#TIL In late 1993, serial killer Lonnie Franklin, known as The Grim Sleeper, tried to assault world kickboxing champion Fredia Gibbs, but he failed.

#worldkickboxingchampion #grimsleeper #serialkiller #mpi

Today's #news roundup: nitroglycol.blogspot.com/2026/10/news... #Edmonton #Alberta #UCP #zoning #DanielleSmith #MPI #Uber #Lyft #rideshare #fraud #BCConservativeParty #JoachimAgou #AmericanChestnut #datacentres

#TIL The Soviet Union violated Olympic rules by paying athletes full time despite appearing to have regular jobs, enabling them to dominate the Games in the 1970s and 1980s.

#sovietunion #mpi #olympics #olympichistory

On our way to TU Wien, on our way to EuroMPI & IWOMP 2026

#HPC #MPI #OpenMP
@openmp-arb.bsky.social @asc.ac.at @tuwien.at

We had a successful and really productive #MPI_Forum meeting the past two days at @tuwien.at

#MPI #HPC

Saturn sighting – rings, light and Titan in view. Saturn and its largest moon captured through the MPI observatory telescope in Tübingen, Germany, with an iPhone held to the eyepiece. 🪐✨

#Saturn #Titan #Tübingen #MPI #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Telescope #iPhone16Pro #Photography #Fotographia

I've got this image on my phone and on the wall in my office.
#Yellow-leggedHornet #agsky #MPI #HoneyBees #pollination

It's just two more days until EuroMPI & IWOMP 2026

This week #EuroMPI is co-located with #IWOMP and the #MPIforum

Looking forward to amazing keynotes, checkout the program
👉 eurompi.org/program

EuroMPI allows for free remote attendance
👉 eurompi.org/register

#HPC #AI #MPI #OpenMP

I’m happy to host these events at TU Wien the coming week. Hope everyone had/has safe travels to Vienna!

#HPC #MPI #OpenMP
@openmp-arb.bsky.social @asc.ac.at @tuwien.at

This week we'll have three events at one location:

🌟 MPI Forum (5-6 Oct)
mpi-forum.org/meetings/202...

🌟 EuroMPI & IWOMP 2026 (7–9 Oct)
eurompi.org/program
iwomp.org/2026-program

🎯 TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

®️ Resistration open!

#HPC #MPI #OpenMP
@openmp-arb.bsky.social @asc.ac.at @tuwien.at

Indie games trending today

1️⃣ Schedule I
2️⃣ Vampire Survivors
3️⃣ Sheepy: A Short Adventure
4️⃣ Papa's Freezeria Deluxe
5️⃣ Stardew Valley

#stardewvalley #mpi #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegame #gamedev

A large study finds that patients taking Ozempic-like GLP-1 drugs have an 11 times higher risk of vomiting or inhaling stomach contents into the lungs during anesthesia, due to delayed stomach emptying that can leave food behind despite fasting.

#space #research #nes #physics #science #mpi #ane

🎁 FREE 🎊 CompileScope

#mpi #unity #gamedev #gamedevelopment #unity3d #indiedev

#TIL In 4th-century BC Athens, wealthy courtesan Phryne was tried for impiety. She stood before the jury despite pressure to reveal her body, and her lawyer Hypereides argued her beauty couldn’t offend the gods. The jury acquitted her.

#4th #athens #mpi #century

Age of Empires studio World's Edge reportedly lost nearly half their staff and a new game project in mass Xbox layoffs

#newgame #indiedev #gamedevelopment #gamedev #xbox #mpi

Das #MPI-GEA sucht neue Doktrorand*innen im Bereich Past Urban Studies!

www.mpg.de/26919453/phd...

Falls Ihr Interesse an #Anthropozän - historischer Forschung habt, dann kann ich Euch das #MPI-GEA wärmstens empfehlen!

Deadline: 31.10.2026
#DH #DigitalHistory #EnvHist

Revamping the design—new plans, better results—for the retro horror game, as shared in today’s devlog.

#indiedev #horror #mpi #retro #gamedevelopment #gamedev

A developer is writing a C preprocessor for the bgfx shader compiler.

#gamedevelopment #mpi #indiedev #gamedev #shader

Visceral fat, not age, may be a bigger driver of low testosterone, suggesting that reducing abdominal fat, through medications like Ozempic or Wegovy, could more directly address low testosterone than testosterone replacement therapy.

#space #research #mpi #science #physics

🔬 Next in our Nobel Series: 1991 Laureate Bert Sakmann! 🧠

He revolutionized physiology by inventing the patch-clamp technique to measure micro-currents in single cell membranes.

👇Watch the video to learn more!

#Science #Biophysics #MPI