The rarest of sights - a big glossy journal publishing negative replications! Yes, we had to bundle 4 replications into one article AND we had to wait 2 (!!) years in peer review, but here we are: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If publishing null results was a problem in my old field (physics beyond the Standard Model) there would have been, like, three papers in the past 30 years.

Kudos to Science – and of course Sergey and others like him who are holding their own fields accountable. That is how science progresses.

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

Good to see John standing up for science youtube.com/watch?v=7Vcm...

Lol

I notice in my community numerous conferences featuring fraudsters. Along with people who stated that it's time to move on, and the lesson has been learned etc. Of course people who called out fraud are typically excluded. I wonder if other communities went through this and have they survived?

Further unreliable research from @qutech.bsky.social and @msftresearch.bsky.social covered by @averyorrall.bsky.social from @retractionwatch.com. I shared details which I wanted to share within a confidential investigation of @tudelft.nl but it was shut down... www.science.org/content/arti... 1/n

It is weird to issue an Editorial Expression of Concern, and call the case 'closed', isn't it? (@ Nature Communications) www.science.org/content/arti...

Denmark is a very disappointing country for research integrity. The University of Copenhagen is a cover-up facility. The national committee is meek and cannot be appealed to my whistleblowers. The journalists don't cover it. The code of conduct is good, but empty words. Shame on DK.

Owl ringing season has commenced!!! Pretty stoked to get the adult female Tawny Owl of this pair too, I handed her last year in the same nest box. I'll wear my badges of honour with pride these coming days!

I have a question to Nature (communications): if you publish a correction soooo extensive PLUS an Editorial Expression of Concern, why not just retract the paper? This is Microsoft-Delft, from 2017. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025 Anaheim Global Physics Summit was overwhelmed by nonsensical noise presented by MSFT as evidence of a topological qubit after claiming to the world they had built one. There you go Sankar — I fixed your tweet for you.

Appropriately still from the corrupt website, still afraid to use his own name, Das Sarma concedes that the MSFT 'qubit' generates 'nonsensical noise'. And also, Dr. CMTC, where is your code from the fraudulent retracted Nature paper on 'Quantized Majorana Conductance'? It's been 5 years...

(Nayak acknowledged that “you can’t see [the bimodal signal] with the naked eye.”) physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

@henrylegg.bsky.social bezeichnet Microsofts Daten über topologische Qubits beim #APS Meeting als Rorschach-Test: "Die Daten verdeutlichen, dass sich dieses Projekt von der Wissenschaft entfernt hat und in den Bereich des Glaubens vorgedrungen ist." Die ganze Story: www.heise.de/hintergrund/...

Referee Report: Long-awaited Microsoft talk at the APS Global Physics Summit It's an H-tetron.... 🧵

Microsoft lügt einfach. Sie setzen ihren Fahrplan der unzuverlässigen Wissenschaft fort, und dies sind einfach die nächsten Schritte auf der Betrugsleiter des Unternehmens. Topologische Qubits sind noch Lichtjahre entfernt!

Thank you to everyone that came to my talk today and all the support over the last few weeks. Today was an important day for protecting the scientific record #apsmarch

“Me and many other experts do not think they have demonstrated even the basic science behind it, let alone the leap into technology of scaling up, production, etc.” --Sergey Frolov www.salon.com/2025/03/17/c...

show. this to Mike Manfra. And ask him to finally share his charge jump data. @davidabergel.bsky.social wouldn't.

Happening today!

The stars of the YouTube "Majorana 1" movie (watched over 3M times!) reunite at the APS March meeting: On Monday, Krysta will talk about Hype, on Tuesday Chetan will talk about Fraud And I am missing Matthias who could perhaps talk about Tunnel Vision to cover all 3 causes of unreliable research?

The talk title is 🔥🔥🔥 Next talk will be at the astronomical society: Search for a topological qubit in the observed Universe: nearest bounds based on JWST

The talk is in the session MAR-B22.00014 at 2:06 pm on Monday. The session is on Topological superconductivity. The talk is a short 10 minute talk.

Congratulations to Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social for being removed as an author from this unreliable Microsoft-Delft paper in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... A cause for celebration. The paper is truly awful, because...

Since communication about advances in quantum computing has crossed firmly into the absurd, in #chatTGP today I imagine myself a VP at Microsoft requesting to produce Majorana discoveries. To kick things off, the AI has hallucinated a 'Trusted Graphics Pipeline' (not a thing according to Google)

BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, the Nobel Prize committee has preemptively awarded the 2025 Physics prize to Microsoft! Read the full citation below. 👇

Microsofts quantumcomputerclaim onder vuur. Onderscheid tussen 'echte' en nepmajoronadeeltjes, die het rekenhart moeten vormen van het apparaat, zou lastiger te maken zijn dan voorgespiegeld.

“Fundamental problems of disorder and material science aren’t going to go away just because you start fabricating some fancier device” www.newscientist.com/article/2471...

I wrote this letter to APS about their promotion of Microsoft's "Majorana 1". When you look at the facts together, you see how a determined agent can take advantage of a professional society's infrastructure. Help me reach APS committee members and officers, their emails are hard to find...

So, if you are rejected from PRX, PRL - you can still PAY MONEY TO APS to transmit your scientific fraud to APS members. Cool.

Experts are questioning that Microsoft has really made any breakthrough with their topological qubits www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTs...

I've had serious fomo for weeks now. This crappy blurry phone-trough-a-telescope image from an hour or so ago is the world-famous (well, in twitcherland that is) Spectacled Eider currently chilling out in de Waddensea at the island of Texel, the Netherlands. 1/n

The Nature editorial criteria when assessing Microsoft's majorana paper.

Sergey Frolov @spinespresso.bsky.social and Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social yesterday discussed Microsoft's new Nature paper and Majorana 1 chip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ag-... We recommend you watch the whole thing - it's both enlightening and entertaining! Here's our own megathread...🧵

I would like to publicly thank Zulfi Alam, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Quantum for recommending I read their paper and bother to understand the data. Doing this was really very helpful for my comment.

Majordrama qubit

Good to see a detailed analysis but who really believed in stable topological regions after seeing these figures which looked nothing like one would expect theoretically?

Only 4849 spots left to register by zoom! LOL. Thanks everyone who registered for this historic event and see you tomorrow. Remember scientific hypes are short lived so get on it while it lasts!

I regret to inform you of the tragic and permanent scientific death of current Microsoft Majorana claims. arxiv.org/abs/2502.19560

Das Sarma is a leading author of the retracted 'Quantized Majorana Conductance' Nature paper. When Microsoft manipulated data in that paper, Das Sarma's theory fit the fabrication perfectly. He refuses to share his code. Next of this Aaronson blog: "Hao Zhang asked me to post the following"...

BRIEF HISTORY of Microsoft handing out their not working chips to government officials. 2025 - U.S. Senator Ted Cruz brandishing a chip given to him by Microsoft in the U.S. Senate.

Das Sarma’s bullshit: bullshit

Runner-up for Joke of the Week: 'Prof. Vincent Mourik at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, who played a key role in debunking Microsoft’s 2018 paper, is unconvinced.' www.kedglobal.com/tech,-media-...

Here is an interview @ancurlija.bsky.social did with Karl Ziemelis, Chief Editor for Natural Sciences at Nature Magazine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9m4... Recorded last year, after the Ranga Dias and old Microsoft retractions. While the last week's Microsoft paper was under consideration at Nature.

After the conference Chetan Nayak emailed me promising an erratum That’s what happened last year in Spain: Microsoft Quantum admitted to me they screwed up the topological gap protocol, now they publish a Nature with devices “tuned up” using that protocol They don’t have Majoranas and they know it

La communication de Microsoft sur l'ordinateur quantique s'est pris les pieds dans les règles de l'éthique scientifique... (Pour abonnés)(Avec une interview de @vincentmourik.bsky.social ) www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/mic...