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Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a screed of an essay
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-bible-essay-instructor-fulneckydei-f37ba4b8afdc9d9aba3b73b124f13b9b

The University of Oklahoma fires instructor who gave failing grade to Bible-based gender essay
The University of Oklahoma has fired an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination. The complaint from 20-year-old junior Samantha Fulnecky was over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and called promoting a belief in multiple genders “demonic.” The university said Monday that its investigation found that the graduate teaching assistant had been arbitrary in giving Fulnecky zero points on the assignment. The attorney for instructor Mel…

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Det är nu över 10 år sedan dietboksförfattare och influensers påstod att de visste hur man fixade tarmfloran och med det en rad olika hälsoproblem.
Och än idag har vi i princip ingenting konkret från vetenskapen kring tarmfloran och behandling av olika besvär utanför just tarmproblem.
The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart

The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart
Why this new review paper should be required reading for every microbiome researcher

"The skyscraper, the apotheosis of form following finance and function"
—Jenny Diski, LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n15/jenny-diski/post-its-push-pins-pencils

Jenny Diski · Post-its, push pins, pencils: In the Stationery Cupboard
The secret beating heart of the dream office is the stationery cupboard, the ideal kind, the one that opens to enough...

Couldn’t make it to a No Kings protest today because I was flying home from Atlanta. So now I’m just perusing pictures from various cities and dear god this one is savage 💀

Collapsibility and Near Universality for Vertex Minimal Paper Tori
Peter Doyle, Richard Evan Schwartz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12623 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Collapsibility and Near Universality for Vertex Minimal Paper Tori
A paper torus is a piecewise linear isometric embedding of a flat torus into $\R^3$. Following up on the $8$-vertex paper tori discovered by the second author, we prove universality and collapsibility results about these objects. One corollary is that any flat torus without reflection symmetry is realized as an $8$-vertex paper torus. Another corollary is that, for any $ε>0$, there is an $8$-vertex paper torus within $ε$ of a unit equilateral triangle in the Hausdorff metric.

Will we see you tomorrow at Tech Pizza Monday? VICTORY CAFE whoops, that was too loud, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM. With any luck, we will have some printouts of the paper we will discuss at on tje following Monday. Come for the pizza, also, stay for the pizza, not to mention the discussions about free and open technology for a free and open society. #Toronto

(Follow-Up to an earlier paper about #GRB250702B in the thread) Discovery of a #GammaRayBurst from a #BlackHole Falling into a Star: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22792 -> discussion https://scicomm.xyz/@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz/115371873692093048

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Eitan Klinger, Zihao Huang, Tran Minh Nguyen, Emma Jayeon Park, Yige Chen, Yang Gu, Qingyu Gao, Siliang Liu, Mengyang Qiu, Jungyeul Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06749

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Evaluating grammatical error correction requires metrics that reflect the diversity of valid human corrections rather than privileging a single reference. Existing frameworks, largely edit-based and English-centric, rely on rigid alignments between system and reference edits, limiting their applicability in multilingual and generative settings. This paper introduces a formal framework for \textit{fluency-based multi-reference evaluation}, framing $n$-gram similarity as an aggregation problem ov…

Trajectory control of a suspended load with non-stopping flying carriers
Sofia Girardello, Giulia Michieletto, Angelo Cenedese, Antonio Franchi, Chiara Gabellieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11413

Trajectory control of a suspended load with non-stopping flying carriers
This paper presents the first closed-loop control framework for cooperative payload transportation with non-stopping flying carriers. Building upon grasp-matrix formulations and internal force redundancy, we propose a feedback wrench controller that actively regulates the payload's pose while an optimization layer dynamically shapes internal-force oscillations to guarantee persistent carrier motion. Preliminary experimental results on multirotor UAVs validate the model assumptions, and numerica…