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An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces
Francisco Munguia-Galeano, Louis Longley, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Zhengxue Zhou, Rob Clowes, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Andrew I. Cooper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03743

An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces
In the context of self-driving laboratories (SDLs), ensuring automated and error-free capping is crucial, as it is a ubiquitous step in sample preparation. Automated capping in SDLs can occur in both large and small workspaces (e.g., inside a fume hood). However, most commercial capping machines are designed primarily for large spaces and are often too bulky for confined environments. Moreover, many commercial products are closed-source, which can make their integration into fully autonomous wo…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Exactly.
AVON: You really are insane, aren't you?
DORIAN: By now I probably would be.
AVON: If it wasn't for this mysterious room.
DORIAN: And what it contains.
SOOLIN: [Enters] And what might that be, Dorian?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/467…

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"How to get the most out of tech while freeing ourselves from the lunatics in Silicon Valley"
Says Ian Dunt in his article on a corporate Substack page linked from his block-chain owned Bluesky account.
He does so without using the words "Fedi" "blog", "decentralize" "open source", "free software", or "mastodon", and while calling Facebook and Instagram "seemingly more benign".
There must be a form of moderate tech disinvestment, which allows us the things we benefit from while removing the things which harm us.
He pleads, admitting
I have no answers for this
Yeah, no kidding.
But he has stopped using Amazon so much and buys more DVDs now, and tries to use a tablet more than a phone!?
Well done I guess.

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Licong Xu, Milind Sarkar, Anto I. Lonappan, \'I\~nigo Zubeldia, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, Santiago Casas, Christian Fidler, Chetana Amancharla, Ujjwal Tiwari, Adrian Bayer, Chadi Ait Ekiou, Miles Cranmer, Adrian Dimitrov, James Fergusson, Kahaan Gandhi, Sven Krippendorf, Andrew Laverick, Julien Lesgourgues, Antony Lewis, Thomas Meier, Blake Sherwin, Kristen Surrao, Francisco Villaescu…

Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
We present a multi-agent system for automation of scientific research tasks, cmbagent. The system is formed by about 30 Large Language Model (LLM) agents and implements a Planning & Control strategy to orchestrate the agentic workflow, with no human-in-the-loop at any point. Each agent specializes in a different task (performing retrieval on scientific papers and codebases, writing code, interpreting results, critiquing the output of other agents) and the system is able to execute code locally.…

late upload. a little stormy birthday for my little stormy gf<3
featuring #tobiiDog
#birthday #dofsOfMastodon

easyspec: An open-source Python package for long-slit spectroscopy
Raniere de Menezes, Francesco Massaro, Michela Negro, Claudia M. Raiteri, Harold Pe\~na-Herazo, Jose A. Acosta-Pulido
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13443

easyspec: An open-source Python package for long-slit spectroscopy
In modern-day astronomy, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy are indispensable for studying a wide range of phenomena, from measuring black hole masses to analyzing chemical abundances in stellar atmospheres. However, spectroscopic data reduction is often performed using instrument-specific pipelines or legacy software well-established and robust within the community that are often challenging to implement and script in modern astrophysical workflows. In this work, we introduce…

Simphony: A full tight-binding package for lattice vibrations and topological phonon analysis
Francesc Ballester, Ion Errea, Maia G. Vergniory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15413

Simphony: A full tight-binding package for lattice vibrations and topological phonon analysis
Simphony is an open-source software package designed for the topological analysis of lattice vibrations based on Wannier tight-binding models. Its primary function is to classify the topology of novel materials by computing bulk and slab phonon band structures, extracting phonon surface spectra, and providing analysis tools such as Wilson loop calculations and Weyl node detection. The workflow is analogous to that of established electronic topology codes like Wannier90 and WannierTools. It also…