So this came out a year ago 🕸️. Yet, it is still around - both as a printed book and in digital #openaccess! 👉 doi.org/10.7551/mitp.... We just had a great author meets critics session on it at #shot2025 with @modomodo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Petrick, @ccmmody.bsky.social & Thomas Haigh. #histsci 📚💙
Coming up on October 15 @mitpress.bsky.social: My book THE CONNECTIVITY OF THINGS: NETWORK CULTURES SINCE 1832 is finally making its way over the Atlantic. Be in touch if you'd like a review copy! There might be occasional posts about this 😀.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255074... #histsci #history 📚💙
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255074... #histsci #history 📚💙
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So this came out a year ago 🕸️. Yet, it is still around - both as a printed book and in digital #openaccess! 👉 doi.org/10.7551/mitp.... We just had a great author meets critics session on it at #shot2025 with @modomodo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Petrick, @ccmmody.bsky.social & Thomas Haigh. #histsci 📚💙
@haimson.bsky.social I gave you a shoutout during the Q&A and also linked out to your book in my post!
Folks, don't miss it: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Folks, don't miss it: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Trans Technologies
How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.Mainstream tec
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May 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
@haimson.bsky.social I gave you a shoutout during the Q&A and also linked out to your book in my post!
Folks, don't miss it: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Folks, don't miss it: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Changing the mission: from the cold war to climate change
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
同じことは海洋学の分野でも起きており、そのことが学問としての厳密さを損なってきたという指摘も出されています。スポンサーとして軍隊がつくことの影響に対する否定的解釈といえます。
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
同じことは海洋学の分野でも起きており、そのことが学問としての厳密さを損なってきたという指摘も出されています。スポンサーとして軍隊がつくことの影響に対する否定的解釈といえます。
Changing the Mission: From the Cold War to Climate Change
doi.org
April 11, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Changing the mission: from the cold war to climate change
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
同じことは海洋学の分野でも起きており、そのことが学問としての厳密さを損なってきたという指摘も出されています。スポンサーとして軍隊がつくことの影響に対する否定的解釈といえます。
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
同じことは海洋学の分野でも起きており、そのことが学問としての厳密さを損なってきたという指摘も出されています。スポンサーとして軍隊がつくことの影響に対する否定的解釈といえます。
Day Three: (& one of my favourites) Kellyn Wee's ethnography of D&D in Singapore, a deep dive into the TTRPG spaces that market themselves as offering a 'D&D experience' delivered by state-of-the-art lighting, sound and professional GMs.
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
kellynnwee.com
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
kellynnwee.com
Defamiliarizing Dungeons & Dragons: Playing Out Western Fantasy in Singapore
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Day Three: (& one of my favourites) Kellyn Wee's ethnography of D&D in Singapore, a deep dive into the TTRPG spaces that market themselves as offering a 'D&D experience' delivered by state-of-the-art lighting, sound and professional GMs.
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
kellynnwee.com
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
kellynnwee.com
Yeah, would be nice if this recent book had a section on OA/funding as undermining expertise & science (e.g. driving misinformation) DOI: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access
A critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Yeah, would be nice if this recent book had a section on OA/funding as undermining expertise & science (e.g. driving misinformation) DOI: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Aw shit there's more coming (mostly unrelatedish to the main topic of the previous posts)
I read this one a little over a week ago, when it was posted to Reddit (though I had to dig to find my comments, because the original poster deleted their account...)
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
I read this one a little over a week ago, when it was posted to Reddit (though I had to dig to find my comments, because the original poster deleted their account...)
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
"It would come as no surprise to Arendt that we are now trying to replace human bureaucrats with AI bureaucrats in order to create a nihilistic utopia: a society where finally no human should ever have to risk taking responsibility."
Returning to Church Won’t Save Us from Nihilism
Engaging in ritual for ritual’s sake only deepens nihilism.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Aw shit there's more coming (mostly unrelatedish to the main topic of the previous posts)
I read this one a little over a week ago, when it was posted to Reddit (though I had to dig to find my comments, because the original poster deleted their account...)
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
I read this one a little over a week ago, when it was posted to Reddit (though I had to dig to find my comments, because the original poster deleted their account...)
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
Le livre c’est ça, mais facile c’est une autre histoire mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/conten...
Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs
mitp-content-server.mit.edu
January 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Le livre c’est ça, mais facile c’est une autre histoire mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/conten...
New book edited by Lawrence Yang #NYU Bruce Link #UCRiverside and me #UmeåUniversity introduces the concept of “migration stigma” to deepen understanding of the experiences of immigrants and their descendants. Open access from #MITPress: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion
An introduction to the concept of “migration stigma,” along with new analytical frameworks to deepen understanding of the experiences of immigrants, their
doi.org
April 10, 2024 at 1:26 AM
New book edited by Lawrence Yang #NYU Bruce Link #UCRiverside and me #UmeåUniversity introduces the concept of “migration stigma” to deepen understanding of the experiences of immigrants and their descendants. Open access from #MITPress: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
I have a chapter in a particular MITP book that weighs more than my cat
August 26, 2024 at 6:41 PM
I have a chapter in a particular MITP book that weighs more than my cat
Bowker and Star should write an epilogue featuring Pluto for their book doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (w
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October 26, 2023 at 10:17 AM
Bowker and Star should write an epilogue featuring Pluto for their book doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
You obviously know this one, don't you?
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies
Investigating and reimagining the origin story of the sex doll through the tale of the sailor's dames de voyage.The sex doll and its high-tech counterpart
doi.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
You obviously know this one, don't you?
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Topics about #MentalHealth, etc.
And my discovery of Bernard Hart was actually started via a post a month or so ago from this same MIT Press account mentioning the topic of this post: "psychopathy"
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
And my discovery of Bernard Hart was actually started via a post a month or so ago from this same MIT Press account mentioning the topic of this post: "psychopathy"
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
"Scientists have tested whether individuals diagnosed with psychopathy truly fit the 'boogeyman' image that is part & parcel of the psychopathy diagnosis. The findings are striking: they don’t."
Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen on his book "Psychopathy Unmasked": www.rorotoko.com/11/20250915-...
Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen on his book "Psychopathy Unmasked": www.rorotoko.com/11/20250915-...
September 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Topics about #MentalHealth, etc.
And my discovery of Bernard Hart was actually started via a post a month or so ago from this same MIT Press account mentioning the topic of this post: "psychopathy"
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
And my discovery of Bernard Hart was actually started via a post a month or so ago from this same MIT Press account mentioning the topic of this post: "psychopathy"
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
bsky.app/profile/mitp... @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @uofcahealth.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Advance for Peace is an organization striving to end the plague of gun violence in US cities by investing in healthy human and community development.
Out next week, "Advancing Peace" offers a roadmap for communities ready to embrace this vital work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255221...
Out next week, "Advancing Peace" offers a roadmap for communities ready to embrace this vital work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255221...
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Apply to attend the 15th Joburg School on Theoretical Physics, taking place at Wits from 1–5 Dec 2025.
This year’s focus is on recent exciting developments in string theory and its broader applications.
🔗 buff.ly/RngVDYH
#TheoreticalPhysics #QuantumFieldTheory #StringTheory #GeneralRelativity #MITP
This year’s focus is on recent exciting developments in string theory and its broader applications.
🔗 buff.ly/RngVDYH
#TheoreticalPhysics #QuantumFieldTheory #StringTheory #GeneralRelativity #MITP
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Apply to attend the 15th Joburg School on Theoretical Physics, taking place at Wits from 1–5 Dec 2025.
This year’s focus is on recent exciting developments in string theory and its broader applications.
🔗 buff.ly/RngVDYH
#TheoreticalPhysics #QuantumFieldTheory #StringTheory #GeneralRelativity #MITP
This year’s focus is on recent exciting developments in string theory and its broader applications.
🔗 buff.ly/RngVDYH
#TheoreticalPhysics #QuantumFieldTheory #StringTheory #GeneralRelativity #MITP
I'll ask, since MITP is publishing my book!
But my ? was about straight-up head shots on business cards.
But my ? was about straight-up head shots on business cards.
September 26, 2024 at 8:37 AM
I'll ask, since MITP is publishing my book!
But my ? was about straight-up head shots on business cards.
But my ? was about straight-up head shots on business cards.
Open Access the book "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" by Joanna Zylinska doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI
A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI.We are constantly photographing and being photographed while
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December 2, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Open Access the book "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" by Joanna Zylinska doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
Okay, ich muss mich korrigieren. Ich finde dazu nur die Bezeichnung Open Peer Review, die allerdings keineswegs einheitlich genutzt wird, sondern sehr viele Mechanismen bezeichnet. Suder (2012, 104) nennt das, was ich meine, Open Review.
doi.org/10.7551/mitp..., Kapitel 5.1
doi.org/10.7551/mitp..., Kapitel 5.1
Open Access
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficia
doi.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Okay, ich muss mich korrigieren. Ich finde dazu nur die Bezeichnung Open Peer Review, die allerdings keineswegs einheitlich genutzt wird, sondern sehr viele Mechanismen bezeichnet. Suder (2012, 104) nennt das, was ich meine, Open Review.
doi.org/10.7551/mitp..., Kapitel 5.1
doi.org/10.7551/mitp..., Kapitel 5.1
It is an incredibly bad idea on so many levels, but data security is the primary reason it is horrible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTp...
The dating app that doxxed 72,000 women...
YouTube video by Fireship
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It is an incredibly bad idea on so many levels, but data security is the primary reason it is horrible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTp...
Nave's book does a better job of debunking the FEP cult and clearly is not written by an LLM because she gets very annoyed when she realizes the FEP is accusing her of being little more than a directed acyclic graph
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
August 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Nave's book does a better job of debunking the FEP cult and clearly is not written by an LLM because she gets very annoyed when she realizes the FEP is accusing her of being little more than a directed acyclic graph
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
bsky.app/profile/mitp...
Today I learned that the manifold hypothesis might be traceable all the way back to Helmholtz.
From 'Operationalizing Kant Manifolds, Models, and Mathematics in Helmholtz's Theories of Perception'
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
#psychology #neuroscience #philosophy
From 'Operationalizing Kant Manifolds, Models, and Mathematics in Helmholtz's Theories of Perception'
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
#psychology #neuroscience #philosophy
July 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Today I learned that the manifold hypothesis might be traceable all the way back to Helmholtz.
From 'Operationalizing Kant Manifolds, Models, and Mathematics in Helmholtz's Theories of Perception'
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
#psychology #neuroscience #philosophy
From 'Operationalizing Kant Manifolds, Models, and Mathematics in Helmholtz's Theories of Perception'
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
#psychology #neuroscience #philosophy
🚨 Free book alert!
Once $195, the Handbook of Rationality (#MIT, 2021) now has an #openAcess (free) digital version: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
It can be downloaded as one file — all 879 pages and 300MB — or chapter-by-chapter for offline reading.
People who prefer to read online—if they exist—can.
Once $195, the Handbook of Rationality (#MIT, 2021) now has an #openAcess (free) digital version: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
It can be downloaded as one file — all 879 pages and 300MB — or chapter-by-chapter for offline reading.
People who prefer to read online—if they exist—can.
October 25, 2023 at 5:59 PM
🚨 Free book alert!
Once $195, the Handbook of Rationality (#MIT, 2021) now has an #openAcess (free) digital version: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
It can be downloaded as one file — all 879 pages and 300MB — or chapter-by-chapter for offline reading.
People who prefer to read online—if they exist—can.
Once $195, the Handbook of Rationality (#MIT, 2021) now has an #openAcess (free) digital version: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
It can be downloaded as one file — all 879 pages and 300MB — or chapter-by-chapter for offline reading.
People who prefer to read online—if they exist—can.
Though it‘s brain focused and does not cover embodied/ecological approaches, I think some chapters from Pessoa‘s (2022) book provide a good starting point to overcome static, modular thinking and to adopt a complex systems perspective instead: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together
A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, c
doi.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Though it‘s brain focused and does not cover embodied/ecological approaches, I think some chapters from Pessoa‘s (2022) book provide a good starting point to overcome static, modular thinking and to adopt a complex systems perspective instead: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...
If you believe the UK's child protection bullshit makes sense, let me show you how bad it can be, and this was just incompetence, not malicious, and I PROMISE you the malicious part is coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTp...
The dating app that doxxed 72,000 women...
YouTube video by Fireship
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you believe the UK's child protection bullshit makes sense, let me show you how bad it can be, and this was just incompetence, not malicious, and I PROMISE you the malicious part is coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTp...
Was recently on the Brainforest Cafe podcast with Dennis McKenna, talking about my new book Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Graham St John, MITP, Sep 30, 2025, with a foreword by Erik Davis)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5X...
@mitpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5X...
@mitpress.bsky.social
Graham St John: Strange Attractor - The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
YouTube video by Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy
www.youtube.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Was recently on the Brainforest Cafe podcast with Dennis McKenna, talking about my new book Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Graham St John, MITP, Sep 30, 2025, with a foreword by Erik Davis)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5X...
@mitpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5X...
@mitpress.bsky.social