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There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407…

Just sent a truly epic email to the Freedom of Information office at the BC Ministry requesting that they release a bunch of information that they refused/redacted in my 2000 page Island Railway related information disclosure.
It was 1160 words with 11 attachments. 😂
Feeling my citizen-power rn
Though i don't envy the FOI analyst opening that up just before lunch on a Friday in June. 😇
(blog post about the FOI request: (#BCPoli #BCGov #IslandRail #FOIPPA #FOI

The MRI at Iceland's biggest hospital Landspítalinn is broken at the moment.
A scrubber that cleaning personal brought into the room is now stuck inside. 😂
Repairs are under way
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2025/06

Skúringatæki festist á segulómtæki Landspítalans
Skúringatæki festist á segulómtæki Landspítalans við Hringbraut. Tækið er nú óvirkt en unnið er að því að losa skúringatækið af vélinni.

Congratulations on the retirement of Bill Curry after 13 years as head of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, following an already amazing, full career at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Insitution where he was a leader in marine geology, #climate and #carbon cycling research.

Emergent anisotropic three-phase order in critically doped superconducting diamond films
Jyotirmay Dwivedi, Jake Morris, Saurav Islam, Kalana D. Halanayake, Gabriel A. Vazquez-Lizardi, David Snyder, Anthony Richardella, Luke Lyle, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, Nazar Delegan, F. Joseph Heremans, David D. Awschalom, Nitin Samarth
https://

Emergent anisotropic three-phase order in critically doped superconducting diamond films
Two decades since its discovery, superconducting heavily boron-doped diamond (HBDD) still presents unresolved fundamental questions whose resolution is relevant to the development of this material for quantum technologies. We use electrical magnetotransport measurements of critically-doped homoepitaxial single crystal HBDD films to reveal signatures of intrinsic (electronic) granular superconductivity. By studying the dependence of electrical resistivity on temperature and magnetic field vector…

Both Harvard and Columbia are failing to articulate the need and meaning of education, besides economic value. There is no sense of humanity or the humanities or the search for a truths. Both schools are for-profit companies in the minds of their boards, and their presidents reflect that understanding.
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Investigating the 2024 swarm like activity offshore Kefalonia Island aided by Machine Learning algorithms
V. Anagnostou, E. Papadimitriou, V. Karakostas, T. Back
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17221

Investigating the 2024 swarm like activity offshore Kefalonia Island aided by Machine Learning algorithms
In March 2024, a swarm like seismic activity occurred north of Kefalonia Island, in the central Ionian Islands area. Following a machine-learning aided workflow, we compiled an enhanced seismic catalog of 2495 low to moderate magnitude earthquakes throughout a 2 month period. Spatiotemporal analysis reveals a narrow epicentral distribution of nearly E-W alignment, approximately 5km long, much longer than the length anticipated by common scaling laws for the aftershock area extension of the stro…

Sensor Fusion Methods for Gaussian Mixture Models
Ishan Paranjape, Islam Hussein, Jeremy Murray-Krezan, Sean Phillips, Suman Chakravorty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00383

Sensor Fusion Methods for Gaussian Mixture Models
Consensus is a popular technique for distributed state estimation. This formulation allows networks of connected agents or sensors to exchange information about the distribution of a set of targets with their immediate neighbors without the need of a centralized node or layer. We present decentralized consensus-based fusion techniques for a system whose target prior estimates are a weighted mixture of Gaussian probability density functions (PDFs) for the following cases: 1) in which all agents …

Crossing from Pembroke #Wales to Rosslare #Ireland, I just saw dozens of #puffins flying close to the Ferry.
When we first stayed in #Pembrokeshire in 1998, we happened to stay near Martin's Haven one night and simply got a place on a boat to #Skomer Island when arriving at the harbour. I never again saw so many puffins so close.
When trying to reserve a trip for this summer already very early this year, all trips to Skomer were completely booked and even the wating list filled...
#xp