In den nächsten fünf Jahren werden vom Land Niederösterreich gemeinsam mit der Universität Wien rund eine Million Euro in das Leopold Figl Observatorium für Astrophysik der #unive am Mitterschöpfl investiert. In den kommenden Jahren widmen die Forscher*innen sich der Suche nach Exoplaneten. 🪐🔭⤵️

The program for #ASHPC26 is online! ashpc.eu/event/27/att... Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 takes place on 7-10 April. Looking forward to seeing the #HPC community come together again - this time in Vienna, Austria.

De Niro: Every morning when I get up, I reach for my phone to look at the headlines of the day, and for some time now, I start every morning depressed about the latest outrage from our would-be king. I mean, it’s amazing—every fucking day there’s something new and crazy, but it’s different today…

No Kings Demo Karlsplatz Wien Vienna/ Austria

Springsteen: Well, this past winter federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. They picked the wrong city. Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America. And this reactionary nightmare and these invasions of American cities will not stand.

"Wellen, Wirbel, Energie: Was steckt hinter den Phänomenen unseres Alltags?", Familienvorlesung über Physik bei der #LNF26. Beginn 17:30, für Kinder von 6-99. Spoiler alert: es gibt such eine 🚀! langenachtderforschung.at/station/5753 @univie-physik.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Sad how the current US government is purposefully destroying science, because the results don’t align with their ideology or financial interests.

📣 Save the date: Lange Nacht der Forschung an der Uni Wien! 📅: 24.04.2026, 17:00 - 23:00 Uhr 📍: über 100 Stationen an 5 Standorten: Hauptgebäude, Fakultät für Chemie, Fakultät für Physik, Sternwarte & Biologiezentrum Das gesamte Programm der Uni Wien im Überblick: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/lange-nacht-...

Die @wuvienna.bsky.social hilft gemeinsam mit der @caritas-austria.bsky.social @cariklaus.bsky.social den Universitäten in der Ukraine. Helft doch bitte mit. wirhelfen.shop/wu-hilft-unis

Enjoyed the fantastic talk of @frediotto.bsky.social at the colloquium of @univie-physik.bsky.social on the attribution of extreme weather events. Beautiful and important work.

Sehr schön heute am Vogelbergsteig

Aus (wiederholt) gegebenem Anlass

A heat dome in north America is producing record-shattering March temperatures, made even more deadly by human-caused warming. A super-rapid study from @wwattribution.bsky.social shows the risk of temperatures as high as these is now four times what it was just a decade ago 😱

Look at this fantasic nested sampling cake. There is even some replica exchange! They made it for Nico Unglert, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis today at @tuwien.at

The right call. No scientific meeting (even real ones) should be expecting non-US scientists to come into the country now (if not already committed to that).

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗦𝗖 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 Online course on 23 March 2026 Discover how to harness Austria’s most powerful supercomputers! This course guides you from the first steps to efficiently running software using a queuing system. Register here events.asc.ac.at/e/ASC-Intro-... #HPC

📜 Treasures from the archive To celebrate 100 years of Schrödinger’s equation, the Faculty of Physics is sharing archival documents connected to Erwin Schrödinger and the beginnings of quantum mechanics. More materials throughout the year: schroedinger100.univie.ac.at/treasures-fr...

I have found that many people don't know about configurational temperature, so I wrote a short note about it on my website. www.samuelfoley.com/misc/

@tanjatraxler.bsky.social ist die Leiterin unserer Wissenschaftsredaktion und studierte Quantenphysikerin. Und ich freu’ mich sehr, dass sie von der Österr. Forschungsgemeinschaft ÖFG mit dem Preis für Wissenschaftsjournalismus ausgezeichnet wird! www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Notice how every hostile state and autocrat absolutely despises the EU and its regulations? That is a pretty good sign those rules are actually protecting us. If our enemies hate it, keep doing it

Schrödinger’s Equation Turns 100 🎉 On 27 Jan. 1926, the journal Annalen der Physik received Schrödinger’s manuscript for the first of his four papers on “Quantisation as an Eigenvalue problem”. 🐈 Follow the journey from the original papers to the laboratories & technologies shaping the next century.

Looking forward to the lecture course on Langevin Sampling Algorithms that Ben Leimkuhler will give later this spring at the @esivienna.bsky.social. @univie-physik.bsky.social @univie.ac.at ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...

Unfug. Die Ringstraße sollte komplett autofrei sein.

The University of Vienna congratulates all the outstanding researchers who have been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in the most competitive call in the programme’s history! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Congratulations to the 17 fellows! 🎉 #MSCA-PF #MSCA #postdoc Find out more here: ⤵️

📜⚖️ Treasures from the Archive: 100 Years of Schrödinger's Equation! 🎂 The Faculty of Physics (@univie-physik.bsky.social) has opened a fascinating window into history. 🔎 Explore the archive highlights here: schroedinger100.univie.ac.at/treasures-fr... 📸: © Helen Piel | Erwin Schrödinger Archive

Bundesregierung ebnet Weg für erfolgreiche Zukunft des Wissenschaftsstandorts: Der #FWF begrüßt den Finanzierungsrahmen für den #FTI-Pakt 2027–2029. Gesamtinvestitionen von knapp 5,5 Milliarden Euro stärken den Wissenschaftsstandort und bringen Planungssicherheit. 👉 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

#ASHPC26 New deadline for abstract submissions: 22 February -> ashpc.eu/event/27/abs... #HPC #Supercomputing #conference

Reminder, the ACS Inclusivity Style Guide still does not include Gender & Sexuality nor Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality. They were removed almost a year ago. Something tells me, it isn't a pause on those two sections. Review & refinement shouldn't take a year. #ChemSky #ChemChat

Really looking forward to these fantastic speakers this semester! @frediotto.bsky.social Carl Wieman Gerd Kortemeyer Viatcheslav Mukhanov

🎓 Doctoral Project Day 🎓 🗣️ 1st Year PhD Students (Vienna Doctoral School in Physics) 🗓️ Wednesday, 25 February 2025, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 📍 Ernst Mach Lecture Hall (2nd floor), Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna 🔗 a29.at/V6I1jb

Das ist die mit Abstand beste Olympia-Geschichte bis jetzt. Samt (P)Foto der Spiele. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Heute beim Biathlon in Antholz und wer ist der Platzsprecher? Mein Volksschullehrer Luis Mahlknecht.

Hello bluesky, I'm a theoretical chemist at University of Bayreuth. My group works on atomistic modeling of energy materials with electronic structure methods and ML. I'm hoping to connect to other #compchem and #materials folks!

Wir befinden uns in einem dramatischen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, die schlimmsten Klimafolgen (Verlust von vielen Küstenstädten, Hungersnöte, Konflikte, Kipppunkte etc.) noch abzuwenden, und die Politik macht… Bislang hat die Wissenschaft die Klimaerwärmung korrekt vorhergesagt.

The Faculty has recently opened a wide variety of PhD positions dealing with fascinating physical phenomena, from isotopes to spin waves and carbon nanotubes to low-dimensional materials! ⁉️Want to know more?⁉️ All the information in the link below 👇 🔗 a29.at/3k85aW

Deadline approaching 📢 Submit your abstracts for Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting #ASHPC26 until 15 February: ashpc.eu/event/27/abs... #HPC #Supercomputing

Let's see how that goes.

Why are all the US media using words like "revoke" and repeal"? They mean nothing in this context. Why not "refuse to accept", "deny", or "lie about"?

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science I (as in previous years) take an Implicit Association Test to remind myself of my potential biases and with the goal of remembering to take them into account You too can do this at: implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

Today is the 👩‍🔬International Day of Women and Girls in Science🔬 This UN-established day promotes gender equality in science fields. Many of the scientists from our Faculty have joined to give a clear message to all interested girls and young women: ⚛JOIN TEAM SCIENCE!👩🏽‍💻 🔗 a29.at/Q50Zsl

Some extra power

I am very much looking forward to being part of this materials modeling school in Trieste this June. Applications are still open!

IMHO ist es ein bissel komplexer. Latein an sich ist nicht auf jeden Fall überflüssig. Es sollte durchaus Leute geben, die da Kompetenz haben. Wir auch in Chinesisch, Japanisch ... usw. Mehr als diskutabel ist aber die Unterstellung, Bildung sei ohne Kenntnis des Lateinischen rudimentär. 1/2

📣 Reminder: E-STEEM Call 👩‍🔬 Deadline: 📅2 March 2026, 14:00 CET The University of Vienna awards at least 20 four-year and full-time (40h/week) #postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences & economics #AcademicSky #univie #STEM Find all information here: ⤵️

Hans Hahn, Mathematiker an der Uni Wien und Mitglied des Philosophenzirkels "Wiener Kreis", entzauberte bereits vor hundert Jahren aktuell vorgebrachte Argumente.

Es wäre vielleicht angemessen, eine gemeinsame Grundbildung für alle bis 15 zu haben, um dann klassische, naturwissenschaftliche, kaufmännische Gymnasien und Weiterbildende Schulen zu schaffen. Dieser elitäre Habitus ist geradezu abstoßend.

This year we continued to support startups and SMEs with access to #HPC & #AI know-how and #supercomputing infrastructure, hosted 40 training events, collaborated with #EuroCC competence centres, centres of excellence & AI Factories. This was 2025 at EuroCC Austria: eurocc-austria.at/en/blog/2025...

🏆🎊 Times Higher Education Ranking: @univie.ac.at with 6 subjects among the top 100 worldwide! Alongside four other subjects, Physical Science has improved since last year, entering the top 100 at rank 95 (2025: 101–125). 🔗 More info: www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... 📸: © Ian Ehm

Some cross-country skiing in Eisenerzer Ramsau.

On this day 100 years ago, January 27, 1926, Erwin Schrödinger published the first of a series of seminal papers introducing the Schrödinger equation, the cornerstone of #quantum mechanics. ⚛️ How did a single equation reshape our understanding of nature, driving innovation a century later? ⤵️