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I should probably mention this opening: https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/lead-software-engineer-cambridge/6006/description/
Not my dept but does look interesting...

Lead Software Engineer | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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> Cambridge’s preservationists don’t just mount disks and hope for the best; they sample the raw magnetic signal itself. Specialized hardware, such as the KryoFlux and open-hardware Greaseweazle interfaces, captures the flux transitions — the tiny changes in polarity that encode data — and reconstructs the file structure later in software.

Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks
Cambridge’s 'Future Nostalgia' project is racing to save decades of digital history from vanishing floppy disks.

On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks
Nicol\'as Hinrichs (Embodied Cognitive Science Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan, Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany), Noah Guzm\'an (Independent scholar), Melanie Weber (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States)

On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks
Effective analysis in neuroscience benefits significantly from robust conceptual frameworks. Traditional metrics of interbrain synchrony in social neuroscience typically depend on fixed, correlation-based approaches, restricting their explanatory capacity to descriptive observations. Inspired by the successful integration of geometric insights in network science, we propose leveraging discrete geometry to examine the dynamic reconfigurations in neural interactions during social exchanges. Unlik…

Network-accelerated Active Messages
Md Ashfaqur Rahaman (University of Utah), Alireza Sanaee (University of Cambridge), Todd Thornley (University of Utah), Sebastiano Miano (Politecnico di Milano), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano,Queen Mary University of London), Brent E. Stephens (Google,University of Utah), Ryan Stutsman (University of Utah)
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Network-accelerated Active Messages
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) improves host networking performance by eliminating software and server CPU involvement. However, RDMA has a limited set of operations, is difficult to program, and often requires multiple round trips to perform simple application operations. Programmable SmartNICs provide a different means to offload work from host CPUs to a NIC. This leaves applications with the complex choice of embedding logic as RPC handlers at servers, using RDMA's limited interface to a…

#icfpsplash25 Journal of Functional Programming leaves Cambridge University Press and become "scientist owned".

Uncovering domain morphology in an unconventional magnet with scanning diamond quantum magnetometry
Freya Johnson (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge), Jan Zemen (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague), Helena Knowles (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge), Lesley F. Cohen (Department of Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London)

Uncovering domain morphology in an unconventional magnet with scanning diamond quantum magnetometry
Unconventional magnetic materials including non-collinear antiferromagnets, p-wave magnets and altermagnets, are an emerging frontier for quantum spintronics and hybrid quantum devices. Critical to the application of these materials is control over the magnetic domain state, as their unique, symmetry-driven properties vanish in a multi-domain limit. However, the mechanisms governing domain formation in materials with compensated local moments remain poorly understood. In this work, we examine t…

Orchestrating multi-level magic state distillation: a dynamic pipeline architecture
Junshi Wang (University of Cambridge), Prakash Murali (University of Cambridge)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24402

Orchestrating multi-level magic state distillation: a dynamic pipeline architecture
Practical quantum computation requires high-fidelity instruction executions on qubits. Among them, Clifford instructions are relatively easy to perform, while non-Clifford instructions require the use of magic states. This makes magic state distillation a central procedure in fault-tolerant quantum computing. A magic state distillation factory consumes many low-fidelity input magic states and produces fewer, higher-fidelity states. To reach high fidelities, multiple distillation factories are t…

Life at low Reynolds number
E. M. Purcell
Lyman Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
(Received 12 June 1976)
Editor's note:
This is a reprint (slightly edited) of a paper of the same title that appeared in the book
Physics and Our World: A Symposium in Honor of Victor F. Weisskopf
Some essential hand waving could not be reproduced

Kieran Healy (@kjhealy@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image On the upside, this does give me an excuse to link to one of the all-time great talks, “Life at Low Reynolds Number.” https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/fluids/lowreynolds.pdf

X-ray Halos of Early-Type Galaxies with AGN Feedback and Accretion from a Circumgalactic Medium: models and observations
Silvia Pellegrini (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna University, Italy), Luca Ciotti (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna University, Italy), Zhaoming Gan (New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA), Dong-Woo Kim (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia University, NY, USA)

X-ray Halos of Early-Type Galaxies with AGN Feedback and Accretion from a Circumgalactic Medium: models and observations
The knowledge of the X-ray properties of the hot gas halos of early-type galaxies has significantly advanced in the past years, for large and homogeneously investigated samples. We compare these results with the X-ray properties of an exploratory set of gas evolution models in realistic early-type galaxies, produced with our high-resolution 2D hydrodynamical code MACER that includes AGN feedback and accretion from a circumgalactic medium. The model X-ray emission and absorption are integrated a…

"By 2100, unchecked climate change could slash global GDP per capita by up to 24%"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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By 2100, unchecked climate change could slash global GDP per capita by up to 24%
Nearly a quarter of the global GDP per capita could be lost by 2100 compared to a "no further warming" baseline, if climate change continues to escalate unchecked, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi from the University of Cambridge climaTRACES Lab.

High-throughput Super-Resolution Imaging Chip based on Miniaturized Full-frequency Encoded-illumination
Xiaoyu Yang (State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Haonan Zhang (State Key Lab…

High-throughput Super-Resolution Imaging Chip based on Miniaturized Full-frequency Encoded-illumination
A miniaturized full-frequency encoded illumination (mini-FEI) chip is presented for high-throughput super-resolution imaging using the spatial frequency shift (SFS) effect. A tunable full SFS scheme is achieved through propagating and evanescent wave. The multi-illumination modes are precisely and flexibly modulated by an encoded LED array. The light travels to the sample via a set of prisms, producing the super-resolution images with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Mini-FEI super-resolution …

Approximating Graphic Multi-Path TSP and Graphic Ordered TSP
Morteza Alimi, Niklas Dahlmeier, Tobias M\"omke, Philipp Pabst, Laura Vargas Koch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00448

Approximating Graphic Multi-Path TSP and Graphic Ordered TSP
The path version of the Traveling Salesman Problem is one of the most well-studied variants of the ubiquitous TSP. Its generalization, the Multi-Path TSP, has recently been used in the best known algorithm for path TSP by Traub and Vygen [Cambridge University Press, 2024]. The best known approximation factor for this problem is $2.214$ by Böhm, Friggstad, Mömke and Spoerhase [SODA 2025]. In this paper we show that for the case of graphic metrics, a significantly better approximation guarantee…

Efficient dataset construction using active learning and uncertainty-aware neural networks for plasma turbulent transport surrogate models
Aaron Ho (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, USA), Lorenzo Zanisi (UKAEA Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, UK), Bram de Leeuw (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands), Vincent Galvan (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, USA), Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, USA), Nath…

Efficient dataset construction using active learning and uncertainty-aware neural networks for plasma turbulent transport surrogate models
This work demonstrates a proof-of-principle for using uncertainty-aware architectures, in combination with active learning techniques and an in-the-loop physics simulation code as a data labeller, to construct efficient datasets for data-driven surrogate model generation. Building off of a previous proof-of-principle successfully demonstrating training set reduction on static pre-labelled datasets, using the ADEPT framework, this strategy was applied again to the plasma turbulent transport prob…

TopoSPAM: Topology grounded Simulation Platform for morphogenesis and biological Active Matter
Abhinav Singh (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Dresden, Germany, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA), Abhijeet Krishna (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Dresden, Germany), Aboutaleb …

TopoSPAM: Topology grounded Simulation Platform for morphogenesis and biological Active Matter
We present a topology grounded, multiscale simulation platform for morphogenesis and biological active matter. Morphogenesis and biological active matter represent keystone problems in biology with additional, far-reaching implications across the biomedical sciences. Addressing these problems will require flexible, cross-scale models of tissue shape, development, and dysfunction that can be tuned to understand, model, and predict relevant individual cases. Current approaches to simulating anato…