Great to be back in Pittsburgh - first time I’m visiting CMU

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 ...

I always enjoy coming to Nikhef - and happy that my finishing PhD Malin Horstmann will start her Postdoctoral there - what a great place!

Today, the #SnakemakeHackathon2026 at the TU Munich ended with the release of Snakemake 9.17! I want to thank all participants and my co-organizers! You have been incredibly dedicated and we improved a ton of things throughout the ecosystem.

everything new is old

Great opportunity !

Very cool talk by @annalenakofler.bsky.social - check it out !

Following the success of the EurIPS and NeurIPS-Mexico City pilots in 2025, we are thrilled to announce two official NeurIPS 2026 satellite events for this year! These will be held in Paris, France and Atlanta, USA, respectively, running alongside the main venue in Sydney, Australia.

Vor 10 Jahren haben wir mit einer handvoll Leuten yhep.desy.de gegründet. Heute war der Hörsaal voll gepackt mit mehr als 100 early-career Physiker*innen die über das #WissZeitVG und Nachhaltigkeit in der Wissenschaft informiert wurden und sich vernetzen konnten. #IchBinHanna

Wes McKinney on Agents - a lot of this rings very true to me wesmckinney.com/blog/mythica...

Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish announced their discovery of a “rapidly pulsating radio source” — what we now refer to as a pulsar — with a paper in @nature.com #OTD in 1968. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/217...

I enjoyed reading this thoughtful position piece by @hogg.bsky.social on "why we do astrophysics" - a lot of these points can naturally be expanded to particle physics and any fundamental science arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181

TMLR's 2025 annual report! The word of the year is growth: whether it's our number of submissions, published papers, or reviewers, pretty much everything has increased ~50%. EXCEPT: our review period, which is still shorter than NeurICMLR (91 vs 126 days) Read on for more! 1/n

1/ Happy International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience! To mark the occasion, women from across the @eiroforum.org organisations, including ESO, shared one piece of advice that helped them in their professional journeys 👇 Discover more: www.eiroforum.org/news/eirofor...

Very strong language from the German ministry of science to the EU about funding FCC. 🧐 English: www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D... German: www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...

Roger‘s Statistics Book is a staple among particle physicists - RIP

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

An @inspirehep.net HEP mystery: what happened here?

Also this might help?

🚨 Job Alert We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics. Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word! Deadline: Nov 30th inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448

CepC proposal will not be included in China’s next 5-year plan cerncourier.com/cepc-matures...

Seems that #pyhf has finally creeped over the 200 citations on INSPIRE recently. :) 🎉 inspirehep.net/literature?q... inspirehep.net/literature/1... Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!

Applicants with background in exploration of large, complex search spaces are especially invited to encouraged. Please distribute to potential candidates! @aspuru.bsky.social @kylecranmer.bsky.social @lukasheinrich.com @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social @jenseisert.bsky.social @franknoe.bsky.social

The bitter lesson strikes again…

Very interesting work by our own @rythian47.bsky.social that I finally understood a bit better recently when he presented it at our MIAPbP workshop. Happy to see this accepted at Neurips!

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

RIP Herwig Schopper, CERN director general from 1973 to 1976. He made LEP possible, and thus also the LHC. Not so long ago I worked with him on a book about the scientific discoveries at CERN. Read the interview in the CERN courier about the lessons from LEP cerncourier.com/a/lessons-fr...

@annalenakofler.bsky.social giving a great talk on SBI in gravitational waves at our „Build Big vs Build Smart Workshop“ indico.ph.tum.de/event/7906/

Big grant news today! I feel very lucky and honored for this opportunity from @erc.europa.eu . We will attempt to go for a big qualitative step up in how we use AI/ML to predict how particles interact with matter. Stoked to get started on this in 2026. we will release job advertisements soon!

1/New paper led by Matthias Vigl arxiv.org/abs/2509.01397 - we wanted to see whether you can see double descent and a benefit of overparametrization in particle physics data and tasks. We see both model- and epoch-wise double descent but the story is more complicated than we thought:

I enjoyed reading this piece by Anderson - nice reminder to us elementary particle physicists :)

I'm looking for my first PhD student! We will push the frontiers of probabilistic machine learning for the molecular sciences, and study how to design new algorithms that exploit the unique properties of molecular systems to learn about the world. efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

We're excited to announce a second physical location for NeurIPS 2025, in Mexico City, which we hope will address concerns around skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in travel visas that some attendees have experienced in previous years. Read more in our blog: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...

AIMS is an amazing institution, where I had the pleasure to serve as a examiner a few times. It’s great to see this tighter collaboration with the German research landscape!

Always love being back at @cern.bsky.social

One of my favourites when teaching version control - strong recommend

A fun collaboration sparked at the SBI PhyStat Munich workshop (@lukasheinrich.com) when Tae saw an opportunity to perform this SMEFT measurement with NSBI to account for interference effects. indico.cern.ch/event/1355601/

Check out our first PhD advert, primarily for enthusiastic students with a chemical/chemoenzymatic synthesis background: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/stelle.asp?id=12186&lang=en&style=cms2

So happy to see @aishikghosh.bsky.social thrive - he’s been one of the drivers of AI in HEP and I can’t wait to see his lab start up - take note of the postdoc position coming up.

Don’t miss it! ✨ The first images from the Vera Rubin observatory will be published on 23 June 2025 at 17:00 CEST. Researchers from the Max Planck Society report on their planned research. www.mpg.de/24900555/ver... #astronomy @vrubinobs.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social @mpe-garching.bsky.social

Positions remain open! Both PhD and postdoctoral opportunities are available on scientific foundation models. An additional position is also available on AI for regional climate models (jointly with @xavierfettweis.bsky.social). Do not hesitate to apply!

We have several open, fully-funded PhD and Postdoc positions at my group, now at the University of Tübingen. Please #RT and share with potential candidates! Generally: AI for scientific discoveries in physics 🔥. mariokrenn.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on CMS, with a focus on substructure/BSM in four-top final states/CMS HGCAL: inspirehep.net/jobs/2921389 (all details in link)

Well, the UK is doing its best to ensure that I have no future on this island, so if anyone in the EU is looking for a science communicator with nearly 15 years of experience and can sponsor a visa for a filthy immigrant, please let me know.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

I'm very excited that we are able to expand our team. These are great jobs for those that want to be active in AI/ML and data science in a research environment and work on problems that have real-world impact. Spread the word!

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...