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Author Adelaide Faith on the fear and joy of total artistic freedom
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/author-adelaide-fai…

Author Adelaide Faith on the fear and joy of total artistic freedom – The Creative Independent
Author Adelaide Faith discusses managing work, parenting and creative time, sticking to a schedule, and choosing a day job that makes a difference in the world.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to 10 Years in String of Hacks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-20/scattered-s…

"There’s this kind of secret language that rats are communicating in with each other that we don’t hear,”
says Emily Mackevicius,
a neuroscientist and a co-author of the study.
“They’re very social,” adds Ralph Peterson, another study co-author.
“They’re rugged, and they’re New Yorkers themselves: persistent and resilient and able to thrive in a very extreme environment.”

Ukrainian-American author Yurii Tarnawsky dies at 91: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/17/ukrainianamerican-author-yurii-tarnawsky-dies.html

Some of the stuff that this guy is saying sounds like the mumbo jumbo you hear in the final act of some animes. GITS part 2 or „Stand-Alone Complex“ for example, where the bad guy is dumping exposition about the universe. You wonder what the author was smoking and can’t follow but you keep watching because of cool mecha action and explosions.
„The non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you…“ „It lives in soft compliance delays“… yadda yadda. Your brain on ChatGPT.

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.

Oh HELL no
this. isn't. me.
A friend saw this in a bookstore and sent it to me
I'm gonna have to talk to Naomi Klein about dealing with pernicious doppelgangers

There's a new book out on Wikipedia: Sandrin, Michel, and Victor Lefebvre. 2025. La face cachée de Wikipédia: Enquête sur les dérives de l’encyclopédie libre. CERF.
Not entirely sure what to make of it. Analysis and criticism are not really new, although it is a bit strange (at least for someone more familiar with German Wikipedia) to see Wikipedia framed as left-leaning and 'woke'. 🤷

Friday Links 25-20
If you have a weird fascination with trams, you should probably check out the full World Tramdriver Championship video.
Otherwise, the podcast with the author of Code Complete is great, so is the one about a train ride through Canada.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/09/fr

Friday Links 25-20
If you have a weird fascination with trams, you should probably check out the full World Tramdriver Championship video.  Otherwise, the podc...

I was reading an article about the #Braves #baseball season earlier. The author went so far as to say it was "one of the worst in franchise history". My dudes. This guy apparently missed the 70's and 80's when Ted Turner literally ran ostrich races to get people to c…

Behind the Braves: A look back at unique promotions
The Official Site of Major League Baseball

Hurts uncovers his 'swag,' helps Eagles stop skid https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46653406/jalen-hurts-authors-perfect-passer-rating-eagles-victory

OK, how did that happen? This image is from https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666595635-the-last-dark. Did the artist have a decorative "D" on a different PhotoShop layer from the rest of the text, and somehow forget to export it for this thumbnail? The odd slightly-off-…

„Das Netz“ (1995): Sandra Bullock klickt ein paar Dateien an – und ihr Leben ist futsch. Damals Science-Fiction, heute wirkt er wie ein prophetisches Dokument: Digitale Identitäten, allgegenwärtige Überwachung, Kontrollverlust. - Bis 28.8.25 in der ZDF Mediathek - Danke für den Hinweis @…

Sandra Bullock - "Das Netz" (1995)
Es gab mal eine Zeit, da war „Cyberspace“ noch kein slicker Marketingbegriff, sondern eine ziemlich apokalyptische Landschaft aus grünem Code, LAN-Kabeln und knarzenden, piependen Modems. 1995 war die Angst noch frisch – und Hollywood gierig danach. "Hackers" war bunt und anarchisch, "Sneakers" charmant-paranoid, und dann kam "Das Netz": der brave, etwas niedliche Cor

Consciously avoiding people using the term “subconscious”
A while ago I read an article where the author used the term "subconscious" and it miffed me. In essence, it goes like this: Serious psychologists do not use the term because it is not possible to determine if the unconscious is above, below, left, right, in-front of, or behind us. You know, because it's not a thing, and it's not sent from the devil or hell, whatever Freud might have hypothesized.

"OpenAI patched a ChatGPT security flaw that could have allowed hackers to extract Gmail data from its users, according to researchers at cyber firm Radware."
https://www.

Improvement of Drmota-Verwee's effective Erdos-Wintner theorem for Zeckendorf expansions
Johann Verwee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14974 https://arxiv.o…

Improvement of Drmota-Verwee's effective Erdos-Wintner theorem for Zeckendorf expansions
We revisit the effective Erdos-Wintner theorem for Zeckendorf expansions. Drmota and the author obtained a uniform Kolmogorov bound whose error involves $T\sum_{j>L-2h}|f(F_j)|$, which assumes absolute convergence of the linear tail $\sum_j f(F_j)$. We remove this assumption. Grouping the transfer matrices in pairs and working to second order on the logarithm of the product, after extracting the common linear phase along the dominant direction, yields a quadratic tail $T^2\sum_{j>L-2h…

On the compatibility of the Betti harmonic coproduct with cyclotomic filtrations
Benjamin Enriquez, Khalef Yaddaden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12208 https://

On the compatibility of the Betti harmonic coproduct with cyclotomic filtrations
In a previous paper, the second author introduced a Betti counterpart of $N$-cyclotomic double shuffle theory for any $N \geq 1$. The construction is based on the group algebra of the free group $F_2$, endowed with a filtration relative to a morphism $F_2 \to μ_N$ (where $μ_N$ is the group of $N$-th roots of unity). One of the main results therein is the construction of a complete Hopf algebra coproduct $\widehatΔ^{\mathcal{W}, \mathrm{B}}_N$ on the relative completion of a specific subalgeb…

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
Frank Elavsky, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12192

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
This paper is a collaborative piece between two worlds of expertise in the field of data visualization: accessibility and bias. In particular, the rise of generative models playing a role in accessibility is a worrying trend for data visualization. These models are increasingly used to help author visualizations as well as generate descriptions of existing visualizations for people who are blind, low vision, or use assistive technologies such as screen readers. Sighted human-to-human bias has a…

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Anthony Howell, Jieshu Wang, Luyu Du, Julia Melkers, Varshil Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122 https://

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human decision-making. We adapt a resume-style audit to scientific publishing, developing a multi-role LLM simulation (editor/reviewer) that evaluates a representative set of high-quality manuscripts across the physical, biological, and social sciences under randomized author identities (institutional pres…

New generalized unit distributions based on order statistics
Iman Mohamed Attia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12276 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12276

New generalized unit distributions based on order statistics
In the present paper, the author discusses the derivation of unit distributions and the derivation of the generalized form using the order statistics. The author discusses the Kumaraswamy as the smallest order statistic of the unit power distribution derived from the inverse Weibull distribution. The author discusses the unit Rayleigh distribution and how it can be generalized using the smallest, largest, and kth order statistics. Using the order statistics to generalize a distribution differs …

Particle creation in a cosmological background in analogy to the #Schwinger effect: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09481-> summary from 1st author: https://scicomm.xyz/@ncgnl@mathstodon.xyz/115383289061077503 / thread from 3rd author: https://scicomm.xyz/@hfalcke@mastodon.social/115383564116913734

Back in 2018-19, the movie #Burning was a critical hit — for some reason. It was a #Korean psychological thriller #movie that reached breakthrough status in the west, and that implies it was better than most Korea…

Deformation Quantization on $\mathbb{R}^d$
Haiqi Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14235…

Deformation Quantization on $\mathbb{R}^d$
The primary aim of this essay, drawn from the author's MMath dissertation at Oxford, is to present and explain Kontsevich's formality theorem. The first two sections introduce the main topic. Sections 3 and 4 discuss Hochschild (co)homology, DGLA, and Maurer-Cartan elements. HKR theorem is stated in section 4, while a proof is deferred to appendix. In Section 5 we talk about L-infinity morphisms. The central result of section 5 gives a penultimate step for solving the problem. We prove the main…

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Tilting theory for hypersurface singularities of dimension one
Osamu Iyama, Junyang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12581 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12581…

Tilting theory for hypersurface singularities of dimension one
It was shown by Buchweitz, the first author, and Yamaura that any $\mathbb{N}$-graded commutative Gorenstein ring $R$ of Krull dimension one with $R_0$ a field admits a standard silting object $V$ in the stable category $\underline{\mathrm{CM}\, \!}_0^{\mathbb{Z}}R$. Moreover, they proved that the object $V$ is tilting if and only if the $a$-invariant $a$ is non-negative. In this article, under the additional assumption that $R$ is a hypersurface singularity, we give an explicit description of …

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Comparative Analysis of Two Astrometric Measuring Methods on Five Known Binaries
Syfrett Malachi, Major John, Gamage Gihan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11777 https://

Comparative Analysis of Two Astrometric Measuring Methods on Five Known Binaries
Data on five Washington Double Star catalog binaries were collected from the Dimension Point Observatory (Mayhill, New Mexico) and Las Cumbres Observatory (Cerro Tololo, Chile) on February 19, 2025, and March 5, 2025, respectively. Student researchers participating in the Four Corners Research Seminar measured the position angle (theta/deg) and separation (rho/arcsec) of each target using AstroImageJ and an author-created script utilizing the Astropy module in Python3. Each target was imaged us…

Worst-case Nonparametric Bounds for the Student T-statistic
David Edelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13226 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13226

Worst-case Nonparametric Bounds for the Student T-statistic
We address the problem of finding worst-case nonparametric bounds for T-statistic bythe considering the extremal problem of maximising $\mathbb{P}(S(w)\ge t)$ over nonnegative weight vectors $w\in\mathbb{R}^n$ with $\|w\|_2=1$, where $S(w)=\sum_{i=1}^n w_i \varepsilon_i$ and $\varepsilon_i$ are independent Rademacher variables. While classical results of Hoeffding [1] and Chernoff [2] provide sub-Gaussian upper bounds, and optimal-order inequalities were later obtained by the author […

Halfway through reading "Mister Magic" by Kiersten White and really enjoying it. I was intrigued by the horror premise and the thought of a nostalgic children's show with little evidence of its existence despite its many decades run. The clencher was that I heard the author was exploring her religious trauma after leaving Mormonism.
This description opening a scene just made me laugh out loud. "A man like mayonnaise in human form stalks towards them."
I…

I met this sweet old girl at a record store in Albuquerque today. She was the store greeter.
She had some matted fur, so I told the proprietor about an old cat of mine whose fur was very matted, and how adding some vitamin E to her food made all the clumps fall out on their own. He said he would try it. 😺

Iwahori-Hecke model for the universal supersingular representation
Anand Chitrao, Asfak Soneji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13766 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Iwahori-Hecke model for the universal supersingular representation
Let $F$ be a non-archimedean local field with residue field $\mathbb{F}_q$. When $F$ is a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_{p}$, Anandavardhanan-Borisagar and Anandavardhanan-Jana introduced an Iwahori-Hecke model for the universal supersingular representation $π_r$ in the regular case $ 0 < r < q-1$. When $F=\mathbb{Q}_{p}$, the first author introduced an Iwahori-Hecke model for $π_r$ when $r = 0, p - 1$. We extend this result to an arbitrary local field $F$ for $r = 0, q - 1$. We also writ…

Spectral selectors on strongly orderable contact manifolds and applications
Pierre-Alexandre Arlove
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Spectral selectors on strongly orderable contact manifolds and applications
We prove that the spectral selectors introduced by the author for closed strongly orderable contact manifolds satisfy algebraic properties analogous to those of the spectral selectors for lens spaces constructed by Allais, Sandon and the author using Givental's nonlinear Maslov index. As applications, first we establish a contact big fiber theorem for closed strongly orderable contact manifolds as well as for lens spaces. Second, when the Reeb flow is periodic, we construct a stably unbounded c…

Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/14/we-are-eating-the-earth-book-climate

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously) https://thecreativ…

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously) – The Creative Independent
Author and publisher Michelle Tea discusses surviving as an artist, building community, and staying true to your voice

🔮 Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author
https://lithub.com/spells-skepticism-and-surrender-what-happens-when-the-agent-becomes-the-author/

Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author
My mother has always been drawn to New Age spiritualism—at least for as long as I’ve known her. Which means that over the course of my life, I’ve not only had my palms read, but my fortune told, an…

Asymptotic Behavior of Homogeneous Complex Monge-Ampere Equations on ALE Kahler manifolds
Qi Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13609 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Asymptotic Behavior of Homogeneous Complex Monge-Ampere Equations on ALE Kahler manifolds
This paper is a sequel to the author's earlier work and investigates the homogeneous complex Monge--Ampere equation (HCMA) on the product space $X \times D$, where $X$ is an asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) Kahler manifold and $D subset C$ is the unit disc. We establish precise asymptotic behavior of the solution to the HCMA equation, showing that the decay rate of the solution matches that of the prescribed boundary data and that uniform control in weighted Holder norms can be achieved. …

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

"Inside the Plastics Industry Playbook: Delay, Deny, and Distract"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Inside the Plastics Industry Playbook: Delay, Deny, and Distract
In an interview with e360, Saabira Chaudhuri, author of a new book on the history of the plastics industry, discusses how petrochemical companies worldwide have molded consumers to embrace convenience and disposability — no matter the environmental and public health costs.

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 18: Kim Småge
Sorry, but you'll have to learn some Norwegian if you want to read this author, as she hasn't been translated into English yet - but that means you could read Ibsen too...
"Containerkvinnan" was a real knockout. The bodies of two women are found in a container in Trondheim's harbour, and from here proceeds the whodunnit. It's a whole series and I keep mean…

USC Levan Book Chat—Maya Maskarinec, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
https://ift.tt/GRV0sjm
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

'[**Conservative author and political commentator David Brooks is calling on Americans to launch a “mass movement” to combat the Trump administration’s push “into authoritarianism,” and is proposing an unlikely alliance as the best approach for such a movement to gain traction.**"
Conservative urges unlikely alliance as key to leaving Trump's presidency in ruins - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674182360/

Indigenous Beadwork as a Method of Teaching Linear Algebra
Sarah Plosker, Cathy Mattes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10477 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10477

Indigenous Beadwork as a Method of Teaching Linear Algebra
In this work, the authors describe efforts aimed at Indigenizing a second-year linear algebra course at a small liberal arts university in Manitoba, Canada. This is done through an assignment, part hands-on and part written work, that explores the connection between Indigenous beadwork and linear algebra. Our collaboration was perhaps unconventional: Sarah, the first author, is a mathematics professor; while Cathy, the second author, is an associate professor in art history. However, we both ha…

On the bricks (Schur representations) of finite dimensional algebras
Kaveh Mousavand, Charles Paquette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11789 https://arxiv.org/p…

On the bricks (Schur representations) of finite dimensional algebras
This manuscript treats the diverse applications of bricks within modern representation theory and several related domains, and reviews the recent developments and new results on bricks (a.k.a Schur representations). The current survey is an extended version of a mini-course by the second-named author, delivered in the research school on ``New Developments in Representation Theory of Algebras", held in November of 2024, at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan. The review is …

This article does not in fact mention anything Reality Winner says she shares with Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html

Combinatorial Proofs for Overpartitions and Two-Colored Partitions II
Dandan Chen, Jiahao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

Combinatorial Proofs for Overpartitions and Two-Colored Partitions II
Andrews and El Bachraoui recently studied various two-colored integer partitions, including those related to two-colored partitions into distinct parts with constraints and overpartitions. Their work raised questions about the existence of combinatorial proofs for these results, which were partially addressed by the first author and Zou. This paper provides combinatorial proofs for the remaining results concerning two-colored partitions and overpartitions with constraints.

Dear #lazyweb,
I think I've reached the limit of #matplotlib trying to graph the forks from a #git repository. What I want to to plot the slowly growing trunk and then show the relative sizes o…

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/21/meta-expose-author-sarah-wynn-williams-faces-bankrup…

Dear fediverse,
I just had a video call over Signal with @… from Gaza.
Farah, or Joy, as she prefers to be called, is a 22-year-old Palestinian author and poet studying English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has been bombed by Israel.
She lives with her mother and four siblings in a shelter, trying to survive the genoci…

Joy's Voice: Empowering a Gaza Author
To My Dearest Donors,

Today I fiddled with my Dist::Zilla author bundle (https://metacpan.org/pod/Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::DOMM) and released a new Plugin (

In our last #ISE2025 lecture last week, we were discussing what makes a node "important" in a knowledge graph. A simple heuristics can be borrowed from graph theory or communication theory: Degree Centrality
Interestingly, in Wikidata In-degree centrality states Jane Austen to be to most "important" female author, while Out-degree centrality claims J.K. Rowling as being…

I'm reading "Drystone - A life rebuilt" by the marvelous @…
It's tough. It's brilliant and intimate. It's embarrassing as a man and as society when she writes brutally honest about abuse and racism and sexism and many other atrocities.
She's got an incredible talent to put in words what she has endured.

Upcoming #SanFrancisco appearance of #Enshittification author Cory Doctorow announced at Public Works in #SFMission with Jenny Odell of The Booksmith, Monday Oct 20th 7p

What an elaborate way to avoid saying
“crime has plummeted.”
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3lwjfovefsk2n

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
lol. Hope the author stretched before trying this kind of reach.

On the threshold for triangulations inside convex polygons
Brett Kolesnik, Georgii Zakharov, Maksim Zhukovskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10160 https://arx…

On the threshold for triangulations inside convex polygons
Start with a large convex polygon and add all other edges inside independently with probability $p$. At what critical threshold $p_c$ do triangulations of the polygon begin to appear? The first author and Gravner asked this question, and observed that $p_c=Θ(1)$, using the relationship with the Catalan numbers and a coupling with oriented site percolation on ${\mathbb Z}^2$. More recently, Archer, Hartarsky, the first author, Olesker-Taylor, Schapira and Valesin proved that $1/4

natal homer, author of the odyssey, chronicling odysseus's epic journey back to the maldives beach he was born on to lay 110 eggs and bury them in the incubator of the sand

Why Cannot Large Language Models Ever Make True Correct Reasoning?
Jingde Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10265 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10265

Why Cannot Large Language Models Ever Make True Correct Reasoning?
Recently, with the application progress of AIGC tools based on large language models (LLMs), led by ChatGPT, many AI experts and more non-professionals are trumpeting the "understanding ability" and "reasoning ability" of the LLMs. The present author considers that the so-called "understanding ability" and "reasoning ability" of LLMs are just illusions of those people who with vague concepts. In fact, the LLMs can never have the true understanding ability and true reasoning ability. This paper …

ACADATA: Parallel Dataset of Academic Data for Machine Translation
I\~naki Lacunza, Javier Garcia Gilabert, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Javier Aula-Blasco, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Maite Melero, Marta Villegas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12621

ACADATA: Parallel Dataset of Academic Data for Machine Translation
We present ACADATA, a high-quality parallel dataset for academic translation, that consists of two subsets: ACAD-TRAIN, which contains approximately 1.5 million author-generated paragraph pairs across 96 language directions and ACAD-BENCH, a curated evaluation set of almost 6,000 translations covering 12 directions. To validate its utility, we fine-tune two Large Language Models (LLMs) on ACAD-TRAIN and benchmark them on ACAD-BENCH against specialized machine-translation systems, general-purpos…

Unbelievably, it's real.

Storage places in diplomatic texts (7th-13th centuries). Lexical, semantic, and digital investigation
Nicolas Perreaux (LAMOP, CNRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12230 https://

Storage places in diplomatic texts (7th-13th centuries). Lexical, semantic, and digital investigation
This study examines the evolution of references to grain storage structures in medieval European charters, based on a quantitative and semantic analysis of the digitized CEMA (Cartae Europae Medii Aevi) corpus comprising more than 225,000 documents. The author applies text mining and distributional analysis methods to a lexicon of some forty terms designating storage locations (grangia, horreum, granarium, granica, etc.), cross-referencing these data with references to grain and analyzing their…

The person who accepts lies for strategic reasons loses the facts as weapons. In the world the liar creates, the liar wins every battle. The only remedy against alternative truths is the truth.
Dutch author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, on Von der Leyen's "trade deal" with Trump.

Mijn essay in De Morgen van dit weekend: | Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer | 51 comments
Mijn essay in De Morgen van dit weekend: De vernedering van Ursula von der Leyen | Gedeeld artikel van De Morgen https://lnkd.in/dhdwsNMV | 51 comments on LinkedIn

The Provenance Problem: LLMs and the Breakdown of Citation Norms
Brian D. Earp, Haotian Yuan, Julian Koplin, Sebastian Porsdam Mann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13365 https://

The Provenance Problem: LLMs and the Breakdown of Citation Norms
The increasing use of generative AI in scientific writing raises urgent questions about attribution and intellectual credit. When a researcher employs ChatGPT to draft a manuscript, the resulting text may echo ideas from sources the author has never encountered. If an AI system reproduces insights from, for example, an obscure 1975 paper without citation, does this constitute plagiarism? We argue that such cases exemplify the 'provenance problem': a systematic breakdown in the chain of scholarl…

After reading great things about the author and great reviews of the book, this weekend I started to read “True and False Magic” by Phil Stutz.
I am completely puzzled as I read 47% of the book and I have absolutely no idea what I read. I am honestly feeling like the book and my brain are not overlapping even a bit.

Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

Split Kac-Moody groups over a local field, II. Ordered masures
Guy Rousseau (IECL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08728 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08728…

Split Kac-Moody groups over a local field, II. Ordered masures
For a split Kac-Moody group (in J. Tits' definition) over a field endowed with a real valuation, we build an ordered affine hovel on which the group acts. This construction generalizes the one already done by S. Gaussent and the author when the residue field contains the complex field and the one by F. Bruhat and J. Tits when the group is reductive. We prove that this hovel has all the properties of ordered affine hovels (masures affines ordonn{é}es) as defined previously by the author. We use…

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

USC Levan Book Chat—Maya Maskarinec, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20128299/usc-levan-book-chat-maya-maskarinec-domesticating-saints-medieval-and

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 17: Vicki Jarrett
So far she's published a couple of really good novels and a collection of short stories. She strikes me as the type of author who aims for quality, not quantity.
I adored her first novel "Nothing is Heavy", based on real life experiences in Edinburgh. Her other novel, "Always North" is an eco-thriller set in Svalbard, a Norwegian arctic island.
Both great…

On Euler systems and Nekov\'a\v{r}-Selmer complexes
Dominik Bullach, David Burns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13894 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13894

On Euler systems and Nekovář-Selmer complexes
We develop a theory of Euler and Kolyvagin systems relative to the Nekovář-Selmer complexes of $p$-adic representations over local complete Gorenstein rings. This is simultaneously finer, and requires weaker hypotheses, than the theory of Kolyvagin systems developed by Mazur and Rubin over discrete valuation rings and then by Sakamoto, Sano and the second author over Gorenstein rings. To illustrate its advantages, we prove new cases of Kato's generalised Iwasawa main conjecture for $\mathbb{Z…

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life #GulfOfMexico

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life
Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment plants," says CMCC scientist Annalisa Bracco, co-author of the study that used advanced computer models to track tiny plastic particles across three years.

Justice in Judgment: Unveiling (Hidden) Bias in LLM-assisted Peer Reviews
Sai Suresh Marchala Vasu, Ivaxi Sheth, Hui-Po Wang, Ruta Binkyte, Mario Fritz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13400

Justice in Judgment: Unveiling (Hidden) Bias in LLM-assisted Peer Reviews
The adoption of large language models (LLMs) is transforming the peer review process, from assisting reviewers in writing more detailed evaluations to generating entire reviews automatically. While these capabilities offer exciting opportunities, they also raise critical concerns about fairness and reliability. In this paper, we investigate bias in LLM-generated peer reviews by conducting controlled experiments on sensitive metadata, including author affiliation and gender. Our analysis consist…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
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An interview with the first author of the paper "The Probable Direct-Imaging Detection of the Stellar Companion to #Betelgeuse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68AbtPxLR0M

Author and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward on balancing the public and the private
#creativity
https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Author and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward on balancing the public and the private – The Creative Independent
Author, actor, and screenwriter Yrsa Daley-Ward discusses trusting her work, finding ways to self-regulate, and debunking the illusion of an Instagram persona.

The FBI’s takedown last month of the RapperBot appeared to have an unwanted consequence: freeing up as many as 95,000 devices to be taken over by new botnet overlords. That led to a free-for-all to take over the machines “as fast as possible."
https:…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
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This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
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'If Republicans get their way': Author says GOP hungry to incarcerate 'fast-growing' group - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-2673980373/

Introduction to finite Coxeter groups and their representations
Pooja Singla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11778 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11778

Introduction to finite Coxeter groups and their representations
These notes give a short introduction to finite Coxeter groups, their classification, and some parts of their representation theory, with a focus on the infinite families. They are based on lectures delivered by the author at the conferences Recent Trends in Group Theory at IIT Bhubaneswar and the Asian - European School in Mathematics at NEHU, Shillong. The first draft was prepared by Archita Gupta (IIT Kanpur) and Sahanawaz Sabnam (NISER Bhubaneswar), to whom the author is deeply grateful. We…

Day 22: Yuki Urushibara
I've got a few more mangaka left on my short list, and might very well get to at least one more, but Urushibara is the author of Mushishi and anyone who knows either the manga or anime understands immediately why she appears here.
Mushishi is a "seinen" anime, which means it's written for adults, not children or teenagers (although it's very accessible for all ages). It deals with a vast array of life's circumstances through the lens of a traveling mushi expert and the various whimsical supernatural creatures he is called on to deal with. He's not an exorcist though, instead understanding that humans must live in harmony with the mushi, and working like an ecologist to sort things out. As is probably obvious, Urushibara is an incredible world-builder; she's also a top-notch artist and above all, her stories are overflowing with kindness, humanity, and respect for the natural world.
Besides Mushishi, I've read "Suiiki", and it's one of the few manga I stumbled through in the original Japanese, which says a lot given my limited reading vocabulary (and the fact that it doesn't include rubi). It weaves the supernatural into a story of childhood innocence and curiosity in a lovely way.
Much like Shirahama who I mentioned earlier, Urushibara's stories are full of gentle wisdom for all ages, but Urushibara's work is quieter and less dramatic, with an adult main character confident in his expertise instead of a young-and-learning protagonist.
#30AuthorsNoMen

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
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arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 19: Alice Thompson
Another of Edinburgh's fine authors. She has written 9 novels of which I have read three.
Definitely do read BURNT ISLAND, it is just amazing. If you are faint-hearted however, you may want to avoid The Book Collector which was utterly terrifying.
#FemmeÉcrivain

Marco Rubio hands control of USAID to Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought over ‘pocket recessions’ battle | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rubio-usaid-end-pocket-recissions-project-2025-author-b2816791.html

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
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This network has 26197 nodes and 28980 edges.

Arithmetic properties of generalized Frobenius partitions
Scott Ahlgren, Cruz Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12078

Arithmetic properties of generalized Frobenius partitions
Ramanujan proved three famous congruences for the partition function modulo 5, 7, and 11. The first author and Boylan proved that these congruences are the only ones of this type. In 1984 Andrews introduced the $m$-colored Frobenius partition functions $cϕ_m$; these are natural higher-level analogues of the partition function which have attracted a great deal of attention in the ensuing decades. For each $m\in \{5, 7, 11\}$ there are two analogues of Ramanujan's congruences for $cϕ_m$, and fo…

TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 26197 nodes and 28980 edges.

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 26197 nodes and 28980 edges.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
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cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
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cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://