It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Antonino Zichichi. A pioneer of CERN’s experimental programme in the 1950s and the driving force behind numerous experiments, he was one of the most influential figures in high-energy physics. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

📢We are hiring! metal workshop technician, full-time 💼Apply now! oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/rr06zf1m

Neue ÖAW-Preisfrage: Wie verändert KI Ihr Forschungsfeld? Die #ÖAW sucht Essays aus allen Disziplinen zu dieser Fragestellung. Einsendeschluss: 30.4.2026. Auf die besten Beiträge warten insgesamt 16.000 € und eine Veröffentlichung! Alle Infos: www.oeaw.ac.at/news/neue-oe...

🚀 From particle physics to medical applications  Join the CERN Accelerator School course on Medical Accelerators and learn more about how particle accelerators are used in hospitals every day. #CAS2026 📍Jurmala, Latvia 📆 15 – 26 June 2026 📌Deadline: 13 April 2026 🙋Registration: cas.web.cern.ch

Einstein’s theory passes another test — and black holes reveal new secrets. The latest LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA results uncover rare, fast-spinning mergers that may be second-generation black holes, born from earlier cosmic encounters. 💫 Image: Carl Knox, OzGrav #EinsteinTelescope #GravitationalWaves

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...

🌍 Lusatia joins as the 3d candidate site for ET! After the June 2025 BGR meeting, Lusatia (Saxony, 🇩🇪) has officially become a candidate location — alongside Sardinia 🇮🇹 and the Euregio Meuse-Rhine 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱. Preparatory studies are underway, led by Christian Stegmann (DESY). shorturl.at/HwaRq

🌌 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...

Mithilfe von KI-gestützten Lösungen die Ursachen von Krankheiten schneller zu entdecken, ist das Ziel des neuen Robotics Lab am #ÖAW-Institut AITHYRA. Geleitet wird es von Wali Malik, der dafür von Boston nach Wien kam. science.orf.at/stories/3231...

Liebes #BlueLZ, die Anmeldung läuft für unsere *letzte* bundesweite Online-#Lehrkräftefortbildung über #Teilchenphysik am Mo 22.9.25 im Rahmen von "Forschung trifft Schule", gefördert von der Dr. Hans Riegel Stiftung. Ihr wollt moderne Forschung ins Klassenzimmer bringen? Hier gibt es mehr Info:

CMS' Marina Passaseo interviews Barbara Storaci and Sarah Seif El-Nasr about their journey from particle physics at #CERN to working in sports at #UEFA! 🎙️ Hear how #science gave them confidence on and off the pitch. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/TgSci4JSdaI #sports #physics #football

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...

🚀 The ET Blue Book passed 100 citations on INSPIRE - just 4 months after being posted on the arXiv! ~550 pages, 300+ contributors, and already a pillar for #GravitationalWaves science. Thanks to all building on this shared vision! #ET_science #ETPP @inspirehep.net

Sommerferien-Programm gesucht? 🤓 Bei einer Sonderausstellung im #Welios Science Center in Wels kann die #Teilchenphysik mithilfe von ÖAW-Forscher:innen des @hephy.bsky.social spielerisch erkundet werden - Führungen und Vorträge inklusive 💫 Mehr dazu ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/teilche...

Congratulations to Prof Naomi McClure-Griffiths FAA on her appointment as the first Chief Scientist of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO). Her new responsibilities will include shaping the Observatory’s science strategy and working to maximise its overall scientific return. bit.ly/3GVieBj

Now at #EPSHEP, @hephy.bsky.social 's Robert Schöfbeck talking about "Unbinned machine-learned measurements for the LHC with systematic uncertainties" Based on arxiv.org/abs/2505.05544

Congratulations to the CMS Spokesperson Gautier Hamel de Monchenault on his appointment as the Director for Research and Computing at CERN, effective January 1, 2026! 👏 Nominated by Mark Thomson and approved by the CERN Council, Gautier will bring a wealth of experience to this position.

Thanks @hephy.bsky.social for organizing. A somewhat less posh location at a smaller conference fee would have made this accessible to more junior colleagues, though.

I am starting into the FCC week in my hometown of Vienna. I'm representing @uni-graz.at in the collaboration board, and I'm also part of the Scientific Program Comittee. Looking forward to many discussions around the European Strategy Update as the coordinator of the Austrian input to the strategy.

ÖAW-Präsident Heinz Faßmann wird vom @bundespraesident.at mit dem Großen Goldenen Ehrenzeichen der Republik ausgezeichnet. "Klarerweise freue ich mich darüber, denn es ist ein Zeichen der Wertschätzung für meine unterschiedlichen Arbeiten in den vergangenen Jahren.“

Tomorrow, 7pm. Vienna National Library: The Higgs Boson and Our Life - a panel discussion about physics, science and everything. Join us! Register now - it's free: indico.cern.ch/event/1538034/

Chile to become an Associate Member State of CERN Find out more: home.cern/news/press-r...

This workshop at @hephy.bsky.social is brought to you in collaboration with @simonplaetzer.bsky.social and an event by @uni-graz.at

May 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM - discussion about "The Higgs Boson and Our Life" at the Austrian National Library with Fabiola Gianotti DG #CERN, Ulrike Diebold, Vice President #Oeaw and Verena Ringler #diplomacy and #sciencecommunication - moderated by: @Florianaigner.at indico.cern.ch/event/1538034/

A very successful first day of our little workshop on fragmentation and hadronization, organized with @axelmaas.bsky.social , kindly hosted by @hephy.bsky.social at Vienna. We will continue to discuss scattering on the lattice tomorrow, which I'm very excited about.

🚨 Paper Alert! Together with the @hephy.bsky.social @cmsexperiment.bsky.social group, we proudly present: "Unbinned inclusive cross-section measurements with machine-learned systematic uncertainties" arxiv.org/abs/2505.05544 This is our contribution to the #FAIR-Universe #HiggsUncertaintyChallenge.

What does that mean for the #FAIR-Universe #HiggsUncertaintyChallenge? Our submission wins 🏆1st place🏆, tied with another submission! Congratulations again to everyone in #TeamHEPHY @hephy.bsky.social of the @oeaw.bsky.social

The LHC experiment collaborations #AtCERN receive Breakthrough Prize The prize is awarded to ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on #LHCRun2 data up to July 2024. Read more: home.cern/news/press-r...

Arbeitest du an der Schnittstelle von #HighEnergyPhysics und #MachineLearning? Ich darf am @hephy.bsky.social auch Host für Feodor Lynen Stipendiaten sein!

ÖAW wird Teil der AI Factory Austria (AI:AT). Die neue Initiative soll die Infrastruktur und das Know How bezüglich Hochleistungsrechner (HPC) und Künstlicher Intelligenz in Österreich stärken 🤖 Mehr dazu ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/oeaw-an...

Kein WWW ohne Teilchenbeschleuniger 💫 Was das CERN mit der Entwicklung des Internets zu tun hat und welche Errungenschaften wir den Teilchenbeschleunigern noch zu verdanken haben, lest ihr im Interview mit ÖAW-Physiker Jochen Schieck ⤵️ www.oeaw.ac.at/news/was-hab...