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Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/linking-habitats-strengthens-wildlife-microbiomes-helps-fight-disease-study/

Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study
A new study has found that when deforestation and land use change break up key habitats vital to amphibian life cycles, those disconnects can play havoc with the animals’ microbiome, leaving them more susceptible to disease. This troubling finding could also apply to a host of other species, the study researchers say, but may also […]

The paper trail linking a US fuel trader to a notorious Mexican cartel | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-paper-trail-linking-us-fuel-trader-notorious-mexican-cartel-2026-05-29/

By linking up visual and auditory processing in the human brain, The vOICe vision BCI can act as both a fully noninvasive visual prosthesis for the totally blind and as a research vehicle for macroscopic neuroscience https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

I kind of love this chart from Rapid7 that shows the actors, tools, and regions in which specific threat groups target the telecom sector.

A geometry aware framework enhances noninvasive mapping of whole human brain dynamics
Song Wang, Kexin Lou, Chen Wei, Zhiyuan Sheng, Jiahao Tang, Kaining Peng, Xinke Shen, Shuhao Mei, Liang Chen, Dongfeng Gu, Quanying Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25592 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25592 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.25592
arXiv:2604.25592v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Non-invasive electrophysiology lacks methods that accurately reconstruct whole-brain spatiotemporal dynamics while incorporating individual cortical geometry, leaving current electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography source imaging limited by simplistic or biologically implausible priors. Here, we show that embedding participant-specific Geometric Basis Functions (GBFs), eigenmodes derived from each individual's cortical surface, provides a powerful anatomic constraint that resolves the inverse problem and improves reconstruction fidelity. The method reconstructs neural sources as linear combinations of geometric basis functions, thereby aligning source estimates with the geometric organization of neural dynamics. We validate GBF across the Meta-Source Benchmark, task-evoked data, resting-state networks, intracranial stimulation, and epilepsy data. The results demonstrate that GBF yields high localization accuracy and captures fast spatiotemporal dynamics consistent with anatomical pathways. These findings suggest that both spontaneous and evoked whole-brain activity can be described by hundreds of geometric modes, providing a compact yet accurate representation of neural sources. By linking cortical geometry to electrophysiological dynamics, GBF offers a versatile source imaging tool for both scientific and clinical applications.
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Imagine, what @… could achive, if they weren't wasting time and effort on "AI"
(No, I'm not linking their "Stackoverflow for agents" garbage)

Interesting for a sense of how much research is missing from 'global' platforms, based on where and what language it was published in. Focuses on Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Germany. LSE Impact blog post: https://

By linking national scholarly infrastructures we can better understand the impact of global research - LSE Impact
Global scholarly information systems provide poor coverage for social science and humanities research taking place outside of the anglophone world and in languages other than English. Paul Donner, Stephan Stahlschmidt, Serhii Nazarovets, Igor Cojocaru, Irina Cojocaru, Marina Razmadze and Shushanik Sargsyan highlight a range of national initiatives taking place aimed at improving scholarly data for

Crosslisted article(s) found for nlin.AO. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.AO/new
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- Trust as Monitoring: Evolutionary Dynamics of User Trust and AI Developer Behaviour
Adeela Bashir, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24742 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116299964572132926
- Quantifying plasticity: a network-based framework linking structure to dynamical regimes
Igor Branchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25180 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/116300083196491642
- Conservative dynamics in phase oscillator networks
Arkady Pikovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25431 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinCD_bot/116300101902571850
- Spatiotemporal System Forecasting with Irregular Time Steps via Masked Autoencoder
Kewei Zhu, Yanze Xin, Jinwei Hu, Xiaoyuan Cheng, Yiming Yang, Sibo Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25597 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116300346001006476
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116461477797597135
"If early exposure to biodiverse settings influences immune development, then it adds weight to a growing body of research linking modern, low-microbial environments with rising rates of allergies and im…

Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/393639/probe-

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While I’m wary of linking to posts with alt-less images (in figures for some reason?), I give it kudos for trying to show patterns to use instead of disabling fields:
https://zeroheight.com/blog/rethinking-the-disabled-norm/
But ignore ideas 1–3.
(…

Rethinking the "disabled norm": 7 patterns to use instead in your design system - zeroheight
Chela Giraldo explains how disabled states harm accessibility and what to do instead to build clearer, more inclusive user interfaces.

‘Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame’ appears steps away from the White House
The display consists of stickers
(mocked up in the style of the celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles)
which name powerful friends of Epstein
and carry QR codes linking to specific entries about them in the files recently released by the Department of Justice

‘Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame’ placed close to White House
The display consists of stickers – mocked up in the style of the celebrated Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles – which name powerful friends of Epstein and carry QR codes linking to specific entries about them in the files recently released by the Department of Justice

‘More Buzz’ Around Cowboys Adding Elite Playmaker in NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jordyn-tyson-playmaker-in-nfl-draft/

I saw a Hacker News post linking an awesome Amiga graphics site. That site made me fall down the colour cycling rabbit hole and ending up here. These are STUNNING. For those who may be puzzled: Nothing is moved around in these images. There is a fixed palette of e.g. 64 colors and part of that palette starts swapping places. Usually in a wave-like pattern. That is what creates the motion. I haven't inspected these, but I suspect they use more than 64.

Lagged sea-surface-temperature precursors of the leading PM2.5 mode in China
Yuan Chen, Dan Zhao, Xu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.25436 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.25436
arXiv:2605.25436v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Fine particulate matter(PM2.5) pollution in China is strongly modulated bymeteorological variability, yet its seasonal predictability from oceanic signals remains unclear. Here we identify the leading PM2.5 variability mode over China and show that it is preceded by coherent sea-surface-temperature anomaly clusters by more than one season. These oceanic precursors influence summer PM2.5 mainly by altering precipitation and lowlevel ventilation, and winter PM2.5 by modulating boundary-layer height and near-surface stagnation. Using the four largest precursor regions, a simple regression model achieves significant independent prediction skill for both summer and winter PM2.5 variability. Our results reveal a physical pathway linking sea-surface-temperature memory to regional aerosol pollution and provide a basis for seasonal air-quality risk assessment.
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A tautological continuous field of Roe bimodules
Vladimir Manuilov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23366 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.23366 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.23366
arXiv:2603.23366v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We generalize the notion of a continuous field of C*-algebras to that of Hilbert C*-bimodules. Given a partially ordered set $P$ and a monotonically non-decreasing family of ternary rings of operators (TROs) assigned to the points of $P$, we equip $P$ with a certain zero-dimensional Hausdorff topology and use a certain compactification $\gamma P$ to get the base space for a continuous field of Hilbert C*-bimodules over $\gamma P$.
As a motivating example, we consider the set $D(X,Y)$ of coarse equivalence classes of metrics on the disjoint union of two metric spaces, $X$ and $Y$. Each such class gives rise to a uniform Roe bimodule, a TRO linking the uniform Roe algebras of $X$ and $Y$. The resulting family of TROs is non-decreasing with respect to the natural partial order on $D(X,Y)$ and thus yields a tautological continuous field of Hilbert C*-bimodules over $\gamma D(X,Y)$.
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Not directly linking, but I just saw a Reddit post where someone shared their AI-written command line for speeding up file transmission, and it contains
| zstd -T0 -c | zstd -d -c |
and yeah, I *hope* an AI suggested that.

I have a common problem with several work-related projects. After quite a bit of pondering, I believe I have found the solution in my archives - a bash script linking a few very cool utilities that I wrote 20 years ago in the heady days of Egressive. Probably took weeks to get it right (it automates a business-critical backup process). I'm very chuffed my archives are still with me. You can never tell when they might come in handy. This will likely save days of work.

Cards won't name starting QB; will it be Ty Simpson? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48507639/cards-name-starting-qb-ty-simpson-draft

Linking data with the help of AI.
There are old medical PhD theses coming online (yea!).
Found Wikipedia articles about the doctors, and then edit the wikipedia articles that would be improved by pointing to them. Also added a review to the Internet Archive items to point to the wikipedia.

Shelley Caroll (and likely other Toronto councillors) are joining Doug Ford on asking for an injunction the Al Quds Day protests and linking it to acts of violence against synagogues.
Is there anything out there showing us that the two are related?
I'm happy to be proven wrong, I just don't see the connection.

The headline: "Scientists warn the Gulf Stream is shifting north, which means an ocean current collapse is imminent."
Yoinks!
The 3rd-to-last paragraph: "This research doesn’t prove a collapse is imminent, and it doesn’t give a clean countdown clock."
No, I won't be linking to it. 🙄 🤬

Good to see the #DownsLink was partially funded by our European friends! Benefits lost after #Brexit The #DownsLink is a disused rail route linking

lol

Sources: India is drafting new smartphone manufacturing incentives linking subsidies to exports and greater use of local components, benefiting Apple and others (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/…

For today's "no reason" post, I'm re-upping my review of 2025, where I have a lot of stuff about the place and role of Muslims in US history, including a series of digital shorts for PBS.
https://medium.com/@islamoyankee/looking-back-at-2025-fe95a3207bc8…

Looking Back at 2025
I have to be honest, 2025 was a wild year. Probably the biggest bit of news was my departure from Harvard Divinity School. I’m linking to a…

I keep seeing #HamRadio antennas using all sort of huge devices to create links between band segments. Alligator clips. Wago blocks. Mueller clips. Mostly with the antenna wire tied to something stiff that makes it hard to roll up neatly, rather than using flexible cord. I keep looking for and not finding examples of my approach to linking.
My solution is so simple, neat, and tidy…

Post updates (a bit behind):
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html#Update03 linking to Donnie D’Amato and Den Odell.
•

You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters
This is an unplanned part two for Barriers from Links with ARIA. The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new, I’ve simply failed to be explicit about it over the last decade or so. In 2012 I vented about TypeButter using for each letter. In 2020…

$k$-graph algebras are iterated Cuntz-Pimsner algebras -- from the bottom up
Valentin Deaconu, Menev\c{s}e Ery\"uzl\"u Paulovicks, S. Kaliszewski, John Quigg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20923 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20923 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.20923
arXiv:2603.20923v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce a new method of expressing a $k$-graph $C^*$-algebra as a Cuntz-Pimsner algebra. Kumjian, Pask, and Sims have done this directly, using a linking algebra approach and a $(k-1)$-graph algebra. This can be iterated downward. Our process, on the other hand, starts at the bottom, with Pimsner's theorem for graph algebras, and iterates upward. We actually work with product systems over $\mathbb N^k$, and the result for $k$-graphs is a special case. Our iteration step involves a ``decategorization'' of a recent theorem showing that the Cuntz-Pimsner construction is functorial at the level of ``enchilada categories''.
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Glyphosate: Cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other health concerns #environment

Glyphosate: Cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other health concerns
Studies linking glyphosate, the key chemical in Roundup herbicides, to cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other illnesses.

Scientists Discover Vast Ancient Trade Network That Rewrites History with Parrot DNA https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-vast-ancient-trade-network-that-rewrites-history-with-parrot-dna/

Meta adds more scam detection tools to its platforms, including unrecognized device linking warnings on WhatsApp and Facebook friend request warnings (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/892939/meta-facebook-whatsapp-messenger-scam-de…

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger get new ways to protect users from scams
Meta is adding more scam detection tools to Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp that can help users protect their accounts.

Ravens Land Strong Stefon Diggs Take Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ravens-stefon-diggs-take-speculation/

An analytical model of Disequilibrium and decentralized productive Exploration
Nazaria Solferino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00718 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00718
arXiv:2604.00718v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper studies the economic role of persistent dispersion in allocations across agents. We develop a tractable model in which firms allocate resources under imperfect information and behavioral updating, generating sustained heterogeneity in beliefs and actions. While dispersion induces static misallocation, it also fosters decentralized experimentation, allowing the economy to explore a broader set of productive opportunities. We show that the economy converges to a stationary equilibrium with strictly positive dispersion and that, under plausible conditions, such disequilibrium can dominate the perfectly coordinated benchmark. The model provides a novel interpretation of observed dispersion in productivity and returns as reflecting both inefficiency and productive exploration. It also yields testable predictions linking dispersion to growth and innovation dynamics.
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