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End Canada’s Senseless Slaughter of Seals https://www.idausa.org/campaign/wild-animals-and-habitats/latest-news/end-canadas-senseless-slaughter-of-seals/&utm_medium=Mastodon

End Canada’s Senseless Slaughter of Seals
 

Reasoning to Edit: Hypothetical Instruction-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoning
Qingdong He, Xueqin Chen, Chaoyi Wang, Yanjie Pan, Xiaobin Hu, Zhenye Gan, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Xiangtai Li, Jiangning Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01908

Reasoning to Edit: Hypothetical Instruction-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoning
Instruction-based image editing (IIE) has advanced rapidly with the success of diffusion models. However, existing efforts primarily focus on simple and explicit instructions to execute editing operations such as adding, deleting, moving, or swapping objects. They struggle to handle more complex implicit hypothetical instructions that require deeper reasoning to infer plausible visual changes and user intent. Additionally, current datasets provide limited support for training and evaluating rea…

Now suppose that the student in question is the child of an influential local politician…
All of this is of course completely hypothetical, but things like this do happen, and they can quickly get out of hand. So, better to be prepared! □
#AcademicChatter

Now suppose that the student in question is the child of an influential local politician…
All of this is of course completely hypothetical, but things like this do happen, and they can quickly get out of hand. So, better to be prepared! □
#AcademicChatter

"Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids"
#DRC #DemocraticRepublicofCongo #OIl

Finished "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" by Jonathan C. Slaght.
Slaght leads a scientific study to the remote and frozen Primoriye region of Eastern Russia to learn more about the Blakiston Fish Owl, the largest living species of owl. Slaght hoped that increased understanding would allow for habitat preservation and conservation to protect this amazing species. Utterly fascinating.
5/5 stars ⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the W…
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusiv…

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

Hunting for Axions in REactor neutrino COherent scattering Detection Experiment
Wei Dai, Yuanlin Gong, Guanhua Gu, Liangliang Su, Li Wang, Lei Wu, Yongcheng Wu, Litao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01538

Hunting for Axions in REactor neutrino COherent scattering Detection Experiment
Nuclear power plants are not only vital sources of clean energy but also powerful facilities for probing new physics beyond the Standard Model. Due to the intense gamma-ray flux and an appropriate energy conditions, they are particularly well-suited for searches of light hypothetical particles such as sub-MeV axions and axion-like particles (ALPs). In this work, we propose to search for the ALPs in the REactor Neutrino COherent scattering Detection Experiment (RECODE), where two low-threshold, …

Tell Kroger: End Habitat Loss in Your Supply Chain https://www.worldanimalprotection.us/take-action/tell-kroger-end-habitat-loss-in-your-supply-chain/

Tell Kroger: End Habitat Loss in Your Supply Chain
Send a letter to Kroger executives urging them to expand the deforestation-free policy to all of its animal products.

World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/world-orangutan-day-ongoing-threats-habitat-loss-haunt-these-great-apes/

World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes
Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically endangered on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where they’re endemic. Mongabay has extensively covered the threats they face from habitat degradation and what studies say about how human activities affect them. This World Orangutan Day, on Aug. 19, we take a […]