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At #CheltLitFest, briefly, for Martin Parr's talk. Bought the book after he signed it and we exchanged the only words we have ever had which is Thank you, and Cheers, though he did prefix it this time with "Oh, I can spell that".
This is remarkably special for me, less for him I suspect.

MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars
G. Dransfield, M. Timmermans, D. Sebastian, B. V. Rackham, A. Burgasser, K. Barkaoui, A. H. M. J. Triaud, M. Gillon, J. M. Almenara, S. L. Casewell, K. A. Collins, A. Fukui, C. Jano-Munoz, S. Kanodia, N. Narita, E. Palle, M. G. Scott, A. Soubkiou, A. Stokholm, J. Audenaert, G. \'A. Bakos, Y. Beletsky, Z. L. de Beurs, Z. Benkhaldoun, A. Burdanov, R. P. Butler, D. Caldwell, J. D. Crane, Y. T. Davis, B. O. Demory, E. Ducrot, Y.…

MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars
Giant planets orbiting low-mass stars on short orbits present a conundrum, as in the most extreme cases their existence cannot be reconciled with current models of core accretion. Therefore, surveys dedicated to finding these rare planets have a key role to play by growing the sample to overcome small number statistics. In this work we present MANGOS, a programme dedicated to the search for giant objects (planets, brown dwarfs, and low-mass stars) orbiting M dwarfs. We report on the discovery o…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Daniel Caldwell:
🎵 Rooftop Fight
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Active Rosensweig Patterns
Carlo Rigoni, Max Philipp Holl, Alberto Scacchi, Emil Str{\aa}ka, Fereshteh Sohrabi, Mikko P. Haataja, Maria Sammalkorpi, Jaakko V. I. Timonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09099

Active Rosensweig Patterns
Ferrofluids, colloidal dispersions of magnetic nanoparticles, are renowned for pattern formation like few other materials. The Rosensweig instability of a horizontal ferrofluid-air interface in perpendicular magnetic field is especially well known classically, this instability sets the air-ferrofluid interface into an array of spikes that correspond to a new free energy minimum of the system. However, once the pattern is formed, it does not exhibit any notable thermal or non-equilibrium fluctua…

Florida hires former Jaguars GM Dave Caldwell after tabbing Jon Sumrall as next coach

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/ne…

I finally found a way to print #logseq queries. There is no native way and every plugin also just prints the query and not the query output.
https://github.com/cldwalker/logseq-query
Th…

GitHub - cldwalker/logseq-query
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I came home to a letter addressed to both of us by name and I assumed it was mortgage since few things address both of us. I left it for J to indulge her childlike pleasure of opening mail.
It was actually a campaign letter from Reform UK. I assure you neither of us are members so I can only assume they got our names from the edited electoral roll.
I can't remember any other party ever writing to me by name before, it's always just been "occupant" or similar.

Patchy Particles Design: From Floppy Modes to Sloppy Dimensions
Gregory Snyder, Chrisy Xiyu Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Patchy Particles Design: From Floppy Modes to Sloppy Dimensions
Patchy particles have proven to be a prominent model for studying the self-assembly behavior of various systems, ranging from finite clusters to bulk crystal assemblies, and from synthetic colloidal particles to viruses. The patchy particle model is flexible, but it also comes with its own pitfalls -- the potential design space is infinite. Many efforts have been put into building inverse-design frameworks that efficiently design patchy particles for targeted assembly behaviors. In contrast, li…

Behavior of passive polymeric tracers of different topologies in a dilute bath of active Brownian particles
Ramanand Singh Yadav, Ralf Metzler, Rajarshi Chakrabarti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11337

Behavior of passive polymeric tracers of different topologies in a dilute bath of active Brownian particles
Using computer simulations in two dimensions we investigate the dynamics and structure of passive polymeric tracer with different topologies immersed in a low-density active particle bath. One of the key observations is that polymer exhibit faster dynamics compared to passive colloidal particles at high activity, for the same particle density, in both linear and star polymer topologies. This enhanced motion is attributed to the accumulation of active particles, which induces prolonged and persi…

Tuning pair interactions in colloidal systems using random light fields
Augustin Muster, Diego Romero Abujetas, Frank Scheffold, Luis S. Froufe-P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06793

Tuning pair interactions in colloidal systems using random light fields
We propose a method to tune interactions between absorptionless colloidal particle pairs. This is achieved via optimization of the spectral energy density of a homogeneous random optical field. Several standard and more exotic interaction potentials, as well as their negative counterparts, are shown to be successfully tuned. We show that the effective dimensionality of the space of potential functions that can be created by this means can reach up to several tens.