Our new Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation will develop powerful tools from #physics, #math, computer science and theoretical #neuroscience to understand how large neural networks learn, compute, scale, reason and imagine: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/18/s...

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation on Simons Foundation

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

i hear that you and your lab have sold your chalkboards and bought compute credits i hear that you and your lab have sold your compute credits and bought chalkboards. i hear that every theorem that *you* know is more relevant than every theorem that *i* know

Come see my talk on how simple Hubbard physics can contribute to strangeness in metals at #MarchMeeting on Monday @5PM!

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com #science #mathematics

This is just stupid. Surely, getting rid of the ORI will have no negative consequences. SMH.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2y ago

"[M]ost — if not all — research investigators at the National Science Foundation’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will be leaving their jobs." retractionwatch.com/2025/02/27/e...

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

As a young researcher, I find this legacy of dubious claims disheartening. Nobody wants to dedicate the beginning of their career to work that might be based on bogus results. This steers a lot of people away from what could otherwise be a very productive field.

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦@spinespresso.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a mega-thread of all Microsoft problems related to topological qubits. NOTE: I skip the numerous news reports and press releases, this thread is for serious _scientific_ and procedural materials First retraction: Quantized Majorana Conductance, from Nature www.nature.com/articles/nat...

Some strong criticism of Šmejkal et al.'s work on altermagnetism and its potential for spintronics.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Trump: "Like on tractors that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything. They use magnets. It's a new theory -- magnets. They're gonna lift the planes up. And it doesn't work."

Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...

US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World

US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences

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@quantamagazine.bsky.social always manages to find problems I had never considered. Very curious to see some consequences, especially Schmalian's hope for infinite T SC!

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2y ago

Normally, heat disrupts the quantum ordering that makes superconductivity possible. But a new way of heatproofing quantum patterns may one day help physicists blow past this limitation.

University of Kentucky president just put out statement that Trump’s proposed NIH cuts “will cost UK tens of millions of dollars annually,” and hurt local economy and its work to advance health of the state — “including cancer, heart disease, children’s health, Alzheimer’s and opioid use disorder.”

you know what's a good idea as the climate changes, is firing the people working on crop yields

Jeff Dean@jeffdean.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another example of what cutting science funding is doing to our leading university research programs in the U.S.: dismantling things like the Soybean Innovation Lab at UIUC, which have made US crop yields dramatically higher.

🧪 ⚛️ Congress doesn’t have to follow the presidential budget request, and frequently doesn’t, but that this is even being floated is terrible. Remember, NIH and DOE Office of Science will likely face similar “recommendations”.

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

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Man this account was mostly going to be about science, but here we are 😭.

laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Constitutional crisis” does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitutional meaning.”

Amongst all the insanity these days, this seems like an appropriate framework to understand their ill-intents.

DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious

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🧪⚛️ Holy cow. Threats to layoff 25-50% of NSF (!!!). This would be a complete disaster. Anyone who thinks cutting the workforce at a $9B/yr agency by this much will lead to greater efficiency is just out of their mind. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

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Excited to see my work from my time at CCQ-Flatiron out as an Editors Suggestion in Physical Review Letters journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Enhanced Strange Metallicity due to Hubbard-$U$ Coulomb Repulsion

A model of electrons that has a particular Coulomb repulsion and is coupled to a 2D bosonic bath shows a quantum critical point where traditional Fermi-liquid physics breaks down, resulting in a so-ca...

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Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Made this while procrastinating ⚛️ 🧮 🧪