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UPM Press @upmpress.bsky.social · Nov 26
Bienvenidas y bienvenidos a #UPMPress, editorial universitaria dedicada a la transmisión del conocimiento científico y técnico y al fortalecimiento de las labores de docencia e investigación propias de #laUPM #PolitécnicaMadrid #somosUPM #publicacionesUPM #TechnicaImpendiNationi #editorialUPM
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Ahora también puedes hacerte con los libros de la editorial de @upm.es en #INGeBOOK [short.upm.es/81hwb] además de en nuestra #LibreríaVirtual [upmpress.upm.es] #somosUPM #publicacionesUPM #edicionesUPM #editorialUPM
January 23, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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"True to an engineering ethos of ’doing better,’ [Degrees of Freedom] explores the foundational aspects of power that invisibly shape robot design and ... how to build robots better suited for advancing social justice." — Ericka Johnson

Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255402...
Hands holding a copy of "Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice" by Tom Williams. The cover features an illustration of a humanoid robot pulling a cart.
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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"A complex system, once set in motion, is hard to change. Its inertia is greater than the sum of all moving parts. And a city is a complex system."
A City Cast in Concrete, Trapped Under Unbearable Heat
Unchecked development has turned Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo into an unlivable urban nightmare. But solutions exist to lift it out of climate catastrophe.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
January 22, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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"[A] scholarly, in-depth survey with insightful critiques." — Kirkus Reviews

Soraya Murray's "Technothriller" explores popular American films that channel our cultural anxieties, dreams, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology. Out Feb 3: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205101...
Cover image of "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" on a neon background. The cover features an image of eyes in black and white staring out at the viewer with fear.
January 22, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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¿Necesitas adquirir libros universitarios? = Te damos 6 razones para hacerlo a través de #UPMpress : 2ª infografía que hemos preparado para conmemorar el lanzamiento de nuestra web [upmpress.upm.es] #editorialUPM #somosUPM #edicionesUPM #publicacionesUPM
January 22, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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AI may have killed the college essay, but grading ideas still matters. David Weinberger says educators should assess student dialogue with LLMs, which can challenge thinking, test claims, and help students build confidence in critical inquiry: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ai-can-teach...
Screenshot of a headline and subtitle that reads "AI Can Teach Our Students the Art of Dialogue: The same technology that's ruining essay writing as a pedagogical tool can help students learn how to reason via conversations." David Weinberger is credited as the author.
January 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Renowned engineer and lifelong birder Lorna Gibson reveals the marvel of how birds work, exploring the hidden microscopic structures and engineering principles that keep birds aloft and alive.

"Birds Up Close" flies onto shelves April 28th, 2026: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204989...
Image of "Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders" by Lorna Gibson. The cover depicts a zoomed in image of a white feather over a black-and-white bird with a red cap and a seed in its beak. Text below the image features a review from Kirkus that reads "Eye-opening, if best suited for the geekiest birds and enginerds."
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Guest Post - The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post - The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest author raises the question of whether a researcher submitting an article that was significantly drafted by an LLM without clear disclosure is effectively engaging in a contemporary form of ghost authorship.
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January 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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edicionsub.bsky.social
📚✨Avui celebrem els 140 anys de la primera publicació de “Canigó”, de Jacint Verdaguer, poeta i coneixedor excepcional de la botànica del nostre territori.
January 21, 2026 at 1:03 PM
upmpress.bsky.social
Ahora también puedes hacerte con los libros de la editorial de
@upm.es en #INGeBOOK [short.upm.es/81hwb] además de en nuestra #LibreríaVirtual [upmpress.upm.es] #somosUPM #publicacionesUPM #edicionesUPM #editorialUPM
January 19, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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"It seems like every few years, you could write a whole new book on gravity."

James Riordon, author of "Crush: Close Encounters with Gravity," recommends his favorite books on this peculiar force—from the equations needed to understand it, to a funny book about what it's like to live without it:
Gravity
Since the 17th century, we've been aware that the force that causes apples to fall from a tree is the same force that holds the planets in the sky, but we still don't know everything there is to know…
fivebooks.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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What should space tourists expect to happen to them during a journey to an orbiting space station, the Moon, or Mars? In "Becoming Martian," out Feb. 17th, @scottsolomon.bsky.social explores how humanity’s migration into space will change our bodies and our minds: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205151...
An endorsement of Becoming Martian by Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, against an image of the surface of Mars. The endorsement reads "Solomon is an explorer, storyteller, and particularly gifted explainer of evolutionary biology. So, naturally, Becoming Martian is a fascinating and insightful look at our species' past, present, and interplanetary future!"
January 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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In "Archiving Machines," Amelia Acker traces the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.

Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
Hands holding a copy of "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" by Amelia Acker on a plain background. The cover depicts a punch card.
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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¿Eres docente de #laUPM y necesitas editar una publicación científica? : 1ª infografía que hemos hecho para conmemorar el lanzamiento de nuestra #LibreríaVirtual [upmpress.upm.es] #editorialUPM #somosUPM #publicacionesUPM #UPMpress #edicionesUPM
January 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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"Aymar Jèan Escoffery is one of the most important thinkers and creators of our time. [Reparative Media] is the roadmap we need to repair from the deep divisions the internet has created among us." — @safiyanoble.bsky.social

Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
Hands holding a copy of "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" by Aymar Jèan Escoffery on a plain background. The cover features purple, blue, and pink illustrations of people holding tools for filming media.
January 13, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details - The Scholarly Kitchen
Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details - The Scholarly Kitchen
In today's post Alice Meadows shares some of the feedback gathered by MoreBrains and UKRI about the technical requirements of its OA policy, including thoughts from three speakers at a UKRI webinar on the topic.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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We can’t afford to delay climate action. In "Clearing the Air," data scientist and bestselling author @hannahritchie.bsky.social answers 50 key climate questions once and for all, getting the facts straight so we can take action and fix things. Out February 17th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205274...
An illustration of a multicolored pinwheel with a quote from Saul Griffith, author of "Electrify," below. The quote reads "The world needs practical, calm, and data-led climate problem solving, and Clearing the Air provides answers - and hope - in spades."
January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Join authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on Saturday, January 24th for a virtual discussion about their book "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Link for details: citylights.com/events/rewir... @eff.org
A copy of "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders against a plain background. The cover is black and features a glitched image of the head of the Statue of Liberty.
January 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Colombo looks idyllic — but living there means unrelenting heat. “To walk or cycle anywhere in Colombo… is to slowly succumb to a wet, sickly heat,” writes Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. His solution: redesign cities for comfort, not growth. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-city-cast-...
Screenshot of headline, subheading, and a lead image on an article. The headline reads: A City Cast in Concrete, Trapped Under Unbearable Heat Subheading: Unchecked development has turned Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo into an unlivable urban nightmare. But solutions exist to lift it out of climate catastrophe. The image is an aerial image of Colombo, warped and with a reddish tint.
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Essential reading on how the brain makes language possible, @gregoryhickok.bsky.social's "Wired for Words" provides a critical synthesis of over 150 years of research to build a new understanding of the neural architecture of the brain’s language system: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255341...
Hands holding a copy of "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language" by Gregory Hickok on a plain background. The cover features a image of the brain.
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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El #ArchivoDigitalUPM acaba de obtener de la @fao.org la acreditación como proveedor de #FAOAGRIS [agris.fao.org], uno de los motores de búsqueda más completos del mundo en literatura científica sobre #alimentación y #agricultura #somosUPM #EELISAlibrary #CESAERlibrary
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January 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
upmpress.bsky.social
Ahora también puedes hacerte con los libros de la editorial de
@upm.es en #INGeBOOK [short.upm.es/81hwb] además de en nuestra #LibreríaVirtual [upmpress.upm.es] #somosUPM #publicacionesUPM #edicionesUPM #editorialUPM
January 13, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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2025 was supposed to be the Year of the A.I. Agent. According to @garymarcus.bsky.social, however, AI agents have been a dud. "They’re building clumsy tools on top of clumsy tools," the author of "Taming Silicon Valley" told Cal Newport for the @newyorker.com:
Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.
www.newyorker.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Technopaganism, simulation hypothesis, reality shifting: the internet is full of “weird shit." @shirachess.bsky.social teases out these weird, historical, and uncanny aspects of our online existence on The Unseen Internet (and has a great book of the same name coming out Feb. 10th):
The Unseen Internet 💫 | Shira Chess | Substack
Looking at technological woo past, present, and future. Click to read The Unseen Internet 💫, by Shira Chess, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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January 12, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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"Robophilosophy" brings together researchers in philosophy, psychology, and the technical sciences to explore the deep and far-reaching implications of social robotics. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204498...
A copy of "Robophilosophy: Philosophy of, for, and by Social Robotics" on a plain background. The cover depicts and illustration of a humanoid robot in profile with its arm outstretched. A profile reminiscent of a Greek bust protrudes from the back of the robots head. Text along the bottom notes the book is edited by Johanna Seibt, Raul Hakli, and Marco Norskov.
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM