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  • BOOK REVIEW

AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads

Ten of Nature’s recent contributors share their current book obsessions.
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  1. Leor Zmigrod

    1. Leor Zmigrod is a political neuroscientist based in London, and author of The Ideological Brain.

  2. Nyalleng Moorosi

    1. Nyalleng Moorosi is a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Hlotse, Lesotho.

  3. Farhana Sultana

    1. Farhana Sultana is a geographer at Syracuse University, New York.

  4. Anna Abalkina

    1. Anna Abalkina is a researcher at the Free University of Berlin.

  5. Candice L. Odgers

    1. Candice L. Odgers is a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine.

  6. Renata Libonati

    1. Renata Libonati is a fire scientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  7. Àlex Gómez-Marín

    1. Àlex Gómez-Marín is a theoretical physicist and neuroscientist at the Institute of Neuroscience (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante, Spain.

  8. Monica McLemore

    1. Monica McLemore is a researcher in reproductive health, rights and justice at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York City.

  9. Genevieve L. Wojcik

    1. Genevieve L. Wojcik is an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

  10. Tae Jung Park

    1. Tae Jung Park is an international-law and economics researcher at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejon, South Korea.

Illustration showing a person reclining on an inflatable ring, floating in a pond whilst reading a book. Around them are smaller vignettes showing greek gods, various technology and networks all surrounded by foliage and a beach scene.

Illustration: Bratislav Milenkovic

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Nature 643, 628-630 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02198-2

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