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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 18h

The first @quarc-csic.bsky.social workshop is on! quarc.csic.es/events/quantum-optics-for-quantum-technologies-workshop

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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 22h

Today we start a three day workshop on quantum technologies in Madrid, joint activity between @iff-csic.bsky.social and CSIC's new institute @quarc-csic.bsky.social quarc.csic.es/events/quant...

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 28/09/2026

Looking forward to the ITCE conference, and to talk about our latest results on nonlocality in networks!

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 24/09/2026

Spending a very stimulating week at @uni-muenster.de on the Structure of Quantum Theory workshop. First time I'm using my new @quarc-csic.bsky.social -themed slides! Thanks @hippoquantum.bsky.social and Matthias Kleinmann for the invitation and for putting up such a good event

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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Open position in our new institute @quarc-csic.bsky.social Help us create a large nation wide quantum communication infrastructure!

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Instituto de Física Fundamental CSIC (IFF-CSIC) @iff-csic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

👋Este mes damos la bienvenida a Alex Pozas-Kerstjens, nuevo investigador Ramón y Cajal en el IFF. Con su trabajo contribuirá al desarrollo de herramientas para la certificación de fenómenos cuánticos y el diseño de protocolos criptográficos para redes de comunicación cuánticas.

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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📢CSIC has created a new research instituted, called QuARC (Quantum Advanced Research Center). The institute gathers CSIC scientists working on quantum information and quantum technologies in Madrid (24 permanent & tenure track, 100 total) 1/3 quarc.csic.es

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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Spanish Network for Quantum Information and Quantum Technologies has a new home ritce.hbar.es The web offers (i) a census of the quantum community, (ii) a catalogue of activities in Spain, (iii) a job market, and (iv) a catalogue of talks offered to schools, universities & other entities 1/3

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Red de Información y Tecnologías Cuánticas en España

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Elies Gil-Fuster @eliesgf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yay! Forms are so much fun 🎉🎊 If you're a quantum researcher, we would love it if you could fill the form (<10 minutes) and share it with your network. Thanks!

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Victor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

After extensive experiments with AI agents, the [72,36,16] extremal code remains elusive—and possibly more intractable than we expected. This isn’t your average Erdős puzzle; it’s full-stack math + compute. We’re opening the search to the community: take a shot. valbert4.github.io/selfdual_site/

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Searching for a [72,36,16] extremal code

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Ivan Šupić @quantumsupic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

PhD opportunity in QIT in Grenoble. I am advertising a project through the QuanG2 call, at the interface of nonlocality, self-testing, computationally bounded devices, complexity, and crypto. My project is among the topics offered: phdquantumgrenoble.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/phd-applicat...

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María José Calderón @mj-mjcp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Are you a master's student, PhD candidate, or postdoc working in Quantum Science? Join QTYR26 – Quantum Technologies for Young Researchers workshop! Valencia, June 22–26 cuantica2025.es/qtyr-2026/ @rsef-esp.bsky.social @gefes-rsef.bsky.social @dpe-csic.bsky.social @quarc-csic.bsky.social

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 12/05/2026

This week I am visiting @quaintum.bsky.social at @univ-amu.fr. This is definitely the most beautiful campus I've been to so far. Looking forward to the exciting discussions!

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The deadline for submission of abstracts to the 2026 Biannual Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF), Sevilla 20-24 July, has been extended to *11th May.* 1/ bienalfisicasevilla2026.es/RSEF2026/abs...

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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Today, as part of our Strategy on Quantum Technoolgies, @csic.es announced the creation of a new research institute in Madrid, the Quantum Advanced Research Center or QuARC @quarc-csic.bsky.social This new institute launches now with 24 PIs and a total of 100 researchers 1/ quarc.csic.es

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 17/04/2026

This was a super interesting read for me as a quantum physicist. I learnt that zero-knowledge provers can be hacked, and that cryptographers' and security analysts' way of understanding quantum mechanics is completely different to ours. What an interesting time to live in!

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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A little task to get your brain going today: Prove the statement in the picture!

$A mathematical statement involving operator inequalities and tensor products. Statement in LaTeX: Let $X,Y$ be operators on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. If $0\leq X \leq Y$, then $X^{\otimes n} \leq Y^{\otimes n}$ for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$.$

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Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We are living in exciting times. Starting today, the zoo will be completely redone by AI! errorcorrectionzoo.org/__41ai

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The Error Correction Zoo collects and organizes error-correcting codes.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 26/03/2026

Copilot will use your code for model training starting next month unless you opt out 👇 If you’re a student on the free plan, consider whether you want to disable this before April 24th

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Quantum Journal @quantum-journal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Celebrate with us Quantum's approaching 10 year anniversary in 2026 with the publication of the 2026th paper! Do you know which paper that is? quantum-journal.org/2026-quantum...

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2026 Quantum papers!

Congratulations Quantum community! It’s hard to believe 10 years have passed and we’re en route to our 10-year founding anniversary in April 2026. On that occasion we wanted to announce ...

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Frederik Hahn @frederikhahn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I am surprised to see this and hope the arXiv stays nonprofit.

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 09/03/2026

Today I spoke about quantum nonlocality in networks at the "Nonlocality: Driver for Quantum Advantage?" workshop at the @lorentzcenter.bsky.social. After the first day of the workshop, I'm eager to see what the rest of the week brings. @snsf.ch

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Nicolai Friis @improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Some quantum info researchers are reluctant to learn about non-CPTP maps, but are ultimately left with no Chois.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

AI agent deleted all my files will become the new dog ate my homework.

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Ernesto Galvão @efgalvao.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Tenure-track faculty position in quantum info at Perimeter Institute.

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 12/01/2026

This is the last week to apply to the Spring School in near-term quantum computing that we are organizing at @ccbpp.bsky.social. Don't miss it!

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Aephraim Steinberg @quantumaephraim.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Happy 2026, and hearty Congratulations to Antoine Browaeys, Misha Lukin, and Mark Saffman on the 9th biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for their ground-breaking work developing quantum computational technologies relying on tweezer arrays of Rydberg atoms! cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca/bell-prize/b...

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 26/12/2025

I was not expecting this for Christmas, at all. I am truly grateful for having my research being recognized this way. Thanks to @ioppublishing.bsky.social @iopp-quantum.bsky.social for this prize! iopscience.iop.org/journal/2058...

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The IOP Publishing International Quantum Early Career Award - Quantum Science and Technology - IOPscience

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21/12/2025

2025 is almost over! Looking forward to 2026, when I'll finally do all the things I didn't get to in 2024

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 12/12/2025

The @ccbpp.bsky.social Spring School on near-term quantum computing is back! If you are a young (PhD/MSc) researcher in quantum science and want to get exposed to the recent developments on quantum computing, do not hesitate coming to Benasque on March 15 - 21 next year! www.benasque.org/2026ntqc/

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Spring School on Near-Term Quantum Computing

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Jonathan Oppenheim @postquantum.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

OpenAI leadership are promoting a paper in Physics Letters B where GPT-5 proposed the main idea — possibly the first peer-reviewed paper where an LLM generated the core contribution. One small problem: GPT-5's idea tests the wrong thing. My technical comment: scirate.com/arxiv/2512.0... 1/

As part of a broader effort to demonstrate AI’s po-
tential in scientific research [1], OpenAI executives have
pointed to a recently published paper by Hsu [2] as evi-
dence that AI can contribute original ideas to physics [3,
4]. Hsu credits GPT-5 with proposing the core idea of the
paper de novo, possibly the first published physics article
where the main idea came from an LLM, and discusses
the methodology in a companion piece [5]. We examine
whether GPT-5’s criterion is correct.

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Información y Tecnologías Cuánticas en España @qipcspain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"Antonio de Marti i Olius, premio GEITC a la mejor tesis doctoral en información y tecnologías cuánticas". #cuantica2025 www.cuantica2025.es/antonio-de-mart…

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Tamás Kriváchy @krivachytamas.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A great read by Retraction Watch. ✅ Nice to see that some Article 1 authors, McCoy et al., actively tried to get help from Springer Nature to fix the incorrect citations to their paper. 😐 Seems like Scopus and Web of Science also have the distorted citations.

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

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

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · 04/11/2025

This is quite a discovery. Congrats to @krivachytamas.bsky.social for airing it out.

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Tamás Kriváchy @krivachytamas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1. 5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s. Coincidence? 👇 scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0... I think not.

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Agencia Estatal de Investigación @ageinves.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

¡No te pierdas los próximos #webinariosAEI! ➡️ Ramón y Cajal 2025 (#RYC2025): 12 noviembre, 12:00h → lnkd.in/dgzXYSQF ➡️ #PID2025: 18 noviembre, 10:30h → lnkd.in/dnX4JfSN ➡️ #CPP2025: 11 diciembre, 12:00h → lnkd.in/dW4ZYnqS www.aei.gob.es/noticias/age...

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Quantum Spain @quantumspain-project.es · 24/10/2025

🚨 Seminar Recording Available! 🚨 💡 Superconducting quantum networks for quantum computers 🗣️@jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social — Senior Research Scientist on Quantum Engineering at CSIC. 🎥 Watch it now on YouTube: youtu.be/7cbcnRqr5kM #QuantumSpain #TalentQ #Research #Quantum

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Quantum Research Seminar: Superconducting quantum networks for quantum computers

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Richard Kueng @richardkueng.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

(I/III) We're excited to announce a new tenure track opening! The position is called 'quantum informatics' and is affiliated with our QUICK group within the CS+AI division at @jku.at 🇦🇹. Application deadline is November 30th, 2025: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

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El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · 20/10/2025

Gracias a un superordenador cuántico, la entidad está en condiciones de asegurar que la letra «I» de sus siglas significa «investigación». Puedes leer la información completa en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2025/10/el-c... Contenido patrocinado por @csicdivulga.bsky.social.

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Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links

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Información y Tecnologías Cuánticas en España @qipcspain.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Los próximos 27 y 28 de noviembre, la Fundación Ramón Areces de Madrid será sede del encuentro “España Cuántica: cierre del Año Internacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Cuánticas”, coorganizado por BSC, RSEF, CSIC y FRA. Inscripción abierta en la FRA. www.cuantica2025.es/cierre-del-a...

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Cierre del Año Internacional de la Ciencia y Tecnologías Cuánticas en España - Cuantica2025

Con un programa que abarca desde políticas europeas hasta resultados de investigación, el evento pondrá en común la visión de la comunidad científica, empresarial y pública sobre el papel de España en...

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