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"Over Half of UK Badger Population Killed: 247,880 Culled Since 2013"
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Over Half of UK Badger Population Killed: 247,880 Culled Since 2013
Official figures from Natural England released today reveal another 17,150 badgers were killed in 2024 culls.

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Butcher Brown:
🎵 Backline
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https://open.spotify.com/track/0ramzeyJsZkrao3BnHdVvP

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NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Comparing probability distributions: application to quantum states of light
Soumyabrata Paul, V. Balakrishnan, S. Ramanan, S. Lakshmibala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10760

Comparing probability distributions: application to quantum states of light
Probability distributions play a central role in quantum mechanics, and even more so in quantum optics with its rich diversity of theoretically conceivable and experimentally accessible quantum states of light. Quantifiers that compare two different states or density matrices in terms of `distances' between the respective probability distributions include the Kullback-Leibler divergence $D_{\rm KL}$, the Bhattacharyya distance $D_{\rm B}$, and the $p$-Wasserstein distance $W_{p}$. We present a …

2N-storage Runge-Kutta methods: c-reflection symmetry and factorization of the Butcher tableau
Alexei Bazavov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08444 https://

2N-storage Runge-Kutta methods: c-reflection symmetry and factorization of the Butcher tableau
Low-storage Runge-Kutta schemes of Williamson's type, so-called 2N-storage schemes, are further examined as a follow-up to the recent work. It is found that the augmented Butcher tableau factorizes into a product of matrices with special properties. Those properties reveal that the 2N-storage methods of the order of global accuracy less than five possess a symmetry, called c-reflection symmetry, i.e. most methods exist in pairs. A transformation that relates the Butcher tableaux of the pairs is…

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the "Bethesda Declaration"
challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
It says: “We dissent.”
In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly,
92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific r…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Senators grill NIH director in budget hearing: 4 takeaways (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5342897-nih-bhattacharya-senate-testimony/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p111#a250610p111

Phase shifting Interferometry and Wavefront Compensation using Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) Spatial Light Modulator (SLM)
Indrani Bhattacharya, Marcus Petz, Rainer Tutsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10602

Phase shifting Interferometry and Wavefront Compensation using Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) Spatial Light Modulator (SLM)
We present a simple and novel technique for interferometric surface measurement using a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) as phase shifter and wavefront-compensator simultaneously. In comparison to a mechanical piezo-based phase shifter measurement, speed and measurement range can be increased by this approach.

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Butcher Brown:
🎵 Infant Eyes
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"Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom"
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Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom
Over 10,000 badgers were culled in 2024 under unlawfully issued licences, yet Natural England remains silent on the upcoming 2025 supplementary culls due to begin on 1 June.