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We recently received a referee report from Phys. Rev. Lett. @apsphysics.bsky.social that was obviously written by generative AI. It is so bizarre to read it; I have never received anything like it before. What measures is @apsphysics.bsky.social taking to ensure the integrity of the review process?

Pedro Pascal in Turbo Pascal

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Just ordered a copy to pick up in my local book store,* been meaning to read this for a while now! 🤗

shut up and purify arxiv.org/abs/2511.15806

To be clear (it is the internet, after all) there are plenty of truly wonderful, non-sociopathic people in positions of influence within academia. I just think we are too forgiving of the bad people.

The list of accepted papers for #QIP2026 is now online at qip2026.lu.lv/programme/ac...

Never forget.

If you are interested in doing a postdoc with me, please apply to the IQC postdoctoral fellowship here: iqc-uwaterloo.slideroom.com#/login/progr...

I love quantum computing (& quantum information science, even more), don't get me wrong -- but we have to acknowledge how much of the so-called "ecosystem" this captures:

Department of Physics at UIUC is looking for an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Quantum Information Science, including, but not limited to, quantum error correction, quantum optics, quantum algorithms, and AMO physics. Application deadline: Dec 1 illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Tenure track position in Dept C&O, U Waterloo, with continuous optimization as priority area! www.mathjobs.org/jobs/lists/2...

Did NSF really just change their URL scheme from www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... to www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 🫥

We're hiring postdocs! Deadline is 15 Nov. We're also advertising Leinweber postdoctoral fellowships, which also have an earlier nomination deadline of 1 Nov. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/MIT/CTP-LI

Our group is looking to hire postdocs to work at the intersection of quantum computing, quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, simulation of many-body quantum systems and early-fault tolerant quantum computing Apply here: lanl.jobs/search/jobde... Reposts appreciated!

I’m looking for postdocs and PhD students to join my group at Cambridge! Topics include: Classical & Quantum Complexity, Sublinear Algorithms, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Learning Theory, and their interplay with Fourier Analysis & Additive Combinatorics. To apply or inquire, email me your CV.

(I/III) We're excited to announce a new tenure track opening! The position is called 'quantum informatics' and is affiliated with our QUICK group within the CS+AI division at @jku.at 🇦🇹. Application deadline is November 30th, 2025: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

Alex is gonna give a talk on the @unitary.foundation discord next wednesday (Oct 22) on formalizing QI in lean 👀

Me: “Why do you think ‘Succession’ was such a big show? Arian Moayed/'Stewy': "Because the truth of ‘Succession’ dials into what we’re witnessing every day in our news cycles. There’s an elite group of 10 to 15 people that run everything." Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/succession...

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Apply for a JL Doob Research Assistant Professorship (3-year postdoc position that includes teaching) in the Math department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27... Application deadline: December 1

📢Several PhD and Postdoc positions in my group (focusing on AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics) at @unituebingen.bsky.social If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...

you've really made it in math if your name has been turned into an adjective, but in lower-case spelling

Very nice plenary talk at #ITW2025 by Debbie Leung (@debbie-leung-q.bsky.social) on (non)-additivity of quantum channel capacity. Some much there is unknown—or just completely weird!

I interrupt all the misery in this world for 90 seconds on whether chili is soup.

the mood when all the major inequalities conspire to go the wrong way

proof by please just let me have this one

"AI will transform education!!" Do you know what would *actually* transform education? A hundred and fifty billion dollars

I made a zine about quantum gates and distributed it at @unitary.foundation's unitaryCON this two weeks ago. check it out :) and lemme know what you think nates.place/static/ng01....

I see 836 submissions to #QIP2026 in the system (so excluding those with COIs).

I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!

Tip for your #qip2026 submission: A4 provides 3.86% more space than US letter format.

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

New preprint! Here, Shuheng, Marcus, and Giuseppe find Schmidt number witnesses for continuous-variable systems, connecting entanglement witnessing to the world of phase space quasiprobabilities arxiv.org/abs/2509.02743

Dreifacher Erfolg für die TU Wien: Drei spannende Projekte wurden vom European Research Council mit einem ERC Starting Grant gefördert. Wir freuen uns darauf!

An exciting line-up: Inspirational Speakers (Shafi Goldwasser and Meena Mahajan) and Rising Stars (Ioana-Oriana Bercea, Lorenzo Ciardo, Jane Lange, Yihui Quek, and Santhoshini Velusamy), and plenty of activities: poster session, discussions, socializing! sites.google.com/view/celebra...

Attending #FOCS2025 and keen to stay a bit longer? Australian researcher or student, interested in Theoretical CS? We're organizing a "Celebration of TCS" research and mentorship event at 🇦🇺 #USyd, on Dec 11–13. It's free, it's exciting, register and spread the word! sites.google.com/view/celebra...

Martin Frick @cmfrick.bsky.social, Director of the UN World Food Programme (@wfp.org) Global Office for 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇱🇮, in an interview (www.derstandard.at/story/300000..., in German): "[WFP is] dramatically underfinanced this year. [...] We have roughly 6bn of financing, but more than 20bn are needed."

Open-rank open-area faculty search in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application deadline: November 3, 2025. Please share widely! www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...

I don’t wanna party like it’s 1999 I wanna buy a house like it’s 1999

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

from last night, course notes-ish, 500pages: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13165 /An introduction to the algebra of rings and fields/ Darij Grinberg

Come join the team for ⚛️ Quantum Wednesday! This week, we'll discuss 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗶 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 lead by our guest speaker 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘂𝗶 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗻. 🔗 Discord: buff.ly/GFRk4B9 📚 Paper: buff.ly/nlT3Ljg

For the 6th season in a row I'm fielding my "Entanglement Wedges" team in Fantasy Premier League. To the best of my knowledge this term was coined in arxiv.org/abs/1704.05839. #FPL #FPLBluesky #FPLCommunity

Hi all, The Bluesky Classic (classic scoring) is now open on a more the merrier basis.. Time permitting, will drop weekly updates for leaders/best/worst/C’s etc. Feel free to repost. Code - ew8avl Or click below. Cheers, Steve. #FPL #FPLCommunity

New paper "Improving quantum communication rates with permutation-invariant codes" with my student Sujeet Bhalerao! scirate.com/arxiv/2508.0... We use permutation-invariant codes and representation-theoretic methods to derive new improved quantum capacity lower bounds for various channels.

1/ I've been trying to think through why the brag of "PhD-level expert in your pocket" bothers me as a frame, and here are two: 1. A PhD is about how to rigorously examine and interrogate information, not transmit it. To reduce a PhD to a mere disseminator of information misunderstands what we are.