"...the number of stories in national newspapers about asylum seekers or small boats or refugees. They found 542 in just the past month. And how many on the cost of living or essentials or living standards? Just 45."
Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag!
| Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

‘Every inch full of intention’: Yale’s Living Village raises the bar for environmental stewardship
https://news.yale.edu/2025/10/08/every-inch-full-intention-yales-living-village-raises-bar-environmental-stewardship…

🧠 Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-imaging-tech-deepest-brain-tissue.html

Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in regions underneath such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers demonstrates a new microscope system capable of peering exceptionally deep into brain tissues to detect the molecular activity of individual cells by using sound.

So we've been using a Neato vacuum robot for years. It works and with cats having the main living areas vacuumed every day was great. Now the company who bought them no longer wants to run the backend cloud service that allows the robot to actually run on a schedule which is the point of the whole operation.
Vorwerk just created a whole lot of e-waste for shits and giggles.

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that
nobody else wants.
-- Andy Warhol

If you are free tonight, there are still some places open in the Our Brilliant Ruin One-Shot
#TerryCon

In a stinging dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote:
“Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed
simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor.
Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities.”
Department of Homeland Security attorneys have said immigration officers target people bas…

if u aint editing every post u make and every chat message u send, u aint living life to the fullest ☝️

https://theonion.com/local-teen-walks-in-on-family-masturbating-1819575823/

Local Teen Walks In On Family Masturbating
SALEM, OR—In a humiliating incident that all parties involved said they would “never get over,” Peter Miklewski, 15, confirmed he came home from school early Monday and accidentally walked in on seven members of his family masturbating in the living room. “Aaagh! Get out of here, goddammit!” shouted Peter’s parents, David and Jessica; his sister, Virginia; his older brother, Caleb; and his grandmother Emily, while his younger brother, Mark, and his aunt Fay reportedly scrambled to t…

On one hand, I feel that I should stay in the family house, because it'd be a waste to abandon it. On the other, living with neighbors regularly reminds me that I should live in the middle of a forest, separated from the nearest neighbor by at least 3 km of trees.

Oh gark on a sharp stick!!!
This is one of the stupidest proposals of all time:
El Cheato wants to toss the ACA and replace it with .... hang on .. are you hanging on and sitting down? ... health savings accounts.
Yup, health saving accounts - probably of the kind the R-s put in some years ago in which everyone lost their money at midnight on New Years Eve.
And how are people going to fund these accounts when they are un- or under-employed or living on minimal social…

Best possible illustration as to why it's lovely living exactly halfway between Newcastle and Edinburgh @…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
BBC Radiophonic Workshop:
🎵 The Frozen World (from The Living Planet original TV Soundtrack)
#BBCRadiophonicWorkshop

If your government tells you that everyday citizens are terrorists, you might be living under fascism. https://mastodon.online/@Geri/115162976145463345

Totts (@Geri@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Met Police are now, Sept 7th, reporting 890 were arrested at the #PalestineAction demo in London on the day before So with 717 arrested in previous days And with 3 people arrested in Edinburgh that makes a total of 1610 who have been arrested Astonishing!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Röyksopp:
🎵 Senior Living
#Röyksopp
https://open.spotify.com/track/05qwbMIAzCcfYTCWjLdk7Z

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics
V. P. Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06139 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06139…

A.P. Balachandran: Living in Physics
A.P. Balachandran was a theoretical physicist of extraordinary versatility and originality. In a career spanning over six decades, he made many significant contributions to quantum field theory and mathematical physics. His influence extends beyond the impact of his papers, with a large number of research students and collaborators. Here, in an attempt at a coherent scientific biography, I try to contextualize and evaluate his many contributions.

Assist-As-Needed: Adaptive Multimodal Robotic Assistance for Medication Management in Dementia Care
Kruthika Gangaraju, Tanmayi Inaparthy, Jiaqi Yang, Yihao Zheng, Fengpei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06633

Assist-As-Needed: Adaptive Multimodal Robotic Assistance for Medication Management in Dementia Care
People living with dementia (PLWDs) face progressively declining abilities in medication management-from simple forgetfulness to complete task breakdown-yet most assistive technologies fail to adapt to these changing needs. This one-size-fits-all approach undermines autonomy, accelerates dependence, and increases caregiver burden. Occupational therapy principles emphasize matching assistance levels to individual capabilities: minimal reminders for those who merely forget, spatial guidance for t…

"The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark. He made it after learning of a new attempt to approve a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance."
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/strong-men-hot-mics-putin-and-xi-dream-about-immortality-living-to-150/

Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants
What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.

Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…

Inspiren, which provides AI-powered fall detection and other tech for senior living facilities, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $155M (Kathleen Steele Gaivin/McKnight's Senior Living)
https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.c…

Senior living tech company Inspiren raises $100 million in Series B funding round
Inspiren has raised $100 million in Series B funding, the healthcare technology company announced today.

How To Be Cute AND Annoying : Living Life Like A Cat

:blobcatreading:

The Lurie administration wants to slash #PotreroYard affordable housing because they "just can't find the money."
Our mayor is a billionaire. We have the third most billionaires living here of any city in the world. We can't accept these excuses.

What's especially interesting, and dangerous to capitalism, is that there are a lot of opportunities that come out of this.
Corporations are destroying everything. We actually don't need them. We can build mutual aid networks, guerilla gardening, library socialism... When we stop with consumerism, we can find the joy in actually living, creating, being a creative human rather than simply a consumer. With a bit of momentum we can bend the system to our will. With enough momentum we can shatter it completely and free ourselves from this trap.
Things can go a lot of different ways. I'm excited to see how things go.
Edit:
I'm specifically excited about this...
https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/about-mutual-aid
This is cool. This is really fucking cool.

Reinforcement learning meets bioprocess control through behaviour cloning: Real-world deployment in an industrial photobioreactor
Juan D. Gil, Ehecatl Antonio Del Rio Chanona, Jos\'e L. Guzm\'an, Manuel Berenguel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06853

Reinforcement learning meets bioprocess control through behaviour cloning: Real-world deployment in an industrial photobioreactor
The inherent complexity of living cells as production units creates major challenges for maintaining stable and optimal bioprocess conditions, especially in open Photobioreactors (PBRs) exposed to fluctuating environments. To address this, we propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) control approach, combined with Behavior Cloning (BC), for pH regulation in open PBR systems. This represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first application of an RL-based control strategy to such a nonlinear and…

übers Radfahren, v.a. in den Niederlanden.
“Think of it this way: Car drivers behave like a bunch of geese. They have the same distance from each other and fly at the same speed, and move almost in military formation. Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows. There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”

As is so often the case, they’re giving away their own shtick in the allegations being thrown.
The paid terrorist is the one living in the White House.
https://beige.party/@Lana/115160687126835123

Computational Concept of the Psyche
Anton Kolonin, Vladimir Kryukov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07009 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07009

Computational Concept of the Psyche
The article provides an overview of approaches to modeling the human psyche in the perspective of building an artificial one. Based on the review, a concept of cognitive architecture is proposed, where the psyche is considered as an operating system of a living or artificial subject, including a space of needs that determines its life meanings in connection with stimuli from the external world, and intelligence as a decision-making system for actions in relation to this world in order to satisf…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jeb Loy Nichols:
🎵 That's How We're Living
#NowPlaying #JebLoyNichols
https://jebloynichols.bandcamp.com/track/thats-how-were-living
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hDUUOOMHek56iXZQqhIDo

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
[JENNA looks through the bars at the prisoner, then walks back through the holding cell. BLAKE is asleep on a single bed. Someone is stealing his watch while he sleeps. It is VILA. VILA attempts to steal something from BLAKE'S pocket. BLAKE wakes up and pushes VILA to the floor.]
VILA: Easy! Take it easy! I hate personal violence, especially when I'm the person.

Mad science.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0729235/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-to-power-computers
>Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains To Power Computers

Multi-Scale Modeling and Predictive Control of Active Brownian Particles
Sadra Saremi, Amirhossein Ahmadkhan Kordbacheh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06217 https://

Multi-Scale Modeling and Predictive Control of Active Brownian Particles
Active Brownian particles (ABPs) function as self-driving agents that display non-equilibrium behavior through their pairwise interactions which lead to phase separation and vortex patterns in both soft matter and living systems. A multiscale approach needs to link particle-level random motion to collective density evolution for proper management of these dynamic systems. Our research delivers a unified control system for ABP groups through particle-based simulation and spectral continuum model…

I run a gloriously dysfunctional website over at Codeberg, where the HTML cries itself to sleep every night:
You can check it out here: #WebsiteDevelopment…

Injection and Imaging of Achiral Microswimmers in Zebrafish
Biao Wang, U Kei Cheang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06973 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06973

Injection and Imaging of Achiral Microswimmers in Zebrafish
Achieving stable in vivo locomotion is essential for using magnetically actuated microswimmers for biomedical applications; however, while existing microswimmers have excellent motion control in vitro, their motion is greatly hindered inside living organisms. Moreover, previous work had only visually demonstrated in vivo motion through gradient pulling or rolling, but not swimming. This study investigated the injection and imaging of the achiral planar microswimmers (APMs) inside a live zebrafi…

Ahh, the Orange Order, living in the 19th century but fervently hoping for a quick return the the 17th.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/06/orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-a…

Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo
Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

This is husband's and my first fathers day without any of our father figures still living.
Husband's father died last September. My grandfather, who with my grandmother raised me, died years ago. As did my father.
So, my father in law became my "Dad" too and for many decades he was only one we could call on fathers day.
It will be sad and strange not making the video call to him today. He was a darling man, and although his last few years were somewhat blu…

Elon Musk actually said this in an interview:
"These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
All governments in europe should leave X

Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social)
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits" "And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids" "This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

Tall Goldenrod — 100% living up to its name... Such a stunning sight in the November morning light! 😍
#NaturePhotography #Photography #MorningWalk

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

Here's an editorial about DSA written by two who know it well, including a former board member:
https://archive.ph/ZGSib
Right now Americans are living the nightmare of what happens when one of its major parties gets captured by its lunatic fringe. The last thing we need is for the other major party t…

The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
#economy #environment

This map of Europe showing housing cost, Copenhagen region just pops out compared to rest of Denmark... 😕
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/living-at-great-cost

Cost of living is at an all time high while Trump is trying to slash Medicare, Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act.
The Republicans have taken bald-faced lying to an absolutely astronomical level.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdcl…

Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…

The Living Library of Trees: Mapping Knowledge Ecology in the Arnold Arboretum
Johan Malmstedt, Giacomo Nanni, Dario Rodighiero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00114 https://

The Living Library of Trees: Mapping Knowledge Ecology in the Arnold Arboretum
As biodiversity loss and climate change accelerate, botanical gardens serve as vital infrastructures for research, education, and conservation. This project focuses on the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, a 281-acre living museum founded in 1872 in Boston. Drawing on more than a century of curatorial data, the research combines historical analysis with computational methods to visualize the biographies of plants and people. The resulting platform reveals patterns of care and scientific o…

I can't take it anymore
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/dictionary-67-2025-word-year/story?id=126947602

Dictionary.com reveals '67' is its 2025 Word of the Year
The 2025 Word of the Year has been used by kids and teens alike.

Amazing.
Besides offering the exceptional perspective of a retired military analyst and Russian linguist who is currently living in Ukraine-
Dylan Combelick is also leveraging his blog into a charity for Ukrainian soldiers.
He shares insight and perspective that will never appear in corporate media, based on real life experience, understanding, and presence in Ukraine.
Please support his work, share the friend link that bypasses the paywall, and thank you!
The U…

Ukraine Update November 5
2025 — Russian AI Revolution

I thought that people were a bit exaggerated when complaining about Macos' redesign.
Holy shit, they were not.
I'd even say that they were too shy about it if it wasn't for the fact that we're living in dystopia and there are much worse things to worry about.

"Sadiq Khan calls on Reeves to bring ‘authentic’ Labour budget that boosts green investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Money #Finance

People in the US have just had their brains fried by suburban myths. We walked from a Copenhagen subway station to visit friends living in some of that housing, then we walked with them and their kids to the nearby pasture-N-stuff. They don't even own a bicycle yet, but they're making plans.
Afterwards, two stops up the subway line we stopped in a mall to pick up some stuff my wife needed for work the next day.

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/627

The Alien Hive vs Existentialism
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

My wife read some of the Discworld books years ago but lost interest, I have tried to get her hooked for a while.
This morning we collected an old edition of "Alles Sense" (Reaper Man) from the post office. She just wanted to have a quick peak inside. That was an hour ago. I silently retreated to another room.
Now I just heard her shout "I want a curry!" from the living room.

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Futuristic eye implant bypasses cornea to beam images straight to retina #Intra-

Futuristic eye implant bypasses cornea to beam images straight to retina
A tiny implant that beams images straight to the retina, bypassing a damaged cornea altogether, could give sight back to millions living with corneal blindness – no donor tissue required. Human trials may be underway in as little as two years.

'Living off the land' allowed Russia-linked group to breach Ukrainian entities this summer https://therecord.media/russia-linked-breaches-ukraine-living-off-the-land

People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/people-globally-are-living-better-lives-more-hopeful-about-the-future-we-know-bec…

People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So
"The world is not short of significant challenges, from climate change to conflicts and technological upheaval," the Gallup authors wrote.

Criminalizing poverty is cruel and inhumane 😡
1. OPD should never ever cite or arrest someone just for being homeless
2. Before evicting someone from their shelter of last resort, the city should provide an option of a safe place to go, and enough time to move there with their belongings
http…

Oakland could arrest people for being homeless under councilmember’s proposal 
An Oakland councilmember has proposed new encampment rules that would fundamentally alter how the city interacts with people living on the street.

Paving the Way Towards Kinematic Assessment Using Monocular Video: A Preclinical Benchmark of State-of-the-Art Deep-Learning-Based 3D Human Pose Estimators Against Inertial Sensors in Daily Living Activities
Mario Medrano-Paredes, Carmen Fern\'andez-Gonz\'alez, Francisco-Javier D\'iaz-Pernas, Hichem Saoudi, Javier Gonz\'alez-Alonso, Mario Mart\'inez-Zarzuela

Paving the Way Towards Kinematic Assessment Using Monocular Video: A Preclinical Benchmark of State-of-the-Art Deep-Learning-Based 3D Human Pose Estimators Against Inertial Sensors in Daily Living Activities
Advances in machine learning and wearable sensors offer new opportunities for capturing and analyzing human movement outside specialized laboratories. Accurate assessment of human movement under real-world conditions is essential for telemedicine, sports science, and rehabilitation. This preclinical benchmark compares monocular video-based 3D human pose estimation models with inertial measurement units (IMUs), leveraging the VIDIMU dataset containing a total of 13 clinically relevant daily acti…

From Neural Activity to Computation: Biological Reservoirs for Pattern Recognition in Digit Classification
Ludovico Iannello, Luca Ciampi, Fabrizio Tonelli, Gabriele Lagani, Lucio Maria Calcagnile, Federico Cremisi, Angelo Di Garbo, Giuseppe Amato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05637

From Neural Activity to Computation: Biological Reservoirs for Pattern Recognition in Digit Classification
In this paper, we present a biologically grounded approach to reservoir computing (RC), in which a network of cultured biological neurons serves as the reservoir substrate. This system, referred to as biological reservoir computing (BRC), replaces artificial recurrent units with the spontaneous and evoked activity of living neurons. A multi-electrode array (MEA) enables simultaneous stimulation and readout across multiple sites: inputs are delivered through a subset of electrodes, while the rem…

Upconverting microgauges reveal intraluminal force dynamics in vivo
Jason R. Casar, Claire A. McLellan, Cindy Shi, Ariel Stiber, Alice Lay, Chris Siefe, Abhinav Parakh, Malaya Gaerlan, X. Wendy Gu, Miriam B. Goodman, Jennifer A. Dionne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07657

Upconverting microgauges reveal intraluminal force dynamics in vivo
The forces generated by action potentials in muscle cells shuttle blood, food and waste products throughout the luminal structures of the body. Although non-invasive electrophysiological techniques exist, most mechanosensors cannot access luminal structures non-invasively. Here we introduce non-toxic ingestible mechanosensors to enable the quantitative study of luminal forces and apply them to study feeding in living Caenorhabditis elegans roundworms. These optical 'microgauges' comprise NaY0.8…

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: Orac with delusions of grandeur, Zen unable to control the ship. I'd say we've a lot of little problems on our hands.
AVON: Course deflection is zero zero five. Speed Standard by five and increasing. I'd say we have one large problem on our hands.
https://blake.torpidit…

Impact of protein corona morphology on nanoparticle diffusion in biological fluids: insights from a mesoscale approach
Beatrice Cipriani, Hender Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08340

Impact of protein corona morphology on nanoparticle diffusion in biological fluids: insights from a mesoscale approach
Nanoparticles (NPs) demonstrate considerable potential in medical applications, including targeted drug delivery and diagnostic probes. However, their efficacy depends on their ability to navigate through the complex biological environments inside living organisms. In such environments, NPs interact with a dense mixture of biomolecules, which can reduce their mobility and hinder diffusion. Understanding the factors influencing NP diffusion in these environments is key to improving nanomedicine …

Hey, one of my favorite living antifascist thinker-writers, Fuck Theory, who also happens to be a queer immigrant in New York, is struggling to hang on to his life in the US. This GFM is in support; imho it is in the best interest of most of us to keep this person going in whatever circumstances are the best for him to work in, but it is certainly in mine, so if you have surplus money maybe chuck him some:

Our daughter, a US citizen living in the UK, just shared this great site for finding the best travel insurance.
She's coming home for Christmas and the travel insurance would cover any doctor's visits while she is here.
Compare Travel Insurance | 44 Trusted Providers
https://www.gocompare.com/travel-insurance/…

Holographic description of 4d Maxwell theories and their code-based ensembles
Ahmed Barbar, Anatoly Dymarsky, Alfred Shapere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03392 https://

Holographic description of 4d Maxwell theories and their code-based ensembles
We formulate a precise holographic duality between an ensemble of 4d $U(1)^g$ Maxwell theories living on a spin four-manifold $M_4$ and an Abelian BF-type 2-form gauge theory of level $N$, summed over all five-manifolds with boundary $M_4$. The elements of the boundary ensemble are Abelian gauge theories specified by self-dual symplectic codes over $Z_N$, that parameterize topological boundary conditions in the 5d TQFT. Similarly, the equivalence classes of topologies distinguished by the 5d th…

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Bridging integrated information theory and the free-energy principle in living neuronal networks
Teruki Mayama, Sota Shimizu, Yuki Takano, Dai Akita, Hirokazu Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04084

Bridging integrated information theory and the free-energy principle in living neuronal networks
The relationship between Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and the Free-Energy Principle (FEP) remains unresolved, particularly with respect to how integrated information, proposed as the intrinsic substrate of consciousness, behaves within variational Bayesian inference. We investigated this issue using dissociated neuronal cultures, previously shown to perform perceptual inference consistent with the FEP. Repeated stimulation from hidden sources induced robust source selectivity: variationa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Kadavar:
🎵 Last Living Dinosaur
#Kadavar
https://kadavarberlin.bandcamp.com/track/last-living-dinosaur
https://open.spotify.com/track/5JWT9cWwbLttKe7zrfNnn7

Living In Liquid
Join Jamie Mitchell, a relentless adventurer, as he traverses the vast, wondrous and mysterious world of water that embodies so much of our existence via the people whose lives revolve in, on, under and around it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.co…

If this post makes you uncomfortable, I wonder why, because nature isn’t something to be afraid of, and neither am I.
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115153013897727830
I’m really happy I took this photo, it’s my favorite selfie in a long time, and now my new …

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

From these photos one may wonder if the government of Israel retains its legitimacy....
(I support the existence of a self-governing Israel living in peace and safety; I support the same for Palestinians.)
"Photos from inside Gaza show destruction wrought by Israeli military efforts to root out Hamas"

Urban neighborhood in northern Gaza reduced to rubble by Israeli forces
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The few buildings still standing in this expanse of northern Gaza protrude from the earth like broken bones.

Folks, @… is in Egypt with her kids, living under very hard conditions as her husband is stuck in Gaza. We helped her husband and the seven families they’re responsible for move South with the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal last week but Abeer still needs ongoing help to feed her family in Egypt and send money to Gaza for her husband to do the same.

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

🩸 Blood tests show highest levels of forever chemicals in those living near New Mexico plume
#pfas

Blood tests show highest levels of forever chemicals in those living near New Mexico plume
It's a name many people have trouble pronouncing, but these synthetic chemicals have been used in everything from fast-food packaging to nonstick cookware, clothing, household cleaning products and even firefighting foam.

Dylan is a retired US military analyst and Russian linguist living in Ukraine.
He shares truth and perspective you won't find in corporate media, and sometimes he shares the friend link to bypass the paywall.
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Ukraine Update November 4
2025 — A New Record! — Reports from the Russian Front

Nugget has it all figured out.

‘Not just a building’: Yale’s Living Village welcomes its first student residents
On Monday, Yale Divinity School welcomed the first students who will inhabit the Living Village, a state-of-the-art facility that aims to meet the world’s most exacting standards for environmental sustainability.

Tahoe Therapeutics, which is building AI models of living cells, raised $30M led by Amplify Partners at a $120M valuation, taking its total funding to $42M (Alex Knapp/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/202

Biotech Startup Tahoe Therapeutics Raised $30 Million To Build AI Models Of Living Cells
The Palo Alto, California-based company, now valued at $120 million, has developed a scalable way to quickly generate crucial biological data needed for AI models–and use them to find new cures for cancer.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Queens of the Stone Age:
🎵 Better Living Through Chemistry
#QueensoftheStoneAge
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/better-living-through-the-chemistry
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wI3o34hijAIHpjrilLqaL

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

I just got word that the family home of one of our Gaza Verified families was bombed by Israel.
I know the names of nine of the family members, including two children, who were murdered by Israel and there are other relatives who were living there that were also murdered in the same genocidal attack.
Our Gaza Verified family member and their immediate family are safe in the South.
I am devastated for them.
I hope Israel and every single person complicit in this genoci…

What you truly need to vibe and thrive is simple, some good food to nourish your body, clean water to keep your spirit flowing, a little movement to keep the energy dancing, and a cozy spot to rest your head. When you’re living in community, sharing the love and looking out for each other, all that falls beautifully into place.
What you don’t need is a giant screen flashing noise at you, the newest shiny gadgets or games, or getting caught up in the endless swirl of political drama. Re…

🌳 Novel research reveals thriving microbial life in trees
#trees

Novel research reveals thriving microbial life in trees
There's a thriving community of diverse microbes living in tree wood, a new study led by a Yale School of the Environment team of scientists has found. A single tree hosts about one trillion bacteria in its woody tissue.

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

🔊 New technique uses focused sound waves and holograms to control brain circuits
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-technique-focused-holograms-brain-circuits.html

New technique uses focused sound waves and holograms to control brain circuits
A new study provides the first visual evidence showing that brain circuits in living animals can be activated by ultrasound waves projected into specific patterns (holograms).

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

🥍 Are high school sports living up to their ideals?
#sports

Are high school sports living up to their ideals?
High school sports associations want to mold better students and citizens through sport, but are coaches well equipped to deliver on that front?

⚡ Living cement: Scientists turn bacteria-infused cement into energy-storing supercapacitors
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-cement-scientists-bacteria-infused-energy.html

Living cement: Scientists turn bacteria-infused cement into energy-storing supercapacitors
Imagine a house that doesn't just shelter you but also stores electricity. It may sound like science fiction, but it's now closer to reality than ever before. A research team at Aarhus University has demonstrated how the world's most widely used building material can be transformed into a living energy device. By embedding energy-producing bacteria in cement, they have created a biohybrid supercapacitor with surprisingly high performance and a remarkable ability to regenerate itself over time.

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted