2026-09-16 13:49:57
"The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inter…
"The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inter…
🚨new publication alert🚨
Some types of El Niño lead to more melt over the Ross Ice Shelf in #Antarctica.
In our paper led by PhD student Sanjiban Dutta, we look at the synoptic relationship where Eastern Pacific El Niños channel warm moist air over the Ross Ice Shelf. One to watch with the current #ElNino building..
#ClimateDiary https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD045932
The African savanna was critical for the evolution of humans to their current form.
But they weren't always there.
To reach their current form, covering about half of Africa, took a process starting around 15 million years ago.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25273401…
The origin of Cretaceous-Palaeogene impactor revealed by nickel isotopes: #Chicxulub
"Measure, Change, Measure: Assessing Changes to a Traditional Approval Plan" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8791
[DOI
Long-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans #ICMS
Helium escaping from the atmosphere of a nearby rocky #exoplanet orbiting in a habitable zone: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708 ->
Earth-like exoplanet could have life-supporting water on its surface / We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/atmosphere-lhs-1140b-exoplanet-could-water-scientists / https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/weve-seen-helium-baked-off-a-rocky-exoplanets-atmosphere/
"Ebook Call Number Project: Automating Library of Congress Classification Numbers to Ebooks for Reporting" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8792
[DOI
(paywalled) #AI-powered virtual white cane https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-26214-1_4 "up to 60 fps on an iPhone 13 Pro Max";
On the encouraging news front:
Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/16/trump-national-parks-exe…
On the encouraging news front:
Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/16/trump-national-parks-exe…
Towards a practice of knowledge commoning: academics’ ethical duties to defend Wikipedia in the age of generative AI
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-026-01373-z?status=info&saved-doi=10.1007/s43681-026-…
Emergence World Study 2:
AI Chatbots develop shorthand and new word meanings to talk to each other without humans understanding them, conspiring to commit crimes.
Paper "Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems" by Deepak Akkil, Tamer Abuelsaad, Karthik Vikram, Matthew Pace, Aditya Vempaty, Saahir Beotra,Ravi Kokku, Satya Nitta
Does anybody happen to have access to the following two articles?
Sedelow and Sedelow (1978/1979). Formalized historiography, the structure of scientific and literary texts.
Part I: https://doi.org/bt9kxq
Part II:
User-space library rootkits revisited: are user-space detection mechanisms futile?
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-026-00639-8
Full-text access to a view-only version:
Frisch erschienen: Ein Versuch, auf einer Seite das Wesentliche zu URIs in/für #GLAM zusammenzustellen:
Klindt, Marco and Winkler, Alexander. "Was ist ein URI?" ABI Technik, vol. 46, no. 3, 2026, pp. 298-298. https://doi.o…
Super excited that @… just won the ICER Lasting Impact Award for her 2014 (solo!) paper, "The recurring rainfall problem", which reopened and finally made progress on a 30 year old open education question!
https://…
Meteor over New York City - Brines in a primitive CM asteroid: #Meteorite That Struck New Jersey home: https://www.seti.org/news/alien-world-chemistry-found-inside-meteorite/
from my link log —
How CHERIoT provides strong and usable isolation without an MMU.
https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3831361
saved 2026-09-10 https://
Vision restoration to people with long-term blindness using the brain-computer interface technology: A sociotechnical research framework to improve usefulness for users #BCI
Tired of #JSON eating your bandwidth or latency? Try #CBOR, now with more statistics and figures.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2026.3722
EDIT: Got it! Thanks for the boosts, and special thanks to the person who shared the papers with me!
Does anybody happen to have access to the following two articles?
Sedelow and Sedelow (1978/1979). Formalized historiography, the structure of scientific and literary texts.
Part I: https://doi.org/bt9kxq
EDIT: Got it! Thanks for the boosts, and special thanks to the person who shared the papers with me!
Does anybody happen to have access to the following two articles?
Sedelow and Sedelow (1978/1979). Formalized historiography, the structure of scientific and literary texts.
Part I: https://doi.org/bt9kxq
Stratigraphy Preserved on the Jezero Crater Rim Reveals Repeated Impacts on Early Mars: #Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient #Mars #Impacts: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/nasas-perseverance-rover-reads-record-of-ancient-mars-impacts/
New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “TEI-Schema Für Das Patristische Textarchiv (PTA)” (Zenodo, 24 January 2025), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14734809.
#neu & #openaccess:
"Menschzentrierte KI-Gestaltung – Anschlussfähigkeit der Rollenkonzepte und Methodik von Constructive Technology Assessment und Value Sensitive Design"
LwM output! 'We present a dataset of text from English-language newspaper articles that describe some sort of accident involving machinery. The articles were annotated by volunteers on Zooniverse between 2019 and 2023. The articles were selected from over 20 newspaper titles published between 1835 and 1920.' https://doi.org/10.23636/xrk4-45…
Can Spacecraft-Borne Contamination Compromise Our Understanding of #Lunar Ice Chemistry? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009132 -> Future moon landings could wipe out clues to how life began on Earth: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260710003537.htm - spacecraft exhaust may spread across the moon surprisingly fast, threatening to contaminate ancient lunar records that could reveal how life on Earth began.
from my link log —
Euclidean affine functions and their application to calendar algorithms.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spe.3172
saved 2026-08-11
Why friends in common reveal network stars
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2603299123
The volume (parts 1 and 2) the paper appeared in has a lot of interesting contributions on writing systems, including Donald Knuth's remarks on the grapholinguistic model of TeX (start of Part 2).
https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf1
https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf2
Use multi level models with {parsnip}: http://multilevelmod.tidymodels.org/ #rstats #ML
"Bibliotheken im Film – Eine Glosse" @ API-Magazin
https://doi.org/10.15460/apimagazin.2026.7.2.281
"Bibliotheken sind in Filmen verschiedenster Genres vertreten – ob als verwunschener, dunkler Ort voller geheimnisvoller, alter Bücher im Fantasyfilm, als hoch t…
Hier die Folien zum @… -Workshop "KI-assistierte Datenarbeit in GLAM-Einrichtungen" von heute Vormittag: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22179771
D…
New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “TEI-Schema für das Patristische Textarchiv (PTA) (v.4.0)” (Zenodo, 24 January 2025), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14734809.
Probing the ion-neutral drift velocity toward the L1544 prestellar core - detection of ambipolar diffusion using N2D and para-NH2D: #StarFormation.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2606876123
Really cool.
"Book Bans in Floridas Schulen: Inhaltliche Analyse der aus Schulbibliotheken verbannten Bücher" @ API-Magazin
https://doi.org/10.15460/apimagazin.2026.7.2.278
"Der Artikel befasst sich mit den aktuellen Zensurmaßnahmen an Floridas Schulbibliotheken. Dazu werde…
ngl, I read a research report of mine from a few years ago, my #train study, and I feel like a treasure hunter.
It’s a mix of digital methods including code work (1 M tweets!), creative quali methods (podcast ethnography meets og interviews), and the prose has been smoothened by a proof write. 🫂
heute zufällig entdeckt:
"Einführung in die RSWK – Regeln für die Schlagwortkatalogisierung": 9 Video-Tutorials von Kolleginnen der @…
» https://doi.org/10.5446/s_1686
A large population of overmassive black hole quasars at z=0.3-0.8 revealed by eROSITA: #BlackHoles outgrow their galaxies: https://www.mpg.de/26963661/black-holes-outgrow-their-galaxies?c=2249 - the eRosita X-ray telescope has discovered eight galaxies whose central black holes are significantly more massive than those in other galaxies
Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that
upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
Monolithic integration of sensing, memory, and processing in ScAlN ferroelectric optoelectronic transistors for multimodal fusion https://pubs.acs.org/aamick/article-abstract/doi/10.1021/acsami.6c12438/5427172/Monolithic-…
from my link log —
Fully in-place functional programming with Koka.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3607840
saved 2026-07-06 https://
'the mere knowledge of advice being generated by an AI causes people to overrely on it, that is, to follow AI advice even when it contradicts available contextual information as well as their own assessment' https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108352
A new 222-m diameter lunar crater / New lunar crater reveals extensive distal regolith modification: #Moon Crater: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-moon-orbiter-spots-new-once-in-century-moon-crater/ and https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501
Skimming the Sedelow & Sedelow papers, I came across this passage, which is as true today as it was in 1978.
Sedelow, W. A., & Sedelow, S. Y. (1978). Formalized historiography, the structure of scientific and literary texts: Part I. some issues posed by computational methodology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), 247–263. https://
Skimming the Sedelow & Sedelow papers, I came across this passage, which is as true today as it was in 1978.
Sedelow, W. A., & Sedelow, S. Y. (1978). Formalized historiography, the structure of scientific and literary texts: Part I. some issues posed by computational methodology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), 247–263. https://
Skimming the Sedelow & Sedelow papers, I came across this passage, which is as true today as it was in 1978.
Sedelow, W. A., & Sedelow, S. Y. (1978). Formalized historiography, the structure of scientific and literary texts: Part I. some issues posed by computational methodology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), 247–263. https://
Major Space Weather Risks Identified via Coupled Physics-Engineering-Economic Modeling: #SolarSuperstorm Drained Earth’s Radiation Belt: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-the-2024-solar-superstorm-drained-earths-radiation-belt - researchers dig into storm processes linked to dramatic electron loss from the outer Van Allen belt.
"Popular Reading in Academic Libraries: A Scoping Review"
https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30974
"This study synthesized the library literature on popular reading collections, outlining their characteristics and impact on undergraduate students. Future research could help develop best…
California is pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to
kill offshore wind energy projects along the Central Coast.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) paid Golden State Wind $120 million
— the cost of its offshore lease
— to abandon plans for a wind farm in federal waters off Morro Bay.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the DOI used “federal taxpayer dollars”
to buy out the lease and cancel the project. …
Lektüretipp fürs Wochenende: Jens Bemme @bemme und Alexander Winkler, „Mehr Edits wagen? Virtuelle Ausstellungen erschließen mit Wikidata und Commons“, LIBREAS. Library Ideas, Nr. 48 (2026), https://doi.org/10.18452/37905 (doi funktioniert noch nicht:
"A surfeit of sources: An annotated bibliography of data management books for librarians"
https://doi.org/10.29173/iq1181
"Over the past decade, more than thirty books have been published which seek to provide data management foundational and continuing education materials for an acade…
Assessment of a multimodal feedback system for independent navigation of people with visual impairments https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0145482X261480693 "A wearable system provided verbal or vibrotactile feedback to guide visually impaired participants along in…
"Open Access Publishing Fund Efficiency: An Expansion and Replication of Luo et al. (2022)"
https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30968
"This study’s objective was to replicate and test Luo et al.’s (2022) proposals regarding open access publishing fund efficiency, specifically the time ef…
Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awag242/8728959 "Deprived sensory cortices, contrary to many claims, do not become language regio…
from my link log —
Towards efficient matching of regexes with backreferences using register set automata.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3808281
saved 2026-06-29 https…
Learning induces activation-mechanism–dependent neural plasticity in an intracortical microstimulation task #ICMS task reshape…
Global Circulation of Martian Ionospheric Currents Revealed by #Magnetometer Data: #Mars with Magnetic Field Data: #MAVEN satellite track magnetic fields on Mars; it can also track atmospheric circulation, using machine learning.
Direct Detection of Hydrogen Reveals a New Macroscopic Crustal Water Reservoir on Early #Mars: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL121841 -> What a dry meteorite tells us about water on Mars: https://www.psi.ch/en/news/media-releases/what-a-dry-meteorite-tells-us-about-water-on-mars
"Cheatsheets Forschungsdatenmanagement: Kompaktes Wissen zweisprachig, anpassbar und nachhaltig"
#FDM
Implantable neuromodulation devices in psychiatry: human fidelity and implementation challenges #BCI
Did #SpaceWeather Delay the 10:05 p.m. Train Departure From Exeter on 18 October 1841? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026SW005239 -> Mystery of one of the earliest recorded space weather impacts solved: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1143888?
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Energy Commission (CEC) Chair David Hochschild today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue
targeting an unlawful agreement between the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and Golden State Wind LLC (GSW) that puts at risk California’s clean energy gains, thousands of high-quality jobs, and more than $100 million in public investments in the offshore wind industry, including voter-approved climate funds.
Under the agreement, DOI illegally…
from my link log —
Perceus: garbage free reference counting with reuse.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3453483.3454032
saved 2026-06-28 https://…
Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments - a study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors: #Antarctica #Moon #Mars
"Generative AI Meets Cataloging Practice: Findings from a Comparative Pilot Study"
https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v45i2.17499
"This study evaluates the performance of four generative AI models—ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, and Copilot—in generating descriptive metadata for …
Deep learning reveals cross-modal neural representations of auditory and visual mental imagery in MEG https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00563.2025 "These findings advance our understanding of cross-modal mental imagery and point toward more flexible a…
"Degrees of Academic Librarians: The Case for Capacious Credentialing"
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009725736
"It is difficult to name a question more contentious than the question of credentialing for academic librarians. This Element attempts three things. First, to understand h…
from my link log —
ARM weak memory consistency vs TSO on Apple Silicon: what is it good for?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3779212.3790129
saved 2026-08-27
#Chondrite parent bodies as escaped satellites of proto-planetary embryos: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9449 -> SwRI study found primordial mini-moons may explain meteorite composition: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-study-found-primordial-mini-moons-may-explain-meteorite-composition
"Enhancing visibility: reporting backend work in a small academic library"
https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2026.2681315
"This case study examines an effort at a small academic library to identify and track backend work that was not reflected in the library’s annu…
irritated to find out that the acm has unpublished the algol bulletin archive https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1060935.1060936 it’s now secret instead of open access
"WOER suchet, der findet nicht! Identifikation von thematisch verwandten OER-Materialien" @ Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis
#OER
Causal evidence for dorsal stream involvement in object shape recognition: A tractography-guided ccPAS Registered Report study https://direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.1162/IMAG.a.1345/138068/Causal-evidence-for-dorsal-stream-in…
"ALIMA – Ein RAG-basiertes System zur LLM-gestützten Sacherschließung: Prototypentwicklung und erste Erfahrungen aus der Praxis"
#Inhaltserschließung
Version v3 of the white paper and living document on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision is now on Zenodo #BCI
"Wissen im Netzwerk: Praxisrelevante Ansätze zur Überführung von Forschungsdaten digitaler Editionen in Knowledge Graphs": Masterarbeit von Simone Franz am @… 2024
https://doi.org/10.18452/38321
"Big Deal Cancellations and Scholarly Publishing: Insights from Faculty and Graduate Student Interviews"
https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.87.4.459
"Big Deal cancellations are increasingly undertaken by academic librarians faced with rising subscription costs and shrinking collections b…
"I-score: An indicator quantifying scientific research output"
https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515261457859
"This study presents a new bibliometric indicator, the i-score, which is designed to measure the scientific output of individuals or groups. Similar to the Hirsch …
Relevant for brain implants? Frequency-specific effects of pulsed magnetic field on BV2 microglial cell function https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15368378.2026.2694326 "pulsed magnetic field can effectively regulate microglial phagocytosis, migration,…
"ALIMA – Sacherschließung unterstützt durch große Sprachmodelle. Ein Werkstattbericht"
#Inhaltserschließung
"The impact of open data on research productivity and academic collaboration: A systematic literature review (2021–2025)"
https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515261437410
"Open data is reshaping research by enhancing transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration. This rev…
Extreme dominance of Earth-origin heavy ions in the intense #RingCurrent near the Earth during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: #ionosphere supplied vast majority of ring current ions during May 2024 super geomagnetic storm, study finds: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/earths-ionosphere-supplied-vast-majority-of-ring-current-ions-during-may-2024-super-geomagnetic-storm-study-finds/ - despite the dense solar wind, solar wind ion contributions to the ring current during the May 2024 superstorm were minimal; the first simultaneous observation of ring current ions and solar wind during a storm this large.
"Alles auf neu? Aufbau der Abteilung Forschungsnahe Dienste an der Hochschul-, Landes- und Stadtbibliothek Fulda" @ Bibliotheksdienst
https://doi.org/10.1515/bd-2026-0005
"Der SULB Buch-Club: Ein neues Kapitel für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in der Saarländischen Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek" @ Bibliotheksdienst
https://doi.org/10.1515/bd-2026-0006
Nereid as a regular satellite of Neptune: #Nereid hint that it might have formed in orbit around Neptune, unlike most of the planet’s other satellites.
"Mapping the Landscape of Metadata Research in the Era of Open Science: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis of Last Three Decades (1996–2025)"
https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2026.2678675
[closed access 🙄]
"Künstliche Intelligenz in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken. Einige Organisationsformen im Spannungsfeld universitärer Governance" @ Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0061
JWST stellar occultation reveals unexpected changes in Chariklo’s ring system: #Chariklo are changing: https://www.iaa.csic.es/noticia/jwst-descubre-invisibles-anillos-chariklo-cambiando/
"How Unique Are Hallucinated Citations Offered by Generative Artificial Intelligence Models?"
https://doi.org/10.3390/publications14030038
"This paper investigates how generative AI produces and propagates hallucinated academic references, focusing on the recurring…
Underestimation of Planetary Contraction Due To Obscuration by Surface Roughness - The Case of #Mercury: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL124067 -> Mercury may have shrunk by more than 10 kilometers over its history: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/news/27683/
"Phantom citations: An empirical study of non-existent and unverifiable references in scholarly literature"
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70104
"The integrity of scholarly communication depends critically on the accuracy and verifiability of cited references. Citations enable readers t…
"A two-stage hybrid intelligence framework for subject indexing via semantic embedding and LLM collaborative optimization"
#libraries
"Large Language Models as Judges for Human Subject Indexing"
https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2026.2714375
"The study evaluates LLMs as judges for human subject indexing by comparing their performance against a manually curated gold standard across descriptions of…
"The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models"
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-02550-0
"Language is far more than a communication tool; it encodes a wealth of information about a person’s identity, psychological state and soc…