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Pierpaolo Morgante (He/His)
@piermorgante.bsky.social
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#MachineLearning editor at @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social (@ioppublishing.bsky.social). Theoretical chemist. LEGO fan. #DFT #compchem #chemistry #DogsofCompChem #Quantum
Proud member of #ChemSky
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📍Buffalo, NY
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Now published in @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social, read it here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
May 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I couldn't think of a greater way to start the week: "LLM4Mat-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Materials Property Prediction" (@adjiboussodieng.bsky.social and @jae3goals.bsky.social) is out in #MachineLearningScienceandTechnology 🤩 #EditorsLife
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May 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Today, #25aprile, is a special day. Italians celebrate the anniversary of the #Liberazione. It is my favorite day of the year ❤️
#OhPartigiano
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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On the phone with the gas company for a bill that’s definitely too high: “We use sophisticated #AI models to estimate our customers’ monthly consumption”
Can I recommend reading our #MachineLearningEngineering (@iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social) to make those models better? #EditorsLife
A graph showing my household’s monthly consumption of gas. The letters on the x axis indicate the months of the year (Dec through April), while the y axis (units not shown) is the monthly consumption. Light grey means estimated reading, while dark grey is the actual reading.
April 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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All good things must come to an end ☹️ The #APSGlobalPhysics summit was a blast! Thank you so much to all those that found some time to chat with me. It was so fun! Heading over to my gate, happy to see the 🔴🔵 colors of the #BuffaloBills #GoBills
My badge for the APS Global Physics Summit 2025. Additional items say my pronouns and computer geek
March 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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A packed room for @jenseisert.bsky.social at the #APSGlobalPhysics summit #QuantumScienceandTechnology board members and where to find them (Room 256A) #Quantum
March 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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BlueSky does work!!! Super fun to hang out with @mannodiarun.bsky.social It was such a pleasure to meet you!! #APSGlobalPhysics
March 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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#MachineLearningScienceandTechnology published research at the #APSGlobalPhysics summit in room 204A discussed by Jutta Rogal #MachineLearning (shout-out to @franknoe.bsky.social too ☺️)

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Jutta Rogal presenting her talk, referencing work published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology (MLST)
March 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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#MachineLearningScienceandTechnology board members and where to find them: Marylou Gabrié talking in Room 204A and referencing research published in our journal (and a commentary by @profvlilienfeld.bsky.social) #APSGlobalPhysics #MachineLearning
A picture of Marylou Gabrié (far right) and the session chair (Grant Rotskoff, to her right).
March 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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#MachineLearningScienceandTechnology board members and where to find them: 🔥🔥🔥 talk by @franknoe.bsky.social in room 258B 🤩 #quantumMC #machinelearning
Picture of the first slide of Frank Noé’s talk at the GPS Global Physics Summit
March 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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This year, I’ve been teaching myself how to #crochet. 🧶 I found this online (picture not mine), and I think it is incredibly accurate. Another nice way to celebrate #piday
The picture says 3.14… (the number pi) at the top, while at the bottom it reads ‘The amount of rows we actually mean when we say “one more row”’ (in crochet/knitting)
March 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I usually suck at solving puzzles of this kind, but when I saw this one I couldn’t resist #ChemSky
A picture of a puzzle called ‘The atom’ sitting on my mouse pad, which depicts the periodic table.
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Super excited to celebrate the #InternationalYearofQuantum! Looking forward to all the new stuff I'll read this year! See what's cooking ioppublishing.org/news/iop-pub... and stay up-to-date with the latest research on the #QuantumScienceandTechnology journal iopscience.iop.org/journal/2058...
Celebratory picture for the 'International Year of Quantum Science and Technology' (logo shown on the bottom left). The other logos are of IOP Publishing (top left), the Institute of Physics (IOP, top right), and the Purpose-Led Publishing coalition (bottom right), which also reports our motto 'Science is our only shareholder'
February 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I know this is silly, but I am so happy that ‘The Devil in the Details’, a quirky side-project I thought of while working on #DFT databases with @rpeverati.bsky.social, has reached 100 citations on Google Scholar. I am so proud of this article 😍 Thank you for reading it, folks! #compchem #ChemSky
A screenshot of my Google Scholar page showing the article titled ‘The Devil in the details: A tutorial review on some undervalued aspects of density functional theory calculations’ reaching 100 citations
January 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Thanks to @andrewrosen.bsky.social for sharing! One of the functionals from Chai&Head-Gordon tricked me, but really happy I still got most of them right despite my switch to #MachineLearning #DFT4Ever #compchem Take the quiz at
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The score I got from the DFT quiz. The text says I got 29 correct answers out of 30 Nobel Committee, take note! You’ve got the computational intuition of John Pople mixed with the theoretical precision of Walter Kohn. Your DFT knowledge is so accurate, even correlation functionals are jealous!
January 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This week’s edition of #DogsofCompChem While visiting family for the holidays, Pebbles gets to hang out with Daisy ❤️
My dog, Pebbles (right), laying on a pillow with Daisy (right)
December 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Had a blast at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social, and couldn’t have ended on a higher note than the #ML4PS workshop! Thank you to the organizers, presenters, reviewers, and sponsors. It is a honor and a pleasure to interact with you! Until next time 🥳
A picture of my badge, showing my name and my ‘affiliation’, from the NeurIPS 2024 conference
December 16, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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Time for selfies at the #ML4PS workshop! @kylecranmer.bsky.social @olexandr.bsky.social @Sascha (who is not on BlueSky?)
December 15, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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Borrowing @profvlilienfeld.bsky.social’s signature saying, I am super pumped to be at the #ML4PS workshop representing #MachineLearningScienceandTechnology So many contributions this year!!! Check out the focus collection associated with the workshop iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
December 15, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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A delight to finally meet (in person) the one and only @kylecranmer.bsky.social at #NeurIPS2024 Super excited for the #AI4Mat workshop tomorrow and #MachineLearning for the #PhysicalSciences on Sunday!!! #MachineLearningScienceandTechnology
A selfie of myself (on the left) and Prof. Kyle Cranmer, editor-in-chief of Machine Learning: Science and Technology, an IOP Publishing journal.
December 14, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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This likely shows my age, but oh well 😂

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
The cover of the album 'Enema of the State' by Blink 182, which shows a 'nurse' while putting on a blue glove. Source: Wikipedia
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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I am beyond excited to be at #NeurIPS2024 starting tomorrow! I'll be around if you want to chat about any of the journals in the #MachineLearning series by #IOPPublishing. DM me if you'd like to meet! #EditorsLife
The logos of the four journals that compose the Machine Learning series published by IOP Publishing. Blue logo shows a set of human/robot hands around a neural network (represented by a brain) for Machine Learning: Science and Technology, the flagship publication for machine learning (ML). The other logos have the same set of hands surrounding a heart (Machine Learning: Health, in pink), the planet Earth (Machine Learning: Earth, in green) and a gear (Machine Learning: Engineering, in orange)
December 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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December 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Really nice to be back from the Thanksgiving break and see this amazing work by @benblaiszik.bsky.social published in #MachineLearningScienceandTechnology #IOPPublishing 😍 #EditorsLife
December 2, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Happy turkey day, US tweeps! 🦃 And no better occasion than Thanksgiving to say ‘Go Bills!’ for their game this weekend 🏈🏟️ (no turkey and no buffalo were harmed in my household or to make this post) #ThanksgivingDay2024 #GoBills #WesternNY
A conversare between an American football player of the Buffalo Bills and a turkey dressed as a football player. The player says ‘Gobbles’ and the turkey says ‘Go Bills!’
November 28, 2024 at 1:52 PM