Congratulations to Dr Chiara Mingarelli -- a Flatiron CCA alum now thriving at Yale. physics.yale.edu/news/chiara-mi…

nature.com/articles/d4158…

The early universe was not bananas … it was remarkably simple. You just have to look further back in time nytimes.com/2024/01/05/sci…

Simons foundation is investing in empire AI and supporting a new program at CUNY governor.ny.gov/news/governor-…

Mark your calendar for April 8 and be in the Path of Totality - The total eclipse of the sun inthepathoftotality.org

JWSTs discovery of bright high redshift galaxies led some astronomers to doubt cosmological model. This assessment was based on naively applying our understanding of star formation in the nearby universe to the observations. More sophisticated approach: simonsfoundation.org/2023/10/05/bur…

Simons foundation Simons Foundation proudly supports this program

A huge congratulations to Simons Society of Fellows junior fellow Oliver Philcox on winning the 2023 New Horizons Prize in Physics from Breakthrough! The honor recognizes early-career researchers who have substantially impacted their field. Read more here: simonsfoundation.org/2023/09/14/sim…

Since so many have asked, here’s my hot take on the spherules Loeb found and the manuscript he’s loudly rushed to the world. These are pretty typical cosmic spherules. Had he done the *obvious*--a control sample 100 km away from the meteor--he’d have found the same thing. 1/20

.National Academy of Sciences recently teamed up with Simons Foundation and UCU to provide early-career Ukrainian researchers with an opportunity to focus on career development and networking at a weeklong summer institute on data science and applications.

Read: ow.ly/UOkw50PF0BZ

Simons Foundation is proud to be a partner in the effort to support Ukrainian science. nsf.gov/od/oise/IntlCo…

A peek into the Annual Report: Over the last 12 years, the BEAM program has served over 1,500 students. Read more about this wonderful (@ScienceSandbox supported) program here: annualreports.simonsfoundation.org/2022/beam-is-b…

A terrible loss to the cosmology community

There are suspected or alleged UFO “events that we do not understand. But these events tend to be characterized by poor quality and limited data” David Spergel
scientificamerican.com/article/bad-da…

Congratulations ⁦Miles Cranmer⁩

Congratulations to our 2023 grads! We are incredibly proud of our largest class yet and we are so excited to see all you accomplish!

Faculty-level: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/simonsfoundati…
PhD student: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/simonsfoundati…
(need DL experience)

Nominally 1-year positions.

Flatiron's cluster tops the 'Green 500' top500.org/lists/green500… with 18x8 H100 GPUs + more, a chunk of which we will use for training this giant model.

Job alert! 🚨

We are building a *Foundation Model for Science*. Simons Foundation + Flatiron CCA are supporting PhD internships + faculty sabbaticals!

w/ Shirley Ho Kyunghyun Cho Tim Dettmers Ruben Ohana ++

Interested in building 'ScienceGPT' with us? Please apply! (links in 2nd tweet)

NASA Provides Coverage of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Meeting | NASA nasa.gov/press-release/…

Excited that NSF and Simons Foundation are working together to support Simons Observatory exciting new expansion. new.nsf.gov/news/detecting…