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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Watching Real Genius for the first time in forever. Still think this is my favorite joke in the whole movie.

Screengrab of the movie Real Genius. It shows a Computer screen with repeated attempts to enter a password and getting denied. The passwords entered are "AAAAAD" "AAAAAE" and the closed caption reads "these military are so untrusting"

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/06/2026

Beam Pipe xkcd.com/3257/

Comic. [Person with shoulder-length hair standing on ladder next to large machine with her hand on it. Another person watches from the ground.] [caption] This year’s physics Nobel will go to the scientists who figured out that you could make the large Hadron Collider more powerful by covering part of the beam pipe with your thumb.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Are you a build engineer? Want to get in on something fucking astounding? DM me. Last chance. I’m trying not to hire the usual suspects here. Be someone different and amazing. Hit me. Let’s go.

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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

holy shit

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Sure we may lose an hour of sleep, which sucks, but after four long months my bedside clock is about to be accurate again #winning

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

QIS postdoc wanted! Thanks to some news I received this week I am anticipating hiring a postdoctoral researcher in the near future to work on a Quantum Information Science and Technology education project. While we await the final grant paperwork I’d like to get started on identifying candidates.

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Will Kinney @wkcosmo.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Let me tell you a little bit about my second book, and how it relates to my first book. 1/ worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Feeling this so much right now

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Request for QC-type folks: I'm teaching Quantum Optics/ Quantum Information to Jr/Sr undergrads, and asking students to do research papers/ presentations. I would like to be able to point them toward some quantum algorithms sorts of things that I won't cover in class; what should I suggest?

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Happy World Junior Day to all those who celebrate. #WorldJrs #GoCanada

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 12/12/2025

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Happy "brick your computer for a few hours because of annual mandatory password update" season to everyone celebrating

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Shitification for the win... or loss rather

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Reposting in the misguided and desperate hope someone somewhere will actually fix this

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A hundred years after its birth, Quantum Mechanics still confounds [via Science.org] 🧪🥼⚛️🧰❓ '“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning,” Heisenberg wrote' www.science.org/content/arti... #quantum #mechanics #subatomic #physics #uncertainty #observer

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100 years on, quantum mechanics is redefining reality—with us at the center

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Welcome back from leave... you know how you thought you were periodically tending to email.... you lied to yourself

The inbox label from outlook with 523 unread emails

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Our group is looking to hire postdocs to work at the intersection of quantum computing, quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, simulation of many-body quantum systems and early-fault tolerant quantum computing Apply here: lanl.jobs/search/jobde... Reposts appreciated!

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Quantum Computing and Early Fault-Tolerant Simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory is Hiring! Search available jobs or submit your resume now by visiting this link. Please share with anyone you feel would be a great fit.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I hate to be the one to point this out to @apsphysics.bsky.social news, but didn't this become common knowledge after the seminal work of Ace Ventura on the Ray Finkle case way back in 1994

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Amazing to see the work of @itsmealeale.bsky.social and Partyk L Bartosik highlighted like this. Having followed it as it was written and knowing the hard work that was poured into it, really brings a smile to one's face to see it highlighted. Yes to detecting entanglement using thermodynamics!

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A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Yesterday, my daughter referred to In 'n' Out animal style fries as "California poutine", and now it will forever be called that in my household.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It's been 3 months but I finally got through posting the recordings from our QIST in the CSU workshops. The recordings don't do the discussions justice. Hopefully, these are useful to folks interested in learning #quantum info science and tech and get it in their courses.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Typing with a bandaged finger is (unsurprisingly) extremely frustrating and slow. In related news, knife safety and personal protective equipment is important and should not be ignored, even if "it's just one piece of drywall and a small cut"

A hand with a large bandage in the index finger above a mechanical keyboard

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francoismarie.bsky.social @francoismarie.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Awesome Quantum Computing Experiments is on ArXiv! 57+ QEC implementations tracked Interactive visualizations Useful for researchers & students Github: github.com/francois-marie/awesome-quantum-computing-experiments Site: francoismarieleregent.xyz/awesome-quantum-computing-experiments/ 1/3 🧵

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Awesome Quantum Computing Experiments: A curated collection of notable quantum computing experiments

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 To all my friends and family

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

But not a real green dress that's cruel

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I feel like everyone needs to step back and use their context clues with this one

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A few weeks ago we hosted our 3rd set of QIST in the CSU workshops. Always great to gather with colleagues and learning more about quantum science and how to teach it. Here are some photos from the Introductory QIST and Educational Modules workshop, Quantum Sensing workshop photos in the reply...

Group photo of workshop participants and presenters

Workshop participants sitting at tables during a presentation

Workshop attendees enjoying a conversation outside during lunch

a hand adjusts a polarizer setting on a quantum optics experimental setup

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Today for shits and giggles, I took a BNC cable Jerry-rigged a loop out of it and plugged it into a scope to see what I'd pick up in my lab. What the hell would cause this? Like a clock, every 4 seconds jumps amplitude. The underlying signal is ~171 kHz #noise #science

An oscilloscope screen showing a signal that goes back and forth between a 1 mV amplitude to a 2.5 mV amplitude every 4 seconds.

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It's Memorial Day in the US, which means it's time for the periodic reminder that the best tribute to the sacrifice of those who fought and died in wars in the past is to work to see that there are fewer of them in the future.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"Toronto, the only place where the Leafs fall in the spring" #NHLplayoffs #StanleyCupPlayoffs #LeafsNation

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I dont want to start a fight, but I do want to clarify that Americans are wrong on what "smarties" are

A box of smarties candy next to several packs of rockets candy

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Been a bit of a chaotic few weeks for me with everything going on, but happy to say in all that chaos the Perron family became a little more complete. Welcome to the world Wells "Whoopsie" Perron

A collage of photos of a newborn baby boy and the baby being held by his siblings

A newborn baby with eyes open cuddles in the arms of mom

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Big day for the Perron family. Looking forward to meeting the little guy 😁

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Enjoying a pretty standard beer to go along with the #StanleyCupPlayoffs. (Sorry for the dad joke) Great come back win by the @winnipegjets.com to kick it all off.

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Iftach Yakar @quantumyakar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“I love quantum”

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

#quantum mechanics class had fun measuring single-photon interference today! We got some of the @thorlabs.bsky.social quantum optics kits through a grant earlier this year. Considering I previously had 0 experience with optics, how easy we were able to successfully setup two kits makes me happy.

A figure with 3 panels stacked vertically. All sharing an abscissa indicating 'stage position in micrometers'. the three plots are displaying the coincidence count rate on detectors T and B, the raw count rate of detector B, and the second order correlation function measured using a triple coincidence detection scheme.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I had minor surgery today which meant I couldn't take the 7yo to hockey this afternoon. Apparently, he told my wife he "can't go to hockey today because daddy's going to be on drugs" I mean, he's not wrong, but I hope he explained it better to anyone he may have told at school.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Happy world quantum day to all who celebrate. Don't get sucked into the commercialisation that has taken over the holiday and focus on the true meaning of the holiday... making silly jokes about dead cats, objects being two things at once, and measurement. None of which are actually funny

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/04/2025

If you missed Derek Muller's @perimeterinstitute.ca public talk last night about AI and the future of education, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/live/PYeBGyX... It was a really great discussion of how we learn and what effect AI (and other technologies) can have on that.

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Veritasium: How Will AI Change Education? Derek Muller on the Future of Learning.

YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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