One danger of modern social media is that crazy posts, bot posts, and real posts all look professional due to formatting. I call it the myspace vs facebook divide or the difference between a zine and a pamphlet. Now I find this non-crazy zine on social media and may need to rework my analogies.

My favorite Robert Redford movie is Sneakers which features a computer that can break RSA encryption and came out 2 years before Shor's algorithm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bA...

Tenure track assistant prof job up for grabs in Basel. It's quantum computing theory, based in computer science, and part of the NCCR SPIN. Whoever gets this job will probably have to collaborate with me. Whether you see that as a pro or con is up to you. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

New paper out ✨ Fault-tolerant Transformation of Spacetime Codes, a collaboration w/ @vasmer.bsky.social, Austin Daniel & Ilan Tzitrin, which started during my internship @xanaduai.bsky.social scirate.com/arxiv/2509.0... Let's now see if I can summarize 101 pages (🙈) in a few tweets (and memes!)

At the European Conference on Trapped Ions talking about quantum simulation with ions today www.ecti2025.com/home

Apparently September 5th is "cultivate with fold-transversal S" day: arxiv.org/abs/2509.05232 arxiv.org/abs/2502.017... arxiv.org/abs/2509.05212

#Sunailday #SnailsofBluesky Snail in Ridgefield, WA

QACTI Pilot: No tattoo QACTI Design: Temporary tattoo QACTI Implementation: The future is unwritten pratt.duke.edu/news/duke-nq... #NSF #NQVL

If you are a college student, maybe a week or two into the semester, why not visit office hours and ask your professor that question? You know, that thing you were wondering in class? Or when you were doing the homework? Go ask them! That’s why they are there. They will be excited to see you.

📢 Our paper, 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆-𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀, is now published in Nature Communications (Nature Portfolio). Great to see it in print! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are at QCE 2025, please check out these talks from the lab #IEEEQuantumWeek Jude Alnas TP06::QSYS::96 arxiv.org/abs/2507.15995 Marissa D'Onofrio TP16::QSYS::453 arxiv.org/abs/2507.12323 Sahil Khan TP55::QSYS::523 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03914

In 2019 Rob Thew (www.unige.ch/gap/qic/qtec...) and I hosted a Workshop on US-EU Collaboration in Quantum Information Science at the @optica.org building. Here is the workshop photo. I know @tahantech.bsky.social and @andreasateth.bsky.social are on bluesky. Everyone else tag yourself.

Looking for a postdoc to work on bosonic quantum error correction! Join me and the QAT team at ENS & INRIA Paris — flexible start date. Details here 👉 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... or feel free to reach out!

#Sunailday #SnailsofBluesky Seawater snails outside of Nassau photos.app.goo.gl/b5RhMMg1hkBQ...

Great talk by Friederike Butt from Aachen University at Duke Quantum Center today about measurement-free fault-tolerant quantum computation. arxiv.org/abs/2410.13568 arxiv.org/abs/2506.22600

#onepoliticalsongwednesday #opsw Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhW...

We had 4 posters at QEC 2025. Eren's poster received an Honorable Mention in the poster competition. Congrats to Eren!

It's been an amazing week at QEC25 seeing the incredible work people have done in the field over the past couple of years! Abe Jacob did a fantastic job presenting our new work on trivariate tricycle codes, quantum LDPC codes that combine several nice fault-tolerant properties.

Consider this being told n+1 times.

EPiQC was an NSF Expedition project led by Fred Chong at the University of Chicago. We had a mini-reunion at QEC2025

The recording of my talk on denser planar storage, at QEC2025: yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page... And the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Here is what we did this summer: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09103 All students in attached image are in 1st year undergrad or high school. Due to frozen funds, some volunteered & others were funded by Cornell Engineering. Thanks for your dedication & thx to other coauthors for helping to complete the work

#OnePoliticalSongWednesday #OPSW If I had a hammer by Peter Seeger and Lee Hays. First recorded by The Weavers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdBA...

If you saw my talk yesterday at QEC, this paper is the one that allows us to further improve distance of the mid cycle states further!

I’m not at QEC25, but I’m still learning decoding things from @dabacon.tachyon.institute at the UW seminar

@andreasateth.bsky.social and I exchange pullovers at QEC2025

Very exciting announcement, the next Quantum Error Correction conference QEC26 will be hosted by Google 7-12 June 2026 in Santa Barbara. See you there! @dripto.bsky.social @mattmcewen.bsky.social

My friend who worked for CISCO said "The key to flying all the time is a hard-shell carry-on bag that fits in a CRJ-900 overhead bin." My second suit case that followed her advice reached its end.

The infectious enthusiasm of my wonderful co-authors (Robert Huang, Soonwon Choi, Jarrod McClean) drove this upbeat assessment of “The Vast World of Quantum Advantage.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.05720

🎉 Congratulations to @aspuru.bsky.social on receiving the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Computational Sciences! He was recognized for pioneering work at the intersection of quantum computing, AI, automation and chemistry. More details here: www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/a...

@mjbiercuk.bsky.social and Q-CTRL helping out the #qec2025 conference with performance boosters.

A second Quantum paper within three weeks! We show how to construct a class of qubit "Evenbly codes" - toy models of holography at finite N - which turn out to be highly tunable subsystem codes that can be made resilient against different types of quantum noise. Why "Far from Perfect"? Well...

In our world of (noisy) data, error correction is everywhere, as Mary Wootters eloquently explains. www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-math...

Tutorials begin at QEC2025 at @yaleqi.bsky.social. Here is an artistic rendition of some famous codes at the Google Quantum AI tutorial.

1/ 🚀 Super excited to launch PlanqTN — an open-source Python lib + interactive web app for exploring quantum LEGO-based QEC codes! 🎥 Intro video: youtu.be/TNnE3hReYVk 🔗 GitHub: github.com/planqtn/plan... 🌐 Studio: planqtn.com

Check out pianqtn.com by @balintpato.bsky.social . It is a graphical toolbox for building and evaluating quantum error correction codes following the quantum Lego approach of Cao and Lackey arxiv.org/abs/2109.08158 Balint also made a YouTube tutorial youtu.be/TNnE3hReYVk?...

IBM is looking for a quantum developer advocate to work in Spain in the Barcelona región ibmglobal.avature.net/en_US/career...

We are growing the QEC team at Microsoft Quantum! We have open roles at different career stages, and interested in talking to folks with a broad technical background -- mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, etc. #QuantumCareers #QuantumJobs

Quantum cryptography has already proved full of surprises, and researchers have only recently begun exploring the possibilities. “We’re just trying to understand this new landscape that really existed the whole time,” Zhandry said.

#onepoliticalsongwednesday The title of #OPSW comes from a lyric in Freeze Up by Operation Ivy. "Just one political song, just one political song To drop into the list that stretches years and years long" www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlC...

The QIP 2026 call for papers is out! QIP 2026 will be held in Riga, Latvia from January 24–30, 2026. See you there! qip2026.lu.lv

QSIM2025 poster session Qiang Miao and I invite people to read his poster about using MERA to calcualte entanglement properties with a quantum computer arxiv.org/abs/2412.18602

QSIM2025 Poster session Mingyu Kang discusses his work on spin-boson simulation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At QSIM2025 qsimconference.org held at IBM office in NY. The conference is amazing and so is the view of the city.

#SnailsofBlueSky #SuNAILDay Snail, Mainz, Germany 2024 Great trip to visit the Schmidt-Kaler lab and accidental timing allowed me to go to Open Ohr Festival

In 3 (or more) dimensions, all fundamental particles are either fermions and bosons. But why? This is a direct consequence of the properties of the configuration space for identical particles 🧵 1/14

Today is Cornell Quantum Day: quantum.cornell.edu/cornell-quan... We have a schedule of external and student speakers lined up, with a blend of theory and experiment

#OnePoliticalSongWednesday #OPSW A new feature of this account will be my favorite political songs. Due to Ozzy's departure this month, we start with War Pigs youtu.be/bc5Nk1DXyEY?...

Chris Monroe recalls how fundamental research on atomic clocks led to quantum computing technologies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B7z...

When I was at QCPR, there was a retirement symposium for David DiVincenzo www.quantuminfo.physik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~bmmwed The line up looks great.