We had an amazing 4 days at Heidelberg Laureate Forum! #HLF2025 ✨ Our booth was buzzing with curious and clever young researchers. We loved chatting about their interests, career paths, and opportunities at HITS. Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by and made the event so memorable! Photos © HITS

⏳ One month to go! Apply now for the HITS Journalist in Residence Program 2026 📝 Deadline: 5 Oct 2025 #HITSJIR2025

Kicking off September with Purple 📅 Fresh page, purple days – Before summer fully slips away, we’re painting our days in purple: from twilight skies to violet blooms. 🎨🍂 You’ll even spot the hue in the HITS flag and, of course, all around the HITS garden. Here’s to a September full of color and joy!

Join us at the 10th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells! 📅 4-6 May 2026 | 📍 Baroque Palace Mannheim, Germany Theme: From Data and Models to E Health. HITS will be represented by the SDBV group! Stay tuned for more details: www.lisym-cancer.org/sbmc2026

August is here, and our color calendar turns bright YELLOW! ☀️ Rainy days bring out fire salamanders on the mossy ground, while indoors, researchers stay dry, solving equations on the yellow board as vivid as the color itself. Stay golden, even in the grey. 🌼

HITS welcomes Dr. Ke-Jung Chen (Humboldt Fellow from Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics) and Wun-Yi Chen (ASIAA PhD student supported by the NSTC-DAAD Summer Program). Both are visiting from Taipei, Taiwan. Great to have you at HITS! More info 👉 www.h-its.org/2025/07/29/h...

Alicja (Jelenia Góra) and Ilay (Rehovot) are spending 3 weeks at HITS with the International Summer Science School Heidelberg. Guided by the Astroinformatics group, they've tackled projects to boost their programming and #ML skills. We’re delighted to host such motivated students. Photo © HITS

Happy #SysAdminDay! 🎉🖥️ Today, we recognize the vital work of our tech experts who keep our infrastructure secure, our systems running, and our data safe. A huge shoutout to the heroes behind the scenes – our System Administrators! Science runs on data, and data runs because of you. 🙌 Photo © HITS

Flabby, flexible, and full of potential: Researchers at HITS and @mpip-mainz.mpg.de have developed a #machinelearning model that designs flexible proteins – even with rare patterns. A leap toward next-gen enzymes, therapeutics & sustainable biotech! 🌱💊🔬 👉 Read more: www.h-its.org/2025/07/23/f...

Flabby, flexible, and full of potential: Researchers at HITS and @mpip-mainz.mpg.de have developed a #machinelearning model that designs flexible proteins – even with rare patterns. A leap toward next-gen enzymes, therapeutics & sustainable biotech! 🌱💊🔬 👉 Read more: www.h-its.org/2025/07/23/f...

HITS Journalist in Residence 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ Call for experienced science journalists: Explore new research areas and learn about #ML and data-driven science in Germany. The program offers a stay of 3-6 months (€ 6,000/mo.). Apply until 5 October 2025: ow.ly/8lew50Wt6yS #HITSJIR2025 Photo © Christin Hume

Many thanks to our HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium speaker @bonomimax.bsky.social from @pasteur.fr ‪for sharing valuable insights into the world of protein structures and dynamics. His talk showcased simulations and approaches for determining accurate protein structural ensembles of biological systems.

Want your de novo designed protein to be wobbly? 🍮 Seva, Leif & team have made it possible - you find them at ICML! 🤩 @mpip-mainz.mpg.de @hitsters.bsky.social

We're thrilled to host our next HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium speaker Massimiliano Bonomi @bonomimax.bsky.social from @upcite.bsky.social. Don’t miss a deep dive into the future of structural biology on 21 July at 2PM CET.‬ Attend online or catch it later on our YouTube channel: ow.ly/Cpv850Wok9u%...

Thanks to all who made our Alumni Meeting last Friday so memorable 🎉 – especially @anne-schreiter.bsky.social for her keynote and the alumni on the career panel. This event was undoubtedly a highlight of our 15th years’ anniversary. Until next time, let’s keep the connections alive! 💬 Photos © HITS

This month, we’re turning up the brightness with Orange – a color of warmth, excitement, and adventure. Think summer sunsets, crackling campfires, and fields of wildflowers 🌻. Let’s fill July with energy ⚡ and positivity ✨!

💥 First clear evidence of a double detonation supernova! 💥 Using data from ESO's @eso.org Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers – including scientists from HITS – confirmed some white dwarfs can explode in two steps. A breakthrough in supernova research! 🙌

Basteln, Tüfteln, Staunen – wir hatten riesigen Spaß! ✂️🎨💙 Fünf erlebnisreiche Tage, unzählige Fragen und viele leuchtende Kinderaugen. ✨ Danke für Euren Besuch am HITS-Stand bei #ExploreScience! #WissenschaftZumAnfassen #HITS #MitmachenUndStaunen #ExploreScience Fotos © HITS

A new season, a new edition of the HITS Charts! ☀️ Meet our current Journalist in Residence Jack Ryan @jacksonwryan.com, discover more about life at HITS through our visiting scientist Lu Yang, and learn about what our researchers have been up to here: www.h-its.org/2025/06/18/i... Photos © HITS

Another year of taking science beyond the limits – here’s our 2024 annual report! 📊 Discover the research that’s shaping tomorrow 🚀, collaborations that cross continents 🤝🌍, and the minds making it all happen 🧠💡. All of this and more here: www.h-its.org/media/annual... Photo © HITS

🌟 New Research Alert! 🌟 An international team of astrophysicists, including researchers from HITS, studied binary stars to reveal how tidal forces influence magnetic activity. A must-read for stellar physics and exoplanet enthusiasts: www.h-its.org/2025/06/11/t...

📣 New preprint "Probabilistic measures afford fair comparisons of AIWP and NWP model output" with Tilmann Gneiting, Tobias Biegert, Kristof Kraus, Eva Walz and Alexander Jordan available at arxiv.org/abs/2506.03744. Some details below 🧵

At HITS, blue isn’t just a color – it’s part of who we are. From our logo to our canteen dishes, the server room, and even the iconic table tennis table – blue is everywhere! 💙 We love to see the HITS building standing out from a deep blue summer sky. Perfect weather to take lunch outside again! ☀️🍽️

Fantastic news from HITS: our researchers are part of two new Clusters of Excellence!🎉 🔭 In the Dynaverse cluster, we're researching the dynamics of the universe over extreme time scales. 🧬 In SynthImmune, we’re developing new approaches with synthetic immune cells against infections and cancer.

🚀 Exciting Event Alert! 🌌 Join us at #ML4ASTRO2025, a one-day event uniting astrophysicists using ML to tackle astrophysical challenges. New collaborations and research synergies ahead. 📅 8 July 2025 📍 Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg 🔗 mpi-astronomy.github.io/ml4astro2024/ Deadline: 4 June 2025

How can we uncover scientific misconduct without eroding public trust? Join our HITS Journalist in Residence 2025 @jacksonwryan.com for a thought-provoking talk on science, transparency, and accountability. 🗓️ 22 May 2025 - 4:15 PM 📍 Mathematikon, Heidelberg 🔗 Details: www.h-its.org/event/iwr-ta...

Australian science journalist Jackson Ryan @jacksonwryan.com has joined the institute as the 13th HITS Journalist in Residence. During his six-month residency he plans to focus on scientific integrity and trust in scientific expertise. Welcome to HITS! Read more here: www.h-its.org/2025/05/13/j...

@rebecca-wade.bsky.social @graeterlab.bsky.social @janstuehmer.bsky.social @astroinformatics.bsky.social @grynova.bsky.social @leif-seute.bsky.social @molecolabpisa.bsky.social @fgrue.bsky.social

We’re in full swing on Day 2 of #SIMPLAIX2025! After an exciting kickoff yesterday, we’re diving deeper today with engaging talks and cross-disciplinary discussions. Today is all about collaboration and thought-provoking research. Let’s keep the momentum going! 💡

@rebecca-wade.bsky.social @graeterlab.bsky.social @janstuehmer.bsky.social @astroinformatics.bsky.social @leif-seute.bsky.social

“And after winter follows green May”, wrote Geoffrey Chaucer. Let the calming shades of green on our calendar page for this month inspire you to experience May in all its glory! We wish you a month of vitality and growth. 🌿

Explore how AI is transforming the media landscape. From revolutionizing newsroom workflows to raising pressing questions about trust, transparency, and the future of truth. @elmerch.bsky.social from @tu-dortmund.bsky.social breaks it down in this talk: 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-zx...

A huge thanks to Christina Elmer @elmerch.bsky.social for an inspiring deep dive into AI and journalism in today’s colloquium talk! Couldn't attend? The recording will be available on our YouTube channel soon! Stay tuned.

Happening TODAY! Join us at 2 PM CET for the HITS Colloquium with Christina Elmer (TU Dortmund University). Don't miss it!

Great pleasure to host Biochemistry students from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social at HITS! They met with researchers from our MLI and MCM groups, diving into exciting discussions and asking fantastic questions. Thanks for the curiosity – your visit was truly inspiring! #ScienceVisit #HITS #Biochemistry

HITS welcomes astrophysicist Raphael Hirschi @raphaelhirschi.bsky.social as the 6th Klaus Tschira Guest Professor! He'll collaborate on stellar simulations with the PSO Group and explore new projects across HITS & Heidelberg. Exciting science ahead! 🚀 www.h-its.org/2025/04/15/k... Photo © HITS

Join us for the next HITS Colloquium on 28 April 2025 at 2 PM CET. Christina Elmer @elmerch.bsky.social from @tu-dortmund.bsky.social will discuss challenges and chances for communication and a transformative force for #Journalism. Register here: ow.ly/8C4Y50VFt5x or attend in person!

Have you spotted the HITS Bunny hopping through campus? 🐰 Rumor has it, it’s not just here for the chocolate – this bunny is on a mission to sprinkle Easter cheer and inject a little joy into your data analysis. Happy Easter from HITS!

Congrats to SIMPLAIX PI Pascal Friederich from @kit.edu on winning the Manfred Fuchs Prize 2025 awarded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities @hadw-bw.bsky.social for his AI-driven research in materials science. Well done! 👏 Read more here: www.h-its.org/2025/04/14/f...

Wir suchen Verstärkung! – Teamassistenz im HITS Front Office Das HITS sucht zum 01.09.25 eine*n Teamassistent*in fürs Eventmanagement und administrative Angelegenheiten sowie zur Pflege der Webseite und des Intranets. Mehr Infos unter: www.h-its.org/de/hits-job/... © Unsplash - Adomas Aleno

Kai's work among 'Most popular articles 2024' in Chem Sci - many thanks to the readers :-) tinyurl.com/4yb78j5e Link to our work to predict energy barriers from reactants without DFT: tinyurl.com/5cm4h3ka @hitsters.bsky.social @mpip-mainz.mpg.de

Registration Deadline Extended! The SIMPLAIX Workshop 2025 is just around the corner, and there's still time to join us! 📅 New deadline: 13 April 2025 📍 Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg 🔗 Register now: simplaix-workshop2025.h-its.org Spots are filling fast — secure yours today! #SIMPLAIX25

Beim Girls' Day 2025 entdeckten die Teilnehmerinnen die faszinierende Welt der Asteroseismologie. 🎶✨ Durch spannende Experimente und informative Gespräche mit unseren Wissenschaftler*innen wurde die Musik der Sterne erlebbar. 🚀🔭 Danke an alle, die dabei waren! #GirlsDay2025 #MINT #Astronomie

📢 Our article calling for a #FAIR database for #MolecularDynamics simulation data has now been peer-reviewed and published in @naturemethods.bsky.social 📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/ef6YX 📝 Support the statement: bit.ly/3zVS3qm #MDDB #FAIRdata #collaboration

Hello, April! 🌸 A new month, a fresh start, and a burst of color to match the season! With spring in full swing, our newest calendar page is bursting with vibrant hues – just like the nature around us. Let’s embrace the season and plan a colorful month ahead! 🌞🌈

A while online now already: Predict the barrier of a reaction without knowing the transition state and in the low data regime using Gaussian Process regr. Led by Evgeni Ulanov, with Ghulam, Kai and Pascal Friederich @ KIT. @mpip-mainz.mpg.de @hitsters.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Wondering how to predict protein flexibility in a sec? No time to run MD simulations but want to go beyond pLDDT? Check out BBFlow arxiv.org/html/2503.05... Useful in particular for de novo designs. Led by Nico Wolf & Leif Seute, w Seva, Simon, and Jan. @mpip-mainz.mpg.de @hitsters.bsky.social

Ever wondered how correctness in AI-enabled scientific research can be veryfied? Victoria Stodden from @usc.edu provides valuable insights in her HITS Colloquium talk, now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUP...

A big thank you to today’s colloquium speaker Victoria Stodden from @usc.edu for sharing her knowledge on the implications of leveraging AI and its challenges in scientific discovery. Watch out for the recording of the talk on our YouTube channel!