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L3Cube-MahaSTS: A Marathi Sentence Similarity Dataset and Models
Aishwarya Mirashi, Ananya Joshi, Raviraj Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21569 https://ar…

L3Cube-MahaSTS: A Marathi Sentence Similarity Dataset and Models
We present MahaSTS, a human-annotated Sentence Textual Similarity (STS) dataset for Marathi, along with MahaSBERT-STS-v2, a fine-tuned Sentence-BERT model optimized for regression-based similarity scoring. The MahaSTS dataset consists of 16,860 Marathi sentence pairs labeled with continuous similarity scores in the range of 0-5. To ensure balanced supervision, the dataset is uniformly distributed across six score-based buckets spanning the full 0-5 range, thus reducing label bias and enhancing …

Didi reports Q2 revenue up 10.9% YoY to ~$7.8B, overseas revenue up 28% YoY, and a ~$350M net loss, driven by a one-off ~$740M charge in a shareholder lawsuit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/didi-posts-q2-los…

The Science of Trusting Your Intuition
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/the_science_of_trusting_your_intuition?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Do…

The Science of Trusting Your Intuition
What if burnout isn’t a breaking point, but an invitation to slow down, tune in, and hear the intuition you have been trying to say all along?

Protests erupt in Ukraine as Zelenskyy signs corruption law rollback: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/protests-erupt-in-ukraine-as.html

We proudly share our Call for Cases for the 2nd #stsing conference, hosted in #Bochum. A case-based format is a way of conferencing that is local, small, and oriented towards the concrete.
Make your case, fit your case, hop on.

Pulse vol 13 (2026) CFP - Zines and STS: The Remix #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/12/pulse-vol-13-2026-cfp-zines-and-sts-the-…

:chefkiss:
https://theonion.com/bezos-wedding-guests-given-monogrammed-plastic-bottles-to-urinate-in-during-ceremony/

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony
VENICE, ITALY—In a welcome bag filled with favors such as local chocolates, artisanal soaps, and scented candles, guests arriving for the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez this week were reportedly given monogrammed plastic bottles in which to urinate during the ceremony. “Because guests will be strictly prohibited from leaving the room […]

High School Science Profile Predicts Adults' Views on the Future of AI and STS
Gyeonggeon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

High School Science Profile Predicts Adults' Views on the Future of AI and STS
This study investigates the long term influence of high school science education on adults' engagement with artificial intelligence (AI) and their views on science-technology-society (STS) issues. Drawing on longitudinal data from the Korea Employment Education Panel (KEEP) II (n = 2,348), which tracked general high school students from 2016 to 2023, we applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine how science interest and achievement in adolescence predict AI use and perceptions in adu…

Coincidence double-tip scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Yuehua Su, Guoya Zhang, Dezhong Cao, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17532 https://arxiv.org/p…

Coincidence double-tip scanning tunneling spectroscopy
The development of new experimental techniques for direct measurement of many-body correlations is crucial for unraveling the mysteries of strongly correlated electron systems. In this work, we propose a coincidence double-tip scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) that enables direct probing of spatially resolved dynamical two-body correlations of sample electrons. Unlike conventional single-tip scanning tunneling microscopy, the double-tip STS employs a double-tip scanning tunneling microscope…

Ex Situ Fabrication of Superconducting Nanostructures for Low-Temperature STM
Adrian Greichgauer, Roozbeh Yazdanpanah, Alexey Taskin, Oliver Breunig, Yoichi Ando, Jens Brede
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14092

Ex Situ Fabrication of Superconducting Nanostructures for Low-Temperature STM
Nanofabrication enables flexible experimental design but is often incompatible with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) due to the latter's stringent surface quality requirements. Here, we present a fabrication strategy that combines ex situ nanolithography with in situ ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) cleaving to produce atomically clean, nanopatterned superconductor/topological insulator (TI) heterostructures suitable for high-resolution STM/STS. In our initial Design I, nanoribbon…

Trump blasts appeals court for halting Resolution Copper land transfer (Ernest Scheyder/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-blasts-appeals-court-halting-resolution-copper-land-transfer-2025-08-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p134#a250819p134

The Science of Trusting Your Intuition
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/the_science_of_trusting_your_intuition?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Do…

The Science of Trusting Your Intuition
What if burnout isn’t a breaking point, but an invitation to slow down, tune in, and hear the intuition you have been trying to say all along?

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evaluation of Czech Sentence Embeddings: Semantic Relevance Doesn't Help with MT Evaluation
Petra Baran\v{c}\'ikov\'a, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20203

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Evaluation of Czech Sentence Embeddings: Semantic Relevance Doesn't Help with MT Evaluation
In this paper, we compare Czech-specific and multilingual sentence embedding models through intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation paradigms. For intrinsic evaluation, we employ Costra, a complex sentence transformation dataset, and several Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) benchmarks to assess the ability of the embeddings to capture linguistic phenomena such as semantic similarity, temporal aspects, and stylistic variations. In the extrinsic evaluation, we fine-tune each embedding model using COM…

Missing interstellar sulfur in inventories of polysulfanes and molecular #octasulfur crowns: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61259-2 -> Chemists Help Solve Mystery of Missing Space Sulfur: https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/08/chemists-help-solve-mystery-of-missing-space-sulfur/index.html - new research could create road map to outer space element.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Roots feat. Joanna Newsom:
🎵 Right On
#NowPlaying #TheRoots #JoannaNewsom
https://thethrowout.bandcamp.com/track/the-roots-ft-joanna-newsom-sts-right-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QZkqy0yPdZ4KR8mroQ8CN

Master equation study of three-body recombination of nitrogen and oxygen in non-equilibrium hypersonic flows
Aakanksha Notey, Sung Min Jo, Marco Panesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17452

Master equation study of three-body recombination of nitrogen and oxygen in non-equilibrium hypersonic flows
This work aims to study the energy transfer and recombination processes in N$_{2}$$\left(^{1}\sum^{+}_{g}\right)$+N$\left(^{4}S_{u}\right)$ and O$_{2}$$\left(^{3}\sum^{+}_{g}\right)$+O$\left(^{3}P_{2}\right)$ chemical systems when the system is suddenly cooled in a 0-D isothermal reactor thereby inducing strong non-equilibrium. A state-to-state (StS) study of the non-equilibrium phenomenon is crucial for developing accurate and efficient reduced-order models that can accurately capture the ther…

Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ahead-of-protests-waymo-adjusts…

Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide
A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn’t taking risks.

Intelligent Travel Activity Monitoring: Generalized Distributed Acoustic Sensing Approaches
Ruikang Zhong, Chia-Yen Chiang, Mona Jaber, Rupert De Wilde, Peter Hayward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10237

Intelligent Travel Activity Monitoring: Generalized Distributed Acoustic Sensing Approaches
Obtaining data on active travel activities such as walking, jogging, and cycling is important for refining sustainable transportation systems (STS). Effectively monitoring these activities not only requires sensing solutions to have a joint feature of being accurate, economical, and privacy-preserving, but also enough generalizability to adapt to different climate environments and deployment conditions. In order to provide a generalized sensing solution, a deep learning (DL)-enhanced distribute…

Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/happiness_break_a_meditation_on_t…

Happiness Break: A Meditation on the Uniqueness of Your Voice
Embrace the beauty of your accent in this self-compassion meditation that guides you in a reflection of your history, heritage, and connection to your ancestors.

Hundreds of 'No Kings' Rallies Planned in Opposition to Trump (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/no-kings-protests-rallies-planned-saturday-954ab124
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p31#a250613p31

'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/no-kings-protests-citizen-run-ice-trackers-trigger-intelligence-warnings/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p128#a250613p128

CoDiEmb: A Collaborative yet Distinct Framework for Unified Representation Learning in Information Retrieval and Semantic Textual Similarity
Bowen Zhang, Zixin Song, Chunquan Chen, Qian-Wen Zhang, Di Yin, Xing Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11442

CoDiEmb: A Collaborative yet Distinct Framework for Unified Representation Learning in Information Retrieval and Semantic Textual Similarity
Learning unified text embeddings that excel across diverse downstream tasks is a central goal in representation learning, yet negative transfer remains a persistent obstacle. This challenge is particularly pronounced when jointly training a single encoder for Information Retrieval (IR) and Semantic Textual Similarity (STS), two essential but fundamentally disparate tasks for which naive co-training typically yields steep performance trade-offs. We argue that resolving this conflict requires sys…

Pulse vol 13 (2026) CFP - Zines and STS: The Remix
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updated: Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 1:59pmfull name / name of organization: Pulse: the Journal of…
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How Art Heals Us https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/how_art_heals_us?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/MENTAL HEALTH&utm_medium=mastodon

How Art Heals Us
We explore how making art can ground us in the present and be a space of healing, connection, and joy.

How to Feel More Hopeful https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/how_to_feel_more_hopeful?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Signs of%2…

How to Feel More Hopeful
How can we build a sense of hope when the future feels uncertain? Poet Tomás Morín tries a writing practice to make him feel more hopeful and motivated to work toward his goals.

David Byrne on How Music Connects Us
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/david_byrne_on_how_music_connects_us?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/MUSIC

David Byrne on How Music Connects Us
Music helped former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne come out of his shell and connect with others—and research shows he's not alone. We explore the science behind how music shapes our social lives.

Sue Parfitt / Palestine Action / UK censorship
"An 83-year-old retired priest has been arrested for defying a newly enforced ban on pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, just hours after the group was formally outlawed by the UK government.
"The Reverend Sue Parfitt, from Bristol, was detained for holding a placard that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” She was among more than 27 people arrested on Saturday for acts of defiance against the proscription."
#SueParfitt #PalestineAction #UKPol #UK #censorship