at my @mitpress.bsky.social book _Contraception_, which details the benefits of having access to technologies to control one's reproductive capacity and bodily autonomy. #contraception mitpress.mit.edu/978026253842...

Let me tell you bad it is when people don't have control over their reproductive autonomy, and the state does: mitpress.mit.edu/978026253842...

"We need a culture that respects free inquiry." Listen to AMERICA UNFINISHED contributor @rtushnet.bsky.social on the How Our Constitution Works...And Why It Doesn't podcast discussing freedom of speech: bit.ly/4oShD4W @mitpress.bsky.social @hls.harvard.edu @wcooperbooks.bsky.social

How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena. ICYMI, neuroscientist Moheb Costandi's book "Body Am I" is available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254836...

"In Inventing ELIZA, a group of eight scholars (“Team ELIZA”) lovingly and painstakingly reconstruct, explain, reanimate, and place into historical context the program itself, the many surviving transcripts of the program’s use in the 1960s, and the development of subsequent chatbots."

Some especially kind words about the MIT Press Bookstore; had to share them here (full text in the image alt text). Thank you, Niko!!

ICYMI: "Blotter" is Erik Davis's illustrated history of LSD blotter paper, created in collaboration with Mark McCloud's Institute of Illegal Images, home to the world's largest archive of blotter art. Learn more/order here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204850...

The brain is built in two halves. So why does consciousness feel like one seamless experience? In an excerpt from "Consciousness," neuroscientist Christof Koch explores what split-brain patients reveal about the unity of the mind: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-split-b...

Simon Bowmaker, author of "When the President Calls: Conversations with Economic Policymakers," remembers Alan Greenspan, who died this week at 100. He draws on his interview with Greenspan and reveals a more complex and self-aware figure than his public reputation suggested.

Honored that Rita Raley shared her take on our book. She is a mentor and a leading voice in Critical AI Studies. The book comes our July 14. #artificialintelligence #criticalai @mitpress.bsky.social @sarahciston.com

Extra bonus! Preorder from B&N before Friday and get 25% off AND a bookplate (which you will be able to stick in the front of the book once it arrives) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/data-by-de...

"Because we do not notice them, transgressions of physics reveal that our visual brain uses a simpler, reduced physics to understand the world." The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries:

In this week's Techsoc book review I cover Invention and Innovation by Vaclav Smil, published by @mitpress.bsky.social. Smil’s congenial writing style and comprehensive framework make it easy to appreciate his approach to evaluating claims for products marketed now and in the future. #booksky

Out 7/7: An essay collection on the challenges, risks, and opportunities of this historic moment in American law and governance. Featuring essays by more than 50 Harvard Law School faculty members, including Stephen Breyer, Jill Lepore, & Annette Gordon-Reed. mitpress.mit.edu/978026206043...

B&N has a 25% off sale for forthcoming books, so if you act quickly, you can get a discount on books like This Is Why You Love LEGO, coming this Fall from @mitpress.bsky.social www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-is-wh...

2025 impact factors are out & GEP had a fantastic year! #2 out of 173 in International Relations 🎉 🎉 🎉 #11 out of 332 in Political Science #48 out of 202 in Environmental Studies

Excited to share the cover and an early endorsement from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for my forthcoming book, "The Carbon Wave." It's out Sept. 1! Preorders help the book travel further. The book is on sale this week with free shipping at Bookshop. Order your copy today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

New this week from the MIT Press. Lots of #openaccess titles. Congratulations authors! 📚👇

Elusive and endlessly reimagined, the squid refuses to be pinned down across centuries of myth and science.

My interview today with @npr.org @hereandnow.bsky.social about exciting new data @thelancet.com showing we can stop cervical cancer deaths using the HPV vaccine but why in the Southern U.S. we’re needlessly condemning a generation of girls and women to cervical cancer www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Our Fall 2026 is online! This season’s titles range from pregnancy’s profound effects on the brain to the borderlands of sleep, from reproductive freedom and economic equality to the science of collective intelligence. Here's the link: issuu.com/mitpress/doc...

How does thinking in terms of dispositif change what we can diagnose about power and social control today? Greg Bird, Wilfrid Laurier University, discusses here: faculti.net/what-foucaul...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

"Becoming Martian" by @scottsolomon.bsky.social selected by @Nature.com as one of five best new science books. It's in great company too:

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani's "The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places" in great company: www.planetizen.com/features/137... Thanks, @planetizen.bsky.social!

Along the Lowcountry’s Inner Passage, they steered south by starlight as slave catchers pursued them toward Spanish Florida. This Juneteenth, their names should not be forgotten.

Want some summer reading? How about a "book about books about computing"?? I have a new book out via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

Power in the 21st century also depends on drones, biotechnology and quantum computing — and on manufacturing as much as invention. A new essay from Simon Johnson and Elisabeth Reynolds, authors of Priority Technologies (gift link):

My book, Enjoyment Is Breaking News, is now available for pre-order! This book details how the news environment has evolved in recent decades and explains the impact of those changes on news consumers. Pre-order options are available through @mitpress.bsky.social: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205591...

COVER REVEAL! "Impossible Choices is a sharp and compelling exploration of the human cost for both patients and doctors of politically-driven medical care. A deeply necessary read." —Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD; author of "When We Do Harm" Out 8/18: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205470...

We're delighted to announce, together with Graham Foundation and Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Publication Award in Contemporary Architecture (PACA). Applications for the inaugural award cycle are now open, with submissions due in November 2026. Info: mitpress.mit.edu/announcing-t...

Thank you Justice Stephen Breyer for joining the show today and sharing your thoughts on the state of American democracy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Our first Impact Factor is 3.0 — an important milestone for a new journal. As with most new journals, the first IF is affected by the smaller publication volume in the launch year. Latest citation data are encouraging, and the journal’s IF is set to rise in 2027.

Zhang’s new book (based on unclassified and previously overlooked Chinese-language sources), a comprehensive technical history of China’s development of nuclear weapons and a detailed examination of the purpose of each of its 45 nuclear tests, was published by @mitpress.bsky.social last November.

Saul Newman's new book "Morbid" is a "a brilliant skewering of ageing secrets and lies." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

ICYMI: The much-anticipated sequel to "Butch Heroes," "More Butch Heroes" is an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover—and celebrate—queer subjects from around the world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204987...

In the South Carolina Lowcountry, enslaved people turned the Inner Passage’s hand-dug canals into routes of self-emancipation. Ahead of this Juneteenth, Virginia McGee Richards honors those who rowed toward freedom in Spanish Florida.

Valentina Tereshova was the first woman in space in 1963, but the space bros have never stopped giving her a hard time. In this post I analyse the misogyny and double standards which persist to this day. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #ValentinasDay