Stephen Morrow
@carpenter512.bsky.social
Nonfiction book editor across the sciences
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...
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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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...
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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MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · last mo.For centuries, scientists studied what pregnancy does to the body. Almost nobody studied what it does to the brain. Neuroscientist Susana Carmona helped change that. Listen to Susana's conversation with Early Childhood Matters (and pre-order her book "A Mother's Brain," out 10/6!):
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.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2mo agoTim Harford writes about me in the Financial Times. He claims I think it’s hopeless for scientists to try to explain their work to the public. That’s false. I suspect link rot and Harford’s faulty memory are to blame. I’ll explain my actual view below. 🧪 1/10 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
"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.
Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...
Melanie Mitchell: What We Get Wrong About AI
Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
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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: https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7658
Get the LLM to make a PowerPoint presentation? substack.com/home/post/p-...
The power of the pen
How the way we obtain information shapes our brain
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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...
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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📢 @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...
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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...
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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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
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My interview with @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/public-...
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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