High resolution map of local Galactic dust made from Gaia data by my student Reimar Leike. Surprising: the local superbubble looks (black) like after a Swabian broom day, no hint of dust anywhere there! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1901.05971 Video: youtu.be/UkdpdBd1TaA

A small correction, the NIFTy5 documentation can (now) be found here: ift.pages.mpcdf.de/nifty/

A smart comment on being over exited about having fitted some data in #AI or elsewhere: Real numbers, data science and chaos: How to fit any dataset with a single parameter Laurent Boué arxiv.org/abs/1904.12320

Of harps, Christmas trees, a wandering star and the mysterious streams of cosmic rays mpa-garching.mpg.de/786348/news201…

artificial intelligence combined mpa-garching.mpg.de/800034/hl202002

𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙠 - 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙙 The Planck legacy publications appeared today: aanda.org/articles/aa/ab… Also, last Planck editorial board meeting today For me: 16 years of collaboration work, 10 years editorial work, good science, and a very nice final picture:

Do US Corona virus spread and election pattern correlate?

Sources of my last tweet: US Covid-19 map from Nov 6th 2020: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra… US election pattern from Nov 6th 2020: edition.cnn.com/election/2020/…

Interesting!

geoVI: Our novel information geometry based variational inference scheme for very high dimensional Bayesian data analysis problems, arxiv.org/abs/2105.10470 #DataScience

Black hole as video: M87* in time, space and frequency mpa-garching.mpg.de/1029092/hl2022…

A fresh look at the gamma ray sky: arxiv.org/abs/2204.09360

Manipulative communication in humans and machines: Our work using agent-based simulations to understand certain socio-psychological phenomena, such as echo chambers, self-deception, camp formation, social moods, symbiosis of rogues, ... mpa-garching.mpg.de/1075123/hl2023…

📣Just published: "Simulating Reputation Dynamics and Their Manipulation: An Agent Based Model Framework", with great thanks to the authors Torsten Ensslin, Viktoria Kainz, and Céline Bœhm 🇪🇺. Available now: aup-online.com/content/journa…

This mathematical tool could improve how fast information is shared advancedsciencenews.com/this-mathemati…

It's not an April joke! x.com/maxplanckpress…