What a crazy week! I was selected to attend the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and had the opportunity to present my work in front of Nobel Laureates. That was scary, but they are amazing people and loved to chat. #LINO75
Annalena Kofler
@annalenakofler.bsky.social
PhD Student at MPI-IS working on ML for Gravitational Waves | #MLforPhysics #SBI https://www.annalenakofler.com
Our paper was published in PRL a few days ago! 😍 Thanks to all the contributors! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Flexible Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation with Transformers
Gravitational-wave data analysis relies on accurate and efficient methods to extract physical information from noisy detector signals, yet the increasing rate and complexity of observations represent ...
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Annalena Kofler@annalenakofler.bsky.social · 8mo ago1/ 🌀 New paper alert! We introduce Dingo-T1, a flexible transformer-based deep learning model for gravitational-wave (GW) data analysis. It adapts to different detector & frequency settings, improving inference efficiency and flexibility 🚀 #AI #MachineLearning #Physics #Astronomy #AcademicSky
"Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered whether there are things out there that we cannot see?" 🌃 If you want to know more, have a look at my blog post. It provides a high-level introduction to our recently accepted paper at PRL! 🥳 is.mpg.de/en/news/deco...
Decoding gravitational waves with machine learning
A research blog post by Annalena Kofler
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Don’t trust LLMs with your literature searches. Horrible gender biases as found in this paper (from later in the thread below) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740 🧪🔭
Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...
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Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
We are recruiting several Early Career Research Group Leaders for Machine Learning in Science (m/f/d; E14 TV-L, 100%) in Tübingen! Open to researchers directly after their PhD or with postdoctoral experience. Application deadline: July 15, 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
The new gravitational wave data is public, this is so exciting! Analyzing so many events is becoming increasingly expensive. That's why we have used DINGO for the first time to support the official LVK analysis. After training the neural networks, you can analyze suitable events over night! 🥳🤩
EGO and the Virgo Collaboration@egovirgo.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe @ligo.org – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events that adds 161 events to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390 🤯
The original brains of computer science were women. Once people started realizing the potential of computers, their contributions were downplayed, their expertise questioned, and their results presented by men. What we see here are the consequences of purposeful discrimination against women...so sad
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo agosometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)
1/ New paper accepted at IGARSS2026: We show how machine learning can extract surface properties of planets like Mars from radar echoes. We replace previously relied upon simplified approaches by a fully uncertainty-aware, probabilistic inference procedure.
Welcome to Germany's AI hub, the one-and-only Tübingen @pierregentine.bsky.social! Congrats on the Humbolt professorship! www.humboldt-foundation.de/entdecken/ne...
Pierre Gentine - Humboldt-Professur 2026
Pierre Gentine ist Pionier und weltweit führend bei der Nutzung von maschinellem Lernen und künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in den Erdsystemwissenschaften. Seine Arbeit trägt wesentlich zur Verbesserung ...
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Wissenschaft.Kunst.BW@mwk-bw.bsky.social · 3mo agoDrei Alexander von Humboldt-Professoren kommen nach #BW. Glückwunsch und herzlich willkommen in THE LÄND! @kit.edu @uni-freiburg.de @unituebingen.bsky.social
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I just came across this cool tool: Ranks of Disparity vis.csh.ac.at/ranks-of-dis... which explores whether applications to a job or conference were evaluated fairly compared to others from different backgrounds. It nicely illustrates why choosing the best candidates is not fair!
Ranks of Disparity
An interactive explainer and tool to understand ranking fairness, detect bias, and explore equitable outcomes using examples or your own data.
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This great blogpost summarizes my own experience where I deleted code that Claude had written for me because I realized that I understood nothing in this file.
Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo agoHey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
This is the first ever detected gravitational wave originating from a black hole merger observed in 2015. In the GIF: • Grey = the actual noisy detector signal • Color = a best-fit simulation • Left = the underlying physics: two simulated black holes spiraling inwards and merging into one
So much fun at the #LVK conference in Pisa. My favorite: An illustration of the first gravitational wave signal observed 10 years ago
Today is international Frauenkampftag ("women-fight-day") how we call it in German to highlight that women have been fighting for equal rights since the 1910s. More than 100 years later, women still have to fight for opportunities and this post is for all of you:
There were so many of us, exactly when these emails were being written, expressly working to undo the harms of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in science. And so many people refused to believe us that any of it was real. It was all real. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”
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The AIP stats team has released its latest data of physics & astronomy PhD trends, with breakdown by gender. What is extraordinary to me is how clearly the overall trends exhibit an important gender dimension, and that that story is quite different between physics and astronomy.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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"Put a single woman in a group of men and she will feel awkward. Put a single man in a group of women and he will feel in charge." @athenedonald.bsky.social occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...
She’s a Feisty Little Thing! | Athene Donald's Blog
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NASA will contribute 80.5 mio. USD to the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA! 🥳
Leigh Fletcher@leighfletcher.bsky.social · 7mo agoGood write-up from @planetarysociety.bsky.social on the budget bill that passed Congress, explaining what space science has gained and lost, and which projects appear to be funded for FY26 (including Uranus, HabWorlds, & contributions to international missions). www.planetary.org/articles/adv...
📢We’re hiring: W3-Professorship in Machine Learning in Physics @unituebingen.bsky.social! What we’re looking for: Established research profile in a core area of #physics (condensedmatter, quantum or theoretical particle physics), strong track record in research questions related to #ML and/or #AI.
"Women’s contributions to science are systematically undervalued until an external stamp of approval counteracts the negative effect of gender stereotypes on how their work is perceived." Perfectly summarizes why we need more awards for women #WomeninPhysics
Aaron Clauset@aaronclauset.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn addition our our article, the editors at @natphys.nature.com provide some complementary commentary on the implications of our findings for physics www.nature.com/articles/s41... /fin
Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The comedy wildlife photo awards 2025 have been published and I couldn't resist #meme #science #academicsky
New paper led by @annalenakofler.bsky.social: Extending our gravitational wave SBI code Dingo using transformers, making it adaptable to realistic data conditions and boosting performance. Congrats Annalena – a lot of hard work went into this and it produced excellent results! Great poster too!
Annalena Kofler@annalenakofler.bsky.social · 8mo ago1/ 🌀 New paper alert! We introduce Dingo-T1, a flexible transformer-based deep learning model for gravitational-wave (GW) data analysis. It adapts to different detector & frequency settings, improving inference efficiency and flexibility 🚀 #AI #MachineLearning #Physics #Astronomy #AcademicSky
When #scholarinbox accurately predicts that you might be interested in your own paper 😍 #AIinTuebingen
