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Sort of mind-blowing anecdote during my #leukemia treatment. Between hospitalizations I had outpatient clinic visits twice a week. My first time there I was sitting in the waiting room with 4 or 5 other patients, who were chatting.
One of the guys was talking about his experience getting CAR T treatment for lymphoma. CAR T is a fairly new, very high tech intervention. The man then veered …

Jeg er i Birmingham for at blive optaget til en podcast i morgen. Efter en lang periode med lidt vel rigeligt arbejde satsede jeg på lidt afslapning på turen. Værelset på Conference Aston Hotel (det hedder det! RækkefŸlgen er ulogisk, don’t shoot me) er gammelt og småt, og her var rigeligt varmt da jeg ankom.
Men nu har jeg fået indrettet mig! Vinduerne er på klem, indergardinet samlet med en knude (!), og så har jeg fået room service! Tre forretter og ikke andet, haha 😅

heute im rahmen einer besichtigung für die universitätsgesellschaft den fiege-standort im münsteraner hafen besichtigt. sehr interessant und sehr schickes gebäude!
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Foerderer/aktuelles/archiv/2025/Unternehmen…

Me: if I go through Września, I'll be 5 minutes earlier in Poznań, and I'll have a better chance of catching a transfer. But I'd have to run to catch the train to Września.
Me a minute later: the Września – Poznań train is delayed. No point in running, let's just go straight to Poznań.
Me at Poznań Wschód station: oh, the delayed train from Września goes straight to Leszno, so it is my transfer.
Fortunately, our train went first, so I could easily transfer at the main station.

Jeg har gået en lang tur rundt i den ældre del af Birmingham her til eftermiddag - jeg havde glemt hvor mange smukke steder her er. På tilbagevejen lå der lykkeligvis en fin, lille café hvor jeg kunne hygge mig med kage og cappuccino 😊

If there's anything we could learn from yesterday's #SpainBlackout is that running software on the cloud that could run locally... is a terrible idea.
#LocalFirst software should be prioritised by companies and public administrations.
I don't think Spanish people will learn the lesson this time (I'm Spanish, so I know what I'm talking about from first hand experience).
I foresee some small groups will react, and start spreading the word, but it will take many other disasters like this one for people to finally understand.
#PowerOutage #Spain #Portugal

Studying Protoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Bin B. Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24129 https://

Studying Protoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, the confirmation of nearly 6000 exoplanets to date - and their diversity - has revolutionized our knowledge of planetary systems in the past three decades. Nevertheless, the majority of these planets are around mature stars (${\gtrsim}1$ Gyr), where the planet birth environments have already dissipated. Indeed, we have only confirmed 2 forming planets (i.e., protoplanets; ${\lesssim}10$ Myr) residing in one single system. In c…

Hawking Radiation Signatures from Primordial Black Holes Transiting the Inner Solar System: Prospects for Detection
Alexandra P. Klipfel, Peter Fisher, David I. Kaiser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14041

Hawking Radiation Signatures from Primordial Black Holes Transiting the Inner Solar System: Prospects for Detection
Primordial black holes (PBHs) arise from the collapse of density perturbations in the early universe and serve as a dark matter (DM) candidate and a probe of fundamental physics. There remains an unconstrained ``asteroid-mass'' window where PBHs of masses $10^{17} {\rm g} \lesssim M \lesssim 10^{23} {\rm g}$ could comprise up to $100\%$ of the dark matter. Current $e^{\pm}$ Hawking radiation constraints on the DM fraction of PBHs are set by comparing observed spatial- and time-integrated cosmic…

A heterogeneous lithosphere on Venus
I. Romeo, A. Jimenez Diaz, M. Mendiburu Elicabe, I. Egea Gonzalez, R. M. Hahn, P. K. Byrne, J. F. Kirby, J. Alvarez Lozano, J. Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18568

A heterogeneous lithosphere on Venus
Venus is 95% the size of Earth and probably has a similar composition and internal energy, but the geodynamical mechanism governing its internal thermal evolution remains controversial. Much of the planet surface (77%) is covered by volcanic plains, characterized by basaltic flood lavas, some of which emanate from volcanoes whereas others have no identifiable sources. Here we show that the volcanic plains contain three provinces with statistically different properties. Apart from the plains aro…