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Cloudflare plans a shift from a "pay-per-crawl" to a "pay-per-use" model, and blocking AI bots creates "reliable scarcity" that is fuelling publisher AI deals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/c

Cloudflare says bot blocking is fuelling publisher AI deals
Chief strategy officer on scarcity leading to licensing deals, and move to "pay-per-use".

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.08.743555v1 "We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats", "animals could efficiently employ active sen…

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict
When sensory modalities yield conflicting information, animals must rapidly reassess stimuli to select their actions. We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats by fitting animals with prisms that shifted the perceived visual location of a landing perch while echoes returned from its veridical location. Bats that course-corrected within a single goal-directed flight did so by decoupling sonar gaze from steering, to enable rapid reweighting of visual and …

Last minute best bets for NFL Week 1: Three underdogs are live, including C.J. Stroud and the Texans

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/last-minute-best-bets-for-nfl-week-1/

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-2.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

Dutch gas storages: First, the Netherlands made an EU commitment to reach 74% of capacity before winter and it set itself a target of 80%. But filling progressed much too slowly to reach that and now, just before the end of the filling season, the target is lowered to 64%.
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Minder energiezekerheid deze winter: kabinet gaat gasvoorraad minder vullen
Nederland heeft deze winter minder gas in de strategische voorraden zitten dan gepland. Het kabinet stelt het zogenoemde vuldoel naar beneden bij 'om te voorkomen dat de gasprijs verder wordt opgedreven'. Bij een kouder dan gemiddelde winter, of problemen met de aanvoer, kan dat penibel worden.

Top ten bits of advice for new conference speakers.
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Advice for new speakers
Someone messaged me recently to say he had just been selected for his first-ever conference talk, and since the talks of mine he'd seen in the past were so inspiring he wanted to know if I had any advice for new speakers. Since flattery will often get you somewhere, I offered the following advice. I figure it's generic enough that I should share it more widely. :-)

We were up on the dunes last night, and the bats came out to play. The speed with which they changed direction is breathtaking. I tried to video, and it's beyond the capabilities of my phone, in the dark, but here is a tiny clip of the wheeling flying mice! #bats #nature

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-2.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

Does anybody happen to have access to the following two articles?
Sedelow and Sedelow (1978/1979). Formalized historiography, the structure of scientific and literary texts.
Part I: https://doi.org/bt9kxq
Part II:

The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)