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What does the moon reveal about us and the universe? Join us on 12/5 for a free Presents event “Reflections on the Moon” with cosmologist Adrian Bayer, sociologist Tracy Scott, and NASA's Denise Hill. Register here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/reflections-on-the-moon/ #science
Reflections on the Moon
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November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What does the moon reveal about us and the universe? Join us on 12/5 for a free Presents event “Reflections on the Moon” with cosmologist Adrian Bayer, sociologist Tracy Scott, and NASA's Denise Hill. Register here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/reflections-on-the-moon/ #science
In 2023, astronomers found two black holes whose existence seemed improbable. Now, #FlatironCCA researchers have figured out how the black holes came to be: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/10/mysterious-impossible-merger-of-two-massive-black-holes-explained/ #science #astrophysics
Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of Two Massive Black Holes Explained
Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of Two Massive Black Holes Explained on Simons Foundation
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November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In 2023, astronomers found two black holes whose existence seemed improbable. Now, #FlatironCCA researchers have figured out how the black holes came to be: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/10/mysterious-impossible-merger-of-two-massive-black-holes-explained/ #science #astrophysics
Information about #FlatironCCN opportunities will also be available!
The Simons Foundation is exhibiting at #SfN25 next week! Visit booth #3725 to learn more about our current funding opportunities and #neuroscience and #autismresearch resources.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Information about #FlatironCCN opportunities will also be available!
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Join Flatiron workshop this February to learn about Pynapple and other tools for neural data analysis and modeling from @flatironinstitute.org
Pynapple v0.10 is out with major changes. Unified tuning curve function now returns an xarray object, plus new flexible template-matching decoding. Join us at the Flatiron workshop this February to learn Pynapple and other tools for neural data analysis from @flatironinstitute.org.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Join Flatiron workshop this February to learn about Pynapple and other tools for neural data analysis and modeling from @flatironinstitute.org
Last month, #FlatironCCQ staff gathered for CCQ Week, an annual “all hands” meeting to promote collaboration between all CCQ scientists. #science #physics
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last month, #FlatironCCQ staff gathered for CCQ Week, an annual “all hands” meeting to promote collaboration between all CCQ scientists. #science #physics
Apps are open for our Idea Scholar program! The program invites distinguished scientists with an interest in developing scientific talent in the workforce for extended visits at the Flatiron Institute. Deadline is 1/13/2026: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/idea_scholar_program/ #science
Idea Scholar Program
The Flatiron Institute’s Idea Scholar program invites distinguished scientists for extended visits to develop scientific talent and foster collaboration.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Apps are open for our Idea Scholar program! The program invites distinguished scientists with an interest in developing scientific talent in the workforce for extended visits at the Flatiron Institute. Deadline is 1/13/2026: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/idea_scholar_program/ #science
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Meet Denario — a new AI tool developed by @flatironinstitute.org, the University of Cambridge, and @uab.cat that leverages large language models to help scientists with tasks: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/meet-denario-an-ai-assistant-for-every-step-of-the-scientific-process/ #science #AI
Meet Denario — An AI Assistant for Every Step of the Scientific Process
For more information, please contact press@simonsfoundation.org.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Meet Denario — a new AI tool developed by @flatironinstitute.org, the University of Cambridge, and @uab.cat that leverages large language models to help scientists with tasks: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/meet-denario-an-ai-assistant-for-every-step-of-the-scientific-process/ #science #AI
The @apsphysics.bsky.social awarded the Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics to #FlatironCCA's Elena Pinetti: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/05/cca-research-fellow-elena-pinetti-awarded-henry-primakoff-award-for-early-career-particle-physics/ #science #astrophysics
CCA Research Fellow Elena Pinetti Awarded Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics
Elena Pinetti, a research fellow at the Simons Foundation’s CCA, has received the Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The @apsphysics.bsky.social awarded the Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics to #FlatironCCA's Elena Pinetti: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/05/cca-research-fellow-elena-pinetti-awarded-henry-primakoff-award-for-early-career-particle-physics/ #science #astrophysics
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Announcing cryo-EM heterogeneity challenge #2, now dubbed the 2025 Community-Wide Assessment of Cryo-EM Heterogeneous Reconstruction Algorithms (CAHRA)! Join us for a webinar next Friday (Nov 14th) to learn more. Datasets already posted here: heterogeneity.notion.site/challenge #cryoem
CAHRA 2025: Community-Wide Assessment of Cryo-EM Heterogeneous Reconstruction Algorithms
A community-wide data processing challenge for cryo-electron microscopy.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Announcing cryo-EM heterogeneity challenge #2, now dubbed the 2025 Community-Wide Assessment of Cryo-EM Heterogeneous Reconstruction Algorithms (CAHRA)! Join us for a webinar next Friday (Nov 14th) to learn more. Datasets already posted here: heterogeneity.notion.site/challenge #cryoem
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I’m deeply honored to receive the Henry Primakoff Award of the American Physical Society!
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@flatironinstitute.org @fermilab.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org @perimeterinstitute.ca
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November 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I’m deeply honored to receive the Henry Primakoff Award of the American Physical Society!
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@flatironinstitute.org @fermilab.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org @perimeterinstitute.ca
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@flatironinstitute.org @fermilab.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org @perimeterinstitute.ca
The Flatiron Institute is #hiring! View our numerous open computational researcher positions: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/careers/ #science
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November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Flatiron Institute is #hiring! View our numerous open computational researcher positions: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/careers/ #science
Congratulations to #FlatironCCA senior research scientist Shirley Ho on being named one of seven AI2050 Senior Fellows by Schmidt Sciences! https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/05/cca-senior-research-scientist-shirley-ho-named-an-ai2050-senior-fellow-by-schmidt-sciences/ #science #astrophysics
CCA Senior Research Scientist Shirley Ho Named an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences
Flatiron Institute Senior Research Scientist Shirley Ho was named an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Congratulations to #FlatironCCA senior research scientist Shirley Ho on being named one of seven AI2050 Senior Fellows by Schmidt Sciences! https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/05/cca-senior-research-scientist-shirley-ho-named-an-ai2050-senior-fellow-by-schmidt-sciences/ #science #astrophysics
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Could #AI speed up the scientific process?
That's the idea behind Denario, an AI-powered 'scientific assistant' co-developed by researchers at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
What can Denario do? Find out: bit.ly/47Hfvom
#MachineLearning #Tech #Computing
That's the idea behind Denario, an AI-powered 'scientific assistant' co-developed by researchers at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
What can Denario do? Find out: bit.ly/47Hfvom
#MachineLearning #Tech #Computing
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Could #AI speed up the scientific process?
That's the idea behind Denario, an AI-powered 'scientific assistant' co-developed by researchers at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
What can Denario do? Find out: bit.ly/47Hfvom
#MachineLearning #Tech #Computing
That's the idea behind Denario, an AI-powered 'scientific assistant' co-developed by researchers at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org
What can Denario do? Find out: bit.ly/47Hfvom
#MachineLearning #Tech #Computing
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A study from the foundation, International Brain Laboratory, and @flatironinstitute.org finds mice with variants in autism-associated genes have difficulty flexibly updating their expectations: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mapping-mouse-brains-points-to-how-autism-can-affect-expectation-updating
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A study from the foundation, International Brain Laboratory, and @flatironinstitute.org finds mice with variants in autism-associated genes have difficulty flexibly updating their expectations: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mapping-mouse-brains-points-to-how-autism-can-affect-expectation-updating
With their new AI tool Denario, Flatiron Institute researchers and collaborators introduce a new scientific assistant to aid in the research process: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/04/meet-denario-an-ai-assistant-for-every-step-of-the-scientific-process/ #science #AI
Meet Denario — An AI Assistant for Every Step of the Scientific Process
For more information, please contact press@simonsfoundation.org.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
With their new AI tool Denario, Flatiron Institute researchers and collaborators introduce a new scientific assistant to aid in the research process: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/04/meet-denario-an-ai-assistant-for-every-step-of-the-scientific-process/ #science #AI
We recently held our Flatiron Wide Autumn Meeting (FWAM), an annual two-day internal conference that introduces and reviews scientific and computational tools of broad usefulness to researchers across all Flatiron Institute centers. #science #computationalresearch
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We recently held our Flatiron Wide Autumn Meeting (FWAM), an annual two-day internal conference that introduces and reviews scientific and computational tools of broad usefulness to researchers across all Flatiron Institute centers. #science #computationalresearch
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Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science
Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open
Applications for Fellows-to-Faculty Awards Now Open on Simons Foundation
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October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science
There are just over two weeks to apply to our #FlatironCCB Flatiron Research Fellow postdoc positions! Deadline is 11/15: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/careers/?tab=job-openings¢er=ccb #science #biology
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October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
There are just over two weeks to apply to our #FlatironCCB Flatiron Research Fellow postdoc positions! Deadline is 11/15: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/careers/?tab=job-openings¢er=ccb #science #biology
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Pynapple v0.10 is out with major changes. Unified tuning curve function now returns an xarray object, plus new flexible template-matching decoding. Join us at the Flatiron workshop this February to learn Pynapple and other tools for neural data analysis from @flatironinstitute.org.
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Pynapple v0.10 is out with major changes. Unified tuning curve function now returns an xarray object, plus new flexible template-matching decoding. Join us at the Flatiron workshop this February to learn Pynapple and other tools for neural data analysis from @flatironinstitute.org.
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We've just finished some work on improving the sensitivity of Muon to the learning rate, and exploring a lot of design choices. If you want to see how we did this, follow me ....1/x
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09827
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09827
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We've just finished some work on improving the sensitivity of Muon to the learning rate, and exploring a lot of design choices. If you want to see how we did this, follow me ....1/x
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09827
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09827
#FlatironCCN data scientist Edoardo Balzani co-authored a new study that found mice with variants in autism-associated genes have difficulty flexibly updating their expectations: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mapping-mouse-brains-points-to-how-autism-can-affect-expectation-updating/ #science
Mapping Mouse Brains Points to How Autism Can Affect Expectation Updating
Mapping Mouse Brains Points to How Autism Can Affect Expectation Updating on Simons Foundation
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#FlatironCCN data scientist Edoardo Balzani co-authored a new study that found mice with variants in autism-associated genes have difficulty flexibly updating their expectations: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mapping-mouse-brains-points-to-how-autism-can-affect-expectation-updating/ #science
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I'm excited to share jaxion, a differentiable Python/JAX library for fuzzy dark matter (axions) + gas + stars, scalable on multiple GPUs
⭐️repo: github.com/JaxionProjec...
📚docs: jaxion.readthedocs.io
Feedback + collaborations welcome!
⭐️repo: github.com/JaxionProjec...
📚docs: jaxion.readthedocs.io
Feedback + collaborations welcome!
October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm excited to share jaxion, a differentiable Python/JAX library for fuzzy dark matter (axions) + gas + stars, scalable on multiple GPUs
⭐️repo: github.com/JaxionProjec...
📚docs: jaxion.readthedocs.io
Feedback + collaborations welcome!
⭐️repo: github.com/JaxionProjec...
📚docs: jaxion.readthedocs.io
Feedback + collaborations welcome!
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Fisher meets Feynman! 🤝
We use score matching and a trick from quantum field theory to make a product-of-experts family both expressive and efficient for variational inference.
To appear as a spotlight @ NeurIPS 2025.
#NeurIPS2025 (link below)
We use score matching and a trick from quantum field theory to make a product-of-experts family both expressive and efficient for variational inference.
To appear as a spotlight @ NeurIPS 2025.
#NeurIPS2025 (link below)
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Fisher meets Feynman! 🤝
We use score matching and a trick from quantum field theory to make a product-of-experts family both expressive and efficient for variational inference.
To appear as a spotlight @ NeurIPS 2025.
#NeurIPS2025 (link below)
We use score matching and a trick from quantum field theory to make a product-of-experts family both expressive and efficient for variational inference.
To appear as a spotlight @ NeurIPS 2025.
#NeurIPS2025 (link below)
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Thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a newly detected black hole merger is providing the clearest evidence yet of how black holes work: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/09/10/ringing-black-hole-confirms-einstein-and-hawkings-predictions/ #science #astrophysics
Ringing Black Hole Confirms Einstein and Hawking’s Predictions
Ringing Black Hole Confirms Einstein and Hawking’s Predictions on Simons Foundation
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October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a newly detected black hole merger is providing the clearest evidence yet of how black holes work: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/09/10/ringing-black-hole-confirms-einstein-and-hawkings-predictions/ #science #astrophysics