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Hi there, it’s Ryan Busse.
I’ve spent my life protecting public lands.
I’ve hunted them, hiked them, raised my kids on them.
And now, I’m watching a MAGA-backed billionaire wrecking crew try to sell them off.
Donald Trump is back. And with the help of Congressional Republicans, he’s letting Elon Musk and DOGE gut protections and auction off your land to oil companies and developers.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆—𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗳𝘁. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲.
That’s why I…

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To Vary or Not To Vary: A Flexible Empirical Bayes Factor for Testing Variance Components
Fabio Vieira, Hongwei Zhao, Joris Mulder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01403 https://

To Vary or Not To Vary: A Flexible Empirical Bayes Factor for Testing Variance Components
Random effects are the gold standard for capturing structural heterogeneity in data, such as spatial dependencies, individual differences, or temporal dependencies. However, testing for their presence is challenging, as it involves a variance component constrained to be non-negative -- a boundary problem. This paper proposes a flexible empirical Bayes factor (EBF) for testing random effects. Rather than testing whether a variance component is zero, the EBF tests the equivalent hypothesis that a…

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Unavailability of experimental 3D structural data on protein folding dynamics and necessity for a new generation of structure prediction methods in this context
Aydin Wells, Khalique Newaz, Jennifer Morones, Jianlin Cheng, Tijana Milenkovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08188

Unavailability of experimental 3D structural data on protein folding dynamics and necessity for a new generation of structure prediction methods in this context
Motivation: Protein folding is a dynamic process during which a protein's amino acid sequence undergoes a series of 3-dimensional (3D) conformational changes en route to reaching a native 3D structure; the resulting 3D structural conformations are called folding intermediates. While data on native 3D structures are abundant, data on 3D structures of non-native intermediates remain sparse, due to limitations of current technologies for experimental determination of 3D structures. Yet, analyzing …