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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

Finally, CSUSM also has a very active discipline-based education research community and is home to the Center for Research and Engagement in Science Education.

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

The CSUSM Dept of Physics is small (<10 tenure track faculty, and ~10 graduates/year) with several active and well-funded research programs. My lab has active collaborations with multiple research groups in both experimental quantum information science and QIS education and workforce development.

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

Some additional information on our campus and community: CSUSM is a beautiful campus in North County San Diego (~20-30 min from the beach) with a welcoming and supportive community. We're a predominantly undergraduate institution, a HSI, and we are ranked #1 in the US for social mobility!

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

Funding for conference travel and opportunities to gain teaching experience in a diverse teaching environment are also available. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me (Dr. Justin Perron jperron@csusm.edu) with a C.V. (include a list of references) and a cover letter.

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

We’re looking for candidates with a PhD in physics or related field with an ability to work effectively with collaborators. Ideal candidates will have experience with experimental quantum physics and/or physics education research.

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

The postdoc will play a central role in designing competencies, developing instructional modules, preparing experimental hardware, assessing pilot implementations, coordinating with partner institutions, and supporting dissemination.

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

This is for a multi-year project developing hands-on QIST laboratory curriculum. This project aims to expand undergraduate access to meaningful QIST experimental experiences while minimizing institutional hardware burdens.

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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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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Unrelated, but I can't hear anything about commuting and bicycles without thinking about this awesome (horrible?) Joke

The commutator of I and a sketch of a bicycle equaling zero

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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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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'm happy when it only goes a little wrong haha

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

One of my favorite sayings is "things always take a factor of pi liner than you expect, even after you account for the factor of pi"

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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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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It's unfortunate, though, as there is so many resources gathering dust and going to waste that could really be put to good use if there were simpler ways to transfer ownership

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

TBH I haven't looked at LabX in a long time so I'm not too familiar with it. I expect the most challenging part of what your describing is that anything in academic lab is uni property, and I expect the administrative load related to selling it is going to be too much for it to be worth it

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Have you ever tried LabX.com | New, Used and Refurbished Laboratory Equipment? Seems like all fields of science, but essentially what you're proposing I think. Here is a search for Beamsplitter on share.google/JP5iClnkYEDQ...

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LabX.com Shop for New, Used and Refurbished Lab Equipment, Supplies and Services

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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 · 11/07/2025

who am I kidding, we don't have resources to support the committee. We definitely don't have resources to get people to consider following the advice in any output. But hey, at least took time away from the people who were doing it to begin with.

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Justin Perron @perronjk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Seriously though, can you serve on this committee that takes your time away from doing a thing to help discuss (and maybe at some point write down) how to be good at doing the thing? It's going to be really impactful bc ...

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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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