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This is such a good summary of "the problem with 'data science'", as it tries to replace any domain expertise with the misguided notion that some form of statistics.
And so you end up with (maybe even well-meaning) researchers that are so far in over their head that they don't even know what they don't know.
Case in point: the authors of the preprint come from mathematics, computer science, physics, and 'future studies' (lol)…
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Modeling Targets and Optimal Frequencies for Imaging the Shadows of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes
J. Cole Faggert, Feryal Ozel, Dimitrios Psaltis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15783

Modeling Targets and Optimal Frequencies for Imaging the Shadows of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes
Horizon-scale imaging of supermassive black holes has opened a new window onto the studies of strong-field gravity and plasma physics in low-luminosity accretion flows. As future efforts aim to image fainter and smaller angular-size targets, primarily through space-based very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), it is important to identify optimal sources and observing strategies for such studies. In this work, we assess the prospects for imaging black hole shadows in a broad population of near…

X-ray emission signatures of galactic feedback in the hot circumgalactic medium: predictions from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
Emily M. Silich, John ZuHone, Elena Bellomi, Cameron Hummels, Benjamin Oppenheimer, Philip F. Hopkins, Cassandra Lochhaas, Sam B. Ponnada, Alexey Vikhlinin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17440

X-ray emission signatures of galactic feedback in the hot circumgalactic medium: predictions from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
Little is currently known about the physical properties of the hot circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding massive galaxies. Next-generation X-ray observatories will enable detailed studies of the hot CGM in emission. To support these future efforts, we make predictions of the X-ray emission from the hot CGM using a sample of 28 $\sim$Milky Way-mass disk galaxies at $z=0$ from seven cosmological hydrodynamical simulation suites incorporating a wide range of galactic feedback prescriptions. The …

Studies: women are 25% less likely than men to have basic digital skills, are more likely to be in automation-threatened jobs, and use ChatGPT less at work (Isabel Berwick/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0fbd7d-011a-448d-9d23-8a8db2006df4

Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up
Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
Abidi, Aguilar-Saavedra, Airen, Ajmal, Al-Thakeel, Alberghi, Maestre, Alimena, Alshamaily, Altmann, Altmannshofer, Amhis, Amiri, Andreazza, Antusch, Arnaez, Assamagan, Aumiller, Azizi, Azzi, Azzurri, Bagnaschi, Baharyioon, Bahl, Balagura, Barducci, Basso, Bechtle, Bellagamba, Berggren, Bernardi, Bhom, Biermann, Blekman, Bliewert, Bordone, Boudry, Boye, Bozovic, Braathen, Brient, Brodbek, Brost, Bruckman, Brudnowski, Bulliri, Bulyak, Burrid…

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing together participants from many different proposed future collider projects. Activities across three main working groups advanced the joint development of tools and analysis techniques, fostered new considerations of detector design and optimisation, and led to a new set of studies resulting in improved projected sensitivit…

Supervised Quantum Machine Learning: A Future Outlook from Qubits to Enterprise Applications
Srikanth Thudumu, Jason Fisher, Hung Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24765

Supervised Quantum Machine Learning: A Future Outlook from Qubits to Enterprise Applications
Supervised Quantum Machine Learning (QML) represents an intersection of quantum computing and classical machine learning, aiming to use quantum resources to support model training and inference. This paper reviews recent developments in supervised QML, focusing on methods such as variational quantum circuits, quantum neural networks, and quantum kernel methods, along with hybrid quantum-classical workflows. We examine recent experimental studies that show partial indications of quantum advantag…

Photon rings in a holographic toy model
St\'ephane Detournay, Sahaja Kanuri, Alexandru Lupsasca, Philippe Spindel, Quentin Vandermiers, Raphaela Wutte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07989

Photon rings in a holographic toy model
Light circling around an astrophysical black hole can spend a long time skirting its unstably bound photon orbits before escaping to infinity. To a distant observer, this orbiting light would appear as a bright ring encircling the image of the black hole. Though not yet resolved by radio-interferometric observations from the ground, this ``photon ring'' will be the target of future space-based black hole observations. Motivated by this experimental prospect, studies have sought to elucidate the…

Hmm, this first CFP in this new journal of Future Studies is weirdly or wilfully oblivious to the insights abounding about how those who wish to maintain an unequal status quo use doomerism and frame utopia/hope/possibility as naive.
"In this way, persistent hope can sometimes blind us to reality, impeding our capacity for proactive measures. Moreover, it can feel artificial to focus solely on hopeful outcomes when there is plenty of reason to be angry, sad, or scared."

Probing Strong-Field QED via Angle-Discriminated Emissions from Electrons Traversing Colliding Laser Pulses
C. Olofsson, A. Gonoskov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08741

Probing Strong-Field QED via Angle-Discriminated Emissions from Electrons Traversing Colliding Laser Pulses
Future laser-electron colliders will reach quantum parameters $χ$ well in excess of unity, enabling studies of strong-field QED in extreme regimes. However, statistical inference in such experiments requires mitigating premature radiative losses of electrons to enable high-$χ$ QED events, as well as separating the detectable signal of these events from that of lower-$χ$ particles and photons produced by QED cascades. We propose a collider geometry in which electrons traverse the waist of two…

Impact of the $(\ell=2,m=0)$ spherical harmonic mode with memory on parameter estimation for ground-based detectors
Maria Rossell\'o-Sastre, Sascha Husa, Sayantani Bera, Yumeng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05859

Impact of the $(\ell=2,m=0)$ spherical harmonic mode with memory on parameter estimation for ground-based detectors
We recently presented an efficient and accurate waveform model for the $(2,0)$ spherical harmonic mode including both the displacement memory contribution and the ringdown oscillations for aligned-spin binary black holes in quasi-circular orbits. The model we developed is constructed in time domain and implemented within the computationally efficient IMRPhenomTHM waveform model. In this article, we employ it to perform in-depth parameter estimation studies for future ground-based detectors, spe…

Assessing Future Wind Energy Potential under Climate Change: The Critical Role of Multi-Model Ensembles in Robustness Assessment
Andrea Lira-Loarca, Francesco Ferrari, Andrea Mazzino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24463

Assessing Future Wind Energy Potential under Climate Change: The Critical Role of Multi-Model Ensembles in Robustness Assessment
Accurate projections of wind energy potential under climate change are critical for effective long-term energy planning. While previous studies have highlighted the value of multi-model ensembles, they often fall short in capturing the full spectrum of uncertainties and temporal dynamics relevant to wind resource reliability. This paper presents one of the most comprehensive assessments to date, leveraging a large ensemble of 21 high-resolution RCM-GCM combinations from the EURO-CORDEX initiati…

Extremely Large-Scale Movable Antenna-Enabled Multiuser Communications: Modeling and Optimization
Min Fu, Lipeng Zhu, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02735

Extremely Large-Scale Movable Antenna-Enabled Multiuser Communications: Modeling and Optimization
Movable antenna (MA) has been recognized as a promising technology to improve communication performance in future wireless networks such as 6G. To unleash its potential, this paper proposes a novel architecture, namely extremely large-scale MA (XL-MA), which allows flexible antenna/subarray positioning over an extremely large spatial region for effectively enhancing near-field effects and spatial multiplexing performance. In particular, this paper studies an uplink XL-MA-enabled multiuser syste…

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Missing Data in Signal Processing and Machine Learning: Models, Methods and Modern Approaches
The goal of this tutorial is to provide an overview of recent methods for handling missing data in signal processing methods, from their origins to the challenges ahead. Missing data approaches are grouped by three main categories: i) missing-data imputation, ii) estimation with missing values and iii) prediction with missing values. We focus on methodological and experimental results through specific case studies on real-world applications. Promising and future research directions, including a…

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Resolution Studies for Future DIRC Detectors
The resolution of Cherenkov detectors using the DIRC method is mainly limited by three components: photon loss due to steep angles of incidence, dispersion effects, and angle straggling due to the Coulomb interaction of the charged particle. This paper highlights the general limitations of any generic DIRC detector, based on studies for the proposed experiments PANDA in Darmstadt and SCTF in Russia. These studies used theoretical calculations and simplified Monte-Carlo simulations to obtain an …

Do conditional cash transfers in childhood increase economic resilience in adulthood? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic shock in Ecuador
Jos\'e-Ignacio Ant\'on, Ruthy Intriago, Juan Ponce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06903

Do conditional cash transfers in childhood increase economic resilience in adulthood? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic shock in Ecuador
The primary goal of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) is to alleviate short-term poverty while preventing the intergenerational transmission of deprivation by promoting the accumulation of human capital among children. Although a substantial body of research has evaluated the short-run impacts of CCTs, studies on their long-term effects are relatively scarce, and evidence regarding their influence on resilience to future economic shocks is limited. As human capital accumulation is expected to e…

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Supervised Quantum Machine Learning: A Future Outlook from Qubits to Enterprise Applications
Supervised Quantum Machine Learning (QML) represents an intersection of quantum computing and classical machine learning, aiming to use quantum resources to support model training and inference. This paper reviews recent developments in supervised QML, focusing on methods such as variational quantum circuits, quantum neural networks, and quantum kernel methods, along with hybrid quantum-classical workflows. We examine recent experimental studies that show partial indications of quantum advantag…

Impact of the $(\ell=2,m=0)$ spherical harmonic mode with memory on parameter estimation for ground-based detectors
Maria Rossell\'o-Sastre, Sascha Husa, Sayantani Bera, Yumeng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05859

Impact of the $(\ell=2,m=0)$ spherical harmonic mode with memory on parameter estimation for ground-based detectors
We recently presented an efficient and accurate waveform model for the $(2,0)$ spherical harmonic mode including both the displacement memory contribution and the ringdown oscillations for aligned-spin binary black holes in quasi-circular orbits. The model we developed is constructed in time domain and implemented within the computationally efficient IMRPhenomTHM waveform model. In this article, we employ it to perform in-depth parameter estimation studies for future ground-based detectors, spe…

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Effect of laboratory conditions on the perception of virtual stages for music
This manuscript presents initial findings critical for supporting augmented acoustics experiments in custom-made hearing booths, addressing a key challenge in ensuring perceptual validity and experimental rigor in these highly sensitive setups. This validation ensures our proposed methodology is sound, guarantees the reliability of future results, and lays the foundational groundwork for subsequent perceptual studies and the development of robust guidelines for laboratory design in virtual acou…

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Measuring Interstellar Carbon Abundance via 158 um [CII] Absorption with SOFIA -- A Potential Detection, and Proof-of-Concept for Depletion Studies with Future Far-IR Facilities
Carbon plays key roles in the InterStellar Medium (ISM) -- as a constituent of dust, as the carrier of the dominant far-infrared cooling line, and as a component of various important molecules. But despite this, there are very few measurements of the abundance and depletion of carbon in the diffuse ISM. As with other elements, these measurements are traditionally performed in the ultraviolet. But for carbon, such measurements are extremely difficult, and less than 20 have been reported in the l…

Missing Data in Signal Processing and Machine Learning: Models, Methods and Modern Approaches
A. Hippert-Ferrer, A. Sportisse, A. Javaheri, M. N. El Korso, D. P. Palomar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01696

Missing Data in Signal Processing and Machine Learning: Models, Methods and Modern Approaches
The goal of this tutorial is to provide an overview of recent methods for handling missing data in signal processing methods, from their origins to the challenges ahead. Missing data approaches are grouped by three main categories: i) missing-data imputation, ii) estimation with missing values and iii) prediction with missing values. We focus on methodological and experimental results through specific case studies on real-world applications. Promising and future research directions, including a…

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Imprints of extra dimensions in eccentric eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals gravitational waveforms
Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observatories. In this direction, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), attracting considerable interest in GW astronomy and fundamental physics, can potentially provide a useful platform for the search of extra dimensions. In this paper, we examine a rotating braneworld black hole in the context of equatorial eccentric EMRI…

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Status of the International Linear Collider
This paper is not a proposal for a CERN future project but provides information on the International Linear Collider (ILC) considered for Japan in order to facilitate the European Strategy discussion in a global context. It describes progress to date, ongoing engineering studies, updated cost estimate for the machine at $\sqrt{s}=250~\rm GeV$ and the situation in Japan. The physics of the ILC is not presented here, but jointly for all Linear Collider projects in a separate document ``A Linear C…

Risk and Reward of Transitioning from a National to a Zonal Electricity Market in Great Britain
Lukas Franken, Andrew Lyden, Daniel Friedrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04107

Risk and Reward of Transitioning from a National to a Zonal Electricity Market in Great Britain
More spatially granular electricity wholesale markets promise more efficient operation and better asset siting in highly renewable power systems. Great Britain is considering moving from its current single-price national wholesale market to a zonal design. Existing studies reach varying and difficult-to-reconcile conclusions about the desirability of a zonal market in GB, partly because they rely on models that vary in their transparency and assumptions about future power systems. Using a novel…

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Imprints of extra dimensions in eccentric eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals gravitational waveforms
Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observatories. In this direction, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), attracting considerable interest in GW astronomy and fundamental physics, can potentially provide a useful platform for the search of extra dimensions. In this paper, we examine a rotating braneworld black hole in the context of equatorial eccentric EMRI…