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Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter
Tawfiq Ammari, Anna Gutowska, Jacob Ziff, Casey Randazzo, Harihan Subramonyam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22032

Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolved, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used Twitter to disseminate safety guidance and updates, reaching millions of users. This study analyzes two years of tweets from, to, and about the CDC using a mixed methods approach to examine discourse characteristics, credibility, and user engagement. We found that the CDCs communication remained largely one directional and did not foster reciprocal interaction, while discussions around COVID19 were deepl…

When I find it discouraging that young twenty-somethings often don’t seem to care about these things, it’s good for me to remember that I care a lot now, but I really don’t even remember these giant protests from when I was a young twenty-something.
I do remember talking with people and saying things like “going to war without actual evidence—just GWB saying stuff—is stupid” and being shot down by older folks.
But I really don’t remember most of the political action.

Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image Gen Z is about to experience the futility of protests that Gen X experienced 22 years ago. The way to create change is voting. Protesting is just slightly above writing mean tweets in influencing U.S. government policy. Slightly.

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Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

MK2 at PBIG Competition: A Prompt Generation Solution
Yuzheng Xu, Tosho Hirasawa, Seiya Kawano, Shota Kato, Tadashi Kozuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08335

MK2 at PBIG Competition: A Prompt Generation Solution
The Patent-Based Idea Generation task asks systems to turn real patents into product ideas viable within three years. We propose MK2, a prompt-centric pipeline: Gemini 2.5 drafts and iteratively edits a prompt, grafting useful fragments from weaker outputs; GPT-4.1 then uses this prompt to create one idea per patent, and an Elo loop judged by Qwen3-8B selects the best prompt-all without extra training data. Across three domains, two evaluator types, and six criteria, MK2 topped the automatic le…

Continents have lost so much water to the ocean since 2002 that they have surpassed ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, a new study reveals.
Almost 70% of this loss is due to unchecked groundwater extraction,
which removes water from deep aquifers and eventually transfers it to the ocean, researchers found.
Together with rising rates of evaporation due to climate change, this has caused rapidly drying "hotspots" to merge into four &quo…

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds
Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

Search for GeV-PeV neutrinos from nova T Coronae Borealis with IceCube
Jessie Thwaites, Justin Vandenbroucke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07096 https://

Search for GeV-PeV neutrinos from nova T Coronae Borealis with IceCube
The widely anticipated outburst of recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), which is near the end of its 80-year cycle, provides an excellent opportunity to search for neutrinos from novae. Novae are an energetic class of transients, which have been studied for hundreds of years. Because many of them are located nearby, novae provide an excellent astrophysical laboratory to study shock-powered emission in our own backyard. Several recent novae have previously been detected in GeV gamma rays, …

Challenges in Automated Processing of Speech from Child Wearables: The Case of Voice Type Classifier
Tarek Kunze, Marianne M\'etais, Hadrien Titeux, Lucas Elbert, Joseph Coffey, Emmanuel Dupoux, Alejandrina Cristia, Marvin Lavechin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11074

Challenges in Automated Processing of Speech from Child Wearables: The Case of Voice Type Classifier
Recordings gathered with child-worn devices promised to revolutionize both fundamental and applied speech sciences by allowing the effortless capture of children's naturalistic speech environment and language production. This promise hinges on speech technologies that can transform the sheer mounds of data thus collected into usable information. This paper demonstrates several obstacles blocking progress by summarizing three years' worth of experiments aimed at improving one fundamental task: V…

Street design and driving behavior: evidence from a large-scale study in Milan, Amsterdam, and Dubai
Giacomo Orsi, Titus Venverloo, Andrea La Grotteria, Umberto Fugiglando, F\'abio Duarte, Paolo Santi, Carlo Ratti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04434

Street design and driving behavior: evidence from a large-scale study in Milan, Amsterdam, and Dubai
In recent years, cities have increasingly reduced speed limits from 50 km/h to 30 km/h to enhance road safety, reduce noise pollution, and promote sustainable modes of transportation. However, achieving compliance with these new limits remains a key challenge for urban planners. This study investigates drivers' compliance with the 30 km/h speed limit in Milan and examines how street characteristics influence driving behavior. Our findings suggest that the mere introduction of lower speed limits…