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Week 1 NFL Power Rankings: Eagles on top, but Packers eke closer with Micah Parsons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6586135/2025/09/02/nfl-power-rankings-week-1-eagles-packers/

"Moldova heads to the polls in tense vote that could steer country closer to EU or Russia"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/28/moldova-heads-to-the-polls-in-tense-vote-that-could-steer-country-close…

To Share, or Not to Share: A Study on GEO-LEO Systems for IoT Services with Random Access
Marcel Grec, Federico Clazzer, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Andrea Munari, Gianluigi Liva, Petar Popovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01506

To Share, or Not to Share: A Study on GEO-LEO Systems for IoT Services with Random Access
The increasing number of satellite deployments, both in the low and geostationary Earth orbit exacerbates the already ongoing scarcity of wireless resources when targeting ubiquitous connectivity. For the aim of supporting a massive number of IoT devices characterized by bursty traffic and modern variants of random access, we pose the following question: Should competing satellite operators share spectrum resources or is an exclusive allocation preferable? This question is addressed by devising…

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From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed northbound for a night
Closure necessary for repaving work near bridge deck in New Westminster
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed to vehicle traffic travelling northbound into New Westminster for one night, due to construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closure will take place overnight on the following date:
Thursday, October 30 (9 pm to 5am)
Southbound travel into Surrey & nb peds…

The Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.

Dynamics from iterated averaging
Tobias Fritz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21416

Dynamics from iterated averaging
We prove that for a standard Lebesgue space $X$, the strong operator closure of the semigroup generated by conditional expectations on $L^\infty(X)$ contains the group of measure-preserving automorphisms. This is based on a solution to the following puzzle: given $n$ full water tanks, each containing one unit of water, and $n$ empty ones, how much water can be transferred from the full tanks to the empty ones by repeatedly equilibrating the water levels between pairs of tanks?

In other exciting news, GitHub Classrooms is now repeatedly failing to import an assignment from a previous semester. Every time it fails, every few minutes, it generates a new repo in my org for the same assignment. Lovely.
There is AFAICT no way to cancel the import.

Mathematics education research must be useful for the classroom
Anthony A. Essien, Tanya Evans, Maitree Inprasitha, Salome Martinez Salanzar, Demetra Pitta-Pantazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14433

Mathematics education research must be useful for the classroom
The theme of the PME-48 conference, Making sure that mathematics education research reaches the classroom, highlights a key concern: not all mathematics education research informs classroom practice. This raises several fundamental questions: Which research fails to reach the classroom? Why? And should all research be expected to do so? Accordingly, it is fitting that the plenary panel engages with these important issues by debating the following motion: Mathematics education research must be u…