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.
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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.
📢 @barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% off book preorders from today through March 26th, including my forthcoming The Organism–Environment Pairing! (@mitpress.bsky.social) 📗👇
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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
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Why does this koala look so cheerful, you ask?
Yellow fever
🌱 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.
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Congratulations to Anil!
Thanks @theguardian.com for their selection of SUPER AGERS as one of the best science books of 2025
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Join Katy Börner - Stiftung Charité Visiting Fellow at the BIH, for a talk about the creation of the Human Reference Atlas (HRA).
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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 Baker Institute article
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SUPER AGERS, a best book for 2025
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Grateful to @usnews.com for recognition as one of 25 best leaders for 2025
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🧠 📚 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.
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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...
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
“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/...
Drawing of gnat
Drawing of silk
Drawing of a needle's point
Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665
