Everyone is 12 theory remains undefeated

I helped Sam with this video on the new scourge of science populists: the people who feign to be science communicators to channel populist sentiments into science circles, work to undermine public faith in science & in doing so serve antiscientific political movements Have a listen! He's very good!

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Remember kids, theoretical physicists have irreparably ruined public trust in science by saying they *hope* we *could* find BSM evidence at the LHC, but Elon gets to predict his products will "do the sci-fi" and be wrong 100 times per year for profit but he's just giving them hope

When doing calculations, how do you figure out which side of the napkin is the back?

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

Turns out Springer Nature website is broken in such a way that "many references lead to the wrong article, typically to Article Number 1 of a given Volume [...] which we estimate affects the citation count of millions of authors". Poor Nature, their $12,690 APC is barely enough to run a website...

After last week’s demonstration on an ion-trap quantum processor, Phasecraft showed the quantum simulation of a fermionic system on Google’s superconducting devices. This suggests that quantum computers are becoming practically useful for studying quantum many-body systems. arxiv.org/abs/2510.26845

“The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues.”

Phasecraft demonstrates a quantum simulation of a 56-qubit 2D Fermi-Hubbard model on Quantinuum’s trapped-ion system, reaching a regime too complex for exact classical simulation. They observe spin-charge separation. arxiv.org/abs/2510.26300

Coming out of social media hibernation to ask: Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf? We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me. QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara

⚡️ EU to reportedly restrict Russian diplomats' travel amid espionage surge. The measure follows a surge in hybrid operations targeting Ukraine's partners in the EU and NATO, including arson, cyberattacks, infrastructure sabotage, and drone incursions.

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⚡️Russia using 'shadow fleet' tankers to launch drones towards European cities, Zelensky says. Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of oil tankers are being used to "launch and control" Russian drones over European cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 28, citing intelligence reports.

Today, as I do in every class, I said to my students: "Actual competence doesn't matter! It's the 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 of competence that's important!" This always gets a laugh, but hopefully by the end of the term, they realize they can only appear competent in a mathematics class if they actually are

So much of what I read from the center left amounts to "what if the powerful did nice things for us without us having to make them" and folks, that's simply not how it works

An ever-increasing number of top Western officials are signaling support for the shooting down of Russian aircraft violating NATO airspace, following a string of recent incursions along the alliance's eastern flank.

Another one bites the dust… scirate.com/arxiv/2509.1...

⚡️Update: Russian fighter jets violate safety zone of Polish drilling platform in Baltic Sea, Border Guard says. The same day that MiG-31s crossed into Estonian airpsace, the Polish Border Guard reported that Russian figher jets violated the security zone of a drilling platform in the Baltic Sea.

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...

Academia.edu's terms of service are pure evil. I'm seeing people say "I quit it when I got an email saying they had generated a podcast using AI based on one of my papers without my permission" and "I discovered it was sending automatically-generated emails in my name without even telling me"

⚡️3 people arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia in UK. A 35-year-old woman and two men aged 41 and 46 were detained in a counter-terrorist operation at two separate addresses in Grays in Essex.

Stumbled upon the paper "Sorting with Bialgebras and Distributive Laws" ( https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nicolas.wu/papers/Sorting.pdf ) which introdued me to the idea that certain sorting algorithms can be considered 'duals' of others:

Does anyone have any good resources for loss landscape analysis in optimization? Binary variables preferred but just about any kind of variables would do. What metrics/phenomena to watch out for etc. I know it’s broad and I wonder what generalizations may/may not exist!

I think this is video on inflation is an all-time Hossenfelder moment. It's a beautiful illustration of how poorly her philosophy of science works and why she fights against progress every step of the way, to champion it only when it finally succeeds. It deserves a breakdown 🧵

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Hello world :) Nowhere feels like home for science, still, but I’ll give this a fifth try. Maybe some equilibrium will be reached!

Actually insanely proud that 6 months of drumming in I can do this at .9 the speed after only a few hours of practice 😅

What a day for counterdiabatic driving research! 2 new massive papers on the arXiv: * "Universal Counterdiabatic Driving" from Morawetz & Polkovnikov arxiv.org/abs/2503.01952 * "Counterdiabatic Driving with Performance Guarantees" from Finžgar et al arxiv.org/abs/2503.01958

Our paper "Speeding Up Quantum Measurement Using Space-Time Trade-Off" was finally published recently in PRL and has received Editors' Suggestion! :)) Thank you to Chris Corlett, Andrew Daley, Cica Gustiani, Gerard Pelegrí and Jonathan Pritchard for all the work! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

At QIP in case anyone is around and wants to say hi :))

Someone should absolutely gamify the exercises in this book, I can already see the puzzles in my head

It’s really not the fact that it’s happening as much as it is the fact that there is so little appropriate reaction

Aaand this is now published! :) The code repo is available for anyone who want to play around with computing non-adiabatic effects for their Hamiltonian. Paper: scipost.org/SciPostPhys.... Code repo: github.com/ewenlawrence... I plan to write a quick blogpost on the results, so keep an eye out!

Coming back from Eastern Europe in the winter and realising that Londoners are actually such a friendly approachable bunch 😅

I love this paper by Bill Kuszmaul. His proof of Chernoff bound is much more illuminating than the standard algebraic proof I learned.

Phasecraft internship applications are open! Anyone working on quantum info at an early stage (or adjacent fields!) who wants to experience working with a fantastic research team on cutting-edge quantum algorithms is welcome to get in touch :)

🖊️ @qzoeholmes.bsky.social and I are editing an issue for Quantum Science and Technology journal ow.ly/fR1W50Uu1av We want - (Wacky) new ideas for variational algorithms - Honest benchmarks, if you show it don't work, we want it (be thorough) - Studies on classical simulability - Power of data in QML

Dropping in with some good news that two of the last papers from my PhD have recently been accepted to their respective journals, SciPost and PhysRevLett :))) Many thanks to the hard work of all my collaborators! 1/3

Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault! 🧵

Was I the only one to not know that Ettore Majorana, of equation and fermion fame, disappeared without a trace in his 30s likely to live out the rest of his days in anonymity in Venezuela? roma.corriere.it/notizie/cron...

What a fascinating read. TIL that the information rate for humans tasks in almost always at most 10bit/s (but that our senses gather that at 10^8 times that speed!) arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

Hi #quantum folks, does anyone have any favorite examples of non-demolition measurements and links to papers where these have been implemented in practice?

This orange marmalade and sage duck is officially in my top 10 recipes

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I recently lost much of my faith in goodness and humanity in a big way. This has taken a toll my mental+physical health. Despite this, I’m delighted to say that Phasecraft as a workplace and @bgavran.bsky.social as a partner are enough to restore it. To a brighter future ❤️❤️

Have to admit that this is very cool. arxiv.org/abs/2412.13164 It's time to dump your quantum stocks and buy shares in companies that make mattresses or any other kinds of springs or pendulums! Harmonic oscillators are soon going to fly off the shelves like NVIDIA cards!

I don’t know how to start this so I’ll start in the words of @miniapeur.bsky.social : Do not work for Symbolica. I will explain my reasons for saying this below. 1/n

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