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Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.
Columnist and alum Alexandra Petri offers a little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are).

Ordinal regression for meta-analysis of test accuracy: a flexible approach for utilising all threshold data
Enzo Cerullo, Haley E. Jones, Tim Lucas, Nicola J. Cooper, Alex J. Sutton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23393

Ordinal regression for meta-analysis of test accuracy: a flexible approach for utilising all threshold data
Standard methods for meta-analysis and network-meta-analysis of test accuracy do not fully utilise available evidence, as they analyse thresholds separately, resulting in a loss of data unless every study reports all thresholds - which rarely occurs. Furthermore, previously proposed "multiple threshold" models introduce different problems: making overly restrictive assumptions, or failing to provide summary sensitivity and specificity estimates across thresholds. To address this, we proposed …

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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Dynamics of thin film flows on a vertical fibre with vapor absorption
Souradip Chattopadhyay, Zihao Yu, Y. Sungtaek Ju, Hangjie Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22379

Dynamics of thin film flows on a vertical fibre with vapor absorption
Water vapor capture through free surface flows plays a crucial role in various industrial applications, such as liquid desiccant air conditioning systems, water harvesting, and dewatering. This paper studies the dynamics of a silicone liquid sorbent (also known as water-absorbing silicone oil) flowing down a vertical cylindrical fibre while absorbing water vapor. We propose a one-sided thin-film-type model for these dynamics, where the governing equations form a coupled system of nonlinear four…

Exocomets of $\beta$ Pictoris I: Exocomet destruction, sodium and disk line variability in 17 years of HARPS observations
H. J. Hoeijmakers, K. P. Jaworska, B. Prinoth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21625

Exocomets of $β$ Pictoris I: Exocomet destruction, sodium and disk line variability in 17 years of HARPS observations
The young $β$ Pictoris system has been monitored with high-resolution optical spectrographs for decades. These observations have revealed strongly variable absorption in the Ca II H\&K lines attributed to in-falling cometary bodies. Since 2003, over 9000 HARPS observations of $β$ Pictoris have been taken and many of these have not yet been used for exocomet studies. We search these spectra for new exocomet phenomenology enabled by the long time coverage and large volume of this dataset. We sy…

Der Terror und die #AfD: „Immer wenn eine radikale politische Richtung Rückenwind hat, dann entwickeln sich daran auch noch radikalere Flanken, die sich legitimiert fühlen, einen Schritt weiterzugehen.“

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A JSJ-type decomposition theorem for symplectic fillings
We establish a JSJ-type decomposition theorem for splitting exact symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds along \emph{mixed tori} -- these are convex tori satisfying a particular geometric condition. As an application, we show that if $(M,ξ)$ is obtained from $(S^3,ξ_{\mathrm{std}})$ via Legendrian surgery along a knot which has been stabilized both positively and negatively, then $(M,ξ)$ has a unique exact filling.

2025 Harry Smith Prize awarded to œscar Romero-Bšez for landscape genomics work that “sets a new standard”
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