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Last year, we supported programs that advanced the frontiers of research in #math and basic #science around the world. Our 2024 annual report dives deep into a handful of these endeavors: https://t.co/Zaq4dUqFX9

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As Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) says, the program Lean is "one of the most important things happening to math right now—future generations may come to regard it as the Euclid’s Elements of our time."

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#ICM2026 will feature talks and lectures on exciting research across virtually every #math discipline, and will include a strong focus on AI's role in math. Learn more and register: https://t.co/lpucOD6Nk9

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New research into aging has implications for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: https://t.co/sBLTLu5LbO #science #aging #neuroscience

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Congratulations to Fellows-to-Faculty alum Abhilasha Joshi on being awarded a Murty Science Fellowship! Joshi’s lab at @ncbs_bangalore studies how cognitive representations of space interact with ongoing actions: https://t.co/g5iSP754La #science #neuroscience

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Concrete Cosmos, a Symbiosis short film created by @FlatironInst researcher Adrian Bayer and filmmaker Adonis Williams, reveals the surprising parallels between the structure of the deep universe and daily life on Earth. Watch full film: https://t.co/OHQi9sBzjl

#InfiniteSums #science #math #astrophysics

[Flatiron Institute @FlatironInst]

Today, #FlatironCCA celebrated the work of the 2026 CUNY Masters Graduates in Astrophysics! #science #astrophysics

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Researchers at the @FlatironInst were skeptical about a daunting quantum physics problem that was supposedly only solvable by quantum computers, so they set out to solve it on a classical computer. And thanks to mathematical structures called tensor networks, they did: https://t.co/cmxw4t7fD8

#science #physics

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Simons Foundation president David Spergel has been awarded an honorary degree from @GC_CUNY for his extraordinary achievements in #astrophysics, visionary leadership, and lasting impact through research, mentorship, and commitment to the public good. Congratulations, @DavidSpergel!

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Our Open Interval program enables trios of artists, scientists and arts organizations to collaborate deeply for several months around a shared scientific theme. Next year's theme will be "turbulence," and will open for applications in September 2026: https://t.co/RARSLAlLsX

#science #art #math

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Simons Society of Fellows Junior Fellow Kevin Hu discusses his research and playful approach to science: https://t.co/yOacnq0hiG #science #math

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Now accepting applications for our Synthetic Plant Biology program, which supports research that applies engineering principles and techniques to advance our understanding of how plants function. More details: https://t.co/yGs1MJacrt

#science #biology #funding #lifesciences

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Tetiana Parshakova from the @FlatironInst discusses her favorite mathematicians and one of the most beautiful discoveries in the field. #science #math

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On the largest observable scales, the universe looks nearly the same in every direction. A new paper from Simons Foundation president @DavidSpergel and colleagues proposes initial conditions for the beginning of our universe that could explain this cosmic puzzle: https://t.co/idzMctvfk9 #science #astrophysics

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New findings from the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain make important inroads into two perplexing areas of neuroscience: memory and the origins of creativity: https://t.co/7oFNh4fBIt

#science #neuroscience

[Flatiron Institute @FlatironInst]

Thanks to everyone who attended #FlatironCCA's successful COSMIC Development Workshop this week! #science #astrophysics

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Through our Open Interval program, artist Jiabao Li began collaborating with mathematician Fumiko Futamura. Now an #InfiniteSums math ambassador, Li discusses the importance of this collaboration and their new sculpture project in a recent interview: https://t.co/K1tHNEpJoI #art #math

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An enzyme produced in the liver during exercise helped repair brain blood vessels and improved the memory of aged mice, which could have implications for treating Alzheimer’s disease.

New from the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain: https://t.co/7Hdpdtd0Sz #science #neuroscience #aging

[Flatiron Institute @FlatironInst]

In a series of new observations, astronomers — including #FlatironCCA's Maximiliano Isi (@maxisi) — nearly doubled the number of black hole collisions ever identified: https://t.co/TxjaJKFfvH #science #astrophysics

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“This year, we really wanted to bring back the interdisciplinary nature of [INSAR].” – Christine Wu Nordahl.

By @DianaMKwon
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[Flatiron Institute @FlatironInst]

#FlatironCCQ quantum physicists and colleagues used tensor networks to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers: https://t.co/QjFug79DYM #science #physics