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Questions swirl over who's running the CDC (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/cdc-director-leadership-vacancy-rfk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p77#a250605p77

FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/fda-launches-ai-tool

FDA launches agency-wide AI tool
FDA said it's using the technology to review clinical protocols and speed up scientific evaluations.

Archaeologists found a 1,700-year-old chamber at the largest Mayan site in Belize,
still holding a rare mosaic death mask and jadeite jewelry, shells from the Pacific and elaborate designs on pottery and bone.
https://www.nytimes…

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World
A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coatimundi were found with the ruler.

The Evolution of Pop III.1 Protostars Powered by Dark Matter Annihilation. I. Fiducial model and first results
Devesh Nandal, Konstantinos Topalakis, Jonathan C. Tan, Vasilisa Sergienko, Ana\"is Pauchett, Maya Petkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00870

The Evolution of Pop III.1 Protostars Powered by Dark Matter Annihilation. I. Fiducial model and first results
The existence of billion-solar-mass quasars at redshifts $z \gtrsim 7$ poses a formidable challenge to theories of black hole formation, requiring pathways for the rapid growth of massive seeds. Population III.1 stars, forming in pristine, dense dark matter (DM) minihalos, are compelling progenitors. This study presents a suite of stellar evolution models for accreting Pop III.1 protostars, calculated with the \textsc{GENEC} code. We systematically explore a wide parameter space, spanning ambie…

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The Maya Experience:
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Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-loop Agentic Systems
Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal, Cheng Tan, Adam Fourney, Victor Dibia, Jingya Chen, Jack Gerrits, Tyler Payne, Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Eric Zhu, Griffin Bassman, Jacob Alber, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Friederike Niedtner, Ece Kamar, Maya Murad, Rafah Hosn, Saleema Amershi
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Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-loop Agentic Systems
AI agents powered by large language models are increasingly capable of autonomously completing complex, multi-step tasks using external tools. Yet, they still fall short of human-level performance in most domains including computer use, software development, and research. Their growing autonomy and ability to interact with the outside world, also introduces safety and security risks including potentially misaligned actions and adversarial manipulation. We argue that human-in-the-loop agentic sy…

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The Emergence and Ionizing Feedback of Pop III.1 Stars as Progenitors for Supermassive Black Holes
Mahsa Sanati, Jonathan C. Tan, Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz, Sergio Martin-Alvarez, Matteo la Torre, Benjamin Keller, Maya A. Petkova, Pierluigi Monaco, Vieri Cammelli, Jasbir Singh, Matthew Hayes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23004

The Emergence and Ionizing Feedback of Pop III.1 Stars as Progenitors for Supermassive Black Holes
Recent observations by JWST reveal an unexpectedly abundant population of rapidly growing supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe, underscoring the need for improved models for their origin and growth. Employing new full radiative transfer hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation, we investigate the local and intergalactic feedback of SMBH progenitors for the Population III.1 scenario, i.e., efficient formation of supermassive stars from pristine, undisturbed dark matter mi…

When Prompts Go Wrong: Evaluating Code Model Robustness to Ambiguous, Contradictory, and Incomplete Task Descriptions
Maya Larbi, Amal Akli, Mike Papadakis, Rihab Bouyousfi, Maxime Cordy, Federica Sarro, Yves Le Traon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20439

When Prompts Go Wrong: Evaluating Code Model Robustness to Ambiguous, Contradictory, and Incomplete Task Descriptions
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in code generation tasks under idealized conditions, where task descriptions are clear and precise. However, in practice, task descriptions frequently exhibit ambiguity, incompleteness, or internal contradictions. In this paper, we present the first empirical study examining the robustness of state-of-the-art code generation models when faced with such unclear task descriptions. We extend the HumanEval and MBPP benchmarks by …

Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance
Maya Dewhurst, Jack Collins, Justin J. H. Lo, Roy Alderton, Sam Kirkham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23339

Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance
We introduce Nosey (Nasalance Open Source Estimation sYstem), a low-cost, customizable, 3D-printed system for recording acoustic nasalance data that we have made available as open-source hardware (http://github.com/phoneticslab/nosey). We first outline the motivations and design principles behind our hardware nasalance system, and then present a comparison between Nosey and a commercial nasalance device. Nosey shows consistently higher nasalance scores than the commercial device, but the magnit…

Biomimetic Engineering of a Fortified Ice Composite with Enhanced Mechanical Properties
Chen Adar, Yulia Baron, Baruch Rofman, Maya Bar-Dolev, Liat Bahari, Victor Yashunsky, Vera Sirotinskaya, Oded Shoseyov, Ido Braslavsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22068

Biomimetic Engineering of a Fortified Ice Composite with Enhanced Mechanical Properties
This work presents BioPykrete, a new sustainable bio-composite material created from ice, nano-crystalline cellulose (CNC), and a tailor-made chimera protein designed to bind the two together. We developed and produced the chimera protein by linking AFPIII, an ice-binding protein, with CBM3a, a CNC-binding protein. As the suspension freezes, the CNC chains self-organize into a reinforcing network between the ice crystals. This structural enhancement limits crack propagation to typical pore size…

Journalist Sues LA County, Ex-LA County Sheriff For Criminally Investigating Her https://thedissenter.org/journalist-sues-la-county-ex-la-county-sheriff-for-criminally-investigating-her/

🍫 Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/cacao-agroforestry-in-belize-hits-the-sweet-spot-for-people-and-nature/

Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
The Maya Golden Landscape in southern Belize is a patchwork of protected areas, agricultural lands and small communities, part of the greater Maya Forest, the second-largest tropical forest in the Americas, after the Amazon. It’s a haven for predators like jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor), and threatened species like Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) […]

OLALa: Online Learned Adaptive Lattice Codes for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
Natalie Lang, Maya Simhi, Nir Shlezinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20297

OLALa: Online Learned Adaptive Lattice Codes for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, often at the cost of substantial communication overhead induced by transmitting high-dimensional model updates. This overhead can be alleviated by having the clients quantize their model updates, with dithered lattice quantizers identified as an attractive scheme due to its structural simplicity and convergence-preserving properties. However, existing lattice-based FL schemes typically re…

Replaced article(s) found for nucl-th. https://arxiv.org/list/nucl-th/new
[1/2]:
- Reanalyses for $^{42-51}$Ca scattering on a $^{12}$C target at $280$ MeV/nucleon based on chiral ...
Maya Takechi, Tomotsugu Wakasa, Shingo Tagami Jun Matsui, Masanobu Yahiro

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- Budget-Feasible Contracts
Michal Feldman, Yoav Gal-Tzur, Tomasz Ponitka, Maya Schlesinger

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- In silico discovery of representational relationships across visual cortex
Alessandro T. Gifford, Maya A. Jastrz\k{e}bowska, Johannes J. D. Singer, Radoslaw M. Cichy

Trump admin shortens ACA enrollment window (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/trump-admin-aca-coverage-changes
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p21#a250621p21

Separating edges by linearly many subdivisions
George Kontogeorgiou, Matias Pavez-Signe, Maya Stein, S Taruni, Ana Trujillo-Negrete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14011

Separating edges by linearly many subdivisions
We prove that for any two graphs $G$ and $H$, the edges of $G$ can be strongly separated by a collection of linearly many subdivisions of $H$ and single edges. This confirms a conjecture of Botler and Naia.

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Low-energy domain wall racetracks with multiferroic topologies
Arundhati Ghosal, Alexander Qualls, Yousra Nahas, Shashank Ojha, Peter Meisenheimer, Shiyu Zhou, Maya Ramesh, Sajid Husain, Julia Mundy, Darrell Schlom, Zhi Yao, Sergei Prokhorenko, Laurent Bellaiche, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Paul Stevenson, Lucas Caretta
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Low-energy domain wall racetracks with multiferroic topologies
Conventional racetrack memories move information by pushing magnetic domain walls or other spin textures with spin-polarized currents, but the accompanying Joule heating inflates their energy budget and can hamper scaling. Here we present a voltage-controlled, magnetoelectric racetrack in which transverse electric fields translate coupled ferroelectric-antiferromagnetic walls along BiFeO3 nanostrips at room temperature. Because no charge traverses the track, the switching dissipates orders of m…

A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation
TRI LBM Team, Jose Barreiros, Andrew Beaulieu, Aditya Bhat, Rick Cory, Eric Cousineau, Hongkai Dai, Ching-Hsin Fang, Kunimatsu Hashimoto, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Masha Itkina, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Kuan-Hui Lee, Katherine Liu, Dale McConachie, Ian McMahon, Haruki Nishimura, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Charles Richter, Paarth Shah, Krishnan Srinivasan, Blake Wulfe, Chen Xu, Mengchao Zhang, Alex Alspach, Maya …

A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation
Robot manipulation has seen tremendous progress in recent years, with imitation learning policies enabling successful performance of dexterous and hard-to-model tasks. Concurrently, scaling data and model size has led to the development of capable language and vision foundation models, motivating large-scale efforts to create general-purpose robot foundation models. While these models have garnered significant enthusiasm and investment, meaningful evaluation of real-world performance remains a …

Tariffs drive some health plans to hike premiums (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/tariffs-health-insurance-premium-hikes
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p79#a250618p79

Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector
Margaret E. Verrico, K. Decker French, Katherine Suess, Tanay Agrawal, Lauranne Lanz, Yuanze Luo, Pallavi Patil, Kate Rowlands, Margaret Shepherd, Maya Skarbinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19162

Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector
Changing-look active galactic nuclei, or CL-AGN, are AGN which appear to transition between Seyfert Type 1 and 2 over periods of months to years. Several mechanisms to trigger these transitions have been proposed, but we have yet to conclusively determine their cause. Recent studies suggest CL-AGN are hosted primarily in galaxies which are shutting down star formation (Dodd et al. 2021; Liu et al. 2021, Wang et al. 2023), which may indicate a link between galaxy quenching and changing look even…

Mass Distribution of Binary Black Hole Mergers from Young and Old Dense Star Clusters
Claire S. Ye (CITA), Maya Fishbach, Kyle Kremer, Marta Reina-Campos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07183

Mass Distribution of Binary Black Hole Mergers from Young and Old Dense Star Clusters
Dense star clusters are thought to contribute significantly to the merger rates of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. We combine $N$-body dynamic models of realistic dense star clusters with cluster formation histories to estimate the merger rate distribution as a function of primary mass for merging BBHs formed in these environments. It has been argued that dense star clusters -- most notably old globular clusters -- predominantly produce BBH…

A quasi-tree expansion for the surface Tutte polynomial
Maya Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.137…

A quasi-tree expansion for the surface Tutte polynomial
The surface Tutte polynomial has recently been generalised to pseudo-surfaces equipping it with recursive deletion-contraction relations. We use these relations to show that this generalisation naturally possesses a quasi-tree expansion. This extends quasi-tree expansions of the Bollobás-Riordan, Las Vergnas and Krushkal polynomials, which we recover from our main result.

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The Maya Experience:
🎵 I’m Brown (I Died long Ago)
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A relaxation scheme for the equations of isentropic gas dynamics on a network with jump transmission conditions
Magali Ribot (IDP, MaIAGE, MUSCA), Roberto Natalini (IAC), Maya Briani (IAC)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05779

A relaxation scheme for the equations of isentropic gas dynamics on a network with jump transmission conditions
In this paper we propose a new numerical scheme of relaxation type to approximate the Euler equations of isentropic gas dynamics on the arcs of a network. At the junction mass conservation and a jump transmission condition on the density are given, and a new solver is introduced to deal with both subsonic and supersonic cases. Consistency properties of the solver are proven and numerical tests are displayed to show its good performance also with respect to other possible solvers.

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Junior Murvin:
🎵 Cool Out Son (Remix)
#JuniorMurvin
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PULSE-A Mission Overview: Optical Communications for Undergraduate Students
Logan Hanssler, Seth Knights, Graydon Schulze-Kalt, Juan Ignacio Prieto Asbun, Robert Pitu, Lauren Ayala, Rohan Gupta, Vincent Redwine, Spencer Shelton, Catherine Todd, Maya McDaniel, Sofia Mansilla, John Baird, Mason McCormack, Leah Vashevko, Tian Zhong, Michael Lembeck
https://…

PULSE-A Mission Overview: Optical Communications for Undergraduate Students
Recent advances in the size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements for space-based sensing have dramatically increased the demand for high-bandwidth downlink. However, high data rate RF transceivers still pose significant SWaP and cost restrictions, especially for university-class CubeSat missions. Optical communication may provide a solution to this challenge, enabling data transmission with order-of-magnitude rate increases over RF while being both secure and SWaP-efficient. The Polarization-…

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🎵 Sicilienne (Arr. for violin and piano by Samuel Dushkin)
#MariaTheresiavonParadis #MayaMagub #HsinIHuang

Gravitational lensing rarely produces high-mass outliers to the compact binary population
Amanda Farah, Jose Mar\'ia Ezquiaga, Maya Fishbach, Daniel Holz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07964

Gravitational lensing rarely produces high-mass outliers to the compact binary population
All gravitational-wave signals are inevitably gravitationally lensed by intervening matter as they propagate through the Universe. When a gravitational-wave signal is magnified, it appears to have originated from a closer, more massive system. Thus, high-mass outliers to the gravitational-wave source population are often proposed as natural candidates for strongly lensed events. However, when using a data-driven method for identifying population outliers, we find that high-mass outliers are not…

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Circum-nuclear eccentric gas flow in the Galactic Center revealed by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)
Yoshiaki Sofue, Tomoharu Oka, Steven N. Longmore, Daniel Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Jonathan D. Henshaw, John Bally, Ashley T. Barnes, Cara Battersby, Laura Colzi, Paul Ho, Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Elizabeth Mills, Maya A. Petkova, Mattia C. Sormani, Jennifer Wallace, Jairo Armijos-Abenda\~no, Katarzyna M. Dutkowska, Rei Enokiya, Pablo Garc\'ia, Savannah Gramz…

Circum-nuclear eccentric gas flow in the Galactic Center revealed by ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)
We analyze the CS (J=2-1) line cube from the internal data release obtained by the large-scale program "ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey (ACES)" to investigate the kinematic structure of the innermost $\sim 10$ pc region of the Galaxy, which contains the high-velocity compact cloud (HVCC) at $(l,b,v_{\rm lsr})\sim(+0^\circ.02,-0^\circ.02, 100 {\rm km~s}^{-1})$ (hereafter G0.02). The longitude-velocity diagram (LVD) of the cloud draws an elliptical structure, which is interpreted as an orbital trajec…

An intrinsic-state formalism for the Interacting Boson-Fermion Model with configuration mixing
E. Maya-Barbecho, J. E. Garc\'ia-Ramos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05650

An intrinsic-state formalism for the Interacting Boson-Fermion Model with configuration mixing
In this letter, we present the intrinsic state formalism of the Interacting Boson-Fermion Model incorporating both 0p-0h and 2p-2h (regular and intruder) configurations. The framework allows to deal with the unpaired fermion in either a single-j or multi-j orbital and is applicable to both axial and triaxial nuclear shapes. The formalism is applied to a schematic transitional region where regular and intruder configurations coexist and cross. We show that the boson-fermion part of the Hamiltoni…

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