Am I the only one who dreads emails titled “Next WP1 meeting” or documents called “WP3 status report”? Dude, I’m involved, by a toe or my whole body, in half a dozen projects from which it could come from!

New blog post on academia, the leaky pipeline, and why one size fits none. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-lo...

1/ New paper accepted at IGARSS2026: We show how machine learning can extract surface properties of planets like Mars from radar echoes. We replace previously relied upon simplified approaches by a fully uncertainty-aware, probabilistic inference procedure.

youtu.be/iwEftGaQFls In diesem Video besucht @FÄKT unseren Gruppenleiter Thomas Bergauer. Er forscht mit Daten vom CERN und entwickelt die Detektoren, die das Unsichtbare messbar machen. Dieselbe Technologie hilft heute dabei, Krebs präziser zu behandeln als je zuvor. 👀Seht selbst!

My first blog post in over a year is a deep dive on flow maps🗺️, or how to learn the integral of a diffusion model to enable faster sampling and several other cool tricks. It's the longest one yet👀 Let me know what you think! sander.ai/2026/05/06/f...

I'm very excited about this new paper, which kicks of our LEGO ERC project we started earlier this year towards general-purpose AI surrogates for simulating radiation-matter interaction. Instead of training AI surrogates for specific detectors or material distribution ...

🎉 Applications are open for MLSS 2026 — the 50th edition of the Machine Learning Summer School! Join us in Tübingen for world-class lectures, hands-on sessions, and an amazing ML community. 🧠 Apply now 👉 mlss2026.is.tuebingen.mpg.de #MLSS2026 #MachineLearning #SummerSchool #ML

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⚛️ It’s actually happening tomorrow! The Long Night of Research Hashtag#LNF26 takes place tomorrow from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.! A wide-ranging program awaits you—with free admission! ➡️ Program: langenachtderforschung.at/programm#/

SciPost is a decade old! 🎉 Looking back, we feel immense gratitude for your engagement and support, without which none of this would have been possible. You are our authors, Fellows, referees, readers, advisors, and sponsors: our everything. We hope you're ready for more; we certainly are.

🚨🚨🚨Paper alert! 🚨🚨🚨 We proudly present: "Proton Structure from Neural Simulation-Based Inference at the LHC" (arxiv.org/abs/2604.13157), a joint effort of the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social group at @mbi-oeaw.bsky.social, the @nnpdf.bsky.social Team, and my #HEP-ML group. 1/12

Join the EPIGRAPHY colloquium by James Clegg, Principal Optical Scientist at Microsoft Research Lab (Cambridge, UK) on April 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM (CET). Title: Analog Optical Computing at Microsoft Research UK: Improving Efficiency in the AI Era indico.cern.ch/event/1667483

💥Am 24. April findet ab 17 Uhr die Lange Nacht der Forschung (#LNF2026) statt. 🔭Interessierte erfahren wie man mikroskopisch kleine Teilchen sichtbar machen und fangen kann, wie ein Tischbeschleuniger funktioniert und womit man Wellen in der Raumzeit messen kann #staytuned #staycurious #LNF2026

I'm a member of the Humboldt family and can be a host at @mbi-oeaw.bsky.social. Drop me a line if you are interested!

I think my colleague David Shih is doing legitimately interesting things with LLMs, and has a reasoned approach to how to use them in research. www.rutgers.edu/news/when-yo...

Or as we put it during our lunch discussion today: you only learn when there is friction

💃🕺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...

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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–