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Michael Brett @michaelsbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Watch Oskar Painter's presentation from Quantum Korea in Seoul. As Director of Quantum Hardware at AWS Center for Quantum Computing, he discusses the 'quantum tyranny of numbers' & forecasts major quantum error correction advances www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojnf... #QuantumComputing #AWS

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퀀텀 코리아 2025 키노트① Oskar Painter

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A major milestone in my career, as one of the self-appointed knights of quantum.

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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Raymond Laflamme 1960-2025. A great scientist, renowned for his pioneering contributions to quantum error correction. A great leader, founding director of the Institute for Quantum Computing. A great colleague and teacher whose legacy continues to inspire us. uwaterloo.ca/institute-fo...

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IQC and Waterloo mourn the loss of Raymond Laflamme | Institute for Quantum Computing | University of Waterloo

Raymond Laflamme, a trailblazer in quantum information processing and pioneer of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, died on June 19 after a lengthy battle with ca...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Michael Roukes kicking off #FNS2025, going back 30 years to the beginning of NEMs. (explaining this paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.04574 which was then rejected by APL!)

Michael Roukes presenting slide describing a converation between him, Andrew Cleland, and Tom Kenny.

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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The building committee gets a first look at the basement of the Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement at Caltech. We're standing where a tunnel will connect Ginsburg labs to labs in neighboring Downs Laboratory. With me are Nick Hutzler, Rana Adhikari, Michelle Effros, and Dave Hsieh.

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Emmanuel Flurin @manuflurin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

New paper out! We resonantly couple a superconducting heavy-fluxonium qubit ⚛️ to a macroscopic membrane 🥁 oscillating at a few MHz. ~300 repeated interactions let us track its quantum motion, observe back-action & probe non-commuting operators. Diósi–Penrose next? (1/8) arxiv.org/abs/2505.21481

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Probing the quantum motion of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator with a radio-frequency superconducting qubit

Long-lived mechanical resonators like drums oscillating at MHz frequencies and operating in the quantum regime offer a powerful platform for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. Yet,...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Morning prayer for the faithful

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Emmanuel Flurin @manuflurin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

These notes are amazing, just the right amount of detail and insight! Thanks!

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Every time I am tempted and I start using Markdown + Tex equations, after getting to document that’s more than 2 pages long I just end up coming back to full LaTeX.

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Department of Chemistry, Stanford University @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A collaboration between the Moerner and Qi Labs has produced a tool to track real-time genome dynamics in living cells — combining single-molecule imaging + CRISPR innovation. 🧬 🔗 chemistry.stanford.edu/news/new-too... #MoernerLab #QiLab #GenomeImaging #CRISPR

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

And here’s my first post :) Ever wondered what “free energy” is?

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I decided to make a website. I’ll post stuff on it every once in a while.

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Fire Captain 🔥 @rescuecaptain.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#maddow Science break. This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊

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Julie Packard @juliepackard.montereybayaquarium.org · 22/04/2025

We press forward with determination, grounded in the values that have made us a trusted and effective advocate for ocean conservation. We lead with hope. The path may not always be straight, but our commitment and belief in humanity’s ability to come together and heal the planet is still unwavering.

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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If you are interested in quantum computing, I strongly recommend this insightful article by @caltech.edu student @robbieking1000.bsky.social calling for a "scrappier approach" to finding new applications. quantumfrontiers.com/2025/04/20/q...

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Quantum Algorithms: A Call To Action

Quantum computing finds itself in a peculiar situation. The number one question asked about quantum computers by outsiders is very common sensical: What are they good for? The honest answer reveals…

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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I've been revamping and updating my collection of selected references to topics in quantum information on my homepage. Comments, feedback and suggestions welcome! felixleditzky.info/selected_ref...

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Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This might be the most useful thing I have come across in social media - a personalized feed of academic papers filtered by your follower network! Highly recommend. #academicsky

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

OK- here we go. Sorry for the delay, I was not prepared for the exertion required in the thrill-a-minute adventure that is… CACAO FERMENTATION. Yes, this will actually take 5 days. After that two days of drying. I’m not making this up. Nothing happens. Really. You’ll see. Anyway, off we go!

a man uses a large knife to open a cacao pod. It’s the same feeling as opening a cantaloupe, but far more weird and fun. Alt text is awesome, we are secret friends here!

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Andrew Houck @nanonoodle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Our paper that tells you how to make millisecond transmons just appeared. Congrats Matthew, Faranak, and team! In collaboration with Nathalie de Leon and Bob Cava, and building on five years of work in C2QA, one of the five DOE National Quantum Initiative Centers. arxiv.org/abs/2503.14798

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2D transmons with lifetimes and coherence times exceeding 1 millisecond

Materials improvements are a powerful approach to reducing loss and decoherence in superconducting qubits because such improvements can be readily translated to large scale processors. Recent work imp...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/03/2025

Thank you @vvsmider.bsky.social for sharing this story.

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Amazon team claims its Ocelot chip could speed up the development of a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 3‒5 years. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/cat-qubits...

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Cat qubits open a faster track to fault-tolerant quantum computing – Physics World

Amazon team claims its Ocelot chip could speed up development by 3‒5 years

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Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Please share widely. Firing of excellent scientists by political appointees with zero oversight is outrageous. This requested pushback from congress is essential to maintain scientific independence - a hallmark of any functioning democracy.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 03/03/2025

Looking forward to celebrating 80 years of federally funded science, technology and innovation @standupforscience.bsky.social SF, March 7, Civic Center, 1-3 pm 🧪 🧫 🧬

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

1/N. Why antiparticles exist (a thread)

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 27/02/2025

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

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Julie Packard @juliepackard.montereybayaquarium.org · 25/02/2025

Protecting the ocean has always been a bipartisan effort, in Congress and across multiple White House administrations. In the face of ill-conceived attacks on @noaa.gov, it's time to raise our voices. My thoughts in defense of NOAA and #OceanScience: mbayaq.co/4k8vEsx

A wave curls and crashes from left to right as it swells toward the shoreline in Monterey Bay. the water is blue and the foaming wave front is white.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled

Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

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Jonathan Oppenheim @postquantum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The gap between the claims made in the Microsoft press release and the claims made in the actual paper are pretty astounding. From their own paper "These measurements do not, by themselves, determine whether the low-energy states detected by interferometry are topological." 5/

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

First paragraph of peer review file on recent Microsoft paper —

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end. (this is an experiment in thread transfer)

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Amir Safavi-Naeini @safavi.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Was looking up some old work by Marc Levenson and Shelby after a long meeting with Marty Fejer and students ... and I stumbled upon this: doi.org/10.1016/0030... Have y'all (especially @johannesfink.bsky.social @mankei-tsang.bsky.social) seen this paper?

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In the latest development in the raw milk saga, X is now unpasteurized.

Press release from the Institut Pasteur stating they are leaving X

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