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Texas Reopens the Gerrymander Wars (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-gerrymandering-house-seats-democrats-republicans-congress-f1514f89?st=TmFT9z&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p10#a250805p10

“I know faithful people, including faithful preachers, who persist in hope for the future, against all odds, grounded in their hope in God’s steadfastness. That hope emboldens them both to hear and preach the truth of God’s compassion and of God’s justice, and to act accordingly. Their hope emboldens me.”
—Roger Ferlo ’79 Ph.D. writing in the latest issue of our journal, Reflections

The Trump administration has quietly fast-tracked a massive oil expansion project that environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers warned could have a destructive impact on local communities and the climate.
As reported recently by the Oil and Gas Journal,
👉 the plan “involves expanding the Wildcat Loadout Facility, a key transfer point for moving Uinta basin crude oil to rail lines that transport it to refineries along the Gulf Coast.”
🔥The goal of the plan is to transfer an …

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With congressional approval and Trump's subsequent signature July 4, the 2025 tax reconciliation bill offers expanded opportunities for the oil and gas industry.

"The Bib Record in the Age of Digital Reproduction" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/135
"Taking both structural and thematic inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanic…

Trump Bans Citizens of 12 Countries From Traveling to U.S. (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-bans-citizens-of-12-countries-from-traveling-to-u-s-ba0b6b65?st=pEjNp3&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p66#a250605p66

Sources: TSMC delays construction of its second plant in Japan, originally planned for early 2025, to invest in US expansion ahead of potential Trump tariffs (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17647 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCE_…

4D-CTA Image and geometry dataset for kinematic analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysms
This article presents a dataset used in the article "Kinematics of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms" [arXiv:2405.13377], published in the Journal of Biomechanics. The dataset is publicly available for download from the Zenodo data repository (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15477710). The dataset includes time-resolved 3D computed tomography angiography (4D-CTA) images of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) captured throughout the cardiac cycle from ten patients diagnosed with AAA, along with ten patient-…

La raison : `Selon le journal, le président républicain a découvert que M. Isaacman aurait effectué par le passé des dons Š des élus démocrates.`
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/artic

Donald Trump renonce à nommer Jared Isaacman, proche d’Elon Musk, à la tête de la NASA
« Un remplaçant sera annoncé directement par le président Trump prochainement », fait savoir la Maison Blanche.

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

Object knowledge representation in the human visual cortex requires a connection with the language system https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003161 "Our experiments reveal the contribution of the vision-la…

Object knowledge representation in the human visual cortex requires a connection with the language system
This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the visual cortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans. This highlights the significance of connections between sensory and language systems for object knowledge in the human brain.

Guerre Š Gaza : l’armée israélienne interpellée sur sa faillite morale
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/01/guerre-a-gaza-l-armee-israelienne-interpellee-sur-sa-faillit…

Guerre à Gaza : l’armée israélienne interpellée sur sa faillite morale
Les témoignages de soldats recueillis par le journal israélien « Haaretz » sur les fusillades autour des centres de distribution alimentaire dans l’enclave palestinienne ont ouvert un débat en Israël.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12815 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

What is Positive Geometry?
This article serves as an introduction to the special volume on Positive Geometry in the journal Le Matematiche. We attempt to answer the question in the title by describing the origins and objects of positive geometry at this early stage of its development. We discuss the problems addressed in the volume and report on the progress. We also list some open challenges.

Late emergence of pathological oscillatory activity in the retina of the Retinitis pigmentosa model RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) rat https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324345

Late emergence of pathological oscillatory activity in the retina of the Retinitis pigmentosa model RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) rat
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a leading cause of blindness. The best studied models of human RP are the rd1 and rd10 mouse and the RCS rat (Royal College of Surgeons). In many models after degeneration of the photoreceptors, a pathological rhythmic activity of the retina as well as lowered efficiency of electrical stimulation were observed. In rd10 retina, both events were shown to be intimately linked. Surprisingly, to our knowledge no retinal oscillations have been reported in RCS retina. As o…

The Trump Economy Stumbles (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-economy-tariffs-trade-jobs-growth-federal-reserve-a51eccaf?st=pTjusm&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p15#a250802p15

"Two final considerations include (1) the necessity of being both deliberate and strategic and (2) the importance of being flexible and even whimsical about your future."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.…

A proposed mechanism for the formation of protocell-like structures on Titan: #Titan; such structures are considered the first step in the emergence of life: https://www.uni-due.de/2025-07-19-emergence-of-life-on-saturns-moon-titan

"How do I reclaim my evangelical identity? By embracing the inclusive nature of God’s love."
—The Rev. Craig Robinson ’11 M.Div., ’14 S.T.M., writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections https://reflections.yale.edu/article/c

Merci beaucoup @… (et @… ) pour ton article "Un logiciel libre est un produit et un projet"
Je l'ai trouvé excellent ! Je pense avoir bien compris le message que tu as essayé de faire passer et je suis en accord avec tes…

According to google, the 2003 "live coding in laptop performance" journal article has passed 500 citations! That's quite a few books worth of papers that refer to it..
Unfortunately we published it in a closed access journal, but you can download a preprint here:

Trump Orders Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief After Weak Jobs Report (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jobs-report-today-stock-market-08-01-2025/card/trump-orders-firing-of-bls-chief-keetzmcmvG27bpHzzI6m?st=bQhmwf&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p106#a250801p106

Dow Jones responds to Trump lawsuit, saying "we have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit" (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Manista, G., Maryl, M., & Wnuk, M. (2025). Attitudes towards Open Access Books in the European Research Area. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 35(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.21719

"Development of an Integrated Lifecycle of #RDM #Tools: Looking Back and Forward at KU Leuven"
https://ijdc.net/index.…

Academics can be viciously funny.
I recently published a journal article. One of the reviewers didn't much care for it. Alongside the obvious critique that I clearly hadn't read enough of my own work, Reviewer 2 didn't like me quoting a certain text, having misread what I thought was an obvious reference to a classic text as insulting one of the people at the center of my article. The editor agreed with me enough to put an illustration of the classic text on the issue's…

Doucement mais sûrement, fumer va devenir compliqué....
Merci aux fumeurs pour leurs efforts
L’interdiction de fumer dans les parcs, Š la plage et aux abords des écoles entre en vigueur dès dimanche
https://…

L’interdiction de fumer dans les parcs, les plages et aux abords des écoles entre en vigueur dès dimanche
Le décret, paru samedi au Journal officiel, n’évoque pas de contravention en cas d’infraction mais prévoit un renforcement des sanctions pour la vente de tabac et de produits de vapotage aux mineurs.

Trump seeks quick Murdoch deposition in Wall Street Journal lawsuit over Epstein story (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-murdoch-wall-street-journal-lawsuit-deposition-3d9dbabe52a5d54e0ab7bf57265a39f4
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p103#a250728p103

Just out! My new article, 'Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility' in Comparative Education Studies is an exercise in hope to collectively, consciously, and critically re-examine education and education systems.
We can harness education's potential of promise by questioning assumptions - which/whose knowledges are legitimised and valued; what has been counted, discounted or marginalised as evidence.

Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility    - Comparative Education Studies (CES)
Commentary Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility Prachi Srivastava | pp. 86-91 Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the largest global disruption of schooling in recent history, resulting in immediate and cumulative ruptures. This commentary proposes a collective, conscious, and critical re-examination of education and education systems with a view to harnessing the […]

"When are we preachers going to stop apologizing for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ? It’s my belief that bolder and truer messaging will draw people back to the congregations from which they have fled in droves over the last decades."
—Will Mebane ’06 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our Reflections journal, focused on: Is Christianity losing its religion?

There appear to be no downsides to this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23g5xpggzmo

Trump sues Murdoch and Wall Street Journal for $10bn over Epstein article
The lawsuit is over a story claiming the president wrote a "bawdy" personal note to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

Violent Settlers Turn on Israeli Military After Attacking Palestinians in West Bank (Dov Lieber/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/west-bank-settlers-turn-on-israeli-military-after-attacking-palestinians-dfd1bd19?st=gbqsHE&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p107#a250630p107

Nice! I just learned that my forthcoming article (with Marijana Hamersak) will be #OpenAccess due to some agreement of @… with SAGE.
Coming soon in Memory Studies
#ElShatt

"Out of pain and righteous anger I took apart the stained glass windows of my childhood faith. Over time I looked more closely at the glass shards at my feet and chose to reconstruct my faith life."
—Sandra L. Fischer ’12 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.

Iran Builds Up Near Weapons-Grade Uranium Stockpile Despite Nuclear Talks (Laurence Norman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-builds-up-near-weapons-grade-uranium-stockpile-despite-nuclear-talks-2f371dae?st=kYET6n&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p27#a250531p27

Movie idea: Under the mistaken belief that all costs were covered by a Read & Publish agreement, a researcher publishes an open access article in a journal. However, he then discovers that color figures aren’t covered, and now he owes the Cartel over 1600 Swiss francs. The chase is on as the Cartel is determined to get their hands on the money, no matter what.
#AcademicChatter…

Movie idea: Under the mistaken belief that all costs were covered by a Read & Publish agreement, a researcher publishes an open access article in a journal. However, he then discovers that color figures aren’t covered, and now he owes the Cartel over 1600 Swiss francs. The chase is on as the Cartel is determined to get their hands on the money, no matter what.
#AcademicChatter…

Movie idea: Under the mistaken belief that all costs were covered by a Read & Publish agreement, a researcher publishes an open access article in a journal. However, he then discovers that color figures aren’t covered, and now he owes the Cartel over 1600 Swiss francs. The chase is on as the Cartel is determined to get their hands on the money, no matter what.
#AcademicChatter…

General-domain FC-based shock-dynamics solver I: Basic elements
Oscar P. Bruno, Daniel V. Leibovici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16076 https://

General-domain FC-based shock-dynamics solver I: Basic elements
This contribution, Part I in a two-part article series, presents a general-domain version of the FC-SDNN (Fourier Continuation Shock-detecting Neural Network) spectral scheme for the numerical solution of nonlinear conservation laws, which is applicable under arbitrary boundary conditions and in general domains. Like the previous simple-domain contribution (Journal of Computational Physics X 15, (2022)), the present approach relies on the use of the Fourier Continuation method for accurate spec…

We have translators who work on commission for the journal I edit (it's a bilingual publication - articles are in either English or French with abstracts and author bios for every article in both languages). The translators tend to be pretty good, most often only having trouble with technical terms (which is understandable - this happens when you're not a specialist). Still, on occasion, they manage to produce something spectacularly bad. No, the French for "He is" is not &…

Trump files a libel lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones, and WSJ reporters who wrote an article saying that Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a "bawdy" letter (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-sues-epstein-murdoch-wsj.html

Trump sues Murdoch, Dow Jones over Wall Street Journal story on Epstein birthday letter

The U.S. Plan to Hobble China Tech Isn't Working (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-u-s-plan-to-hobble-china-tech-isnt-working-56d1a512?st=MQpryL&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p16#a250531p16

With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/can-pittsburgh…

GOP Declares Tax-Cut Extensions 'Free' to Obscure Megabill's Cost (Richard Rubin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/gop-declares-tax-cut-extensions-free-to-obscure-megabills-cost-4c4089bf?st=UuBkoQ&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p77#a250629p77

Scholastic status of congenitally blind children following sight surgery https://internationalsped.com/ijse/article/view/386 "a compelling case for more rigorous assessments and better educational interventions for visually impaired/sight restored children"

"The Research Data Management Workbook: Building a Collection of Data Management Exercises to Bridge Data Information Literacy and Data Management Implementation" @ Journal of eScience Librarianship: https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.937

Implicit and Explicit Research Quality Score Probabilities from ChatGPT
Mike Thelwall, Yunhan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13525 https://

Implicit and Explicit Research Quality Score Probabilities from ChatGPT
The large language model (LLM) ChatGPT's quality scores for journal articles correlate more strongly with human judgements than some citation-based indicators in most fields. Averaging multiple ChatGPT scores improves the results, apparently leveraging its internal probability model. To leverage these probabilities, this article tests two novel strategies: requesting percentage likelihoods for scores and extracting the probabilities of alternative tokens in the responses. The probability estima…

The Improbable Rise of Zohran Mamdani (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/zohran-mamdani-democratic-nyc-mayor-primary-4b2ce2f1?st=N9Gvp7&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p7#a250629p7

Journal article submissions for William Carlos Williams Review
https://ift.tt/iG5xApC
updated: Friday, June 13, 2025 - 6:31pmfull name / name of organization: Williamm Carlos Williams…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Les « Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace » condamnées pour le suicide d’un salarié : « L’accident du travail est dû Š une faute inexcusable »
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

Suicide d’un salarié : les « Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace » condamnées ; une « faute inexcusable » reconnue
Le tribunal judiciaire de Strasbourg a condamné les « DNA » à verser 30 000 euros à la famille d’un salarié du journal, qui s’est suicidé en 2019 sur fond de restructuration et de suppressions de postes.

A look at Scholastic, as the publisher unveils a major restructuring intended to streamline its business and focuses on YouTube with shows based on its books (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/scholas

Trump and the EU Dodge a Trade War (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-and-the-eu-dodge-a-trade-war-tariffs-policy-economy-0064e989?st=PTVtwa&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250727/p63#a250727p63

Gavin Newsom Sipped Cabernet While Los Angeles Burned (City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/los-angeles-riots-california-governor-gavin-newsom-wine
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p50#a250620p50

"I am an embodiment journeying towards belief. Faith seeking greater confidence. That is what being a Christian means to me. It may well be the work of a lifetime."
—Ian Barclay ’24 M.A.R. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections https://…

The Paramount Risk in Settling Trump's Lawsuit: 'Bribery'? (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/paramount-donald-trump-lawsuit-cbs-fcc-first-amendment-23c10b02?st=by8dmA&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p29#a250626p29

Trump Considers Naming Next Fed Chair Early in Bid to Undermine Powell (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/trump-considers-naming-next-fed-chair-early-in-bid-to-undermine-powell-d3edcb9c?st=RsjPmE&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p141#a250625p141

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton sent 'warm and gushing' letter for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday - as Trump sues over claim he also wrote a 'bawdy' note for paedophile's half-century (Caroline Graham/Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14921905/Donald-Trump-sues-Wall-Street-Journal-MoS-reveals-Bill-Clinton-letter-Jeffrey-Epstein-birthday.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p46#a250720p46

U.S. Officials Assess Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Sites (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-us-latest-news?st=BWepAx&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p64#a250622p64

Tesla Profit Falls, Hurt by Plunging EV Sales (Becky Peterson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/tesla-earnings-q2-tsla-stock-f94405d3?st=sCqPVi&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p181#a250723p181

Trump sues Wall Street Journal's publisher and 2 reporters over Epstein article (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-sues-wall-street-journals-publisher-reporters-epstein-article-rcna219703
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p126#a250718p126

Incremental Collision Laws Based on the Bouc-Wen Model: External Forces and Corner Cases
Mihails Milehins, Dan Marghitu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07953 ht…

Incremental Collision Laws Based on the Bouc-Wen Model: External Forces and Corner Cases
In the article titled "The Bouc-Wen Model for Binary Direct Collinear Collisions of Convex Viscoplastic Bodies" and published in the Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, the authors studied mathematical models of binary direct collinear collisions of convex viscoplastic bodies that employed two incremental collision laws based on the Bouc-Wen differential model of hysteresis. It was shown that the models possess favorable analytical properties, and several model parameter identifica…

Whistleblower: Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race (City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/lockheed-martin-civil-rights-law-bonuses-race-merit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p121#a250612p121

Trump threatens to sue 'Wall Street Journal' over article about his Epstein ties (Stephen Fowler/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5471583/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein-files-bondi
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p41#a250718p41

How DEI Bureaucrats Control University Hiring (John D. Sailer/City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-hiring-dei-diversity-checks-discrimination
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p35#a250708p35

Iran Is Moving to Rearm Its Militia Allies (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-militia-allies-houthis-hezbollah-a36d7de7?st=8HMw6R&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p40#a250718p40

Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/walmart-amazon-stablecoin-07de2fdd?st=ezVFpp&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p123#a250613p123

The Pragmatic '60 Minutes' Settlement (Jason Altmire/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-pragmatic-60-minutes-settlement-trump-cbs-journalism-9054817d?st=6Abb2V&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p141#a250714p141

Inflation Picks Up to 2.7% as Tariffs Start to Seep Into Prices (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/inflation-hit-2-7-in-june-in-line-with-expectations-8f92a8cd?st=e76k8B&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p41#a250715p41

Pentagon Official at Center of Weapons Pause on Ukraine Wants U.S. to Focus on China (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-official-at-center-of-weapons-pause-on-ukraine-wants-u-s-to-focus-on-china-a0c90fda?st=Ch2G8m&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p52#a250713p52

U.S. and China Agree to Get Geneva Pact Back on Track (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-and-china-agree-to-get-geneva-pact-back-on-track-695eb5f5?st=w5GiCS&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p160#a250610p160

The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/protests-los-angeles-immigrants-trump-f5089877?st=uY6fj3&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p17#a250610p17

National Guard Arrives in L.A. on Trump's Orders After Protests (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/national-guard-la-ice-protests-c0d325dd?st=SKxiSG&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p49#a250608p49

At Least 82 Dead in Texas Floods as Families of Missing Wait and Hope (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/texas-river-floods-search-death-toll-8bef8045?st=oWi1kC&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p1#a250707p1