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TIL both Algeria and Morroco have modern passenger rail services including growing High Speed services.... but the land border between them has been closed since 1994, so the systems don't touch :(
One day! 🤞
Algeria system is SNTF, Morroco: ONCF
Easiest English info is through https://www.seat61.com/Algeria.htm

„Hilde Vautmans, a Belgian liberal MEP, said Europe risked losing its credibility. “This famine is not a natural disaster; it is a political act, and Europe must respond with political courage …. If Europe continues to speak of values while refusing to act, we will lose our credibility and betray our founding promise: never again.”“
Von der Leyen under growing pressure to take tougher line with Israel

Aerial-ground Cross-modal Localization: Dataset, Ground-truth, and Benchmark
Yandi Yang, Jianping Li, Youqi Liao, Yuhao Li, Yizhe Zhang, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang, Naser El-Sheimy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07362

Aerial-ground Cross-modal Localization: Dataset, Ground-truth, and Benchmark
Accurate visual localization in dense urban environments poses a fundamental task in photogrammetry, geospatial information science, and robotics. While imagery is a low-cost and widely accessible sensing modality, its effectiveness on visual odometry is often limited by textureless surfaces, severe viewpoint changes, and long-term drift. The growing public availability of airborne laser scanning (ALS) data opens new avenues for scalable and precise visual localization by leveraging ALS as a pr…

PEHRT: A Common Pipeline for Harmonizing Electronic Health Record data for Translational Research
Jessica Gronsbell, Vidul Ayakulangara Panickan, Chris Lin, Thomas Charlon, Chuan Hong, Doudou Zhou, Linshanshan Wang, Jianhui Gao, Shirley Zhou, Yuan Tian, Yaqi Shi, Ziming Gan, Tianxi Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08553

PEHRT: A Common Pipeline for Harmonizing Electronic Health Record data for Translational Research
Integrative analysis of multi-institutional Electronic Health Record (EHR) data enhances the reliability and generalizability of translational research by leveraging larger, more diverse patient cohorts and incorporating multiple data modalities. However, harmonizing EHR data across institutions poses major challenges due to data heterogeneity, semantic differences, and privacy concerns. To address these challenges, we introduce $\textit{PEHRT}$, a standardized pipeline for efficient EHR data h…

Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

Domain-Adapted Granger Causality for Real-Time Cross-Slice Attack Attribution in 6G Networks
Minh K. Quan, Pubudu N. Pathirana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05165 https://

Domain-Adapted Granger Causality for Real-Time Cross-Slice Attack Attribution in 6G Networks
Cross-slice attack attribution in 6G networks faces the fundamental challenge of distinguishing genuine causal relationships from spurious correlations in shared infrastructure environments. We propose a theoretically-grounded domain-adapted Granger causality framework that integrates statistical causal inference with network-specific resource modeling for real-time attack attribution. Our approach addresses key limitations of existing methods by incorporating resource contention dynamics and p…

Teamwork as Linear Interpersonal Dynamics
Andrew Jun Lee, Grace Qiyuan Miao, Rick Dale, Alexia Galati, Hongjing Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08811 https://

Teamwork as Linear Interpersonal Dynamics
Successful teamwork depends on interpersonal dynamics, the ways in which individuals coordinate, influence, and adapt to one another over time. Existing measures of interpersonal dynamics, such as CRQA, correlation, Granger causality, and transfer entropy, typically capture only a single dimension: either the synchrony/coordination or the direction of influence between individuals. What is missing is a psychologically meaningful representation that unifies these dimensions and varies systematic…

"Abandoned Queensland coal borehole found to be emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of greenhouse gas"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

Decarbonizing Basic Chemicals Production in North America, Europe, Middle East, and China: a Scenario Modeling Study
Tubagus Aryandi Gunawan, Hongxi Luo, Chris Greig, Eric D. Larson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08279

Decarbonizing Basic Chemicals Production in North America, Europe, Middle East, and China: a Scenario Modeling Study
The chemicals industry accounts for about 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions today and is among the most difficult industries to abate. We model decarbonization pathways for the most energy-intensive segment of the industry, the production of basic chemicals: olefins, aromatics, methanol, ammonia, and chlor-alkali. Unlike most prior pathways studies, we apply a scenario-analysis approach that recognizes the central role of corporate investment decision making for capital-intensive industries…

Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737