MITCommsVP@MITCommsVP

The official Twitter account of the @MIT Vice President for Communications. The position is currently held by Alfred Ironside.

Joined August 2022
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Progress needs principles and innovation needs accountability. In a Boston Globe opinion essay, MIT Pres. Emeritus L. Rafael Reif calls for a concise, globally shared moral floor for AI which begins with a simple question: What lines must never be crossed? bostonglobe.com/2026/09/02/o…

AI needs a Ten Commandments - The Boston Globe

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly autonomous, we need a simple set of rules that everyone — not just technologists and lawyers — can understand.

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Curiosity compounds over time. 250 years of discovery. Tomorrow's innovations will all start with someone asking, "what if?" Science isn't distant. It's woven into how we live. And it begins with a question. #CuriosityOnAMission
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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For 250 years, discovery, courage, and tenacity have driven this country forward and will continue to. From medicine to infrastructure to breakthroughs we can't yet imagine, science touches every part of daily life because someone, somewhere followed their curiosity. What are you curious about?  #CuriosityOnAMission curiositymission.org/
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Curiosity lights the trail to discovery. At MIT, people are pursuing big questions every day. And they’re finding their way to big breakthroughs.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
@MIT
May 14
Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission
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In the 1950s, a superpower competition spurred our country to invest billions in science and become the world’s leader in scientific exploration. Today it’s gutting research. This piece argues we must stop the “duck & cover” and love American science leadership again.
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself (Published 2025)

As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.

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Helpful quick summary of what’s at stake for American scientific leadership if government has its way. insidehighered.com/opinion/v…

Is the Partnership for American Innovation Gone? (opinion)

Robert A. Brown warns that the U.S. risks an innovation winter.

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Terrific analysis by MIT’s most recent past president about the importance of investing in science, especially in a time of global competition for tech leadership. foreignaffairs.com/united-st…

America’s Coming Brain Drain

Trump’s war on universities could kill U.S. innovation.

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One of the best short summaries I’ve seen of what’s at stake for America in the battle for the future of higher ed. piped.video/0Qk4FBS73Ts?si=qEt2…

Fareed’s Take: Trump is gutting what made American science great

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” shares his take...

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Fantastic news! MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have won the Nobel Prize in economics, for “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. Congratulations! They share the prize with James Robinson of the University of Chicago.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
14 Oct 2024
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” #NobelPrize
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Congratulations to all three professors for their commitment to rigorous, long-term research that demonstrates the value of institutions that put people first.
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At this hour public protests continue on and around Massachusetts Avenue. MIT and Cambridge police officers are present with additional support from other local law enforcement. (1/2)
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Despite misinformation circulating online, as of 5:00 PM, there have been no arrests made by MIT Police on campus today. (2/2)
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Another example of MIT delivering on climate: Very cool advancements at the “nanoscale” (a billionth of a meter) could soon result in far more energy-efficient computer processors. mitsha.re/UA4h50QHRE3
Rendering shows several layers, including a metallic block on bottom. Above this block are lattices of layered atoms. Above these lattices, a twist of energy has a two-sided arrow, with the top part emphasized.

ALT Rendering shows several layers, including a metallic block on bottom. Above this block are lattices of layered atoms. Above these lattices, a twist of energy has a two-sided arrow, with the top part emphasized.
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A battery cathode based on organic materials? Oh yes we did … mitsha.re/aOas50Qt9RI
A molecular lattice is on the right, and glowing pink spheres on the left. An arrow leads pink spheres to the lattice.

ALT A molecular lattice is on the right, and glowing pink spheres on the left. An arrow leads pink spheres to the lattice.
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We have set the record straight on this repeatedly in the past.
Mike Pompeo
@mikepompeo
11 Dec 2023
As secretary of state, MIT canceled my campus speech about the CCP because it “risked offending” Chinese students. Now these schools justify rampant antisemitism because of a "commitment" to free speech?
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MITCommsVP@MITCommsVP
27 Jan 2023
1/ Setting the record straight: Pre-vaccine in 2020, when Sec. Pompeo's staff inquired about a speech at MIT, we could not accept to host because of our then policies on Covid – no guests and no gatherings greater than 10 people.
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Excellent news! MIT’s Moungi Bawendi has won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” Congratulations to Prof. Bawendi for this profound honor. 👏
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
4 Oct 2023
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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This moment was years in the making, and it's a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone at MIT and elsewhere who contributed to its realization. #ToBennuAndBack mitsha.re/PCbe50PQh8r

3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth

MIT Professor Richard Binzel describes how asteroid dirt and dust delivered by OSIRIS-Rex, with help from MIT students and the REXIS instrument, may reveal clues to the solar system’s origins.

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Congratulations to James Fujimoto ’79, SM ’81, PhD ’84; Eric Swanson SM ’84; and David Huang PhD ’93 for this incredible achievement! mitsha.re/sS5L50PPiSi

James Fujimoto, Eric Swanson, and David Huang win Lasker Award

MIT Professor James Fujimoto and MIT affiliates David Huang and Eric Swanson have won the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for groundbreaking work on optical coherence tomography...

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I’m looking forward to it!
MITSolve@SolveMIT
15 Sep 2023
We're three days away! Register for Solve Challenge Finals 2023 livestream today tinyurl.com/6r9je8mr @CCDHate President, @Imi_Ahmed @MIT VP Communications, Alfred Ironside Impact Artist, @MarcoSantiniArt Secretary-General @CIVICUS, @LysaJohnSA
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