Reminds me a little bit... but our radionuclide cards, we designed in June 2025 are for the purpose of communication to the open public such as Climate Day, Children's University or Long Night of Research. Hence, they are for free. 😇 And we have only 16 nuclide cards (yet). 😁

CU in Hamburg for #SNIB2026! 🤩 I highly recommend Session 18 "Earth, Environmental & Climate Sciences" on Thursday morning. You'll get a great mix of talks covering synchrotron radiation, neutrons, & ions. Come drop by & discuss the latest findings! Don't forget to register before the fee💰increases!

Thanks to everybody for the great #COSMO2026 field-trip led by Jean-Claude Hippolyte from @cerege.bsky.social. Ducky 🦆 and me had a lot of fun. And one of us learned a bit about geology ⛰️, too. #Duck_en_Provence #AMS #CosmogenicNuclides

"Astrophysics research is in trouble". Yup, we've brought in the big guns to #SaveUKAstronomy, particle and nuclear physics! Thank you @drbecky.bsky.social 🙏 📽️: www.youtube.com/shorts/omICc...

#COSMO2026 is officially underway! 🚀Yesterday marked the opening of the conference, bringing together the cosmogenic nuclide community to share and discuss the latest advances, ideas, and collaborations. We all enjoyed the tour of the 5 MV #AMS ASTER by great Régis Braucher from @cerege.bsky.social.

☄️ More than 100 years too late—again! This time, I missed the observed fall of the Lanzenkirchen meteorite. The L4 chondrite fell on August 28, 1925, in Lower Austria. 2 pieces (~7 kg) were recovered & rest today in the beautiful collection of the @nhmwien.bsky.social. #Meteorite #Lanzenkirchen #NHM

Great news! 🚀Our invited Report is now online, and we even made the front cover!📖✨ So proud to be part of the VERA-Team @ @univie.ac.at‼️ This is my very 1st review paper with them! A huge🙏 to Robin, my amazing co-authors & the entire team for making this milestone so special. doi.org/10.1080/1061...

Do I see a correlation here or is it pure coincidence❓🤔 After our paper "Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the 12th recorded aubrite fall in history" has been recognized as one of the top-10 most-cited papers a month ago, it is today a top-10 viewed paper in MAPS. #Meteorites #AMS

Great #job opportunity for people interested in #AMS #Accelerators #Ions and their applications. 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S... Vienna is also a great place for, e.g., 🎡🍰☕🥐🎉and of course ⚗️.

‼️Only 2 days left for your application for the next VERAcore Seed Grant for free #AMS measurements at VERA @univie.ac.at 👇

Gute Nachrichten! Wir haben tatsächlich noch wenige Plätze für heute frei. Lust dabei zu sein? 🥳. Dann meldet Euch ab 17 Uhr an unserem "Welcome Desk" in der Währinger Str. 17 für Führungen am späteren Abend. #LNF26 👇

📢 Deadline Alert: 5th VERAcore Seed Grant – Apply by May 1st! 🗓️ Are you a researcher looking to conduct Accelerator Mass Spectrometry #AMS projects? We offer: ✅ Free pilot studies for C-14 & non-C-14. ✅ Open to researchers worldwide (including Austria). ✅ Great chance for PhD students and Postdocs.

Big news!🚨 Our work "Cosmic pears🍐from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the twelth recorded aubrite fall in history" was named one of the top 10 most-cited papers published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science in 2024! ☄️🚀 Congrats to 1st author Addi Bischoff @uni-muenster.de! doi.org/10.1111/maps...

Mit einem Banner ist es offiziell! 🥳 Wir sind bei der #LNF26 am Start. Damit ihr nicht lost seid & direkt zu uns findet, haben Leonie & Chiara einen Guide für euch gedreht. Checkt das 📽️! Meldet euch schnell für die Führung an, bevor alle Plätze weg sind:🔗 physik.univie.ac.at/wissenstrans...

Am I more than 100 years too late? 🤔 The iron meteorite 💫 Dermbach was found in 1924 in Germany. ~30 years ago, I dissolved a small piece of it in acid & analysed it for cosmogenic radionuclides by #AMS. The Fe-60 data was used for 1st model calculations of production rates. doi.org/10.1111/j.19...

Und es gibt auch noch eine Mitmachstation für die Altersgruppe: 10 bis 18 Jahre an unseren Standort (ohne Anmeldung möglich). "Was passiert im Leben eines Sterns?" ✨ Wir “ordnen Sterne” nach ihrer Leuchtkraft und Temperatur. langenachtderforschung.at/station/5946

🤩 Zum allerersten Mal sind wir mit unseren Teilchenbeschleuniger bei der #LNF26 @univie.ac.at dabei! Was euch erwartet? Eine Führung zu "Was haben Gummienten und explodierende Sterne✨ gemeinsam? Alles Isotopenphysik!" Kommt (nach Anmeldung) vorbei! 📅 24.4.26 | 17-23 h www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpMp...

🚀 Großartige News! 20 Jahre nach der 1. SNI-Tagung kehrt das Top-Event für Großgeräteforschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung, Neutronen, Ionen & Beschleunigern zurück nach Hamburg: 8.-10.09.2026 #SNIB2026 🔥 DEADLINES: 📢 Abstracts: 30.4. 🎫 Anmeldung: 3.8. www.snib2026.de #Accelerators #IonBeams #AMS #KFSI

A chemist ⚗️ participating in geo-field-work is really appreciating if somebody else is doing the digging 👷 to have a nice outcrop. 🤣 #AMS #BurialDating #CosmogenicNuclides

🚀We believe in improvement! This semester we gave the VERA poster in our seminar [email protected] an upgrade from the 2021 version. While "scraping off the old wallpaper," we found more outdated versions reminding us how far we’ve come. Or as the AI says: "Dive in & experience the new VERA today!"🤣

Rußbach am Pass Gschütt wird aktuell wieder zum Treffpunkt der internationalen Wissenschaftswelt: Zum 21. Mal findet dort die „Rußbach Schule für Nukleare Astrophysik“ statt. Während die Expertinnen und Experten über die Entstehung des Universums brüten, profitiert der Ort von internationale...

🚀 Exciting start at the 36th Mass Spectrometry Forum at @univie.ac.at. Opening talks have been top-tier, diving into the latest innovations in the field. 🧪🔬 Don't miss the Poster Session at 6:00 PM—the perfect time to network and discuss research. Check out Poster No. 23! 😇 CU there! #MSForum2026

Come and work with great isotopes at the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA) 🎡. Apply now to one of the six PhD positions. Application Deadline: 27 March 2026, 12:00 noon. ⏳

How fast is the German landscape changing?⛰️ Using Be-10 data from VERA @univie.ac.at, Lianqing Zhang, Roland Zech et al. found long-term denudation in the Roda Catchment (Central Germany) is higher than modern short-term erosion, despite human impact 😱. Read more here 📖: doi.org/10.5194/egqs...

Same (but important!) procedure as every year: Have a look at our great female researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna @univie.ac.at ‼️👇

PhD position using C-14 AMS. Highly recommended! We love to measure C-14 in Vienna at VERA. isotopenphysik.univie.ac.at/veracore/

Don't miss the #Goldschmidt 2026 abstract submission deadline: 26 February 👇

Instead of an LPSC abstract, a few of us posted our concerns about the censorship of the conference at blog.planetary-research.org/2026/01/06/a..., with some suggestions for other conferences you can attend to discuss planetary science. (Definitely shorter than 2 pages 10 pt font, too!)

📢 FeMS Q4 2025 Empowerment Award applications are now open! More info here 👉https://femalesinms.com/empowerment/ Apply here👉https://airtable.com/applvoZXoHURMcSCq/shrQlJoZ6f2P5yWqc #FeMS #TeamMassSpec #WomenEmpowerment

Recognizing deserving scientists is at the core of EAG's mission 🏆 2 weeks until the Awards Nomination deadline, for: - Senior scientists: Geochemistry Fellows, the H.C. Urey or Science Innovation award - ECRs: the Houtermans award 📅 Nominate your colleagues by 30 Oct More info: buff.ly/OLy4Plm

Really? 🤔 Six months gone and we are asking again for VERAcore Seed Grant proposals for free #AMS @univie.ac.at ? Here, we go: Happy to announce the 4th call‼️ It's just the same as before, but we'll set up a new email for you. Please send applications now to [email protected]. 🫵

Please sse doi.org/10.1038/s415... for repost...

Amazing: Our Nature Astronomy paper has an Altmetric Score of 499. Mentioned by 65 news outlets, 6 blogs, 32 X users, 1 Wikipedia page & 🥳 24 Bluesky users. Can anybody help to get it to 500? 😇 It's a nice paper "Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence"🤩

🤩These are my favourite mails: "Your article is now published online!" Another great study led by Addi Bischoff from @uni-muenster.de including cosmogenic radionuclide data from our VERA AMS facility @univie.ac.at. It is still raining stones in Lower Austria. This time we investigated "Haag". 🌠

On my way to the ReMade@ARI Meeting in Leuven. I love the trains in Belgium: On-time and friendly screens. This is what I need after a long but ecofriendly nighttrain ride from Vienna.

Third and final stop "Tag des Denkmals": WUK (former locomotive production, today culture centre). Inside and outside true contrast!

Second Stop "Tag des Denkmals": Palais Niederösterreich" (Palace Lower Austria). More than 500 years ago bought from the Liechtenstein Brothers.

First stop "Tag des Denkmals" (heritage day) in Vienna: #Oktoneum. Pretty young building (<40 years, Postmoderne) for Vienna, but I like it.

The good things when working in Vienna: In autumn the theaters open again. Tonight #Volksoper Wien plays "Lass uns die Welt vergessen"...2nd-row seats...😀

happy, too 🤩...there are already some nice German articles about it...https://nature.altmetric.com/details/181458008/news

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

back to meteorite🌠chemistry after precipitation of Al & Be as hydroxides (by NH3aq), we see the wonderful nickel ammine complex [Ni(NH3)6]2+ (blank without Ni easy to spot😊) most iron meteorites have ~7% Ni, but one of this has ~35% Ni (which one😇?) different Ni concentr.👉different shades of blue🥰

Today, no meteorite🌠chemistry in the VERA lab, but destroying organics and fluorides with HClO4 (after having dissolved >50 g quartz in >200 ml HF). This is my favourite step in terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide chemistry👩‍🔬, as it means we survived again the nasty HF. 🤩 Do you see the white smoke?

Reminder: We don't need any chemistry for stony meteorites to measure Al-26 & Ca-41 @univie.ac.at - or to not measure them 😜 to identify meteor wrongs (=terrestrial rocks). Our 1st study led by Lidia Pittarello from @nhmwien.bsky.social just went online as a report in MAPS. doi.org/10.1111/maps... 🥳

Two cation exchanges (much small(er) columns 🤩) and some precipitations later, we have oxides of Al, Be, Mn, and Ni for #AMS at VERA, @univie.ac.at. And we also measure fluorides of Ca (for Ca-41) and AgCl (for Cl-36) here. I love (iron) meteorites ! 🥰

I really love meteorites 🤩. For stony meteorites, we analyse cosmogenic radionuclides by #AMS without any chemical preparation. But for iron meteorites, we need to dissolve them 🧪 & separate Be-10, Al-26, Cl-36, Ca-41, Mn-53, Ni-59,... from the matrix & from each other (by colourful🌈ion exchange).🥰

Last day of a great #Goldschmidt2025 conference. Last very tasty Coffee "Break" dessert. 😋 Last oral presentations of colleagues until late afternoon. Please, join these interesting talks if you are still in Prague! CU there or next year at #Goldschmidt2026 at Montreal. 🇨🇦

20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30. 1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.

Prague seems to be ready for #Goldschmidt2025 participants.