I think large parts of this sentiment apply to STEM as well.

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

QIS Sloan Fellowships for Anand Natarajan, John Wright, Jake Covey (UIUC) and Isaac Kim, and a non-QIS Sloan for fellow UIUC math member Ben Castle. Congrats!! sloan.org/fellowships/...

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

I had a mini disc player (stereo at home and portable)

New many-body postdoc offering at @UMDscience; come join us! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders." Charles Darwin, who had a pretty bad day every now and then, was born #OTD in 1809. 🧪 The letter to Charles Lyell with the quote above: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId...

New paper "Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Quantum Information Processing" with my postdoc Theshani Nuradha and my student Sujeet Bhalerao! scirate.com/arxiv/2602.1...

Our paper on approximate unitary designs in logarithmic depth with Nick LaRacuente is now published in Communications in Mathematical Physics! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My TQC submission.

I bury my head in the sand when I see some of these maps

Whaaaaat. OT here we come. This is so stressful

#GoBears 🐻

Several postdoc positions to work on quantum computing with Simon Devitt, at UTS: quantumts.org/open-positio...

The real reason why you need to submit your slides before the start of #QIP2026 is so that during the conference you have time to work on your #TQC2026 submission.

Asking researchers to submit their presentation slides by Wednesday of the week _before_ the conference starts is a tall order 😅 good luck! #qip2026

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Some of the responses and quote skeets are 👌

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...

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!