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Stephen Morrow

@carpenter512.bsky.social

Nonfiction book editor across the sciences

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Stephen Morrow@carpenter512.bsky.social · 2w ago

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 · 2w ago

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!):

Stephen Morrow@carpenter512.bsky.social · 3w ago

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 · 3w ago

Tim 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/...

Stephen Morrow@carpenter512.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"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 · 2mo ago

I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...

Giosuè Baggio@giosuebaggio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In "How Deeply Human Is Language?,” leading neurolinguist Yosef Grodzinsky explains linguistic theory and large language models—the top contenders for understanding human language—and evaluates them in the context of the brain: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205200...

J.M. Berger@jmberger.com · 6mo ago

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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MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🧠 📚 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.

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