iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 29/09/2026

The report from the AI + TCS Working Group held at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social is out, including "twelve concrete near-term recommended actions." Currently reading it: while I have some reservations, but there is some good in it! Notably items 7, 8, and 11. simons.berkeley.edu/ai-tcs-worki...

7. Best works and technical talks in interviews.

- Emphasize quality over quantity. Evaluate candidates on no more than three works of their choosing, with this fact explicit in the instructions for candidates and their letter writers.

- Test technical depth. Evaluate the depth of the candidates’ understanding of the aforementioned works more than was done normally until now.

8. Additional postdocs. Establish additional postdoctoral positions for the TCS community, a temporary measure that will be phased out after a few years.

9. Workshops for identifying new theory directions. First, organize a workshop (or several) with the goal of identifying a list of modern topics related to AI; and second, run a series of workshops on each of these topics to identify fundamental directions and establish foundations and agendas for future work.

10. “TCS in the Age of AI” series at the Simons Institute. Establish a recurring and widely accessible “TCS in the Age of AI” series at the Simons Institute.

11. Opportunities for training and evaluation without AI assistance. To ensure development of necessary skills for a successful career in academia, a PhD in TCS should partially include training and evaluation components where the use of AI is forbidden.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Look, it's really simple: if its a work tool, your employer should pay for it, not you. Please don't contribute to normalizing “pay for your own work tools”.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

this is potentially quite a big deal.

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New system: 1. A week before QIP deadline the program committee publishes the titles of all accepted papers. 2. Everyone prompts LLMs for a week to produce these papers. 3. For each title, the best paper gets accepted (decided by an LLM). 4. This week's QIP is over and another QIP happens next week.

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Alex Bredariol Grilo @abgrilo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm actually more shocked that sharks are older than Saturn's rings

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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 04/08/2026

One thing I only just realised is that sharks are old enough - not just marginally but by millions of years - to have eaten trilobites. This is somehow more odd feeling than the fact they pre-date Saturn's rings.

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Gramsci at D4RKw0KE_$4$UkE69 @tontonpogo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

tenez j'ai fait un schéma pour expliquer un truc à un collègue à propos de l'économie de l'attention et je me dis ça peut servir :

Un schéma représentant une citation de skeet

Le skeet cité est de "grosgoret @ onpuelamerde"

le skeet en question est un énorme placard bleu avec marqué dedans en gras et en lettres massives "LE GROS VISUEL VEHICULANT UN MESSAGE BIEN DEGUEULASSE QUE DES SALES FILS DE TRADER ESPERENT VOIR DIFFUSER LE PLUS LARGERMENT POSSIBLE"

le skeet est cité par toi@degauche qui répond : "ton petit commentaire sarcastique qui va passer inaperçu"

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✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reuters:

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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Popolitique @popolitique.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ce n'était certainement pas un petit feu de forêt de rien du tout qui allait pousser Hortense et René dans les bras de ces dangereux escrolos d’ultragauche... Ma première BD, les fables bucoliques autogérées, est sortie ! 🦊 A retrouver dans votre librairie indé préférée (lien de commande en bio)

On voit un couple âgé tranquillement installé sur un canapé tandis qu'autour d'eux se déploient des grandes flammes
L'homme claque des doigts et dit :
L'homme : "Tiens !"
L'homme : "Et si on votait encore à droite en 2027 ?"

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Michaël Szadkowski ☑️ @szadkowski.fr · 24/07/2026

Un lecteur @lemonde.fr signalait en commentaire que mettre "-ai" à la fin d'une recherche Google désactivait les résumés AI. Testé ce matin, ça fonctionne. Merci, cher lecteur !

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 16/07/2026

The list of accepted papers at #FOCS2026 is out! sanjeevkhanna.org/FOCS2026_Acc...

sanjeevkhanna.org

FOCS 2026 – Accepted Papers

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I should be focusing on lecture but I'm busy being mad that the empty set is disjoint from itself

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 01/06/2026

It's time for the Theory Jobs spreadsheet for 2026! The theory CS community crowdsources who accepted which jobs every year. Blog post: kamathematics.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/t... Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Qcn... Results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

Screenshot (white letters on black background) of a post by Leslie Berntsen.
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board?
Me: Yes, but I’m not that kind of…
Flight attendant: It’s 11:52 PM and the passenger in 37F has a conference abstract due in seven minutes. It’s currently 50 words over the limit.
Me: Okay. I’m here.

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Apparently German real estate company Quantum has successfully sued the Dutch national quantum computing initiative Quantum Delta NL for trademark infringement on their use of "quantum". blog.galalaw.com/post/102mp68... www.boek9.nl/system/files...

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Use of ‘House of Quantum’ and ‘Quantum Delta NL’ infringes Quantum trademark (via Passle)

Quantum is a real estate specialist that develops and manages real estate projects and provides asset management services. Quantum carries out these act...

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The Jetsons lied to us

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Cartographe encarté 🔻🍉 @cartococo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Mme Dati a reçu le soutien de Reconquête, du Rassemblement national et maintient un candidat raciste sur sa liste. Elle est, indubitablement, la candidate de la fachosphère. Dimanche, une seule liste peut la battre et une seule. Pas une voix ne doit manquer.

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Ivan Šupić @quantumsupic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We are very happy to share that Grenoble will host TQC, one of the most important quantum computing conferences, in 2027! Excited to welcome the community in the heart of the Alpes! tqc-conference.org/2026/2027/

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Henry Yuen @henryyuen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

FOCS 2026 will be held in New York City Nov 8 - 11! CFP is up (link below). Submit your best work in theoretical computer science by April 1, 5pm ET.

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Absolutely love this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up... Kudos to the Norwegian Consumer Council for their efforts to fight enshittification! www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl... Read their report here: storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/0...

youtube.com

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · 01/03/2026

Come see me speak about the new era of simplex method theory. Wednesday!

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Alex Bredariol Grilo @abgrilo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

N'importe quoi. Tout le monde le sait bien que ce sont les fusions des universités qui nous font monter dans le ranking.

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Mathieu Hainselin (He/Him) @mhainselin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📚 Jai déjà lu des thèses de doctorat en neuropsychologie et des méta analyses dans le train. 👶 Nombre de fois où un enfant m'a gêné : 0 🚅 Nombre de fois où des adultes étaient pénibles à parler au téléphone ou regarder des vidéos sans casque : plein

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Sgùrr Thuilm @sgurrthuilm.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026

Si vous cherchez à réduire vos dépendances numériques aux US, je vous invite à jeter un œil sur le site European Alternatives qui recense des services européens dans pas mal de catégories (mails, messageries, VPN, cloud etc.) ⤵️ european-alternatives.eu/categories

european-alternatives.eu

Service categories | European Alternatives

List of all categories on European Alternatives

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Tom Gur @tomgur.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

ICALP 2026 CFP is out. This year it’ll be at Royal Holloway (London area), July 7–10, 2026. Abstract registration: Feb 3 Paper deadline: Feb 6 Details: icalppodcspaa2026.cs.rhul.ac.uk/icalp/

icalppodcspaa2026.cs.rhul.ac.uk

ICALP

The 53rd EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) will take place between 7–10 July, 2026.

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Tom Gur @tomgur.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Reminder: Two weeks left to apply for the Assistant/Associate Professor positions in Theoretical Computer Science at Cambridge. Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Details and application portal: cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...

cst.cam.ac.uk

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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Department of Physics at UIUC is looking for an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Quantum Information Science, including, but not limited to, quantum error correction, quantum optics, quantum algorithms, and AMO physics. Application deadline: Dec 1 illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

illinois.csod.com

Grainger Engineering: Assistant Professor in Theoretical QIS - Department of Physics

Duties & Responsibilities

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Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · 27/10/2025

The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast. We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.

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Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book

Narrowing the gap between theory and practice is a longstanding goal of the algorithm analysis community. To further progress our understanding of how algorithms work in practice, we propose a new alg...

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The word ‘head’ is etymologically related to ‘chef’, the head of a kitchen. And to ‘chief’, the head of a group. These are also related to ‘cape’, a headland, and ‘per capita’, literally “by heads” – and yes, to Spanish ‘cabeza’ too. Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about this word family:

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Tom Gur @tomgur.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I’m looking for postdocs and PhD students to join my group at Cambridge! Topics include: Classical & Quantum Complexity, Sublinear Algorithms, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Learning Theory, and their interplay with Fourier Analysis & Additive Combinatorics. To apply or inquire, email me your CV.

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Tom Gur @tomgur.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Cambridge is recruiting Assistant/Associate Professors in Theoretical Computer Science. #TCS #AcademicJobs Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Contact me for informal inquiries. See more details and apply here: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...

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qit-cqt.bsky.social @qit-cqt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In a series of posts, we aim to present a set of essential tools & techniques that we believe every aspiring quantum information theorist should have in their toolbox. 🧰🛠️ We think these techniques will also be useful for researchers in adjacent fields. All tools will be linked in this thread: 🧵

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Dear colleagues, positions at CNRS (and INRIA) will (in all probability) be announced this winter. By then it will however be too late to properly prepare an application. Recent PhDs, postdocs etc interested in such positions should get right now in contact with teams who would like to recruit them.

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TCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

With September (already!) underway, the next season of TCS+ will start soon. As we are planning for it, a reminder that you can—and are encouraged to!—submit suggestions for talks and speakers on our website: sites.google.com/view/tcsplus...

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TCS+ - Suggest a talk

Suggest a talk

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Frédéric Restagno @frestagn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Je découvre une agence qui vent des conférences de chercheurs ou d’ingénieurs. Ok. S’il y a un marché. Mais je rappelle aux enseignant·es (si besoin) que de nombreuses et nombreux chercheur·ses, enseignant·es chercheurs·ses viendront gratuitement. Invitez-les.

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Jérôme Giovannoni @jeromegiovannoni.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Quand les boomers climatosceptiques prétendent que les températures actuelles ne sont pas exceptionnelles, montrez-leur cette vidéo.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 14/08/2025

Sophie Huiberts (@sophie.huiberts.me), from the CNRS, will give an online talk at @optima-arc.bsky.social next week, Wed 20, 4-5pm AEST 🇦🇺, on the "Smoothed analysis of the simplex method" (settling it!) To attend, see the OPTIMA website: optima.org.au/events/semin... h/t @swumboh.bsky.social

optima.org.au

Seminar 20 August 2025 16:00 (AEST) – OPTIMA

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Nelly Chadour @nellychadour.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Bouteille à la mer : On a trouvé un petit appareil-photo de marque Sony au parc Montsouris (Paris 14). Faîtes tourner au cas où.

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FOCS 2026 @focs2026.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The list of accepted papers at #FOCS2025 is up! focs.computer.org/2025/accepte...

focs.computer.org

Accepted Papers – FOCS 2025

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A new book "Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik" presents biographies of 16 overlooked women in the field’s history. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Book cover of "Women in the History of Quantum Physics"

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 03/06/2025

It's time for the Theory Jobs spreadsheet for 2025! The theory CS community crowdsources who accepted which jobs every year. Links in next post 1/2

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TCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📢 Our sixth and last TCS+ talk of the season will be Wednesday, June 4 (10amPT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CEST): Irit Dinur, from the IAS, will tell us about "Agreement Tests: Local Consistency, Global Structure"! RSVP to receive the link (available one day prior to the talk): forms.gle/GJt74TequURy... #TCSSky

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TCS+ RSVP: Irit Dinur (2025/06/04)

Title: Agreement Tests: Local Consistency, Global Structure

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