Writing Together Online offers the structured writing time to help you stay focused and productive during the busy fall months. Join our daily 90-minute writing sessions and become part of a community of scholars who connect online, set realistic goals, and write together in the spirit of accountability and camaraderie. We offer writing sessions every workday, Monday through Friday. The program is open to all MIT students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and affiliates who are working on papers, proposals, thesis/dissertation chapters, application materials, and other writing projects.Please register for any number of sessions:Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:00–10:30am (EST) Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00–9:30am and 9:30-11:00am (EST)For more information and to register, go to this link or check the WCC website. Please spread the word and join with colleagues and friends. MIT Students and postdocs who attend at least 5 sessions per challenge will be entered into a gift-card raffle.

Writing Together Online offers the structured writing time to help you stay focused and productive during the busy fall months. Join our daily 90-minute writing sessions and become part of a community of scholars who connect online, set realistic goals, and write together in the spirit of accountability and camaraderie. We offer writing sessions every workday, Monday through Friday. The program is open to all MIT students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and affiliates who are working on papers, proposals, thesis/dissertation chapters, application materials, and other writing projects.Please register for any number of sessions:Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:00–10:30am (EST) Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00–9:30am and 9:30-11:00am (EST)For more information and to register, go to this link or check the WCC website. Please spread the word and join with colleagues and friends. MIT Students and postdocs who attend at least 5 sessions per challenge will be entered into a gift-card raffle.

The Picower Institute Fall 2025 Symposium: "Circuits of Survival and Homeostasis"Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025Time: 9::30am - 4::30pmLocation: 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium (Third Floor of MIT Building 46)Faculty Organizer: Sara PrescottRegistration: Free but required. Please click here to register.Understanding how the brain senses and responds to internal physiological states—like hunger, thirst, and inflammation—is vital to survival. Recent advances are revealing the circuits that link body and brain to maintain homeostasis and shape behavior. The Picower Institute's Fall 2025 Symposium, "Circuits of Survival and Homeostasis," gathers leading researchers exploring how these systems monitor, regulate, and repair fundamental physiological functions, offering insights into their mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets.Presenters:Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD, Harvard Zachary Knight, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, HHMIMark Krasnow, PhD, Stanford University Qin Liu, PhD, Washington University in St. LouisYuki Oka, PhD, CaltechClifford B. Saper, Harvard Li Ye, PhD, Scripps Research Institute, HHMI

On view October 1 -- December 11, 2025This exhibition draws on archival materials from the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC) to explore a century of cultural heritage preservation in Aleppo, Syria. It takes as its point of departure the work of Kamil al-Ghazzi (1853–1933), the pioneering Aleppine historian whose influential three-volume chronicle, Nahr al-Dhahab fī Tārīkh Ḥalab (The River of Gold in the History of Aleppo), was published between 1924 and 1926.Ink, Stone, and Silver Light presents three modes of documentation—manuscript, built form, and photography—through which Aleppo’s urban memory has been recorded and preserved. Featuring figures such as Michel Écochard and Yasser Tabbaa alongside al-Ghazzi, the exhibition traces overlapping efforts to capture the spirit of a city shaped by commerce, craft, and coexistence. At a time when Syria again confronts upheaval and displacement, these archival fragments offer models for preserving the past while envisioning futures rooted in dignity, knowledge, and place.

MAD Reads! A book Club on design that meets quarterlyThis October, we're discussing Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell.THE BOOKAs a prelude to iPod designer Tony Fadell’s fireside chat with MoMA Senior Curator of Architecture and Design Paola Antonelli on October 22, we will be discussing Fadell's book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.In this candid guide, Fadell outlines a roadmap for starting and managing new ventures, working with hardware, software, and people, navigating failure, and acting decisively in the midst of uncertainty.As part of the discussion, we will look at some of the book’s key themes:Do Fail LearnData Versus OpinionMaking the Intangible TangibleStorytellingMarrying F\for MoneyYou Can Only Have One CustomerBuilding Your TeamA limited supply of complimentary copies are available from MAD; contact mitmad@mit.edu.MAD PREPBelow are optional activities you can pursue in advance of the meeting to enrich your book club experience:Reflect on a time when you moved forward but things didn’t go as expected. What lessons did you learn, and how did those lessons shape your future decisions?Fadell states that “college is a time to take risks.” What risks have you taken?Fadell asserts, “What you do matters. Where you work matters.” Why does it matter – and to whom?Consider what it means to be exacting and expecting great work. In the workplace how does this relate to “micro managing”?Choose a product. What story is it telling—and how?Think of a user experience that was especially positive. What made it successful?Think of a user experience that was frustrating. How could it be improved? ADDITIONAL RESOURCESBuild: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell – Reading ListTony Fadell TED Talk on Habituation: The first secret of design is … noticingTony Fadell 2015 Reading List on Creativity (blog.ted.com)

High-performance reusable rocket engines recently developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin, and newer ones in development for low-cost heavy-lift launch vehicles, will enable next-generation space economics and accessibility. This talk will describe the work of MIT AeroAstro’s Zachary Cordero and his group along these lines, leveraging modern materials design, advanced manufacturing, and computational design tools to develop and manufacture the specialized materials that will power the future of spaceflight.

Are you creating or managing research data? This hands-on workshop will provide an overview of data management topics, including file organization and naming, data security and backups, tools for collaborating with others in the lab, and data publishing, storage and sharing. We'll also cover journal publisher requirements and writing the data management plans that are required by most funders, as well as data management issues related to closing out projects and moving between institutions. Geared towards those in postdoc or research scientist roles, but all are welcome.

Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

As a graduate student or postdoc, you will continue to advance in your teaching practice, particularly if you intend to pursue a career in academia. Your role as an educator can seem to take quantum leaps, from grading problem sets and papers to running recitations, taking responsibility for an entire class or section, and eventually advancing to instructor of record as you begin to teach classes of your own design. This compound workshop and panel event will help you to place these transitions within a developmental perspective that focuses on your own learning as an emerging educator.Registration is required for this event. Please register here.

You’re invited to a special Open Access Week event to highlight the value of open data at MIT and to celebrate the winners of the 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data. The program will feature short talks from prize winners about their research. After the program, enjoy a reception featuring refreshments and an opportunity to meet the winners, honorable mention recipients, and other open data advocates and practitioners from across campus.RegisterCo-sponsored by the MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries

Join us for a program in honor of the 2025 winners of the Victor K. McElheny Award for Local and Regional Journalism.After formally presenting the award, members of the award-winning team will join a panel of journalists for a discussion of how journalists and media outlets can help to build trust in both science and journalism.Learn more about the Victor K. McElheny Award.October 21 3:00 - 4:00pm Free with Mueseum admission

Speaker: Lauren Goins, StanfordHost: Adam MartinTitle: "Spatial and temporal coordination of cell cycle and cell fate during blood cell development"The Biology Colloquium is a weekly seminar held throughout the academic year — featuring distinguished speakers in many areas of the biological sciences from universities and institutions worldwide. More information on speakers, their affiliations, and titles of their talks will be added as available. Unless otherwise stated, the Colloquium will be held live in Stata 32-123 (Kirsch auditorium) Contact Margaret Cabral with questions.

Kyle Herkenhoff (Univ. of Minnesota)

Free and open to all!Refresh your fall wardrobe with a warm clothing SWAP! Bring in gently used warm clothing for adults - jackets, sweaters, cardigans, coats, boots, unworn socks, and other cozy items to trade. No need to bring clothes to participate, but please bring bags to take home your new finds. Leftover items will be donated to a local non-profit organization.

Time: 6:00 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

Time: 7:00 PMLocation: Springfield, MA