bio

ryan f. mandelbaum is a science writer and birder based in brooklyn. today, they work on the ibm quantum and qiskit community team as the senior technical writer. in their free time, they write about birds, physics, and ethics at places like gizmodo, audubon, and the finch research network. ryan's favorite bird is the red crossbill. please note that ryan identifies as queer/nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.

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how do we know the nukes still work?

the quest for the most elusive material in physics

ibm's roadmap for scaling quantum technology

what is quantum volume, anyway?

this winter marks an incredible "superflight" of hungry winter finches