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🌾 Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
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Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot growing in the fertile soil of eastern England.

Australian household energy bills will⭐️ halve by 2050 ⭐️as solar panels, batteries and electric cars and appliances become the norm,
reducing pressure on the federal government over living costs and creating room for more climate action, a thinktank study suggests.
Modelling by the Grattan Institute finds that cutting greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation in line with the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050
will cut average household energy costs fro…

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

Writing Prompt - True Names have power. But your name is only your True Name if you were ritually given your name in a ceremony - e.g. in a church christening. Filling in registry office forms doesn't count. A steadily growing chunk of the world doesn't have a True Name and cannot be controlled...

Inferring cosmological parameters from galaxy and dark sirens cross-correlation
Giona Sala, Alessandro Cuoco, Julien Lesgourgues, Kostantinos-Rafail Revis, Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi, Santiago Casas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08699

Inferring cosmological parameters from galaxy and dark sirens cross-correlation
The number of observed gravitational wave (GW) events is growing fast thanks to rapidly improving detector sensitivities. GWs from compact binary coalescences like Black Holes or Neutron Stars behave like standard sirens and can be used as cosmological probes. To this aim, generally, the observation of an electromagnetic counterpart and the measurement of the redshift are needed. However, even when those are not available, it is still possible to exploit these "dark sirens" via statistical meth…

Closer to home here are the kind of 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 flowers you find up and down the creek in Monkey Run; I think every natural area in Tompkins has its own characteristic 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠.
#photo #photography #flowers

PyPSA-DE: Open-source German energy system model reveals savings from integrated planning
Michael Lindner, Julian Geis, Toni Seibold, Tom Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09414 …

PyPSA-DE: Open-source German energy system model reveals savings from integrated planning
Germany has set an ambitious target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. We explore how integrated cross-sectoral planning can reduce costs compared to existing national plans. Our new linear optimization model PyPSA-DE simulates the electricity and hydrogen transmission networks, as well as supply, demand, and storage in all sectors of the energy system in Germany and its neighboring countries with high spatial and temporal resolution. While our new model shows strong electri…

Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in \Euclid (CLOE). 1. Theoretical recipe
Collaboration, Cardone, Joudaki, Blot, Bonici, Camera, Ca\~nas-Herrera, Carrilho, Casas, Davini, Di Domizio, Farrens, Goh, Beauchamps, Ili\'c, Keil, Le Brun, Martinelli, Moretti, Pettorino, Pezzotta, S\'anchez, Sakr, Sciotti, Tanidis, Tutusaus, Ajani, Crocce, Giocoli, Legrand, Lembo, Lesci, Girones, Nouri-Zonoz, Pamuk, Tsedrik, Bel, Carbone, Duncan, Kilbinger, Lacasa, Lattanzi, Sapone, Sellentin, Tayl…

Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in \Euclid (CLOE). 1. Theoretical recipe
As the statistical precision of cosmological measurements increases, the accuracy of the theoretical description of these measurements needs to increase correspondingly in order to infer the underlying cosmology that governs the Universe. To this end, we have created the Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE), which is a novel cosmological parameter inference pipeline developed within the Euclid Consortium to translate measurements and covariances into cosmological parameter cons…

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

Euclid preparation. Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE). 4: Validation and Performance
Collaboration, Martinelli, Pezzotta, Sciotti, Blot, Bonici, Camera, Ca\~nas-Herrera, Cardone, Carrilho, Casas, Davini, Di Domizio, Farrens, Goh, Beauchamps, Ili\'c, Joudaki, Keil, Le Brun, Moretti, Pettorino, S\'anchez, Sakr, Tanidis, Tutusaus, Ajani, Crocce, Giocoli, Legrand, Lembo, Lesci, Girones, Nouri-Zonoz, Pamuk, Tsedrik, Bel, Carbone, Duncan, Kilbinger, Lacasa, Lattan…

Euclid preparation. Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE). 4: Validation and Performance
The Euclid satellite will provide data on the clustering of galaxies and on the distortion of their measured shapes, which can be used to constrain and test the cosmological model. However, the increase in precision places strong requirements on the accuracy of the theoretical modelling for the observables and of the full analysis pipeline. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of the calculations performed by the Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE), a software able to ha…