Man, I hadn't thought about this as a consequence of LLM use. The first "theory of everything" I ever received was in grad school and I suspect it was probably because I was early in the alphabet at MIT. That one didn't strike me as reflecting any particularly disordered thinking... <1/n> 🧵

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Couldn't be more proud of this collab! Watch out for Quantum Quest in Portuguese, Gujarati, and Hindi 🐈‍⬛

Last week I witnessed the birth of a new animation phenomenon: Quantum Quest! Born out of a collab between @aspects-quantum.bsky.social @khalak.bsky.social @saulovmo.bsky.social and our talented friends at Cassette Vision — watch here! cassette.ie/quantum

Very happy to see our latest work out in PRL doi.org/10.1103/5rtj... and highlighted by both @apsphysics.bsky.social Physics and @physicsworld.bsky.social Small thread below 🧵⬇️

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

Come on @natureportfolio.nature.com , get your 💩 together please

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

No they do not. I'll try to write something up in the next few days....

London people! Doing a thing tonight: Quantum art, music, games and chats at @scigallerylon.bsky.social Free entry (but registration essential) ⚛️ london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...

Quantum networks might one day enable more secure options for communication and distributed computation and are therefore currently a hot research topic, one which presents many challenges: One is the on-demand distribution of quantum systems that feature genuine multipartite entanglement (GME). 1/8

Congratulations to @khalak.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper 🥳 in collaboration with @saulovmo.bsky.social and our @aspects-quantum.bsky.social colleagues in Murcia arxiv.org/abs/2510.14926

Superconducting circuits win the Physics Nobel Prize! Congrats to Clarke, Devoret and Martinis, and everyone else involved in these discoveries 👏 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

At PW headquarters, we're all waiting with bated breath for this morning's physics #NobelPrize. If you're doing the same, why not pass the time by reading/arguing with our editor @matindurrani.bsky.social's picks of the 5 most notable physics Nobels this century? physicsworld.com/a/the-top-fi... 🧪⚛️

When you realize the whole yearly budget for Quantum journal is equal to 8 Nature APCs - and they don't even wreck your paper in proof stage because...there is none

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Awesome to have Kavan Modi visit us at King’s and talk about his work characterising correlated errors in quantum computers, using Quantum Process Tensor Tomography 🤩

The govt published its strategy to revitalise local communities last week There is a heavy focus on directing funding to high streets and community spaces, which is part of the reason for declining "pride in place" But it seems misguided for a few reasons Short thread www.gov.uk/government/p...

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...

Want some free career advice? #AcademicChatter

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I've complained a couple times about the lack of physics community here but not done much about it! New commitment: I'll post one interesting arXiv paper a day until things are better. (To the folks who follow me for non-physics science policy, don't worry; plenty more of that reporting to come.)

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Another great collab with our friends in Okinawa, my brilliant student Sindre Brattegard’s second paper is finally out! arxiv.org/abs/2508.20050 Building on his last paper, here we showed that you can use impurities as thermometers for an ultracold gas, even when the impurities are moving around!

🔍 How uncertain can quantum systems be? Saulo Moreira shares work developing new bounds that show how quantum effects—like coherence and correlations—can break classical limits on uncertainty. This helps us better understand how quantum systems behave when measured.

Emanuel Schwarzhans discusses how entropy production powers detection—and limits it. Efficiency, jitter, dead time, dark counts: all tied to thermodynamic cost.

What defines a clock in quantum mechanics? Paul Erker explores the minimal ingredients for timekeeping in the quantum regime, introducing autonomous quantum clocks and the thermodynamic trade-offs that constrain their precision. A deep dive into time, entropy, and the limits of quantum tech.

ASPECTS' Javier Prior presents his team's work looking at how strong coupling reshapes heat flow in open quantum systems—exploring non-Markovian effects, coherence-driven fluctuations & new equilibrium states.

🕰️ What’s the real cost of reading time? ASPECTS experiment reveals that the measurement of quantum ticks—not their generation—is the dominant source of entropy in quantum timekeeping. Far from wasteful, this quantum-to-classical transition boosts precision. #FLQT2025

Simon Sundelin kicks off our ASPECTS day at the FLQT conference. Learn more here: www.aspects-quantum.com/flqt2025

So many great talks at Fundamental Limits of Quantum Technologies already, and many more yet to come! Here’s Shane Dooley of DIAS telling us about metrology using many-body quantum systems 🤩 www.aspects-quantum.com/flqt2025 @aspects-quantum.bsky.social

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

Fresh on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2508.16375 By casting detectors as autonomous thermal machines, we uncover the link between entropy production and the detector’s efficiency, timing jitter, dead time and dark counts. Outstanding work by Manu Schwarzhans with my @aspects-quantum.bsky.social friends ❤️

I imagine Reform’s new policy will be forced deportation of vicars in response to this? Protect our women etc www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'll be giving a talk at FLQT next week! www.aspects-quantum.com/flqt2025 Anyone else going?

THREAD: Resurgence or: How do physicists keep getting away with ignoring infinitely big things? I wrote about this back when everyone was still on twitter. Someone asked me a question and I think it's an excellent occasion to repost the thread. 1/20

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

I very much appreciate a well organised metro map (Singapore MRT)

Very happy to see this theory-experiment collab published as a Letter in PRR journals.aps.org/prresearch/a... Thermodynamic control techniques used to perform optimal work extraction in a quantum dot, from the extremes of slow to fast driving! 🏎️⬅️🐢 💪

Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews

Please share to spread the word: There is an opportunity for a PhD studentship on the postquantum theory of gravity, or experimental tests of the quantum nature of spacetime. Deadline for UK students is Jan 31, while internationals should email today. Details at www.ucl.ac.uk/oppenheim/it... ⚛️ 🧪