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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 25/09/2026

Have you done your daily turddle?

Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 23/09/2026

Since everything is going to shit and polishing a turd is harder than you think, I present: turddle. csferrie.github.io/turddle/

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 11/09/2026

Correction: racing to results was always pointless. If AI prevents academic fiefdoms, I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 04/09/2026

My new email signature: If you click the ❤️ reaction button on this email, I will print 1,000 copies of the new email in my inbox notifying me that you reacted ❤️ to my email, construct an elaborate papier-mache effigy of you from the printouts, and ceremonially burn it in a dumpster.

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Ivo van Vulpen @ivovanvulpen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Colloquium by @csferrie.com (author of the Baby University books) at @leidenscience.bsky.social on 'What you shouldn't know about quantum physics' Of course on a day that I'm not in Leiden 🥹. Bad news for me, good news for you since you can just register www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 02/09/2026

A government struggling with problems at home discovers the political value of having a foreign enemy, settles on Canada, turns trade grievances and border tensions into patriotic outrage, watches the media amplify every provocation, and then discovers that a fake crisis can become very real.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 19/08/2026

People out here making fun of teenage boys for their high taper fades not knowing how old-school cool it is. Here's a student with Robert Millikan circa 1930, building electroscopes to detect cosmic rays, who looks like he jumped out of a 2026 barbershop window ad.

Experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner Robert Millikan and doctorate student Harvey Cameron. Image source: Robert Millikan and G. Harvey Cameron with early cosmic ray electroscopes, lead shielding, batteries, and voltmeter. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives General Collection.

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Dr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Did you know there’s a #SciArt competition happening across some of Australia's research centres right now? 🔭🧫🌱⛅ Scientists are sharing their research in creative ways! 🧑‍🎨 AND you can vote for your favourites! 🤩 Check them out here: scienceart.com.au/voting/ Voting closes August 14 🗳️ #SciComm

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Voting - Creative Communication Competition

Voting Guide People’s Choice Voting is open on this page from 1-14 August 2026. Voting rules:

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 29/07/2026

Just working through my census answers...

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Geraint F. Lewis @cosmichorizons.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I recently appeared in Petr Lebedev's new video on Cosmic Fine-tuning. youtu.be/oi91kE_wocs?...

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The Most Controversial Idea In Physics

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 02/07/2026

It's even free! csferrie.com/fun/quantum-...

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 28/05/2026

Uranus has entered the chat.

Cover of upcoming book, Uranus is Full of Gas by Chris Ferrie. Depicts an anthropomorphized version of the planet.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 03/05/2026

How quick are your <bra|ket> skills? I turned an old card game into an app: bra-kets.replit.app.

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⟨B|raket|S⟩

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 24/04/2026

I used to pay $600 and now enjoy a "100% savings." How much am I paying? In the new math, here's how you figure it out. $600/$600 = 1×100% rise. So if the price is $600 and drops to $600, that's a 100% savings.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 10/04/2026

McDoing is a great term to describe the modern trivialization of existentialism as consumable performance. Anguish is content, commitment is a vibe.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 10/04/2026

Game idea: reverse of LIFE. Instead of building a family, you spend the whole game trying to get your teenagers to leave the house with enough confidence to fail somewhere else.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 07/02/2026

You’ve seen me harping about bureaucracy for over a decade. My colleagues have always seen me as a troublemaker for it. But now here we are, paralyzed and poisoning our children. It’s finally boiled over. csferrie.medium.com/for-teens-so...

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For teens, social media isn’t the problem. You are.

Attention Conservation Notice. A 2000-word lukewarm take about modern life drowning in accountability theatre. We no longer fix problems…

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 31/01/2026

Apropos of nothing at all, please enjoy this game. Goal: collect tacos, books, and lattes while avoiding guns, red hats, and foxes. codepen.io/csferrie/ful...

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 21/12/2025

PSA: nothing about quantum entanglement is faster than light. Popular quantum physics in a nutshell: Make stupid assumptions, win stupid conclusions.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 15/12/2025

Government™️: making things difficult only for those that already followed the rules. james.cridland.net/blog/2025/au...

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

More on ARC job cuts & restructure: ARC’s spending $374k on consultants for organisational “review” & “planning & development”. They’re also spending $765k on “risk management”. That’s $1.1 million on consultants being spent over 1 year. Un. Believable. Slow clap, ARC.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My nephew (age 3.5) is coming to visit my lab next week and his top priority is checking whether or not I have all the items in @csferrie.com's "Goodnight Lab." I made sure I know where the multimeter is and I found a spectrometer down the hall so he won't think I'm a fraud! 📘🧪😂

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Círculo de Bellas Artes - Casa Europa @cbamadrid.es · 24/11/2025

"Los terraplanistas son el extremo de un espectro del fraude que puede sonar divertido sin ser peligroso, pero cuando el fraude entra en la medicina puede tener consecuencias catastróficas" _ @csferrie.com

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 16/11/2025

Amazon is nearly giving away books. Go read words on paper!

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 04/11/2025

Lazy parenting hack. Chop up fresh veggies and just leave them out. The kids eat three times as many servings as they avoid during meal time.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 03/11/2025

You do not want to be one of my open tabs to the right of this one.

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Chris J Fisher @c-j-fisher.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It's easy to forget that #SciComm is for people of ALL ages, not just adults and teenagers. But is there an age that's too young? NOPE! (1/7) 🧪

Is There an Age That’s Too Young for SciComm? NOPE!

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 16/10/2025

Quantum beer "night" with Wish You Were Beer Show going live in two hours (that's 8PM ET and 11AM AEDT). www.youtube.com/live/BSNTPVX...

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Quantum Beer Night with Dr. Chris Ferrie!

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Craig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Blog post: "Actually, you can't test if quantum uses complex numbers" algassert.com/post/2501 I doom the concept of that 2021 Nature paper by showing how to compile any distributed quantum protocol into real-only gates while preserving locality.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 13/09/2025

🚀 New book: The Curiosity Chronicles — a pick-your-quest science adventure! See the plot map + extras: thecuriositychronicles.com Build your own with my free Adventure Builder: csferrie.com/adventure-bu... #STEM #KidLit

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 12/09/2025

Replacement rubber foot for a Microsoft Surface Laptop and the packaging it came it...

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 08/09/2025

Internet. You know what to do.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 29/08/2025

If you want something done right, do it yourself. Rant/tool to instantly generate QR codes 👇 csferrie.com/blog/an-actu...

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 17/08/2025

I came for the "thank you" chocolates but stayed for the teacher's saying: "I had a chance to meet with a few of the students today and they were still buzzing. "

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 16/08/2025

I'm no AI evangelist, but strawmanning it doesn't add to the conversation.

Screenshot of user asking for an app to highlight US states by containing letter. The AI obliged.

Screenshot of said app. The letter r and all states containing it are highlighted.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 11/08/2025

When discussing screen time with your teen, how do you account for watching multiple simultaneous screens at the same time? Asking for a friend.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 07/08/2025

Melbourne! I’m in town next week 🥳 13 Aug — Quantum Storytime (Quantum Futures) & Lunch + Learn (FB IDEAs) 16 Aug — Storytime + activities (The Sun Bookshop) Bring your curiosity & come say hi! Details: ncm.org.au/events/quant... www.fbideas.org/whats-on/qua... sunbookshop.com/events/story...

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Quantum Storytime with Chris Ferrie

Join children's author, science educator and quantum physicist Chris Ferrie on a journey through quantum physics. Jump into the theme of National Science Week 2025, ‘Decoding the Universe’, with Chri...

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 03/08/2025

Spend 15 minutes on instrumentalism and save them from 15 years of confusion while blocking false ontological indoctrination.

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Reyhaneh Aghaei Saem @reyhanehaghaeisaem.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

New preprint on arXiv 🚀 Link: scirate.com/arxiv/2507.2... We present a practical step-by-step guideline to determine whether a procedure that claims to circumvent exponential concentration actually works in practice. See the following 🧵 for more details.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 31/07/2025

People are asking where the idea for Quokka came from...

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