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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Reading The Subtle Knife, and I was inclined to say the portrayal of scientists was unrealistic, but the part where they've discovered there are interdimensional travelers, that the universe is conscious, and the government is spying on them, and they're STILL talking grant funding is perfect.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results

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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16/03/2024

idk I did see this meme today which made me laugh so hard. lol

the cover of Dune with the title changed to "Paul is Bad" and the cover of the sequel with the title changed to "Ok, I guess I wasn't Clear"

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

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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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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

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kenbrownquantum.bsky.social @kenbrownquantum.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A few quick notes: 1) Magic - not my favorite word choice - comes from magic angle directions and into quantum computing by arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph... . It is not about entanglement.

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nate @loglog.wtf · 20/11/2025

thing is, you only get access to the NP-oracle while you sleep

sign for a hotel called "NP HOTEL" in seattle's japantown

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/10/2025

Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

A group of scientists huddle excitedly around a monitor. One says:
"The program has detected a signal sent from another galaxy, but we need to upgrade to a paid version before we can reply."

The screen reads "Choose a plan To unlock replies: 1. Student 2. Basic 3. Pro 4. Expert "

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Rakhim Davletkali @rakhim.org · 25/09/2025

I wish we could develop common standards for - circuit operations - pulse data - circuit manipulation (incl. transpilation, routing, optimization) - calibration & calibration QUALITY data - measurement results, incl. raw and complex - wire serialization optimized for both job definitions and results

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Keenan Crane @keenancrane.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/

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Craig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Apparently September 5th is "cultivate with fold-transversal S" day: arxiv.org/abs/2509.05232 arxiv.org/abs/2502.017... arxiv.org/abs/2509.05212

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 01/09/2025

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

the very hungry caterpillar superimposed on an illustration of gregor samsa from the metamorphosis as a beetle

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Scientific American with a great analogy for comparing physical qubits and encoded topological qubits. www.scientificamerican.com/article/negl...

Screenshot states:

Unlike ordinary qubits, which store information in the state of a single particle, topological qubits store it in the arrangement of several particles—which is a global property, not a local one, making them far more robust.

Take, for example, braided hair. The type and number of braids that a person has are global properties that remain the same regardless of how they shake their head. In contrast, the position of an individual hair strand is a local property that can shift with the slightest movement.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“What’s being undercut isn’t just NASA’s technical ability to carry out missions, although that would be bad enough. It is America’s—and the world’s—capacity to wonder, to believe, to know.“ www.wired.com/story/the-de...

wired.com

The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

As NASA grapples with major proposed budget cuts and losing some of its most brilliant minds, America’s willingness to look outward is also at risk.

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Dave Bacon @dabacon.tachyon.institute · 12/08/2025

Research or Beatles song? LUCI in the hex with dropout🎶🎶🎶

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Now I'm imagining the Indian mother version of ChatGPT

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Maris Ozols @marisozols.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Previous historic examples of deliberate destruction of scientific institutions from within a country. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End

America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

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Nirmalya Kajuri @kajunut.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

⚛️ David Tong goes to a doctor. David: I am not feeling too good, doc. Trying to learn a new area of physics but somehow can't get into it. Doc: The solution is simple. There is this guy who writes the best physics lecture notes..

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John Watrous @johnwatrous.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

After 3 1/2 years of work my course on quantum computing is finally finished — the "Director's Cut" of Understanding Quantum Information and Computation is now available. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11536

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Understanding Quantum Information and Computation

This is a course on the theory of quantum computing. It consists of 16 lessons, each with a video and written component, covering the basics of quantum information, quantum algorithms (including query...

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Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Our SPS group circulated this:

Butterfly meme: a physicist looks at any physical system and asks "Is this a harmonic oscillator?"

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nate @loglog.wtf · 12/06/2025

super fun to see who's contributing to @unitary.foundation's unitaryHACK this year. below is the GitHub contributions graph of a hacker who closed 7 bounties (currently tied for 🥇). Cool to see a big jump in contributions from the event.

github contribution graph showing a large uptick in contributions from this hacker starting the day of unitaryHACK beginning and following on through the event.

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Evan Peters @e6peters.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I put out a preprint on machine learning for QEC decoders with some theory about importance sampling for decoding. Takeaway: You can robustly improve ML decoder performance by training on data generated with higher device error rates, sometimes 10x higher! arxiv.org/abs/2505.22741

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Dave Bacon @dabacon.tachyon.institute · 04/06/2025

My favorite roadmap is from 2004: qist.lanl.gov/qcomp_map.sh... “By the year 2007, to * encode a single qubit into the state of a logical qubit formed from several physical qubits, * perform repetitive error correction of the logical qubit”

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Unitary Foundation @unitary.foundation · 26/05/2025

🚨 𝟯 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼! The 5th annual 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗛𝗔𝗖𝗞 kicks off May 28 – June 11! 💻 Join us at buff.ly/wv8LDg3 for a bug-bounty-style hackathon to improve open-source quantum tools. Open to all skill levels—earn rewards & gain experience!

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"Ten Commandments of the Church of the Smaller Hilbert Space" Matt Leifer mattleifer.info/2006/04/13/t...

"Ten Commandments of the Church of the Smaller Hilbert Space" by Matt Leifer https://mattleifer.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/commandments.pdf

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JCannuck @jcannuck.medsky.social · 30/04/2025

@nytimes.com Spelling Bee desperately needs a science editor. Scientific terms are real words! Drives me nuts each and every day 🙃

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This should be okay so long as the AI says racist stuff about Arabs and Indians. Otherwise inauthentic

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Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Quantum measurement demo is complete. A particle starting on the right side of the box launches a cascade of increasingly large particles down the right track. Vice versa on the left. But what if we start a particle in a quantum superposition of left and right? (1/5) ⚛️🧪

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

'BOOL' is not in the word list of NYT Spelling Bee 🤔? #nytspellingbee

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Reminder: Contributor proposals for GSoC open on March 24, 2025, and closes on April 8, 2025 A new project was recently added that does not require any quantum experience

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GSoC 2025 Projects

|toqito> (Theory of Quantum Information Toolkit) in Python :snake: - vprusso/toqito

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

SaaS (sheep as a service)

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Physics Today @physicstoday.aip.org · 10/03/2025

Vera Rubin has been selected to be featured on the back of a quarter. She is the first astronomer to be honored this way. Read about her research on the Andromeda galaxy and how it led to the discovery of dark matter in this article written by Rubin herself. doi.org/10.1063/1.24... 🔭 #WomenInStem

A black and white photo of Vera Rubin measuring spectra

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Nicole Yunger Halpern @nicoleyh11.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Angela Kou of UIUC illustrates a frustration of superconducting-qubit experimentalists at yesterday’s JQI Seminar. Noise has never looked so cute.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 24/02/2025

PSA: Overleaf > Account Settings

The "Disable AI features" in the Overleaf settings

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Interested in contributing to quantum open-source projects while getting paid over the summer? toqito, a quantum information toolkit, is participating in Google Summer of Code 2025 through @numfocus.bsky.social. You can find a list of potential project ideas in the project wiki.

github.com

GSoC 2025 Projects

|toqito> (Theory of Quantum Information Toolkit) in Python :snake: - vprusso/toqito

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Dave Bacon @dabacon.tachyon.institute · 25/02/2025

Of course you would call these Self Correcting Time Crystals, which would also allow you to start a side business in Santa Fe NM peddling woo.

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Greg White @gregswhitenoise.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

After the smash hit debut album "NISQ", @preskill.bsky.social releases his long-awaited sophomore project "Megaquop". Critics laud the forward thinking and maturity evident in this release but wonder -- can lightning be caught in a bottle twice? arxiv.org/abs/2502.17368

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Purva Thakre @purva.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

@quantiki.bsky.social Is the website down? I keep getting this message on Firefox.

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The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused in lock_may_be_available() (line 186 of includes/lock.inc).

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