Wow great goal from 🇯🇵! I really like how they're playing today

You've led your last zeppelin

The goal was to expose them to some of the quantum nonsense that's out there (thank you @dulwichquantum.bsky.social), help them understand the incentives of all the parties involved, and teach them critical thinking skills. I hope this will be helpful in their future careers!

If you want to cosplay a mathematician it's the same but you open a TeX file.

many-body physics

"Every child who starves to death is murdered." RIP Jean Ziegler

In the AI future we will have neural networks installed directly in our brains!

I signed this today. I'm sceptical of the blind trust of people in LLMs, and I don't think LLMs will replace me as a researcher, teacher, and mentor. At the same time, I want to be open to new technologies and see whether and how we can use them fruitfully in our research and teaching.

Since September I've been working with an international group to develop what we hope can be a response from the mathematics community to artificial intelligence in maths. The Leiden Declaration is now posted and open for signatures: https://leidendeclaration.ai/ #leidendeclaration

A warm welcome from the organisers of QIP 2027! The conference will take place February 20-26 at the National University of Singapore. For up-to-date information, check out the website: qipconference.org/2027/

I've been running a Lean seminar at CWI/UvA for some time. We now started formalizing Appleby's result on the structure of the single-qudit Clifford group. Here's the blueprint and GitHub repository in case you're interested. marozols.github.io/clifford-pro... github.com/marozols/cli...

It’s impossible to understand American politics without also understanding the American economy (and vice versa). Politics and economics may be different disciplines, but they’re two sides of the same coin. Here is what's going on...

Sent this to my group. The perpetrators shall remain nameless.

Do not let AI write for you.

This quote from @rbreich.bsky.social's "Saving capitalism" hits hard: "In many respects, the enforcement mechanism [of a market] is the most hidden from view because decisions about what *not* to enforce are not publicized; ... and the sufficiency of penalties imposed are difficult to assess."

This is so . . . 😭😭😭

Wheneve I'm in a park and right next to people throwing a baseball around, I try to figure out ASAP whether they know what they're doing. I've never had the pleasure, but I can only imagine the pain if that ball hits you.

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

And if you work in a field that uses the arXiv, please add arXiv information via archiveprefix = {arXiv}, eprint = {xxxx.xxxxx} primaryclass = {whatever floats your boat/paper} so that your citations are openly and easily accessible without fancy institutional subscriptions 🙏

"Dear Dr. Leditzky: The manuscript entitled <title> has been submitted to IEEE Access. [...] If you agree to review, we ask that you provide your review comments within 7 days [...]." Nope.

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

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A nice application of LLMs (Codex with gpt5.5 here) for research. Yesterday, a paper appeared on arXiv with an improved lower bound on the capacity threshold of the depolarizing channel, one of the most frustrating open problems in quantum information theory (1/4)

Haven't read it in detail yet but looks very cool!

"Europa, so wie es in seinen hellsten Stunden leuchtet, ist aus dem genauen Gegenteil von Nationalismus und Abgrenzung entstanden. Es ist entstanden aus der Liebe zum Frieden, aus der Bereitschaft, zu lernen. Aus der Faszination für das Neue". - @bundespraesident.at

Some history about this commemoration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mig... "The enslaved Africans brought by the settlers [to San Miguel de Gualdape in 1526] became the first documented black slaves in what would become the continental United States and carried out the first slave rebellion there."

Day 2 of the Canvas hack/shutdown: U of I canceled all exams over the weekend, whether the course uses Canvas or not. I'm teaching a large course with ~1700 students and finals taken at computer test centers, which are currently overbooked for the rest of the exam week. Fun 🫠😬

A silver lining about the Canvas hack is that everyone I know is live-tweeting it. Bluesky has got a 2019 Academic Twitter vibe to it today.

UIUC Canvas has been hacked, as have many more universities. The hackers clearly know that finals are ongoing to maximize damage with this.

Yes Google I know, because I can't for the life of me remember the 1000 identities involving binomial coefficients.

After grumbling for years in our substacks about uses and abuses of probability in machine learning, @beenwrekt.bsky.social and I decided it's finally time to put down some concrete ideas in a manifesto with a DOI. Here it is, give us your best feedback. (1/4)

I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️ Buy my book to learn more! 💙📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

A little task to get your brain going today: Prove the statement in the picture!

That both of these things are true gobsmacked me when I was a student: * Modules are a special case of abelian groups because every module is just an abelian group with extra structure. * Modules are a generalization of abelian groups because every abelian group is a Z-module.

I am FLOORED that my book—out May 19—is the #1 new release in general elections and political processes. I want to disseminate its justice-focused message as widely as possible. Can you support the momentum by sharing this post or preordering at www.amazon.com/dp/0691276153 or your fave bookseller?

Representation theory is the way.

a new issue of nate's gates is available on my website :))) nates.place/gates/

In recent weeks (if not months?) I've been getting an extraordinary amount of review requests (for journals). I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing? Both at my career stage (late tenure-track) and more generally.

Creativity is not a talent. It's a process and a practice available to everyone.

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have been named the winners of the A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in computing, for their work establishing the foundations of quantum information theory. The award comes with a $1 million prize. www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryp...

I'm really proud to have contributed a tiny part to the amazing success of the open-access and not-for-profit journal Quantum, both as an author and as a member of the editorial board.

Celebrate with us Quantum's approaching 10 year anniversary in 2026 with the publication of the 2026th paper! Do you know which paper that is? quantum-journal.org/2026-quantum...

It's official! The Theory of #Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography conference (TQC) 2028 will be held in Sydney, 🇦🇺 Australia, in August'28! tqc-conference.org/2026/2027/ #TQC2028 (TQC 2027 will take place in Grenoble, France)

🧪⚛️ Brief thoughts on the passing of Tony Leggett, an outstanding theoretical physicist with a lasting impact across multiple topics. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/03/rip-...

Just in time for Quantum's 10th anniversary, our paper "Localizing multipartite entanglement with local and global measurements" with students Chris Vairogs and Sam Hermes has been published in Quantum 🥳 Huge congrats to Chris and Sam! quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...

10 years after its founding, driven by the energy, enthusiasm, & dedication of the community @quantum-journal.bsky.social quietly published paper #2000 some days ago. At least I think this is a big deal, big shout out to the founders & all authors, reviewers, editors, board members & contributors!

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/...