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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦

@spinespresso.bsky.social

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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 · 1d

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

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 1d

OMG what happened??

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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

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

Analyzing....

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

Please please please call it Karl!

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

Did you fix the coffee machine ?

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

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 · 4d

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 · 6d

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

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

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

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

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 · 8d

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

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

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 · 8d

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.

www.axios.com

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

We, @vincentmourik.bsky.social and I, pointed out a pattern in 4 papers to Springer Nature. They split the complaint in separate parts then handled each paper separately with no regard for a pattern. Finding a pattern provides extra evidence.
Ignoring a pattern can be a way to diminish the problem.

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

If you are in Pittsburgh, join us on Thursday for the opening of Scientists in Exile

pi.tt/StandingFree...

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

We need to wait for it to come out in Nature before we jump to conclusions

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 10d

In your experience, did any editor ever react to being presented with a pattern in more than one paper?

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 14d

The boards of COPE are dominated by industry insiders. This combined with nominal oversight where they may consider an occasional complaint and maybe an editor takes that into account. Vent and dissipate the frustration. It is very convenient for publishers, they would not want to change anything.

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 14d

anything in hunch and simplicity?

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 14d

COPE is an industry interest group that provides cover to bad actors, i.e. publishers. It is not a toothless tiger it is a small part of a big monster.