Mark Mitchison
@mitchison.bsky.social
Theory of Controlled Quantum Systems | @royalsociety.org University Research Fellow @ King’s College London | Editor @quantum-journal.bsky.social & New Journal of Physics | He/him | posts ≈ 60% science/30% politics/11% nonsense
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Man, I hadn't thought about this as a consequence of LLM use. The first "theory of everything" I ever received was in grad school and I suspect it was probably because I was early in the alphabet at MIT. That one didn't strike me as reflecting any particularly disordered thinking... <1/n> 🧵
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Man, I hadn't thought about this as a consequence of LLM use. The first "theory of everything" I ever received was in grad school and I suspect it was probably because I was early in the alphabet at MIT. That one didn't strike me as reflecting any particularly disordered thinking... <1/n> 🧵
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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Couldn't be more proud of this collab! Watch out for Quantum Quest in Portuguese, Gujarati, and Hindi 🐈⬛
Last week I witnessed the birth of a new animation phenomenon: Quantum Quest! Born out of a collab between @aspects-quantum.bsky.social @khalak.bsky.social @saulovmo.bsky.social and our talented friends at Cassette Vision — watch here! cassette.ie/quantum
Cassette Vision
The official project page for the animation film "Quantum Quest"
cassette.ie
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Couldn't be more proud of this collab! Watch out for Quantum Quest in Portuguese, Gujarati, and Hindi 🐈⬛
Last week I witnessed the birth of a new animation phenomenon: Quantum Quest! Born out of a collab between @aspects-quantum.bsky.social @khalak.bsky.social @saulovmo.bsky.social and our talented friends at Cassette Vision — watch here! cassette.ie/quantum
Cassette Vision
The official project page for the animation film "Quantum Quest"
cassette.ie
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Last week I witnessed the birth of a new animation phenomenon: Quantum Quest! Born out of a collab between @aspects-quantum.bsky.social @khalak.bsky.social @saulovmo.bsky.social and our talented friends at Cassette Vision — watch here! cassette.ie/quantum
Very happy to see our latest work out in PRL doi.org/10.1103/5rtj... and highlighted by both @apsphysics.bsky.social Physics and @physicsworld.bsky.social
Small thread below 🧵⬇️
Small thread below 🧵⬇️
Quantum fluctuations produce no entropy, so if you can count those fluctuations as clock “ticks”, you can make a clock with no entropy and nonzero precision. Or can you? New research hints at why there is (still) no free lunch, even in the #quantum world. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/researcher...
Researchers pin down the true cost of precision in quantum clocks – Physics World
Trade-off between precision and entropy production lies in measurement process
physicsworld.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very happy to see our latest work out in PRL doi.org/10.1103/5rtj... and highlighted by both @apsphysics.bsky.social Physics and @physicsworld.bsky.social
Small thread below 🧵⬇️
Small thread below 🧵⬇️
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Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.
Come on @natureportfolio.nature.com , get your 💩 together please
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 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Come on @natureportfolio.nature.com , get your 💩 together please
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"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."
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A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
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No they do not. I'll try to write something up in the next few days....
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
No they do not. I'll try to write something up in the next few days....
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London people! Doing a thing tonight:
Quantum art, music, games and chats at @scigallerylon.bsky.social Free entry (but registration essential) ⚛️
london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...
Quantum art, music, games and chats at @scigallerylon.bsky.social Free entry (but registration essential) ⚛️
london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...
Friday Late: Quantum After Dark — Science Gallery London
Come and experience quantum after dark at Science Gallery London’s Friday Late co-programmed with MOTH a quantum technology company.
london.sciencegallery.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
London people! Doing a thing tonight:
Quantum art, music, games and chats at @scigallerylon.bsky.social Free entry (but registration essential) ⚛️
london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...
Quantum art, music, games and chats at @scigallerylon.bsky.social Free entry (but registration essential) ⚛️
london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/f...
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Quantum networks might one day enable more secure options for communication and distributed computation and are therefore currently a hot research topic, one which presents many challenges: One is the on-demand distribution of quantum systems that feature genuine multipartite entanglement (GME). 1/8
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Quantum networks might one day enable more secure options for communication and distributed computation and are therefore currently a hot research topic, one which presents many challenges: One is the on-demand distribution of quantum systems that feature genuine multipartite entanglement (GME). 1/8
Congratulations to @khalak.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper 🥳 in collaboration with @saulovmo.bsky.social and our @aspects-quantum.bsky.social colleagues in Murcia
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14926
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14926
Current fluctuations in nonequilibrium open quantum systems beyond weak coupling: a reaction coordinate approach
We investigate current fluctuations in open quantum systems beyond the weak-coupling and Markovian regimes, focusing on a coherently driven qubit strongly coupled to a structured bosonic environment. ...
arxiv.org
October 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Congratulations to @khalak.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper 🥳 in collaboration with @saulovmo.bsky.social and our @aspects-quantum.bsky.social colleagues in Murcia
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14926
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14926
Superconducting circuits win the Physics Nobel Prize! Congrats to Clarke, Devoret and Martinis, and everyone else involved in these discoveries 👏
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...
www.nobelprize.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Superconducting circuits win the Physics Nobel Prize! Congrats to Clarke, Devoret and Martinis, and everyone else involved in these discoveries 👏
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
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At PW headquarters, we're all waiting with bated breath for this morning's physics #NobelPrize. If you're doing the same, why not pass the time by reading/arguing with our editor @matindurrani.bsky.social's picks of the 5 most notable physics Nobels this century? physicsworld.com/a/the-top-fi... 🧪⚛️
The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed – Physics World
Matin Durrani counts down the five most significant physics Nobels since 2000
physicsworld.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
At PW headquarters, we're all waiting with bated breath for this morning's physics #NobelPrize. If you're doing the same, why not pass the time by reading/arguing with our editor @matindurrani.bsky.social's picks of the 5 most notable physics Nobels this century? physicsworld.com/a/the-top-fi... 🧪⚛️
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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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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
Awesome to have Kavan Modi visit us at King’s and talk about his work characterising correlated errors in quantum computers, using Quantum Process Tensor Tomography 🤩
October 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Awesome to have Kavan Modi visit us at King’s and talk about his work characterising correlated errors in quantum computers, using Quantum Process Tensor Tomography 🤩
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The govt published its strategy to revitalise local communities last week
There is a heavy focus on directing funding to high streets and community spaces, which is part of the reason for declining "pride in place"
But it seems misguided for a few reasons
Short thread
www.gov.uk/government/p...
There is a heavy focus on directing funding to high streets and community spaces, which is part of the reason for declining "pride in place"
But it seems misguided for a few reasons
Short thread
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Pride in Place Strategy
The Pride in Place Strategy will help build stronger communities, create thriving places and empower local people.
www.gov.uk
September 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The govt published its strategy to revitalise local communities last week
There is a heavy focus on directing funding to high streets and community spaces, which is part of the reason for declining "pride in place"
But it seems misguided for a few reasons
Short thread
www.gov.uk/government/p...
There is a heavy focus on directing funding to high streets and community spaces, which is part of the reason for declining "pride in place"
But it seems misguided for a few reasons
Short thread
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it!
That’s just me though.
That’s just me though.
September 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it!
That’s just me though.
That’s just me though.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
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September 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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