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wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site https://www.bl.uk/collection/digitised-manuscripts-archives
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays…

Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.

How many stars form in compact clusters in the local Milky Way? #StarFormation: https://bsky.app/profile/emily.space/post/3lwqiwtcfyc2x (thread)

"Thermostats are still sending Google information about manual temperature changes, whether a person is present in the room, if sunlight is hitting the device, and more"
Google Is Collecting Troves of Data From Downgraded Nest Thermostats - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/225229/google-is-collecting-troves-of-data-from-downgraded-nest-thermostats?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

New dictionary dropped https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/18/merriam-webster-new-collegiate-dictionary

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 332 nodes and 18613039 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Watchdog finds MrBeast improperly collected children’s data https://therecord.media/watchdog-mrbeast-youtube-privacy-colection

OpenAI says its reasoning system solved all 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, with GPT-5 solving 11 and an experimental model solving the last (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-outperforms…

OpenAI outperforms humans and Google at the world's top collegiate programming contest
An OpenAI system has solved every problem at the world’s most prestigious collegiate programming championship, outperforming not only human competitors but also Google's Deepmind model.

The impact of rotational mixing in intermediate-age star clusters with extended main-sequence turn-offs and extended red clumps
Lorenzo Martinelli, Andrea Miglio, Ga\"el Buldgen, Hannah Schunker, Cyril Georgy, Giacomo Cordoni, Karsten Brogaard, Patrick Eggenberger, Eoin Farrell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13601

The impact of rotational mixing in intermediate-age star clusters with extended main-sequence turn-offs and extended red clumps
The extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs) and extended red clumps (eRCs) observed in intermediate-age star clusters challenge the traditional understanding of clusters as simple stellar populations. Recently, eMSTOs have been interpreted as signatures of stellar rotation. In this work, we test the effectiveness of rotational mixing in shaping the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of star clusters. We computed a set of separate single-age synthetic stellar populations, referred to as "Base Stell…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…