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Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons #LGN

Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys and that closure of one eye increases the activity of putative inhibitory neurons connected to that eye.

Suit to block Education Department closure expanded amid agency transfers plans • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/11/25/repub/education-department-4/

Video shared by the USGS on social media shows mud spraying up and out from the murky hot spring just before 9.23am local time in Biscuit Basin.
Black Diamond Pool lies about midway between the famous Old Faithful geyser and Grand Prismatic Spring, the park’s largest spring.
A hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond in July 2024 sent rocks and mud flying hundreds of feet high and damaged a boardwalk used by visitors, prompting the closure of the area

This is how climate and geophysical system breakdown affects everyday life. Transport link (rail) cut and alternatives (buses) unable to replicate the traffic flow.
Expect much more like this.
Storm Ingrid damage forces closure of Devon railway line
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8gldd9

Clean-up under way in Devon after Storm Ingrid wreaks havoc
Storm Ingrid batters Devon and Cornwall - damaging a sea wall, a historic pier and homes.

With YIMBYs like this, who needs NIMBYs?
*yes, SF YIMBY endorsed the two sponsors of this ordinance, Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-soma-store-ban-drug-crime-deterrence/

S.F. supervisors vote to expand late-night store ban to parts of SoMa  
Board of Supervisors committee elevated a proposed store-closure ordinance, following public support from some community stakeholders

Details are finally out about what happened to the Scarborough subway extension boring machine that got stuck under the 401
https://globalnews.ca/news/11521835/scarborough-subway-extension-highway-401-closure/

UK online grocer Ocado's stock closed down 17.4% on November 18 after its US partner Kroger said it would close three automated warehouses in January 2026 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Post-Gazette Closure: SCOTUS Decision Ends 240-Year Legacy https://pghguild.com/2026/01/07/pittsburgh-post-gazette-owners-couldnt-bust-the-union-so-they-shut-down-the-paper/

Post-Gazette Closure: SCOTUS Decision Ends 240-Year Legacy
The PG shuts down its 240-year-old paper after losing court battles over workers' rights. Discover the details behind this historic closure.

found out about music hall of williamsburg's closure by overhearing one bouncer telling another as i walked into the bowery last night but assumed i misheard & forgot about it til after the show. saw plenty of fun shows there, but mostly remembering it fondly as north six, before it was gutted & turned into a personality-less bowery knockoff.

Ten public schools in Canberra will be closed today and at least another 10 will be partially closed due to potential asbestos contamination.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-14/several-act-schools-closed-after-asbestos-risk-fo…

Snap closure of several Canberra schools after asbestos found in decorative coloured sand
A snap closure has been issued for a number of schools in the ACT over fears of asbestos exposure.

How three Northwest newspapers have remained independent and avoided closure: selling to employees, diversifying print operations, and nurturing future owners (Brier Dudley/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste

Northwest publishers avoiding consolidation or closure, maintaining independence
Publisher Les Zaitz spent three years trying to save his pride and joy.

Iran extends airspace closure
Iran further extended an order closing its airspace to commercial aircraft without explanation early on Thursday.
A notice to pilots said the closure was estimated to last until 7.30am local time, the AP is reporting.
A previous order had closed the airspace for just over two hours.
The Iranian government offered no explanation of the decision to shut its airspace amid the tensions with Washington over Tehran’s protest crackdown.

From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed southbound for one night
Closure needed for sign installation work on King George Boulevard
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound into Surrey for one night, because of ongoing construction work for the stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge. The directional closure will take place overnight from 9 p.m. on Thursday, January 8 until 5 a.m. on Friday, January 9.

A portion of California’s scenic Highway 1, which winds through rugged cliffs along the coast and has long been a highlight for travelers admiring the ocean views, 🙏🏻reopened on Wednesday after a years-long closure.
A large section of the road in #Big #Sur has been cut off due to landslides
💥 since 2023,
creat…

The closure wasn’t quick enough, but that’s some bad luck. City have been better, certainly, but this scoreline should be closer.
#LFC

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黑暗绽放 II ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

From Translink
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed northbound one night and fully closed the next night this week, due to ongoing construction work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge.

To ensure public safety, the bridge will be closed northbound into New Westminster on Thursday, December 18 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. This will be followed by a full closure in both directions on Friday, December 19 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."

Briefly: I seem to have fewer problems (after disconnections) with Kubuntu. I'll pay closer attention next time a disconnection is disruptive enough to require closure of an app.

Reversible Weighted Automata over Finite Rings and Monoids with Commuting Idempotents
Peter Kostol\'anyi, Andrej Ravinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09409 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.09409 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.09409
arXiv:2601.09409v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reversible weighted automata are introduced and considered in a specific setting where the weights are taken from a nontrivial locally finite commutative ring such as a finite field. It is shown that the supports of series realised by such automata are precisely the rational languages such that the idempotents in their syntactic monoids commute. In particular, this is true for reversible weighted automata over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_2$, where the realised series can be directly identified with such languages. A new automata-theoretic characterisation is thus obtained for the variety of rational languages corresponding to the pseudovariety of finite monoids $\mathbf{ECom}$, which also forms the Boolean closure of the reversible languages in the sense of J.-\'E. Pin. The problem of determining whether a rational series over a locally finite commutative ring can be realised by a reversible weighted automaton is decidable as a consequence.
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Block Communications announces that The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will cease publication May 3; the closure will not affect its sister newspaper, The Toledo Blade (Mark Walker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/business/media/pittsburgh-po…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations
The family-owned company that operates the newspaper cited mounting losses and labor constraints. A final edition is expected on Sunday, May 3.

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- Memory-Amortized Inference: A Topological Unification of Search, Closure, and Structure
Xin Li
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From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…

The state of the free press in the US is… not good
“In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.”

Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse | US immigration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/texas-ice-camp-abuse-immigration

"Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open
Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open…

"the 26th labor and delivery unit closure in the United States this year."
Trump-Loving County Loses Labor And Delivery Unit Thanks To Medicaid Cuts
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-loving-county-loses-labor-and

From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed northbound for a night
Closure necessary for repaving work near bridge deck in New Westminster
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed to vehicle traffic travelling northbound into New Westminster for one night, due to construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closure will take place overnight on the following date:
Thursday, October 30 (9 pm to 5am)
Southbound travel into Surrey & nb peds…

The Theory of Strategic Evolution: Games with Endogenous Players and Strategic Replicators
Kevin Vallier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07901 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07901 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07901
arXiv:2512.07901v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper develops the Theory of Strategic Evolution, a general model for systems in which the population of players, strategies, and institutional rules evolve together. The theory extends replicator dynamics to settings with endogenous players, multi level selection, innovation, constitutional change, and meta governance. The central mathematical object is a Poiesis stack: a hierarchy of strategic layers linked by cross level gain matrices. Under small gain conditions, the system admits a global Lyapunov function and satisfies selection, tracking, and stochastic stability results at every finite depth. We prove that the class is closed under block extension, innovation events, heterogeneous utilities, continuous strategy spaces, and constitutional evolution. The closure theorem shows that no new dynamics arise at higher levels and that unrestricted self modification cannot preserve Lyapunov structure. The theory unifies results from evolutionary game theory, institutional design, innovation dynamics, and constitutional political economy, providing a general mathematical model of long run strategic adaptation.
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Sources: Condé Nast fired four staffers who were among a group of over a dozen that confronted its HR head over the Teen Vogue closure and other recent cuts (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/06/2025/cond-nast-abruptly-…

Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation
The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.

The Post-Gazette closes in five months, leaving time for Pittsburgh institutions to react, maybe by growing a replacement or helping its owner start a nonprofit (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/will-pittsb…

Will Pittsburgh become America’s most important city without a newspaper?
One of the country's oldest newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, says it's shutting down in May. Not going digital-only — just closing. But the delayed closure could also spur some long-delayed action.

From TransLink
UPDATE: The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound on Thursday, December 4 from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. To complete this current phase of work, an additional overnight closure is required.

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning the group from operating in the country, on Nov. 28.

From Translink
UPDATE: The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound tonight (Dec. 1) from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. To complete this current phase of work, an additional overnight closure is required.

Proposition 36, approved by voters last year, gave prosecutors the ability to charge people convicted of various third-time drug offenses with a so-called
treatment-mandated felony
– a choice between behavioral health treatment or up to three years in jail or prison.
https://bit.ly/3NiBX0r
📸 J.…

How justice changed in California in 2025: Prop. 36 toughened penalties, prisons kept shrinking
Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2025 announced the closure of another prison, a shutdown that's possible because the state is incarcerating far fewer people than it did just a decade ago.

"UK can create 5,400 jobs if it stops plastic waste exports, report finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plastic #Plastics