This one is particularly shameful to me because my PhD is from Brandeis:

https://www.brandeis.edu/online/academics/microcredentials/index.html

Note the two "credentials" are AI for STEM and prompt engineering.

Nobody has any business calling these things "credentials", or suggesting they are credentials by naming them "microcredentials". You can't go to your boss waving your prompt engineering microcredential and get a raise, or even a microraise for that matter. You can't access more competitive jobs after obtaining one of these microcredentials.

If they were serious about credentialing people, these would definitely not be the first two made available. They couldn't be more transparently venal. This isn't about credentialing, it's an attempt to profit from the AI bubble.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #HigherEd #academia #USUniversities #brandeis #BrandeisUniversity #microcredentials
Upskill with Brandeis Online Microcredentials

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Entangled universes

Divij Gupta, Matthew Headrick, Martin Sasieta
SciPost Phys. 19, 143 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.6.143

#UIUC #BrandeisUniversity

@kenshirriff Neat! I feel like I may have a seen a counter like this in my father's laboratory at #BrandeisUniversity back in 1973-74, but loaded with black punch paper and being used to count decay events as part of his #physics experiments.

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Random circuits in the black hole interior

Javier M. Magan, Martin Sasieta, Brian Swingle
SciPost Phys. 19, 007 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.1.007

#CAB #BalseiroInstitute #BrandeisUniversity

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Complexity is not enough for randomness

Shiyong Guo, Martin Sasieta, Brian Swingle
SciPost Phys. 17, 151 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.6.151

#BrandeisUniversity

SciPost: SciPost Phys. 17, 151 (2024) - Complexity is not enough for randomness

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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Geometric surprises in the Python's lunch conjecture

Gurbir Arora, Matthew Headrick, Albion Lawrence, Martin Sasieta, Connor Wolfe
SciPost Phys. 16, 152 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.6.152

#BrandeisUniversity #CalTech
#KyotoUniversity

SciPost: SciPost Phys. 16, 152 (2024) - Geometric surprises in the Python's lunch conjecture

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Ken Burns, H’24 Keynote Address to Brandeis University's 2024 Graduates

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SciPost: SciPost Phys. 15, 084 (2023) - Spectral statistics of a minimal quantum glass model

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Quantum bit threads

Andrew Rolph
SciPost Phys. 14, 097 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.5.097

#UvA
#BrandeisUniversity
#NWO #SimonsFoundation
#DOE

SciPost: SciPost Phys. 14, 097 (2023) - Quantum bit threads

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