luke brandt

in financial services, but main interest is science (physics)

[AAAS Annual Meeting @AAASmeetings]

Happening now: Join H. Thorp for the plenary discussion on strengthening collaborations across science, policy, & communication to bring scientific expertise into public discourse.
Feb 15 | 5:15 – 6:30 PM📍 Plenary Room, Hynes Convention Center #AAASmtg
https://t.co/DiKpuNzgcX

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Today is #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience and we are celebrating by sharing some of the brilliant research projects being undertaken by girls in schools, and the amazing scientists supporting them, through the Royal Society #PartnershipGrants scheme.

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Nominations for the Royal Society's medals and awards are still open! With a closing date of 21 February, there's still time to make your nomination to recognise a team or individual for their outstanding contributions to science. #RSMedals https://t.co/B1dBgtqeWz

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Can’t believe they doxxed another @DOGE team member …

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

The #PartnershipGrants scheme is now open to applicants from UK schools and colleges. Secure up to £3000 of funding to run a STEM-based project in partnership with a STEM professional.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

It was so easy. All the Left had to do was stand up for the women in their lives and they couldn't even do that.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

@jk_rowling This is my husband @DanielKotzin sporting his @xx_xyathletics tees.

Real men support real women.

They also do the dishes.

Go Neil! And thanks for the support!

[luke brandt @xx89]

This preposterous and anti-scientific 'brain infection', left unchecked for a generation to mutate and evolve, has finally many many opponents who see the truth ...

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

My husband Neil (marathon and endurance runner) just told me he's bought four T shirts. In years to come, a great question to ask self-proclaimed liberal men will be, 'which side were you on - women's rights, or men's demands?'

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstad ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

NEWS: DeepSeek just dropped ANOTHER open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.

It's multimodal (can generate images) and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across GenEval and DPG-Bench benchmarks.

This comes on top of all the R1 hype. The 🐋 is cookin'

[luke brandt @xx89]

Comparative benchmarks please ..

[WIRED @WIRED]

When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene. https://t.co/VFN2HzqzHO

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army.

1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over.
Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

After the 2020 election, Trump came extremely close to pardoning Edward Snowden. It was Mike Pompeo and GOP Senators who threatened he'd be convicted in the Senate for Jan 6 if he did. He said after he came very close.

He now has a chance to fix that:

https://t.co/DiSn1bhUKW

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Despite what a flagrantly deranged conspiracy theory it was (and was exposed as being), it wasn't harmless. As I always said, its greatest sin wasn't that it was a journalistic fraud, but a US Security State ploy.

This is what it did -- and still does:

https://t.co/Fv7W3Hyfrj

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

The human brain has a remarkable ability to monitor and evaluate its own thinking, known as metacognition. Join Professor Stephen Fleming for this free lecture on 23 January 2025 as he explores metacognition and his team's work to discover the building blocks of this remarkable ability: https://t.co/mtSAdaMwdR

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Missing the stickman. Please add it to the chart.

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

Does the UK need a First Amendment?

I recently debated the question in London at @acadofideas.

My argument? Legal protections for free speech are important, but they are not enough.

My evidence? The history of the First Amendment.

[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk]

Over 1 million people in the UK are living with a neurodegenerative disease.

We're backing scientists @dundeeuni with £30 million in funding to continue their vital research into new, innovative treatments to transform patients' lives.

[Jure Atanackov @JAtanackov]

A very brief (slightly) political comment from me: I am seeing an exodus of scientists from X (again). I don't understand this. Science is a basis of society, it needs to be in the society. And if it really is a fight (??), it is here, not in a safe echo chamber. Be like @spann