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Annalena Kofler
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PhD Student at MPI-IS working on ML for Gravitational Waves | #MLforPhysics #SBI
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Annalena Kofler @annalenakofler.bsky.social · Nov 16
If you're interested in #MLforGWs, here's a poster on #DINGO.
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physgal.bsky.social
Dear Physicists and Physics fans,

I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.

Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬
WOMEN IN PHYSICS DAY! In honor of the pioneering women in physics who broke down barriers to do what they love, we celebrate Women in Physics Day on November 7th, the birthdate of both Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. Marie Skrodowska-Curie (1867-1934) Radioactivity pioneer, two-time Nobel laureate A giant of science, Marie Sktodowska-Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, a term she coined. She discovered two elements, founded two medical research centres, won two Nobels, and invented mobile X-ray units (dubbed petites Curies), saving countless lives in World War Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Nuclear physicist When Lise Meitner was a teen, Austria restricted female higher education. She pursued physics anyway, and 25 years later became the first woman in Germany to hold a professorship in physics. She helped discover nuclear fission, but was contentiously not awarded the 1944 Nobel alongside collaborator Otto Hahn. NOVEMBER 7TH
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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ellisinsttue.bsky.social
🚀 The new call for Principal Investigators as Hector Endowed Fellows at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen is now open!
These positions offer the exciting possibility of co-appointments with the @mpi-is.bsky.social and the @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social .

📌 Apply here: institute-tue.ellis.eu/en/jobs/PI-c...
Principal Investigator Positions (m/f/d) as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen
institute-tue.ellis.eu
October 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the first gravitational wave detection, I made a tutorial for high school students that explains how to use python to visualize the original gravitational wave data of GW150914. (Tested and approved by a very motivated German 10th grade student 😄)
#GW10Years
September 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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gravitycardiff.bsky.social
Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves by @ligo.org 🎉 Research by members of the Gravity Exploration Institute in Cardiff helped lay the foundation for that detection, which opened an exciting new window to the universe. Read more about it here:
A decade of discovery: Academics celebrate 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves amid announcement of exciting new breakthrough
Scientists celebrate anniversary and tests of Stephen Hawking's black hole area theorem
www.cardiff.ac.uk
September 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
This is so exciting! Congratulations! @lukasheinrich.com
lukasheinrich.com 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!
tum.de 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
September 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Really cool workshop! I loved giving a talk and discussing SBI!
lukasheinrich.com 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/
September 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Hahaha, our newly found heaviest black hole GW231123 would love this meme 😂
#lvk #ligo #GW231123 #physics #meme
spicedrum.bsky.social Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · Jan 25
without downloading new pics where are you at mentally
July 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
The normalizing flows paper is my personal test-of-time award. It is still the go-to architecture in simulation-based inference and ML for physics. 🙃
#AI4science #ML4physics #MachineLearning #ICML
csprofkgd.bsky.social Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Jul 15
#ICML2025 test of time award
July 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Machine learning is becoming a collaborational field like particle physics. ATLAS = Google Gemini Team?
hardmaru.bsky.social hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · Jul 13
Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper has 3295 authors

arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261
July 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Amazing and fun idea!
uofglasgow.bsky.social University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social · Jul 11
Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.

More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q

#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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amydiehl.bsky.social
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
"I’m certainly, as far as I know, the only out trans person, that was both tenured and chair of the [physics] department."
astrobites.org/2025/06/27/m...
Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Dr. Megan Pickett
For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Megan Pickett, an Associate Professor of Physics at Lawerence University!
astrobites.org
June 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
One of the most useful webpages! Can recommend!
June 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Annalena Kofler
ligo.org
Why are there two LIGO observatories?

LIGO has two detectors ~3000 km apart for three main reasons:
🎧 Noise discrimination
⏰ Signal timing
🗺️ Source localization

Find out more www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligo-de...

Graphic by Mayara Pacheco 🔭🧪
An infographic titled "Why are there two LIGO observatories?" features a map of the United States showing two LIGO locations separated by 3000 km. Three key reasons are illustrated on the right: Noise Discrimination: Each detector is sensitive to local ground vibrations. If both were close together, they’d pick up the same environmental noise, making it difficult to distinguish true gravitational waves. By comparing data from distant locations, LIGO can filter out local noise and isolate real gravitational wave signals. Signal Timing: Gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, so any signal detected at both sites with a time difference of over 10 milliseconds can be ruled out as a real wave. This time-based filtering helps validate detections. Source Localization: With two detectors, LIGO can begin to narrow down the area in the sky where a wave originated. Adding more detectors (like Virgo in Italy) greatly improves localization. This was crucial during the 2017 detection of a neutron star collision, where combined data allowed astronomers to quickly identify the galaxy that emitted both gravitational and electromagnetic signals, leading to the most observed astronomical event in history.
June 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
And a zero for LISA? This mission would open a window into the universe via gravitational waves that we have never observed before! This might be stunning discoveries, impressive engineering, and Nobel Prize worthy results.
leighfletcher.bsky.social Leigh Fletcher @leighfletcher.bsky.social · May 30
ESA folks finding zeroes for ExoMars, EnVision, Euclid, LISA, Ariel contributions, and so many more in those documents... the damage to international partnerships and trust would be incalculable if this budget proposal comes to pass...
May 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Two LIGO sites are essential for independently validating observed gravitational wave signals. Without the second site, we can't constrain the sky position well enough for electromagnetic follow-up searches of binary neutron star mergers. This would be devastating for the whole field ...
dangaristo.bsky.social Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 30
NSF budget would close down one of LIGO's sites. This would be, to put it lightly, a catastrophe for gravitational wave astronomy.

"In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two sites
and will support a reduced level for technology development."
bsky.app/profile/hast...
May 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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francois-rozet.bsky.social
📢 I am looking for AI post-doc/research/engineer positions in Europe (Paris, London, Zurich, ...) starting 2026. My work revolves around generative modeling and AI for Science, with 4+ publications at top conferences during my PhD. If you are hiring, please reach out! If not, please repost 🔁
May 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Wuhuu!
ml4science.bsky.social ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · May 22
We're super happy: Our Cluster of Excellence will continue to receive funding from the German Research Foundation @dfg.de ! Here’s to 7 more years of exciting research at the intersection of #machinelearning and science! Find out more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #ExcellenceStrategy
The members of the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" raise their glasses and celebrate securing another funding period.
May 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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mackelab.bsky.social
🎓Hiring now! 🧠 Join us at the exciting intersection of ML and Neuroscience! #AI4science
We’re looking for PhDs, Postdocs and Scientific Programmers that want to use deep learning to build, optimize and study mechanistic models of neural computations. Full details: www.mackelab.org/jobs/ 1/5
Jobs - mackelab
The MackeLab is a research group at the Excellence Cluster Machine Learning at Tübingen University!
www.mackelab.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Have you wondered how to make plotting more fun?
Astrophysicists are there to help you out: Use pastamarker!
Two moons dataset plotted with different pasta types (cavatappi, farfalline, tortiglioni, tortellini).
April 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
That's me when a new #LIGO event comes in: "Jippieh, we smashed two more black holes!"
March 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
If you're wondering what you can do: This article is 100% relevant today www.theguardian.com/science/occa...
March 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
Amazing work, check this out!
jakhmack.bsky.social Jakob Macke @jakhmack.bsky.social · Mar 6
Amidst all this chaos, a big day for simulation-based inference #SBI, thanks to @maximiliandax.bsky.social + @stephenrgreen.bsky.social et al: SBI for rapid identification of binary neutron star mergers-- even ahead of time, could be used to alert observatories!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
If you're looking for an insight into how things are going at NASA since Trump's regime started attacking it, here's astronomer & NASA employee Rose Ferreira on Threads.

(Her now-removed interview is archived here at the Wayback Machine and it's well worth a read: web.archive.org/web/20231206... )
A post on Meta's Threads from astronomer Rose Ferreira, which reads: "Well, my bio just got removed from the NASA site because of an order that went out to remove stuff about women in STEM. I've only been on Threads for a full year, so a lot of people here never heard of a feature that NASA did on me talking about my love of the Moon, how I grew up in poverty, then my homelessness in the US, and then me being at NASA itself. That's how easy it is to erase you as a person, and everything you've done. I'm not even sure how I feel right now."
February 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
annalenakofler.bsky.social
How long is "recently" in #ML? 2 month?
January 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM