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Today I had to go to the dentist, to have a filling replaced. My dentist is a small young woman from Glasgow, very competent, who chats cheerily through the whole procedure.
But I was thinking of @… , a poet from #Gaza who wants to be a dentist, and wh…

Urgent help for Ahmed's family
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.

Trying to find a way to elegantly portmanteau-mangle together “Liquid Glass” and “fiasco”…
Liquid Fiass
Liquid Figlassco
Liquid Gliassco
…and failing

Morse sequences on stacks and flooding sequences
Gilles Bertrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01384 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01384

Morse sequences on stacks and flooding sequences
This paper builds upon the framework of \emph{Morse sequences}, a simple and effective approach to discrete Morse theory. A Morse sequence on a simplicial complex consists of a sequence of nested subcomplexes generated by expansions and fillings-two operations originally introduced by Whitehead. Expansions preserve homotopy, while fillings introduce critical simplexes that capture essential topological features. We extend the notion of Morse sequences to \emph{stacks}, which are monotonic funct…

Brian Schottenheimer says his goals "haven't changed" after Micah Parsons trade https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-says-his-goals-haven-t-changed-after-micah-parsons-trade

Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation
Alejandro Ben\'itez-Llambay, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye, Alexander J. Richings, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, James W. Trayford, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Hu\v{s}ko, Camila Correa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25309

Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation
We present the implementation and testing of a subgrid non-explosive pre-supernova (NEPS) feedback module for the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation. The NEPS module incorporates three key physical processes sourced by young, massive stars that act immediately following star formation: momentum injection from stellar winds and radiation pressure, and thermal energy from photoheating in HII regions. The age- and metallicity-dependent energy and momentum budgets are derived from BPASS stellar popu…

Felonious Stunk
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: don't make me go to gulag.
#satire #potus45

Brian Schottenheimer says his goals "haven't changed" after Micah Parsons trade https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-says-his-goals-haven-t-changed-after-micah-parsons-trade

Galois theory by calculator
Thomas W. Mattman, Robertson-Figaniak, Zoe Steele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18595

Galois theory by calculator
We present an algorithm to determine the Galois group of an irreducible monic polynomial $f(x) \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ of degree at most five. Following work of Conrad, Dummit, and Stauduhar this comes down to answering two questions: Is a given integer a square? and Does a given polynomial have an integral root? Since these are both easily addressed with a calculator, our algorithm amounts to Galois theory by calculator. For example, we have an implementation at Desmos.com. In an appendix we presen…

@… draw for me an absurd photo realistic image of a happy clown floating on its back in a pool filled with ghools, skulls and other scary things. Put one happy family beside a withc in the beach beds around the pool. The feeling is dystopic with worn out houses in the background.

The Connection between Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and the First Massive Quenched Galaxies
Pablo Araya-Araya, Rachel K. Cochrane, Laerte Sodr\'e Jr., Robert M. Yates, Christopher C. Hayward, Marcel P. van Daalen, Marcelo C. Vicentin, Bitten Gullberg, Francesco Valentino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26646

The Connection between Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and the First Massive Quenched Galaxies
High-redshift (z > 2) massive quiescent (MQ) galaxies provide an opportunity to probe the key physical processes driving the fuelling and quenching of star formation in the early Universe. Observational evidence suggests a possible evolutionary link between MQs and dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs; or submillimetre galaxies), another extreme high-redshift population. However, galaxy formation models have historically struggled to reproduce these populations - especially simultaneously - limit…