Vincent Mourik
@vincentmourik.bsky.social
dad & husband, quantum physicist, birdo (weirdo?)
Freud's chuckling in the afterlife I suppose
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Freud's chuckling in the afterlife I suppose
Where's the commemorative plague recounting the events that took place at this historic spot?
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Where's the commemorative plague recounting the events that took place at this historic spot?
I'm sure its all worth it!
September 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I'm sure its all worth it!
Yes, I was specifically alluding to your almost indefinite patience.
September 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Yes, I was specifically alluding to your almost indefinite patience.
You are the anomaly.
September 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
You are the anomaly.
@craiggidney.bsky.social If a technically versed reader needs to put in this much effort to understand a major caveat in a paper, that paper is misleading. The paper should be updated to fix this. Too bad published papers petrify and cannot be touched by mortal physicists.
September 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
@craiggidney.bsky.social If a technically versed reader needs to put in this much effort to understand a major caveat in a paper, that paper is misleading. The paper should be updated to fix this. Too bad published papers petrify and cannot be touched by mortal physicists.
There is no reliability nor safety in dealing with these people. 50/end
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
There is no reliability nor safety in dealing with these people. 50/end
Summarizing: this nat com paper and the nat nano paper represents a decade of scientific malpractice, toxicity, intimidation, harassment, cover-up and plain retaliation at QuTech and TU Delft. Throughout all this I was a PhD student, post-doc and right now I am on a tenure track. 49/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Summarizing: this nat com paper and the nat nano paper represents a decade of scientific malpractice, toxicity, intimidation, harassment, cover-up and plain retaliation at QuTech and TU Delft. Throughout all this I was a PhD student, post-doc and right now I am on a tenure track. 49/n
Vandersypen reach out to the leadership at my current employer, calling me an obstructionist and asking them to talk with me. I am still on a tenure track. 48/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Vandersypen reach out to the leadership at my current employer, calling me an obstructionist and asking them to talk with me. I am still on a tenure track. 48/n
A few months later, after I publicly questioned Kouwenhoven / TU Delft's lobby of the Dutch government in the lead-up to the founding of QuantumDeltaNL (of which Delft got the lion's share of many many millions), Vandersypen retaliated against me. 47/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A few months later, after I publicly questioned Kouwenhoven / TU Delft's lobby of the Dutch government in the lead-up to the founding of QuantumDeltaNL (of which Delft got the lion's share of many many millions), Vandersypen retaliated against me. 47/n
Within a few weeks of his reinstatement as a full prof at TU Delft, right after the appearance of a scathing report of the Dutch educational inspection of toxic culture and social unsafety at Delft, Kouwenhoven harassed me at a conference we both attended. One of his team members did the same. 46/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Within a few weeks of his reinstatement as a full prof at TU Delft, right after the appearance of a scathing report of the Dutch educational inspection of toxic culture and social unsafety at Delft, Kouwenhoven harassed me at a conference we both attended. One of his team members did the same. 46/n
Io and behold, without an open integrity investigation against Kouwenhoven, the way was paved for his rehire as a distinguished professor at Delft University of Technology... Sidenote: Vandersypen used to be post-doc in Kouwenhoven's team, and was groomed by him for a leadership position. 45/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Io and behold, without an open integrity investigation against Kouwenhoven, the way was paved for his rehire as a distinguished professor at Delft University of Technology... Sidenote: Vandersypen used to be post-doc in Kouwenhoven's team, and was groomed by him for a leadership position. 45/n
to the Delft integrity committee for possible integrity violations regarding the nat com and nat nano papers (as if such a report can be unseen by an integrity committee...), upon which Tim van der Hagen and his board decided there was no longer a ground for the integrity investigation. 44/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
to the Delft integrity committee for possible integrity violations regarding the nat com and nat nano papers (as if such a report can be unseen by an integrity committee...), upon which Tim van der Hagen and his board decided there was no longer a ground for the integrity investigation. 44/n
The other two being the ones related to the two retracted Nature papers. Here's the deal. Summer 2024, Lieven Vandersypen gets his final acquittal from the board, headed by Tim van der Hagen, of our complaint against him for not sharing data. Just prior to that, Vandersypen revoked his report 43/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The other two being the ones related to the two retracted Nature papers. Here's the deal. Summer 2024, Lieven Vandersypen gets his final acquittal from the board, headed by Tim van der Hagen, of our complaint against him for not sharing data. Just prior to that, Vandersypen revoked his report 43/n
Parallel to this, based on our reports and suggestions, QuTech director Lieven Vandersypen had no choice but to make a report to the Delft integrity committee for possible integrity concerns regarding these two papers. This was a third integrity investigation into Kouwenhoven et al. 42/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Parallel to this, based on our reports and suggestions, QuTech director Lieven Vandersypen had no choice but to make a report to the Delft integrity committee for possible integrity concerns regarding these two papers. This was a third integrity investigation into Kouwenhoven et al. 42/n
We went through a years long process of peer review of our criticism. I'm very relieved to no longer be an author on this piece of scientific malpractice and its nonsensical correction with perpetual editorial expression of concern. 41/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We went through a years long process of peer review of our criticism. I'm very relieved to no longer be an author on this piece of scientific malpractice and its nonsensical correction with perpetual editorial expression of concern. 41/n
During this time I also asked corresponding author Önder Gül if he knew of the data manipulations at the time in 2016, to which he responded affirmatively, see the science news piece. 40/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
During this time I also asked corresponding author Önder Gül if he knew of the data manipulations at the time in 2016, to which he responded affirmatively, see the science news piece. 40/n
Together with Sergey Frolov and Kun Zuo, we wrote an extensive analysis, which we submitted to the journal in December 2021, together with a request for removal of authorship in the case of myself and Kun Zuo. zenodo.org/records/6325... 39/n
Post-publication review of Zhang et al. Nature Communications 2017
This post publication review (written memorandum and supporting slides) critique the published claims of Zhang et al, Nature Communications 2017, based on published data and additional data shared wit...
zenodo.org
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Together with Sergey Frolov and Kun Zuo, we wrote an extensive analysis, which we submitted to the journal in December 2021, together with a request for removal of authorship in the case of myself and Kun Zuo. zenodo.org/records/6325... 39/n
I did get access to the full nature communications data in summer 2021, in my capacity as a co-author. I started analysing these and I found many undisclosed data manipulations, all to the effect of hiding unwanted features and propping conductance values up to the desired quantized value. 38/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I did get access to the full nature communications data in summer 2021, in my capacity as a co-author. I started analysing these and I found many undisclosed data manipulations, all to the effect of hiding unwanted features and propping conductance values up to the desired quantized value. 38/n
They corrected some of their data manipulations, while hiding many more. For evidence of this, compare the correction of the nature nanotechnology paper to our recent analysis: arxiv.org/abs/2407.18623 37/n
Comment on "Ballistic Majorana Nanowire Devices" by Gul et al. Nature Nanotechnology 2018
This work re-analyzes Gul et al. Nature Nanotechnology 2018 "Ballistic Majorana nanowire devices" using fuller data from the original experiments released in 2023 on Zenodo. The authors have prepared ...
arxiv.org
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
They corrected some of their data manipulations, while hiding many more. For evidence of this, compare the correction of the nature nanotechnology paper to our recent analysis: arxiv.org/abs/2407.18623 37/n
This included a complaint against head of the board of the University Tim van der Hagen for his role in the obstruction of data sharing. Needless to say that all these complaints went nowhere. Throughout this time, Kouwenhoven et al started engaging with the journals on their own terms. 36/n
May 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This included a complaint against head of the board of the University Tim van der Hagen for his role in the obstruction of data sharing. Needless to say that all these complaints went nowhere. Throughout this time, Kouwenhoven et al started engaging with the journals on their own terms. 36/n