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The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou, Jevin D. West, Emma S. Spiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09826

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Social media platforms shape users' experiences through the algorithmic systems they deploy. In this study, we examine to what extent Twitter's content recommender, in conjunction with a user's social network, impacts the topic, political skew, and reliability of information served on the platform during a high-stakes election. We utilize automated accounts to document Twitter's algorithmically curated and reverse chronological timelines throughout the U.S. 2022 midterm election. We find that t…

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Heute vor 6 Jahren: Am 12. November 2019 meldete der Standort #Sellafield einen anhaltenden Verlust von radioaktiver Flüssigkeit im Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (#MSSS). Täglich gingen etwa 1 m³ Flüssigkeit verloren, die Ursache war zu dem Zeitpunkt nicht bekannt.

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
Shashank Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09622 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09622

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
The objective of this study is to understand the online Ask the Doctor services medical advice on internet platforms via AskDoc, a Reddit community that serves as a public AtD platform and study if platforms mirror existing hurdles and partiality in healthcare across various demographic groups. We downloaded data from January 2020 to May 2022 from AskDoc -- a subreddit, and created regular expressions to identify self-reported demographics (Gender, Race, and Age) from the posts, and performed s…

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https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/nabokov
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ady96jE1eszfh4kwYIbFy

WeTravel, whose travel payments software is used by group travel operators, raised a $92M Series C at a ~$450M valuation, up from ~$100M in 2022 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/09/24/wetravel-92m-series-c

Exclusive: WeTravel raises $92M in Series C
Higher-income consumers are still traveling.

The Supreme Courtsaid on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case
and consider striking down a strict regulation on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii.
Trump’s administration had urged the justices to take the case.
The court will consider Hawaii’s law that bans guns on private property,
including businesses like stores and hotels,
unless the owner has specifically allowed them verbally or with a sign.

Supreme Court will consider overturning strict Hawaii gun law
The Supreme Court says it'll take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration had urged the justices to take the case, arguing the law violates the court’s 2022 ruling that found people have a right to carry firearms in public under the Second Amendment. The Hawaii law bans guns on private property unless the owner has specifically allowed them. The law also prohi…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,091,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
Dmitry Teytelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07603

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
This volume contains contributions submitted to the 12th Low-Level RF Workshop which will be held in Newport News, Virginia, USA on October 12-16, 2025. This workshop continues the series of successful international workshops held in Newport News, USA (2001), Geneva, Switzerland (2005), Knoxville, USA (2007), Tsukuba, Japan (2009), Hamburg, Germany (2011), Tahoe City, USA (2013), Shanghai, China (2015), Barcelona, Spain (2017), Chicago, USA (2019), Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland (2022), and Gyeong…

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Gentle as a mother's touch: C-tactile touch promotes autonomic regulation in preterm infants by I Püschel, J Reichert, Y Friedrich, J Bergander, K Weidner, I Croy (2022).
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Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
Shigenobu Hirose, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Daniel Ang, Lorenzo Apollonio, Gabriela R. Araujo, Yoshihiro Asahara, Laura Baudis, Pranshu Bhaumik, Nathaniel Bowden, Joseph Bramante, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Mason Camp, Qing Chang, Jordan Chapman, Reza Ebadi, Alexey Elykov, Anna Erickson, Valentin Fondement, Katherine Freese, Shota Futamura, Claudio Galelli, Andrew Gilpin, Takeshi Hanyu, Noriko Hasebe, Adam A. Hecht, Samuel C. …

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
The third ``Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter'' (MD$ν$DM'25) meeting was held May 20-23, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, hosted by the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). These proceedings compile contributions from the workshop and update the progress of mineral detector research. MD$ν$DM'25 was the third such meeting, following the first in October of 2022 held at the IFPU in Trieste, Italy and the second in January of…

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On the extremal functions of second order uncertainty principles: symmetry and symmetry breaking
Xiao-Ping Chen, Chun-Lei Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15221 https://

On the extremal functions of second order uncertainty principles: symmetry and symmetry breaking
This paper focus on the symmetry and symmetry breaking about the second order Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle. \emph{Firstly}, by choosing a suitable test function, we give a negative answer to the conjecture presented by Cazacu, Flynn and Lam in [\emph{J. Funct. Anal.} \textbf{283} (2022), Paper No. 109659, 37 pp] for $N\in\{2,3\}$, and emphasizing the symmetry breaking phenomenon. \emph{Secondly}, we obtain a family of sharp weighted second order Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle, and prove the e…

Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Jordi Morales-i-Gras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17563

Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Social media have been fundamental in the daily lives of millions of people, but they have raised concerns about content moderation policies, the management of personal data, and their commercial exploitation. The acquisition of Twitter (now X) by Elon Musk in 2022 generated concerns among Twitter users regarding changes in the platform's direction, prompting a migration campaign by some user groups to the federated network Mastodon. This study reviews the onboarding of users to this decentrali…

Databricks plans to acquire Tecton, which helps companies build and deploy ML applications, for an undisclosed sum; Tecton was valued at $900M in 2022 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/databricks-buy-sequoia-…

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 2022 warnte Russland vor der Senkung der "nuklearen Schwelle" durch die #Stationierung modernisierter US-#Atomwaffen #B61 auf NATO-Stützpunkten in Europ…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,116,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,108,510 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,084,570 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,076,940 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html