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Phenomenal day at the Victoria & Albert. It's as great as the British Museum but instead of singular historical works it's full of collections of terrific manufactured things. Lots of photos! Here starting with four sculptures.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
So soll Missbrauch von Palantir-Software verhindert werden

Evidence for a gap in the envelope mass fraction of sub-Saturns
Luis Thomas, Louise D. Nielsen, Lorena Acu\~na-Aguirre, Alex Cridland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12120 https://…

Evidence for a gap in the envelope mass fraction of sub-Saturns
Under the core-accretion model, gas giants form via runaway accretion. This process starts when the mass of the accreted envelope becomes equal to the mass of the core. Here, we model a population of warm sub-Saturns to search for imprints of their formation history in their internal structure. Using the GAS gianT modeL for Interiors (GASTLI), we calculate a grid of interior structure models on which we perform retrievals for our sample of 28 sub-Saturns to derive their envelope mass fractions …

Scaling High-Performance Nanoribbon Transistors with Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Tara Pe\~na, Anton E. O. Persson, Andrey Krayev, \'Ashildur Fri{\dh}riksd\'ottir, Kathryn Neilson, Zhepeng Zhang, Anh Tuan Hoang, Jerry A. Yang, Lauren Hoang, Andrew J. Mannix, Paul C. McIntyre, Eric Pop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09964

Scaling High-Performance Nanoribbon Transistors with Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Nanoscale transistors require aggressive reduction of all channel dimensions: length, width, and thickness. While monolayer two-dimensional semiconductors (2DS) offer ultimate thickness scaling, good performance has largely been achieved only in micrometer-wide channels. Here, we demonstrate both $\it{n}$- and $\it{p}$-type nanoribbon transistors based on monolayer 2DS, fabricated using a multi-patterning process, reaching channel widths down to 25 nm and lengths down to 50 nm. 'Anchored' conta…

How did I just hear about this? They are launching open loop payments on BART next week! https://bit.ly/4oFntGo

Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting

Wise words on the Hickel-Liegey/Nelson debate.
Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth

Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth
Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Harry Nilsson:
🎵 Without You
#HarryNilsson
https://gardenonatrampoline.bandcamp.com/track/without-you-harry-nilsson
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MrILERJLA3Jcq0E9poZsp

A lovely day touring around central Aberdeen. Here is Marischal College, an enormous 19th century granite building. The stonework is quite delicate, almost lacey albeit with simpler shapes.

Am I old now that I can smell a fresh college grad tech bro (gender neutral!) from a mile away? I really don't want to hear you talk about implementing tables for PII while I am eating sushi.