Award -Winning Theoretical Physicist | @Brown_Physics Prof.| Science Advisor for @Disney @WrinkleinTime (2018) | Experimental Jazz Musician | @NatGeo Explorer
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15 Dec 2019
What an honor to be in the presence of a #champion of #scientific and #mathematical #innovation as well as becoming an #honorary member of the @NSBPInc - #JimSimons @SimonsFdn 🙌🏾
"If you do good science, you never know where it may lead." - Jim Simons (@SimonsFdn); pictured with Dr. Stephon Alexander (@stephstem), incoming president of National Society of Black Physicists (@NSBPInc), where Simons was inducted as an honorary member. #NSBP2019
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18 Aug 2025
Our new Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation will employ and develop powerful tools from #physics, #math, computer science and theoretical #neuroscience to understand how large neural networks learn, compute, scale, reason and imagine: simonsfoundation.org/2025/08…
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7 Mar 2025
To all my family, friends, and followers—I’ve started a new Twitter page for something very dear to my heart: Sound Science, a new company bridging STEM & music. This journey means so much to me—please follow and be part of it! 💙🚀 #SoundPlusScience #NewBeginnings
7 Mar 2025
🎶🔬 Sound Science, founded by @stephstem—a theoretical physicist & jazz musician—is an after-school program empowering NYC youth by bridging STEM & music. Backed by Science, Society & Culture at @SimonsFdn, SPS opens new career pathways in science & tech! 🚀🎷 #SoundPlusScience
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Fantastic piece about the @SimonsObs in the @nytimes! (Should be unlocked) @SimonsFdn Supported!
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20 May 2024
I'm excited to be presenting the physics colloquium at @BrownUniversity this week! Thanks to @stephstem & co. for the invitation!
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24 Apr 2024
Join the cosmic groove with physicist @stephstem ! From jazz-inspired physics to fearless theories about the universe, he's taking science to new heights. 🎶✨ @briankeating
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7 Apr 2024
Tonight: Live from Austin, streaming at 7PM EST, Join us for an unforgettable journey Dive into the magic of eclipses, gravity, black holes, Moon's formation, & the Sun's chemistry through poetry! 🌌! #EclipseEvent #ScienceMeetsPoetry @brainpicker
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7 Apr 2024
Tonight! Come celebrate the wonder of eclipses with the science of gravity and relativity, tides and black holes, the formation of the Moon and the chemistry of the Sun, conjured up in poetry by an amazing cast – live from Austin, streaming at 7PM EST themarginalian.org/the-unive…
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12 Jul 2023
A pioneering academic and professor at @Brown_Physics, Dr. Stephon Alexander @stephstem explores interconnections between music, physics, mathematics, and technology. Read his acceptance speech for the 2023 Isaac Asimov Science award. thehumanist.com/magazine/sum…
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24 Jun 2023
And, for a brief moment, no one had been told what to think, feel or chant.
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17 Jun 2023
Honored to play and dialogue with jazz legend Donald Harrison @donharmusi about our quantum improvisation collaboration kcur.org/arts-life/2023-06-1…
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4 Jun 2023
Just wrapped up an amazing 3-day experience engaging with the students of BART Public Charter School, the only rural charter in the US. 🌾📚 Such a wonderful opportunity to connect with these bright minds! #Education #RuralCharter #Inspired #StudentsFirst
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2 Jun 2023
in this new video , I team up with my former Phd advisor Robert Brandenberger and other cosmology to explain:
The S8 Tension: A New Crisis in Cosmology? youtu.be/3OxAb9ho3UE via @YouTube
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10 Mar 2023
Paper 📜 day with @stephstem, Marc Kamionkowski, and @oliver_philcox! arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04815.pdf
We have found that parity violation can be strongly imprinted in galaxies (and also the cosmic microwave background) through gravitational interactions in the early Universe. (1/n)
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27 Feb 2023
The Beyond Annual Lecture is this week, featuring @stephstem with "A Hip Hopper's Guide to the Universe", really thrilled Stephon is visiting for this lecture. Join us in person if you are @ASU to find out what hip hop and physics have in common! Registration link below 👇
2 Feb 2023
Don't miss our premier lecture of the year - "A Hip Hopper's Guide to the Universe" with @stephstem on March 2! He will take you on his journey on the hidden connections between Music and the Cosmos, through the lens of Hip Hop and Jazz. Register at links.asu.edu/Beyond2023
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17 Feb 2023
Never been more excited to be a cosmologist! Just wait till you see what’s coming next!
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17 Feb 2023
Totally surreal that later this year this island child 🇹🇹will join @Princeton’s faculty in the department of astrophysical sciences @PU_Astro! Truly grateful for exceptional supporters♥️and excited for this next step🤩!
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14 Feb 2023
Big congratulations to Dr. (and now Professor) Alex Amon @astroalexamon , for being the first Trinidadian to become a professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University. As a fellow Trini-American, I am overjoyed and proud! Alex, your hard work ingenuity and grit has paid off!
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11 Feb 2023
what a fantastic group of brilliant physics grad student . I had a great time at @LSU @LSUphysastro and @LIGO . Next to me is another Trini-American physicist!
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8 Feb 2023
currently visiting the @LIGO gravitational wave observatory ! Here to talk about gravitational wave parity violation . @brainpicker @briankeating @expressupdates
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