You’ve seen me harping about bureaucracy for over a decade. My colleagues have always seen me as a troublemaker for it. But now here we are, paralyzed and poisoning our children. It’s finally boiled over. csferrie.medium.com/for-teens-so...

Apropos of nothing at all, please enjoy this game. Goal: collect tacos, books, and lattes while avoiding guns, red hats, and foxes. codepen.io/csferrie/ful...

PSA: nothing about quantum entanglement is faster than light. Popular quantum physics in a nutshell: Make stupid assumptions, win stupid conclusions.

Government™️: making things difficult only for those that already followed the rules. james.cridland.net/blog/2025/au...

More on ARC job cuts & restructure: ARC’s spending $374k on consultants for organisational “review” & “planning & development”. They’re also spending $765k on “risk management”. That’s $1.1 million on consultants being spent over 1 year. Un. Believable. Slow clap, ARC.

My nephew (age 3.5) is coming to visit my lab next week and his top priority is checking whether or not I have all the items in @csferrie.com's "Goodnight Lab." I made sure I know where the multimeter is and I found a spectrometer down the hall so he won't think I'm a fraud! 📘🧪😂

"Los terraplanistas son el extremo de un espectro del fraude que puede sonar divertido sin ser peligroso, pero cuando el fraude entra en la medicina puede tener consecuencias catastróficas" _ @csferrie.com

Amazon is nearly giving away books. Go read words on paper!

Lazy parenting hack. Chop up fresh veggies and just leave them out. The kids eat three times as many servings as they avoid during meal time.

You do not want to be one of my open tabs to the right of this one.

It's easy to forget that #SciComm is for people of ALL ages, not just adults and teenagers. But is there an age that's too young? NOPE! (1/7) 🧪

Quantum beer "night" with Wish You Were Beer Show going live in two hours (that's 8PM ET and 11AM AEDT). www.youtube.com/live/BSNTPVX...

Quantum tunneling is back in the news! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH60...

Blog post: "Actually, you can't test if quantum uses complex numbers" algassert.com/post/2501 I doom the concept of that 2021 Nature paper by showing how to compile any distributed quantum protocol into real-only gates while preserving locality.

🚀 New book: The Curiosity Chronicles — a pick-your-quest science adventure! See the plot map + extras: thecuriositychronicles.com Build your own with my free Adventure Builder: csferrie.com/adventure-bu... #STEM #KidLit

Replacement rubber foot for a Microsoft Surface Laptop and the packaging it came it...

Internet. You know what to do.

If you want something done right, do it yourself. Rant/tool to instantly generate QR codes 👇 csferrie.com/blog/an-actu...

I came for the "thank you" chocolates but stayed for the teacher's saying: "I had a chance to meet with a few of the students today and they were still buzzing. "

I'm no AI evangelist, but strawmanning it doesn't add to the conversation.

When discussing screen time with your teen, how do you account for watching multiple simultaneous screens at the same time? Asking for a friend.

Melbourne! I’m in town next week 🥳 13 Aug — Quantum Storytime (Quantum Futures) & Lunch + Learn (FB IDEAs) 16 Aug — Storytime + activities (The Sun Bookshop) Bring your curiosity & come say hi! Details: ncm.org.au/events/quant... www.fbideas.org/whats-on/qua... sunbookshop.com/events/story...

Quokkas aren't real

Spend 15 minutes on instrumentalism and save them from 15 years of confusion while blocking false ontological indoctrination.

New preprint on arXiv 🚀 Link: scirate.com/arxiv/2507.2... We present a practical step-by-step guideline to determine whether a procedure that claims to circumvent exponential concentration actually works in practice. See the following 🧵 for more details.

People are asking where the idea for Quokka came from...

Is this the Florida Man of "in mice"? Something happened in one mouse and he thought the *opposite* might work in humans. I mean, good for her, but "don't try this at home" should have been the headline. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

I'm in Melbourne for Science Week! Join me The Sun Bookshop some science-themed reading and activities. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/storytime-...

TIL the German translation of Cosmic Bullshit is more Cosmic Bullshit.

Australians. Crowd source time. surchargesheriff.com

Sign my petition to produce all 397 episodes of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

“Go to the edge of quantum physics with GPT” and start free-associating without doing the math or proposing experiments, you’re not doing physics; you’re generating science-fiction brainstorming. That can be fun, but until someone does the hard yards, it lives in the “vibe sci-fi” bucket.

Tonight in Brisbane – public lecture and fireside chat with Nobel Prize laureate Prof Donna Strickland who will share insights into her pioneering research, the future of laser physics, and her incredible journey to the Nobel Prize. 🧪⚛️ events.humanitix.com/professor-do...

POV: running your first quantum program at www.quokkacomputing.com/qasm

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Unpopular opinion: everyone uses daily what any college degree ought to confer.

Hey Perth, don't let the weather get you down. Come out tomorrow evening and laugh along at some quantum shenanigans. 🗓️ When: Wed 9 Jul, 6 – 7:15 pm AWST 📍 Where: Ross Lecture Theatre, Physics Bldg, UWA events.humanitix.com/wa-aip-prese...

Have any other Australians noticed surcharges slowly creeping up in volume and value? csferrie.medium.com/apparently-h...

My permanent reply to the next physicist chiming in with "that's not a 'real' quantum computer." What a “stranger” in physics sees from within ⤵️ csferrie.medium.com/im-a-physici...

Exciting news! csferrie.medium.com/were-updatin...

Canada-themed Canberra!

PERTH! Let's have some fun with Quantum Bullsh*t! All ages welcome (the b-word only appears on screen 😉). Boffins Bookstore will be onsite if you want a signed copy! 🗓️ When: Wed 9 Jul, 6 – 7:15 pm AWST 📍 Where: Ross Lecture Theatre, Physics Bldg, UWA events.humanitix.com/wa-aip-prese...

I would like to apologise for any harm I caused in victimising these anonymous troll accounts. /s Their defeat was surprising easy. Ego deflated with five words.

In academia, we’ve achieved terror without the tyrant and compliance without charisma. I call it Zombie Totalitarianism. There's no one to vilify and no one to rally against. The digital panopticon is simply the new reality. If nothing else, let it be a warning for more consequential bureaucracies.

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