Inspiring week in Zaragoza @Zcam workshop zcam.bifi.es/2025/02/08/i... @unizar.es @taco-oxides.bsky.social

Are you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n... If you are interested; get in touch!

Against Humanity www.middleeasteye.net/news/my-jour... #gaza

NATO chief Mark Rutte this week praised Donald Trump for talking tough to Iran and Israel, publicly commenting, “Daddy sometimes has to use strong language.” Rutte’s fawning is a cringeworthy display of European subservience to Trump.

#landscape Maserno

We have new talk videos on our TACO YouTube channel! M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano gave an inspiring colloquium talk entitled "Metal-CeO2 Interfaces and their Role in Methane Conversion to Fuels". The topic is also motivated by tackling man-made climate change. Enjoy! youtu.be/PwtPRMY_tEM

⚛️ Join us at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Physical Societies in August 2025! 🔬 As a central binational event, this conference will bring together leading experts from all physics disciplines from Austria and Switzerland with young scientists and students.

#landscape Monte Cupolino

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

Congratulations to TACO PhD student Alexander Imre for this big success! He was awarded the ICSOS Young Scientist Prize at last week's ECSCD/ICSOS Conference for convincing the jury with his talk entitled “ViPErLEED and Parameter-Tree-Based Tensor LEED”. 🥳👏

#labnews Luigi Ranalli has defended his thesis on anharmonic phonons. Congratulations Luigi! @univie.ac.at @univie-physik.bsky.social Thanks to the head of the committee @letigonzalez.bsky.social and to external examiners Ion Errea and Samuel Ponce'

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

#landscape Mediterranean pines

Our medical staff are donating their own blood to provide life-saving treatment for patients in #Gaza. Patients that were gunned down while trying to get food. Food for their families. Food to live. We need an immediate #ceasefire, now.

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Italy’s citizenship referendum could make the country fairer. It's a miracle it's happening at all | Jamie Mackay

La ricerca è lavoro www.roars.it/la-ricerca-e...

Intervento del Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella al Concerto in onore del Corpo Diplomatico accreditato presso lo Stato italiano in occasione della Festa della Repubblica www.quirinale.it/elementi/133...

#labnews Work on non-linear electron-phonon by Houtput, Ranalli et. al. in collaboration with Antwerpen University and University of Queensland Published in Physical Review B. @carlaverdi.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be @univie.ac.at @univie-physik.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...

#landscapes Su Giudeu, Chia, Sardinia

#LabNews New publication in @digital-discovery.rsc.org @royalsociety.org by our PhD student Jakob Baumsteiger on #ML for non-collinear spin energies. In cooperation with Todorovic @utu.fi and Rinke @tu-munich.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#MSCA Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2025 – Call now open! 🚨 Are you a #postdoc looking to take the next big step in your #academic journey? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is officially open - and we'd love to welcome you to the University of Vienna! 🏛️ More here: ⤵️

#LabNews Our paper introducing #LEOPOLD (LEarning Of POlaron Dynamics), a software based on message-passing neural networks, has been published in Physical Review Letters. @apsphysics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @univie-physik.bsky.social @taco-oxides.bsky.social journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

#LabNews Congratulations to Viktor Birschitzky for successfully defending his PhD thesis on #ML for polarons at @univie.ac.at

Wonderful @taco-oxides.bsky.social talk given by Julia Wiktor in Vienna today. @juliawiktor.bsky.social

Research may be increasingly incremental—but studies making lasting paradigm shifts are on the rise | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Migliori condizioni per giovani ricercatori e ricercatrici www.roars.it/piu-fondi-no...

Happy to give a talk on data driven gw at the Yambo School in Modena @yambo-code.bsky.social www.yambo-code.eu/2025/01/17/y...

Concerns on recent influential paper claiming that: "AI-assisted researchers discover 44% more materials, resulting in a 39% increase in patent filings and a 17% rise in downstream product innovation." @retractionwatch.com economics.mit.edu/news/assurin...

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Gustav Bihlmayer from @fz-juelich.de giving a talk in our group in @univie.ac.at on Topological 2D magnets

In the 1990s, Democrats adopted a neoliberal program to suit the needs of capital, driving many workers out. The party then adopted a political strategy meant to replace working-class voters with professionals — with disastrous consequences.

A wonderful Horse Chestnut tree in Zocca, Modena

Perché i ricercatori universitari sono in sciopero: www.ilpost.it/2025/05/12/s....

Cecam director Andrea Cavalli presenting Cecam in Bologna @cecamevents.bsky.social

Congratulations to Michele Parrinello for receiving the ESI Medal 2025! @esivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants' erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Georg Kresse's Landmark Paper Among the Top 100 Most-Cited of All Time 📝 Prof. Georg Kresse has been recognized for co-authoring one of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers of all time, according to a newly updated analysis by @natureportfolio.nature.com. Congratulations! 🥳 ⤵️

Pelican at Lipu Oasis, Massaciucoli, Lucca #birds

Happy Labour Day 2025 jacobin.com/2016/05/may-...

Minerals, peace and love #zizek open.substack.com/pub/slavoj/p...