Mikkel Willum Johansen

‘Data manipulations’ alleged in study that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum chip Internal emails from 2021 reveal tensions among researchers hunting for elusive Majorana particle

‘Data manipulations’ alleged in study that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum chip | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

What a nice world economy you have. It would be a shame if something happened to it ...

The Situation at Columbia II To update the situation at Columbia, first of all, the weather is sunny and nice and the campus is very quiet. As has been the case since the police were brought in to clear Hamilton Hall and the e…

... The university puts out statements explaining that "At all times, we are guided by our values, putting academic freedom, free expression, open inquiry, and respect for all at the fore of every decision we make."
www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpr...

Woit: "On campus, lots and lots of Columbia security staff, at the gates NYPD and news cameras. Down the street, reports of marked ICE vehicles, unknown number of unmarked ones. There's a reason the place is quiet: most people are terrified of what will happen to them if they say the wrong thing.."

Why We Do the Research Evidence does not support regulation of certain female track athletes

Abut the last part, see: rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-we-do-...

World Athletics mandates cheek swabs to ‘doggedly protect female category’ World Athletics has approved the introduction of cheek swabbing to determine if an athlete is biologically female, Sebastian Coe has announced

So, World Athletics just decided to rule out DSD women apparently based on no or at best severely flawed, perhaps fraudulent, scientific evidence www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

For anyone who's interested in epistemic values of mathematical proofs (and who's not?), I can highly recommend reading this Master's thesis: www.ind.ku.dk/publikatione...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

OpenAI ‘reviewing’ allegations that its AI models were used to make DeepSeek ChatGPT creator warns Chinese startups are ‘constantly’ using its technology to develop competing products

Funny how OpenAI suddenly cares about IP. Apparently things look different when it's your own stuff getting stolen: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hälfte der Studierenden haben Angst vor Text-Matching-Software Eine Studie zeigt: Viele Studierende befürchten, zu Unrecht des Plagiats beschuldigt zu werden. Sie zitieren aus Angst übermäßig viel oder versuchen, die Software auszutricksen. Text-Matching-Software...

In case you want to train your German, here's an interview I gave to Süddeutsche Zeitung about our new paper "The dark side of text-matching software" www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/studi...

Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software In a new study around half of the high school and university students from seven European countries are concerned about the use of plagiarism detection software in education. Their concerns lead to co...

Do you want to know more about the dark side of text-matching software? Here's the press-release in English: science.ku.dk/english/pres...

Hver anden studerende bekymrer sig over brugen af plagiatsoftware I en ny undersøgelse fra Københavns Universitet bekymrer over halvdelen af de deltagende studerende fra danske gymnasier og universiteter sig over brugen af software der skal afsløre plagiat. Bekymrin...

Students worry about automated plagiarism checks, even when they are not 're not cheating. Not a good way to build safe learning spaces: science.ku.dk/presse/nyhed...

Just found a new favorite advent calendar: papermills.tilda.ws/advent

Line go up. Anthropic co-founder Darius Amodei said on Lex Fridman’s podcast yesterday that, “if you believe the straight-line extrapolation,” we’ll have artificial general intelligence “in 2026 or 2027.” He also...

Can't wait to meet our new AI Gods in 2026-27: www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/2...