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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 21d

Good to see John standing up for science

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · Sep 23

I'm sure its all worth it!

Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · Sep 23

Yes, I was specifically alluding to your almost indefinite patience.

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · Sep 20

You are the anomaly.

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · Sep 16

@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.

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lol

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.capitalbrief.com/article/sqc-...

"Watermelon QML systems are engineered with atomic precision at our quantum chip manufacturing plant in Sydney."

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · Jul 13

I notice in my community numerous conferences featuring fraudsters. Along with people who stated that it's time to move on, and the lesson has been learned etc. Of course people who called out fraud are typically excluded.

I wonder if other communities went through this and have they survived?

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

There is no reliability nor safety in dealing with these people. 50/end

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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...

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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 ...

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

We went to the QuTech director, Lieven Vandersypen, with our data requests. He refused. We confronted him with the Netherlands Code of Conduct saying that materials should be shared for verification and reproduction. We didn't hear from him, we complained against him and other Delft officials. 35/n

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Vincent Mourik @vincentmourik.bsky.social · May 8

Kouwenhoven never responded to our data requests. After the summer in 2020, the integrity committee told us we were no longer a part in their investigation, nor would they investigate any additional papers, as the board had confined their scope to a single paper. 34/n

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