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Cataloguing Editions and Other Resources in One Unified System: The Case of the Text Registry
By Leon Fruth, Nils Geißler, Tobias Gradl, and Daniela Schulz
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2024/fruth-et-al/
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Während eines ... Deep Listening-Workshops im Jahr 2024 entdeckten sie, dass sie reiche innere Welten und Traumleben als Inspirationsquellen für ihre Musik teilen

Zur Erinnerung:
2024 war ein Rekordjahr für die #Windenergie: Über 2.400 Anlagen mit 14.056 MW wurden genehmigt, fast 1.900 mit 10.996 MW bezuschlagt.
Der tatsächliche Ausbau blieb mit 3.251 MW leicht unter den Erwartungen, doch die Dynamik ist da.

Pressemitteilung: 2024: Windenergie-Rekordjahr bei Zuschlägen u...
Pressemitteilung:Berlin, Frankfurt – 15. Januar 2025 - Das Jahr 2024 war ein Rekordjahr für die Windenergie an Land: Insgesamt wurden in Deutschland 2.405...

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
Alina Wernick, Kristof Meding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03218 https://

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
The EU has become one of the vanguards in regulating the digital age. A particularly important regulation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain is the EU AI Act, which entered into force in 2024. The AI Act specifies -- due to a risk-based approach -- various obligations for providers of AI systems. These obligations, for example, include a cascade of documentation and compliance measures, which represent a potential obstacle to science. But do these obligations also apply to AI researcher…

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

“Excursion (same-day) travel to the United States by automobile dropped abruptly at the start of 2025, after holding consistently positive throughout 2024. Same-day returns fell by 40.3% year over year in May 2025”
That is an extremely high amount of change. After September 11, it was in the 30% range.
I miss my cross-border trips, but it’s just a bad risk reward calculation right now. #canada

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Should We Expect Further Acceleration of the Earth's Rotation in the Coming Years?
Recently, it has been suggested in the literature that the difference between universal and coordinated time UT1-UTC could reach a large positive value in the coming years (Agnew 2024). This would make it necessary to introduce a negative leap second into UTC for the first time in history, which in turn will cause serious problems in time keeping and synchronization systems around the world. Based on the latest Earth's rotation and universal time data published by the international Earth rotati…

Warum ich bei der Klimakrise keine Hoffnung mehr habe? Weil das Wort Kapitalismus nicht mal mehr erwähnt wird.
Was soll das?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKR8nWlRtZi/

Quarks on Instagram: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des Pariser Abkommens und ein schnelles Ende der Nutzung fossiler Energien. Die Proteste rückten das Klimathema ins Zentrum der weltweiten Aufmerksamkeit. Doch das ist sechs Jahre her. . 🇩🇪🌱 Aktuell scheint den Menschen (in Deutschland) Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit nicht mehr so wichtig, Konsument:innen haben immer seltener Schuldgefühle, wenn sie sich nicht umweltfreundlich verhalten. 2019 gaben das in einer Umfrage eines Marktforschungsunternehmens (NIQ) 30 Prozent an. Im Jahr 2024 waren es nur noch 22 Prozent. 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Immerhin: Der Nachhaltigkeitsindex zeigt seit April 2025 wieder einen leichten Aufwärtstrend, liegt aber weit unter den Werten von 2019. Die Menschen seien pragmatischer geworden, so die Umfrage: Klimaschutz dürfe nicht zu viel kosten und dürfe nicht allzu unbequem sein, finden die Konsument:innen. . Unsere Quellen, u.a.: NielsenIQ: „NIQ Consumer Life“-Langzeitstudie: So shoppen (und leben) wir anders als 2019 Osberghaus et al. (2025): The intention-behavior gap in climate change adaptation: Evidence from longitudinal survey data Ajzen I. (1985) From Intentions to Actions: A Theory of Planned Behavior"
2,385 likes, 168 comments - quarks.de on May 30, 2025: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des …

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
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KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
Lorraine Saju, Arnim Bleier, Jana Lasser, Claudia Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03655

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
The proliferation of misinformation necessitates scalable, automated fact-checking solutions. Yet, current benchmarks often overlook multilingual and topical diversity. This paper introduces a novel, dynamically extensible data set that includes 61,514 claims in multiple languages and topics, extending existing datasets up to 2024. Through a comprehensive evaluation of five prominent Large Language Models (LLMs), including GPT-4o, GPT-3.5 Turbo, LLaMA 3.1, and Mixtral 8x7B, we identify signific…

El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

"96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity."
ht…

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY – #IndieMusician #indiemusic #musicianresources #musiciantips

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

How Has Raiders' Malcolm Koonce Looked in OTAs? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/malcolm-koonce-patrick-graham-pete-carroll-las-vegas

Warum ich bei der Klimakrise keine Hoffnung mehr habe? Weil das Wort Kapitalismus nicht mal mehr erwähnt wird.
Was soll das?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKR8nWlRtZi/

Quarks on Instagram: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des Pariser Abkommens und ein schnelles Ende der Nutzung fossiler Energien. Die Proteste rückten das Klimathema ins Zentrum der weltweiten Aufmerksamkeit. Doch das ist sechs Jahre her. . 🇩🇪🌱 Aktuell scheint den Menschen (in Deutschland) Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit nicht mehr so wichtig, Konsument:innen haben immer seltener Schuldgefühle, wenn sie sich nicht umweltfreundlich verhalten. 2019 gaben das in einer Umfrage eines Marktforschungsunternehmens (NIQ) 30 Prozent an. Im Jahr 2024 waren es nur noch 22 Prozent. 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Immerhin: Der Nachhaltigkeitsindex zeigt seit April 2025 wieder einen leichten Aufwärtstrend, liegt aber weit unter den Werten von 2019. Die Menschen seien pragmatischer geworden, so die Umfrage: Klimaschutz dürfe nicht zu viel kosten und dürfe nicht allzu unbequem sein, finden die Konsument:innen. . Unsere Quellen, u.a.: NielsenIQ: „NIQ Consumer Life“-Langzeitstudie: So shoppen (und leben) wir anders als 2019 Osberghaus et al. (2025): The intention-behavior gap in climate change adaptation: Evidence from longitudinal survey data Ajzen I. (1985) From Intentions to Actions: A Theory of Planned Behavior"
2,385 likes, 168 comments - quarks.de on May 30, 2025: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des …

Wetterextreme richten 2024 Milliardenschäden an
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191403

Wetterextreme richten 2024 Milliardenschäden an
Vor allem Hochwasser sorgte im vergangenen Jahr für Versicherungsschäden in Höhe von 5,7 Milliarden Euro: Wetterextreme richten 2024 Milliardenschäden in Deutschland an. Wie wird man zukünftig zu d…

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

The story of Rogue #rogue #roguelikes

FSJ oder BFD im Hafen! Plätze frei!
Maritim
Spannend
Vielfältig
Einblicke in Schiffe und Häfen
Bitte weitersagen: an vielen Orten sind noch Plätze frei für Bundesfreiwilligendienst oder FSJ!
https://seemannsmission.org/freie-stellen-fsj-2025/…

Freie Stellen FSJ 2025 | Deutsche Seemannsmission
Freie Stellen FSJ 2024 und Bufdi - bei der Seemannsmission sind noch Plätze frei Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr im Hafen / Bundesfreiwilligendienst BFD ab Sommer

Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding

MAGNA: Asia Pacific ad revenue grew 7.9% in 2024 to $288B led by digital advertising; TV budgets declined by 1.9%, print dropped by 3%, and radio fell by 4.2% (Alisha Buaya/Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/magna-forecast-apac-ad-revenue-gr…

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Submonoid Membership in n-dimensional lamplighter groups and S-unit equations
We show that Submonoid Membership is decidable in n-dimensional lamplighter groups $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}) \wr \mathbb{Z}^n$ for any prime $p$ and integer $n$. More generally, we show decidability of Submonoid Membership in semidirect products of the form $\mathcal{Y} \rtimes \mathbb{Z}^n$, where $\mathcal{Y}$ is any finitely presented module over the Laurent polynomial ring $\mathbb{F}_p[X_1^{\pm}, \ldots, X_n^{\pm}]$. Combined with a result of Shafrir (2024), this gives the first example of…

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22702

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
This study examines the shift in the scientific community from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, its impact on scientific communication, and consequently on social metrics (altmetrics). We analysed 14,497 publications from multidisciplinary and Library and Information Science (LIS) journals between January 2024 and March 2025. The results reveal a notable increase in Bluesky activity for multidisciplinary journals in November 2024, likely influenced by political and platform changes, with mentio…

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X-ray polarization observations of NGC 2110 with IXPE
X-ray polarimetric observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) is an excellent tool for probing the geometry and dynamics of X-ray emitting corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This work aims to investigate the geometry of the X-ray corona in the Seyfert 2 AGN, NGC 2110, using its first polarimetric observation with IXPE, conducted over a net exposure of 554 ks beginning on October 16, 2024. We performed a model-independent analysis of the 2-8 keV IXPE polarimetric observ…

Demand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.

New report casts doubt on potential revival of Quebec LNG project
Reviving a liquefied natural gas export project in Quebec's Saguenay region would be costly and likely unprofitable, a shareholder advocacy group says.

An Apple-funded study says the global App Store drove $1.3T in developer billings and sales in 2024, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/appl

Apple says its App Store helped generate $1.3T in billings and sales, most without a commission | TechCrunch
Apple said developers generated $1.3 trillion in sales in 2024 through its App Store, of which 90% did not involve paying the company a commission.

Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

#TrumpVotersDidThis
Farm Bankruptcies in 2025 Already Exceed 2024 Levels | Hoosier Ag Today
https://www.hoosieragtoday.com/2025/07/15/farm-bankruptcies-2/

Your daily reminder NOT to give any money at all to Amazon.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114868402992391963

Stimme noch bis 25. Mai ab, wer die Auszeichnung "Spieler:in des Jahres" für 2024 erhält - hier geht es zu den Kandidat:innen in vier Kategorien: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/spielerdesjahres/2024/

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Robert Jedicke, Peter Vere\v{s}, Christine H. Chen, Carey M. Lisse, Russet McMillan, Torrie Sutherland, Amanda J. Townsend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23736

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Pre-impact detection asteroids (PIDAs) may be detected only a few hours before their impact with Earth, providing a brief opportunity to characterize them before impact. We describe the characterization of PIDA 2024 RW$_1$, which was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on 2024 September 4 at 05:43 UTC, before it entered the atmosphere near the northern Philippines at 16:39 UTC. We observed 2024 RW$_1$ with the Astrophysical Research Consortium Telescope Imaging Camera on the Apache Point Astr…

Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/democrats-2024-autopsy-harris-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.5bA7.DMIFme0Pd3Jb&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p4#a250719p4

#OTD 2024. Rotterdam.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Möglicher Komplize - Terrorpläne auf Swift-Konzert: Anklage in Berlin #News #Nachrichten

from my link log —
Rustls server-side performance.
https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-server-perf/
saved 2025-05-16 …

Rustls Server-Side Performance
In past years, the Rustls project has been happy to receive substantial investments from the ISRG. One of our goals has been to improve performance without compromising on safety. We last posted about our performance improvements in October of 2024, and we're back to talk about another round of improvements. What is Rustls? Rustls is a memory safe TLS implementation with a focus on performance. It is production ready and used in a wide range of applications.

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Mengqi Wang, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20199

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a wide variety of real-world applications in various domains. However, creating a high-performing application with high accuracy remains challenging, particularly for subjective tasks like emotion recognition. Inspired by the SLT 2024 GenSER Challenge, this study investigates approaches to improving conversational emotion recognition (CER) by LLMs. Specifically, we explore how to retrieve high-quality examples in in-context learning (ICL) to enhance CER…

Es ging doch nur darum, das Rezept für den übelst lekkeren Hefezopf, der immer bei den F-Runden serviert wird, vor den Grühünen geheim zu halten! 🥹
#FDP #Lindner
Quelle:

"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google.
This is enshittification."
From: @…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Angehängt: 1 Bild It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course): https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers.

Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding

Confirmed: another big jump in atmospheric CO2 concentration. The June average at Mauna Loa was 429.6 ppm, that's 2.7 ppm more than last year!
#co2 #emissions #climatechange

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
Chunyu Chen, Long Chen, Tingyi Gao, Xuehai Huang, Huayi Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19732 https://

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
The construction of $C^m$ conforming finite elements on simplicial meshes has recently advanced through the groundbreaking work of Hu, Lin, and Wu (Found. Comput. Math. 24, 2024). Their framework characterizes smoothness via moments of normal derivatives over subsimplices, leading to explicit degrees of freedom and unisolvence, unifying earlier constructions. However, the absence of explicit basis functions has left these spaces largely inaccessible for practical computation. In parallel, multi…

Santiago de Cuba – Carnaval 2002 https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/2024/08/07/santiago-de-cuba-carnaval-2002/?lang=es

Einige der Absurditäten hatte ich gar nicht mitbekommen oder sie sind wieder untergegangen. #Steuerbetrug ist kein Kavaliersdelikt, auch wenn das laut Wikipedia oft so gesehen wird:
> wobei Steuerhinterziehung am häufigsten in Verbindung damit [#Kavaliersdelikt] gebracht wurde

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election,
has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature
https://www.scmp.com/wee…

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election, has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature.

After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…

Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tälläistä sitten tekohengitetään kymmenillä miljoonilla tämänkin hallituksen johdolla. Erityismaininta menee Keskustalle, RKP:lle ja KD:lle joille eläinrääkkäyksen tukeminen on ollut tärkeä poliittinen ja ideologinen tavoite eri hallituskokoonpanoissa.
Turkisalan tilastot paljastavat: ala jatkaa romahdustaan https://

Turkisalan tilastot paljastavat: ala jatkaa romahdustaan | Animalia-media
Suomessa kasvatettiin 0,8 miljoonaa turkiseläintä vuonna 2024. Tämä tarkoittaa, että jäljellä on enää 17 prosenttia vuoden 2015 tuotannosta.

EU suspends Ukrainian language interpreter for suspected espionage on Zelensky for Russia, Le Monde reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-suspends-ukrainian-language-interpreter.html

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"
John M. Herbert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18196

Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"
In a commentary published in mid-2024 (to which the present work is a direct response), a number of scientists argue that U.S. funding agencies have "politicized" the process by which grants are awarded, in service of diversifying the scientific workforce. The commentary in question, however, makes numerous unfounded assertions while recycling citations to a fusillade of opinion essays written by the same cabal of authors, in an effort to resemble a work of serious scholarship. Basic fact-check…

Cooper Beebe continues to be underestimated as Dallas Cowboys o-line anchor https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cooper-beebe-underestimated-dallas-cowboys-o-line-anchor

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 4, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 11 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 3 calls for papers, and 1 conference/speaker.

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/i…

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Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
Mika G\"o\"os, Nathaniel Harms, Artur Riazanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11162 https://

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
We exhibit an $n$-bit communication problem with a constant-cost randomized protocol but which requires $n^{Ω(1)}$ deterministic (or even non-deterministic) queries to an Equality oracle. Therefore, even constant-cost randomized protocols cannot be efficiently "derandomized" using Equality oracles. This improves on several recent results and answers a question from the survey of Hatami and Hatami (SIGACT News 2024). It also gives a significantly simpler and quantitatively superior proof of the…

Der deutsche #Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds (#WSF) erzielte 2024 mit 90,4 Millionen Euro erneut einen Jahresüberschuss.
Ursprünglich zur Unterstützung großer Unternehmen in der #Coronapandemie

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications
Cynthia Kop (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Helida Salles Santos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05219

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications
This volume contains the post-proceedings of the 19th LSFA, which was held in Goiânia, the capital of Goiás state in Brazil, from September 18 to September 20, 2024. Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The aim of this series is bringing together theoreticians and practitioners t…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 27, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 17 new job opportunities and 3 other opportunities.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Hamish Hawk:
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Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
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EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

Saudi Arabia has executed almost 600 people over the past decade for drug-related offences,
-- three-quarters of whom were foreign nationals from countries including Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria and Egypt.
After a temporary moratorium on drug-related capital punishments between 2021 and 2022, the executions jumped to record levels, with 122 in 2024 and 118 so far this year up until the end of last month.
With little international scrutiny of what Amnesty International de…

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

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NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics
The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee ( NuPECC, http://nupecc.org/ ) hosted by the European Science Foundation represents today a large nuclear physics community from 23 countries, 3 ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) nuclear physics infrastructures and ECT* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas), as well as from 4 associated members and 10 observers. As stated in the NuPECC Terms of Reference one of the major ob…

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It’s a political timebomb
"While housing lies at the heart of political disillusionment today, it is for the same reason becoming a primary trigger for mobilisation across Europe. In October 2024, 150,000 protesters marched through the streets of Madrid demanding action. Some governments, including Denmark and the Netherlands, are introducing policies to deter speculators. But real estate capital continues to hold the…

Analysis of Floating-Point Matrix Multiplication Computed via Integer Arithmetic
Ahmad Abdelfattah, Jack Dongarra, Massimiliano Fasi, Mantas Mikaitis, Fran\c{c}oise Tisseur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11277

Analysis of Floating-Point Matrix Multiplication Computed via Integer Arithmetic
Ootomo, Ozaki, and Yokota [Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl., 38 (2024), p. 297-313] have proposed a strategy to recast a floating-point matrix multiplication in terms of integer matrix products. The factors A and B are split into integer slices, the product of these slices is computed exactly, and AB is approximated by accumulating these integer products in floating-point arithmetic. This technique is particularly well suited to mixed-precision matrix multiply-accumulate units with integer s…

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Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
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Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Dan Osborn,
the independent candidate who came surprisingly close to defeating Republican senator Deb Fischer in Nebraska last year,
announced on Tuesday he will run for the state’s other Senate seat in 2026 against GOP senator Pete Ricketts.
The industrial mechanic and former Kellogg’s strike leader lost to Fischer by less than seven points in 2024
– a remarkable result in deep-red Nebraska.
Osborn received 66,000 more votes than Kamala Harris, who lost the sta…

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🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Ok. You've all convinced me. I'm in. I'm running for Senate against billionaire Pete Ricketts In Nebraska. This race represents the foundational battle taking place in America right now: The Billionaire Class vs. The Working Class Who's with me?

Phase autoencoder for rapid data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns
Koichiro Yawata, Ryo Sakuma, Kai Fukami, Kunihiko Taira, Hiroya Nakao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12777

Phase autoencoder for rapid data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns
We present a machine-learning method for data-driven synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns in reaction-diffusion systems. Based on the phase autoencoder [Yawata {\it et al.}, Chaos {\bf 34}, 063111 (2024)], we map high-dimensional field variables of the reaction-diffusion system to low-dimensional latent variables characterizing the asymptotic phase and amplitudes of the field variables. This yields a reduced phase description of the limit cycle underlying the rhythmic spatiotempo…

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…

The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a9b5d243-d905-42c4-b62c-1f640175005a…

‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots
Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture

Analysis of BDDC preconditioners for non-conforming polytopal hybrid discretisation methods
Santiago Badia, Jerome Droniou, Jordi Manyer, Jai Tushar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11956

Analysis of BDDC preconditioners for non-conforming polytopal hybrid discretisation methods
In this work, we build on the discrete trace theory developed in [Badia, Droniou, Tushar, arXiv (2024)] to analyse the rate of convergence of the Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) preconditioner generated from non-conforming polytopal hybrid discretisation. We prove polylogarithmic condition number bounds for the preconditioner that are independent of the mesh parameter and number of subdomains, and hold on polytopal meshes. The analysis hinges on the continuity of a face tru…

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Religious Studies Project Opportunites Digest – October 16, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 38 new job opportunities, 5 fellowships, 3 grants, 5 call for papers, 12 conferences/speakers, and 1 other opportunity.

#Satellitendaten zeigen einen Rückgang von 22 % bei 16 #Kaiserpinguin-Kolonien in Teilen der #Antarktis zwischen 2009 und 2024.
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Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show
WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday

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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, 5 call for papers, and 3 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 39!) […]

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Paper Of Record delves into how unchecked global warming #climate chaos created catastrophic conditions for deadly #floods in #TX. The #GuadalupeRiver

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 6, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 18, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 13, 2024
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TAGB: Ritualisierte Praktiken: Formeln ­– Zeichen – Rezeptarien, Basel (07.11. – 08.11.2024)
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