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@mitpress.bsky.social"As wars destroy hydropower dams, electricity grids, and cities...the central question is no longer whether infrastructure matters for peace. It is whose vision of peace will be built into the infrastructures that replace what has been lost." Silvia Danielak writes for Politics & Rights Review.
@mitpress.bsky.social"What has not been appreciated till recently is that there exists a fundamentally different material arrangement of matter, one defined not by equilibrium structures, but by non-equilibrium dynamic processes."
@techpolicypress.bsky.socialReposted by @mitpress.bsky.socialOn the Tech Policy Press podcast, editor Justin Hendrix talks with Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social of the University of Michigan, about his new book, “Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice,” from MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Listen here: buff.ly/Y6i4AvL
@mitpress.bsky.social"By glorifying pristine landscapes, which exist only in the imagination of romantics, Western conservationists divert attention from the places where people live and the choices they make every day that do true damage to the natural world of which they are part.”
@mitpress.bsky.social"Rhyme is in the DNA of the world we live in." An interview with "Why Is the World So Beautiful?" author Nicholas Humphrey on Instant Genius of BBC Science Focus Magazine.
@mitpress.bsky.social"Mazviita Chirimuuta ... wrote an extraordinarily beautiful book... It made me think about how many idealizations [such as the brain as a computer] are super helpful, even if they’re wrong."
A kind shout-out for "The Brain Abstracted" from 2026 MacArthur fellow @felipedebrigard.bsky.social.
@mitpress.bsky.socialChicago #scifi fans, join Anastasia Klimchynskaya at Seminary Coop for a conversation with @jordanbimm.bsky.social & @kbuse.bsky.social on the annotated Jules Verne classic, "From the Earth to the Moon."
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@mitpress.bsky.social"You don’t have to stare at the shampoo bottle every week. You just get that heat pump one time."
@LeahStokes.bsky.social spoke with the @thestar.com about her new book, "The Carbon Wave," why energy should be cheaper, and the AI versus climate debate: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
@sebgiessmann.bsky.socialReposted by @mitpress.bsky.socialHas it really been two years? „The Connectivity of Things“ is still around at #4SToronto … I really like it’s new neighbours @mitpress.bsky.social!
@mitpress.bsky.social"Every brain is unusual. My own unusualness has stood out a couple of times." In conversation with Nobel Laureate Karl Deisseroth.
@mitpress.bsky.socialThe CIA’s clandestine, Cold War-era book program was little-known to the public until 2003. “Reaching those behind the Iron Curtain, it was hoped, might spark gradual, far-reaching internal reform,” writes Henry T. Edmondson III.
@dartmouthartsci.bsky.socialReposted by @mitpress.bsky.socialProfessor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social’s “Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning” from @mitpress.bsky.social has won the 2026 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the American Studies Association’s annual award for the most outstanding book published in American studies.
@eddamkrap.bsky.socialReposted by @mitpress.bsky.socialMeet Gregory Sholette at Torpedo books in Oslo on the 24th of November!
@mitpress.bsky.socialLast year, the US Naval Academy purged 400 books from its library, including Ben Barres' "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist." Of the books challenged in 2025, 39% represent the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people and people of color. We thank those helping to end censorship in our libraries.
@mitpress.bsky.social"The sequencing of the photographs in 'The Inner Passage' evokes the rhythmic tides of South Carolina’s coastal rivers ... [leading] the viewer through a journey of the waterway that ebbs and flows visually like the Lowcountry tides." themframes.com/features/pho...
@mitpress.bsky.socialVisit us during the Frankfurt Book Fair in Hall 4.1, stand E69. We can't wait to see you! #FBM26 @buchmesse.de
@mitpress.bsky.socialRead the full study, available #OpenAccess on MIT Direct: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
@mitpress.bsky.socialSome multitasking comes naturally. Others, like tying your shoes while talking, can become automatic with practice. Maximilian Riesenhuber and Patrick Cox were reached for comment on their study published in @jocn.bsky.social that tested whether practice could make a new task automatic.
@mitpress.bsky.socialAwe thrives on human connection, but tech-inspired awe crowds out that human element, "divorc[ing] the observer from the sense of connection with others" as "American Technological Sublime" author David Nye once observed.
@mitpress.bsky.social"Pregnancy changes your brain in a more intense and dynamic manner than it did during adolescence." Dr. Carmona spoke with USA Today about the years of research behind her new book, "A Mother's Brain." www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
