1/4 How do you escape the "parallel universe of fake papers?" @nicolakimjones.bsky.social spoke with Ilka Agricola, chair of the IMU's committee on publishing and a physicist and mathematician at the University of Marburg, in Germany. Full story: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/281...

Julian Barbour’s masterclass Complexity in the Cosmos is on QAcademy. It's still free, for a limited time. qacademy.fqxi.org/offers/fkEBq...

Everything you see is complexity. But almost nobody explains what that actually means. Julian Barbour does. His new FQxI masterclass “Complexity in the Universe” is out now: qacademy.fqxi.org/offers/fkEBq... Limited-time offer. Free access for three weeks. Offer ends 17th December 2025.

How to get a Nobel Prize in Physics, according to Hassan Subhi.

Julian Barbour thinks something is wrong with how we teach dynamics. His new masterclass "Complexity in the Cosmos" is FREE for a limited time on QAcademy: qacademy.fqxi.org/offers/fkEBq... Limited-time offer. Free access for three weeks. Offer ends 17th December 2025.

Join Julian’s new three-part FQxI masterclass, “Complexity in the Cosmos”, on QAcademy – where he radically rethinks gravity, the Big Bang and time. Limited-time offer. Free access for three weeks. Offer ends 17th December 2025. GET FREE ACCESS: qacademy.fqxi.org/offers/fkEBq...

After 50+ years studying consciousness, Robert Lawrence Kuhn discovered something strange: The more we learn, the MORE theories we create. Not fewer. FQxI Article: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165289/... New Scientist Article: www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

The science journals Critical Care Medicine and Biology Open and the science platform Research Hub have been testing how paying reviewers affects the science publishing process. Reporter Geoff Marsh found out more. Full podcast: qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/125

Two free quantum music concerts in Oxford with Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and @coecke.bsky.social, as part of the “What Quantum?” centenary events. Admittance is free, but spaces are limited. More information: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165314/...

We spoke to Hassan recently at @perimeterinstitute.ca, where he's working with @nafshordi.bsky.social to detect quantum echoes in #GravitationalWaves as a way to prove #QuantumGravity.

100 Years of Quantum ran at Perimeter Institute, Oct 20–24, 2025. It marked the centenary of modern quantum theory and linked history, philosophy and physics. Co-organizer Doreen Fraser (UWaterloo) tells us more. #IYQ2025 #100YearsOfQuantum @perimeterinstitute.ca

We are seeking a Program Coordinator to provide project-specific administrative management and support for the Foundational Answers project, along with other administrative duties as needed Remote Full-time ~$55,000 – $72,000 USD per year fqxi.org/jobs-program...

Looking for a postdoc in foundations of physics/cosmology/science? Come work with us at @fqxi.org on the Foundational Answers project fqxi.org/jobs-postdoc...

This Halloween special edition of the FQxI podcast features Bernard Carr, who discusses primordial black holes, the notorious 1970s Enfield poltergeist case that Carr investigated, and more! Listen to Part 1: qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/126...

“The wave function is not a mere quantum hypothesis, it’s the stuff of the universe,” Says Alyssa Ney. Congrats to Alyssa Ney on the APS Patrick Suppes Prize for The World in the Wave Function!

Postdoctoral Research Positions in the Foundations of physics. fqxi.org/jobs-postdoctoral-research-associate/ We're looking for postdocs to work on the "Foundational Answers" program. Work with some brilliant, friendly people on a fun and exciting research project.

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

A few years ago, FQxI funded Adam Brown for Complexity, Black Holes, and Observers. The aim was to show that maybe the real barrier in the black-hole information puzzle is computational, not a breakdown of physics.

FQxI's Leonard Susskind won the the "Galileo Galilei Medal" award. The prize is awarded once every two years to scientists who have massively advanced research in theoretical physics. Congrats Leonard! READ MORE: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165311/... IMAGE 🔗 Lumidek

Dark matter ≠ dark energy. Dark matter is an unseen mass we infer from gravity; dark energy labels an expansion that seems to speed up. In this clip from FQxI's latest podcast, Niayesh Afshordi talks about why the evidence behind each is different and why the story’s still being told.

*deep sigh* Again, I have an English degree and have contributed rather extensively to the British economy, including writing a show that pumped £10 million into Wales. But the stupidity is the point here, of course.

This is a good game. I have an English degree and boosted a major publishing house’s share price, and saved a high street retail chain from closure. If a Mickey Mouse degree lets you create actual Mickey fucking Mouse, it’s probably easily as good “for the economy” as business studies.

In swamps and marshes, people occasionally see mysterious blue-tinged flashes of light above water, which have commonly been associated with ghosts or spirits. Now physicists may have finally worked out what causes them.

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. IMAGE CREDIT: ©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Mike Wright, who since the early 70’s has been recording scientific talks, well before anyone was doing anything like that, resulting in 100,000 hours of recordings. While a substantial portion is now digitised, some work still needs doing to reach the finishing line. buff.ly/bTScLaK

FQxI and the Paradox Science Institute supported the recent school in quantum biology in Paraty, Brazil. FQxI's $53,000 essay competition on the topic of quantum biology asks: How Quantum is Life? Enter before 29 October 2025 for your chance to win! NEWS: qspace.fqxi.org/news/165309/...

(1/5) The Black Spatula project is just starting out, with a community of contributors all exploring different ways that AI might be brought to bear on error checking. "It's still in the experimental phase, with multiple volunteers collaborating to try out different approaches," says Steve Newman.

Johann du Buisson, Jannik Ehrich, mleighton.bsky.social, davidasivak.bsky.social, and John Bechhoefer introduce a one-coordinate test that infers heat flow to flag “demonic” operation. In kinesin simulations tuned to experiments, the motor grows more demon-like as active fluctuations rise.

📢 Good news: We’ve extended the deadline for FQxI’s How Quantum is Life? essay competition. You now have until October 29, 2025 to submit your entry. Remember, there's a $53,000 prize pot up for grabs! All information here qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

FQxI is seeking an Academic Managing Editor for a new project, the Foundational Review Series. Remote (Global applicants welcome) Full-Time (will consider alternative working arrangements for the ideal candidate) ~$70,000 – $100,000 based on experience fqxi.org/academic-man...

Sara Walker and Paul Davies on the physics of life. Our $53,000 quantum biology essay contest asks: How Quantum is Life? qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

The evidence is building that life itself is quantum mechanical. Enter FQxI's $53,000 Essay Competition: How Quantum is Life? DEADLINE: 29 September, 2025 qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

The "Living Reviews" concept featured by the FQxI — Started as unique #OpenAccess journals 20+ years ago at the @maxplanck.de and now published by @springernature.com. Thanks to its authors and editors, Living Reviews are used hundreds of thousands times each year by researchers and students!

(Thread) In quantum mechanics, a system can be in two states at once, until someone looks. But what happens if there’s another “someone” — an observer inside the system. The outer and inner observers will have contradictory views of the situation. @georgemusser.com — qspace.fqxi.org/articles/266...

Enhanced versions of David Tong's lecture notes are being released as books by Cambridge University Press, with the first four now on sale, covering Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, and Fluid Mechanics.

Back in 2015, Sylvia Wenmackers won FQxI's Trick or Truth competition with 'Children of the Cosmos'. PAST WINNERS: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

SWIPE ➡️ Living Reviews: The Wikipedia of Science Full article: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/279... #Science #Metascience #Articles #PeerReview

Neuroscientists are testing the idea that what we see when we perceive the world is ultimately an internal projection. FULL ARTICLE: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/258...

In a recent Substack post, FQxI's Jonathan Oppenheim discusses how far #LLMS have progressed. @postquantum.bsky.social says "their answers often look very convincing on the surface until you go through them more carefully". DISCUSS: forums.fqxi.org/d/4283-how-g...

Catalina Curceanu explains electron tunneling and smell at XPANSE. Some researchers think receptors might use this quantum effect. The idea is still being tested. We'd love to hear your ideas! FQxI’s $53,000 Essay Competiton on Quantum Biology: qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

🔗 Read her essay and other other past winners' qspace.fqxi.org/competitions... ✍️ Got an idea of your own? Enter this year’s contest: How Quantum is Life? 📅 Deadline: Sept 29, 2025 RULES FOR ENTRIES qspace.fqxi.org/competitions...

Could the controversial idea of cold fusion be about to make a return? A new experiment inspired by this once-promising idea aims to improve rates of nuclear fusion.

A new review by Josu C. Aurrekoetxea, Katy Clough and Eugene A. Lim shows when cosmology needs numerical relativity, spanning the universe’s history from before the Big Bang through inflation, reheating, phase transitions, and late-time structures. qspace.fqxi.org/news/165307/...

Gerard ’t Hooft is now uneasy about how the idea is used. “People run away doing mysterious things with it,” he says, and he is now working on a deterministic basis for quantum theory. He also received a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics this year. qspace.fqxi.org/news/165296/...

Peter Coles founded the Open Journal of Astrophysics in 2016 after realising that his university was spending enough on journal subscriptions to hire two more lecturing staff. It offers free peer review for arXiv papers + saved the community > half a million $USD. qspace.fqxi.org/articles/278...

Physicist Jenny Nielsen @startigerjln.bsky.social has proposed a new 9-D topological unified field theory on the complex Hopf fibration. Join the discussion on QSpace forums here → forums.fqxi.org/d/4306

Many of our members have considered whether AI could become conscious, and if it did, how could we even tell? Susan Schneider, one of FQxI's Scientific Advisory Panel, has proposed an Artificial Consciousness Test (ACT) designed to address that. @sigalsamuel.bsky.social www.vox.com/future-perfe...

"Physics writes equations, humanities talk about emotions. But the world is one” says Carlo Rovelli. Sean Carroll's Bayesian approach relies on computer scientist and philosopher Judea Pearl's breakthrough that taught AI systems to distinguish correlation from causation. @seanmcarroll.bsky.social

FQxI's Nicole Yunger Halpern, a quantum physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, has been honored with an Early Career Scientist Award, presented every three years.

Peer review gatekeeping may be unnecessary for good science. In eLife, editors publish papers first, then add reviews after. READ MORE: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/272...