David Benoit

Interested in molecular spectroscopy and MAchine Learning for Astrochemistry? I have a postdoc position open, deadline October 10! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... 🔭🧪 #ChemSky

Deltakit's SDK is 🔥: Python library built on Stim simulator. Generate #QEC circuits, add realistic noise, simulate, decode, and analyze.

All from one lib!

deltakit.riverlane.com

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.

If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗

ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

Cats Confuse Reasoning LLM: Query Agnostic Adversarial Triggers for Reasoning Models We investigate the robustness of reasoning models trained for step-by-step problem solving by introducing query-agnostic adversarial triggers - short, irrelevant text that, when appended to math probl...

CatAttack: Adding irrelevant facts about cats to math problems increases LLM errors by 300%.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.01781

repost if your childhood started with a #Commodore computer.

🛠️⚛️💎 Still Time to Get Involved with Quantum Village @ DEF CON 33 💎⚛️🛠️

QV returns to DEF CON this Aug 8-10 at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. Feat. The Quantum CTF w/ real QPU access, hands-on hardware, open source sensing, policy, and creative coding...

The Internet Archive is under fire again. We could lose the Wayback Machine.. maybe even the whole website and all of its preservation. This is NOT about piracy. This is clearly pure greed from corporate companies, and the lawsuit amount is absolutely ridiculous. Stand up.

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️!

aspire.science.uva.nl

Thanks to everyone who followed the #KM3NeT_UHE #RecordNeutrino result announcement on the 12th of February 2025! It was a big success with thousands of views from all over the world: locally & online

Webinar recording➡️ www.youtube.com/live/2jgyZlB...
More info➡️ www.km3net.org/observation-...

A new paper is out!📜🔔

The sample shown in the plot of 17 potential blazar associations in the 99% CL region of KM3-230213A is presented. Among them, the three most interesting candidates are highlighted in the paper.

Go have a look more in detail here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.08484

Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected Although still under construction, the sea-floor KM3NeT detector spotted a neutrino 20 times more powerful than any previously detected.

"We had to convince ourselves that it wasn’t something strange or weird with the telescope”
How @km3net.bsky.social discovered the most energetic neutrino ever (a mini 🧵)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re extremely happy that the news is finally out!

See here a visualization of the highest energy neutrino ever observed which triggered more than 35% of the active light sensors in our KM3NeT detector

#KM3NeT_UHE #RecordNeutrino

Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #KM3NeT_UHE #RecordNeutrino results were published in @Nature today!

In case you've missed our exciting news:

Paper➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

News item➡️ www.km3net.org/observation-...

Press release➡️ www.km3net.org/km3net-detec...

Popular version➡️ www.km3net.org/the-observat...

Record-setting neutrino opens ‘new energy window on the universe’ Scientists say the source of a high-energy particle that zipped through the Mediterranean Sea in 2023 is a mystery

“It’s the first time astronomy at this energy is possible,” says Paschal Coyle of KM3NeT. 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Ready...? Set... GO!

Tune in: www.youtube.com/live/2jgyZlB... to hear about our record-breaking results!

The event starts at 16:50 CET

📢Today is the day!

🗓️ Tune in at 16:50 CET to hear about some exciting KM3NeT results presented: www.youtube.com/live/2jgyZlB...

🔗Details can be found on our website: www.km3net.org/km3net-webin...

From the deep cosmos to the deep sea: new results from the KM3NeT neutrino telescope YouTube video by KM3NeTneutrino

🔔Tomorrow we will publish new KM3NeT results in Nature!

🗓️ Join us Wednesday 12th of Feb, at 16:50 CET to hear about these results in a live webinar:
www.youtube.com/live/2jgyZlB...

🔗Stay tuned for more details: www.km3net.org/km3net-webin...

📢 Big news coming up!

🗓️ Join us Wednesday 12th of Feb, at 16:50 CET to hear about some exciting KM3NeT results!

🔗 Details can be found on our website: www.km3net.org/km3net-webin...

6 days left to apply! Please repost! #jobposting #Astrosky #ChemSky #PlanetaryScience

Vacancy — Postdoctoral position in Modelling Titan's atmosphere Applications are invited for a postdoctoral (PD) position at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API) at the University of Amsterdam Netherlands (UvA) to work with assistant professor Alessan...

Do you think #Titan is the best moon? Do you like chemical modelling? Come and work with me at @api.uva.nl to model hydrocarbon chemistry on Titan! I have an opening for a postdoc! more details below. #Hiring #PlanetaryScience #AstroSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Today #quantum arXiv selection: Diffusion-enhanced optimization of VQE, fault-tolerant state preparation, modified conjugate quantum natural gradient, quantum sensor of non-stationary and non-Markovian environment, Q-MAML, and fast quantum chemistry.
More details and links below:

New book on "Advances in Quantum Computer Music" released by World Scientific today!
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

A long awaited second part to 2022's "Quantum Computer Music" book.

Featuring 9 chapter by several authors that gathered at ISQCMC Berlin back in 2023 (isqcmc.org).

Interested in automated ML potential fitting? Please check out our preprint and code 🎉.

#compchemsky #chemsky

A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.

Have a great break! I’ll catch up with you in 2025!

And that's a wrap! Our last #SETILive for the year has ended. We'll be back in 2025 with all new shows, guests, and science. Thank you for a wonderful 2024!

#Wrapped #SETIWrapped #SpotifyWrapped

Thank you both for organising the quantum village sessions. I’m sure it was hard work but completely worth it. I thoroughly enjoyed the day!

Off early to @bsideslondon.bsky.social today for the Quantum Village sessions. If you are about, come and see us talk about quantum physics & applications with @largecardinal.bsky.social, David Joseph, Patrick Svancara, Maria Violaris, Dawn Wood and me