💃🕺What if you could express your research through Dance? Enter into the world of a CMS PhD through music and movement to explore some of the most complex areas of physics ✨See CMSer Maryam Shooshtari's piece on her research, entered for the Dance Your PhD 2026! 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNEl...

Those of you who've been running AI agents on your own box will get this. The rest of you might think I've lost it. 🤪 "Agent-064" is a 50-page sci-fi novel about an AI agent running inside a container. I didn't write a single line. github.com/glouppe/agen...

1/fb in 14h!

Ep3 of the Science Counterpunch is now live! This week we chat to @cdelawalla.bsky.social the founder and CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social and ask: what are the pros and cons of scientists becoming more politically engaged? Check out the full discussion! Link: youtube.com/watch?v=KDTt... 🧪⚛️

This week on the Science Counterpunch Podcast we were joined by YouTube heavyweight Dave "Professor Dave Explains" Farina. He wants scientists to take off the kid gloves and hit back hard against grifters and pseudoscientists. Full discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=F2fh... ⚛️🧪

🤖 Gestern wurde der AI:AT Coworking Hub der AI Factory Austria AI:AT feierlich eröffnet. Seit Juli 2025 wurden bereits mehr als 20 Trainings mit über 900 Teilnehmenden durchgeführt. Die AI Factory Austria AI:AT ist Österreichs nationale AI Factory. 🔗 www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

💥💼We are hiring! We are looking for a post-doc to work on the ALICE 3 outer tracker project! (full-time, for an initial period of three years) www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=gasm...

FTI-Pakt: 5,5 Mrd. € für Forschung in Österreich, mehr als 3 Mrd. für Grundlagenforschung! 🔬 #ÖAW-Präsident Heinz Faßmann begrüßt den Beschluss: „Budgetplus schafft Planungssicherheit – rasche und verlässliche Umsetzung ist jetzt entscheidend.“ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/oeaw-be...

Physicists became actors! 🎭 Our former PhD student Mayram Shooshtari took part in the "Dance your PhD" competition. In the self-produced video, she explains her doctoral thesis in a very creative way! See for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNEl...

For an upgrade of the Belle II Vertex Detector and for the future FCCee, the MBI designs and develops depleted monolithic active pixel detectors and its associated readout electronics. In this context, we are offering a postdoc position for an initial period of three years, check out the ad below 👇🏻.

Today we're kicking off the 5th ÖAW ML Winter School! We have an interesting week ahead: indico.global/event/15854/...

Awesome thread explaining how stellar streams are connected to the search for dark matter, the main motivation for applying our anomaly detection algorithm CATHODE to Gaia data to look for more streams in arxiv.org/abs/2509.08064

Scaling Laws in Particle Physics Data! This is a result I've been itching to share and it's finally out. One of the big open questions is how much better AI-based methods at particle colliders can still become. 1/4

🚨#COMETA Virtual Public Lecture ALERT🚨 Come listen to Prof. Anja Butter from LPNHE/@CNRS in Paris talk about, "Learning #ParticlePhysics: From Simulation to Inference with #NeuralNetworks" 🤖🤖 Today! Monday, 26 January 2026 at 14:00 CET zoom link posted on Indico: indico.cern.ch/event/1608571/

EPIGRAPHY had its kickoff event in Lisbon last week, from Feb 12-15, 2026! Lots of interesting talks on #deeplearning, #EdgeAI, and #particlephysics. We also connected with other communities like #EuCAIF, #NextGenTriggers, and @MLQC4FC ! See you soon at the next EPIGRAPHY event!

arxiv.org/abs/2601.02484 Yes, it's that Schwartz -- QFT textbook author -- writing a paper wherein "All calculations, numerical analysis, and manuscript preparation were performed by Claude, an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, working under physicist supervision."

Dear Journal editors sending a request to review a paper on Dec 26, a reminder on Dec 28, and a second one (called "final reminder") on Jan 2: don't. #AcademicChat

Wissenschaftsstar MaiThi Nguyen-Kim @maithinkx.bsky.social kommt an die ÖAW 🎉 Das ist nur eines der Highlights, die euch 2026 erwarten. Freut euch außerdem auf einen Vortrag von Thomas Zurbuchen, ehemals NASA-Chef von 2016 bis 2022. Alle Highlights ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/wissens...

I have been in AI for science for 10+ years now. Real benefits, real impact. But 'AI' feels like a bad word now, with the media running 10:1 negative. Yet almost everyone around me uses LLMs daily. Honestly lost.

We are extremely delighted to announce the kickoff school for our COST Action EPIGRAPHY in Lisbon, from Jan 12-15. While in-person invitations have gone out to EPIGRAPHY members, a public Zoom link will be provided to follow the talks & tutorials online: https:// indico.cern.ch/event/1608897/

Happy to see our topo-cluster calibration paper finally published in @scipost.bsky.social #Physics — and even better, it's the first @atlasexperiment.bsky.social paper to appear there. What a nice Christmas present!

CERN hits one exabyte of stored experimental data from the LHC #LHC 📈 One million terabytes of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider have now been sent to the CERN storage system. Find our more: home.cern/news/news/co...

📢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.

📢 We are hiring! ⚛️ We are looking for a PostDoc in Dark Matter Theory and Physics beyond the Standard Model (full-time) lnkd.in/dbbAktr4 You can apply here -> lnkd.in/dUAC76ZG

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Full post: togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.

🧪 Workshop: Machine-Learning Assisted Image Reconstruction Join us on Tue, Nov 25, 2025, at the PSK Building (5th floor, Seminar Rooms 7 & 8) for a hands-on look at state-of-the-art image reconstruction methods. 🔗 Info, speakers & registration: indico.global/event/15466/

📢𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: Postdoc position(s) in 𝐀𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 focusing on either 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 or 𝐀𝐈-𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲. 🏙️Join my new group at 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡, based in 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚! 🗓️ Reviews begin sooner, deadline: 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 💬 Questions: Reach out! 🔗 inspirehep.net/jobs/2962185

Today we are celebrating the inauguration of our new institute: The Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics! #OeAW #MariettaBlauInstitute #Particle #Physics

AI 🤖 x Science 🔬 Join the 7th MLA2S seminar “Make it (net)work!” 📅 Nov 18, 1 PM | 📍 PSK Building Talks + snacks + drinks 🍪🥂 Infos and registration 👉 bit.ly/4nTupyo

And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–

Next Friday we are celebrating the inauguration of the Marietta Blau Institute for Particly Physics! 🤩 🥳 🖍️ Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s the time! ➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/mbi/veransta...

🌌 Dark Matter Day 2025 @WUK, Vienna 🌌 🧐What if most of the Universe is invisible? Join us on Oct 31st, 7–9 PM for talks about dark matter with researchers from MBI (ÖAW). Discover why what we can’t see might be the most important part of the cosmos. ✨ #DarkMatterDay #Vienna #ÖAW

Meet Ulyana Dupletsa, postdoc at HEPHY in Vienna 🌍 She developed key tools for ET performance studies and now helps coordinate science case analyses. 💬 “It’s inspiring to be part of a community shaping the future of gravitational-wave astronomy.” #ET_young #ResearchInfrastructures #ET_women

The #CMS group at the #MBI #Vienna is looking for a PhD student, to be working on top quark analyses and SMEFT interpretations with #ML techniques. My office will be next door as well 😉 Check out oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/m636onvh...

💥 MBI was founded in September from the merger of ÖAW institutes SMI & HEPHY — now the largest center for experimental and theoretical physics with 100+ employees! 🎉 Join us for the MBI inauguration party on November 7, 2025!

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

The "Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics" is out. A summary of the 266 inputs to the strategy. All ambitions for future High-Energy Physics research are described here. cds.cern.ch/record/2944678 #ESPPU #ESPP

For folks considering grad school in ML, my advice is to explore programs that mix ML with a domain interest. ML programs are wildly oversubscribed while a lot of the fun right now is in figuring out what you can do with it

Is scale all you need? Or is there still a role for incorporating domain knowledge and inductive bias? While I was in Heidelberg, I took some time to write a short essay on this question called "The Bittersweet Lesson". theoryandpractice.org/2025/09/The%... #HLF25

Now published in Phys. Rev. D doi.org/10.1103/zwzt...

I've been a bit silent here for the past weeks, but only because I was busy with other stuff. Let's start with the biggest news: HEPHY and SMI merged to form the 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐮 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 (MBI Vienna)!

University of Innsbruck has opened Austria’s first nationwide call for early access to #QuantumComputing resources! Application open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions. System: IBEX from AQT Deadline: 13 October 2025 Learn more: www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single water molecule than there are stars in the entire solar system... 🙄🤯

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Die Sommerferien gehen in die zweite Hälfte und schön langsam kommt vielleicht auch bei euch mal Langeweile auf. 🙃 Da haben wir einen Tipp: Im @welios.bsky.social gibt es aktuell eine interaktive Ausstellung für Kinder zum Thema Teilchenphysik. www.oeaw.ac.at/news/teilche...

Interesting results from the MPG postdoc survey: "25% of MPG postdocs are parents. Postdocs who are parents are less likely to be anxious and depressed than postdocs who are not parents, and they are more likely to be satisfied with their lives. This is the exact opposite of our 2022 survey. ...

If you liked the recent CMS anomaly detection search, check out this paper for more details & validations! I particularly like this 'rediscovery' of boosted top quarks with anomaly detection! Left = before AD, right = after AD

Now at #EPSHEP, @hephy.bsky.social 's Sahana Narasimha talking about "Statistically Learning New Physics from LHC Data"