UT Austin’s Jason McLellan, professor of molecular biosciences in NaturalSciences @ UT, has been named a MacArthur Fellow, often called the “genius grant", by MacArthur Foundation! His groundbreaking research in structural biology continues to shape our understanding of how science can improve

BREAKING: Princeton has announced it will begin requiring standardized test scores for admissions in the 2027-28 cycle. This leaves Columbia as the only Ivy League school that doesn’t require test scores. Not surprisingly: “The decision to resume testing requirements follows a

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Forgot to advertise my new paper with Merna from earlier this month: arxiv.org/abs/2509.14312 Among other things we find a novel strong dissipation / weak dissipation duality.

On my way to the IAS in Princeton for our next UQM Simons Collaboration Meeting. Pretty spectacular line-up of speakers: ias.edu/sns/program-de…

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Source: nature.com/articles/d4158…

quantumzeitgeist.com/subsystem-comp… popular write-up in less than a day? miracles of AI i guess?

Civic duty ✅

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arxiv.org/abs/2510.19928 John Preskill and Jens Eisert on the near and mid term future of quantum computing. Somehow this is not what IonQ promised when I heard their last presentation about the “most agressive roadmap” 😉

Kyoto, here I come. This should be interesting… www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~extremeuniver…

🚨 Bill Nye says Trump’s NASA cuts are “extinction-level.” The White House wants to slash science missions by up to 47%, gutting Earth monitoring, planetary research, even active Mars missions. “This isn’t belt-tightening,” Nye warned. “It’s self-sabotage. America’s leadership

Perfect weather to walk from downtown Kyoto to the Yukawa Institute

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