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Calamus 25 The prairie-grass dividing
Whitman's celebration of simple men, of men from "inland America", of those who are unimpressed by Presidents and Governors. It's a romantic sentiment but in 2025 also feels a little naïve or condescending.
But as always I'm here for the gay stuff. Which starts explicitly enough
[I] Demand the most copious and close companionship of men
Well OK then! Me too. Maybe you could read that in a non-sexual way but then Whitman gets lusty
[I demand] Those with a never-quell'd audacity—those with sweet and lusty flesh, clear of taint, choice and chary of its love-power
My goodness, is that hot! At least to start, it's a shame he tames it seeking out men "chary of love-power". At least he recognizes their love power! I'll take the taint, thank you.

I shared insights from research on AI's impact on undergrad creators by my collaborators Greg Nelson and Troy Schotter in an interview with Devin Daigneault for FoxABC Maine about the upcoming #MaineAIconf Friday 13 June.

Nach Arnie-Durchsage - Jetzt stärkt nächster Star Wiener Öffis den Rücken #News #Nachrichten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21611 has been replaced.
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Disturbing news about the $d=2+ε$ expansion
The $O(N)$ Non-Linear Sigma Model (NLSM) in $d=2+ε$ has long been conjectured to describe the same conformal field theory (CFT) as the Wilson-Fisher (WF) $O(N)$ fixed point obtained from the $λ(ϕ^2)^2$ model in $d=4-ε$. In this work, we put this conjecture into question, building on the recent observation [Jones (2024)] that the NLSM CFT possesses a protected operator with dimension $N-1$, which is instead absent in the WF $O(N)$ CFT. For $N=3$, we investigate the possibility of lifting thi…

Ich bin an dem Punkt, wo ich einfach gern eine halbwegs funktionierende freiheitlich-demokratische, rechtsstaatliche Regierung hätte. Wo diese mit meinen persönlichen Überzeugungen und Vorstellungen übereinstimmt, ist mir inzwischen (beinahe) egal.
(Kann ich die Bonner Republik nochmal sehen?)
#Merz

I've really been moved by Edward White's death and the tributes to him being written. His books have meant a lot to me as a gay man. I wrote a blog post with more links, many also shared on @…

Polarized Neutrons at ISIS: Recent Developments And Highlights
Polly Mitchell, Holly I. Barnfield, Mark Devonport, Kirill Nemkovski, G{\o}ran J. Nilsen, Peter Galsworthy, Gavin B. G. Stenning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05148

Polarized Neutrons at ISIS: Recent Developments And Highlights
We present two recent projects which aim to improve the performance of polarized neutron scattering experiments using hyperpolarized $^{3}He$ spin filters at ISIS. The first is the optimization of a new compact magnetostatic cavity ("Magic Box") to house the $^{3}He$ spin filters based on an existing design. With a length of only 380 mm, it provides a field gradient relaxation time for the $^{3}He$ cell of 421 h in ambient conditions. It also contains a radiofrequency coil for adiabatic fast pa…

The Impact of Cluster Mergers on Galaxy Properties
O\u{g}uzhan \c{C}ak{\i}r, Matt S. Owers, Lucas C. Kimmig, Paul Nulsen, Mina Pak, Gabriella Quattropani, Warrick J. Couch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04799

The Impact of Cluster Mergers on Galaxy Properties
Being the most energetic events in the known universe, the impact of galaxy cluster mergers on the properties of the resident galaxies has yet to be well-understood. In this paper, we investigate the effects of merging environments on star formation in nearby clusters ($0.04

On the Dynamics of Weighted Composition Operators
Nilson C. Bernardes Jr., Antonio Bonilla, Jo\~ao V. A. Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04476 https://

On the Dynamics of Weighted Composition Operators
We study the properties of power-boundedness, Li-Yorke chaos, distributional chaos, absolutely Cesàro boundedness and mean Li-Yorke chaos for weighted composition operators on $L^p(μ)$ spaces and on $C_0(Ω)$ spaces. We illustrate the general results by presenting several applications to weighted shifts on the classical sequence spaces $c_0(\mathbb{N})$, $c_0(\mathbb{Z})$, $\ell^p(\mathbb{N})$ and $\ell^p(\mathbb{Z})$ ($1 \leq p < \infty$) and to weighted translation operators on the classica…

Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.