Tootfinder

If this mechanism is indeed involved in the origin of life, then a form of life is likely to be present on innumerable habitable planets throughout the universe. Which is expected, of course, and will no-doubt be found at some point.
https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/114734…

C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that resulted in visual impairment in early 2025 (Hanh Truong/Silicon Valley Business Journal)
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2025/07…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Howlin' Wolf:
🎵 Smokestack Lightning
#NowPlaying #HowlinWolf
https://schizophrenicspacers.bandcamp.com/track/smokestack-lightning-howlin-wolf-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Zo3QapMvKMceJPHTHNs19

Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Based on Systemist Foundations
R. Lukyanenko, O. Pastor, V. C. Storey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18742 https://

Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Based on Systemist Foundations
All aspects of our society, including the life sciences, need a mechanism for people working within them to represent the concepts they employ to carry out their research. For the information systems being designed and developed to support researchers and scientists in conducting their work, conceptual models of the relevant domains are usually designed as both blueprints for a system being developed and as a means of communication between the designer and developer. Most conceptual modelling c…

Entropic approximations of the semigeostrophic shallow water equations
Jean-David Benamou, Colin J. Cotter, Jacob J. M. Francis, Hugo Malamut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16415 ht…

Entropic approximations of the semigeostrophic shallow water equations
We develop a discretisation of the semigeostrophic rotating shallow water equations, based upon their optimal transport formulation. This takes the form of a Moreau-Yoshida regularisation of the Wasserstein metric. Solutions of the optimal transport formulation provide the shallow water layer depth represented as a measure, which is itself the push forward of an evolving measure under the semigeostrophic coordinate transformation. First, we propose and study an entropy regularised version of th…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Nina Simone:
🎵 My Baby Just Cares for Me
#NinaSimone
https://sonicwaxrecords.bandcamp.com/track/nina-simone-my-baby-just-cares-for-me-afro-sunset-mix-matt-early-lee-jeffries
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NJKI4cwlSBuTYNmDoRVb3

Artificial Intelligence for Atmospheric Sciences: A Research Roadmap
Martha Arbayani Zaidan, Naser Hossein Motlagh, Petteri Nurmi, Tareq Hussein, Markku Kulmala, Tuukka Pet\"aj\"a, Sasu Tarkoma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16281

Artificial Intelligence for Atmospheric Sciences: A Research Roadmap
Atmospheric sciences are crucial for understanding environmental phenomena ranging from air quality to extreme weather events, and climate change. Recent breakthroughs in sensing, communication, computing, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly advanced atmospheric sciences, enabling the generation of vast amounts of data through long-term Earth observations and providing powerful tools for analyzing atmospheric phenomena and predicting natural disasters. This paper contributes a c…

It will also be my first full blown conference attendance since developing #LongCovid so I will have to pace and manage my energy like the strictest school teacher
I will #WearAMask (because #CovidIsNotOver

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Sam Cooke:
🎵 You send me
#NowPlaying #SamCooke
https://cantautorepsicopatico.bandcamp.com/track/sam-cooke-you-send-me-oncoming-martian-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gbv4ESVucR3K9jSlRVNn3

My own #Sunbelt2025 talk will be on Saturday 28th July (10am local time, room 112 - in case you're there 👋🏻) and will discuss space usage processes in buildings as a two-mode network between people and spaces (see the slide alt text for more info)
I'm talking in one of three sessions on Spatial and Geographic Social Networks organised by Clio Andris, Zachary Neal, Paul Schuler …