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The Fordham University
Tri-State Tick Risk Index for the week of June 27, is at the highest it can be:
a 10 out of 10.
What’s listed next to that score is the following:
"If you’re thinking of taking a hike, consider going to a movie instead."
h…

Fordham Tri-State Tick Risk
The Fordham Tick Index is an estimate of the risk of being bitten by a nymphal or adult deer tick.

It's only Thursday morning and I've already had what's probably the most intense and productive week of writing since the home-stretch of my dissertation almost 15 years ago.
I basically wrote the entire first draft - and not a super drafty draft, at that - of what I'm thinking will be the second chapter in my next book.
I'm feeling great.
#AmWriting

Sorry for the bi-t of a tangent, but @… is worth following.
If he can add some extra color to my already vibrant bisexual day, I’m pretty sure he’ll make your day brighter too.
#Bisexual

Epitaxial Stabilization and Emergent Charge Order in Copper Selenide Thin Films
B. M. Sharif (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA), B. Theunissen (Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA), C. We…

Epitaxial Stabilization and Emergent Charge Order in Copper Selenide Thin Films
We demonstrate epitaxial growth of copper selenide (Cu$_{2-x}$Se) thin films in both cubic and rhombohedral phases, achieved via molecular beam epitaxy on Al$_2$O$_3$ (001) substrates. Remarkably, the high-temperature cubic phase -- which in bulk transforms into the rhombohedral structure below 400 K -- is stabilized at room temperature and below, well outside its bulk equilibrium stability range. In the cubic phase films, temperature-dependent electrical transport reveals a pronounced, hystere…

I can't stop thinking of 'The Running Man' whenever I see articles about virtual (animal) fences:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4229k744lo

Cambridge cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river
A council says two to four fall into the water in a city centre during grazing season each year.

»One of Mr. Reagan's advisers, David Stockman, later wrote that the real aim of fiscal policy was to create a ›strategic deficit‹ that would slam the door and reduce the size of the federal government.« https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/opinion/ronald-reagan.html

Einschränkung Bahnverkehr Zürich wegen Fahrleitungsstörung
Der Bahnverkehr auf der Strecke Zürich Oerlikon - Zürich HB ist zwischen Zürich Oerlikon und Zürich Hardbrücke eingeschränkt.
Der Grund dafür ist eine Fahrleitungsstörung.
Die Einschränkung dauert bis zirka 08:00.
Betroffen sind die Linien S, S15, S16 und S21.
Es sind Verspätungen, Ausfälle und Umleitungen zu erwarten.

The Legendrian Hopf Link has exactly two Lagrangian fillings
Bryce Thomson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15111 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The Legendrian Hopf Link has exactly two Lagrangian fillings
We prove that there are precisely two embedded exact Lagrangian fillings of the standard Legendrian Hopf link, up to compactly supported Hamiltonian isotopy. It was known that the standard Legendrian Hopf link admitted at least two such Lagrangian fillings: we show these are all. Specifically, we use a type of neck-stretching procedure to construct a pseudoholomorphic conic fibration that makes a given arbitrary exact Lagrangian filling fiber over a real curve, under a global pseudoholomorphic …

I've just cleared out a bunch of hashtags I was following. I feel like they filled my timeline but didn't encourage me to reach out in friendship. And often the hashtag was the thing I scrolled past fast, thinking it was a bit ick.
(The hashtags you follow are in profile, then click on the 3 dots).
Let's see how a quieter Mastodon feels, and which hashtags I want to re-introduce...

Die spinnen, die TechBros.
"OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company's largest investor, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two long-term AI partners."