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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jul 3

Inspiring week in Zaragoza @Zcam workshop

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107th Workshop IUVSTA-ZCAM-UNIZAR Oxides for Energy Applications: Bridging Experiment and Theory to Understand Functionality – ZCAM

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Inverse Complexity Lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de · Jun 29

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!

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”

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 29

Against Humanity

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#gaza

‘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

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

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.

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 26

#landscape
Maserno

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TACO: Taming Complexity in Materials Modeling @taco-oxides.bsky.social · Jun 24

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!
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M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano: Metal-CeO2 Interfaces and their Role in Methane Conversion to Fuels

YouTube video by TACO: Taming Complexity in Materials Modeling

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Apr 4

⚛️ 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.

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 19

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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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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 14

#landscape
Monte Cupolino

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 14

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

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TACO: Taming Complexity in Materials Modeling @taco-oxides.bsky.social · Jun 13

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”. 🥳👏

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 12

#labnews
Luigi Ranalli has defended his thesis on anharmonic phonons. Congratulations Luigi!
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Thanks to the head of the committee @letigonzalez.bsky.social and to external examiners Ion Errea and Samuel Ponce'

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows

Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 6

#landscape

Mediterranean pines

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · Jun 5

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.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · Apr 4

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.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 5

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

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 4

La ricerca è lavoro

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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...

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Mario Seminerio @phastidio.net · Jun 1

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
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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 2

#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.

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First-principles theory of nonlinear long-range electron-phonon interaction

Describing electron-phonon interactions in a solid requires knowledge of the electron-phonon matrix elements in the Hamiltonian. State-of-the-art first-principles calculations for the electron-phonon ...

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · Jun 1

#landscapes

Su Giudeu, Chia, Sardinia

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · May 29

#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

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · May 28

#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: ⤵️

MSCA-PF

Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Vienna

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Cesare Franchini @cesarefranchini.bsky.social · May 28

#LabNews
Our paper introducing #LEOPOLD (LEarning Of POlaron Dynamics), a software based on message-passing neural networks, has been published in Physical Review Letters.
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Machine Learning Small Polaron Dynamics

Polarons are crucial for charge transport in semiconductors, significantly impacting material properties and device performance. The dynamics of small polarons can be investigated using first-principl...

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