Michael Nielsen

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Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco.

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Tweet Aug 4, 2023

There's much interest in whether the material known as #LK99 is a room-temperature superconductor. I'd like to address a much simpler question: Is there evidence that LK-99 has an unusually low room-temperature resistivity?

by Prof. Michael S Fuhrer

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Tweet Aug 2, 2023

I am seeing a lot of newcomers lately to the room-temperature superconductor rodeo. They might not be aware of the long history of these events, and I think there’s some cross-cultural communications difficulties going on because of that.

by Prof. Michael S Fuhrer

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Tweet Oct 20, 2022

It's a long read (I've spread it out over 24 hours!) but "A Vision of Metascience" by @michael_nielsen and Kanjun Qiu is well worth the time scienceplusplus.org/metascience/index.html

by Laurence Tratt

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Tweet Aug 28, 2022

Guys, we need to stop this nonsense. Yes, some people go overboard on hype, but the anti-hype backlash is equally as wrong. A thread born out of frustration on misconceptions about quantum industry👇(1/n) (it's gotten so bad I've been driven to emoj

by Joe Fitzsimons

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Tweet Sep 16, 2022

It's Friday. Have some history. So you know Hadrian's Wall? Well for over 1000 years everyone thought it was built by someone else. Until, in 1840, John Hodgson, an unknown Northumbrian clergyman published the LONGEST footnote in history. Read on.

by John Bull

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Tweet Aug 25, 2022

1/ This is big. @WHOSTP is calling on all federal research funding agencies to adopt #openaccess policies. If they already have OA policies, they must strengthen them to meet the new guidelines. I'll add some summary points in a thread below. twitter

by Peter Suber

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Tweet Aug 18, 2022

The best words we have for working on whatever you want seem to be “funemployment” and “mini-retirement”which are terrible since they suggest you have to give up earning We need better words. Playcheck? if you can do it in a way that generates stea

by Venkatesh Rao

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Tweet Aug 6, 2022

One like = one spicy take about AI policy.

by Jack Clark

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Tweet Aug 4, 2022

It was such a pleasure co-organizing the NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp for PhD students with @Afinetheorem and @bfjo. We had an amazing group of economists make time to teach & talk with this group. Here’s a thread on what we covered in 11 ses

by Heidi L. Williams

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Tweet Jul 29, 2022

Scientists/technologists/researchers: Where and how can ARIA have the biggest impact? Tell us and help shape our vision by signing up at aria.org.uk to host a roundtable attended by our CEO @ilangur.

by ARIA

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Tweet Jul 1, 2022

There’s a reproducibility crisis brewing in almost every scientific field that has adopted machine learning. On July 28, we’re hosting an online workshop featuring a slate of expert speakers to help you diagnose and fix these problems in your own res

by Arvind Narayanan

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Tweet Jul 7, 2022

Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated worldwide! Cases in 1989: >890,000 Cases in 2021: 15 In this new post for @OurWorldInData, we show how this progress was achieved and the remaining hurdles that need to be overcome. 🪱🪱🪱 ourworldinda

by Saloni

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