SpaceX engineers have spent years preparing and months testing for the booster catch attempt on Flight 5, with technicians pouring tens of thousands of hours into building the infrastructure to maximize our chances for success

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, along with collaborators, have created a beautiful and insightful bridge between physics and AI. They invented neural networks that were not only inspired by the brain, but also by central notions in physics such as energy, temperature, system

John Hopfield has a nice article in the annual reviews of condensed matter physics. It starts off with a discussion of what physics is, which I think is totally on point.

This cathegory was there since the 90s. During times CS regarded neural nets as computationally infeasible, hundreds of physicist worked on them. When large datasets and GPUs came, it started working. Boundaries of fields are ill-defined and embracing this leads to progress!!

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¡Ya tenemos finalistas del CMM IMI2024! De: UAM Autónoma Madrid Facultad de Ciencias Complutense Matemáticas UCM Facultad Físicas UCM @danitslz Mr Planck Universidad Oviedo cienciasuniovi USC Fac. Matemáticas Facultade de Física Inácio Suárez Camiña ¡ENHORABUENA! +info: blogs.mat.ucm.es/cmm

Proud moment for our research group! Both David G. Calatayud and Paula Magrinya shared their work through individual talks at the 2nd Soft Matter Day conference. Thrilled to see our team's work contributing to the field of soft matter science!

America is a nation of builders Soon, you will be free to build

Now looking on the bright side. For example, maybe Elon Musk and co. can replace heads of US science agencies, who have wasted enormous sums and manpower on divisive, dysfunctional & misplaced diversity initiatives, to return nation’s focus to supporting science and innovation

Mars 2026 🚀 🇺🇸

Presentación finalistas CMM-IMI UAM Autónoma Madrid Facultad de Ciencias David G. Calatayud Complutense Matemáticas UCM Facultad Físicas UCM Dani Mr Planck Universidad Oviedo cienciasuniovi USC Fac. Matemáticas Facultade de Física Inácio Suárez Camiña +:blogs.mat.ucm.es/cmm youtu.be/dkxQj-BtTTA

Entrega de premios del CMM-IMI 2024 Magia, Cálculo mental y emoción con los premios Matemáticas UCM Facultad Físicas UCM @danitslz Mr Planck Universidad Oviedo cienciasuniovi USC Fac. Matemáticas Facultade de Física Inácio Suárez Camiña David G. Calatayud Vídeo:youtube.com/watch?v=ofZFLf… Premios👇

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

Major academic publishers have profit margins like the some of the most profitable major tech companies.

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

“No one can be productive in a climate like this—it is the end of the US scientific and technical dominance in the world—we will not recover from this in a decade,”

The Atlantic (The Atlantic) has a piece this week by Marc Novicoff (Marc Novicoff) that very kindly discusses my work on fertility: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… I’ve shared many related ideas here on X (please do check past posts), but the best summary is probably my EBRD

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

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