A beautiful art installation, doing justice to the prose of Ted Chiang. A commentary on humanity and the arrogance of human uniqueness, delivered with zero bitterness from the perspective of our nonhuman friends, parrots. Video: vimeo.com/195588827 #TedChiang #BookSky #TheGreatSilence #SciArt

A profile of Phil Anderson for the Biogr. Mem. FRS. www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.20865

Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser open.substack.com/pub/apprecia... #QuantumPhysics #ScienceExplained #Physics #Quanta #Photon

Open for Commissions: Need scientifically accurate illustrations for complex physics & math concepts? I bring the rigour of a physicist to the eye of an illustrator. 📧 [email protected] 🔗 lnkd.in/eXUqGpJG #ScienceCommunication #SciArt #Physics #Freelance

In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj

New @physicsworld.bsky.social illustration: what if quantum superposition applies to time and causality (cause and effect? Indefinite causal order asks whether A causes B, B causes A…or both at once. I made a simplified take for quantum switches. #QuantumPhysics #Physics #SciArt #IYQ2025 #Quantum

"If you're reading this on a phone or laptop, you’re holding the result of a gamble someone once made on curiosity. That same curiosity is still alive in university and research labs today—in often unglamorous, ... www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1...

Modern life is very difficult these days, especially while walking with a hot drink (filled to the brim). Some of us tiptoe; some walk fast enough to prevent the spilling; others proceed carefully and slowly towards the ultimate destination.

Electrons usually flow freely in metals and stall in insulators, but some “quantum materials” can flip between the two. The schematic was made for a preprint that visualises this transition. #Science #Physics #MaterialsScience #ResearchHighlight #quantum #entanglement #SciArt

It was nice to stumble upon my @physicsworld.bsky.social PW's 'Cheshire cat' coverart in the office today :) #sciart #physics #Quantum

An excellent and nuanced piece of science journalism with fresh analogies, role of entanglement, and strangeness of 'Strange Metals' by @zacksavitsky.bsky.social @science.org #quantum #quantummatter #condmat #scicomm #physics

Recently, a few pictures made me happy: 1. My 'Quantum Cheshire Cat' illustration is on the June 2025 @physicsworld.bsky.social cover. 2. A century after Heisenberg’s Helgoland breakthrough, my work appears near that very spot in Quantum Briefing 2025. Source: Physics World [1/3]

The free-to-read Physics World Quantum Briefing on display on the island of Helgoland, just metres from where Werner Heisenberg did his seminal work on quantum mechanics 100 years ago. It includes a great article on quantum Cheshire cats from Iulia Georgescu. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

Happy (more than happy!) to see my illustrations at this special spot 😊 bsky.app/profile/shre...

Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here. physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

Finally, a book that does justice to the hidden heroes of #quantum physics: Landau, Anderson, Wilson i.e., cond. mat. physics community. Symmetry breaking & renormalization, concepts which unite #physics. It includes key papers from many-body physics (see timeline). Looking forward to reading it!!

It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#WomenOfQuantum is back! I took a long break from this series due to life circumstances and having chosen to feature none other than the only women to have won the Abel Prize for her contributions to mathematics: Karen Uhlenbeck 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️🧵 clioagrapidis.com/2025/04/23/w...

My feature article about the delayed-choice quantum eraser is out now in @physicsworld.bsky.social! physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu...

New illustrations ALERT: @physicsworld.bsky.social article by @mariaviolaris.bsky.social Had fun representing the #physics behind 'Quantum Eraser' from #quantum information POV- a challenging topic. New elements (photon hits) were introduced for visual clarity. #IYQ2025 #SciArt shorturl.at/VLhxZ

A free 64-page digital magazine on quantum from @physicsworld.bsky.social? Yes please! physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

The @physicsworld.bsky.social Quantum Briefing 2025 is out now — your essential guide to the latest breakthroughs, big ideas, and bold questions shaping the quantum frontier. 🔗 physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a... #QuantumPhysics #QuantumTech #PhysicsWorld #ScienceReading

Five illustrations: 3 schematics + 2 frontispieces—exploring the quirkiest quantum effects, published in @physicsworld.bsky.social (Quantum Briefing 2025)! [@ioppublishing.bsky.social, @iopp-quantum.bsky.social] physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a... #Quantum #SciArt #IYQ2025

I made a new illustration for an article in Physics World magazine. It captures another weird and non-trivial effect from quantum physics — the #quantum Cheshire Cat. Science dictates the design, and the images show brief summary and design choices. #SciArt #Quantum #Physics #illustration

🧪⚛️ Now shared in blog post form, my public talk about "the direct democracy of matter". nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/talk...

🧪⚛️ Video is now available for the talks from last week's Rice Scientia lectures about democracy. First up, my colleague Rodrigo Ferreira talking about "Does AI have politics?" and second (starting around 27:00), me speaking on "The Direct Democracy of Matter". Fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbuV...

To celebrate the International Year of #Quantum, we're doing a series of articles about quantum effects that are so weird, they make superposition and entanglement seem almost ordinary. First up, for #WorldQuantumDay, is the quantum Zeno effect: physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu... 🧪⚛️

Excellent summary!

“The problem is that in quantum mechanics it is almost impossible . . . to say what you mean, or perhaps even to know what you mean, because you are dealing with concepts that defy language.” - @philipcball.bsky.social , Beyond Weird (2018) [1/n] physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu...

How the ‘Island of the Colourblind’ made Oliver Sacks rethink ‘normal’, a beautiful film portraying thoughts of a beautiful human being. #colorblindness #oliversacks #neurodiversity #neurrotypical youtu.be/HbaazbdIR_g

appreciatingtheordinary.substack.com/p/chasing-pr... #quantum #IYQ2025 #science #physics #nature #history #IYQ

An excellent antidote against pervasive hagiography, hero worship and simplistic narratives in quantum history by @ryandahn.com @physicstoday.bsky.social #IYQ2025 #Quantum #IYQ pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

This quoted piece along with another article detailing FIRST key experiment of photon entanglement (1950, 15 years after EPR paper) shows how physics community oversaw Wu's work. "That oversight, though, does not diminish her accomplishments." #IYQ #womenshistorymonth pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

The person who along with Michael Fisher and Leo Kadanoff revolutionized physics!

"Teaching of genetics tends to begin with Mendelian traits, presumably because they are deemed easier to understand. This introduces misperceptions about genetic determinism, encouraging linear perspectives on genotype-phenotype relations." A call to embrace complexity by @philipcball.bsky.social.🧪

A nuanced take on the recent developments in quantum computing #majorana #microsoft #quantum www.linkedin.com/posts/ramon-...

Repost: I attempted to create a unique timeline highlighting historical breakthroughs in theoretical condensed matter that changed physics. #history #IYQ #Quantum #condmat #physics #Quantum2025 #SciArt #historyofscience #renormalization #superconductivity @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

How can one prove thermodynamic uncertainty relations directly from the underlying equations of motion? This question is answered in the new paper by Cai Dieball and Aljaz #Godec published in @PhysRevLett. @CompBioPhys #mathematical_biophysics #Mathbiophys https://t.co/mT8jPehwzk

Thus the sun the moon the stars will speak to nonastronomers in spite of their ignorance of science. In fact it’s high time that this happened. Ignorance of science should not keep one imprisoned in the lowest and weariest sector of being, ... [1/2] #SaulBellow www.nybooks.com/articles/197...

Tomorrow will mark the 100th b'day of Tom Kinoshita (1925-2023), who made quantum electrodynamics (QED), the most successful theory in the history, by pushing the limits of precision. QED describes what happens when light interacts with matter (atoms, electrons). [1/5] www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"The act of writing is itself enough; it serves to clarify my thoughts and feelings. The act of writing is an integral part of my mental life; ideas emerge, are shaped, in the act of writing. " @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy #oliversacks #handwriting #writing www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/07/o...

As a first post, I just began reading David Limmer's new book on Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Thermodynamics. I highly recommend it. His explanations are incredibly clear without being overly detailed.

"I put my left hand against the window, and she immediately put her right hand over mine. . . we could both see how similar they were. I found this astounding, wonderful; it gave me an intense feeling of kinship and closeness as I had never had before with any animal." ❤️ search.app/KZGbBCpzdRG5...

Precision always comes at a price. Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations (TURs) are the new universal relations that reveal this beautiful mechanism by nature. An excellent (old) review attached @naturephysics.bsky.social #thermodynamics #physics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My first post here: Our work on the precision of a noisy biological oscillator, the beating cilium, is out in PNAS with links to energetics and stochastic thermodynamics - wonderful collaboration with skyless Abhimanyu Sharma and Veikko Geyer www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

How can physics define universal laws for computation, from cells and chips to brains? In this @pnas.org Perspective, led by @sfiscience.bsky.social David Wolpert and Jan Korbel, they suggest how Stochastic Thermodynamics can provide the proper framework pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Is stochastic thermodynamics the key to understanding the energy costs of computation? pnas.scienceconnect.io/api/oauth/au...

All of this is very good, but 19.30 on Michael Crichton is priceless. Oreskes makes a great case that historians of science sometimes need not just to grumble about misinformed public discussions but to step up to the plate. Of course, some do already. thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/epis...

"all science starts with asking questions. And if you don’t know how to ask questions, you can’t do science. Sci. is not the technology, the techniques of doing sci. Of course, that’s how we’re able to do it, but fundamentally, it comes from asking questions." www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-scien...