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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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Clearly dark matter is a topological superconductor, and this is why it is so hard to detect.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Cool. So where do I go if I need data from the University of Copenhagen?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I do not have time to work on this during the regular week, so I do it on the weekened. #NSF

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Please read this thread, it is a factual and honest account of how research misconduct happens, from the point of view of a then-PhD student. Takes almost 10 years to mount the courage to come forward with it publicly!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Internal email bullshit

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My friend and neighbor Dr. Taras Filenko is a leading scholar of Ukrainian classical music and an accomplished pianist. Here is a recording of his concert at the beautiful Lotus Temple in New Dehli with brilliant collaborators, sending a message of peace to the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ19...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

An NSF PO on its upcoming 75th anniversary: "In nature, systems evolve towards minimum of energy, following the laws of physics. In the US today things evolve to a location of maximum pain, violating the laws of the land." www.linkedin.com/posts/tomasz...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Work relating to Microsoft’s new quantum computing chip has been called into question after an author on the 2017 study acknowledged it contained “undisclosed data manipulations,” according to emails obtained by Retraction Watch and Science. scim.ag/42Z6Vz2

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

It is weird to issue an Editorial Expression of Concern, and call the case 'closed', isn't it? (@ Nature Communications) www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I'll take 'Science Fraud' for 400

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Pocket guide to materials discovery calculation methods (repost from the other place)

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Yesterday we published our investigation into torture & death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna. Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

I raise my canadiano for our friends who will never be the 51st of anything

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Microsoft Quantum then: We set the bars out before we had any of the data... that's the key to avoiding confirmation bias. Microsoft Quantum now: It's not surprising the protocol evolved!

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 20 days ago • 614 comments

100s of foreign students in the U.S. had their visas suddenly cancelled and were asked to self-deport, supposedly due to convictions and arrests. We found many of these students had no criminal records however. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

Universities across the United States are implementing budget cuts in response to tariffs, grant cancellations and overhead reductions. A no-brainer way to save money - cancel your Springer Nature subscriptions! These do not add value to research.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

beautiful landscapes

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Bullshit arxiv.org/abs/2504.13240

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

carve the truth in stone, it will be harder to erase

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

🕯️Organist Olena Kohut was ki##ed today in Sumy by a Russian missile strike. Another talent wiped out by terrorist russia.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Denmark is a very disappointing country for research integrity. The University of Copenhagen is a cover-up facility. The national committee is meek and cannot be appealed to my whistleblowers. The journalists don't cover it. The code of conduct is good, but empty words. Shame on DK.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

A problem with all these journals publishing ridiculous corrections instead of retracting articles is that a 'correction' will become associated with terrible fraud. And the editors talk about 'decriminalizing retractions' and removing that stigma. Fraud is fraud, not matter how you call it.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

submitted 35 days ago • 48 comments

I am really looking forward to meeting folks at UCL. I am giving TWO talks there today, one on the topological qubits and Majorana, and one on the actual qubits.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment