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Communication is essential to science – our results and theories are only as useful as they can be conveyed to others. However, there are many challenges to effective science communication. We invite #CNS2025 attendees to join us this weekend for a symposium on new directions in scientific communication in cognitive neuroscience, featuring presentations by editors from leading journals, including Imaging Neuroscience and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. ?? Sunday, March 30th ?? 1:30 - 3:30 pm EST ?? Independence Ballroom Link for details: https://lnkd.in/erSNRPpE #CognitiveNeuroscience #SciComm #Neuroscience #CogSci #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing

"Part of the reason it is so difficult to imagine an end to capitalism is that it’s embedded in nearly every aspect of modern life, from how we produce goods to how we share knowledge. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, an anti-capitalist — or at least a non-capitalist — mode of knowledge production has been hiding in plain sight all along." ? The authors of "Standards," a new volume in our Essential Knowledge Series, make the case for standards. Now available to read on the MIT Press Reader: https://lnkd.in/gajpphbz

Books in our new series, Critical Energy Studies, will feature top research that explores the impact of energy on history, politics, society, and culture. Visit us at booth 115 during #AAG2025 to learn more about this developing series, or find out more on our website: https://lnkd.in/ghhfzEJF

Update: We’re sorry to share that this event has been canceled. With two-thirds of the world's internet traffic being video, navigating the moving image — television, film, online video — is crucial to effective communication in the modern age. In "The Moving Image," MIT Open Learning's Peter B. Kaufman offers the first definitive manual to help writers, educators, and publishers integrate film and sound into media that matters. Join the author at the MIT Museum this Wednesday for a thought-provoking discussion of the medium's ascendance in education, politics, and knowledge dissemination over the decades to come. March 26th, 6 - 8 pm $15 General Admission $5 for MIT ID Holders Link for tickets: https://bit.ly/4bx12Nn

We are honored to share that the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has recognized five MIT Press titles for their excellence in scholarly publishing at the 2025 PROSE Awards, including "The Human Disease" winning in the Biomedicine and Neuroscience category. Congratulations to our authors and editors on this outstanding accomplishment! Learn more about our category winners and finalists here: https://lnkd.in/gxrnD9iN

??? Call for papers! Design Issues: A Journal of History, Theory, and Criticism is now accepting papers for the special issue: Tangible Archives. Please submit full papers to Guest Editors by Monday, June 30th, 2025. Link for details: https://lnkd.in/gf-Ehn2D

Don't miss Ep418 of the #AuthorityFile Podcast In this third episode of a four-part series, MIT Press authors David Gunkel and Janaki Srinivasan join Amy Harris from MIT Press Library Relations to discuss the citation and global impacts of the #openaccess book model. https://ow.ly/5jtl50VlSBM The MIT Press #OA #D2O

While the spring equinox is marked clearly on many of our calendars, seasonal events don't happen on the same day every year. There's dramatic variation in when events like flowering and migration begin from one year to the next. "Phenology," which refers to when recurring seasonal events occur, explains how the phenomenon is threaded through our daily lives and can help us make sense of the changing seasons and our changing world. An apt, accessible read in honor of the first day of spring: https://bit.ly/4gd2wOq

"For centuries, Black creatives were largely excluded from the Western art-historical record. Slowly, however, a body of literature on influential Black artists and art movements has been building, including books that employ documentation as an act of resistance to predominantly white European art-historical narratives." Art in America includes Terresa Moses, PhD and Omari Souza's "An Anthology of Blackness" among five essential books on overlooked Black artists and designers: https://lnkd.in/eiKMNDTz

"Care for the dying resembles nothing so much as care for the newly born. This deep, immeasurable connection is precisely what Michael Erard, a linguist and historian, most wants to explore." The Wall Street Journal reviews "Bye Bye I Love You" by Michael Erard: https://bit.ly/3QAHNJ4