Stephen Morrow
@carpenter512.bsky.social
Nonfiction book editor across the sciences
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Thanks @theguardian.com for their selection of SUPER AGERS as one of the best science books of 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Thanks @theguardian.com for their selection of SUPER AGERS as one of the best science books of 2025
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Join Katy Börner - Stiftung Charité Visiting Fellow at the BIH, for a talk about the creation of the Human Reference Atlas (HRA).
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December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
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@bihatcharite.bsky.social @katyborner.bsky.social
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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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November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My interview with @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/public-...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Grateful to @usnews.com for recognition as one of 25 best leaders for 2025
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November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Grateful to @usnews.com for recognition as one of 25 best leaders for 2025
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🧠 📚 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.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧠 📚 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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If you want more on wage boards and how they can achieve what Dani was referring to, check out my book The Wage Standard - now available for pre-order.
www.thewagestandard.com
www.thewagestandard.com
The Wage Standard by Arindrajit Dube: 9780593471418 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you want more on wage boards and how they can achieve what Dani was referring to, check out my book The Wage Standard - now available for pre-order.
www.thewagestandard.com
www.thewagestandard.com
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Join our authors at the @broadinstitute on 30th October 2025
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Join our authors at the @broadinstitute on 30th October 2025
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
💻 Do bring your devices to explore these fascinating Macroscopes!
📚 Copies of Atlas of Macroscopes will be available for purchase at the event from the The MIT Press Bookstore.
@mitpress.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org
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Videos from the Natural Philosophy Symposium are coming online at last! We start with the opening plenary by David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social: Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? Commentary by Ryan Smith.
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David Chalmers, Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? | Natural Philosophy Symposium
YouTube video by Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum
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October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Videos from the Natural Philosophy Symposium are coming online at last! We start with the opening plenary by David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social: Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? Commentary by Ryan Smith.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...
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**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday**
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday**
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.
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For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...
I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine | Hacklab | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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October 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...
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“Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group, but a lot.”
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
September 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group, but a lot.”
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
- @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.
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I'm headed to Notre Dame next week to give a public lecture on Thursday 9/25 about science writing in an age of all this. Details here: science.nd.edu/events/2025/...
An Evening With Carl Zimmer, science journalist and book author
Carl Zimmer is an award-winning New York Times columnist and author of 15 books about science. His talk, "Science, science communications and science jo...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I'm headed to Notre Dame next week to give a public lecture on Thursday 9/25 about science writing in an age of all this. Details here: science.nd.edu/events/2025/...
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Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665
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It's been six months since I started tracking the dire science news in my newsletter. For a long time, it felt like an ominous ocean swell. Now it feels like a breaking wave.
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September 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's been six months since I started tracking the dire science news in my newsletter. For a long time, it felt like an ominous ocean swell. Now it feels like a breaking wave.
buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
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On the value of fighting battles you think you might lose
@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
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@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
@mitpress.bsky.social
Opinion | The Texas Democrats Won by Losing
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August 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
On the value of fighting battles you think you might lose
@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
@mitpress.bsky.social
@madva.bsky.social and I with some ideas in today's NYT, drawing from our new book, with @dryan149.bsky.social, Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
@mitpress.bsky.social
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/oop... I bet Stephen Jay Gould would not have approved of the image, but I like to think he would have applauded Madeleine Beekman's THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
Oops! The Evolutionary Accidents That Made You Human
Author Madeleine Beekman shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why.
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August 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/oop... I bet Stephen Jay Gould would not have approved of the image, but I like to think he would have applauded Madeleine Beekman's THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE.
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Dark energy? Inflaton fields? Eternal inflation? “It is a good time for books that take stock of where we are [in modern cosmology] and that illustrate which puzzles modern physicists choose to take seriously.” — @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
A First Time for Everything | Sean M. Carroll
Scientific theories about the origin of the universe often involve a vigorous give-and-take between speculation and discovery.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Dark energy? Inflaton fields? Eternal inflation? “It is a good time for books that take stock of where we are [in modern cosmology] and that illustrate which puzzles modern physicists choose to take seriously.” — @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
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The new admin strategy for facts and real data is to fire the messenger or demand retraction. That isn't going to work.
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The new admin strategy for facts and real data is to fire the messenger or demand retraction. That isn't going to work.
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Three thousand years of backstory: carlzimmer.com/books/airbor...
Airborne, Carl Zimmer
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe Order Now The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Three thousand years of backstory: carlzimmer.com/books/airbor...