Some claims of human-alien contact are deliberate hoaxes. However, serious investigators of UFO-related claims accept that most claimants are, in fact, sincere. Chris French 🇺🇦 examines the story of Betty & Barney Hill’s 1961 abduction Big Think:
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If you're in town for #AERA24 , visit booth 327 at 3 pm tomorrow for a book signing with the authors of 'The Left Hand of Data,' AnterO))) Garcia and Matthew Berland. We will also give away five copies of the book — first come, first served. AERA

The audio version of my book, #RebelHealth , is now available! The Audiobooks.com team gave me a few download codes. Interested? Reply with a pic of your pet OR a GIF that captures your Friday afternoon mood and I'll pick 3 winners

'The overarching message of this earnest book still holds good: by cultivating positive behaviours and tweaking our lifestyles, we can lead healthier, happier lives.'

New Scientist reviews 'The Biology of Kindness,' available now: bit.ly/3vABej1

'We want to reframe the question from 'How will students use generative AI to cheat?' to 'How does technology bypass productive thinking?''

'Generative AI and K-12 Education: An MIT Perspective,' an #openaccess #GenAI Impact paper published via #MITops : bit.ly/43Nn2zR

Friends in the US & Canada. On Sunday’s ELEVATION on U2X-Radio on SiriusXM I’ll be joined by the world renowned theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social 10 am ET SiriusXM

We are gruntled editors of Open Mind, a completely free open access cognitive science journal published by MIT Press: send us your papers!!

In our Democratizing Data special issue, Christine Borgman & amy_brand highlight key issues arising as #openresearch #data becomes essential to science & scholarly publication. The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social
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.Gary Marcus's research on channeling AI's impact in a positive way for his forthcoming book, 'Taming Silicon Valley' (September 2024), informs a new piece for Politico on the bare minimum our national AI policy should address 👇

It took 100 million hours of hard work to make, test, and launch the James Webb Space Telescope. CG gives us a window into that.

'Inside the Star Factory' co-author Chris Gunn answers questions Popular Science on documenting an astronomical feat.
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There are still two more chances to win a free copy of 'Drawing Thought' during #AERA24 ! Winners will also receive a small, original drawing from the author, Andrea Kantrowitz. Enter the raffle by signing up at our booth, 327! AERA

Thank you to Dr. Alison Escalante for this great conversation about 'The Long Haul' and about the many new possibilities emerging for #LongCovid .

Most importantly: the announcement this week of Bernie Sanders' proposal for the Long Covid Moonshot !!

The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social
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Popping on here to happily announce that, due to the support of the MIT Libraries OA monograph fund & The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social , my first two books are now available as free PDF's ❤️ While they are very much histories at this point, hopefully they will still hold tidbits of interest!

Edited by Joshua Glenn, a semiotician and scholar with little patience for academia, a series of books from the MIT Press is an attempt to, if not set the literary record straight, then give it a wider grounding. buff.ly/49xg8j9

'I consider Falcon one of the world’s most successful and widely impactful commercial deployments of ML.'

Eric Siegel examines FICO’s fraud detection model that hinges on machine learning in an excerpt from 'The AI Playbook' via The European Business Review: europeanbusinessreview.com/where-fico-get…

Thank you to everyone who came out for Sabrina Sholts's book launch and our wonderful friends at East City Bookshop, who hosted the event! Learn more about 'The Human Disease' here: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048859/…

Who do we become when we talk to machines? Sherry Turkle writes on the social and emotional effects of generative AI. Part of the first round of #GenAI Impact papers published online via #MITops :
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If you see this CNS 2024 Annual Meeting it'll be on the name tag of William Matchin , incoming Chief Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Discussion Forum -- ask him what it's all about!

We're all set up, come say hello! #AERA24 AERA

To mark The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social’s publication of Devotion, Metrograph welcomes Bradley—and a host of special guest filmmakers and artists who will join her for a panel discussion—for a retrospective of her potent body of work.

April 27 & 28: metrograph.com/category/garre…