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BreastDCEDL: Curating a Comprehensive DCE-MRI Dataset and developing a Transformer Implementation for Breast Cancer Treatment Response Prediction
Naomi Fridman, Bubby Solway, Tomer Fridman, Itamar Barnea, Anat Goldshtein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12190

BreastDCEDL: Curating a Comprehensive DCE-MRI Dataset and developing a Transformer Implementation for Breast Cancer Treatment Response Prediction
Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, making early detection and accurate treatment response monitoring critical priorities. We present BreastDCEDL, a curated, deep learning-ready dataset comprising pre-treatment 3D Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) scans from 2,070 breast cancer patients drawn from the I-SPY1, I-SPY2, and Duke cohorts, all sourced from The Cancer Imaging Archive. The raw DICOM imaging data were rigorously converted into standardized…

"Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds"
#Philippines #Frogs #Deforestation

Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds
In 1996, when herpetologist Rafe Brown accompanied a few biologists to the Philippine island of Mindanao to study frogs, they heard a cacophony near their campsite. In a puddle that skirted the forest, hundreds of chubby frogs with big, bright eyes had gathered, looking for mates to breed with. Brown said he remembers hearing two […]

Typisch Bayern unter der #CSU: "Methode Trump"? Bayern schafft Klimabericht ab.
Nur weil Bayern keine überzeugende #Klimapolitik vorweisen kann, Klimaagenden eigentlich behindert und schon lange behindert hat, will man nun auch nicht, dass die Folgen dieser verfehlten Politik sichtbar werden. …

"Methode Trump"? Bayern schafft Klimabericht ab
Die Staatsregierung will nach BR-Informationen zusammen mit mehreren Berichtspflichten auch den bayerischen Klimabericht abschaffen. Begründung: Bürokratieabbau. Greenpeace vermutet dahinter den Versuch, mangelnde Klima-Fortschritte zu verschleiern.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Bright Eyes:
🎵 First Day Of My Life
#BrightEyes
https://brian-rothstein.bandcamp.com/track/bright-eyes-first-day-of-my-life-brian-rothstein-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0eBryM7ePQH3Klt3jz8xZd

Exploring the Link between Fast Radio Burst and Binary Neutron Star Origins with Spaceborne Gravitational Wave Observations
Yu-xuan Yin, En-kun Li, Bing Zhang, Yi-Ming Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12602

Exploring the Link between Fast Radio Burst and Binary Neutron Star Origins with Spaceborne Gravitational Wave Observations
The origin of repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) is an open question, with observations suggesting that at least some are associated with old stellar populations. It has been proposed that some repeating FRBs may be produced by interactions of the binary neutron star magnetospheres decades to centuries before the coalescence. These systems would also emit centi-Hertz gravitational waves during this period, which can be detectable by space-borne gravitational wave detectors. We explore the prosp…

"Anyone you’re talking to has had decreased funding, or lost almost all of their funding, or is having trouble continuing their funding...
That, along with the pretty pervasive and growing anti-science establishment narrative … have been strong motivators to look elsewhere,” Eric Schuster said.
Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain,
sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their…

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
Abidi, Aguilar-Saavedra, Airen, Ajmal, Al-Thakeel, Alberghi, Maestre, Alimena, Alshamaily, Altmann, Altmannshofer, Amhis, Amiri, Andreazza, Antusch, Arnaez, Assamagan, Aumiller, Azizi, Azzi, Azzurri, Bagnaschi, Baharyioon, Bahl, Balagura, Barducci, Basso, Bechtle, Bellagamba, Berggren, Bernardi, Bhom, Biermann, Blekman, Bliewert, Bordone, Boudry, Boye, Bozovic, Braathen, Brient, Brodbek, Brost, Bruckman, Brudnowski, Bulliri, Bulyak, Burrid…

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing together participants from many different proposed future collider projects. Activities across three main working groups advanced the joint development of tools and analysis techniques, fostered new considerations of detector design and optimisation, and led to a new set of studies resulting in improved projected sensitivit…

Brian Schottenheimer challenges Micah Parsons after he 'beat the sh*t outta Dak' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-challenges-micah-parsons-after-he-beat-dak-prescott

In the final talk of the morning sessions of the #SolarEclipse Conference Thoby Dittrich talked about the Modern Eddington Experiment (the website https://moderneddingtonexperiment.org is under heavy construction): the best observing result of gravitational deflection of starlight by the Sun in the optical during solar eclipses is still Brun's from 2017 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00343 - while others have tried with a vengeance since. The goal remains to observe the significant deflection of star positions between 1 and 2 solar radii from the center of the Sun: this is known as the 'forbidden zone' because the corona can be very bright here and only bright stars can be measured reliably - but those in turn are rare. It turns out that the star fields around the totally eclipsed Sun in 2027 and 2028 will be unusually rich in good candidates so there is (or should be) considerable interest in the physics didactics community to make use of these eclipses in southern Spain / northern Africa and Australia, respectively. 4/n