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Founded in 2014, the Simons Society of Fellows is a community of scholars that encourages intellectual interactions across disciplines and across research centers in the New York City area.
Senior Fellows are distinguished scientists based in New York City. Junior Fellows are outstanding young scientists who receive support from the foundation for three years to conduct independent research at an institution of higher learning in New York City, with no teaching obligations.
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COVID-19 is "the perfect storm for the diffusion of false rumor and fake news," and analysts are tracking the misinformation in hopes of curbing its spread.
Despite physical isolation, MIT mathematicians in the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory and Computation have built a one-stop portal to online talks around the world.
The institute's various open-source algorithms to analyze neural signals are discussed, including SpikeForest, which is described in a May 19 paper published in eLife.
Two Northeastern University journalists describe how the political right seized on a preprint, criticized by many scientists as flawed, that claimed COVID-19 wasn't that deadly.
