Here’s what caught my attention in Grodzinsky’s new book, and why, if we want to understand and explain language in the mind/brain, NLP/LM research and generative grammar may be equally unviable, either alone or combined.👇 1/9

Extremely interesting and if correct very important contextualisation

New book coming next year. Working title, THE GRAYSCALE: True Stories of Hackers, Outlaws and Rogues From the Digital Underground. Thanks to @wired.com and @mitpress.bsky.social for making this one possible!

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

📢 @barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% off book preorders from today through March 26th, including my forthcoming The Organism–Environment Pairing! (@mitpress.bsky.social) 📗👇 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-organi... If you were thinking about getting a copy, now is the perfect time! #HPS #booksky🐋🌱

On April 2 join @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social at our #ScienceUnderSiege book event in Boston at the MIT Museum mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/aut...

Why does this koala look so cheerful, you ask?

🌱 A new project begins!

My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...

Congratulations to Anil!

Thanks @theguardian.com for their selection of SUPER AGERS as one of the best science books of 2025 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Join Katy Börner - Stiftung Charité Visiting Fellow at the BIH, for a talk about the creation of the Human Reference Atlas (HRA). 🔗Registration: www.bihealth.org/en/news/even... To learn more : www.bihealth.org/en/notices/b... @bihatcharite.bsky.social @katyborner.bsky.social

I have a story today about interoception--a kind of sixth sense that delivers information from within our bodies to our brains. nyti.ms/4rfTDtn

My interview with @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/public-...

SUPER AGERS, a best book for 2025 @financialtimes.com ft.com/content/af55...

Grateful to @usnews.com for recognition as one of 25 best leaders for 2025 usnews.com/news/best-le... Profile usnews.com/news/leaders...

🧠 📚 We're in San Diego at #SfN25, the premier global neuroscience event of the year! Find us at booth 3603 during the conference for CogNet and OECS squishy brains, tote bags, magnets, Imaging Neuroscience T-shirts, and, of course, the latest cutting-edge neuroscience research.

If you want more on wage boards and how they can achieve what Dani was referring to, check out my book The Wage Standard - now available for pre-order. www.thewagestandard.com

Join our authors at the @broadinstitute on 30th October 2025 💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes! 📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore. @mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org

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Videos from the Natural Philosophy Symposium are coming online at last! We start with the opening plenary by David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social: Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? Commentary by Ryan Smith. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...

**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday** Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains. Join the discussion.

For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...

“Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group, but a lot.” - @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.

I'm headed to Notre Dame next week to give a public lecture on Thursday 9/25 about science writing in an age of <waves hands> all this. Details here: science.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665

It's been six months since I started tracking the dire science news in my newsletter. For a long time, it felt like an ominous ocean swell. Now it feels like a breaking wave. buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...

On the value of fighting battles you think you might lose @madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o... @mitpress.bsky.social

nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/oop... I bet Stephen Jay Gould would not have approved of the image, but I like to think he would have applauded Madeleine Beekman's THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.

Dark energy? Inflaton fields? Eternal inflation? “It is a good time for books that take stock of where we are [in modern cosmology] and that illustrate which puzzles modern physicists choose to take seriously.” — @seanmcarroll.bsky.social

The new admin strategy for facts and real data is to fire the messenger or demand retraction. That isn't going to work.

Three thousand years of backstory: carlzimmer.com/books/airbor...

Here we are talking about Ada Palmer’s new book and I think I should tag her @adapalmer.bsky.social and her publisher @uchicagopress.bsky.social.

How did I get this far in life and _just_ find out that every cube is a multiple of 9, ±1? 1³ = 1 = 0⸱9 +1 2³ = 8 = 1⸱9 -1 3³ = 27 = 3⸱9 +0 4³ = 64 = 7⸱9 +1 5³ = 125 = 14⸱9 -1 6³ = 216 = 24⸱9 +0 7³ = 343 = 38⸱9 +1 Proof is easy: any can be written as (3k-1)³, (3k)³, or (3k+1)³; then just expand.

Please enjoy this excerpt from my book Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics on the topic of infinitesimals revisted, exploring diverse issues in nonstandard analysis. www.infinitelymore.xyz/p/infinitesi... #InfinitelyMore #PhilMaths

New paper. Trends in scientific writing. More noun chunks and sensational language. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Natural Philosophy Symposium is underway! I had some idea of live-skeeting, but the real-time event is too absorbing. www.naturalphilosophyhopkins.org/natural-phil... Anyway, we've had: (cont)

Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing. This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. 🧪🔭 nso.edu/press-releas...

I’m thoroughly enjoying this book. Although the part about biological warfare is terrifying.

Thanks to the @newyorker.com for featuring the new @mitpress.bsky.social THE WEAPONIZATION OF EXPERTISE in their "The Best Books We Read This Week" roundup. "Their persuasive account illustrates how tentative conclusions proclaimed by the powerful can harden into orthodoxies." -- The New Yorker

Andy has a gift for reporting on the strangest, most daring people. One of his wildest ever? Trust him.