Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

Looking for a postdoc in foundations of physics/cosmology/science? Come work with us at @fqxi.org on the Foundational Answers project fqxi.org/jobs-postdoc...

PhD applications are open! We'd love to have you visit Durham Physics to find out more about the(currently!) 17 available projects we have for October 2026 start. Our open day is November 26th, we hope to see you there! Find project descriptions and open day sign up links below.

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

We’re pleased to see our report 'Physics Matters: Funding the Foundations of Growth' gaining strong media attention over the weekend: ➡️ The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/education/20... ➡️ The Independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... ➡️ The Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...

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Great video from @cweidner0.bsky.social from @qetlabs.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social on why (many) quantum technologies need to be kept super-cool! 🥶❄️

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

This November, the Royal Institution will host two incredible days of talks and discussions with some of the world’s leading minds - featuring Nobel laureate Professor Anton Zeilinger, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Artur Ekert, Helen Margolis, and more. 👉 Save your place: iop.eventsair.com/qst2025/

Incredibly pleased to announce Maria Farsari as our first confirmed Plenary Speaker for Photon 2026! Find out more details about the @instituteofphysics.bsky.social's flagship biennial conference at www.photon.org.uk

Quantum on the Clock is officially open! Know a young person in their final two years of school in the UK or Ireland that has a passion for quantum science or tech? Encourage them to enter! They need to create a 3-minute video explaining any quantum concept creatively. 🔗 www.iop.org/physics-comm...

Can you explain a quantum concept in 3 min? Enter @instituteofphysics.bsky.social's #QuantumOnTheClock competition. A video competition for UK & Irish students in their final 2 yrs pre-university. 🏆 £2k prizes 🗓️ Open Now–Deadline 4 Oct 2025 ➡️iop.org/quantum-clock

Let me try to explain why it's important to study the foundations of quantum mechanics. (1/n) (Have to do some breathing exercises, b/c to me it's blindingly obvious that "understanding the most important theory in physics" is something physicists should care about, but apparently opinions differ.)

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-... @ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

We have an opening for a research scientist in the quantum algorithms team at Quantinuum. This is permanent in London or Cambridge, UK. Details: jobs.eu.lever.co/quantinuum/2...

Excited to announce I'm recruiting for my first two Postdoctoral Research Associates! These 5-year positions will allow the holders to dive into applying quantum foundations to understand and develop quantum advantage!

My feature article about the delayed-choice quantum eraser is out now in @physicsworld.bsky.social! physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu...

Proud to say my recent op-ed piece on issues with the for-profit academic publishing industry will appear in the July issue of @physicsworld.bsky.social! Read it now online at: physicsworld.com/a/why-i-stop...

"Universities are magnets for global talent, so why is this government so determined to undermine that? Financial catastrophe, collapsed recruitment, and a reckless visa plan. We jeopardise it at our peril” alpinkerton.bsky.social on the government’s attack on international students.

Never had a Eurovision so tense as this one - the cheer at my flat party when Austria won was huge! 😁

Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,

One perk of philosophy of science is that you get to see this directly in every academic field #philsci

There is zero legal basis to make that pronouncement. None at all. There is no moral basis to say anything of the sort. This is utterly reprehensible.

Reminder, abstract submission deadline for QuAMP (Quantum Atomic and Molecular Physics) is TOMORROW! Strongly recommend submitting to this (conference is 2-4th September 2024 here in Newcastle) iop.eventsair.com/quamp2025/

"So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

I think it would be a good time to reinstantiate the mirror network for the # arXiv. It’s an essential piece of the global research community in math, physics, computer-science and adjacent fields. Under the current circumstances it should not only be hosted in the US. #quantum #math #physics #cs

300 jobs at risk at Newcastle University 🚨 Our members should not pay the price for vice-chancellors' inability to manage finances. @newcastleucu.bsky.social say enough is enough.

Since the 90s governments have pushed universities to run more like big business. This led to high executive pay, dissatisfied 'customers', mutinous staff, disbanding socially useful but 'unprofitable' divisions, and lavish spending on white elephant prestige projects. So, in fairness, it worked.

'In the letter, made public on 10 February, Julia Black...says the “range of cutbacks we are seeing across universities is leading to a severe loss in UK capability".' Nearly 100 HEIs are “contracting or closing” social sciences, humanities & the arts disciplines “in the face of a financial crisis”.

Our members have given a clear message, cuts this way is not the way forward. They want a more democratic governance of their university, reasonable workloads, and most importantly, to stop this devastating approach to HE as a business. oh, and if you want to sign the letter the article refers to:

QuAMP 2025, a biennial international conference on Quantum, Atomic and Molecular Physics, will be held at Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social 2-4 September 2025 @instituteofphysics.bsky.social #QuantumPhysics #AtomicPhysics #MolecularPhysics www.quantiki.org/conference/i...

Microsoft has tried to increase my 365 subscription from £79.99 to £104.99 without telling me I can opt out of Copilot AI and keep the original price. Select cancel subscription then choose Classic. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

docs.google.com/document/d/e... Sign our Open Letter to Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, and Sunderland MP

We’re recruiting a PhD student, come and work with us @newcastleuni.bsky.social! This exciting interdisciplinary project applies the quantum formalism to model experimental observations of human emotional memory performance. #physics #psychology #emotions #neuroscience #quantum #quantumformalism

PhD fellowship in Applied Quantum Foundations Group, U Newcastle in the project related to utilization of the quantum formalism for experimental observations of human emotional memory performance. #QuantumFormalism #NeuralSystems quantiki.org/position/rem...

Recruiting an interdisciplinary PhD student at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, looking at using quantum mechanics to model visual memory in psychology! Deadline 28th Feb - see here for more info and to apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

It’s a shame they turned universities into landlords & pharmaceutical companies, cuz it would be nice if institutions devoted to learning might speak up about the value of knowledge in a time when 22-year-old edgelords from 4chan have been given carte blanche to erase data from every federal agency

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

The Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, organized by University of Bristol Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, will return 28-30 April 2025 #QuantumTechnologies #QuantumInformation www.quantiki.org/conference/b...

⚛️ Help us kick off the International Year of Quantum! ⚛️ IOP Publishing is proud to mark the #IYQ with a host of events and activities, along with the Institute of Physics, the UK coordinator on behalf of the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. See more: ow.ly/LIhI50USr1i

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Encouraging diversity among scientists is ethically right and also leads to better science.

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Incredibly proud of my PhD student @torijawik.bsky.social giving her first conference talk only 3 months into her PhD! 😁 (Based on a really cool paper from her Masters' looking at high-level quantum programming languages arxiv.org/abs/2409.10231)

I can't remember the last time I called a customer service line that didn't claim it was currently experiencing a higher volume of callers than usual

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

physicist defining a werewolf: “a werewolf is something that transforms like a werewolf”

All the anecdotes about #MDPI spam invites reminded me to share my highlight - the multiple times they've asked me to contribute to their veterinary science journal Pets (I can only assume because their AI noticed my papers on quantum Cheshire cats and got confused...)