More quantum fluids, this time: confined pair-density waves in superfluid helium-3 from Pramodh Senarath Yapa

This retraction is probably the beginning of the end of the room-temperature superconducting hydride story. If it does turn out to be fraud once the raw data is published, oh boy, the fallout is going to be messy. 😬 science.org/content/articl…

New essay by Kanjun 🐙 and myself, on improving the culture and social processes of science: scienceplusplus.org/metascience/in…

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A partial reunion of the Boulder Summer School 2022 cohort at the #APSMarch Meeting! @APSMeetings

Most hilarious part of the #APSMarch Meeting so far goes to whoever Rick Rolled all of the attendees through the official meeting app.

Okay, I retract my previous tweet: the most hilarious part of the #APSMarch Meeting is that the session with the alleged "room temperature" superconductor talk is poised for so much drama that they have a sheriff turning away people with some questionable tactics.

I get that the group *says* they're being open about techniques/data but good lord if I were claiming room temperature superconductivity I would bend over backward to share literally everything -- particularly if the group had accusations of prior data-related shenanigans.

'Very interesting discussion' is underselling this - there are comments from multiple people bringing up some very serious issues. I'm now collecting bets on how long before this new "room temperature superconductivity" paper is retracted. 💀

Interesting to contrast this versus the last big announcement at #APSMarch. 2018, Moire materials: Session AND an overflow room packed, session livestreamed. 2023, RT SC: room kept to seated capacity, dude with a sheriff badge threatening people who wanted to get in. 🤔

Yesterday, Ranga Dias made new superconductivity claims. I spent the last month investigating allegations of data manipulation in the retracted 2020 CSH paper which claimed to observe the first room-temperature superconductor. physics.aps.org/articles/v16/40

Goodbye #APSMarch! My recent tweets may have been *ahem* combative, but I do it out of love ❤️

Recently, researchers found significant problems with the infamous Google holographic wormhole teleportation experiment. Claimed signatures of wormhole dynamics may have been artefacts of the small system size. Charlie Wood dives into the details: quantamagazine.org/wormhole-exper…

'Sitzfleisch' might just be my new favourite word! Though it would be more useful/relateable if there was one word for lack-of-Sitzfleisch as well.

This is such a great read! I wonder if anyone has tried to apply this 'resurgence' method to strong coupling problems in condensed matter physics? If it's useful for high energy problems, I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be useful for CMP!

Probably the worst thing about climate change is that future generations will have a harder time finding a room-temperature superconductor as indoor temperatures soar. 😥 #LK99