BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
QCrypt 2026, UOttawa, Aug 24-28, talk sub deadline March 13. qcrypt.net/2026/
The academics are a very diverse group. Worshipping others who are famous, rich, well-connected, or peceived smart etc is not uncommon ... Worse, worship replaces learning. e.g., photos & quotes of Feymann, Shannon, Einstein instead of their science at talks?
Not much of a lesson from my personal experience, other than: it's okay to say no to potentially sketchy things. I've said no to a few of them; some probably harmless, some doubtless bad. Your integrity as a person isn't worth a few bucks or a few connections.
Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help
snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...
In addition:
- joint search with Applied Math at UWaterloo at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Foundations: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31254
- Canada Impact+ Chairs:
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
Perimeter Institute openings:
1. Particle Physics:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31429
2. The intersection of Theoretical Physics and Artificial Intelligence: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31430
3. Quantum Computing and Quantum Information: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31435
I think it was the first time I experienced 2 independent closures within a term. (In 2019, there was an inch of ice so it was closure for 2 days.)
ICE = law breakers
Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.
So important ⬇️
Trump is threatening wars with NATO and Venezuela for the same reason he’s at war with the American people: fascism must always be on the march.
Authoritarians are good at offense, but bad at defense. The only strategy for combating the Epstein crisis is literally going to war.
Totally understand.
Prioritize on the conceptual ideas, hand write the slides etc ... Strange experience with 26 term project presentations last term. After 6-8 presentations, the first set of hand written slides refreshed my eyes and brain and I gave a tiny bonus for that!
Many advantages -- speakers can spend more time practicing and thinking through the talks rather then writing slides, and when they're at the meeting, they spend more time attending the meeting rather than working on the talk?
Have been begging to use more analytics for yrs at @caltech.edu. Now it’s used sparingly. We get sooo many applications, a large % are not strong enough.
@virginiatech.bsky.social “A second person will step in if the AI and human reader disagree by more than two points on a 12-point scoring scale”
Wow, someone discovered a more efficient way of multiplying two 3×3 matrices! It uses 23 multiplications and 58 addition/subtractions. The previous best used 23 and 60.
(Better methods exist if your matrix entries live in a *commutative* ring. This handles quaternions!)
arxiv.org/abs/2512.21980
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
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🌟 Exciting news! We're thrilled @bterhal.bsky.social is Riverlane's newest Fellow with @quantumearl.bsky.social + @danbrowne.bsky.social 🎉
Under Barbara's leadership, the Delft hub will focus on integrating #AI and #ML into real-time #QEC 🚀
www.riverlane.com/press-releas...
The best part...
Of course we need more tricouncil funding overall. I mostly just want to highlight what level of "strategic concentration of support" translates to good outcomes.
CRC program is much more efffective than the CERC.
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
We're a group of fun, loving, and fun-loving people welcoming more :)
Department of Physics at UIUC is looking for an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Quantum Information Science, including, but not limited to, quantum error correction, quantum optics, quantum algorithms, and AMO physics.
Application deadline: Dec 1
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Tenure track position in Dept C&O, U Waterloo, with continuous optimization as priority area!
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/lists/2...
Interesting! Rarely use Merlin for photo ID, but audio ID is crazy useful (to know if it is worth spotting a sulker or a fraction of bird between leaves). I often only know the call is uncommon, then Jon uses Merlin to ID, before a committment to spot. Inat most useful for insects and plants.
RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.
A 12-foot golden statue of Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin was unveiled outside the US Capitol
Happened in Hong Kong!
How many of your academic relatives are die-hard procrastinators?
