Alwyas fun to hear about the projects of our brilliant doctoral students.

Right now, our project members enjoy a retreat at Steinschaler Dörfl, Lower Austria, and have intense scientific exchanges during talks and poster sessions. The happy faces in the workshop photo prove that the meeting is very fruitful!

Some scientists in the fog (and other creatures) at the retreat of @taco-oxides.bsky.social in Frankenfels, Lower Austria.

Achtung, Nerd-Content. Auf einer Glastür im Department Mathematik der Uni Erlangen steht diese 2x2-Determinante mit römischen Ziffern: X·I–II·IV=II. Wenn man die Tür von der anderen Seite sieht, stimmt die Gleichung auch: II=VI·II–X·I. Es ist ein Spiegel-Ambigramm.

Zur Abwechslung wieder einmal Göller.

Job opening for University Assistant Professor in theoretical chemistry in Cambridge: www.ch.cam.ac.uk/job/52637 Deadline end of Oct. #chemjobs #theoreticalchemistry

Ein Ig Nobel Preis an Niederösterreich! Frau Mikl-Leitner, wir sind fast da 😂 @istaresearch.bsky.social

Excellent research! science.orf.at/stories/3232...

In the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

Es gibt sogar schon zwei: www.milena-verlag.at/index.php?it...

Vienna hosted the first ever Tram Driver World Championship on Saturday, with the city's skilled drivers emerging victorious out of 25 teams from across the world battling it out in a tense competition. u.afp.com/SPcP

Meine Recherche für die @diedunkelkammer.bsky.social schlägt auch international ordentlich Wellen: Die Nonnen von Goldenstein haben es jetzt sogar in die BBC World News geschafft 😇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bye, bye Trieste! Alla prossima! #ictp

Which five papers have most inspired you scientifically? Here is Michele Parrinello's answer (in no particular order): 1.) A. Rahman, "Correlations in the Motion of Atoms in Liquid Argon", Phys. Rev. 136, A405 (1964). doi.org/10.1103/Phys... 1/5

Seems that lightly edited streams of each day are available here. www.youtube.com/@ictpcondens...

Michele Parrinello giving the ICTP Colloquium (he speaks about catalysis) as part of the conference celebrating his 80th birthday. Amazing creativity throughout a long career!

The SFZ (SchülerInnen Forschungszentrum) supports high-school students to develop their interest and passion for physics. Once again, this effort led by Marianne Korner has been successful in international competitions! All our best to the future physicists! 🔗🇦🇹 a29.at/g72JiB

If at ICTP in Trieste, visit the h-bar! ☕️

Mit 13 wurde sie angeschossen – jetzt fährt Caroline Bredlinger zur Leichtathletik-WM. Die Burgenländerin erzählt ihre unglaubliche Geschichte in einem Sportmonolog. 🏃 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

Mondfinsternis heute Abend ab 19:30 Uhr. Die besten Chancen mit den wenigsten Wolken gibt es im Osten. 🔭

Quite some traffic on my bike ride yesterday.

Welcome to @univie.ac.at, Reinhard! Great to have you as a colleague!

Time to say goodbye to the glacier Marmolada, which will be gone soon😥 goodbye-glaciers.info/glaciers/RGI...

Ich glaube, mich hat noch nie ein Interview so traurig gemacht. Niki ist so ein gescheiter, wacher, witziger und liebenswerter Mensch und er muss ein fantastischer Lehrer gewesen sein. Jetzt will er selbstbestimmt sterben, weil er todkrank ist. Und er will darüber reden.

Looks like the course material is also all open. Good examples to show how all the pieces can fit together in practice: gitlab.tuwien.ac.at/vsc-public/t...

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

Wie traurig! @krieghofer.bsky.social ist nicht mehr. Ich habe ihn nie persönlich getroffen, aber er war einer der Menschen, die Twitter etliche Jahre lang zu so einem tollen Ort gemacht hat, an dem man ständig lernen & lachen konnte. RIP.

Not your regular conference dinner! 🪩🕺💃 #psik2025 #Lausanne

"The well-known “boiling frog” fable says that a frog placed in water heated gradually will not notice the danger and will fail to jump out. [...] The responsible move for physics education is to jump: to make discontinuous changes rather than tinkering at the margins." arxiv.org/abs/2508.08842

Harald Lesch bringt es auf den Punkt. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/die-vernunft...

Ich habe keine Lust mehr. Keine Lust mehr, diplomatisch zu sein. Auf jeden Unsinn zuzugehen. Bei jeder Aussage zuvor abzuwägen, wie sie dann wohl wieder falsch verstanden wird. Von Leuten, die meinen Kindern ihre Zukunft nehmen. Und mir meine Gegenwart. Ich habe keine Lust mehr. Und tue es trotzdem.

„Such censorship of scientists has been attempted by failed governments of the past such as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and early communist China, always with disastrous consequences for their citizens.“ Watching MAGA-US sleepwalking into disaster. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Caught this swift on our hike today. Incredible how fast they fly!

The Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds go.nature.com/4fFENHi

This is my favorite photo 🐑

#chemsky peeps. If you are in DC before ACS, come join us at refusefascism.org/events/prote...

About one week left to apply for this PhD position in my group! Are you a computational chemist, with an interest in protein-protein interactions? Apply soon and join us in beautiful Vienna! #compchem 🧪 @bokuvienna.bsky.social @biotop-phd.bsky.social

No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot guess the journal withe the highest “impact factor” in organic chemistry last year. Really. Nor will you guess many of the other “winners”:

Fun with paint, rotating reference frames, and centrifugal forces from The Slo-Mo Guys! #iTeachPhysics

Got a friendly reminder from the police today that you are not supposed to ride your bike with no hands. 👮‍♂️🚲🫲🫱

Eine Regierung, die Museen „säubert“, Diversitäts-Programme verbietet, Uni wg. ihrer Lehrpläne Mittel streicht und Medien auf Milliarden (!) verklagt, bescheinigt Deutschland ein Problem mit Meinungsfreiheit. 🤯

The University of California system is publicly mobilizing against federal attacks. That’s historic. It's time for ALL of us in US #highered to act. Join our movement at standtogetherhighered.org. #academicsky #highered #standtogether 🔗 universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

On my bike ride today a cable came loose on my bike. I fixed it completely plant based. 🌿Not perfect, but good enough to get me home.

Check out phyphox if you haven't already. You can do some really cool things with it. ⚛️

Ok, it is a difficult word.

This work presents a framework to address shooting point memory in transition path sampling methods, ensuring unbiased sampling of rare event pathways in complex molecular systems. Learn more 👇