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We initially set out to write a
David-vs.-Goliath narrative
about the town’s response to the
COVID crisis.
But there came a turning point
at which we realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany than COVID-19.
They were about #race and #power.
In the week…

I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.

See Comet Lemmon tonight
https://bsky.app/profile/drfunkyspoon.bsky.social/post/3m3pzhaambk2c

David Grinspoon (@drfunkyspoon.bsky.social)
Hey if you can find a dark (ish) place look for the COMET tonight! After sunset in the North, off the handle of the Big Dipper. 🧪🔭

Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since. 
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character. 
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…

Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation
Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)  The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something by Michael Lewis about how

Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?

On Thursday, 11 of the UK's leading oncologists, economists and medical ethicists will meet at the Department of Health’s headquarters in London
to make a decision that will have consequences for millions of men.
The National Screening Committee (NSC) will issue a recommendation on whether to launch the first NHS screening programme for prostate cancer.
Celebrities, sports stars and politicians, including Sir Chris Hoy and David Lammy, have campaigned for the greater us…

NHS could start prostate cancer screening — which men are eligible?
The National Screening Committee is expected to recommend the first-ever screening programme for the disease next week, but only for those at the highest risk

Bayesian Physics Informed Neural Networks for Reliable Transformer Prognostics
Ibai Ramirez, Jokin Alcibar, Joel Pino, Mikel Sanz, David Pardo, Jose I. Aizpurua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15933

Bayesian Physics Informed Neural Networks for Reliable Transformer Prognostics
Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) integrates physics and data into the learning process, offering improved generalization compared with purely data-driven models. Despite its potential, applications of SciML in prognostics remain limited, partly due to the complexity of incorporating partial differential equations (PDEs) for ageing physics and the scarcity of robust uncertainty quantification methods. This work introduces a Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Network (B-PINN) framework for proba…

This is not transparency with the American people
119 pages of black bars
What is Donald Trump hiding in the Epstein Files?
https://bsky.app/profile/davidleavitt.bsky.social/post/3maeumzk4p227

David Leavitt (@davidleavitt.bsky.social)
This is not transparency with the American people 119 pages of black bars What is Donald Trump hiding in the Epstein Files?

Caught in the Cosmic Web: Evidence for Ram-Pressure Stripping of a Low-Mass Galaxy by the Cosmic Web
Nicholas Luber, Sabrina Stierwalt, George C. Privon, Gurtina Besla, Kelsey E. Johnson, Nitya Kallivayalil, David R. Patton, Mary Putman, Jingyao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15405

Caught in the Cosmic Web: Evidence for Ram-Pressure Stripping of a Low-Mass Galaxy by the Cosmic Web
We present interferometric radio observations of the neutral atomic gas in AGC 727130, a low-mass, gas-rich, field galaxy lacking significant star-formation. The atomic gas in AGC 727130 displays a pronounced asymmetry, extending well beyond the stellar disk in one direction while remaining relatively undisturbed in the other. Despite proximity to a pair of interacting dwarfs, tidal analysis suggests these neighboring galaxies are not responsible for this pronounced asymmetry. Instead, using a …

Scion of #Oracle Data Mining Billionaire installs controversial conservative ideologue #BariWeiss atop #CBSNews, dropping any pretense of independence at the

Inflection Risk Solutions provides false information when employers seek background checks on prospective new hires.
I know because I was a victim of their criminal negligence. I got my class action settlement check this week.
FUCK Inflection Risk Solutions, for all the opportunities they cost me, and everyone else who was erroneously listed as a criminal sex offender.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Chemise:
🎵 She Can't Love You
#Chemise
https://davidkust.bandcamp.com/album/chemise-she-cant-love-you-david-kust-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CX1FiiXSbvKjsXRYwApAP

🚨𝗖𝗔-𝟮𝟮 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘:
𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆.
Randy is refusing corporate PAC money and running to represent working families in the Central Valley -- not billionaires.
But now, national Republicans are pouring dark money into this race to protect GOP Rep. David Valadao.
Bernie said it best:
We need more working-class people in Congress who aren’t beholden to special interests.
This …

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast! We cry because we can!
#human

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
David Judson Clemmons:
🎵 The Old World Is Gone
#NowPlaying #DavidJudsonClemmons
https://davidjudsonclemmons.bandcamp.com/track/the-old-world-is-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/2O6BFKC2mEiTi5H7Y7h3tG

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others,
tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him.
Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
https://bsky.app/profile/davidj…

David Bier (@davidjbier.bsky.social)
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

SilvaScenes: Tree Segmentation and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests
David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson, Arthur Larochelle-Tremblay, Th\'eo Defosse, Fr\'ed\'eric Moore, Philippe Nolet, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09458…

SilvaScenes: Tree Segmentation and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests
Interest in robotics for forest management is growing, but perception in complex, natural environments remains a significant hurdle. Conditions such as heavy occlusion, variable lighting, and dense vegetation pose challenges to automated systems, which are essential for precision forestry, biodiversity monitoring, and the automation of forestry equipment. These tasks rely on advanced perceptual capabilities, such as detection and fine-grained species classification of individual trees. Yet, exi…

Interoperability From OpenTelemetry to Kieker: Demonstrated as Export from the Astronomy Shop
David Georg Reichelt, Shinhyung Yang, Wilhelm Hasselbring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11179

Interoperability From OpenTelemetry to Kieker: Demonstrated as Export from the Astronomy Shop
The observability framework Kieker provides a range of analysis capabilities, but it is currently only able to instrument a smaller selection of languages and technologies, including Java, C, Fortran, and Python. The OpenTelemetry standard aims for providing reference implementations for most programming languages, including C# and JavaScript, that are currently not supported by Kieker. In this work, we describe how to transform OpenTelemetry tracing data into the Kieker framework. Thereby, it …

An Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Spanning the Radius Valley Orbiting the Kinematic Thick Disk Star TOI-2345
Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen, Thomas G. Wilson, Andrea Bonfanti, Carina M. Persson, S\'ergio G. Sousa, Monika Lendl, Alexis Heitzmann, Attila E. Simon, G\"oran Olofsson, Amadeo Castro-Gonz\'alez, Jo Ann Egger, Luca Fossati, Alexander James Mustill, Hugh P. Osborn, Hugo G. Vivien, Yann Alibert, Roi Alonso, Tamas B\'arczy, David Barrado, Susana C. C. B…

An Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Spanning the Radius Valley Orbiting the Kinematic Thick Disk Star TOI-2345
A crucial chemical link between stars and their orbiting exoplanets is thought to exist. If universal, this connection could affect the formation and evolution of all planets. Therefore, this potential vital link needs testing by characterising exoplanets around chemically-diverse stars. We present the discovery of two planets orbiting the metal-poor, kinematic thick-disk K-dwarf TOI-2345. TOI-2345 b is a super-Earth with a period of 1.05 days and TOI-2345 c is a sub-Neptune with a period of 21…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Chemise:
🎵 She Can’t Love You
#Chemise
https://davidkust.bandcamp.com/album/chemise-she-cant-love-you-david-kust-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CX1FiiXSbvKjsXRYwApAP

Strained Donor-Bound Excitons in $^{28}$Si
David A. Vogl, Noah L. Braitsch, Ba\c{s}ak \c{C}. \"Ozcan, Niklas S. Vart, M. L. W. Thewalt, Martin S. Brandt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09252

Strained Donor-Bound Excitons in $^{28}$Si
We present a comprehensive experimental study of the neutral donor to donor-bound exciton transition (D$^0$$\rightarrow\,$D$^0$X) in isotopically enriched $^{28}$Si, focusing on the group-V donors P, As, and Sb under finely tuned uniaxial stress along the [100] and [110] crystal axes and magnetic fields from 3.5 mT to 1.7 T. From these measurements, donor-specific deformation potentials are extracted. The uniaxial electron deformation potential $Ξ_\mathrm{u}$ is found to be significantly large…

The double neutron star PSR J1946 2052 I. Masses and tests of general relativity
Lingqi Meng, Paulo C. C. Freire, Kevin Stovall, Norbert Wex, Xueli Miao, Weiwei Zhu, Michael Kramer, James M. Cordes, Huanchen Hu, Jinchen Jiang, Emilie Parent, Lijing Shao, Ingrid H. Stairs, Mengyao Xue, Adam Brazier, Fernando Camilo, David J. Champion, Shami Chatterjee, Fronefield Crawford, Ziyao Fang, Qiuyang Fu, Yanjun Guo, Jason W. T. Hessels, Maura MacLaughlin, Chenchen Miao, Jiarui Niu, Ziwei Wu, Ju…

The double neutron star PSR J1946+2052 I. Masses and tests of general relativity
We conducted high-precision timing of PSR J1946+2052 to determine the masses of the two neutron stars in the system, test general relativity (GR) and assessed the system's potential for future measurement of the moment of inertia of the pulsar. We analysed seven years of timing data from the Arecibo 305-m radio telescope, the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The data processing accounted for dispersion measure variations and relat…

Just stumbled upon this late great #JimmyCliff performance clip shot just over 50 ys ago #OTD appearing on David Letterman show in November 1985 promoting his LP #CliffHanger ...

Lauren Boebert is vulnerable -- she's is in Congress because of just 𝟱𝟰𝟲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀
And now she's spreading a sinister conspiracy that 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗝𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 “𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻”
-- Democrats 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be killed as a result! Here's why:
Her theory is based on the ideas of Holocaust denier David Icke,
who claims that Jews and powerful people across the globe are disguised reptilians working to 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺.
👉 When your enemies are inhuman it is …

Trisha 4 Colorado
Hometown candidate to beat Lauren Boebert

Subvarieties of low degree on general hypersurfaces
Nathan Chen, David Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11865 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11865

Subvarieties of low degree on general hypersurfaces
The purpose of this note is to show that the subvarieties of small degree inside a general hypersurface of large degree come from intersecting with linear spaces or other varieties.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Heliozoans are a group of amoeboid protists found commonly in both fresh and saltwater. They were termed sun-animalcules due to their spherical shape and distinctive radiating microtubules, which support axiopods used to capture food and facilitate movement. Some will also capture symbiotic algal cells which provide energy through photosynthesis. Heliozoa is &quo…

How human is the machine? Evidence from 66,000 Conversations with Large Language Models
Antonios Stamatogiannakis, Arsham Ghodsinia, Sepehr Etminanrad, Dilney Gon\c{c}alves, David Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07321

How human is the machine? Evidence from 66,000 Conversations with Large Language Models
When Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to replace consumers (e.g., synthetic data), it is often assumed that AI emulates established consumers, and more generally human behaviors. Ten experiments with Large Language Models (LLMs) investigate if this is true in the domain of well-documented biases and heuristics. Across studies we observe four distinct types of deviations from human-like behavior. First, in some cases, LLMs reduce or correct biases observed in humans. Second, in other cases, …

SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
Sven Gowal, Rudy Bunel, Florian Stimberg, David Stutz, Guillermo Ortiz-Jimenez, Christina Kouridi, Mel Vecerik, Jamie Hayes, Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi, Paul Bernard, Chris Gamble, Mikl\'os Z. Horv\'ath, Fabian Kaczmarczyck, Alex Kaskasoli, Aleksandar Petrov, Ilia Shumailov, Meghana Thotakuri, Olivia Wiles, Jessica Yung, Zahra Ahmed, Victor Martin, Simon Rosen, Christopher Sav\v{c}ak, Armin Senoner, Nidhi Vyas, Pushmeet Kohli

SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
We introduce SynthID-Image, a deep learning-based system for invisibly watermarking AI-generated imagery. This paper documents the technical desiderata, threat models, and practical challenges of deploying such a system at internet scale, addressing key requirements of effectiveness, fidelity, robustness, and security. SynthID-Image has been used to watermark over ten billion images and video frames across Google's services and its corresponding verification service is available to trusted test…

Enigmatic centi-SFU and mSFU nonthermal radio transients detected in the middle corona
Surajit Mondal, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, Xingyao Chen, Peijin Zhang, Dale Gary, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jacobs, Ghislain Kemby, John T. Klinefelter, Matthew Kolopanis, Niki…

Enigmatic centi-SFU and mSFU nonthermal radio transients detected in the middle corona
Decades of solar coronal observations have provided substantial evidence for accelerated particles in the corona. In most cases, the location of particle acceleration can be roughly identified by combining high spatial and temporal resolution data from multiple instruments across a broad frequency range. In almost all cases, these nonthermal particles are associated with quiescent active regions, flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Only recently, some evidence of the existence of nonther…

"We came here to put specific energies into the world but we were taught to ignore all that and focus instead on getting through life without too much pain...
...The physical world has a spiritual origin."
~David Price

In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an "AI Litigation Task Force" that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge "inconsistent" state AI laws (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/trump-orders-c

Trump orders creation of litigation task force to challenge state AI laws
On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a single regulatory framework governing artificial intelligence in the US...

From David Suzuki
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution
Higher home heating prices. Pollution. Accelerating climate change. Water shortages. Indigenous rights violations. Who wants that? Apparently the obscenely profitable fossil fuel companies, and unimaginative, short-sighted governments banking on outdated ideas to shore up the economy.
Has industry lived up to its LNG promises? A David Suzuki Foundation report concludes that it hasn’t & isn’t likely to.

Non-linear associations of amyloid-$\beta$ with resting-state functional networks and their cognitive relevance in a large community-based cohort of cognitively normal older adults
Junjie Wu, Benjamin B Risk, Taylor A James, Nicholas Seyfried, David W Loring, Felicia C Goldstein, Allan I Levey, James J Lah, Deqiang Qiu
https://arxiv.org/ab…

Non-linear associations of amyloid-$β$ with resting-state functional networks and their cognitive relevance in a large community-based cohort of cognitively normal older adults
Background: Non-linear alterations in brain network connectivity may represent early neural signatures of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in cognitively normal older adults. Understanding these changes and their cognitive relevance could provide sensitive biomarkers for early detection. Most prior studies recruited participants from memory clinics, often with subjective memory concerns, limiting generalizability. Methods: We examined 14 large-scale functional brain networks in 968 cognitiv…

The 17-year-old son watched as ICE ripped his father from him.
“It all felt like a lot to bear,” David told the Youth Media Project.
“He’s my role model, my biggest supporter. I rely on him a lot.”
The officer took all of Hector’s belongings, including $200 in cash he was carrying.
They did, however, forget to confiscate his phone, which Hector kept on him during his detainment.
David watched his dad step into the backseat of the blacked-out SUV.
As it sped …

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

Wavefunction Flows: Efficient Quantum Simulation of Continuous Flow Models
David Layden, Ryan Sweke, Vojt\v{e}ch Havl\'i\v{c}ek, Anirban Chowdhury, Kirill Neklyudov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08462

Wavefunction Flows: Efficient Quantum Simulation of Continuous Flow Models
Flow models are a cornerstone of modern machine learning. They are generative models that progressively transform probability distributions according to learned dynamics. Specifically, they learn a continuous-time Markov process that efficiently maps samples from a simple source distribution into samples from a complex target distribution. We show that these models are naturally related to the Schrödinger equation, for an unusual Hamiltonian on continuous variables. Moreover, we prove that the…

Beyond the Algorithm: A Field Guide to Deploying AI Agents in Clinical Practice
Jack Gallifant, Katherine C. Kellogg, Matt Butler, Amanda Centi, Patrick F. Doyle, Sayon Dutta, Joyce Guo, Matthew J. Hadfield, Esther H. Kim, David E. Kozono, Hugo JWL Aerts, Adam B. Landman, Raymond H. Mak, Rebecca G. Mishuris, Tanna L. Nelson, Guergana K. Savova, Elad Sharon, Benjamin C. Silverman, Umit Topaloglu, Jeremy L. Warner, Danielle S. Bitterman

Beyond the Algorithm: A Field Guide to Deploying AI Agents in Clinical Practice
Large language models (LLMs) integrated into agent-driven workflows hold immense promise for healthcare, yet a significant gap exists between their potential and practical implementation within clinical settings. To address this, we present a practitioner-oriented field manual for deploying generative agents that use electronic health record (EHR) data. This guide is informed by our experience deploying the "irAE-Agent", an automated system to detect immune-related adverse events from clinical …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Johann David Heinichen, Pieter Brulleman, Baldrick Deerenberg, Sabine d'Hont, Barbara Karst, Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach & Hartmut Haenchen:
🎵 Concerto Š 8 in C major (1st mvt)
#JohannDavidHeinichen

Multivariate CLT for L\'evy processes: convergence rates without moment assumptions
Jorge Gonz\'alez C\'azares, David Kramer-Bang, Aleksandar Mijatovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06891

Multivariate CLT for Lévy processes: convergence rates without moment assumptions
We prove that the norm of a $d$-dimensional Lévy process possesses a finite second moment if and only if the convex distance between an appropriately rescaled process at time $t$ and a standard Gaussian vector is integrable in time with respect to the scale-invariant measure $t^{-1} dt$ on $[1,\infty)$. We further prove that under the standard $\sqrt{t}$-scaling, the corresponding convex distance is integrable if and only if the norm of the Lévy process has a finite $(2+\log)$-moment. Both eq…

Nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots enhance bacteria growth and biosensing signals
David Rutherford, Marketa \v{S}lapal Ba\v{r}inkov\'a, Jaroslav Kuli\v{c}ek, Jelena Kozic, Jovana Prekodravac Filipovi\'c, Bohuslav Rezek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06454

Nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots enhance bacteria growth and biosensing signals
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are known for their antibacterial properties and ability to inhibit bacteria growth. In the current study, we observed a dopant and concentration-dependency on the antibacterial effect of CQDs. High concentrations of CQDs completely inhibited bacteria growth yet low concentrations enhanced growth. Unlike undoped CQDs, nitrogen-doped CQDs (N-CQDs) enhanced bacteria growth in a concentration-dependant manner and nitrogen/iron co-doped CQDs (Fe/N-CQDs) resulted in growth…

$C^{1 \alpha}$ regularity for fractional $p$-harmonic functions
Davide Giovagnoli, David Jesus, Luis Silvestre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26565 https://arx…

$C^{1+α}$ regularity for fractional $p$-harmonic functions
We establish interior $C^{1,α}$ regularity estimates for some $α> 0$, for solutions of the fractional $p$-Laplace equation $(-Δ_p)^s u = 0$ when $p$ is in the range $p \in [2,2/(1-s))$.

The new owners of CBS,
billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David Ellison,
believe CBS News is broken.
And like their friend Donald Trump,
they’re convinced the cure for a fracture is a sledgehammer.
Let’s call it restoration by disruption.
Enter Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.
Weiss has been called a provocateur
and is one of the most polarizing figures in today’s American media landscape.
She has been praised for he…

MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News
A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News

Mathematically rigorous proofs for Shapley explanations
David van Batenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03281

Mathematically rigorous proofs for Shapley explanations
Machine Learning is becoming increasingly more important in today's world. It is therefore very important to provide understanding of the decision-making process of machine-learning models. A popular way to do this is by looking at the Shapley-Values of these models as introduced by Lundberg and Lee. In this thesis, we discuss the two main results by Lundberg and Lee from a mathematically rigorous standpoint and provide full proofs, which are not available from the original material. The fi…

An Efficient Shift-and-Stack Algorithm Applied to Detection Catalogs
Steven Stetzler, Mario Juri\'c, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Dino Bekte\v{s}evi\'c, Colin Orion Chandler, Andrew J. Connolly, Fred C. Adams, Cesar Fuentes, David W. Gerdes, Matthew J. Holman, Hsing Wen Lin, Larissa Markwardt, Andrew McNeill, Michael Mommert, Kevin J. Napier, William J. Oldroyd, Matthew J. Payne, Andrew S. Rivkin, Luis E. Salazar-Manzano, Hilke Schlichting, Scott S. Sheppard, Dallin Spencer, Ryder S…

An Efficient Shift-and-Stack Algorithm Applied to Detection Catalogs
The boundary of solar system object discovery lies in detecting its faintest members. However, their discovery in detection catalogs from imaging surveys is fundamentally limited by the practice of thresholding detections at signal-to-noise (SNR) $\geq 5$ to maintain catalog purity. Faint moving objects can be recovered from survey images using the shift-and-stack algorithm, which coadds pixels from multi-epoch images along a candidate trajectory. Trajectories matching real objects accumulate s…

#California Gov #Newsom signs #ScottWeiner bill to bulldoze over opposition to expansion of #housing density and residential construction proj…

Crosslisted article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
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- How human is the machine? Evidence from 66,000 Conversations with Large Language Models
Antonios Stamatogiannakis, Arsham Ghodsinia, Sepehr Etminanrad, Dilney Gon\c{c}alves, David Santos

Quasi-static in vivo elastography from internal displacement information only
David G. J. Heesterbeek, Max H. C. van Riel, Ray S. S. Sheombarsing, Tristan van Leeuwen, Martijn Froeling, Cornelis A. T. van den Berg, Alessandro Sbrizzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12609

Quasi-static in vivo elastography from internal displacement information only
As disease often alters the structural properties of soft tissue, noninvasive elastography techniques have emerged to quantitatively assess in vivo mechanical properties. Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) based on dynamic deformations is the standard technique for imaging mechanical properties, but the viscoelastic nature of soft tissue makes the results dependent on the actuation frequency, which can be limiting. In this proof-of-principle study we propose a noise robust framework for reco…

Multiplication Operator Semigroups on Banach lattice valued continuous function spaces
Tobi David Olabiyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03607 https://arxiv.or…

Multiplication Operator Semigroups on Banach lattice valued continuous function spaces
We introduce and characterize, on the Banach lattice valued continuous function space, multiplication operators generating strongly continuous multiplication operator semigroups. Our characterization is the generalization of known results for the scalar-valued continuous functions $C_0(Ω)$ vanishing at infinity, on a locally compact (Hausdorff) space $Ω$, to Banach lattice $C_0(Ω, E)$ of continuous Banach lattice $E$-valued functions vanishing at infinity.

H I Properties of Field Galaxies at $\boldsymbol{z\approx 0.2}$-0.6: Insights into Declining Cosmic Star Formation
David DePalma, Neeraj Gupta, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Robert A. Simcoe, Sergei Balashev, Erin Boettcher, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Mandy C. Chen, Fran\c{c}oise Combes, Claude-Andr\'e Faucher-Gigu\`ere, Sean D. Johnson, Hans-Rainer Kl\"ockner, Jens-Kristian Krogager, Jennifer I-Hsiu Li, Sebasti\'an L\'opez, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Patrick Petitjean, Zhijie Qu, Gwen C. Rudi…

H I Properties of Field Galaxies at $\boldsymbol{z\approx 0.2}$-0.6: Insights into Declining Cosmic Star Formation
We report statistically significant detection of H I 21-cm emission from intermediate-redshift ($z\approx0.2$-0.6) galaxies. By leveraging multi-sightline galaxy survey data from the Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) and deep radio observations from the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS), we have established a sample of $\approx6000$ spectroscopically identified galaxies in 11 distinct fields to constrain the neutral gas content at intermediate redshifts. The galaxies sample a broad ra…

Making high-order asymptotics practical: correcting goodness-of-fit test for astronomical count data
Xiaoli Li, Yang Chen, Xiao-Li Meng, David van Dyk, Massimiliano Bonamente, Vinay Kashyap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03466

Making high-order asymptotics practical: correcting goodness-of-fit test for astronomical count data
The C statistic is a widely used likelihood-ratio statistic for model fitting and goodness-of-fit assessments with Poisson data in high-energy physics and astrophysics. Although it enjoys convenient asymptotic properties, the statistic is routinely applied in cases where its nominal null distribution relies on unwarranted assumptions. Because researchers do not typically carry out robustness checks, their scientific findings are left vulnerable to misleading significance calculations. With an e…

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is,
‘Love your neighbor, love your God,
save your soul and quit your job,’”
said David Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
“Everybody chants that.”

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who would Jesus deport?’

The CoCompiler: DSL Lifting via Relational Compilation
Naomi Spargo (Galois), Santiago Cu\'ellar (Galois), Jonathan Daugherty (Galois), Chris Phifer (Galois), David Darais (Galois)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00210

The CoCompiler: DSL Lifting via Relational Compilation
Lifting low-level or legacy code into a domain-specific language (DSL) improves our ability to understand it, enables deeper formal reasoning, and facilitates safe modification. We present the CoCompiler, a bidirectional compiler and lifter between C and Lustre, a synchronous dataflow language used for reactive systems. The key insight behind the CoCompiler is that writing a compiler as a relation, rather than as a traditional function, yields a DSL lifter "for free". We implement this idea by …

The cosmic web's Lyman-$\alpha$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
Oleksii Sokoliuk, John K. Webb, Kenneth M. Lanzetta, Michael M. Shara, Stefan Gromoll, James S. Bolton, Robert F. Carswell, Gaspar Galaz, C\'edric Ledoux, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alain Smette, David Valls-Gabaud, Anja von der Linden, Frederick M. Walter, Joris Witstok

The cosmic web's Lyman-$α$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
The diffuse glow of the cosmic web in Lyman-$α$ emission has long been predicted, yet remained elusive to direct wide field detection. We present theoretical calculations that, when compared with recent observations made using the Condor Array Telescope in New Mexico reported in Lanzetta et al. 2024, point to its discovery at $z \approx 2.5$. Synthetic Lyman-$α$ surface brightness maps are constructed from five state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations (Illustris-TNG, SIMBA, EAGLE, CROCODILE,…

SHADES -- $^{22}$Ne($\alpha$,n)$^{25}$Mg reaction rate in the Gamow window
David Rapagnani, Chemseddine Ananna, Antonino Di Leva, Gianluca Imbriani, Matthias Junker, Marco Pignatari, Andreas Best
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06268

SHADES -- $^{22}$Ne($α$,n)$^{25}$Mg reaction rate in the Gamow window
Neutron capture reactions are the main contributors to the synthesis of the heavy elements through the s-process. Together with $^{13}$C($α$,n)16O, which has recently been measured by the LUNA collaboration in an energy region inside the Gamow peak, 22Ne(α,n)25Mg is the other main neutron source in stars. Its cross section is mostly unknown in the relevant stellar energy (450 keV < Ecm < 750 keV), where only upper limits from direct experiments and highly uncertain estimates from indirect sou…

A few conservative representatives with ties to the FBI and the Justice Department have spilled that
the true details of the Epstein files are “worse” for Trump than previously reported, according to journalist David Schuster.
Michael Wolff, a longtime chronicler of Trump’s White House who conducted extensive interviews with Epstein prior to his death, told The Daily Beast last month that
Epstein had shown him photos of Trump with half-naked “young girls” in his lap.

DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.

From David Suzuki
A report released today by the David Suzuki Foundation, "Running on Fumes: B.C. LNG’s Overhyped Promises, Risky Future and Public Costs,” shows that the #LNG industry exhibits a pattern of grand promises, under-delivery and hidden costs.
The real winners are foreign multinationals, not British Columbians. Offshored profits, few jobs, higher energy costs and ignored environm…

Filings reveal approx 600 #Paramount & #CBS employees voluntarily quit for severance pay that set #Skydance back $185 million after #corporate …

600 Paramount Skydance employees quit instead of returning to the office, and it cost the company $185 million, filings show
CEO David Ellison offered workers an ultimatum in September: Come back to work or find a new job.

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
A. Destexhe, J Goldman, N. Tort-Colet, A. Roques, J. Fousek, S. Petkoski, V. Jirsa, O. David, M. Jedynak, C. Capone, C. De Luca, G. De Bonis, P. S. Paolucci, E. Mikulan, Pigorini, M Massimini, A. Galluzzi, A. Pazienti, M. Mattia, A. Arena, B. E. Juel, E. Hagen, J. F. Storm, E. Montagni, F. Resta, F. S. Pavone, A. L. Allegra Mascaro, A. Dwarakanath, T. I. Panagiotaropoulos, J. Senk, M. Diesmann, A. Camassa, L.…

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
The objective of this paper is to review physiological and computational aspects of the responsiveness of the cerebral cortex to stimulation, and how responsiveness depends on the state of the system. This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (state-dependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level. At each scale, we review how quantitative methods can be used to characterize network states base…

CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models
FAIR CodeGen team, Quentin Carbonneaux, Gal Cohen, Jonas Gehring, Jacob Kahn, Jannik Kossen, Felix Kreuk, Emily McMilin, Michel Meyer, Yuxiang Wei, David Zhang, Kunhao Zheng, Jordi Armengol-Estap\'e, Pedram Bashiri, Maximilian Beck, Pierre Chambon, Abhishek Charnalia, Chris Cummins, Juliette Decugis, Zacharias V. Fisches, Fran\c{c}ois Fleuret, Fabian Gloeckle, Alex Gu, Michael Hassid, Daniel Haziza, Badr You…

CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models
We release Code World Model (CWM), a 32-billion-parameter open-weights LLM, to advance research on code generation with world models. To improve code understanding beyond what can be learned from training on static code alone, we mid-train CWM on a large amount of observation-action trajectories from Python interpreter and agentic Docker environments, and perform extensive multi-task reasoning RL in verifiable coding, math, and multi-turn software engineering environments. With CWM, we provide …

Learning to Play Multi-Follower Bayesian Stackelberg Games
Gerson Personnat, Tao Lin, Safwan Hossain, David C. Parkes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01387 https://

Quantum Emission in Monolayer WSe2 Transferred onto InP Nanowires
Palwinder Singh, Jasleen Kaur Jagde, Megha Jain, Edith Yeung, David B. Northeast, Simona Moisa, Seid J. Mohammed, Jean Lapointe, Una Rajnis, Annika Kienast, Philip J. Poole, Dan Dalacu, Kimberley C. Hall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04198

Quantum Emission in Monolayer WSe2 Transferred onto InP Nanowires
Localized quantum emitters in transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as solid-state candidates for on-demand sources of single photons. Due to the role of strain in the site-selective creation of TMD emitters, their hybrid integration into photonic structures such as cavities and waveguides is possible using pick-and-place methods. Here we investigate quantum emission from a hybrid structure consisting of a monolayer of WSe2 interfaced with horizontally aligned InP nanowi…

The ‘ultimate man cave’ or ‘a mirage’ by a billionaire’s son?
https://www.latimes.com/00000199-81ed-d11c-a1fd-f3fd1f530000-123

The 'ultimate man cave' or 'a mirage' by a billionaire's son?
David Bren — the estranged son of Irvine Company founder Donald Bren — spent years pitching wealthy investors on his idea for a high-end car club in Beverly Hills. But according to a series of lawsuits, the younger Bren misused millions in investments to fund his lavish lifestyle.

Preparation of initial states with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices using matrix product states
Yibin Guo, Manuel Schneider, Takis Angelides, Karl Jansen, C. -J. David Lin, Yao Ting Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07125

Preparation of initial states with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices using matrix product states
We present a framework for preparing quantum states from matrix product states (MPS) with open and periodic boundary conditions on quantum devices. The MPS tensors are mapped to unitary gates, which are subsequently decomposed into native gates on quantum hardware. States with periodic boundary conditions (pbc) can be represented efficiently as quantum circuits using ancilla qubits and post-selection after measurement. We derive an exact expression for the success rate of this probabilistic app…

The PPP model - a minimal viable parametrisation of conjugated chemistry for modern computing applications
Marcel David Fabian, Nina Glaser, Gemma C. Solomon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04632

The PPP model - a minimal viable parametrisation of conjugated chemistry for modern computing applications
The semi-empirical Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) Hamiltonian is reviewed for its ability to provide a minimal model of the chemistry of conjugated $π$-electron systems, and its current applications and limitations are discussed. From its inception, the PPP Hamiltonian has helped in the development of new computational approaches in instances where compute is constrained due to its inherent approximations that allow for an efficient representation and calculation of many systems of chemical and tech…

David Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”

Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever. Sirota says that while the United States is now “immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decadeslong agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essent…

Regular ideals, Ideal Intersections and Quotients II
Jonathan H. Brown, Adam H. Fuller, David R. Pitts, Sarah A. Reznikoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19148 https://

Regular ideals, Ideal Intersections and Quotients II
We continue the study of regular ideals in regular inclusions of C*-algebras. Let $B \subseteq A$ be a regular inclusion of C*-algebras satisfying the ideal intersection property and with a faithful invariant pseudo-expectation. A complete description of the regular ideals of $A$ is given using the invariant regular ideals of $B$ and the pseudo-expectation. Further, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a quotient by a regular ideal to preserve the faithful unique pseudo-expectation…

David Sacks,
the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar,
has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends
and many of his own tech investments.
Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government,
influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor.
Among his actions as the White House’s artificial intelligen…

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.

The Stein-Weiss inequality in variable exponent Morrey spaces
David Cruz-Uribe, Arash Ghorbanalizadeh, Durvudkhan Suragan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02235 https://

The Stein-Weiss inequality in variable exponent Morrey spaces
In this paper we prove the Stein-Weiss inequality in variable exponent Morrey spaces over a bounded domain. Our work extends earlier results in the variable exponent Lebesgue and Morrey settings, and utilizes new proof techniques applicable to Morrey spaces. We build on the foundational paper by Almeida, Hasanov, and Samko, which introduced Morrey spaces of variable exponents. As an application of our main result, we prove Poincaré-type inequalities using the approach of a recent paper by the …

Buildup, Explosion, and Untwisting of a Solar Active Region Jet Observed with Solar Orbiter, IRIS, and SDO
Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore, Sanjiv K. Tiwari, David Berghmans, Andrei Zhukov, Marilena Mierla, Cis Verbeeck, Koen Stegen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05439

Buildup, Explosion, and Untwisting of a Solar Active Region Jet Observed with Solar Orbiter, IRIS, and SDO
We present detailed analysis of an active region coronal jet accompanying a minifilament eruption that is fully captured and well-resolved in high spatial resolution 174A coronal images from Solar Orbiters Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI). The active region jet is simultaneously observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An erupting minifilament is rooted at the edge of an active region where mixed-polarity magnetic flux is present. Mi…

Donald Trump has set free a private equity executive
who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence
for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme
that defrauded thousands of victims.
David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y.,
had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Mr…

Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.

Machine-Learning Driven Load Shedding to Mitigate Instability Attacks in Power Grids
Justin Tackett, Benjamin Francis, Luis Garcia, David Grimsman, Sean Warnick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26532

Machine-Learning Driven Load Shedding to Mitigate Instability Attacks in Power Grids
Every year critical infrastructure becomes more complex and we grow to rely on it more and more. With this reliance, it becomes an attractive target for cyberattacks from sophisticated actors, with one of the most attractive targets being the power grid. One class of attacks, instability attacks, is a newer type of attack that has relatively few protections developed. We present a cost effective, data-driven approach to training a supervised machine learning model to retrofit load shedding deci…

SN 2025coe: A Triple-Peaked Calcium-Strong Transient from A White-Dwarf Progenitor
Chun Chen, Ning-Chen Sun, Qiang Xi, Samaporn Tinyanont, David Aguado, Ismael P\'erez-Fournon, Fr\'ed\'erick Poidevin, Justyn R. Maund, Amit Kumar, Junjie Jin, Yiming Mao, Beichuan Wang, Yu Zhang, Zhen Guo, Wenxiong Li, C\'esar Rojas-Bravo, Rong-Feng Shen, Lingzhi Wang, Ziyang Wang, Guoying Zhao, Jie Zheng, Yinan Zhu, David L\'opez Fern\'andez-Nespral, Alicia L\'opez-Oramas, Ze…

SN 2025coe: A Triple-Peaked Calcium-Strong Transient from A White-Dwarf Progenitor
SN 2025coe is a calcium-strong transient located at an extremely large projected offset $\sim$39.3 kpc from the center of its host, the nearby early-type galaxy NGC 3277 at a distance of $\sim$25.5 Mpc. In this paper, we present multi-band photometric and spectroscopic observations spanning $\sim$100 days post-discovery. Its multi-band light curves display three distinct peaks: (1) an initial peak at $t \approx 1.6$ days attributed to shock cooling emission, (2) a secondary peak of $M_{R, \, pe…

Crosslisted article(s) found for math-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/math-ph/new
[2/2]:
- Commutativity of operator algebras
David P. Blecher
https://

Bernie Sanders says that Democratic Party leadership are 'way out of touch'
'Let the people in'
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010489789/bernie-sanders…

Video: Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Democrats Are ‘Way Out of Touch’
In this episode of “The Opinions,” Senator Bernie Sanders tells David Leonhardt that the party and its leadership need to make big changes to start winning election.

Crosslisted article(s) found for econ.TH. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.TH/new
[1/1]:
- Learning to Play Multi-Follower Bayesian Stackelberg Games
Gerson Personnat, Tao Lin, Safwan Hossain, David C. Parkes

Projective models for Hilbert squares of $K3$ surfaces
\'Angel David R\'ios Ortiz, Andr\'es Rojas, Jieao Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02065 https://

Projective models for Hilbert squares of $K3$ surfaces
For a very general polarized $K3$ surface $S\subset \mathbb{P}^g$ of genus $g\ge 5$, we study the linear system on the Hilbert square $S^{[2]}$ parametrizing quadrics in $\mathbb{P}^g$ that contain $S$. We prove its very ampleness for $g\geq 7$. In the cases of genus 7 or 8, we describe in detail the projective geometry of the corresponding embedding by making use of the Mukai model for $S$. In both cases, it can be realized as a degeneracy locus on an ambient homogeneous space, in a strikingly…

Estimating high-resolution albedo for urban applications
David Fork, Elizabeth Jane Wesley, Salil Banerjee, Vishal Batchu, Aniruddh Chennapragada, Kevin Crossan, Bryce Cronkite-Ratcliff, Ellie Delich, Tristan Goulden, Mansi Kansal, Jonas Kemp, Eric Mackres, Yael Mayer, Becca Milman, John C. Platt, Shruthi Prabhakara, Gautam Prasad, Shravya Shetty, Charlotte Stanton, Wayne Sun, Lucy R. Hutyra

Estimating high-resolution albedo for urban applications
Implementation of cool roofs is a high-impact pathway for mitigating heat at both global and city scales. However, while albedo estimates derived from Sentinel-2 are free and globally-available, the 10 m resolution is insufficient to resolve individual roofs. We present methods for increasing the resolution of Sentinel-2 albedo using high-resolution satellite imagery to produce albedo inferences at a 30-cm scale. Validating against high-resolution aerial albedo measurements over Boulder, CO we …

Amram is a composer, musician, author, conductor and boundlessly connected collaborator who has been cheerfully ignoring musical categories since the 1940s.
His output includes jazz tunes, symphonies, operas, film scores, theater music, off-the-cuff talking blues and idiom-hopping folk-festival performances where he’s likely to play piano, pennywhistle and percussion.

At 95, David Amram Still Makes Music. And Nobody Can Put Him in a Box.
Jazz, classical, folk, world music — for this composer, categories were never confining.

Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Three Isolated Faint Dwarf Galaxies Beyond the Local Group: Pavo, Corvus A, and Kamino
Bur\c{c}in Mutlu-Pakdil, Michael G. Jones, David J. Sand, Denija Crnojevi\'c, Kai Herron, Jay Strader, Dennis Zaritsky, Paul Bennet, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Quinn O. Casey, Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, Richard Donnerstein, Catherine E. Fielder, Laura C. Hunter, Annika H. G. Peter, Deepthi S. Prabhu, Kristine Spekkens

Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Three Isolated Faint Dwarf Galaxies Beyond the Local Group: Pavo, Corvus A, and Kamino
We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of three recently discovered star-forming dwarf galaxies beyond the Local Group: Pavo, Corvus A, and Kamino. The discovery of Kamino is reported here for the first time. They rank among the most isolated faint dwarf galaxies known, hence they provide unique opportunities to study galaxy evolution at the smallest scales, free from environmental effects of more massive galaxies. Our HST data reach $\sim$2-4 magnitudes below the tip of the red gi…

In 2022 Larry Ellison gave Elon Musk $1 billion to help fund his purchase of Twitter (now X).
And last year Skydance Media merged with Paramount creating a conglomerate with almost unmatched reach.
While Larry’s son David runs Paramount on paper, it’s the father who actually owns the company.
This means that Larry Ellison owns a controlling stake in a broadcast network (CBS),
a major streaming platform (Paramount ),
multiple movie studios,
CBS News,

Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world
TikTok is the latest prize in the Silicon Valley billionaire’s second act as a media mogul.

Phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of the magnetic cataclysmic binary EF Eridani: Revealing complex magnetic accretion during a high state
Zwidofhela N. Khangale, Stephen B. Potter, David A. H. Buckley, Paul E. Barrett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08266

Phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of the magnetic cataclysmic binary EF Eridani: Revealing complex magnetic accretion during a high state
We present high-resolution, phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of the polar EF Eri, obtained with SALT and the SAAO 1.9-m telescope during its recent emergence from a three-decade-long low state. The average spectrum shows strong emission from the Balmer lines (H$α$ and H$β$) and He~\textsc{ii} 4686 Å, along with weaker emission from the He~\textsc{i} lines and the Bowen fluorescence (C~\textsc{iii}/N~\textsc{iii}) blend at 4650 Å. The emission lines redward of 5500 Å transition to …

Selena Gomez marries Benny Blanco in star-studded Santa Barbara ceremony
The couple exchanged vows at the lush Sea Crest Nursery in Santa Barbara, Calif., while surrounded by around 170 of their family and friends, according to Vogue.
Guests included Gomez’s BFF Taylor Swift, her “Only Murders in the Building” co-stars Martin Short, Steve Martin and Paul Rudd. Other attendees included Paris Hilton, Ed Sheeran, Ashley Park, and Gomez’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” co-star David Henri…

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The Open-Source Photochem Code: A General Chemical and Climate Model for Interpreting (Exo)Planet Observations
Nicholas F. Wogan, Natasha E. Batalha, Kevin Zahnle, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, David C. Catling, Eric T. Wolf, Tyler D. Robinson, Victoria Meadows, Giada Arney, Shawn Domagal-Goldman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25578

The Open-Source Photochem Code: A General Chemical and Climate Model for Interpreting (Exo)Planet Observations
With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, we are firmly in the era of exoplanet atmosphere characterization. Understanding exoplanet spectra requires atmospheric chemical and climate models that span the diversity of planetary atmospheres. Here, we present a more general chemical and climate model of planetary atmospheres. Specifically, we introduce the open-source, one-dimensional photochemical and climate code Photochem, and benchmark the model against the observed compositions and c…

Prop. 50 looks likely to face a barrage of legal challenges
David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law,
said that if Proposition 50 passes, he expects a barrage of “see what sticks” lawsuits raising California constitutional claims.
They stand little chance of success, he said.
“Voters created the redistricting commission,” he said.
“What the voters created they can change or abolish.”
Attorneys might also br…

Amid the Trump administration’s military escalations against Venezuela,
one Florida Republican is salivating at the prospect of a full-scale military invasion,
arguing that a U.S. military invasion would be “very good news for the American economy.”
“Venezuela, for those Americans who do not understand why we need to go in, basically [it’s] for three reasons,”
said Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), speaking with Fox’s David Asman.
Those three reasons, Salazar exp…

‘We need to go in!’ GOP lawmaker salivates over oil company 'field day' invasion promises
Amid the Trump administration’s military escalations against Venezuela, one Florida Republican is salivating at the prospect of a full-scale military invasion, arguing that a U.S. military invasion would be “very good news for the American economy.”“Venezuela, for those Americans who do not understa...

Finite number of traces for Mumford-Shah minimizers in dimension 2
Camille Labourie, Antoine Lemenant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24426 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Finite number of traces for Mumford-Shah minimizers in dimension 2
In this short note, we answer a question raised by E. De Giorgi, showing that a Mumford-Shah minimizer in dimension 2 can only admit three maximum limit values as approaching the singular set. This result stems from tools developed in the early 2000's by G. David, A. Bonnet, and J.-C. Léger.

Is Liller 1 a building block of the Galactic bulge? - Evidence with APOGEE
Anna Liptrott, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Andrew C. Mason, Sebastian Kamann, Borja Anguiano, Roger E. Cohen, Jos\'e G. Fern\'andez-Trincado, Danny Horta, Steven R. Majewski, Dante Minniti, David M. Nataf, Michael J. W. O'Connor, Dominic Wearne
https://arxiv.or…

Is Liller 1 a building block of the Galactic bulge? - Evidence with APOGEE
Liller 1 is a stellar system orbiting within the inner 0.8kpc of the Galactic centre, characterised by a wide spread in age and metallicity, indicating a high mass. Liller 1 has been proposed to be a major contributor to the stellar mass of the Galactic bulge, yet its origin is subject to debate. We employ Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) to test scenarios proposed to explain the nature of Liller 1. Using a rando…

Vanishing Acts: Quantifying Black Hole Formation with the DSNB Signal
Tim Chariss\'e, David Maksimovi\'c, George A. Parker, Michael Wurm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01177

Vanishing Acts: Quantifying Black Hole Formation with the DSNB Signal
The diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) created by stellar core-collapses throughout cosmic history is on the verge of discovery, with SK-Gd showing early deviations from the background expectation and JUNO starting to take data. However, the interpretation of early DSNB data will face significant challenges due to degeneracies between astrophysical parameters and uncertainties in supernova neutrino modeling. We explore how complementary astronomical observations can break these degene…

The EBLM project XVI. Spin-orbit alignment of the low mass eclipsing binary EBLM J0021-16
Becca Spejcher, David V. Martin, Jake Pandina, Andy Zhang, Max Ammons, Wata Thubthong, Amaury Triaud, Ritika Sethi, Noah Vowell, Adrian Barker, Pierre Maxted, Alison Duck, Shelby Summers, Fran\c{c}ois Bouchy, Monika Lendl, Maxime Marmier, Malte Tewes, St\'ephane Udry
h…

The EBLM project XVI. Spin-orbit alignment of the low mass eclipsing binary EBLM J0021-16
Thousands of tight ($<1$ AU) main sequence binaries have been discovered, but it is uncertain how they formed. There is likely too much angular momentum in a collapsing, fragmenting protostellar cloud to form such binaries in situ, suggesting some post processing. One probe of a binary's dynamical history is the angle between the stellar spin and orbital axes -- its obliquity. The classical method for determining stellar obliquity is the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. It has been applied to over 1…

“Overwhelmingly, the reason people care is the belief that the Democrats [winning] control of the House of Representatives next year is the only possible meaningful impediment to Donald Trump’s implementation of his authoritarian agenda,”
said David Welch with the Democratic central committee of Butte county, where Chico is located.
Denney, who chairs the Democratic Action Club of Chico,
has been traveling to the far reaches of the district in north-eastern California to ta…

Multi-port programmable silicon photonics using low-loss phase change material Sb$_2$Se$_3$
Thomas W. Radford, Idris A Ajia, Latif Rozaqi, Priya Deoli, Xingzhao Yan, Mehdi Banakar, David J Thomson, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Alberto Politi, Otto L. Muskens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18205 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18205 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18205
arXiv:2511.18205v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reconfigurable photonic devices are rapidly emerging as a cornerstone of next generation optical technologies, with wide ranging applications in quantum simulation, neuromorphic computing, and large-scale photonic processors. A central challenge in this field is identifying an optimal platform to enable compact, efficient, and scalable reconfigurability. Optical phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a compelling solution by enabling non-volatile, reversible tuning of optical properties, compatible with a wide range of device platforms and current CMOS technologies. In particular, antimony tri-selenide ($\text{Sb}_{2}\text{Se}_{3}$) stands out for its ultra low-loss characteristics at telecommunication wavelengths and its reversible switching. In this work, we present an experimental platform capable of encoding multi-port operations onto the transmission matrix of a compact multimode interferometer architecture on standard 220~nm silicon photonics using \textit{in-silico} designed digital patterns. The multi-port devices are clad with a thin film of $\text{Sb}_{2}\text{Se}_{3}$, which can be optically addressed using direct laser writing to provide local perturbations to the refractive index. A range of multi-port geometries from 2$\times$2 up to 5$\times$5 couplers are demonstrated, achieving simultaneous control of up to 25 matrix elements with programming accuracy of 90% relative to simulated patterns. Patterned devices remain stable with consistent optical performance across the C-band wavelengths. Our work establishes a pathway towards the development of large scale PCM-based reconfigurable multi-port devices which will allow implementing matrix operations on three orders of magnitude smaller areas than interferometer meshes.
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Small Near-Earth Objects in the Taurid Resonant Swarm
Quanzhi Ye, Jasmine Li, Denis Vida, David L. Clark, Eric C. Bellm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22602 https://

Small Near-Earth Objects in the Taurid Resonant Swarm
The Taurid Resonant Swarm (TRS) within the Taurid Complex hosts dynamically-concentrated debris in a 7:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. Fireball observations have confirmed that the TRS is rich in sub-meter-sized particles, but whether this enhancement extends to larger, asteroid-sized objects remains unclear. Here we reanalyze the data obtained by a Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) campaign during the 2022 TRS encounter, and find that the TRS may host up to $\sim10^2$ Tunguska-sized object…

Central Massive Black Holes Are Not Ubiquitous in Local Low-Mass Galaxies
Fan Zou, Elena Gallo, Anil C. Seth, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, David Ohlson, Tommaso Treu, Vivienne F. Baldassare, W. N. Brandt, Jenny E. Greene, Piero Madau, Dieu D. Nguyen, Richard M. Plotkin, Amy E. Reines, Alberto Sesana, Jong-Hak Woo, Jianfeng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs…

Central Massive Black Holes Are Not Ubiquitous in Local Low-Mass Galaxies
The black-hole occupation fraction ($f_\mathrm{occ}$) defines the fraction of galaxies that harbor central massive black holes (MBHs), irrespective of their accretion activity level. While it is widely accepted that $f_\mathrm{occ}$ is nearly 100% in local massive galaxies with stellar masses $M_\star \gtrsim 10^{10}~M_\odot$, it is not yet clear whether MBHs are ubiquitous in less-massive galaxies. In this work, we present new constraints on $f_\mathrm{occ}$ based on over 20 years of Chandra i…

Spectral instability in the smooth Ponomarenko dynamo
V\'ictor Navarro-Fern\'andez, David Villringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19201 https://arxiv…

A Multiwavelength View of $\rho$ Oph I: Resolving the X-ray Source Between A and B
Sean J. Gunderson, Jackson Codd, Walter W. Golay, David P. Huenemoerder, John M. Cannon, J. Alex Fluegel, Philip E. Griffin, Nathalie C. Haurberg, Richard Ignace, Alexandrea Moreno, Pragati Pradhan, Alexis Riggs, James Wetzel, Claude R. Canizares, the MACRO consortium
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A Multiwavelength View of $ρ$ Oph I: Resolving the X-ray Source Between A and B
We present a multiwavelength analysis of the central stellar pair of $ρ$ Oph, components A and B. Using recent high-resolution \textit{Chandra X-ray Observatory} observations, we demonstrate with high confidence that the dominant X-ray source is $ρ$ Oph B, while $ρ$ Oph A is comparatively X-ray faint. This result contrasts with earlier \textit{XMM-Newton} observations, which, due to limited spatial resolutions, attributed the X-ray emission to $ρ$ Oph A. An analysis of $ρ$ Oph B's X-ray li…

Reconfigurable, Temperature Resilient Phase-Change Metasurfaces Fabricated via High Throughput Nanoimprinting Lithography
Carlota Ruiz de Galarreta, Yinghao Zhao, Jose Mendoza-Carre\~no, Jose M Caicedo, Jose Santiso, C David Wright, M Isabel Alonso, Agustin Mihi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17184

Reconfigurable, Temperature Resilient Phase-Change Metasurfaces Fabricated via High Throughput Nanoimprinting Lithography
The combination of metasurfaces with chalcogenide phase-change materials is a highly promising route towards the development of multifunctional and reconfigurable nanophotonic devices. However, their transition into real-world devices is hindered by several technological challenges. This includes, amongst others, the lack of large area photonic architectures produced via scalable nanofabrication methods, as required for free-space photonic applications, along with the ability to withstand the h…

The Trinity-One PeV-Neutrino Telescope
David A. Raudales O., A. Nepomuk Otte, D. R. Bergman, J. Bogdan, A. M. Brown, M. Doro, M. Fedkevych, F. Giordano, C. Hao, D. Kieda, M. Mariotti, Y. Onel, E. Schapera, D. Soldin, W. Springer, S. Stepanoff, I. Taboada, K. Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18237

CECILIA: Gas-Phase Physical Conditions and Multi-Element Chemistry at Cosmic Noon
Noah S. J. Rogers, Allison L. Strom, Gwen C. Rudie, Ryan F. Trainor, Caroline von Raesfeld, Menelaos Raptis, Nathalie A. Korhonen Cuestas, Tim B. Miller, Charles C. Steidel, Michael V. Maseda, Yuguang Chen, David R. Law
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18257…

HWO Target Stars and Systems: A Prioritized Community List of Potential Stellar Targets for the Habitable Worlds Observatory's ExoEarth Survey
Noah W. Tuchow, Caleb K. Harada, Eric E. Mamajek, Angelle Tanner, Natalie R. Hinkel, Ruslan Belikov, Dan Sirbu, David R. Ciardi, Christopher C. Stark, Rhonda M. Morgan, Dmitri Savransky, Michael Turmon
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HWO Target Stars and Systems: A Prioritized Community List of Potential Stellar Targets for the Habitable Worlds Observatory's ExoEarth Survey
The HWO Target Stars and Systems 2025 (TSS25) list is a community-developed catalog of potential stellar targets for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) in its survey to directly image Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone. The TSS25 list categorizes potential HWO targets into priority tiers based on their likelihood to be surveyed and the necessity of obtaining observations of their stellar properties prior to the launch of the mission. This target list builds upon previous efforts to i…

The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings in the PHANGS-JWST Sample. I. Catalog of Mid-IR Sources
Hamid Hassani, Erik Rosolowsky, Adam K. Leroy, Karin Sandstrom, M\'ed\'eric Boquien, David A. Thilker, Bradley C. Whitmore, Gagandeep S. Anand, Ashley T. Barnes, Yixian Cao, Ryan Chown, Enrico Congiu, Daniel A. Dale, Oleg V. Egorov, Ivan Gerasimov, Kathryn Grasha, Remy Indebetouw, Janice C. Lee, Fu-Heng Liang, Daniel Maschmann, Sharon E. Meidt, Elias K. Oakes, Is…

The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings in the PHANGS-JWST Sample. I. Catalog of Mid-IR Sources
We present a multiwavelength catalog of mid-infrared-selected compact sources in 19 nearby galaxies, combining JWST NIRCam/MIRI, HST UV-optical broadband, H$α$ narrow-band, and ALMA CO observations. We detect 24,945 compact sources at 21 $μ$m and 55,581 at 10 $μ$m. Artificial star tests show 50% completeness limits of $\sim$5 $μ$Jy for the 10 $μ$m catalog, and $\sim$24 $μ$Jy for the 21 $μ$m catalog. We find that 21 $μ$m compact sources contribute $\sim$20% of the total galaxy emission i…

Possible First Detection of Gyroresonance Emission from a Coronal Mass Ejection in the Middle Corona
Surajit Mondal, Bin Chen, Xingyao Chen, Sijie Yu, Dale Gary, Peijin Zhang, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Katherine Elder, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jacobs, Ghislain Kemby, John T Klinef…

Possible First Detection of Gyroresonance Emission from a Coronal Mass Ejection in the Middle Corona
Routine measurements of the magnetic field of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) have been a key challenge in solar physics. Making such measurements is important both from a space weather perspective and for understanding the detailed evolution of the CME. In spite of significant efforts and multiple proposed methods, achieving this goal has not been possible to date. Here we report the first possible detection of gyroresonance emission from a CME. Assuming that the emission is happening at the thi…

The JWST EXCELS survey: Insights into the nature of quenching at cosmic noon
Maya Skarbinski, Kate Rowlands, Katherine Alatalo, Vivienne Wild, Adam C. Carnall, Omar Almaini, David Maltby, Thomas de Lisle, Timothy Heckman, Ryan Begley, Fergus Cullen, James S. Dunlop, Guillaume Hewitt, Ho-Hin Leung, Derek McLeod, Ross McLure, Justin Atsushi Otter, Pallavi Patil, Andreea Petric, Alice E. Shapley, Struan Stevenson, Elizabeth Taylor