I’m super excited to present our new work in #Eurips2025 and #Neurips2025! We developed FNOPE: a new simulation-based inference (SBI) method which excels at inferring function-valued parameters! Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=yB5... Code: github.com/mackelab/fnope (1/9)

Our @alexandrazuhr.bsky.social is back in Antarctica! 🐧 Currently, she is maintaining ApRES systems near Neumayer station and preparing for the traverse to Kohnen station in a few days. Stay tuned for more updates from her field season! ❄️

Dear All, enjoy your coffee in the morning and congratulations to @leahsmuhle.bsky.social from @unituebingen.bsky.social for winning the Outstanding Student and PhD Presentation Award at EGU 2025!

A challenging combination of flexure modelling and satellite interferometry to understand the dynamic of shear zones near Antarctic grounding zones led by Christian Wild tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

Really cooool: our first #TERRA science event - the FUN workhop: With lots of fun we just work out our FUNs (Focus Units) for collabortive PhD projects at the interface of Geo- and Biosciences in Gäufelden. Stay tuned which FUNs will be positively reviewed & will soon start the #PhD hiring process!

To all potential future #TERRAnauts: keep in mind that our next cluster-call for positions has less than 2 weeks till deadline: We search for dedicaded writer, geoscientific lab rats & researchers, who's heart beats for bioinformatics. Apply, and @unituebingen.bsky.social may become your new home 😀.

Another successful mapping course in the Italian Apennines with @terra-cluster.org PIs Norton, Glotzbach & Drews from @unituebingen.bsky.social ! An amazing experience with motivated students combining geological mapping and geophysics.

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

The successful candidate from Brazil will be hosted at the Geo- and Environmental Research Center @unituebingen.bsky.social, and will be right there as we start the activities of our Cluster of Excellence @terra-cluster.bsky.social! More information: tinyurl.com/paleomag2025

The #Diversitorium task force @aschweiger.bsky.social, @bossdorf.bsky.social, @michaeladippold.bsky.social, K.Tielboerger & Y.Oelmann visited Ihinger Hof field site @unihohenheim.bsky.social for the first time! SO EXCITED to launch our key #TERRA experiment on #geodiversity manipulation: stay tuned!

🇦🇶 Antarctica’s coastal zone is changing fast & it matters globally. A new #AntarcticRINGS review paper maps what we know, what we don’t & why it matters for sea-level rise. 🌊 Explore fresh insights, a Quantarctica-friendly data package & all figures as downloadable slides: scar.org/scar-news/cr...

Check out this time-lapse video of waves eroding an ice front from an experiment conducted in our cryogenic wave tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tank is housed in a walk-in freezer, and the waves are precisely controlled. This video captures about an hour of wave erosion.

Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2

Common-midpoint radar polarimetry by @oraschewski.bsky.social in Geophysical Research Letters. This can be a promising method to observationally constrain the anisotropic ice rheology in the field

If you're interested in Glacial Geology/Geomorphology consider submitting an abstract to our GSA session "T182. Recent Advances in Glacial Geology, Geomorphology, and Chronology": Deadline for abstract submission is August 5. @geosociety.bsky.social.

Double progress in ice-rise modeling by @clarahenry.bsky.social. First we are now able to model ice rises and surrounding ice shelves in 3D and link it with radar stratigraphy to obtain area-wide age-depth estimates ( doi.org/10.1029/2024...)

Fabric modelling: doi.org/10.1017/jog....

Two new publications on 3D models of ice rises with @geophys-tuebingen.bsky.social, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and @bas.ac.uk Stratigraphy modelling: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Happy to announce that #TERRA was selected as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de. K. Rehfeld (@past2futureclimate.bsky.social‬), O. Cirpka & myself express greatest thanks to @unituebingen.bsky.social‬, our mock-reviewers & the entire TERRA-team for the relentless support. Let's start the endevour!

From Jan 2026, @unituebingen.bsky.social will host a new @dfg.de cluster of excellence #TERRA to study geosphere-biosphere interactions, together with Uni Hohenheim and Senckenberg. There will be many opportunities, incl. several professorships. Stay tuned, and follow this account!

Very nice 100 km relay race st @unituebingen.bsky.social with a mixed team of geophysics, geology and climate sciences finishing in the top ten ! Nice to see so many teams including @ml4science.bsky.social

Stunning 18th place in finish! @ml4science.bsky.social

New paper in Geophysical Research Letters led by Vjeran Višnjević mapping out ice shelf areas which are maintained by local precipitation only doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Have I been to Antarctica? No. But my colleagues have, and we can learn a lot from the data they collected! Really happy to share that our work is now published!

Interdisciplinary collaborations can lead to really cool science. This study led by @gmoss13.bsky.social is a great example. Here, we show how simulation-based inference helps to infer more information from radar stratigraphy than possible before: Both, surface accumulation and basal melt rates.

This work was enabled and funded by an innovation project of @ml4science.bsky.social

Congrats to @gmoss13.bsky.social, @coschroeder.bsky.social, @jakhmack.bsky.social , together with our great collaborators Vjeran Višnjević, Olaf Eisen, @oraschewski.bsky.social‬, Reinhard Drews. Thank you to @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social and @awi.de for marking this work possible.

If you’re interested to learn more, check out the paper and code, or get in touch with @gmoss13.bsky.social Code: github.com/mackelab/sbi... Paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We obtain posterior distributions over ice accumulation and melting rates for Ekström Ice Shelf over the past hundreds of years. This allows us to make quantitative statements about the history of the atmospheric and oceanic conditions.

Die @unituebingen feiert Erfolg im Exzellencluster-Wettbewerb 🎉Freude und Jubel bei der Pressekonferenz zur Entscheidung der DFG am 22.05.25 mit gut 200 Gästen. Weitere Infos und Fotos gibt es online 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... @cmfi.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social

Ice Rises and Ice Anisotropy in 3D by @clarahenry.bsky.social in doi.org/10.1017/jog..... This is another step forward for including a more nuanced ice rheology in ice-flow models.

Great news! Our March SBI hackathon in Tübingen was a huge success, with 40+ participants (30 onsite!). Expect significant updates soon: awesome new features & a revamped documentation you'll love! Huge thanks to our amazing SBI community! Release details coming soon. 🥁 🎉

Beautiful paper by Guy Moss about inferring the surface and basal mass balance history of ice shelves from the internal radar stratigraphy over decadal to centennial timescales doi.org/10.1017/jog....

New paper by @geonatasha.bsky.social where ice was slid atop sediment at a constant velocity but where effective stress, N, was transiently varied and drag measured. Important finding of hysteresis in the system, which was stronger on N unloading! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Today at #EGU2025 with @leahsmuhle.bsky.social, using radar to infer temperature profiles with simulation based inference at PICO 5.8.

Nice talk by @Alexandrazuhr.bsky.social at #EGU2025 about the surface mass balance history in East Antarctica. Do we see an increase in surface accumulation rates in the last decades? I think we do. This would at least be one component that buffers against sea level rise

Vertical infiltration or lateral runoff ? Check out Anne Hermann‘s poster at #EGU2025 on HS8.3.1 and learn about the role of ice lenses and snow cover for aquifer recharge (or lack thereof)

Today at #EGU2025 a nice PICO by Julius Konietzko showing results of terrestrial radar interferometry at Grenzgletscher at PICO 5.6 in the afternoon session:

Interested in subglacial landforms and sediment deformation? Tomorrow is your day at #EGU2025 . First a talk by @lzoet.bsky.social & Schlegel in GM9.4 and then head over to see Schlegel & @lzoet.bsky.social in PICO CR6.2

“Turning the Tide” Christian Wild will show first results from terrestrial radar interferometry at Priestley Glacier. If you want to see “true” (i.e. not differential) tidal displacement stop by his poster at #EGU2025 CR2.4 (10:45, Monday)

Today a mug from the famous Radioglaciology meeting in Stanford (2019). I’m order to get new mugs we will host the next Radioglaciology conference in Tübingen 2026!

Check out this new paper I helped out on with subglacial bedforms in Antarctica and a new (simple) sediment flux model urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

Finally published @science.org: Can AI help yield new insights from vast amounts of Earth data? We use large-scale data and neural nets to find the constitutive laws of glacial ice, which differ from commonly assumed forms in conventional models. #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our @alexandrazuhr.bsky.social showed more than 400 school kids during the Geoshow Unterirdisch at @unituebingen.bsky.social what ice core drilling and life as a researcher in Antarctica looks like 👩‍🔬❄️ We were there to support her and also learned a lot about volcanoes and deep sea drilling 🌋⛴️

Check out our new paper led by Guy Moss about inferring surface accumulation and basal melt rates from the radar stratigraphy: doi.org/10.1017/jog....

Friends, check out our icy research in Tübingen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQ5...

We also made it to BlueSky! Follow us to learn more about our work on ice sheets and glaciers ❄️