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Please join us in congratulating this year's winners and finalists!

A copy of "Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement" against a plain background. The cover features an illustration of four men carrying a man across a bridge. A blurred stack of books is visible in the foreground.

The inaugural winner of the MIT Press/Candlewick Children’s Book Award is "Measuring Up" written by Jenny Lacika and illustrated by Anna Bron, which tells the story of how one MIT student’s diminutive height became his mathematical superpower—and claim to fame: www.candlewick.com/978153623012...

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The inaugural winner of the MIT Press Textbook Award is "Foundations of Computer Vision" by Antonio Torralba, @phillipisola.bsky.social, and William T. Freeman: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204897...

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The 2026 MIT Press Alumni Book Award winner is "Mysteries of the Deep" by James Lawrence Powell, a groundbreaking chronicle of scientific ocean drilling—a crowning achievement of the twentieth century—and how it shaped our knowledge of Earth’s past: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204892...

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The 2026 MIT Press Faculty Book Award winner is "The New Lunar Society" by David A. Mindell, which explores how to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204952...

A stack of books on a plain background. Books pictured: The New Lunar Society, Mysteries of the Deep, Foundations of Computer Vision, and Measuring Up

🏆️ Announcing the 2026 MIT Press Faculty and Alumni Book Award winners: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres...

Free and virtual and open to all! Thursday, March 26th, 5pm EDT. ☀️

I highly recommend @vthewanderer.bsky.social’s great book Zen and Slow Games, out now on @mitpress.bsky.social !

How Albert Einstein Found Faith at the Edge of Reason Though wary of organized religion, the physicist believed that the harmony of universal laws pointed to a higher power.

"I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world.”

Happy pub day, Cindy! "Privacy's Defender" is out today: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations!!!

'The Curie Society' By Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni And Janet Harvey  -- #Review, published by @mitpress.bsky.social

#BookReview📖 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#books #BookSky📚💙 #Fiction #TeenBooks #science #LabLit www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

A copy of "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" by Joe P. L. Davidson on a plain background.

Utopian fiction has become an endangered species. In "Saving Utopia," Joe Davidson analyzes its survival in the 21st century and shows how to make dreams of utopian societies convincing amid pervasive pessimism. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255404...

A copy of "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance" by Cindy Cohn on a plain background.

In "Privacy’s Defender," Cindy Cohn chronicles her career dedicated to protecting our right to digital privacy, showing just how central this right is to all our other rights. Part memoir, part legal history, this is a compelling testament to digital privacy rights: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

A copy of "The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries" edited by Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken on a plain background.

Much of the past research on safety nets and social insurance has been centered on high-income countries. "The Handbook of Social Protection" takes stock of growing economics literature on social protection systems in low-and middle-income countries. #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205140...

A copy of "Flaxman Low" by E. and H. Heron on a plain background. The cover features a stylized illustration by Seth of a monocled man holding a card that reads "occult detective".

"Flaxman Low," a new volume in our Radium Age Series, collects the weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205165...

A copy of "augmented: life and death as a cyborg" by Candi K. Cann. The cover features minimalist white illustrations of assistance devices.

In "augmented," Candi Cann questions our ideas about accessibility and inclusion and asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205111...

New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇

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Take a Walk Around the Block With Me After two decades of neighborhood walks with residents, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani’s new book, “The Cities We Need,” shows the vital everyday labor between people and places that makes community…

"Much of the work of being human happens in everyday places: We become ourselves, we become able to see each other, to be a community."

@nextcity.org excerpts "The Cities We Need": nextcity.org/features/tak... @gabriellebv.bsky.social

Privacy's Defender EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's InternetEFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s

“Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” will be published Tuesday by @mitpress.bsky.social; hardcover proceeds benefit EFF. Get your copy today! www.eff.org/Privacys-De...

Headshot of Cindy Cohn next to a 2D image of her book "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance." Text below the images reads: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 7:00 PM PST. Cindy Cohn / Launch Party for "Privacy's Defender"

Cindy Cohn, a leader in the fight for digital privacy, celebrates the launch of "Privacy's Defender" tomorrow evening at City Lights! Register to join virtually and learn about her years-long fight against digital surveillance: citylights.com/events/cindy... @eff.org

War Begets War Triumph breeds hubris. Defeat breeds grievance. Either way, from World War II to Afghanistan, America has fueled a cycle that never ends.

War always creates the conditions for more war. “Winners can experience dangerous forms of triumphalism,” says Robert Jay Lifton. “Losers are likely to invoke Rambo–like attempts to reverse the outcome.”

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.

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋

More than 100 articles and counting: since launching in 2024, the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science has been building a freely available, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind. Find us at booth 3 during #CNS2026 to learn more: oecs.mit.edu @oecs-bot.bsky.social

How the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses Cass Sunstein joins us to explain how the U.S. Constitution prevents the concentration of power from turning democracy into despotism.

"Freedom from fear is a central goal of the system of separation of powers."

@casssunstein.bsky.socials explains the separation of powers in an excerpt via @bigthink.com:

That is so kind of you to say! Thank you!

@mitpress.bsky.social is set up and ready to go #CNS2026

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The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience investigates brain-behavior interactions and promotes a lively interchange among the mind sciences. Swing by booth 3 during #CNS2026 to find out more and sign up for the latest cognitive science news from the Press! direct.mit.edu/jocn@jocn.bs...

A silhouette of a pregnant belly against a pink and orange background. Text over the image features an endorsement from Paul Butler, credited as an MSNBC legal analyst and author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men: "Stunning, enraging, and extremely necessary, Expecting Inequity is a love letter to Black women and an urgent call to action for everybody."

In "Expecting Inequity," Khiara Bridges looks at the choices around prenatal care and childbirth that class-privileged, pregnant black people are making in order to survive what has been called the “black maternal health crisis.” Coming March 31st: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205155...