Join TSL on November 18 for a Book Talk: The Stolen Year with Anya Kamenetz, 12pm, Bartos Theatre (20 Ames St. Cambridge) or by Zoom. Learn more at tsl.mit.edu/event/

From @MITDiversity, Lupe Fiasco will be presenting on "Optimal Novelty" on November 16. Full details: cmswm.it/3hlnVeG. And a teaser: we'll have our own event with him on November 30. Final details are in the works!

You waited that many tweets before dropping the awesome news. Congrats, @KendraWrites! What a great thread from a MIT Science Writing alum.

Congratulations again to MIT Science Writing alum @KendraWrites on her AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award: cmswm.it/3O2r7YV, for her fabulous/sobering MIT Technology Review piece "How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities" cmswm.it/3TFtVw5

Congrats to alum Walking Cinema on this news!

Special event, Nov. 30! “SAMURAI DX” August 22nd presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction” (in-person Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and streamed) cmswm.it/3EFM4pB. It'll be "an exploration into the underlying fundamental functions, structures, and principles of rap." MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences LIT@MIT Arts at MIT

Huge article announcment! Under the amazing leadership of Suzanne Lane, this article represents the biggest research project I've been involved in. Here we fully document the design process, and 4 complete disciplinary diagrams. wac.colostate.edu/docs/atd/volum…

The latest from alum Josh Sokol in The Atlantic: The Science Writer Every Science Nerd Wants You to Read cmswm.it/3VjiM5B. "A visit with David Quammen, who confronted in COVID a story that refused to stay at a safe distance."

Registration for tomorrow's event with “SAMURAI DX” August 22nd is now full! If you're not able to join us in person, remember his talk will be streamed live as well: cmsw.mit.edu/event/lupe-fia…

Pre-reg is open for IAP and spring! Check out CMS/W's offerings, including special topics subjects on DJ'ing and rap theory: cmswm.it/2KN2Ghc

Alum Ashley Belanger at Ars Technica: "Musk won’t relaunch Twitter Blue until he finds a way to avoid Apple fees" cmswm.it/3B0K9tx

Video contest open for submissions until February 10: "MIT in 3"! cmsw.mit.edu/mit-in-3-video… What’s your MIT? And can you show it in 3 minutes?

GameLab researcher Dr. Mikael Jakobsson (Mikael Jakobsson) presented some of his work on boardgames at this terrific event that brought scholars from across the Institute together (organized by Kat Cizek & MIT OpenDocLab): news.mit.edu/2022/worlding-…

In case you missed it, video of last week's special event with “SAMURAI DX” August 22nd is now available! cmswm.it/3HaOUVb

Our white paper, “Creating Community in Hybrid Festivals” is now available at bit.ly/ODLhybridity! In collaboration with IDFA IDFA DocLab, we explored the value of hybrid festivals and programmers' recommendations for the future.

Alum Michael Greshko for National Geographic: "Scientists achieve a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. Here’s what it means." cmswm.it/3FMiRcW

At 9am ET on 12/14, Fluid Interfaces + Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D welcome Lisa Joy—screenwriter and producer of Westworld, The Peripheral, + Reminiscence Film—for “DESIGNING THE FUTURE: A Liberal Arts Major’s Guide to Putting the Science in Science Fiction.” media.mit.edu/events/invited…

Coming up next month, our own Alan Lightman will be hosting a public TV series dealing with the fundamentals: "How can consciousness, music, love arise from atoms and molecules? What human qualities should we retain as we become part machine?"

#BestOf2022 In December, MIT Visiting Scholar/Artist Wasalu Jaco (professionally known as “SAMURAI DX” August 22nd) presented an extraordinary talk on “Rap Theory & Practice.” Watch Lupe's live-streamed presentation (or watch it again!) online: bit.ly/LupeFiasco_MIT…