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This swan, on Attenborough Nature reserve, barely moves. It seems to be dying? I think that it's the young one that we called Moriarty because in the winter it used to aggressively mug passers-by for food. The female mallard seemed to be staying with it. We were told to let nature take its course.

Many mainstream media reporters no longer seem to have the morality or incentive to check sources, verify stories or offer retractions when they screw up.
For reporters in nearly every field, Clicks & Scoop > Accuracy & Ethics
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$c_{\rm eff}$ from Resurgence at the Stokes Line
Griffen Adams, Ovidiu Costin, Gerald V. Dunne, Sergei Gukov, O\u{g}uz \"Oner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10112 https://

$c_{\rm eff}$ from Resurgence at the Stokes Line
In recent papers [1,2], a new method to cross the natural boundary has been proposed, and applied to Mordell-Borel integrals arising in the study of Chern-Simons theory, based on decompositions into {\it resurgent cyclic orbits}. Resurgent analysis on the Stokes line leads to a unique transseries decomposition in terms of unary false theta functions, which can be continued across the natural boundary to produce dual $q$-series whose integer-valued coefficients enumerate BPS states. This constit…

🌾 Barley's mosaic origin traced to five wild populations and millennia of human involvement
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-barley-mosaic-wild-populations-millennia.html

Barley's mosaic origin traced to five wild populations and millennia of human involvement
Barley is one of the world's oldest cultivated plants, farmed for more than 10,000 years. Scientists have long believed it was domesticated in just one location. An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has revealed that modern barley has a "mosaic origin," meaning it stems from several wild populations across the Fertile Crescent. The paper is published in the journal Nature.

iX-Redakteurin Madeleine Domogalla zeigt in ihrem Kommentar ein Paradoxon auf dem IT-Arbeitsmarkt: Während überall von Fachkräftemangel die Rede ist, verschwinden ausgerechnet die Einstiegspositionen. 💻
Zum Kommentar: https://heise.de/-10636341?wt_mc=sm.re

Good Morning #Canada
It's Day #10 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming, and today, we visit the cutest little button of a province sitting out in the Atlantic Ocean.
PEI has a total land area of 1.4 million acres and about 42.5% of the total land area (594,324 acres) is farmland. The 2016 Census of Agriculture counted 1,353 farms ranging in size from a couple of acres to 3,000 acres. Bonus points if you can identify the #2 farm crop on PEI.... and it's not potato skins. Beyond the almighty potato, the province has a healthy mix of dairy, barley, oats, wheat, corn, and blueberries. PEI-grown feed-grade cereals and soybeans are primarily fed to livestock on the island and elsewhere in Atlantic Canada and are part of their rigidly controlled crop rotation process. PEI is the only province that has laws governing crop rotation and farm size (individuals 1K acres, corporations 3K acres).
#CanadaIsAwesome #DoYouWantFriesWithThat
https://www.canadaaction.ca/prince-edward-island-agriculture-aquaculture-facts

The White House has seized on two unrelated incidents of street crime
as a pretext for a federal government power grab
at a time when violent crime has in fact dropped across the country.
The attempted carjacking of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine in Washington DC
and a street brawl in Cincinnati
are the latest cause célebrè on the American right,
which has long supported Donald Trump’s plans for military and law enforcement crackdowns in largely Democratic c…

Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating.
Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression.

The joys of genetics x US "healthcare" have caught up to me. Been feeling off a while, sweating more than usual doing stuff, more anxious and irritable than usual, odd hot/cold flash issues. I just thought I wasn't getting enough rest, and our diet isn't the best cause we're barely existing as it is.
Last couple weeks I've picked up some UTI, which has exacerbated my earlier symptoms enough we started digging in trying to figure it out. Partner came across Gr…

AIM 2025 Challenge on Real-World RAW Image Denoising
Feiran Li, Jiacheng Li, Marcos V. Conde, Beril Besbinar, Vlad Hosu, Daisuke Iso, Radu Timofte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06601

AIM 2025 Challenge on Real-World RAW Image Denoising
We introduce the AIM 2025 Real-World RAW Image Denoising Challenge, aiming to advance efficient and effective denoising techniques grounded in data synthesis. The competition is built upon a newly established evaluation benchmark featuring challenging low-light noisy images captured in the wild using five different DSLR cameras. Participants are tasked with developing novel noise synthesis pipelines, network architectures, and training methodologies to achieve high performance across different …

Leveraging Synthetic Data for Question Answering with Multilingual LLMs in the Agricultural Domain
Rishemjit Kaur, Arshdeep Singh Bhankhar, Surangika Ranathunga, Jashanpreet Singh Salh, Sudhir Rajput, Vidhi, Kashish Mahendra, Bhavika Berwal, Ritesh Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16974…

Leveraging Synthetic Data for Question Answering with Multilingual LLMs in the Agricultural Domain
Enabling farmers to access accurate agriculture-related information in their native languages in a timely manner is crucial for the success of the agriculture field. Although large language models (LLMs) can be used to implement Question Answering (QA) systems, simply using publicly available general-purpose LLMs in agriculture typically offer generic advisories, lacking precision in local and multilingual contexts due to insufficient domain-specific training and scarcity of high-quality, regio…