Tootfinder

Looking forward to speaking at @… again – and especially with such an awesome group of people! 💙
https://events.drupal.org/…

Status and Goals of the Drupal Open University Initiative | Drupal Events
DrupalCon unites experts from around the globe who create ambitious digital experiences. Network, learn, and be inspired.

Droplet on a sugar fiber
St\'ephane Dorbolo, Floriane Weyer, Alexandre Delory, Apurav Tembe, Zhao Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09797 https://

Droplet on a sugar fiber
The motion of a water droplet on a single vertical sugar fiber is analyzed. The fiber is positioned vertically, with the droplet placed at its pending end. If the capillary force exceeds the weight of the droplet, the droplet remains suspended at the fiber's extremity. As water dissolves, the fiber eventually breaks. Subsequently, the droplet may fall down carrying a portion of the undissolved fiber or, more interestingly, the droplet may be propelled upwards, remaining attached to the fiber. T…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Mating by copepods is a complicated process since they are always at risk of predation by other plankton or fishes. Male #copepods carefully mechanically and chemically track a receptive female, capture them, and deposit an adhesive spermatophore near the genital open…

Droplet-gas phases and their dynamical formation in particle imbalanced mixtures
Jose Carlos Pelayo, George A. Bougas, Thom\'as Fogarty, Thomas Busch, Simeon I. Mistakidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09314

Droplet-gas phases and their dynamical formation in particle imbalanced mixtures
We explore the ground state phase diagram and nonequilibrium dynamics of genuine two-component particle-imbalanced droplets in both isotropic and anisotropic three-dimensional confinements. A gradual transition from mixed droplet-gas to gas configurations is revealed as the average intercomponent attraction decreases or the transverse confinement becomes tighter. Within the mixed structures, a specific majority fragment binds to the minority droplet, satisfying the density ratio locking conditi…

What A Day: MAGA's Dripless Fits (Crooked Media)
https://crooked.com/newsletters/what-a-day-magas-dripless-fits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p8#a250610p8

Deformation of ellipsoidal droplets in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
Fabio Guglietta, Diego Taglienti, Mauro Sbragaglia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09692

Deformation of ellipsoidal droplets in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
We study the statistics of deformation of neutrally buoyant droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT), wherein the characteristic droplet size $R$ is smaller than the characteristic Kolmogorov scale $η$ of the turbulent flow. We systematically focus on the characterization of droplet statistics obtained with various phenomenological ellipsoidal models (EMs) -- assuming that the droplet preserves the ellipsoidal shape at all times - with the droplet moving as a passive tracer in the tu…

Spatially Local Estimates of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials
C. Ugwumadu, A. Gautam, Y. G. Lee, D. A. Drabold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10041 https:…

Spatially Local Estimates of the Thermal Conductivity of Materials
In this paper we describe a spatial decomposition of the thermal conductivity, what we name "site-projected thermal conductivity", a gauge of the thermal conduction activity at each site. The method is based on the Green-Kubo formula and the harmonic approximation, and requires the force-constant and dynamical matrices and of course the structure of a model sitting at an energy minimum. Throughout the paper, we use high quality models previously tested and compared to many experiments. We discu…

S3 Mirror: S3Mirror: Making Genomic Data Transfers Fast, Reliable, and Observable with DBOS
Steven Vasquez-Grinnell, Alex Poliakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10886

S3 Mirror: S3Mirror: Making Genomic Data Transfers Fast, Reliable, and Observable with DBOS
To meet the needs of a large pharmaceutical organization, we set out to create S3Mirror - an application for transferring large genomic sequencing datasets between S3 buckets quickly, reliably, and observably. We used the DBOSTransact durable execution framework to achieve these goals and benchmarked the performance and cost of the application. S3Mirror is an open source DBOS Python application that can run in a variety of environments, including DBOS Cloud Pro where it runs as much as 40x fast…

#linktipp
They Looted Companies — Now They're Looting the Government
Most executives are no longer rewarded for building durable businesses or contributing to the real economy—they’re rewarded for how efficiently they extract value from the companies that they control.
“Because these people have gotten away with looting corporations, they’ve come to believe it’s their right …

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Masanari Shimada, Tetsuya J. Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10253 https://

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Although coarse-grained models have been widely used to explain exotic phenomena in complex fluids, such as droplet formation in living cells, these conventional approaches often fail to capture the intricate microscopic degrees of freedom that such fluids inherently possess. In this study, we propose a model that incorporates distinct microscopic degrees of freedom and their interactions, without directly relying on conventional coarse-grained descriptions. By introducing two key assumptions, …