Dr |Farhan T. Chowdhury⟩

Belated #WorldQuantumDay post (let us just make it #WorldQuantumMonth!), but below has since been up as a @JChemPhys Rapid Communication the past 3 months, happy reading at: doi.org/10.1063/5.0304… #quantum #QuantumBiology

Clarice Aiello of the Quantum Biology Institute proposes 5 tiers of quantum phenomena in biology at the Quantum-Biotech Conference at the University of Maryland. @ClariceDAiello @UMDscience

@fionnlaidh It has got one of the all time great endings though… 🫣

Too distressing to watch -- couldn't make it to the end.

@maria__violaris You may have already seen this before, but this comes to mind immediately: quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2020-…

Tomorrow is Pi Day! 14th March, 3.14. Do you have any favourite ideas or papers linking pi to quantum science or quantum computing?

Editors' Suggestion: Interradical motion can push magnetosensing precision toward quantum limits Luke D. Smith, Farhan T. Chowdhury, Jonas Glatthard, and Daniel R. Kattnig go.aps.org/473IymA

@acacinema Every year since Maborosi has been Hirokazu Koreeda's year, in fact I would go on to say that we live in Hirokazu Koreeda's world: youtube.com/watch?v=Hu5YAu…

We have a pretty good feeling this might be Hirokazu Koreeda's year.

Not a bad start to the year, with last preprint out yesterday as a rapid communication in JCP, alongside preceding one getting accepted to @PhysRevApplied the very same day! For anyone in Rome for @S3IC_Conference next week, do go to @LukeDSmith’s talk: s3ic2026.exordo.com/programme/pres…

@kingbealestreet And he was smoking on the plane… 😵‍💫

Watched a 70s movie last week and was appalled to see Warren Beatty's character go to the airport, walk directly on to the tarmac, enter the plane, find a seat and then pay for his plane ticket in cash. Like omg did it really use to be that easy? 😭

@eli_thomas17 Will single out Rebecca given how it is often unfairly seen as a lesser work in Hitchcock’s oeuvre. It has aged like fine wine, plus the CC packs a serious punch with that chock-full of extras 2 disc treatment (inc. screen tests with Vivien Leigh!) and absolutely stellar artwork.

Choose a Movie from My Criterion Collection 📀

@ScaredChris You are off to an awesome start. Back when I first started collecting in early 2010s over a decade ago, 2000s titles like Memories of Murder, No Country for Old Men, The Others and A History of Violence entering the collection would have sounded like pipe dreams, but here we are!

@janaesfilms @Criterion So did mine earlier, was pleasantly surprised!

@Criterion does NOT play about shipping, my flash sale order already arrived 😭😭

One of the quiet privileges of academia: you spend your days surrounded by some of the brightest people on the planet — all trying to understand something deeply. Not to sell it, not to exploit it, just to understand. That changes you.

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Béla Tarr's screenwriting partner, what a day for the cineastes among us!

@jenseisert @Liv_Lanes Exactly, I shall never not bring up my academic lineage going back to Boltzmann.

@Liv_Lanes Depending on how high in the tree you want to go up, we basically all are. 😉

Also I don’t want to brag but I’m basically a descendent of royalty now

Chuffed to share this preprint (with perhaps an ever so slightly provocative title) culminating my work over the past few years as a PhD student at Exeter: arxiv.org/abs/2510.05074

It’s never too late to learn physics!

@stelifanie I could say the same thing about PowerPoint

whoever invented the idea of doing things in latex needs to be beat up

@michael_nielsen @yourfriendmell +1, highly recommend Paterson!

@yourfriendmell No! Never heard of it, fascinating!

My lovely Uber driver just explained how he gets waves of ideas for poems while driving, and writes the poems down in-between rides. He had just composed one while we drove, and couldn't wait to write it down, and then copy it out carefully at home! He's an Eritrean refugee, 16 years in the United States, and explained to me how much he loves the US, and how he gives thanks every day that he and his loved ones aren't dead in a war

This cool @ChemPhysRev Special Topic is now loaded up with our CISS review: pubs.aip.org/aip/cpr/articl… Immensely fulfilling collab w/ @foo_yanxi , @aishallwait, @ClariceDAiello and @LukeDSmith