My first book, Entangled States, will be published in exactly three months. Please ask me about it! I will come on your podcast or write for your mag about quantum physics and how it intersects with my life anytime!

Also worth noting that it is often not *the technology* that "the left" is criticizing, but the abuses of that technology and the lies that are spread about that technology. It just so happens that "the left" is typically more aware of these issues than the right.

Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”

For every binary, @kpc.bsky.social were somehow neither and both. So it makes sense that ENTANGLED STATES—a work of memoir and science writing—should be the same. Their star-reviewed book comes out this May! 🤩

Got to interview two 2025 Nobel laureates, in physics and chemistry, for @newscientist.com and though awards are not a perfect metric, I’m grateful to have had a chance to learn more about how these folks think

My latest maths column is a plea to Hollywood - when are we going to get a Paul Erdős biopic starring Jeff Goldblum? www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk. Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

@kpc.bsky.social’s ENTANGLED STATES got a starred review from Kirkus Reviews! ⭐️ They call it “an unconventional take on physics that stings like an exposed nerve and shines with humanity.”

My paper with Roderich Tumulka is featured in @newscientist.com! We prove that the quantum state of the universe is, in a sense, fundamentally unknowable. Nature keeps its deepest secrets.

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

In October, an “unauthorized third party” accessed user data, including email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata.” More sensitive data, such as credit cards, passwords, and other financial information, was unaffected. techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/s...

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I consider 2025 my finest professional year. The Post just laid me off.

"Like any chatbots, the AI agents on Moltbook are just creating statistically plausible strings of words – there is no understanding, intent or intelligence. And in any case, there’s plenty of evidence that much of what we can read on the site is actually written by humans."

My debut book, ENTANGLED STATES, got a starred review in Kirkus and I am so grateful. The reviewer really got it! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Super excited to be reading alongside so many cool writers tomorrow!

Measles causes severe complications in 1 in 5 children, and also kills off immune cells leaving you more vulnerable to other infections for years afterwards. lt's absolutely not a disease you want to take chances with 🧪 From my comment on measles' comeback: www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Civilisations name their ages after materials, like the Stone Age or our current silicon age which is characterised by computers and phones. What will the next age be? 2025 Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi spoke to me about what material he's betting on www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

We see @kpc.bsky.social’s ENTANGLED STATES and Talitha L. LeFlouria’s SEARCHING FOR JANE CROW in @msmagazine.com’s 2026 roundup! 😍

One of the most compelling announcements of an upcoming book that I have ever read (says old white guy who got his degree in English over 50 years ago). I have pre-ordered, even though yesterday I had not even heard of @kpc.bsky.social.

Really excited to share a new story format now live on @newscientist.com for our 21 best ideas of the 21st century special - explore the full issue here www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

In my personal newsletter today I argue in favor of more goofiness and whimsy, in science writing and in life ultracold.substack.com/p/but-if-eve...

If you want to do PR for quantum computing companies may I suggest learning that qubit is spelled with a q first

My latest maths column looks at what we actually mean when we use words such as "likely" or "probable". Join me on a trip from the ancient Greeks to the CIA, via Jeremy Bentham www.newscientist.com/article/2510...

My photos of one of my favorite positive stories from Turkey are on @newscientist.com , masterfully commented by @kpc.bsky.social #MathSky #iTeachMaths #Science #Türkiye 🇹🇷

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

People who stop taking obesity drugs tend to regain the weight they've lost within 1.7 years, emphasising how obesity is a chronic condition that requires long-term treatment. www.newscientist.com/article/2510...

This is a common misconception - a quantum computer is NOT like a bunch of classical computers working in parallel, quantum does not mean infinite parallelism. Here's a cartoon that does a better job than this paragraph: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-ta...

CMS at CERN has made the first measurements of the quantum properties of a family of three recently-discovered “all-charm” tetraquarks. ⚛️🧪 ow.ly/U90I50XTlXs

This week on my personal newsletter: an encouragement to think about food differently + some tips on how to start eating more plants and rely on animal products less ultracold.substack.com/p/connection...

Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day

A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

I'm back at Slate next week after mat leave, and will be looking at pitches again! Particularly interested in health and science opinion and analysis, and/or with a first person angle, as well as features (2,500+ words, deeply reported) that turn a big idea on its head. [email protected]

Yesterday, I turned 34 so on my personal newsletter I’m reflecting on 33, a year that felt like everything and nothing at once ultracold.substack.com/p/vacuum-flu...

Someone once told me that the universe will always be filled with stuff more wild than we can imagine, and this definitely falls into that category. Amazing story from @alexwilkins.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2508...

All I want for Xmas is for people who pitch me stories for New Scientist to actually read New Scientist

In my personal newsletter today, a round up of my favorite first person essays from 2025. This is writing that is very different from my journalistic work, brings me lots of joy and forces me to grow as a writer. I am grateful for all of my subscribers! ultracold.substack.com/p/2025-in-re...

Surreal things are happening

For my last quantum column of 2025, a bit of optimism. Will quantum computers deliver economic value to industry soon? I remain skeptical. Will they become useful scientific discovery machines soon? This past year convinced me that the answer just might be yes www.newscientist.com/article/2509...

A first: two of my poems, inevitably physics-themed, got published today chlorophyllmag.com/gerlach's-po...

But a core issue is that LLMs are being trained to validate the user, while science needs tools that challenge us. For this comment, I asked Claude to choose the 3 most likely reviewers, and simulate their peer reviews. 5/

Climate change is making us dumber, starting young: Children tend to know fewer words, letters & numbers if they experience an average temperature of 32°C or more www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

On my personal newsletter today, for my monthly media and food consumption highlights I wrote about a metal record that made me revisit and rethink the value of anger + a new to me way to eat cabbage ultracold.substack.com/p/mediadiet-...

Attempts to describe quantum physics are rarely enjoyable, but Paul Davies' zeal in Quantum 2.0 sometimes steers too close to hype, finds Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Niels Bohr: ⚽ Goalie for Akademisk Boldklub 💥 Worked on the UK atom bomb project that pre-dated the Manhattan Project ⚛️ Devised a quantum experiment with Einstein that has now been conducted Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/13fB... cc @jjaron.bsky.social @kpc.bsky.social

Machine learning is a useful tool for plenty of scientific areas. The reason 'AI' is getting grouped with quantum computing specifically—at companies like Google and now at DOE—is because of branding and wishcasting. www.science.org/content/arti...