This is the first ever detected gravitational wave originating from a black hole merger observed in 2015. In the GIF: • Grey = the actual noisy detector signal • Color = a best-fit simulation • Left = the underlying physics: two simulated black holes spiraling inwards and merging into one

So much fun at the #LVK conference in Pisa. My favorite: An illustration of the first gravitational wave signal observed 10 years ago

Today is international Frauenkampftag ("women-fight-day") how we call it in German to highlight that women have been fighting for equal rights since the 1910s. More than 100 years later, women still have to fight for opportunities and this post is for all of you:

It was so much fun! Thanks for organizing and having me 🤩

#academicsky #physics #meme

There were so many of us, exactly when these emails were being written, expressly working to undo the harms of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in science. And so many people refused to believe us that any of it was real. It was all real. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

The AIP stats team has released its latest data of physics & astronomy PhD trends, with breakdown by gender. What is extraordinary to me is how clearly the overall trends exhibit an important gender dimension, and that that story is quite different between physics and astronomy.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Put a single woman in a group of men and she will feel awkward. Put a single man in a group of women and he will feel in charge." @athenedonald.bsky.social occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

NASA will contribute 80.5 mio. USD to the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA! 🥳

📢We’re hiring: W3-Professorship in Machine Learning in Physics @unituebingen.bsky.social! What we’re looking for: Established research profile in a core area of #physics (condensedmatter, quantum or theoretical particle physics), strong track record in research questions related to #ML and/or #AI.

"Women’s contributions to science are systematically undervalued until an external stamp of approval counteracts the negative effect of gender stereotypes on how their work is perceived." Perfectly summarizes why we need more awards for women #WomeninPhysics

Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The comedy wildlife photo awards 2025 have been published and I couldn't resist #meme #science #academicsky

New paper led by @annalenakofler.bsky.social: Extending our gravitational wave SBI code Dingo using transformers, making it adaptable to realistic data conditions and boosting performance. Congrats Annalena – a lot of hard work went into this and it produced excellent results! Great poster too!

When #scholarinbox accurately predicts that you might be interested in your own paper 😍 #AIinTuebingen

Often we talk about accuracy and speed of inference during ML applications to science. However, an equally important feature is flexibility. This is because real data requires flexibility (changing settings during inference time). Please check out Annalena’s thread for more info!

1/ 🌀 New paper alert! We introduce Dingo-T1, a flexible transformer-based deep learning model for gravitational-wave (GW) data analysis. It adapts to different detector & frequency settings, improving inference efficiency and flexibility 🚀 #AI #MachineLearning #Physics #Astronomy #AcademicSky

If we assume that the annual rate of teaspoon loss per employee can be applied to the entire workforce of Melbourne, an estimated 18 million teaspoons are going missing each year. Laid end to end, they would cover the coastline of Mozambique and weigh the approximate weight of four blue whales 🐋

Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

🚀 The new call for Principal Investigators as Hector Endowed Fellows at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen is now open! These positions offer the exciting possibility of co-appointments with the @mpi-is.bsky.social and the @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social . 📌 Apply here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/jobs/PI-c...

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the first gravitational wave detection, I made a tutorial for high school students that explains how to use python to visualize the original gravitational wave data of GW150914. (Tested and approved by a very motivated German 10th grade student 😄) #GW10Years

Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves by @ligo.org 🎉 Research by members of the Gravity Exploration Institute in Cardiff helped lay the foundation for that detection, which opened an exciting new window to the universe. Read more about it here:

This is so exciting! Congratulations! @lukasheinrich.com

Really cool workshop! I loved giving a talk and discussing SBI!

Hahaha, our newly found heaviest black hole GW231123 would love this meme 😂 #lvk #ligo #GW231123 #physics #meme

The normalizing flows paper is my personal test-of-time award. It is still the go-to architecture in simulation-based inference and ML for physics. 🙃 #AI4science #ML4physics #MachineLearning #ICML

Machine learning is becoming a collaborational field like particle physics. ATLAS = Google Gemini Team?

Amazing and fun idea!

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

"I’m certainly, as far as I know, the only out trans person, that was both tenured and chair of the [physics] department." astrobites.org/2025/06/27/m...

One of the most useful webpages! Can recommend!

Why are there two LIGO observatories? LIGO has two detectors ~3000 km apart for three main reasons: 🎧 Noise discrimination ⏰ Signal timing 🗺️ Source localization Find out more www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligo-de... Graphic by Mayara Pacheco 🔭🧪

And a zero for LISA? This mission would open a window into the universe via gravitational waves that we have never observed before! This might be stunning discoveries, impressive engineering, and Nobel Prize worthy results.

Two LIGO sites are essential for independently validating observed gravitational wave signals. Without the second site, we can't constrain the sky position well enough for electromagnetic follow-up searches of binary neutron star mergers. This would be devastating for the whole field ...

📢 I am looking for AI post-doc/research/engineer positions in Europe (Paris, London, Zurich, ...) starting 2026. My work revolves around generative modeling and AI for Science, with 4+ publications at top conferences during my PhD. If you are hiring, please reach out! If not, please repost 🔁

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🎓Hiring now! 🧠 Join us at the exciting intersection of ML and Neuroscience! #AI4science We’re looking for PhDs, Postdocs and Scientific Programmers that want to use deep learning to build, optimize and study mechanistic models of neural computations. Full details: www.mackelab.org/jobs/ 1/5

Have you wondered how to make plotting more fun? Astrophysicists are there to help you out: Use pastamarker!

That's me when a new #LIGO event comes in: "Jippieh, we smashed two more black holes!"

If you're wondering what you can do: This article is 100% relevant today www.theguardian.com/science/occa...

Amazing work, check this out!

If you're looking for an insight into how things are going at NASA since Trump's regime started attacking it, here's astronomer & NASA employee Rose Ferreira on Threads. (Her now-removed interview is archived here at the Wayback Machine and it's well worth a read: web.archive.org/web/20231206... )

How long is "recently" in #ML? 2 month?

Thanks for putting together a concise answer to an interesting question I get as well!

1/ 🌌 New Paper Alert: How can we decode the atmospheres of exoplanets efficiently and reliably? The latest work by my amazing collaborator @timothygebhard.bsky.social introduces Flow Matching Posterior Estimation for atmospheric retrieval. 🚀🧵👇 #AI #MachineLearning #Physics #Astronomy #AcademicSky

With “Tübingen Women in Machine Learning”, Claire Vernade and her team have created a local community. Their aim is to empower women and make them more visible. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/a-network... @twiml.bsky.social #TWiML #WiML

Got a photo with a nice branch of my academic family tree: @awehwe.bsky.social @glouppe.bsky.social @smsharma.bsky.social @lukasheinrich.com Nicole Hartman @annalenakofler.bsky.social