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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦

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Quantum Computing boffin, Condensed Matter Physics, Reproducibility. Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Pittsburgh Blog: https://espressospin.org/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spinespresso Lab: http://frolovlab.org/

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · Feb 24

3 years from when russia invaded Ukraine. When the USA told the leader of the free world President Zelensky to leave, and he replied "I don't need a ride. I need ammunition".

This is the first slide of every talk I gave in the last 3 years. This thread is about (quantum) science in Ukraine. 🧵

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 18h

Data available upon request

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4d

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 2d

Good to see John standing up for science

youtube.com/watch?v=7Vcm...

Federal funding cuts could 'cripple science,' says Nobel Prize winner | REUTERS

YouTube video by Reuters

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 2d

Did he get it?

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 3d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my! They should run it on all allegedly existing quantum chips out there!

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Physicists just built a quantum lie detector. It works

An international team has confirmed that large quantum systems really do obey quantum mechanics. Using Bell’s test across 73 qubits, they proved the presence of genuine quantum correlations that can’t...

www.sciencedaily.com

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 4d

They can't do anything right

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 5d

The prize is for the greatest benefit which can in principle be a negative value

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 5d

OMG what happened??

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 5d

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 6d

Nobel prize is a corrupting influence on science. Unrelated to that, the three people who got it can be celebrated anytime.
I know Dale would have been raising a glass today.

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 7d

-Hey Karl, is this a bullshit paper in Nature?

Analyzing....

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 8d

Please please please call it Karl!

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 8d

Did you fix the coffee machine ?

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 9d

due to the complex valued nature of time, a small calibration error resulted in overlooking a time-phase shift of pi/4 accounting for fifteen years of imaginary time. the authors regret the lack of scientific rigor.

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 9d

If you call in the next 30 minutes, we will throw in this chip - a billion dollar value!

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 9d

like most fake claims, it only works when it is wrong

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 9d

Only one explanation for this: the journal was traveling at near the speed of light

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 9d

Pascale Laborier delivered a great lecture to kick off this important project at Pitt's Hillman Library

www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/scholar...

‘Scholars in Exile’ exhibit shows frailty of academic freedom

The portraits are of international faculty and researchers put at risk for speaking out.

www.utimes.pitt.edu

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 11d

eye opening, i thought they go to get yelled at by the scientists

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 11d

Well-well, an entire University exposed as a Minecraft simulation...

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 12d

So grateful for Slack's trademark purplish-wine-stain color which helps me rapidly know that I am talking to PhDs and not to chatGPT

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 12d

So there is no coffee in Canada yet America is the center of the Apocalypse? We have coffee...

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 12d

Apparently Schoen who copied the same made up trace in two nature papers was asked which one was right and just picked one

Later 15 papers were retracted from nature and science

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 12d

After their great success with vibe-discovering topo-con qubits, Microsoft rolls out vibe-work across all professional activities

www.axios.com/2025/09/29/v...

Microsoft debuts "vibe working" in Office

New features let workers describe what they want in a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file.