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Mario Krenn @mariokrenn.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · 14d

The bitter lesson strikes again…

Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 14d

iFold, sorry, SimpleFold, by Apple

arxiv.org/html/2509.18...

SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think

arxiv.org

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · 20d

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!

Baran Hashemi @rythian47.bsky.social · 20d

We got accepted at #NeurIPS2025. I am very happy that I could merge my knowledge of Mathematics with AI to create sth new and useful for the community. ☺️

The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17190
The code: github.com/Baran-phys/T...

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · 23d

You’ll love this www.shellcheck.net

ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool

ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scripts

www.shellcheck.net

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Keenan Crane @keenancrane.bsky.social · 27d

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/

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 29d

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

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · Aug 20

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...

Lessons from LEP – CERN Courier

The Large Electron Positron collider changed particle physics forever. As the field eyes up the next major collider, former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper describes what it took to make LEP…

cerncourier.com

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 5

@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/

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 4

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 4

Thanks @glouppe.bsky.social especially also for your feedback during the preparation phase 🙏

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 4

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!

Technische Universität München @tum.de · Sep 4

Congratulations to six of our #researchers, including Lukas Heinrich, who receive prestigious ERC #StartingGrants worth up to 1.5 million euros each for projects in #informatics, #medicine, #LifeSciences & #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/682017 👏

#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

📷A.Eckert

Six ERC Starting Grants for researchers at TUM

Six further researchers at TUM are to receive the prestigious ERC Starting Grants for their projects.

go.tum.de

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 3

2/ the behavior (e.g. is 2nd descent better 1st?) strongly depends on the details . Recently HEP has been pushing on scaling our models and understanding these types of phenomena from a deep learning theory perspective would be great! It’d be great to connect to some CS folks on this.

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 3

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:

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Aug 10

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

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Aug 10

Today's discourse on "LLMs can't be doing anything, they're just matrix multiplies" could benefit from a read of "More is Different"
www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TK...

www.tkm.kit.edu

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Eli Weinstein @eliweinstein.bsky.social · Jul 24

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...

PhD scholarship in Machine Learning for Molecules - DTU Chemistry

Advance large scale data generation for chemical and biological AI in a 3 year PhD. Work on the frontier of active learning, and develop novel probabilistic machine learning techniques for experiment ...

efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Jul 16

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!

ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · Jul 16

Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2

Formulas and numbers from the field of machine learning written in white chalk on a blackboard

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Jul 9

Always love being back at @cern.bsky.social

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Jul 9

One of my favourites when teaching version control - strong recommend

Gudrun Lotze @gudrunlotze.bsky.social · Jul 9

Interested in #git, version control (yes, even for LaTeX files 😄), and #reproducibility? Try out #OhMyGit!, a fun and educational game for all scientists and coders.
Great for students, researchers, and anyone who wants to level up their Git skills
🔗 ohmygit.org
#academicsky #deRSE #OpenScience

Oh My Git!

An open source game about learning Git

ohmygit.org

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Aishik Ghosh @aishikghosh.bsky.social · Jul 4

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/

PHYSTAT-SBI 2024 - Simulation Based Inference in Fundamental Physics

Fueled by the recent advances of Machine Learning in the last decade, a new breed of techniques have been developed to tackle statistical inference problems for "likelihood-free" cases, where it is po...

indico.cern.ch

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Ben Schumann @drglycoben.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

Ben Schumann @drglycoben.bsky.social · Jun 26

🥳 Thrilled to share that I am starting a new position as W3 Full Professor of Biochemistry at @tudresden.bsky.social. From Aug 2025, the Chemical Glycobiology Lab will continue our mission to generate Chemical Precision Tools for #glycotime in one the most beautiful places in Germany 😊

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Jun 24

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.

Aishik Ghosh @aishikghosh.bsky.social · Jun 23

Some happy news — I’ve accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech! My group will work at the intersection of AI and fundamental physics & astrophysics. GT is making massive investments in these directions, and I’m hiring a postdoc — more soon!

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Jun 21

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

First images of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will publish its first images on 23 June 2025 and will in future explore dark matter and dark energy as well as distant galaxies, supernovae and active centres of galaxie...

www.mpg.de

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