If you're European, you now have a great and well-funded PDS in EU soil, governed by EU laws, run by awesome folks. Moving your account to Eurosky is easy, and you won't notice the difference afterwards. Please take a few minutes and do the jump 🇪🇺

What a day! Did we mention that today was the day we removed invites from Eurosky accounts? Anyone can create an account straight away.

WOW!! Peter Magyar, just now:

"Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated us on our victory over the phone."

A very early electron microscope in McGill University's MacPherson collection museum.
www.physics.mcgill.ca/museum/mcphe...

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

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French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC: • Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards • I cannot make any purchases • I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal • Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated • A colleague told me my name won't be removed from the blacklist until Trump's term ends • Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded

Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelace’s contributions to

For International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting the contributions of just a few EFF Award recipients from the last decade, whose work to protect privacy, speech, and creativity online has had a global impact.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Cartoon illustration featuring a man running towards a bicycle encased in a glass box. Over the box is a giant hammer and a sign that says, "In case of rising gas prices break glass."

You know what to do

A photograph of a microscope pole piece

A rare view directly into the pole piece of a scanning transmission electron microscope during our instrument upgrade. #microscopy #science #physics

Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net has arrived!

Ich bin so alt dass ich mich noch daran erinnere, dass bei einem Krieg über die Zerstörung und die Opfer berichtet wurde, und nicht über die Probleme für die Reisebüros.

Today is the day of Kullervo! The archetypal Finnish hero has his tribe slaughtered. As a slave child, his owners try to hang, burn & drown him. When he grows up, he sleeps with his sister who drowns herself in horror. He asks his magical sword would it drink his blood & the sword says yes. It does

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Kidical Mass Vienna rolls out on May 9, 2026 🚲 A family-friendly bike ride advocating safe cycling infrastructure and child-friendly streets. Join the movement for protected bike lanes, safer intersections, and a city where children can ride safely and independently. www.kidicalmass.at/wien

A photograph of two cyclists on a road with a meadow in the background and a blue sky above.

Nothing better than a long bike ride to celebrate the return of the sun after many weeks with gray skies. 🌞🚴‍♀️ #cycling #vienna #tulln #wienerwald

Of course. The only reasonable course of action

Eine tolle Veranstaltung! Vielen Dank, @fwf-at.bsky.social

Today is the 👩‍🔬International Day of Women and Girls in Science🔬

This UN-established day promotes gender equality in science fields.

Many of the scientists from our Faculty have joined to give a clear message to all interested girls and young women:

⚛JOIN TEAM SCIENCE!👩🏽‍💻

🔗 a29.at/Q50Zsl

I honestly had thought that pedophilia was a rare disorder and not something that an entire class of rich people liked to pursue and email each other about it from work accounts.

A photograph of an ICE train arriving in Vienna Meidling station.

Traveling for work again, from #Vienna to #Duisburg. This time to the University Duisburg-Essen for a seminar talk. By #train, of course.

⚛️🎓 E-STEEM: Empowering women in STEM and Economics!

🗓️ Applications open from 7 January to 2 March 2026 at 2:00 p.m. CET
👩🏻‍🏫 Start of employment: October 2026

🔗 Info and application: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

© Ian Ehm

#Empowerment #WomenInSTEM #OpenPositions #PostDoc #FemaleResearcher

A photograph showing frozen Danube and a pedestrian drawbridge under an overcast sky.

Danube is still partly frozen, but the streets are clear of ice after this week's rain and above-zero temperatures. #Cycling is good again in #Vienna 🚴‍♀️

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

🏆🎊 Times Higher Education Ranking: @univie.ac.at with 6 subjects among the top 100 worldwide!

Alongside four other subjects, Physical Science has improved since last year, entering the top 100 at rank 95 (2025: 101–125).

🔗 More info: www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

📸: © Ian Ehm

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

So glad this is being used in schools and universities.

It's finally the year of Linux on the desktop, and all it took was the end of the rules-based international order

I am surprised how many people in Europe have difficulties seeing the only sane choice, but I am probably biased as a Finn.

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🌍 Can we energy transition the world into carbon neutrality?⚡️

Join our University of Vienna Physics Colloquiums next Monday.

🗣️ Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (CEU, Austria)
🗓️Monday, 19. January 2026 13:30
📍 Lise-Meitner-Hörsaal, Strudlhofgasse 4
🔗 a29.at/OEqjG8
#physics #Vienna #climatechange #energy