Alexander Schuckert
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Quantum Scientist at JQI & QuICS
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Hot take: AI is good enough to replace journal referees. Time to speed up publishing!
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hot take: AI is good enough to replace journal referees. Time to speed up publishing!
Another reason to not pay 13k to publish with a „professional“ publisher - use community-driven journals such as Quantum or SciPost Physics instead.
5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1.
5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s.
Coincidence? 👇
scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...
I think not.
5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s.
Coincidence? 👇
scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...
I think not.
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Another reason to not pay 13k to publish with a „professional“ publisher - use community-driven journals such as Quantum or SciPost Physics instead.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Highly selective and entirely taught in English, #PSLPhDTracks are 5-year fully funded programs intended for high-potential students hoping to become top level researchers, in France or abroad.
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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...
QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow
Job Description Summary The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS, http://quics.umd.edu) is seeking exceptional candidates for the QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellowships in ...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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.
The International Max Planck Research School for Quantum Science and Technology (IMPRS-QST) and the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) announced the open call for several fully funded PhD fellowships starting from Fall 2026.
application.imprs-quantum.mpg.de/public/
application.imprs-quantum.mpg.de/public/
IMPRS-QST - Index
application.imprs-quantum.mpg.de
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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.
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.
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
So much agree. The actual peer review happens after publication anyway.
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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.
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.
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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.
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.
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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
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
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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
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.
2025 UMD Quantum postdoc job thread.
We start with the Quantum Optics Fellowship, intended for AMO and QI. Anyone who would have applied for the JQI Fellowship should apply to this one. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowsh...
We start with the Quantum Optics Fellowship, intended for AMO and QI. Anyone who would have applied for the JQI Fellowship should apply to this one. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowsh...
University of Maryland, Joint Quantum Institute/Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
Job #AJO30633, University of Maryland Theoretical Quantum Optics Fellowship, Joint Quantum Institute/Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, ...
academicjobsonline.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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.
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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.
![Screenshot of first part of letter (continues in next image). Text reads:
Dear Sir Adrian
I write to request that in its deliberations tomorrow the Council resolves to take a principled stand to defend the scientific values written into its code of conduct.
In its attempts to deal with the actions of Elon Musk FRS, the Royal Society has repeatedly failed to explain how his repudiation of those values is consistent with the code of conduct that all Fellows must adhere to as a condition of their fellowship. As is now well established, these actions include attacking Antony Fauci FRS without good cause; spreading scientific misinformation on X [through his own utterances and by relaxing controls on the platform]; recklessly and unlawfully degrading the research ecosystem of the US as part of DOGE; and bragging publicly about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper", which the Lancet estimates will cause the deaths of 14 million people, many of them children under the age of five, by 2030.
The Society’s inaction extends to the recent brief exchange of correspondence between Prof Sir Paul Nurse and Mr Musk. Although there was some initial contact, when Sir Paul laid out the Society’s specific concerns there was no reply or explanation from Musk. For reasons that I’m afraid I cannot fathom, you chose once again not to enforce your code of conduct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jviud2kbpxo3lwd3do4mqepg/bafkreiev6nrcxar4eabbnj3t2p5tfi4icoeagakrqrtc5jhcq6op3424me@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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
HSBC claims quantum trading breakthrough on.ft.com/4mDbeYG
HSBC claims quantum trading breakthrough
Europe’s largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data
on.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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
September 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
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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!
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!
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August 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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!
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!
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September 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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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
Controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years — but authors fight back
The journal Science retracts a headline-grabbing study, but the authors vigorously defend their data and say the retraction is unwarranted.
go.nature.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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...
Extract your availability from your Google calendar
Did you ever want a script that extracts the available times in a certain time window from your Google Calendar? Look no further!
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July 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just wrote a little script that extracts your availability in a certain time frame from a google calendar: schuckert.medium.com/extract-your...
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Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
June 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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.”
June 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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.
This is a very strong reason we, in quantum information, should try to submit most / if not all of our manuscripts to Quantum Journal. At least the community has some say over the process and authors are in charge of formatting their own manuscripts. Paid journals cannot be trusted.
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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?
Also: how would transversal gates change this result?
I'm often asked if I'll redo the 2019 quantum factoring estimate. Denser storage by yokes, smaller magic factories by cultivation, slimmer approx arithmetic by Chevignard et al… surely the cost is lower now?
Yes, it's lower now.
security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac...
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
Yes, it's lower now.
security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac...
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
May 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Now is the time for post-quantum crypto.
Also: how would transversal gates change this result?
Also: how would transversal gates change this result?
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QuEra is seeking a Head of Quantum Error Correction Architecture! Help shape the future of fault-tolerant quantum computing by leading a team of talented QEC experts and collaborating with our experimental teams. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/queracomputi... or reach out to me directly!
Head of Quantum Error Correction Architecture
Boston, MA USA
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May 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
QuEra is seeking a Head of Quantum Error Correction Architecture! Help shape the future of fault-tolerant quantum computing by leading a team of talented QEC experts and collaborating with our experimental teams. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/queracomputi... or reach out to me directly!