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Nonfiction book editor across the sciences

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Full interview here: www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n... Very grateful to @nprfreshair.bsky.social for having me on to talk about this.
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Inside a 'modern slavery situation' where cyber scammers are victims themselves
Wired's Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars. Plus, he discusses the scam involving Fresh Air.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"An authoritative, scientific overview of what goes on in the brain at this crucial time in the lives of mothers and their babies." — Joseph LeDoux, author of "Anxious" "A Mother's Brain" publishes October 6th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205478...
3D cover image of "A Mother's Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution" by Susana Carmona on a blue background.
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Agree. And don't miss: mitpress.mit.edu/978026206414... Consider pre-ordering.
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The Machine and the Microchip
On the island of Taiwan a company called TSMC produces 90 percent of the advanced microchips that power Elon Musk’s electric cars and space rockets, Ap...
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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lovely to see several pieces of our ctenophore work featured in this beautiful new story from @quantamagazine.org 🪼 Great piece by @mstarling.bsky.social, also featuring work by @stevehaddock.bsky.social, @arnausebe.bsky.social & @hejnol.bsky.social. www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-...
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Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders. | Quanta Magazine
Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.
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Anil Ananthaswamy @anilananth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Anthropomorphizing aside, should we be legitimately concerned over the “emergence” of unforeseen capabilities in groups of interacting agents? My Substack piece: wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/minskys-so...
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Minsky’s Society of Mind & The OpenAI — Hugging Face Hack
Anthropomorphizing aside, should we be legitimately concerned over the “emergence” of unforeseen capabilities in groups of interacting agents?
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
South
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 15/08/2026
Grateful for review of Air-Borne by @cbo.bsky.social: "Zimmer combines narrative precision, journalistic range, and scientific synthesis to produce a book that is both informative and intellectually ambitious." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... & www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724793...
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Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer: 9780593473597 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2025 The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside dow...
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Michael Feigelson's podcast with Susana Carmona goes some way to explaining why medical science cut off women's heads for so long. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/828108...
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A Mother's Brain by Susana Carmona: 9780262054782 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A paradigm-shifting achievement, built from the author’s own research, showing that pregnancy profoundly transforms our brains even more than adolescence does. Dispels “mommy brain”...
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Welcoming readers into new worlds of awesome knowledge is harder than it looks on the pages of good writers. But it is an effort well worth making. Give it all you've got. As Carl Zimmer says, it's not hopeless.
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Looking forward to it!
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Most in the AI field have treated these factors—embodiment, intrinsic drives, and engagement with the world—as irrelevant to intelligence... something that can be sifted away from the messy world of bodies, emotions, and caring." Most in the AI field. There is the rub.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...
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Melanie Mitchell: What We Get Wrong About AI
Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
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American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Today, the AMS and MIT Press announce a new joint mathematics book series, POLYMATH, which will present readers with rich, accessible, and irresistible mathematics books for a general audience. #Mathematics #MathBooks #STEM #MITPRESS #AMS Read more: www.ams.org/news?news_id=7658
American Mathematical Society and MIT Press logos.
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Get the LLM to make a PowerPoint presentation? substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The power of the pen
How the way we obtain information shapes our brain
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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Extremely interesting and if correct very important contextualisation
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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!
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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...
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Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature
How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 24/03/2026
📢 @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🐋🌱
Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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...
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Why does this koala look so cheerful, you ask?
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Yellow fever
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
mitpress.mit.edu/fresh-perspe...
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Fresh perspectives on Darwin's evolutionary legacy image
A collection of the latest books on evolution for Darwin’s birthday.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🌱 A new project begins!
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 26/01/2026
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...
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Anatomy of Extremism: What ICE Is Revealing in Minnesota
The federal persecution of immigrants and white citizens alike lays bare the unstable logic of in-group power.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Congratulations to Anil!
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Thanks @theguardian.com for their selection of SUPER AGERS as one of the best science books of 2025 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 25/11/2025
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
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
My Baker Institute article
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My interview with @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/public-...
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Change on CDC website links vaccines and autism. What does it mean for doctors, parents?
The updated page casts aside decades of research by scientists around the world, which has found no link between childhood vaccines and autism.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
SUPER AGERS, a best book for 2025 @financialtimes.com ft.com/content/af55...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Grateful to @usnews.com for recognition as one of 25 best leaders for 2025 usnews.com/news/best-le... Profile usnews.com/news/leaders...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
🧠 📚 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.
Promotional image advertising the MIT Press at Society for Neuroscience 2025.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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
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The Wage Standard by Arindrajit Dube: 9780593471418 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from...
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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
👀 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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...
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David Chalmers, Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? | Natural Philosophy Symposium
YouTube video by Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday** Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains. Join the discussion.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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...
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I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine | Hacklab | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“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.
Screenshot of the posit:: conf livestream, showing a man in a plaid shirt next to an optical illusion image of two concentric circles that look like they’re not concentric
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 19/09/2025
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/...
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An Evening With Carl Zimmer, science journalist and book author
Carl Zimmer is an award-winning New York Times columnist and author of 15 books about science. His talk, "Science, science communications and science jo...
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/09/2025
Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665
Drawing of gnatDrawing of silkDrawing of a needle's point
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/09/2025
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...
Painting of a breaking wave
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Michael Brownstein @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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
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Opinion | The Texas Democrats Won by Losing
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Stephen Morrow @carpenter512.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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.
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Oops! The Evolutionary Accidents That Made You Human
Author Madeleine Beekman shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why.
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