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Trump regime plans to cancel all climate research at @noaa.gov , including its Mauna Loa CO2 measurements, running since 1958.
Last year's budget was $220 million. Next year's would be $0.
https://bsky.app/profile/rarohde.bsky.social/post/3lsucn5ckys2k

Robert Rohde (@rarohde.bsky.social)
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/NOAA-FY2026-Congressional-Budget-Submission.pdf

Persistence of charge ordering instability to Coulomb engineering in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe$_2$
Sebastian Buchberger, Yann in 't Veld, Akhil Rajan, Philip A. E. Murgatroyd, Brendan Edwards, Bruno K. Saika, Naina Kushwaha, Maria H. Visscher, Jan Berges, Dina Carbone, Jacek Osiecki, Craig Polley, Tim Wehling, Phil D. C. King
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Persistence of charge ordering instability to Coulomb engineering in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe$_2$
TiSe$_2$ has long been considered one of the best candidate materials to host the elusive excitonic insulator (EI) phase. However, a finite coupling to the lattice can generically be expected, while a lack of "smoking-gun" signatures for the importance of the electron-hole interaction in driving the phase transition has rendered it challenging to distinguish the EI from the conventional charge-density-wave (CDW) phase. Here, we demonstrate a new approach, exploiting the susceptibility of excito…

Binding and spontaneous condensation of excitons in narrow-gap carbon nanotubes
Giacomo Sesti, Daniele Varsano, Elisa Molinari, Massimo Rontani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00560

Binding and spontaneous condensation of excitons in narrow-gap carbon nanotubes
Ultraclean, undoped carbon nanotubes are always insulating, even when the gap predicted by band theory is zero. The residual, observed gap is thought to have a many-body origin. Here we theoretically show that the correlated insulator is excitonic, extending our previous claim, limited to gapless (armchair) tubes [D. Varsano, S. Sorella, D. Sangalli, M. Barborini, S. Corni, E. Molinari, M. Rontani, Nature Communications $\mathbf{8}$, 1461 (2017)], to $all$ narrow-gap tubes, irrespective of thei…

The Ingleton inequality holds for metacyclic groups and fails for supersoluble groups
David A. Craven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22565 https://

The Ingleton inequality holds for metacyclic groups and fails for supersoluble groups
The Ingleton inequality first appeared in matroid theory, where Ingleton proved in 1971 that every rank function coming from a representable matroid on four subsets satisfies a particular inequality. Because this inequality is not implied by submodularity, Shannon-type axioms alone, it and various analogues play a central role in separately linear and non-linear phenomena in a variety of areas of mathematics. The Ingleton inequality for finite groups concerns the various intersections of four s…

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Leigh Sparks has returned to her studio in Carpenteria California after leaving for several reasons, including a cancer diagnosis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the birth of her grandchildren. 
“I’m just getting started and I want to show other women that they can do the same,” Sparks told CVN. 
Now, Sparks has elected to share her space with several other artists,
who all pitch in to pay for the cost of the space and work in the gallery throughout the week. 
Other artist…

Infrared Variability of Carbon Stars in the LMC Observed with NEOWISE-R
Kyung-Won Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22100 https://arxiv.…

Infrared Variability of Carbon Stars in the LMC Observed with NEOWISE-R
We investigate the infrared variability of carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Our sample consists of 11,134 carbon stars identified in both visual and infrared bands. Among these, 1,184 objects are known Mira variables based on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment III (OGLE-III) observations. We study the infrared variability of the entire sample using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) photometric data spanning the past 16 years, including the AllWISE multiep…

- This hieroglyphic carving--what does it say?
- "Fuck you and the ibis you flew in on." I think it's an insult.

The optimization of crop response to climatic stress through modulation of plant stress response mechanisms. Opportunities for biostimulants and plant hormones to meet climate challenges
Jing Li, Giulia Forghieri, Danny Geelen, Patrick du Jardin, Patrick H. Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01714

The optimization of crop response to climatic stress through modulation of plant stress response mechanisms. Opportunities for biostimulants and plant hormones to meet climate challenges
Climate change is a major threat to crop potential and is characterized by both long-term shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns as well as increased occurrence of extreme weather events, these extreme weather events are the most immediate and intractable threat to agriculture. Crop resilience in the face of stress depends upon the speed and effectiveness with which plants and cropping systems sense and respond to that stress. A variety of agronomic practices including breeding, exoge…

Scott Logic Lead Developer Darren Smith shares a report of carbon emission measuring software tools in 2025, their scope, and reviews these in the context of principal cloud service providers' offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS.
"Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)"

Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)
In this post I'll discuss ways of estimating the emissions caused by your Cloud workloads as a first step towards reaching your organisation's Net Zero goals.