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Florian Marquardt

@apsmith Thank you for pointing to the statements. When I was in Anaheim at the Town Hall, I also got the feeling APS was serious about countering the funding cuts (and, apparently, the indiscriminate firings). Here in this post, though, my focus was rather on the way the government seems to use the threat of wholesale research funding cuts to enforce desired behaviour in areas that have nothing to do with research. In a way, that seems (to me) way more concerning than a government trying to save money by reducing science funding, unfortunate as that is in itself.

So, Harvard and other universities who are courageous enough to not immediately give in to demands should be publicly supported by #APS, that is my hope. My fear is that #APS will make the preservation of funding its only issue.

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Florian Marquardt

(please boost for reach) Does anyone have any insight into whether/how the #AmericanPhysicalSociety is going to react to the ongoing extreme pressure that is being put on #Harvard and other universities?

After all, the pressure also involves dramatic threats to cut fundamental research funding across the board unless certain demands are met to censor academics? It would seem this is exactly the kind of issue that has direct impact on physics research that the APS should take a public stand on. It would also seem that statements by the #APS and other research societies could provide critically needed support and thereby have a real impact at this point in time, maybe the last good opportunity to do so.

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Stephen Collins

Federal public servant (APS) friends - Canberra law firm Bradley Allen Love has prepared some interesting and comprehensive advice as to the extent you may engage in political activity as a public servant. On reading it is both well-considered and probably rather more liberal in its interpretation than your highly-paranoid SES staff would like.

Nonetheless, get on it!

ballawyers.com.au/article/can-

#auspol#aps
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Desert Trail

is requiring screen time for students in the 2025-26 school year (more mandatory screen time for , which is madness). Teachers in the trenches know that this is a terrible move - here’s a summary of the extensive evidence (made available for free from )that screen-free instruction from a skillful teacher is more important than digitizing . open.substack.com/pub/jonathan

After Babel · An EdTech TragedyBy Jon Haidt
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Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓🏳️‍🌈
New Blogpost: Hilfe - Mein Passwortmanager für Android gibt es nicht mehr:

Es gibt einen ganz wunderbaren Passwortmanager, der ganz im Sinne der Unix-Philosophie entwickelt worden ist. Er verwendet keine eigene Kryptographie sondern verlässt sich hier auf GPG. Mit GPG lassen sich auch wunderbar Gruppenberechtigungen bauen und in Kombination mit Git hat man zudem ein wunderbares Synchronisations-Tool.

Ich mag Pass und verwende die Software gerne.

Allerdings ist die Nutzbarkeit für mich seit kurzem erheblich eingeschränkt, weil es keine gewartete Variante für das #Android -Ökosystem mehr gibt. Für Pass benötigt man zwei Apps und beide werden nicht mehr weiterentwickelt:

  • Im Oktober haben die Maintainer von Android Password Store angekündigt, dass die Software nicht mehr weiterentwickelt wird. Im F-Droid-Store ist #APS schon nicht mehr zu finden.
  • Zudem haben die Entwickler:innen von OpenKeychain haben ebenfalls angekündigt, dass sie das Projekt nicht mehr weiterentwickeln werden. Sie versprechen aber, das sie bei Bedarf neue Releases mit gefixten Sicherheitslücken bereitstellen werden. Wenn #OpenKeychain fällt, dann fällt auch GPG-Verschlüsselung auf Android-Devices generell weg 😟


Wenn ihr Nutzer:innen von Pass seid, was ist denn eure Lösung für das Android-Ökosystem? Über Tipps würde ich mich so richtig freuen!


#OpenSource #Pass
#pass
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Marcus P S

If you are at the #APS March Meeting this Thursday, I will be speaking at the end of Session MAR-S07 about the carbon and tesseract code results from the collaboration between @microsoft.com and @quantinuum.bsky.social (arXiv:2404.02280 arXiv:2409.04628) including some new exciting data! I hope to see you there!

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Florian Marquardt

American Physical Society #APSGlobalSummit25 in Anaheim:

From our group there will be three talks at this largest physics conference in the world.

Tuesday 3:00 pm : Machine Learning aiding the Discovery of better Strategies for Quantum Computing [invited talk in Session MAR-J36, Anaheim Convention Center, 258A (Level 2)]

Wednesday 8:48 am: Training of neuromorphic systems based on coupled phase oscillators via equilibrium propagation: effects of network architecture [Session MAR-L58, Anaheim Hilton, Pacific A (Ballroom Level)]

Wednesday 3:24 pm: Discovering Local Hidden-Variable Models for Arbitrary Multipartite Entangled States and Arbitrary Measurements [by Nick von Selzam in Session MAR-N07, Anaheim Convention Center, 151 (Level 1)]

plus, as a bonus, from our collaborators in Oxford – Wednesday 12:54 pm: Meta-learning characteristics and dynamics of quantum systems [by Lucas Schorling in Session MAR-M36, Anaheim Convention Center, 258A (Level 2)]

@MPI_ScienceOfLight

#APS#AmericanPhysicalSociety#APSSummit25
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Robert Sanscartier

Enter En-Roads, a climate simulator built in part by MIT Sloan. Based on the best available science, it allows users to explore the impact of various policies and sustainability measures on our climate all with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C goal in mind. It's been used by decision makers in governments, businesses, NGOs, and even the academe, including former US Secretary of State John Kerry

gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/te

GMA News OnlineThis climate simulator shows how effective your sustainability ideas and efforts areDeveloped by MIT Sloan, Climate Interactive, and Ventana Systems,  En-Roads is a climate simulator that allows users to explore the impact of policies and measures have on the climate  
#aps#tech#ClimateChange
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Mike Smale
Happy clot day to all who celebrate! I was diagnosed with a massive saddle #PulmonaryEmbolism on the 9th of March 2021 and arrived at the local ER a few hours shy of death at best. It's generally thought that I developed a #DVT after a high ankle sprain while exercising at home (and tripping over a cat toy that further aggravated it). I never had "The Vid" even to this day five years into it (proceeds to knock on every nearby wooden surface).

I was diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome afterwards and that this is why a mild injury turned into a life-threatening event.

1. Self-portrait of the artist near death at the local emergency room.

2. A pasta lunch with rubbery meatball.

3. No idea. I think it was supposed to be pulled pork but it tasted like a mouthful of salt.

4. I felt like Jesse Pinkman spending months in captivity as I was preparing to go home five days later.

#HospitalFood #BloodClot #PE #APS #AntiphospholipidSyndrome #VascularHealth #StopTheClot
Self-portrait of the artist near death at the local emergency room.
A pasta lunch with rubbery meatball. An untouched piece of bread and some green beans are to the right. A fork sits amidst the sauce.
A salty heap of flaky, gross pork. The fork sits atop it not wanting to become contaminated.
Self-portrait of a nearly dead person who hasn't seen sunlight or received proper rest in a week.
#stoptheclot
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petersuber

Update. The American Physical Society (#APS, @apsphysics) is running a survey on the impact of cuts to US science #funding. Please take it if you're affected or likely to be affected.
apsphysics.fillout.com/t/6ESUv

"This survey collects stories showcasing the transformative positive impact of #NSF, #NIST, #DOE, #NASA, and #DOD-funded research and programs as well as what would be lost if support for basic research evaporates. You can document your experiences and share how recent executive actions have impacted you. Individual stories will be only be used publicly with permission or when fully anonymized."

Impacts of Federal Science FundingImpacts of Federal Science FundingMade with Fillout, the best way to make forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer.
#DefendResearch#Trump#USPol
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