Cesare Franchini

Inspiring week in Zaragoza @Zcam workshop

zcam.bifi.es/2025/02/08/i...

@unizar.es
@taco-oxides.bsky.social

25 new scholarships for US researchers Fonds Zukunft Österreich (FZÖ) is providing €10 million in funding for an academy program to bring postdocs from the USA to Austria ++ Faßmann: “The right signal in these turbulent times”

Are you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n...

If you are interested; get in touch!

‘My journey to get aid in Gaza was like Squid Game’ Going to the US-backed aid distribution centre was the hardest day of my life. I’ve never felt humiliation like that

Against Humanity

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#gaza

Europe’s Daddy Issues NATO chief Mark Rutte this week praised Donald Trump for talking tough to Iran and Israel, publicly commenting, “Daddy sometimes has to use strong language.” Rutte’s fawning is a cringeworthy display of European subservience to Trump.

NATO chief Mark Rutte this week praised Donald Trump for talking tough to Iran and Israel, publicly commenting, “Daddy sometimes has to use strong language.”

Rutte’s fawning is a cringeworthy display of European subservience to Trump.

#landscape
Maserno

YouTube video by TACO: Taming Complexity in Materials Modeling M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano: Metal-CeO2 Interfaces and their Role in Methane Conversion to Fuels

We have new talk videos on our TACO YouTube channel! M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano gave an inspiring colloquium talk entitled "Metal-CeO2 Interfaces and their Role in Methane Conversion to Fuels". The topic is also motivated by tackling man-made climate change. Enjoy!
youtu.be/PwtPRMY_tEM

⚛️ Join us at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Physical Societies in August 2025!

🔬 As a central binational event, this conference will bring together leading experts from all physics disciplines from Austria and Switzerland with young scientists and students.

Attenti a quello che desiderate Trump chiede la resa incondizionata dell’Iran, una pretesa che esclude ogni negoziato e può portare alla degenerazione anche nucleare della guerra con Israele

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Monte Cupolino

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

Congratulations to TACO PhD student Alexander Imre for this big success! He was awarded the ICSOS Young Scientist Prize at last week's ECSCD/ICSOS Conference for convincing the jury with his talk entitled “ViPErLEED and Parameter-Tree-Based Tensor LEED”. 🥳👏

#labnews
Luigi Ranalli has defended his thesis on anharmonic phonons. Congratulations Luigi!
@univie.ac.at
@univie-physik.bsky.social

Thanks to the head of the committee @letigonzalez.bsky.social and to external examiners Ion Errea and Samuel Ponce'

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

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Mediterranean pines

Our medical staff are donating their own blood to provide life-saving treatment for patients in #Gaza.

Patients that were gunned down while trying to get food.

Food for their families.

Food to live.

We need an immediate #ceasefire, now.

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Italy’s citizenship referendum could make the country fairer. It's a miracle it's happening at all | Jamie Mackay For decades, the state has been tightening its rules so that fewer and fewer are eligible. This is a chance for Italians to change the narrative, writes Jamie Mackay

Italy’s citizenship referendum could make the country fairer. It's a miracle it's happening at all | Jamie Mackay

La ricerca è lavoro Oltre 2.000 ricercatrici e professori dell'università hanno firmato in pochi giorni il documento intitolato La ricerca è lavoro: i rapporti di lavoro nella ricerca abbiano diritti e tutele. Il documen...

La ricerca è lavoro

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Intervento del Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella al Concerto in onore del Corpo Diplomatico accreditato presso lo Stato italiano in occasione della Festa della Repubblica
www.quirinale.it/elementi/133...

#labnews

Work on non-linear electron-phonon by Houtput, Ranalli et. al. in collaboration with Antwerpen University and University of Queensland Published in Physical Review B.

@carlaverdi.bsky.social
@uantwerpen.be
@univie.ac.at
@univie-physik.bsky.social

journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...

#landscapes

Su Giudeu, Chia, Sardinia

#LabNews

New publication in @digital-discovery.rsc.org @royalsociety.org by our PhD student Jakob Baumsteiger on #ML for non-collinear spin energies. In cooperation with Todorovic @utu.fi and Rinke @tu-munich.bsky.social

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

MSCA-PF Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Vienna

#MSCA Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2025 – Call now open! 🚨
Are you a #postdoc looking to take the next big step in your #academic journey? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is officially open - and we'd love to welcome you to the University of Vienna! 🏛️
More here: ⤵️

#LabNews
Our paper introducing #LEOPOLD (LEarning Of POlaron Dynamics), a software based on message-passing neural networks, has been published in Physical Review Letters.
@apsphysics.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@univie-physik.bsky.social
@taco-oxides.bsky.social

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

LLMs and World Models, Part 1 How do Large Language Models Make Sense of Their “Worlds”?

open.substack.com/pub/aiguide/...

#LabNews
Congratulations to Viktor Birschitzky for successfully defending his PhD thesis on #ML for polarons at @univie.ac.at

Wonderful @taco-oxides.bsky.social talk given by Julia Wiktor in Vienna today.

@juliawiktor.bsky.social

Research may be increasingly incremental—but studies making lasting paradigm shifts are on the rise New metric identifying “persistently disruptive” papers offers a “bright spot” amid signs of declining innovation

Research may be increasingly incremental—but studies making lasting paradigm shifts are on the rise | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Più fondi, non meno tutele Continua la discussione sul preruolo.  Come tutte le discussioni sull'università, se queste arrivano con continuità ai quotidiani (e ai blog) mainstream, si deve agli interessi concretissimi di alcune...

Migliori condizioni per giovani ricercatori e ricercatrici

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