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9th Circuit sides with Oregon mother denied foster parent status over LGBTQ views - oregonlive.com
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/07/9th-circuit-sides-with-oregon-mother-denied-foster-parent-status-over-lgbtq-views.html

Environmental (in)considerations in the Design of Smartphone Settings
Thomas Thibault, L\'ea Mosesso, Camille Adam, Aur\'elien Tabard, Ana\"elle Beignon, Nolwenn Maudet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19094

Environmental (in)considerations in the Design of Smartphone Settings
Designing for sufficiency is one of many approaches that could foster more moderate and sustainable digital practices. Based on the Sustainable Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) literature, we identify five environmental settings categories. However, our analysis of three mobile OS and nine representative applications shows an overall lack of environmental concerns in settings design, leading us to identify six pervasive anti-patterns. Environ…

🗞️ Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
#news

Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
Consuming news on social media is often associated with "doom scrolling," where people spend excessive time online consuming negative news. However, researchers have found that this same behavior, when leveraged effectively, can help foster a well-informed society.

An ab initio foundation model of wavefunctions that accurately describes chemical bond breaking
Adam Foster, Zeno Sch\"atzle, P. Bern\'at Szab\'o, Lixue Cheng, Jonas K\"ohler, Gino Cassella, Nicholas Gao, Jiawei Li, Frank No\'e, Jan Hermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19960

An ab initio foundation model of wavefunctions that accurately describes chemical bond breaking
Reliable description of bond breaking remains a major challenge for quantum chemistry due to the multireferential character of the electronic structure in dissociating species. Multireferential methods in particular suffer from large computational cost, which under the normal paradigm has to be paid anew for each system at a full price, ignoring commonalities in electronic structure across molecules. Quantum Monte Carlo with deep neural networks (deep QMC) uniquely offers to exploit such common…

A Grassroots Network and Community Roadmap for Interconnected Autonomous Science Laboratories for Accelerated Discovery
Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Milad Abolhasani, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos, Laura Biven, Ryan Coffee, Ian T. Foster, Leslie Hamilton, Shantenu Jha, Theresa Mayer, Benjamin Mintz, Robert G. Moore, Salahudin Nimer, Noah Paulson, Woong Shin, Frederic Suter, Mitra Taheri, Michela Taufer, Newell R. Washburn

A Grassroots Network and Community Roadmap for Interconnected Autonomous Science Laboratories for Accelerated Discovery
Scientific discovery is being revolutionized by AI and autonomous systems, yet current autonomous laboratories remain isolated islands unable to collaborate across institutions. We present the Autonomous Interconnected Science Lab Ecosystem (AISLE), a grassroots network transforming fragmented capabilities into a unified system that shorten the path from ideation to innovation to impact and accelerates discovery from decades to months. AISLE addresses five critical dimensions: (1) cross-institu…

At #AIED2025 we are getting a preview of the report of the #EuropeanDigitalEducationHub, providing practical examples of how XAI-Ed could be used

Explainable AI in education: Fostering human oversight and shared responsibility - Knowledge Innovation Centre
Explainable AI in education is essential for maintaining human oversight as AI tools become more prevalent in teaching and learning. This report examines how transparency and explainability foster trust, ensure legal compliance, and preserve human agency.

The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife. The foundation is the subject of an investigation. The Orlando Sentinel received the letter on Friday from the Department of Children and Families. The letter claims the newspaper’s Tallahassee reporter intimidated foster families who had received money from the Hope Florida Foundation w…

Decoding Consumer Preferences Using Attention-Based Language Models
Joshua Foster, Fredrik Odegaard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Decoding Consumer Preferences Using Attention-Based Language Models
This paper proposes a new demand estimation method using attention-based language models. An encoder-only language model is trained in a two-stage process to analyze the natural language descriptions of used cars from a large US-based online auction marketplace. The approach enables semi-nonparametrically estimation for the demand primitives of a structural model representing the private valuations and market size for each vehicle listing. In the first stage, the language model is fine-tuned to…

Molecules and Chemistry in Red Supergiants
Lucy M. Ziurys, Anita M. S. Richards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15968 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Molecules and Chemistry in Red Supergiants
The envelopes of Red Supergiants (RSGs) have a unique chemical environment not seen in other types of stars. They foster an oxygen-rich synthesis but are tempered by sporadic and chaotic mass loss, which distorts the envelope and creates complex outflow sub-structures consisting of knots, clumps, and arcs. Near the stellar photosphere, molecules and grains form under approximate LTE conditions, as predicted by chemical models. However, the complicated outflows appear to have distinct chemistrie…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[3/4]:
- Learning to Reason at the Frontier of Learnability
Thomas Foster, Anya Sims, Johannes Forkel, Mattie Fellows, Jakob Foerster

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Foster the People:
🎵 Helena Beat
#FosterthePeople
https://animaldalliance.bandcamp.com/track/fosterthepeople-helenabeat-animalremix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VbDJMkAX3dWNBdn3KH6Wx

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- Learning in Strategic Queuing Systems with Small Buffers
Ariana Abel, Yoav Kolumbus, Jeronimo Martin Duque, Cristian Palma Foster, Eva Tardos

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- The content and structure of dreams are coupled to affect
Luke Leckie, Anya K. Bershad, Jes Heppler, Mason McClay, Sofiia Rappe, Jacob G. Foster

Supercyclic weighted composition operators on the space of smooth functions
J. Bes, C. Foster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16425 https://

Supercyclic weighted composition operators on the space of smooth functions
A weighted composition operator on the space of scalar-valued smooth functions on an open set of d-dimensional Euclidean space is supercyclic if and only if it is weakly mixing, and it is strongly supercyclic if and only if it is mixing. Every mixing such operator is chaotic. In the one-dimensional case, it is supercyclic if and only if it is mixing and if and only if it is chaotic.

Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. #AnimalRights

We Envision a World Where Sanctuary Replaces Exploitation | Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary is a nonprofit pursuing bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster compassionate vegan living.

I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers to foster creativity, innovation, and design
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

For those who never had a Mac who are put off by / bemused by / disdainful of all the praise for Bill Atkinson’s work:
Don’t think of this as admiration for Apple and Apple history. Think of it as admiration for a more humane view of computing:
one where software’s job is to bring delight and foster creativity,
one where our devices are not hermetically sealed gifts from the tech gods with which we make a Faustian bargain, but rather a bucket of art supplies for us to play with, reshape, make our own. https://mastodon.social/@arroz/114643547519909731

StacKAT: Infinite State Network Verification
Jules Jacobs, Nate Foster, Tobias Kapp\'e, Dexter Kozen, Lily Saada, Alexandra Silva, Jana Wagemaker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13383

StacKAT: Infinite State Network Verification
We develop StacKAT, a network verification language featuring loops, finite state variables, nondeterminism, and - most importantly - access to a stack with accompanying push and pop operations. By viewing the variables and stack as the (parsed) headers and (to-be-parsed) contents of a network packet, StacKAT can express a wide range of network behaviors including parsing, source routing, and telemetry. These behaviors are difficult or impossible to model using existing languages like NetKAT. W…

Evaluation of hydrogen diffusion and trapping in ferritic steels containing (Ti,Cr)C particles using electrochemical permeation and thermal desorption spectroscopy
Nicholas Winzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15711

Evaluation of hydrogen diffusion and trapping in ferritic steels containing (Ti,Cr)C particles using electrochemical permeation and thermal desorption spectroscopy
Hydrogen diffusion and trapping in ferritic steels containing (Ti,Cr)C particles was investigated using electrochemical permeation (EP) and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS). The trapping parameters for the test materials were evaluated by fitting the measurements with a finite element model based on the McNabb-Foster equations using least-squares optimisation. The measurements showed that hydrogen diffusion in ferrite is slowed significantly by the presence of fine (<5 nm) (Ti,Cr)C particl…

A MeerKAT study of a neutral hydrogen rich grouping of galaxies with megaparsec-scale filamentary-like structure
G. Lawrie, R. P. Deane, R. Dav\`e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15699

A MeerKAT study of a neutral hydrogen rich grouping of galaxies with megaparsec-scale filamentary-like structure
Environmental effects within cosmological overdensities, such as galaxy groups and clusters, have been shown to impact galaxies and their cold gas reservoirs and thereby provide constraints on galaxy evolution models. Galaxy groups foster frequent galaxy-galaxy interactions, making them rich environments in which to study galaxy transformation. In this work, we study a serendipitously discovered large overdensity of HI galaxies at z~0.04. The galaxies appear to lie in a filamentary-like structu…

Bridging Boundaries: How to Foster Effective Research Collaborations Across Affiliations in the Field of Trust and Safety
Amanda Menking, Mona Elswah, David J. Gr\"uning, Lasse H. Hansen, Irene Huang, Julia Kamin, Catrine Normann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13008

Bridging Boundaries: How to Foster Effective Research Collaborations Across Affiliations in the Field of Trust and Safety
As the field of Trust and Safety in digital spaces continues to grow, it has become increasingly necessary - but also increasingly complex - to collaborate on research across the academic, industry, governmental and non-governmental sectors. This paper examines how cross-affiliation research partnerships can be structured to overcome misaligned incentives, timelines and constraints while delivering on the unique strengths of each stakeholder. Drawing on our own experience of cross-sector collab…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
Georg Philipp Telemann, Tabea Debus, Claudia Norz, Henry Tong, Jonathan Rees, Jordan Brown & Tom Foster:
🎵 Recorder Sonata in C major, TWV 41:C2 (4th mvt)
#TabeaDebus
https://open.spotify.com/track/54WmRQuJmoPxyxc0NjNgM7

US says trade talks with China 'going well' as sides reconvene (Peter Foster/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f5a904c2-1ba7-47b4-a506-b9db7e899704
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p54#a250610p54

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I have to think.
FOSTER: Of course. We'll talk after the meeting.
BLAKE: Hmm.
DEV TARRANT: What do you think?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/89 B7B4

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Keep the beat going: Automatic drum transcription with momentum
Alisha L. Foster, Robert J. Webber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12596 https://

Keep the beat going: Automatic drum transcription with momentum
A simple, interpretable way to perform automatic drum transcription is by factoring the magnitude spectrogram of a recorded musical piece using a partially fixed nonnegative matrix factorization. There are two natural ways to optimize the nonnegative matrix factorization, including a multiplicative update rule and projected gradient descent with momentum. The methods differ in their empirical accuracies and theoretical convergence guarantees. This paper summarizes the methods and their time com…

Towards a Closer Collaboration Between Practice and Research in Agile Software Development Workshop: A Summary and Research Agenda
Michael Neumann, Eva-Maria Sch\"on, Mali Senapathi, Maria Rauschenberger, Tiago Silva da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10785

Towards a Closer Collaboration Between Practice and Research in Agile Software Development Workshop: A Summary and Research Agenda
Agile software development principles and values have been widely adopted across various industries, influencing products and services globally. Despite its increasing popularity, a significant gap remains between research and practical implementation. This paper presents the findings of the first international workshop designed to foster collaboration between research and practice in agile software development. We discuss the main themes and factors identified by the workshop participants that…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Foster the People:
🎵 Helena Beat
#FosterthePeople
https://animaldalliance.bandcamp.com/track/fosterthepeople-helenabeat-animalremix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VbDJMkAX3dWNBdn3KH6Wx

Equidistribution of realizable Steinitz classes for cyclic Kummer extensions
Brody Lynch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12999 https://arx…

Equidistribution of realizable Steinitz classes for cyclic Kummer extensions
Let $\ell$ be prime, and $K$ be a number field containing the $\ell$-th roots of unity. We use techniques from classical algebraic number theory to prove that the Steinitz classes of $\mathbb Z/\ell\mathbb Z$ extensions of $K$ are equidistributed among realizable classes in the ideal class group of $K$. For $\ell = 2$, this was proved by Kable and Wright using the deep theory of prehomogeneous vector spaces. Foster proved that Steinitz classes are uniformly distributed between realizable classe…

"The precision of our analysis notwithstanding, the sad truth is that the future looks bleak and insurrectional, particularly for those in the USA. As these words hit the web, the SCOTUS has effectively abolished universal injunctions to presidential power, thereby kicking off the democracy overrule process we predicted exactly three years ago in this magazine–needless to say, a prediction we would have loved to get wrong."

The Best Way To Predict The Future
In a scene of the vastly underrated 2003 sequel film "The Matrix Reloaded", Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, meets "The Oracle", a sentient program interpreted by the late Gloria Foster. In that fragment, The Oracle offers Neo a piece of candy, and Neo asks whether she knows if he is going to accept it or not. The unfazed Oracle responds "Wouldn't be much of an Oracle if I didn't!"

Binary systems as gravitational wave detectors
Diego Blas, Adrien Bourgoin, Joshua F. Foster, Aurelien Hees, Miriam Herrero-Valea, Alexander C. Jenkins, Xiao Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11802

Binary systems as gravitational wave detectors
``Adding colour'' to the gravitational-wave sky by probing unexplored frequency bands has the potential to unveil new and unexpected phenomena in the Universe. In these proceedings, we summarise current efforts to probe gravitational waves with $μ$Hz frequencies through their resonant impact on binary systems. We also discuss how these binaries can explore uncharted regions of parameter space in the hunt for dark matter.

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Vincent Koeman, Sanne Romp, Sanne J. W. Willems, Julia Cramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13010

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Quantum technologies are seen as transformative, with a potential to revolutionize fields like drug discovery and machine learning. Public engagement is crucial to align these developments with societal needs and foster acceptance. This study measured the impact of an exhibit about quantum technologies at the 2024 Lowlands music festival (n = 812). Pre- and post-surveys assessed changes in attitude, concern, interest and subjective knowledge. Results showed an increase in subjective knowledge b…

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

Community Report from the 2025 SNOLAB Future Projects Workshop
M. D. Diamond, P. Abbamonte, A. Arvanitaki, D. M. Asner, D. Balut, D. Baxter, C. Blanco, D. Boreham, M. Boulay, B. Broerman, T. Brunner, E. Caden, A. Chavarria, M. Chen, J. P. Davis, A. Drlica-Wagner, J. Estrada, N. Fatemighomi, J. Foster, D. Freedman, C. Gao, J. Hall, S. Hall, W. Halperin, M. Hirschel, N. Hoch, Z. Hong, A. Ianni, C. Jillings, D. Johnson, Y. Kahn, C. B. Krauss, T. Laframboise, M. Lai, M. R. Lapointe, B. Lil…

Community Report from the 2025 SNOLAB Future Projects Workshop
SNOLAB hosts a biannual Future Projects Workshop (FPW) with the goal of encouraging future project stakeholders to present ideas, concepts, and needs for experiments or programs that could one day be hosted at SNOLAB. The 2025 FPW was held in the larger context of a 15-year planning exercise requested by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This report collects input from the community, including both contributions to the workshop and contributions that could not be scheduled in the workshop b…

Dredging up recollections of my experience as R6RS editor for my PLSS talk tomorrow.
https://2025.ecoop.org/details/plss-2025-papers/8/Do-Programming-Languages-Fulfill-Requirements-Should-They-

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
Emma R. Dodoo, Tamara Nelson-Fromm, Mark Guzdial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14147

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
K-12 computing teachers must navigate complex trade-offs when selecting programming languages and instructional materials for classrooms with emergent bilingual students. While they aim to foster an inclusive learning environment by addressing language barriers that impact student engagement, they must also align with K-12 computer science curricular guidelines and prepare students for industry-standard programming tools. Because programming languages predominantly use English keywords and most…

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SignBot: Learning Human-to-Humanoid Sign Language Interaction
Sign language is a natural and visual form of language that uses movements and expressions to convey meaning, serving as a crucial means of communication for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH). However, the number of people proficient in sign language remains limited, highlighting the need for technological advancements to bridge communication gaps and foster interactions with minorities. Based on recent advancements in embodied humanoid robots, we propose SignBot, a novel framew…

DynoStore: A wide-area distribution system for the management of data over heterogeneous storage
Dante D. Sanchez-Gallegos, J. L. Gonzalez-Compean, Maxime Gonthier, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, J. Gregory Pauloski, Haochen Pan, Kyle Chard, Jesus Carretero, Ian Foster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00576

DynoStore: A wide-area distribution system for the management of data over heterogeneous storage
Data distribution across different facilities offers benefits such as enhanced resource utilization, increased resilience through replication, and improved performance by processing data near its source. However, managing such data is challenging due to heterogeneous access protocols, disparate authentication models, and the lack of a unified coordination framework. This paper presents DynoStore, a system that manages data across heterogeneous storage systems. At the core of DynoStore are data …

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Yajun Wei, Xinting Peng, Yi Zhong, Feipeng Pi, Yanfang Zhai, Lei Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05586

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Embedding physics problems unreal-world settings, here termed contextualized physics problems (CPP), is widely believed to foster students' interest, motivation, and learning. However, firm evidence for this claim remains scarce. To explore this issue, we surveyed 868 secondary students and 154 teachers to examine their attitudes toward CPP and investigate whether students and teachers perceive these problems as promoting student interest and motivation in learning physics. The findings reveal …

The making of robust and highly performing imaging spectropolarimeters for large solar telescopes
G. B. Scharmer, J. de la Cruz Rodr\'iguez, J. Leenaarts, B. Lindberg, P. S\"utterlin, T. Hillberg, C. Pietraszewski, A. G. de Wijn, M. Foster, J. Storey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05143…

The making of robust and highly performing imaging spectropolarimeters for large solar telescopes
We discuss the requirements, concepts, simulations, implementation, and calibration of two dual Fabry-Perot based imaging spectropolarimeters, CRISP and CHROMIS, at the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope, and CRISP2 that is under construction. These instruments use a combination of a high-resolution and a low-resolution etalon together with an order-sorting prefilter to define the bandpass. The overall design is made robust and stable by tailoring the low-resolution etalon reflectivity to accommod…

Towards a Knowledge Base of Common Sustainability Weaknesses in Green Software Development
Priyavanshi Pathania, Rohit Mehra, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08812

Towards a Knowledge Base of Common Sustainability Weaknesses in Green Software Development
With the climate crisis looming, engineering sustainable software systems become crucial to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and foster a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. For developers, getting access to automated tools that analyze code and suggest sustainabilityrelated optimizations becomes extremely important from a learning and implementation perspective. However, there is currently a dearth of such tools due to the lack of standardized knowledge, whi…

Trustworthy Provenance for Big Data Science: a Modular Architecture Leveraging Blockchain in Federated Settings
Nicola Giuseppe Marchioro, Yannis Velegrakis, Valentine Anantharaj, Ian Foster, Sandro Luigi Fiore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24675

Trustworthy Provenance for Big Data Science: a Modular Architecture Leveraging Blockchain in Federated Settings
Ensuring the trustworthiness and long-term verifiability of scientific data is a foundational challenge in the era of data-intensive, collaborative research. Provenance metadata plays a key role in this context, capturing the origin, transformation, and usage of research artifacts. However, existing solutions often fall short when applied to distributed, multi-institutional settings. This paper introduces a modular, domain-agnostic architecture for provenance tracking in federated environments,…

#BigPharma drug maker #Gilead settles with #BigGov for $202m after legal pursuit by 47 state AG's and #DOJ over ethical lapses made wining & din…

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (University of S\~ao Paulo), Renata Santos Miranda (University of S\~ao Paulo), Alfredo Goldman (University of S\~ao Paulo)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12840

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
This paper presents the journey of CodeLab: a student-organized initiative from the University of São Paulo that has grown thanks to university hackathons. It summarizes patterns, challenges, and lessons learned over 15 competitions organized by the group from 2015 to 2020. By describing these experiences, this report aims to help CodeLab to resume its events after the COVID-19 pandemic, and foster similar initiatives around the world.

Integrating Universal Generative AI Platforms in Educational Labs to Foster Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
Vasiliy Znamenskiy, Rafael Niyazov, Joel Hernandez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00007

Integrating Universal Generative AI Platforms in Educational Labs to Foster Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
This paper presents a new educational framework for integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini into laboratory activities aimed at developing critical thinking and digital literacy among undergraduate students. Recognizing the limitations and risks of uncritical reliance on large language models (LLMs), the proposed pedagogical model reframes GenAI as a research subject and cognitive tool. Students formulate discipline-specific prompts a…

On Linking Planet Formation Models, Protoplanetary Disk Properties, and Mature Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
Adina D. Feinstein, Richard A. Booth, Jennifer B. Bergner, Joshua D. Lothringer, Elisabeth C. Matthews, Luis Welbanks, Yamila Miguel, Bertram Bitsch, Linn E. J. Eriksson, James Kirk, Stefan Pelletier, Anna B. T. Penzlin, Anjali A. A. Piette, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Kamber Schwarz, Diego Turrini, Lorena Acu\~na-Aguirre, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Madyson G. Barber, Jonathan Brande, Ar…

On Linking Planet Formation Models, Protoplanetary Disk Properties, and Mature Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
Measuring a single elemental ratio (e.g., carbon-to-oxygen) provides insufficient information for understanding the formation mechanisms and evolution that affect our observations of gas giant planet atmospheres. Although the fields of planet formation, protoplanetary disks, and exoplanets are well established and interconnected, our understanding of how to self-consistently and accurately link the theoretical and observational aspects of these fields together is lacking. To foster interdiscipl…

Design Didn't Prevent These Hazard Exposures
David. E Mertz (Fermilab)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Design Didn't Prevent These Hazard Exposures
Two recent electrical incidents demonstrate how the design of equipment encouraged electrical workers to take actions that violated NFPA 70E principles. The features that encouraged non-compliant work execution will be described, as well as how the equipment was improved to facilitate safe work practices. Design-stage processes that help identify features that will foster rather than compromise safe work practices will be identified as well.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Stephen Hough, Felix Mendelssohn, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Lawrence Foster:
🎵 Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor, Op 40
#StephenHough #FelixMendelssohn #CityofBirminghamSymphonyOrchestra #LawrenceFoster

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ReflectDiffu:Reflect between Emotion-intent Contagion and Mimicry for Empathetic Response Generation via a RL-Diffusion Framework
Empathetic response generation necessitates the integration of emotional and intentional dynamics to foster meaningful interactions. Existing research either neglects the intricate interplay between emotion and intent, leading to suboptimal controllability of empathy, or resorts to large language models (LLMs), which incur significant computational overhead. In this paper, we introduce ReflectDiffu, a lightweight and comprehensive framework for empathetic response generation. This framework inc…

Asymmetric Electronic Band Alignment and Potentially Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in Phase-Separated Mg2X (X=Si,Ge,Sn) Alloys
Byungki Ryu, Samuel Foster, Eun-Ae Choi, Sungjin Park, Jaywan Chung, Johannes de Boor, Pawel Ziolkowski, Eckhard M\"uller, Seung Zeon Han, SuDong Park, Neophytos Neophytou
https://arxiv.org/abs…

Asymmetric Electronic Band Alignment and Potentially Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in Phase-Separated Mg2X (X=Si,Ge,Sn) Alloys
The Mg2X (X=Si, Ge, Sn) based alloy is an eco-friendly thermoelectric material for mid-temperature applications. The Mg2Si1-xSnx and Mg2Ge1-xSnx alloys can be phase-separated into Si(Ge)- and Sn-rich phases during material synthesis, leading to a nanocomposite with locally varying electronic band structure. First-principles calculations reveal that the valence band offset is eight-times larger than the conduction band offset at the interface between Si- and Sn-rich phases for x=0.6, showing typ…

High brightness multi-MeV photon source driven by a petawatt-scale laser wakefield accelerator
E. Gerstmayr, B. Kettle, M. J. V. Streeter, L. Tudor, O. J. Finlay, L. E. Bradley, R. Fitzgarrald, T. Foster, P. Gellersen, A. E. Gunn, O. Lawrence, P. P. Rajeev, B. K. Russell, D. R. Symes, C. D. Murphy, A. G. R. Thomas, C. P. Ridgers, G. Sarri, S. P. D. Mangles

High brightness multi-MeV photon source driven by a petawatt-scale laser wakefield accelerator
We present an experimental demonstration of a bright multi-MeV gamma source driven by a petawatt laser. The source generates on average $(1.2\pm0.6)\times10^9$ photons above 1 MeV per pulse, exceeding those of previous all-optical sources by a hundred times, and reached a peak spectral brightness of $(3.9 \pm 1.5)\times 10^{22}$ photons/mm$^2$/mrad$^2$/s/0.1%BW at $ε_γ\approx11$ MeV. The source was produced by inverse Compton scattering of a laser wakefield accelerated GeV electron beam and i…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care
Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, Vincent W. Slaugh, M. Utku \"Unver

Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter
Tawfiq Ammari, Anna Gutowska, Jacob Ziff, Casey Randazzo, Harihan Subramonyam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22032

Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolved, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used Twitter to disseminate safety guidance and updates, reaching millions of users. This study analyzes two years of tweets from, to, and about the CDC using a mixed methods approach to examine discourse characteristics, credibility, and user engagement. We found that the CDCs communication remained largely one directional and did not foster reciprocal interaction, while discussions around COVID19 were deepl…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12660 has been replaced.
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Collective Intelligence in Dynamic Networks
We revisit DeGroot learning to examine the robustness of social learning in dynamic networks -- networks that evolve randomly over time. Dynamics have double-edged effects depending on social structure: while they can foster consensus and boost collective intelligence in "sparse" networks, they can have adverse effects such as slowing down the speed of learning and causing long-run disagreement in "well-connected" networks. Collective intelligence arises in dynamic networks when average influen…

Pivoting the paradigm: the role of spreadsheets in K-12 data science
Oren Tirschwell, Nicholas Jon Horton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03232 https://

Pivoting the paradigm: the role of spreadsheets in K-12 data science
Spreadsheet tools are widely accessible to and commonly used by K-12 students and teachers. They have an important role in data collection and organization. Beyond data organization, spreadsheets also make data visible and easy to interact with, facilitating student engagement in data exploration and analysis. Though not suitable for all circumstances, spreadsheets can and do help foster data and computing skills for K-12 students. This paper 1) reviews prior frameworks on K-12 data tools; 2) p…

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- A Continuous Pump-Probe Experiment to Observe Zeeman Wave Packet Dynamics
Romans, Foster, Majumdar, Acharya, Russ, De Silva, Fischer

Lessons Learned from the URGENT 2024 Speech Enhancement Challenge
Wangyou Zhang, Kohei Saijo, Samuele Cornell, Robin Scheibler, Chenda Li, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Marvin Sach, Wei Wang, Yihui Fu, Shinji Watanabe, Tim Fingscheidt, Yanmin Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01611

Lessons Learned from the URGENT 2024 Speech Enhancement Challenge
The URGENT 2024 Challenge aims to foster speech enhancement (SE) techniques with great universality, robustness, and generalizability, featuring a broader task definition, large-scale multi-domain data, and comprehensive evaluation metrics. Nourished by the challenge outcomes, this paper presents an in-depth analysis of two key, yet understudied, issues in SE system development: data cleaning and evaluation metrics. We highlight several overlooked problems in traditional SE pipelines: (1) misma…

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Ronnie Foster:
🎵 Mystic Brew
#RonnieFoster
https://djadog.bandcamp.com/track/25-ronnie-foster-mystic-brew
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Towards Designing Social Interventions for Online Climate Change Denialism Discussions
Ruican zhong, Shruti Phadke, Beth Goldberg, Tanushree Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06561

Towards Designing Social Interventions for Online Climate Change Denialism Discussions
As conspiracy theories gain traction, it has become crucial to research effective intervention strategies that can foster evidence and science-based discussions in conspiracy theory communities online. This study presents a novel framework using insider language to contest conspiracy theory ideology in climate change denialism on Reddit. Focusing on discussions in two Reddit communities, our research investigates reactions to pro-social and evidence-based intervention messages for two cohorts o…

Machine Learning-Assisted Analysis of Combustion and Ignition in As-milled and Annealed Al/Zr Composite Powders
Michael R. Flickinger, Sreenivas Raguraman, Amee L. Polk, Colin Goodman, Megan Bokhoor, Rami Knio, Michael Kruppa, Mark A. Foster, Timothy P. Weihs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06364…

Machine Learning-Assisted Analysis of Combustion and Ignition in As-milled and Annealed Al/Zr Composite Powders
Micron-scale metal-based composite powders are promising for energetic applications due to their tailored ignition and combustion properties. In particular, ball-milled Al/Zr composites exhibit lower ignition thresholds than pure aluminum, driven by exothermic intermetallic formation reactions and have demonstrated enhanced combustion properties. However, the extent to which this heat release governs ignition and combustion remains unclear, especially when progressively removed through annealin…

Time-tagging data acquisition system for testing superconducting electronics based on an RFSoC and custom analog frontend
Reed A. Foster, Stephen Kandeh, Owen Medeiros, Alejandro Simon, Matteo Castellani, Karl K. Berggren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21714

Time-tagging data acquisition system for testing superconducting electronics based on an RFSoC and custom analog frontend
Novel electronic devices can often be operated in a plethora of ways, which makes testing circuits comprised of them difficult. Often, no single tool can simultaneously analyze the operating margins, maximum speed, and failure modes of a circuit, particularly when the intended behavior of subcomponents of the circuit is not standardized. This work demonstrates a cost-effective data acquisition system for electronic circuits that enables more intricate verification techniques than are practical …

(AI peers) are people learning from the same standpoint: Perception of AI characters in a Collaborative Science Investigation
Eunhye Grace Ko, Soo Hyoung Joo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06165

(AI peers) are people learning from the same standpoint: Perception of AI characters in a Collaborative Science Investigation
While the complexity of 21st-century demands has promoted pedagogical approaches to foster complex competencies, a persistent gap remains between in-class learning activities and individualized learning or assessment practices. To address this, studies have explored the use of AI-generated characters in learning and assessment. One attempt is scenario-based assessment (SBA), a technique that not only measures but also fosters the development of competencies throughout the assessment process. SB…

Updated baseline design for HALHF: the hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory
C. A. Lindstr{\o}m, E. Adli, J. B. B. Chen, P. Drobniak, E. E. H{\o}rlyk, D. Kalvik, K. N. Sjobak, T. Barklow, S. Gessner, M. Hogan, M. Berggren, A. Laudrain, B. List, J. List, V. Maslov, K. P\~oder, M. Th\'evenet, N. Walker, J. Wood, S. Boogert, P. N. Burrows, V. Cilento, R. D'Arcy, B. Foster, S. Farrington, X. Lu, G. Moortgat-Pick, A. Seryi

Updated baseline design for HALHF: the hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory
Particle physicists aim to construct a electron-positron Higgs factory as the next major particle collider. However, the high associated costs motivate the development of more affordable collider designs. Plasma-wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to this end. HALHF is a proposal for a Higgs factory that utilizes beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration to accelerate electrons to high energy with high gradient, while using radio-frequency acceleration to accelerate positrons to a …

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Interspeech 2025 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge
There has been a growing effort to develop universal speech enhancement (SE) to handle inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. The URGENT Challenge series aims to foster such universal SE by embracing a broad range of distortion types, increasing data diversity, and incorporating extensive evaluation metrics. This work introduces the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge, the second edition of the series, to explore several aspects that have received limited attention so fa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
George Enescu, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra & Lawrence Foster:
🎵 Romanian Rhapsody No 2 in D major
#GeorgeEnescu #MonteCarloPhilharmonicOrchestra #LawrenceFoster

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It's only fair when I think it's fair: How Gender Bias Alignment Undermines Distributive Fairness in Human-AI Collaboration
Human-AI collaboration is increasingly relevant in consequential areas where AI recommendations support human discretion. However, human-AI teams' effectiveness, capability, and fairness highly depend on human perceptions of AI. Positive fairness perceptions have been shown to foster trust and acceptance of AI recommendations. Yet, work on confirmation bias highlights that humans selectively adhere to AI recommendations that align with their expectations and beliefs -- despite not being necessa…

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Łukasz M. Krupiński, Santander Orchestra & Lawrence Foster:
🎵 Polish Fantasy, Op 19
#IgnacyJanPaderewski #ŁukaszMKrupiński #SantanderOrchestra #LawrenceFoster

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Can Code Outlove Blood? An LLM-based VR Experience to Prompt Reflection on Parental Verbal Abuse
Parental verbal abuse leaves lasting emotional impacts, yet current therapeutic approaches often lack immersive self-reflection opportunities. To address this, we developed a VR experience powered by LLMs to foster reflection on parental verbal abuse. Participants with relevant experiences engage in a dual-phase VR experience: first assuming the role of a verbally abusive parent, interacting with an LLM portraying a child, then observing the LLM reframing abusive dialogue into warm, supportive …

Interspeech 2025 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge
Kohei Saijo, Wangyou Zhang, Samuele Cornell, Robin Scheibler, Chenda Li, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Marvin Sach, Yihui Fu, Wei Wang, Tim Fingscheidt, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23212

Interspeech 2025 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge
There has been a growing effort to develop universal speech enhancement (SE) to handle inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. The URGENT Challenge series aims to foster such universal SE by embracing a broad range of distortion types, increasing data diversity, and incorporating extensive evaluation metrics. This work introduces the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge, the second edition of the series, to explore several aspects that have received limited attention so fa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Alexander Glazunov, Itzhak Perlman, The Abbey Road Ensemble & Lawrence Foster:
🎵 Mazurka-Oberek in D major
#AlexanderGlazunov #ItzhakPerlman #TheAbbeyRoadEnsemble
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bLfgnal8PB302FyLSYUxY