Great panel discussion right now at the 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics conference on Helgoland. (left to right: Liang Jiang, Birgitta Whaley, Rob Schoelkopf, Michelle Simmons, Charles Bennett) #quantum #quantumcomputing @MPI_ScienceOfLight

Please boost widely: For the conference "100 Years Quantum Mechanics" on Helgoland in June (9-14) we still have some spots available again due to last-minute cancellations. Registration is therefore open again for a short time: https://indico.mpl.mpg.de/event/17/ More info about the event and […]

@ModernePhysik @MPI_PhysikDesLichts @FAU die Vorträge von Jörn sind immer klasse (und von dem Rest sicherlich auch). Herzliche Empfehlung an alle, die eventuell in der Nähe sind! ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Hier bei der #blauenacht in #nurnberg im #zukunftsmuseum sind wir vom Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts @MPI_PhysikDesLichts und @FAU heute abend mit Infos zur #quantenkommunikation mit Satelliten vertreten!

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

📺 TV-Tipp: "Die Zukunft beginnt jetzt – Innsbruck im Zentrum der Quantenforschung" Ein Österreich-Bild aus dem Landesstudio Tirol von Éric Berdaguer 🔬 Innsbruck zählt zu den weltweit führenden Standorten der Quantenforschung. Die Dokumentation beleuchtet […] [Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

Machines have been better at chess than humans for some time. A motorcycle can move much faster than a human can run Yet we are perfectly good at training for those activities in the context of competition, and we think the skills they build are useful We can do that with writing and math, too

Are there some scientists who calmly and peacefully brainstorm, do their experiments, etc., or do you all also get dragged into like 15 directions at once on any given day? I would say this is not sustainable, but it has been a decade now, so I guess it turns out to be sustainable ?

Happy #DayOfLight from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light! @MPI_ScienceOfLight @maxplanckgesellschaft

Diesen Freitag sind wir vom Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts @MPI_PhysikDesLichts in #Erlangen in der Innenstadt am Hugenottenplatz, ab 12:00, zum #TagDesLichts und internationalen Quantenjahr 2025, mit Kurzvorträgen -- und abends dann in unserem […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Weitersagen: In der Reihe "Moderne #Physik am Samstagmorgen" an der Uni #Erlangen finden im Sommer folgende Vorträge statt... Samstag, 24. Mai 2025: eROSITA – Der Himmel im Röntgenlicht (Prof. Jörn Wilms) Samstag, 28. Juni 2025 : Quantenwissenschaft mit […] [Original post on wisskomm.social]

A summery cartoon for @newscientist.com

I guess almost all academics are approached by crackpots regularly. In the last few days, I've been approached by a ChatGPT-assisted crackpot. At the beginning I tried to help them, in case they were not crackpots, but just somebody trying their best. They, indeed, were somebody trying their […]

How long will our universe last? Well, it looks like there is a definite end to the most robust pieces of our cosmos: Even the dead remnants of stars, i.e. black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs will eventually decay. This is based on the realization […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Deswegen ja auch das Problem des Plagiats - wenn ich Formulierungen in eine Hausarbeit copy paste die ChatGPT geschrieben hat ist das eine Form von Plagiat weil es nicht meine eigene durchdachte Formulierung ist UND ich riskiere damit unmarkiert/zitiert andrer Menschen Gedankengut wiederzugeben.

Stand Up For Science has a thread on Bluesky to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NSF. It’s important to spread the word about the benefits that publicly funded science has brought us.

"Making Mars as habitable as Antarctica during the polar night would be the greatest technological undertaking humanity has ever taken by many orders of magnitude, in order to create a place that nobody would want to live, and where the gravity would still be too low. It's a deeply unpleasant […]

FYI, if you happen to be a scientist in a large English speaking country with uncertain financing for your future career, my employer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) is looking for grad students, postdocs and PIs. It's a research institute, so no undergraduates, and the […]

SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE FUNDING FOR PBS AND NPR! https://chng.it/VmqpkTTDHP #savepbs #savenpr #pbs #npr

Update. "Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01397-1 "The budget document released by the White House on Friday for the upcoming fiscal year…would cut all non-defence spending by 23% but targets the US National Science Foundation […]

Great auroras last night as I got home from giving a talk about SpaceX debris falling on Saskatchewan for the local amateur astronomers! Also, of course one of the people in the audience knew Barry Sawchuk, who originally publicized the Ituna Crew Dragon Trunk debris fall. He said he'd keep an […]

Quick LLM question: what is the most powerful truly open source model where also all the training data is openly declared and available? #llm #ai

I just got the official email from the NSF about the drastic cuts and I think the correct translation is "if you are a young researcher who still wants to do science strongly consider leaving the United States if you can." which, really, is not an ideal message to be sending.

Some NOAA workers had already decided that they couldn’t just sit around. Fearing that they would be laid off, one probationary scientist who was fired and then rehired, only to be placed on administrative leave, downloaded work files to their personal computer in late February. They spent […]

This afternoon will be: meeting with writing coach (paid for by a grant from Princeton University Press, which is pretty freaking cool), try to do a little bit more writing or coding depending on where my brain is after the meeting, go outsiiiiiide and enjoy the sun, and then really hope that I […]

Just two weeks ago, I was in Charlottesville, VA to give the physics colloquium on my favorite topic: the JWST and how it's already revolutionized our view of the Universe. Check it out in full for yourself! www.phys.virginia.edu/Announcement...

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” says a #NIH Intramural #Scientist. Depressing report in #Science on the first 100 days of the Trump administration […] [Original post on mstdn.nursing.unibas.ch]

If your buddy becomes an editor at a Nature journal, your chances of publishing a Nature paper more than double: "For each additional original article published in the two years before the editor’s appointment, these authors had 161% more chances to publish another original article in this […]

🧵In March I wrote about how Trump's attacks on science & universities followed the authoritarian playbook & set out Qs as warning signs for escalation. 🚨 THESE ARE NOW HAPPENING This 🧵is on how those warning sign Qs have been realised full post: christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si... 1/15

Super interview with @TatianaIlyina by @EuroGeosciences on the occasion of her well deserved Fridtjof Nansen medal. What a great role model - well worth a read https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/os/2025/04/27/tatiana-ilyina-receives-fridtjof-nansen-medal/

Noch steht die Rakete Vega C im Integrationsgebäude, das 3 Stunden vor dem Start auf Schienen 70m weggerollt wird. Die Mission Biomass soll morgen 6:15 Uhr Ortszeit (11:15 MESZ) starten. Das ist sehr knapp vor Sonnenaufgang hier in Kourou. Denn Biomass wird […] [Original post on reporter.social]

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

(please boost for reach) Does anyone have any insight into whether/how the #americanphysicalsociety is going to react to the ongoing extreme pressure that is being put on #Harvard and other universities? After all, the pressure also involves dramatic threats to cut fundamental research funding […]

"#Mastodon—built as a #nonprofit and run by independent communities—has essentially made it impossible for itself to fall into the familiar pattern of #socialmedia “enshittifiction". #bluesky, despite its innovative technology & good intentions, is built on the same #venturecapital-backed […]

I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/

just writing an update to my attack on science substack and the amount that's happened in the last 6 weeks has even shocked me 😱