Houston's Brazos Bookstore welcomes @scottsolomon.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of "Becoming Martian" on Tuesday, February 17th! Kelly @weinersmith.bsky.social, author of the bestselling book A City on Mars, joins him in conversation: brazosbookstore.com/event/2026-0... #space 🚀

Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for providing this entire book open source -- "Let #Geography Die" tells the sad story of how #Harvard dissolved its department because of errant leadership decisions and prejudice cc: @geographers.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

"A bold exploration of life and intelligence that transcends traditional beliefs. Agüera y Arcas illuminates our new computational companions from many directions." — Terrence Sejnowski Learn more about "What Is Intelligence?" by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204995... #CompSci

❤️ An open access edition is here for anyone else who needs it: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

"A fascinating experiment in how scientists might cast new light on a literary classic." — @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Karel Čapek’s uncannily prescient vision of artificial life comes alive in a new translation of his 1920 play, “R.U.R.”: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254450...

Nearly a decade on, Benjamin Bratton’s “The Stack” feels newly urgent. Its six-layer model captures the entanglement of AI, blockchain, and more. As he writes, “What your parents called ‘the Internet’ will evolve into cognitive infrastructures.”

New from Leonardo — "From Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Wisdom," a bilingual issue with ZHUANGSHI journal: leonardo.info/d10/from-art... Found within this issue, "Dialogues with the Future" is available to read #OpenAccess on MIT Press Direct: doi.org/10.1162/leon...

I'll be speaking about my new book, #BecomingMartian from @mitpress.bsky.social at The Literary in Champaign-Urbana, IL on Feb 25! calendar.boomte.ch/single/jJ7bt...

Had a blast on @underthedesknews.bsky.social with V Spehar and @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social yesterday! Catch the full video here, plus some links to YouTube shorts in the thread below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGz... @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

“The Satie life contains so much murk; his music sparkles with riverine clarity.”

Written by one of today's most influential philosophers of technology, "The Stack" (2016) has become a classic in the field. We're pleased to mark the 10th anniversary of its publication with a paperback edition, featuring a new preface from the author: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255391...

Review of my forthcoming book ‘On the Future of Species’ in today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

The secret life of data, WiFi edition scitechdaily.com/researchers-...

"They've constructed eyes for me, to watch the show." Soraya Murray's new book "Technothriller" sees the rise of the machines created by humankind that threaten to eliminate us, incl. in DEMON SEED, EX MACHINA, WESTWORLD, and M3GAN. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205101...

Through the lens of maternal healthcare, Khiara M. Bridges demonstrates how in a country that has never reckoned with its horrific racial past, there is no escaping racism’s reach. "Expecting Inequity" publishes March 31st: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205155...

“... microelectrode [is still] no match for a notebook or diary in probing the reveries, daydreams, half-awakenings, and other dimly lit vestibules through which we pass as we commute between sleep and wakefulness.”

Hey #FOSDEM and #GPN folks: I’ll be talking #esolangs this Friday night at ZKM; a reading and lively discussion of esoteric programming. Free, 6pm, Karlsruhe! zkm.de/en/2026/02/d... “What happens when programming languages aim not at functionality, but at irritation, reflection, or poetry?”

"One of the best popular-science books I have read within the field, and [an] uplifting read, despite dealing with some of the heaviest ethical questions in space sciences." @dreochapman.bsky.social reviews @scottsolomon.bsky.social's "Becoming Martian" (out Feb 17th) for @physicsworld.bsky.social:

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

"The U.S. needs each and every one of the six separations of powers. But from the standpoint of liberty, one thing is now clear: the most essential are those that deny judicial and legislative powers to the executive branch." thehill.com/opinion/whit... by @casssunstein.bsky.social

Coming February 10th, "King PONG" is Raiford Guins' passionate history of PONG and how Atari’s first video game established an industry that shapes consumers’ relationships to technology to this day: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205133...

🕸️ Thank you James, for making “Connectivity of Things“ sail across the Atlantic! It is indeed a critique of any––presumed––network universality. And it is still, and hopefully forever available in #openaccess @mitpress.bsky.social for your reading pleasures. 👉 doi.org/10.7551/mitp... #booksky 📚

Fascinating research indicating rideshare activity reduces traffic fatalities by 5.2%. "The annual life-saving benefits are $6.8 billion." @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

Sleep paralysis, somnambulism, hypnic jerks: we’ve all drifted through the borderlands of sleep & wakefulness. Those borderlands have preoccupied philosophers, scientists, & novelists, from Montaigne’s “most profound and maddest fancies” to E.M. Cioran’s warning of sleep’s “frightening importance.”

In honor of Black History Month, we’re featuring a collection of books on Black artists, designers, and the impact of Black culture in American artistic life. Learn more: mitpress.mit.edu/black-histor...

We're happy to open 39 titles in our Spring 2026 list via Direct to Open. Our thanks to the libraries that have pledged their support! To reach our funding goals and those of partners Goldsmiths Press & Duke UP, the commitment window is open through Feb 28th, 2026: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres...

The December issue of Leonardo includes a special Focus Section, "Artful Minds," devoted to the rapidly expanding fields of neuroarts and neuroaesthetics, inviting readers to consider how creative expression can serve as a powerful tool for health and healing: direct.mit.edu/leon/issue/5...

"There is surely a major museum somewhere plotting a full-scale Hammons retrospective. ... When the inevitable spectacle finally does arrive ... the visitor would be well advised to take this book along as their guide." A review of the first anthology of texts on contemporary artist David Hammons:

In his classic book "The Feeling of Life Itself," neuroscientist Christof Koch explores consciousness & Integrated Information Theory to argue that consciousness is not a type of computation or a hack, but the feeling of being alive. "A rich feast." — New Scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253955...

WANT A FREE COPY OF MY NEW BOOK? Goodreads and @mitpress.bsky.social are giving away 5 copies of Becoming Martian! Enter the contest any time before Feb 13th to be eligible to win! Each copy will come with a personal note from me. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

#OpenAccess in the February issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (@jocn.bsky.social): Context Matters: Human Faces Hinder Face Pareidolia

"Dashing and cerebral, Flaxman Low is a supernatural Sherlock Holmes ... created by a mother and son duo who themselves seem to have come from a pulp story." — Daniel Polansky The adventures of fiction’s first occult detective joins the Radium Age series this March: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205165...

In "Becoming Martian," out February 17th, @scottsolomon.bsky.social visits the scientists at work behind human space exploration, taking readers to the front lines of research in space science, genetics, and evolutionary biology: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205151...

When AI “hallucinates,” what’s really happening between the lines of code? Scholar @shirachess.bsky.social compares AI to a dybbuk — a trapped spirit waiting to escape. Silicon Valley’s own myths only fuel the unease:

I'm touched by the incredibly generous assessments that some of the first readers of "The Organism-Environment Pairing" (@mitpress.bsky.social) have offered! I'm excited to exchange ideas with everyone once the book is published in May! 📗 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #HPbio #HPS #evosky #philsky

"A lucid, thoughtful, at times troubling review of a new era in biology." Kirkus reviews the US edition of "On the Future of Species," coming April 2026: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social

Now available to read in the December issue of Computational Linguistics: 🧜 Siren’s Song in the AI Ocean: A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: direct.mit.edu/coli/article... #OpenAccess @complingjournal.bsky.social

posted in 2019. Even more apposite today, in 2026. The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’ thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/origin-word-... #EssentialKnowledge #History #Robots #Technology via @mitpress.bsky.social

Delighted to share Lana Medina’s review of #ContentConfusion in News Research Journal. Thx to Ava Sirrah & @dougmost.bsky.social for on‑the‑record insights (& to another source off the record). Their perspectives helped shape the book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... ⬇️ mitpress.bsky.social

"What does it mean?" A classic question from dreamers. In "An Alphabet for Dreamers," Sharon Sliwinski turns the children's alphabet book genre on its head to show how dreams train us to see differently, providing us with a new grammar for dreams: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204979...

I gave a book talk at Stanford a few days ago; a student reporter grokked it: stanforddaily.com/2026/01/25/r...

This may be our most important and relevant conversation to date. We get into identity, how it interacts with environmental context, and what it means for developing empathy/taking meaningful action in emotionally-charged situations. We hope you'll tune in! #EduSky #highered #teachers #K12

If you like "It's On You," check out "Somebody Should Do Something." We discuss many of the same case studies but reach different (we hope more actionable) conclusions. You can also check out our comment on C&L's BBS paper or our earlier work. More links in the next post www.somebody-book.com

The federal persecution of immigrants and white citizens alike lays bare the unstable logic of in-group power, writes the author of “Extremism,” @jmberger.com:

Neuroscientist Linda A. Parker explains the mysteries of the brain’s own cannabinoid system in a new volume of the Essential Knowledge Series coming this February. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205139...

More good news, this time on the local front. DATA BY DESIGN has a page on the MIT Press website and with that, an official pub date! October 20th, 2026. Watch the skies! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

Slow down and reflect with @vthewanderer.bsky.social's latest book: ZEN AND SLOW GAMES One of the few books I've seen with a spotlight on #TheLonging which I absolutely loved. Definitely wanting to check this one out! @mitpress.bsky.social #GameStudies #Gaming #Booksky

🎉 We're pleased to celebrate the paperback release of "Decolonizing Design": mitpress.mit.edu/978026204769... Join author Dori Tunstall, a leading figure in the movement to decolonize design, LIVE on Substack later today at 12pm PT | 3pm ET for a brief AMA: doritunstall.substack.com/p/join-dori-...

🌱 A new project begins!