The National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) and Google Quantum AI have announced a new initiative to expand UK researchers’ access to Google’s Willow quantum processor - marking an exciting step forward for the UK’s quantum ecosystem! Learn more and apply here: www.nqcc.ac.uk/nqcc-and-goo...

Although sensing is one of the more established quantum technologies, translating quantum science into real-world biomedical impact requires further effort to overcome technical hurdles as well as structural and societal challenges, according to a Comment article in Nature Reviews Physics. 🔒

Which one is you favourite @natrevphys.nature.com cover of 2025? Help us decide the prettiest cover of them all because we really can't. Comment with your preference on the post shared below, and maybe tell us why. ⚛️

How quantum biosensing is transforming healthcare A Comment from Alessandra Lo Fiego, Felix Donaldson, Umesh Vivekananda, Mete Atatüre, John J. L. Morton & Molly M. Stevens www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Our special November issue, celebrating 30 years of exoplanets, is now here! https://bit.ly/483MH9I #astronomy #exoplanets

Some good advice here for conference talks. I would also like to put in a plug for please making your colloquium talks accessible to upper level undergrads. 🎢 ⚛️

@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me. Come and join us! www.plasmonica.it/2026school/

And what twenty years it has been! I'm proud to have been part of the journey for a little while. Here's to another twenty, but I hope you take some time to celebrate first, @natphys.nature.com 🎂🥳🥂

This new Review explores how ammonia could be used as an energy carrier for the decarbonisation of transport and power generation, examining technology required cleanly produce and use ammonia

Our annual PhD recruitment process @api.uva.nl is open!! Details of the process and projects are here, deadline November 3! 🔭 #astronomy #astrophysics werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

The @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection celebrating the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics is now live!

Tools of the Trade: Saaj Chattopadhyay explains Morpho-Enhanced Polarization Microscopy ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Making particle accelerators sustainable has field-specific challenges. @hmwakeling.bsky.social, Philip Burrows, Jim Clarke, Jo Colwell, Ben Shepherd & John Thomason share how they collected relevant guidance and call on researchers in other fields to do the same ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A new #Primer this week covers #ultrafast #TEM - a technique that femtosecond resolution of coherent phenomena in #quantum materials. ⚡⏩ Check out it's variety of setups and applications here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🚨Registrations are open for the upcoming "Image Science" Gordon research conference , to take place in Italy, April 26-May 1, 2026. Check out the amazing program, tell your friends and share, APPLY! 🚨 www.grc.org/image-scienc...

I need some help 🙂 I am working on a piece about women in STEM, either consciously or not, code switching. Not just in communication, but in appearance, mannerism, etc. Have you? How? Maybe you don’t anymore, but what are some things you did early career or see others doing? #womeninstem

We are seeking an Associate or Senior Editor to join the Nature Nanotechnology team within Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com Closing Date: October 12th, 2025 - Candidates will be considered as they apply. For more details👇 springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/Spring...

In this new Perspective, Yifei Xu & Shawn Liangzhong Xiang look at progress in radiacoustic imaging in recent years, focusing on biomedical and materials science applications ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

In our September issue: ✨Carbon-nanomaterial-enabled THz technology 💧Structure & flow of low-dimensional water 🫗Atomistic solid–fluid surface free energy & tension 🎲Applications of certified randomness 🌀Preserving OAM in scattering media ➕Comments & Tools of the Trade www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Last chance to apply! Closing date is the 28th!

One week left to apply!

The Chinese University of Hong Kong is accepting applications for up to two Research Assistant Professor positions in the fields of experimental quantum optics, experimental quantum sensing, and theoretical quantum physics. ow.ly/iJJs50WBBZM #PhysicsCareers #PhysicsJobs

New opening for Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at Cambridge @eng.cam.ac.uk closing on 22 Sept 2025: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49361/

Our August issue is live! 🌈 Topological rainbow trapping (on the cover) 💧 Drop friction 🖥️ Multidimensional photonic computing 🧊 Quantum Mpemba effects 🏝️ 🥼 Why scientist need a break 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Women in the history of quantum physics 🐈 🖥️ Open-source quantum computing www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Join our team to work on ultrafast spectroscopy of time-varying metamaterials, within our project meta4d.co.uk more details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ308/r...

📣 DEADLINE ABOUT A MONTH AWAY 📣 Submit a brief summary of your peer-reviewed research to be considered for publication in the Optics in 2025 special issue of Optics & Photonics News. For more information, check out OPN's Year in Optics page: bit.ly/4lJZOTg 💡⚛️

New Frontiers in Spatiotemporally Structured Light: bit.ly/415diR0 💡 A July/ August OPN feature article explores a new perspective on the behavior and applications of pulsed optical beams, derived from combining the spatial and temporal degrees of freedom of light. ⚛️

Technical Review: Atomistic computing of the solid–fluid surface free energy and tension, by Aziz Ghoufi ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

What determines the force required to initiate drop sliding? How does drop friction depend on drop velocity? What processes lead to energy dissipation once a drop has started to slide, and how much do they contribute? Hans-Jürgen Butt & co discuss drop friction ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Do you have an image that highlights an aspect of optics?💡Submit it to OPN's photo contest! The first-place winner will receive a canvas-stretched print of their entry, a $250 gift card AND publication of the winning image in OPN. Enter now! 👉 bit.ly/4kKE7RM #photography ⚛️

Our friends at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring an editor for quantum physics and technology. Can be based in China, the US, Spain, or Italy. Full details here: www.nature.com/naturecareer... #Careers #EditorialJobs #Quantum #Physics

If you did a PhD (in the UK) funded by #EPSRC and are looking for a postdoc position, we (meaning @exeter.ac.uk, not me specifically) have 3 open Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. All info in the link below. #AcademicJobs #Physics

📣 OPN is hosting its 20th Annual Photo Contest 📣 We are looking for large, high-impact images that highlight an aspect of optics. Find more information via the link: bit.ly/3ZX7etB 💡⚛️🧪

Energy researchers! Please engage with this important survey!!

✨Be included in OPN's "Optics in 2025" issue✨ Have you conducted notable peer-reviewed research in the optics and photonics field? 💡 Send us a brief summary to be featured in the year-end special! More information via the link: bit.ly/460K4Ek ⚛️

We are looking for an environment reporter for a 10-month maternity cover contract starting in November - apply here! www.newscientist.com/nsj/job/1402...

Editor-in-Chief Opportunity! IOP Publishing & @ipem.ac.uk are seeking a founding Editor-in-Chief for Medical Sensors & Imaging — a new #OpenAccess journal at the intersection of #physics & #biomedicalscience. Apply by July 18, 2025 👉 ow.ly/IzTV50WltHs #EditorinChief

World View: Art as a catalyst for promoting sustainable research ⚛️🧪 Saki the Artist shares how making art with plastic waste from @istaresearch.bsky.social helped bridge the gap between sustainability knowledge and action: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 📸: Jürgen Hofmann

Check out our June issue! 💥Neutrinos from explosive transients at the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy 🪟Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids ✨Nonlocal metamaterials and metasurfaces 💻Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

International or UK researcher looking for a #fellowship in #astrophysics, #planetaryscience, and/or space instrumentation? Leicester @physicsuol.bsky.social is inviting expressions of interest for this year's STFC 5-year Ernest Rutherford Fellowships (deadline June 26th): le.ac.uk/physics/rese...

Anyone with hot science journo skills want to come and edit my stories? In @nature.com's European bureau we're looking for a locum news editor, based in either London or Berlin, on a 9 month contract. Application deadline 12 June🧪 More info here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

Nature has launched its seventh global survey of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral students, which will probe graduate students’ views about their goals and challenges, and their experiences of their studies so far. Survey runs until June 11. #Academicsky 🧪

ICYMI: "The Metre Convention ... aimed to establish a unified system for accurate and consistent measurements, fostering trust and interoperability in trade, science and technology. That kind of trust, and the international cooperation that underlies it, remains essential today" rdcu.be/emM59 ⚛️

🥳Happy 150th birthday to the Metre Convention!🎂 How do you know how long a metre is?📏 Because of global cooperation to set a standard — starting from the Metre Convention in 1875 Shanay Rab & Richard Brown explain why we still need this kind of collaboration rdcu.be/emM59 ⚛️ #worldmetrologyday

Catch the complimentary 06/17 #Choice-ACRLWebinar Presented by their chief editors, this webinar will highlight some of the key themes covered in the Nature Reviews journals and how they are implementing Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) into their mission. ow.ly/EoL950VSHZM @springernature.com

Kicking off our 24-hour coverage, the OIST Student Chapter brought together researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology to foster collaboration, spark new ideas, and create a platform for discussing advancements and challenges in optics.

Our May issue is out!⚛️ ✨Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate ✨First-principles determination of spin–orbit coupling parameters in 2D materials ✨Photogalvanic effects in non-centrosymmetric halide perovskites 📰Editorial: Scientists are workers www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Our latest #Primer is on #x-ray circular dichroism. Thanks to the x-ray polarization, this technique can probe the #spin and #orbital #angularmomenta of materials. 👇📖 1/2