David Abergel

Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits?

Here it is: ($)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"NASCAR's most popular driver" despite having no personality and mediocre talent. I guess having a talented dad gets you a long way in that business. Fucking hell.

Don't know what the overlap of bluesky and NASCAR is, but I just caught up with the happenings at Kansas this weekend, and honestly, Chase Elliot can fuck off. What the hell.

Just hit a major milestone in my Germanification, as I was going to take glass to the recycling containers and then realised it's a Sunday...

Screengrab from the Nature Briefing with a headline "See a time crystal for the first time".

From today's Nature Briefing. Richard O'Brien would beg to differ.

I moved house today, from Berlin to Leipzig. Now cooking our first meal in our new home. Steak, fried potatoes, and steamed vegetables because start as you mean to go on, right?

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social Just wanted to say thank you for all your contributions to Remaniacs/OGWN. Best of luck for whatever the next thing is, but I will miss you hosting the show.

Oh my word. Small boats and housing for asylum seekers is absolutely not the biggest issue facing the UK government right now. The @theguardian.com, of all papers needs to set a different tone. Don't pander to Farage. @pippacrerar.bsky.social

Invest in science education research to make science open to all - Nature Physics Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts expose the need for science education research.

Last week we published a World View that discusses how the current political climate amplifies the need for science education research. ($)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps — which one are you in? Research shows that beer drinkers are split depending on which types of flavour chemicals they prefer.

Personally, I'd prefer it if my beer tasted neither like strawberry or pineapple, but perhaps I'm just a Philistine. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Editors don't get enough love.

Seeking science journalists: @quantamagazine.bsky.social is hiring a physics editor!

A rare opportunity to join this great team and lead coverage of this foundational vertical. Please reach out with any questions and share widely

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Pood in British English is a unit of weight used in Russia, equal to 36.1 pounds or 16.39 kilograms.

I had reasons to google what a "pood" is, and I am probably irrationally disappointed in the Collins dictionary for this basic physics error.

In the last week, the modal response to a request to referee a paper seems to have gone from "I'm on vacation, sorry" to "the school year is just starting, sorry".

Sigh.

Fractional computing - Nature Physics We highlight how an abstract piece of condensed-matter physics — the fractional quantum Hall effect — may be ideally placed to implement quantum computers.

I guess experts may scream at us for over-simplifying and making some mistakes, but here is the @natphys.nature.com editorial for August. We make the case that the fractional quantum Hall effect is an under-valued platform for making a topological quantum computer. ⚛️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screengrab of an article that says "He adds: “It’s like saying ‘we’re building the Apollo programme but we don’t actually know how gravity works or how far away the moon is, or how a rocket works, but if we keep on making the rocket bigger maybe we’ll get there’."

So encouraging... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I tend to think that both of those things exist.

I would also be fascinated to know what proportion of respondents think that "immigrant" and "illegal migrant" are the same thing.

CRISPR was made for this moment.

The football is getting tense. 😬

...That feeling when you realise you misspelled "graphene" on the journal homepage... 🫣

Dear podcasters,
Past some (fairly short) threshold, the longer your ad read is, the less likely I am to buy that product.
Sincerely,
Your listener.

I guess you could call then "reference" and "referee"?

The APS would call paper C a "citing article"

Three barbells lined up on the floor of a gym.

Did (a scaled version) of the "three bars of death" workout (AKA 'Linda') this morning. 10,9,8,...,3,2,1 of deadlift, benchpress, and squat cleans as fast as you can.

Right now I would happily never look at a barbell ever again.

Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics/Technology), Nature Communications - Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Milan, Madrid (Hybri job with Springer ... Title:  Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies), Nature Communications Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York...

Our friends at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring an editor for quantum physics and technology. Can be based in China, the US, Spain, or Italy.

Full details here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#Careers #EditorialJobs #Quantum #Physics

#iteachphysics folks, I'm working on putting up over a 15 years of open-source content for physics teaching.

Looking for collaborators!

Please follow @openphysicsed.org for updates or email me at: danny@openphysicsed.org

Catching up on this weekend's NASCAR and it can't just be me that thinks the Chicago street course looks a bit like an inquisitive beagle.