If you're in DC on Oct 23, please attend this conference! I've got a few important things to say about how to re-frame our understanding of AI's "memory problems."

Also @davidgunkel.bsky.social is the Keynote speaker!

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Good morning!
(Homewood campus, Hopkins University, which is celebrating its 150th birthday)

"'Part of what makes interacting with the museum so exciting...is the way it presents puzzles to solve... [I]t is the viewer's job to deduce what secrets can be learned...[and] you have to figure out...how to ask new things.'" @jhuartssciences.bsky.social #museums
hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/13/j...

Hi Larry, will you be talking with Dan Madsen, too? Thanks!

Such happy news and SO deserved! (I was baffled that it didn't get the Hugo.) Huge congratulations!!

"[Joel Mokyr's] students had asked him about the possibility he would win the Nobel, and he said 'I told them that I was more likely to be elected Pope than to win the Nobel Prize in economics — and I am Jewish by the way.'”
apnews.com/article/nobe...

Imagine a device that can transport you anywhere in space & time.
Imagine if it could also allow you to witness the world through the senses of actual, mythical & imaginary life forms & experience their lives/adventures.

The device you’re imagining is a #Book.
Happy #Reading & #Writing 😎
#BookSky

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Wow, Prof. Han won a MacArthur award!
hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h... @jhu.edu

A determined doctor helps defeat one of the world's deadliest viruses. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

I just did this last night -- Microsoft Copilot said "It's late in [my town]; still feeling productive?" I said referring to my personal circumstances is creepy, and also stop saying things like "great observation"; just get the work done.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Immergut concluded that Trump’s attempt exceeds his authority under the federal law and violates the Tenth Amendment, infringing on the state of Oregon’s sovereignty."
abcnews.go.com/US/federal-j...

"Stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals?” A jab at Morocco’s spending on spectacle projects for the World Cup and what many see as the government’s blindness to everyday hardship."
apnews.com/article/moro...

Little less conversation, little more ritualistic dancing in the moonlit forest to ward off evil, please.

What a stunning story by Koji A. Dae ("Five Impossible Things"), set in our future world that can provide such a full alternative for those who want it. I felt like I was right there, thanks in no small part to Kate Baker's superb narration as well as the fine writing. Huge thanks to you both!

""When passengers pushed harder - asking about refunds, and talking to the media about the case - they were threatened with legal action. The BBC has seen dozens of such emails."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Many of you have already done so, but please do share this, if you can, or post a similar sentiment of your own. These are easy & important steps to take. We're all in this cesspit together, & we have to act like it & fight together.

If your CEO is a multimillionaire while staff live on food stamps and minimum wage, and then the company has to close locations because it is unprofitable...

You have a shitty CEO.

"Every year, the Muslim community breaks records on how much it gives to charity during Ramadan. Ramadan really reflects the most beautiful aspects of Islam."
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I'm sure the onion is the wrong analogy. You're a pomegranate -- hassle and mess to get deeper, but with the eventual reward of those really delicious seeds. (Analogy a bit clumsy, but your public prefers to think the best of you! Onions be damned (unless fried into tasty rings)!!

What I'm reading this weekend (between @jhucompsci.bsky.social student meetings): finishing "Playground" (Powers) for Sunday book club, and just started "Clear" (Davies) and 2024 #HugoAward winner "The Tainted Cup" (Bennett). #BookSky

"She treaded water, swarmed by the wildest assortment of Dr. Seuss creations--every color from piebald nudibranchs to bone-white snails sporting forests of spines. The sea buoyed her...she was an angel hovering above a metropolis built by billions of architects too small to see."Playground #BookSky