📢 We are hiring!

⚛️ We are looking for a PostDoc in Dark Matter Theory and Physics beyond the Standard Model (full-time)

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You can apply here -> lnkd.in/dUAC76ZG

was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil.

Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...

A brief tribute to Bill Bardeen.

RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.

Human head made of data nodes symbolizing AI.

🧪 Workshop: Machine-Learning Assisted Image Reconstruction

Join us on Tue, Nov 25, 2025, at the PSK Building (5th floor, Seminar Rooms 7 & 8) for a hands-on look at state-of-the-art image reconstruction methods.

🔗 Info, speakers & registration: indico.global/event/15466/

📢𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: Postdoc position(s) in 𝐀𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 focusing on either 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 or 𝐀𝐈-𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲.
🏙️Join my new group at 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡, based in 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚!
🗓️ Reviews begin sooner, deadline: 𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫
💬 Questions: Reach out!
🔗 inspirehep.net/jobs/2962185

From the Beginning at the Big Bang all the way to today's inauguration.

"Atoms, Accelerators, and Astroparticles:
Charting the Future of Fundamental Physics in Vienna"

Joachim Kopp celebrates the Science we do at the Marietta Blau Institute

Today we are celebrating the inauguration of our new institute: The Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics!

#OeAW #MariettaBlauInstitute #Particle #Physics

Colorful digital illustration of people networking at an event, with text announcing the MLA2S Networking Seminar #07 on November 18 at 1 PM.

AI 🤖 x Science 🔬
Join the 7th MLA2S seminar “Make it (net)work!”
📅 Nov 18, 1 PM | 📍 PSK Building
Talks + snacks + drinks 🍪🥂 Infos and registration 👉 bit.ly/4nTupyo

And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–

Next Friday we are celebrating the inauguration of the Marietta Blau Institute for Particly Physics! 🤩 🥳

🖍️ Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s the time!
➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/mbi/veransta...

I'm sure Georges Aad will be happy 😉

🌌 Dark Matter Day 2025 @WUK, Vienna 🌌

🧐What if most of the Universe is invisible?

Join us on Oct 31st, 7–9 PM for talks about dark matter with researchers from MBI (ÖAW).

Discover why what we can’t see might be the most important part of the cosmos. ✨
#DarkMatterDay #Vienna #ÖAW

A young woman with long brown hair sits at an outdoor café table, smiling softly at the camera.

A young woman in a gray sweater and jeans stands smiling on a platform with metal railings, in front of long arms of a scientific observatory building extending into the distance under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

Meet Ulyana Dupletsa, postdoc at HEPHY in Vienna 🌍
She developed key tools for ET performance studies and now helps coordinate science case analyses.
💬 “It’s inspiring to be part of a community shaping the future of gravitational-wave astronomy.”
#ET_young #ResearchInfrastructures #ET_women

I have experience with slack, zulip, and mattermost for that purpose

Praedoc (Diss) (F/M/X) for Physics Analysis with the CMS experiment OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...

The #CMS group at the #MBI #Vienna is looking for a PhD student, to be working on top quark analyses and SMEFT interpretations with #ML techniques.
My office will be next door as well 😉

Check out oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/m636onvh...

💥 MBI was founded in September from the merger of ÖAW institutes SMI & HEPHY — now the largest center for experimental and theoretical physics with 100+ employees! 🎉 Join us for the MBI inauguration party on November 7, 2025!

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

1/🧵

Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics The European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) reflects the vision and presents concrete plans of the European particle physics community for advancing human knowledge in fundamental physics. The E...

The "Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics" is out. A summary of the 266 inputs to the strategy. All ambitions for future High-Energy Physics research are described here.

cds.cern.ch/record/2944678
#ESPPU #ESPP

- – — just tested what my phone can do when I hold the - key down longer... I wasn't aware it could do this, thanks for asking here

For folks considering grad school in ML, my advice is to explore programs that mix ML with a domain interest. ML programs are wildly oversubscribed while a lot of the fun right now is in figuring out what you can do with it

Kyle Cranmer and Rich Sutton at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 16, 2025.

Is scale all you need? Or is there still a role for incorporating domain knowledge and inductive bias? While I was in Heidelberg, I took some time to write a short essay on this question called "The Bittersweet Lesson".
theoryandpractice.org/2025/09/The%... #HLF25

Now published in Phys. Rev. D

doi.org/10.1103/zwzt...

I've been a bit silent here for the past weeks, but only because I was busy with other stuff.

Let's start with the biggest news:

HEPHY and SMI merged to form the 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐮 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 (MBI Vienna)!

University of Innsbruck has opened Austria’s first nationwide call for early access to #QuantumComputing resources!

Application open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions.
System: IBEX from AQT
Deadline: 13 October 2025
Learn more: www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...

Am I the only one around here wondering why the degrees are off?

At 270°, the screen is almost vertical (90° to keyboard).

At 90°, it is halfway closed (45° to keyboard).

That doesn't seem right....

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single water molecule than there are stars in the entire solar system...

🙄🤯

Tried it at lunch, no one got it "right"

Almost ;-)

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.