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On Tuesday, April 28, join @aha_medialab for a free livestream of the 2026 AHA Symposium, “Raised by AI?” During this all-day event, speakers and panelists will consider the question: How do we ensure the first generation growing up with AI thrives? media.mit.edu/events/aha-sym…

From the Everglades to the Keys, coastal wetlands in South Florida comprise diverse, highly managed ecosystems that exemplify coastal regions worldwide, which are facing the compounded effects of climate change and water management. In @PNASNews, Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo — an MLK Visiting Scholar in the @space_enabled research group — and co-authors explore the use of ground-based and satellite-based monitoring technologies to better understand the impacts of human activity in these regions and create actionable plans to address them. Read more: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Excited to (finally) share this paper, accepted at @iclr_conf #ICLR 2026! ✨ In this work, we use sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to study the internal representations of generative music models (here, MusicGen) and automatically discover how they encode concepts.

Adam Haar Horowitz, an alum of the Media Lab’s @fluidinterfaces research group, is a cognitive scientist whose work focuses on exploring the hypnagogic state between sleep and waking for creative, artistic, and even collaborative experiences. designboom.com/technology/ada…

Congratulations to Media Lab Professor @dagdevirencanan on being inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (@AIMBE) College of Fellows as part of the 2026 class! media.mit.edu/posts/canan-da…

ABxLab is accepted at @iclr_conf #ICLR 2026! ✨We ask: why do AI agents do what they do? 🧐 We introduce a framework for systematically studying AI agent behavior through controlled manipulations of their environments. We accomplish this by intercepting any real web environments and modifying what the agent sees in real time before they actually see it.

New paper @acm_chi ! "Feeling the Facts: Real-time wearable fact-checkers can use nudges to reduce user belief in false information" . Misinformation can spread rapidly in everyday conversation, where pausing to verify is not always possible.

Congratulations to Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, an MLK Visiting Scholar in the @space_enabled research group, on being honored as one of the 2026 @ExplorersClub 50 — ”Fifty people changing the world, the world needs to know about”! 50.explorers.org/community/lola…

Starting now! x.com/AHA_MediaLab/s…

SpaceCHI 2026 will take place at the NASA Ames Research Center and online September 24–25, 2026. Submissions are due July 17! SpaceCHI adopts a broad interdisciplinary scope, welcoming papers and posters on a wide range of subjects related to human-computer interaction in space exploration. media.mit.edu/events/spacech…

@PolibaOfficial Learn more about this work: news.mit.edu/2026/new-type-…

Watch: Developed by researchers from the Tangible Media group and @PolibaOfficial, electrofluidic fiber muscles mimic the way that natural muscle fibers bundle, and could enable compact, silent robotic and prosthetic systems. “We believe electrofluidic fiber muscles can become a powerful new building block for untethered robots, wearables, and assistive technologies,” says Media Lab graduate student Ozgun Kilic Afsar, lead author of the paper published in @SciRobotics. Authors: Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Gabriele Pupillo, Gennaro Vitucci, Wedyan Babatain, Hiroshi Ishii (@ishii_mit), and Vito Cacucciolo

What if you could search your visual memories with your eyes? In a recent paper, we introduce Mnemonic Tracing —retrieving memories through eye movements. Instead of typing or scrolling, you may one day simply look your way back to a memory. #HCI #AI @wazeerzulfikar @medialab

From early algorithms to generative AI to autonomous agents — each shapes us differently. Under what conditions does media actually support human flourishing? THIS THURSDAY: AHA Seminar Series featuring Sunny Xun Liu (Stanford Social Media Lab) Link in comments!

Another incredible year at @medialab 's #BeyondTheCradle: Envisioning a New Space Age— @mit's flagship event exploring humanity's future beyond Earth. Pictured here with some #astronaut friends by @aurelia_institute's habitat (names in caption) @ExploreSpace_ML @aurelia_labs @MIT

#CHI2026, the premier international conference of human-computer interaction, starts next week, and a number of Media Lab community members are participating. Explore their contributions: media.mit.edu/events/media-l…

In a new paper published in @SciRobotics, researchers from the Tangible Media group and @PolibaOfficial describe a new class of artificial muscle fibers — Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles. The fibers mimic the way that natural muscle fibers bundle, and could enable compact, silent robotic and prosthetic systems. By Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Gabriele Pupillo, Gennaro Vitucci, Wedyan Babatain, Hiroshi Ishii (@ishii_mit), and Vito Cacucciolo news.mit.edu/2026/new-type-…

Developed by a team of researchers that includes Media Lab PhD student Ikra Shuvo, this small, energy-efficient device is capable of extracting water from the air even in arid environments.

At 8:30am ET tomorrow, April 8, join the Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative and our spinoff Aurelia Institute (@aurelia_labs) for the 10th annual Beyond the Cradle! Visit beyond.media.mit.edu tomorrow to find the embedded livestream. Hear from the astronauts, executives, entrepreneurs, artists, designers, and scientists who are building the new space age — and tune in at 12:30pm ET for the announcement of the winner of the inaugural Aurelia Prize in Design for Space Urbanism!

Excited to share our work on the myoneural actuator - a 'living' implant that reprograms your body's own muscle into an actuator to restore movement in paralyzed organs. @MIT @medialab @mcgovernmit