Stephen Morrow

Yellow fever

Fresh perspectives on Darwin's evolutionary legacy image A collection of the latest books on evolution for Darwin’s birthday.

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🌱 A new project begins!

Anatomy of Extremism: What ICE Is Revealing in Minnesota The federal persecution of immigrants and white citizens alike lays bare the unstable logic of in-group power.

My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy.
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Congratulations to Anil!

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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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

My Baker Institute article

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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.

My interview with @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/public-...

SUPER AGERS, a best book for 2025
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Grateful to @usnews.com for recognition as one of 25 best leaders for 2025
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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...

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.

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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.

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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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YouTube video by Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum David Chalmers, Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? | Natural Philosophy Symposium

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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**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday**
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.

YouTube video by WIRED I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine | Hacklab | WIRED

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...

Screenshot of the posit:: conf livestream, showing a man in a plaid shirt next to an optical illusion image of two concentric circles that look like they’re not concentric

“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.

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...

I'm headed to Notre Dame next week to give a public lecture on Thursday 9/25 about science writing in an age of <waves hands> all this. Details here: science.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Drawing of gnat

Drawing of silk

Drawing of a needle's point

Robert Hooke's drawings of objects under the microscope were so beautiful. These are from "Micrographia" in 1665

Painting of a breaking wave

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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Opinion | The Texas Democrats Won by Losing

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

The new admin strategy for facts and real data is to fire the messenger or demand retraction. That isn't going to work.