American Academy of Arts & Sciences

New! Academy member announcement. Dedicated to honoring excellence and advancing the common good, from 1780 to today. amacad.org/news/new-membe…

My “Human Language Understanding & Reasoning” in @americanacad’s Dædalus is a short, readable intro to language understanding and generation by computers (“artificial intelligence”). Thousands have read it in the last 3 months … so maybe you should too? direct.mit.edu/daed/article/1…

Next week, join Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, Susan Taylor, Ph.D., as she delivers opening remarks for @kprather88's @americanacad conversation on "Health and Our Oceans" at the Scripps Seaside Forum. 🌊🩺 Register ➡️ tinyurl.com/zp8ha93d

Congratulations to Daron Acemoglu #Nobel #economist ⁦@MIT⁩ and Academy member. And thank you ⁦@DAcemogluMIT⁩ for contributing answers to the question “how can we reimagine the American economy?” amacad.org/news/daron-ace…

Essays on “The Future of Free Speech” from a variety of viewpoints now online and free. All from the new issue of our journal Daedalus. What does it take to live in a society that embraces free and open discourse and disagreement? Read on Amacad.org/daedalus/futur…

Interested in a bipartisan recommendation and report in favor of 18-year terms for #SCOTUS? Rationale and implementation here: Amacad.org/ourcommonpurpo…

"We really need to boost funding [for @AmeriCorps] to ensure that we don’t lose [service positions]... that's something we can do." Rep. @DorisMatsui on the need for increased funding for #NationalService and the history of bipartisan support for AmeriCorps. #Stand4Service

@americanacad The National Humanities Center welcomes applications for 2025-26 residential fellowships. The deadline to apply is October 3, 2024. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity. bit.ly/nhc-scholarly-…

Now online! The new issue of the Academy’s journal — Advances & Challenges in International Higher Education. Open access essays by university founders, classroom innovators, and advocates. Successes. Difficulties. Lessons learned. #highered amacad.org/Daedalus

Saving local news helps strengthen democracy. Read policy suggestions for helping the media industry that draw on Academy work to reimagine the economy and reinvent democracy. OpEd in ⁦@TheHillOpinion⁩ from @JamesFallows thehill.com/opinion/466193…

Announcement! The next president of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences is scholar and higher education leader Laurie Patton. amacad.org/news/academy-p…

Congratulations to two of our Simons Fellows in Math & Physics, Hee Oh (@Yale) and Glennys Farrar (@nyuniversity), on being elected members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Read more here: amacad.org/news/2024-memb… @americanacad #research

Explore the CORE Score online. For counties across America, you can see measures of economic security, economic opportunity, health, and political voice: corescore.us

This essay in ⁦@WSJ⁩ features the CORE Score — an innovative measure developed by ⁦@americanacad⁩’s Commission on Reimagining Our Economy. Instead of the GDP or the stock market, this is a measure of the economic well-being of Americans: wsj.com/economy/gdp-an…

I didn’t share this because I was waiting for @americanacad to realize their mistake. I am astonished and humbled by this enormous honor. Candida Moss elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/cand… via @unibirmingham @isawnyu @littlebrown

Congratulations to #CLSProf @ProfEricTalley on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. He joins more than a dozen other Columbia Law professors who are members of @AmericanAcad. bit.ly/3UvbaPU

I am incredibly honored and grateful to be elected to the @americanacad. This could not have happened without the amazing creativity and hard work of past and present lab members and the support and mentorship of many colleagues within and outside @DukeU medschool.duke.edu/news/eroglu-el…

💐Congratulations to @umichStoneCID director @SashaKillewald, a @UM_PSC alumna and affiliate who brings our trainees the gift of her mentorship-- on her 2024 election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! @americanacad @umisr #ISRNextGeneration @UMSociology

Prof. Mitu Gulati has been elected to the @americanacad, joining a storied institution that also announced on Wednesday the memberships of George Clooney, Tim Cook and Jhumpa Lahiri. law.virginia.edu/news/202404/pr…