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Rishi Sreedhar @rishisr33dhar.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hey #Quantumsky 👋🏾

This is an attempt at indexing the growing quantum community here on Bluesky. Please let me know if you'd like to be added to the list.

Genuinely happy to see what looks like a successful migration from the birdsite 😄

go.bsky.app/VHXg1yi

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Sep 30

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.

Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...

www.mcgill.ca

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Rajiv Krishnakumar @rajivkrishnakumar.bsky.social · Jul 11

Very nice interview with Prof. Prabha Mandayam where she shares with us some fascinating life experiences and insights, like how she got into quantum, what she enjoys most about her job, recent QEC breakthroughs, and more! Very fun, informal and a relaxing listen :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejx...

A Day in the Life of a Quantum Information Science Professor with Prabha Mandayam | Ep. 5

YouTube video by A Day in the Life

www.youtube.com

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jul 7

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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PastelBio @pastelbio.bsky.social · May 28

Transformers in Protein: A Survey arxiv.org/abs/2505.2...

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

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Anirban Ray @anirbanray.bsky.social · May 27

Always found the connection between rectified flows and optimal transport a bit confusing. Glad to see some clarity. TL;DR: Rectified flows ≠ optimal transport. arxiv.org/abs/2505.19712

On the Relation between Rectified Flows and Optimal Transport

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields th...

arxiv.org

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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · Mar 24

"A Panorama of Tensor Networks: from Condensed Matter to Quantum Field Theory, Holography and Beyond" TN2025, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Oct. 6-10, 2025
indico.global/event/10052/

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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · Mar 19

[History of Physics]

The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: A Historical Study Through the Canonical Papers

Eren Volkan Küç
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arxiv.org/abs/2503.13630

The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: A Historical Study Through the Canonical Papers

This paper explores the historical development of the theory of quantum mechanics between 1900 and 1927 by chronological examination of the foundational papers and ideas. Beginning with Planck's intro...

arxiv.org

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · Mar 8

Introduction to Online Control (192 pages)

An introduction to an emerging paradigm in control of dynamical systems and differentiable reinforcement learning called online nonstochastic control.

arxiv.org/abs/2211.09619

Introduction to Online Control

This text presents an introduction to an emerging paradigm in control of dynamical systems and differentiable reinforcement learning called online nonstochastic control. The new approach applies techn...

arxiv.org

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · Mar 7

A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

A comprehensive conceptual account of these theoretical foundations, focusing on developing a principled intuition behind the method and its optimal implementations rather of any exhaustive rigor.

arxiv.org/abs/1701.02434

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Jan H. Jensen @janhjensen.bsky.social · Mar 4

Can machines learn density functionals? Past, present, and future of ML in DFT arxiv.org/abs/2503.01709 #compchem

Can machines learn density functionals? Past, present, and future of ML in DFT

Density functional theory has become the world's favorite electronic structure method, and is routinely applied to both materials and molecules. Here, we review recent attempts to use modern machine-l...

arxiv.org

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Aggie Branczyk @aggiebranczyk.bsky.social · Feb 28

Yes, the quantum tech industry needs PhDs, but as a career move, I don’t think it’s the best bet. Why?

Read my blog post here: aggiebranczyk.com/blog/2025/ph...

#quantumcomputing #quantum #careers #phd 🧪

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The Schrodinger cat's Post @schrodcatpost.bsky.social · Feb 5

New review on quantum simulation of molecules in the (hopefully soon) early-fault-tolerant quantum computing era.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.02139

Fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for quantum molecular systems: A survey

Solving quantum molecular systems presents a significant challenge for classical computation. The advent of early fault-tolerant quantum computing (EFTQC) devices offers a promising avenue to address ...

arxiv.org

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Quantum Journal @quantum-journal.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hello world! The quantum journal is now on BlueSky!

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Aggie Branczyk @aggiebranczyk.bsky.social · Jan 26

Academics in the Wild has a new website. Would love to know if we should add anything else to the FAQ. 🧪

academicsinthewild.com

Academics in the Wild

Exploring careers beyond academia

academicsinthewild.com

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Nick Mark, MD @nickmark.bsky.social · Jan 25

Summary stats can be deceptive! Always visualize your data!

These datasets have nearly identical mean, SD, & correlation yet they look completely different!

You can explore the data yourself in an app I built:
nickmmark.shinyapps.io/data_science/

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Rishi Sreedhar @rishisr33dhar.bsky.social · Jan 25

I'd love to know more about this too 🖐🏽

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The Schrodinger cat's Post @schrodcatpost.bsky.social · Jan 24

Today #quantum arXiv selection: Hamiltonian simulation, barren plateau , non-unitary VQE, simulating noisy quantum circuits, quantum compilation, and improved QAOA.
More details and links below:

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · Jan 23

🗿📜 Did you know that statues are not the only wonder of ancient culture found on Easter Island?

Besides the monolithic human figures known as moai, another great puzzle seen in this southeastern Pacific Ocean island is rongorongo, a mysterious system of glyphs carved on wooden tablets. 🧵⬇️ (1/6)

A wooden tablet featuring glyphs engraved in the surface. Text says: These mysterious glyphs found on Easter Island remain one of history's greatest unsolved puzzles.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Jan 23

You asked!

We've added Bluesky buttons to the Quanta site to make it easier for you to share our stories on this platform.

Try it on today's article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · Jan 23

This semester, I am considering modifying the participation portion of my course: a small % of the overall grade will require identifying a relevant Wikipedia page, and creating/improving it.

Any experience in doing so, and advice on pitfalls to avoid? The side goal being to help improve Wikipedia.

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · Jan 23

My lab has a tradition that each week one person contributes edits to a Wikipedia page relevant to their scientific work, and then presents it briefly at lab meeting (and we clap). A few of my favorites:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...

Proprioception - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social · Jan 20

Wait! Over 35 *thousands* people already registered for the AI Agent course

in a few days...

time to find the biggest conference center in the world and gather everyone for a giga-conference on agents?

you can still join the online course here bit.ly/hf-learn-age...

Hugging Face

Hugging Face Email Forms

bit.ly

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · Jan 15

Introduction to representation theory

These are lecture notes that arose from a representation theory course. The notes cover a number of standard topics in representation theory of groups, Lie algebras, and quivers, and contain many problems and exercises.

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0827

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Alex Pozas-Kerstjens @alexpozas.com · Dec 14

It seems like a tradition is emerging here, and it is out duty to maintain it. So here is my part announcing the publication of our review in semidefinite programming for characterizing quantum correlations @dulwichquantum.bsky.social

journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract...

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Lukas Schäfer @lukaschaefer.bsky.social · Dec 9

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social!

What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇

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