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Mark your calendars for our upcoming events this Fall from the Love of Children program. You can read and register for these events at https://yaleyouthministryinstitute.org/upcoming-events/

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Hegseth cites 2020 Minnesota riots as reason for sending National Guard into LA (Mike Brest/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3436556/hegseth-cites-2020-minnesota-riots-reason-national-guard-los-angeles/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p94#a250610p94

David Gergen, a frequent political commentator on CNN and PBS who helped shape the public images of four US presidents, has died at 83 from Lewy body dementia (Clyde Haberman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/politics/david-gergen-dead.html

David Gergen, Washington Veteran Who Advised Four Presidents, Dies at 83
After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said in 2020.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05142 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Do Large Language Models Judge Error Severity Like Humans?
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated evaluators in natural language generation, yet it remains unclear whether they can accurately replicate human judgments of error severity. In this study, we systematically compare human and LLM assessments of image descriptions containing controlled semantic errors. We extend the experimental framework of van Miltenburg et al. (2020) to both unimodal (text-only) and multimodal (text + image) settings, evaluating four error types: a…

The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: #BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

When DJ Cummerbund made this mashup in 2020 I did take notice that one of the acts was "BTS Skytrain" but I just assumed this was just some strange relative of Korea's BTS.
Shame on me for not knowing or at least spotting that it was an actual promotional video for Bangkok's mass transit system - which also means I was not able to tell the difference between Thai and Korean people.
My only defence is that they are wearing masks but still…

"Lilt"
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/lilt-pianoimp

Lilt #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Joel Bitonio: Browns getting back to 2020, 2021 running schemes, 'a strength' of Cleveland's O-line https://www.nfl.com/news/joel-bitonio-browns-returning-running-schemes-a-strength-offensive-line

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12068 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The repetition threshold for ternary rich words
In 2017, Vesti proposed the problem of determining the repetition threshold for infinite rich words, i.e., for infinite words in which all factors of length $n$ contain $n$ distinct nonempty palindromic factors. In 2020, Currie, Mol, and Rampersad proved a conjecture of Baranwal and Shallit that the repetition threshold for binary rich words is $2 + \sqrt{2}/2$. In this paper, we prove a structure theorem for $16/7$-power-free ternary rich words. Using the structure theorem, we deduce that the …

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find #Vermont

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find
In the midst of 2020 COVID measures, another change took place in Vermont: A law went into effect banning businesses from offering plastic bags to customers, with paper bags only available for a fee.

A note on multi-transitivity in non-autonomous discrete systems
Hongbo Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24657 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

A note on multi-transitivity in non-autonomous discrete systems
This paper is concerned with some stronger forms of transitivity in non-autonomous discrete systems$(f_{ 1,\infty})$ generated by a uniformly convergent sequence of continuous self maps. Firstly, we present two counterexamples to show that Theorem 3.1 obtained by Salman and Das in [Multi-transitivity in nonautonomous discrete systems Topol. Appl. 278(2020)107237] is not true. Then, we introduce and study mildly mixing in non-autonomous discrete systems, which is stronger than mixing. We obtain …

Sturmflut der Lügen – Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation wappnen
Vortrag mit
Michael Blume @…
8.7.2025, 19:30 Uhr
Manufaktur Schorndorf
#Schorndorf

Climate stripes for the Netherlands. It's already almost 2°C warmer than in 1980 here, on average.
#ShowYourStripesDay

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05820 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Thermodynamic phase description of charged 4D Gauss-Bonnet black holes in quantum regime
Glavan and Lin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)] ave argued for a 4D theory of Gauss-Bonnet (GB)gravity. This model predicts significant contributions of the GB coupling parameter $α$ to gravitational dynamics, while circumventing the Lovelock theorem and avoiding Ostrogradsky instability. As a powerful competitor to general relativity (GR), the model has been examined on various phenomenological grounds. Here, we employ a technique from information geometry to analyze the thermodynamic ph…

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

CLOUDWARMER – We Might Even Exist Together on the Outer Fringes of Uncertainty
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/19/cloudwarmer-we-might-even-exist-together-on-the-outer-fringes-of-uncertainty/…

A new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science

Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 127 ppb
Aguillard, Albahri, Allspach, Annala, Badgley, Bae{\ss}ler, Bailey, Bailey, Barlas-Yucel, Barrett, Barzi, Bedeschi, Berz, Bhattacharya, Binney, Bloom, Bono, Bottalico, Bowcock, Braun, Bressler, Cantatore, Carey, Casey, Cauz, Chakraborty, Chapelain, Chappa, Charity, Chen, Cheng, Chislett, Chu, Chupp, Claessens, Confortini, Convery, Corrodi, Cotrozzi, Crnkovic, Dabagov, Debevec, Di Falco, Di Sciascio, Donati, Drendel, …

Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 127 ppb
A new measurement of the magnetic anomaly $a_μ$ of the positive muon is presented based on data taken from 2020 to 2023 by the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). This dataset contains over 2.5 times the total statistics of our previous results. From the ratio of the precession frequencies for muons and protons in our storage ring magnetic field, together with precisely known ratios of fundamental constants, we determine $a_μ = 116\,592\,0710(162) \times 10^…

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees
New PBS documentary following wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he films more than 60 species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England, during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown.

The final solution of the Hitchhiker's problem #5
Matja\v{z} Omladi\v{c}, Martin Vuk, Alja\v{z} Zalar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20672 https://

The final solution of the Hitchhiker's problem #5
A recent survey, nicknamed "Hitchhiker's Guide", J.J. Arias-Garcıa, R. Mesiar, and B. De Baets, A hitchhiker's guide to quasi-copulas, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 393 (2020) 1-28, has raised the rating of quasi-copula problems in the dependence modeling community in spite of the lack of statistical interpretation of quasi-copulas. In our previous work (arXiv:2410.19339, accepted in Fuzzy Sets and Systems), we addressed the question of extreme values of the mass distribution associated with multivar…

I feel sad when publications I've read in the past stop being published on paper.
I've also not bought a paper magazine or comic (single) since March 2020.

If we had defunded the police and abolished ICE in 2020 after the cops rioted against us, then Trump would not have the troops for his Christian white nationalist project

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
Maria Spichkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14369 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
In this paper, we discuss our experience in designing and teaching a course on Software Engineering Project Management, where the focus is on Agile/Scrum development and Requirement Engineering activities. The course has undergone fundamental changes since 2020 to make the teaching approach more student-centred and flexible. As many universities abandoned having face-to-face exams at the end of the semester, authentic assessments now play an even more important role than before. This makes asse…

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
Mark M. Bailey, Mark I. Heiligman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14836

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
How can we detect when global events fundamentally reshape public discourse? This study introduces a topological framework for identifying structural change in media narratives using persistent homology. Drawing on international news articles surrounding major events - including the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Feb 2022), the murder of George Floyd (May 2020), the U.S. Capitol insurrection (Jan 2021), and the Hamas-led invasion of Israel (Oct 2023) - we construct daily co-occurrence graphs of n…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
Amrapali Sen, Matthias Salzger, {\L}ukasz Rudnicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11787 https://arx…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
While particles cannot travel faster than the speed of light, nor can information, this assumption has over the years been frequently questioned. Most recently, it has been argued [New J. Phys. 22, 033038 (2020)] that in a world with superluminal observers local determinism is impossible, linking the two pillars of physics-quantum theory and relativity-suggesting that the latter serves as the foundation for the former. Motivated by this approach, in this work, we extend the framework of quantum…

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (University of S\~ao Paulo), Renata Santos Miranda (University of S\~ao Paulo), Alfredo Goldman (University of S\~ao Paulo)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12840

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
This paper presents the journey of CodeLab: a student-organized initiative from the University of São Paulo that has grown thanks to university hackathons. It summarizes patterns, challenges, and lessons learned over 15 competitions organized by the group from 2015 to 2020. By describing these experiences, this report aims to help CodeLab to resume its events after the COVID-19 pandemic, and foster similar initiatives around the world.

NFL community observes Juneteenth holiday https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-community-observes-juneteenth-holiday-2025

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Gaspare Galati, Gabriele Pavan, Frederick Daum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13797 https://arxiv.o…

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Quantum Radar was studied in many Nations for about fifteen years with the production of some hundred publications. In the post 2020 literature, it is shown that, due to the exceedingly low transmitted power, Quantum Radar cannot produce neither significant results nor real world applications. Regrettably, most of the scientific community ignored this negative outcome: a fact worth of exam. A detailed study of such an assessment failure depicts the main shortcomings of the present situation, ca…

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Endlich die Plakette für die #Gasanlage bekommen
#Camping in #Italien kann los gehen! Der #Eriba

Endlich die Plakette für die Gasanlage bekommen
In 2020 hat der Eriba Nova 545 eine Gasdichtigkeitsprüfung bekommen. Zwei Jahre später wurde ich darauf hingewiesen, dass mein Druckminderer zu alt sei. Aber da die Gasdichtigkeitsprüfung da noch nicht wieder Pflicht war, habe ich eben keine machen lassen. Natürlich …

Endlich die Plakette für die Gasanlage bekommen<…

"Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since COVID: IEA"
#Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Energy

Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since COVID: IEA
Global oil demand will fall slightly in 2030, its first drop since the 2020 COVID pandemic, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

Sources: CB Arnette joins Texans in NFL return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45539482/sources-cb-damon-arnette-3-years-nfl-joins-texans

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
Nicola Scafetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13994 https://arxi…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
The CMIP global climate models (GCMs) assess that nearly 100% of global surface warming observed between 1850-1900 and 2011-2020 is attributable to anthropogenic drivers like greenhouse gas emissions. These models also generate future climate projections based on shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), aiding in risk assessment and the development of costly Net-Zero climate mitigation strategies. Yet, the CMIP GCMs face significant scientific challenges in attributing and modeling climate change,…