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

I'll be in Leiden all week ;)

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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 · 21/08/2026

The "humans" in that sentence aren’t the kids! If students predictably use AI to avoid effort, that’s not a surprising discovery about adolescent nature. It’s a design problem for the adults building the incentives. Kids learn what the system actually rewards. Related: medium.com/@csferrie/fo...

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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 · 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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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 18/07/2026

Treating quantum physics as a recipe is not treating it as meaningless. A recipe means something through what it lets us do. The further demand for what the formalism "really means" assumes that successful practice must conceal a unique ontology behind it. That's the assumption that needs defending.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 18/07/2026

We're mixing sociology and metaphysics here, and assuming that a solution in one is going to sort out the other. Why aren't people converging? That's easy: the don't have shared goals. Progress in each camp leads to contradictory designations.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 17/07/2026

How many researchers whose work genuinely requires quantum mechanics as part of their toolkit do you think have ever been produced? I'll guess millions. How many have thought about interpretations at all? Generously, thousands. Not sure the rest would even accept an implicit label.

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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 17/07/2026

99% of quantum physicists over the past century have been "Copenhagenists" and they have made immense progress. 😉

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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

YouTube video by SciencePetr

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

Is there a "solution" to this? Emphasize the need for math knowledge/interest early?

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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 · 16/04/2026

Can't believe we're still doing this in 2026...

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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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Chris Ferrie @csferrie.com · 04/12/2025

Thanks for reminding me I need to work on the "Lab Safety Anniversary Edition"... 😂😂

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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