QuICS Hartree fellowship application is out! A competitive and completely free-range postdoc. Anyone interested in quantum science and technology topics is encouraged to apply, preferably by Dec. 1. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

One of the best places in the world to do a PhD in quantum - I did mine with this fellowship and it was awesome! Apart from great environment in Munich, lots of opportunities to mingle with other quantum centers in the world in summer schools, workshops etc.

So much agree. The actual peer review happens after publication anyway.

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

Coming out of social media hibernation to ask:

Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf?

We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me.

QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara

I held this fellowship and loved it! QuICS and JQI are dream places to do postdoc research, the promised freedom of the Fellowship is not just a paper tiger here like in many other places.

I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community.

There should be no misunderstanding that this is utter and complete corporate BS. No quantum computers are needed for whatever they did in this work. It's a shame to see IBM depart from their fact-based approach. See Scott Aaronson's blog post: scottaaronson.blog?p=9170

When you realize the whole yearly budget for Quantum journal is equal to 8 Nature APCs - and they don't even wreck your paper in proof stage because...there is none

Looking for a postdoc to work on bosonic quantum error correction!
Join me and the QAT team at ENS & INRIA Paris — flexible start date.
Details here 👉 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... or feel free to reach out!

Just donated to this, is a true archive containing irreplaceable scientific “soft” knowledge

Interesting precedent of Science retracting a paper solely based on the fact that interpretations were likely overclaiming, but without scientific misconduct. A bit torn about this, it’s difficult to draw the line and really, that’s the job of the referees go.nature.com/44MQsQI

Just wrote a little script that extracts your availability in a certain time frame from a google calendar: schuckert.medium.com/extract-your...

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Charlie Bennett at Helgoland 2025 (paraphrased): “As scientists, we have a duty to teach people to enjoy being proven wrong and to embrace changing their minds in light of new evidence—because that’s what we do best.”

So much agree. Formatting for journals is a huge waste of time and a big source of errors: outrageous things happened to me, from removal of axis labels to deletion of datapoints! Change has to come from the top though: grant, tenure & hiring committees should not take into account journal IF.

Now is the time for post-quantum crypto.

Also: how would transversal gates change this result?

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