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Wide Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Discovery of a Gap H$\alpha$ Protoplanet WISPIT 2b with MagAO-X
Laird M. Close, Richelle F. van Capelleveen, Gabriel Weible, Kevin Wagner, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Jared R. Males, Ilya Ilyin, Matthew A. Kenworthy, Jialin Li, Joseph D. Long, Steve Ertel, Christian Ginski, Alycia J. Weinberger, Kate Follette, Joshua Liberman, Katie Twitchell, Parker Johnson, Jay Kueny, Daniel Apai, Rene Doyon, Warren Foster, Victor Gasho, Kyle Van Gorkom, Olivier G…

Wide Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Discovery of a Gap H$α$ Protoplanet WISPIT 2b with MagAO-X
Excellent (<25 mas) H$_α$ images of the star TYC 5709-354-1 led to the discovery of a rare H$_α$ protoplanet. This star was discovered by the WISPIT survey to have a large multi-ring transitional disk, and is hereafter WISPIT 2. Our H$_α$ images of 2025, April 13 and April 16 discovered an accreting (H$_α$ in emission) protoplanet: WISPIT 2b (r=309.43$\pm$1.56 mas; (~54 au deprojected), PA=242.21$\pm$0.41 degrees) likely clearing a dust-free gap between the two brightest dust rings in the t…

The big question is why in the course of evolution the males permitted
themselves to be so totally eclipsed by the females. Why do they tolerate
this total subservience, this wretched existence as outcasts who are
hungry all the time?

Have you fucking tried asking people if they're in pain and not using a black-box biased phrenology algorithm that will only give white males the necessary meds

I am thinking of asking my California state legislative reps to enact a law that would not recognize an Oklahoma driver's license until the applicant driver takes a test to demonstrate that he/she can distinguish up from down.
(Such tests would require payment of a non-refundable test fee of $100 and a mandatory three day study period, within the borders of California, to prepare for the test. Tests will be administered at one of three locations: Barstow, Alturas, or Morro Bay.)

Surgeons Are Indian Males and Speech Therapists Are White Females: Auditing Biases in Vision-Language Models for Healthcare Professionals
Zohaib Hasan Siddiqui, Dayam Nadeem, Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Mohammad Nadeem, Shahab Saquib Sohail, Beenish Moalla Chaudhry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06280

Surgeons Are Indian Males and Speech Therapists Are White Females: Auditing Biases in Vision-Language Models for Healthcare Professionals
Vision language models (VLMs), such as CLIP and OpenCLIP, can encode and reflect stereotypical associations between medical professions and demographic attributes learned from web-scale data. We present an evaluation protocol for healthcare settings that quantifies associated biases and assesses their operational risk. Our methodology (i) defines a taxonomy spanning clinicians and allied healthcare roles (e.g., surgeon, cardiologist, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, technician), (ii) curates a profe…

How video games are shaping a generation of boys, as a survey says US males aged 15 to 24 now spend ~10 hrs/week on average on games, over 2x the time from 2010 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/upshot/

How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse
In the last decade and a half, boys and young men have more than doubled their average time per week spent gaming.

Whoa. New science. These ant queens produce babies of two different species.
https://www.404media.co/the-biological-rulebook-was-just-rewritten-by-ants/?ref=the-abstract-newsletter

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants
Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

@… This first story is amazing:
https://www.404media.co/the-biological-rulebook-was-just-rewritten-by-ants/

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants
Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

BigTokDetect: A Clinically-Informed Vision-Language Model Framework for Detecting Pro-Bigorexia Videos on TikTok
Minh Duc Chu, Kshitij Pawar, Zihao He, Roxanna Sharifi, Ross Sonnenblick, Magdalayna Curry, Laura D'Adamo, Lindsay Young, Stuart B Murray, Kristina Lerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06515

BigTokDetect: A Clinically-Informed Vision-Language Model Framework for Detecting Pro-Bigorexia Videos on TikTok
Social media platforms increasingly struggle to detect harmful content that promotes muscle dysmorphic behaviors, particularly pro-bigorexia content that disproportionately affects adolescent males. Unlike traditional eating disorder detection focused on the "thin ideal," pro-bigorexia material masquerades as legitimate fitness content through complex multimodal combinations of visual displays, coded language, and motivational messaging that evade text-based detection systems. We address this c…

Comprehensive Signal Quality Evaluation of a Wearable Textile ECG Garment: A Sex-Balanced Study
Maximilian P. Oppelt, Tobias S. Zech, Sarah H. Lorenz, Laurenz Ottmann, Jan Steffan, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Nadine R. Lang-Richter, Norman Pfeiffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21554

Comprehensive Signal Quality Evaluation of a Wearable Textile ECG Garment: A Sex-Balanced Study
We introduce a novel wearable textile-garment featuring an innovative electrode placement aimed at minimizing noise and motion artifacts, thereby enhancing signal fidelity in Electrocardiography (ECG) recordings. We present a comprehensive, sex-balanced evaluation involving 15 healthy males and 15 healthy female participants to ensure the device's suitability across anatomical and physiological variations. The assessment framework encompasses distinct evaluation approaches: quantitative signal …

Analytical and numerical analysis of spillover effects in prioritized PrEP for HIV prevention
Chiara Piazzola, Salman Safdar, Alex Viguerie, Abba B. Gumel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08035

Analytical and numerical analysis of spillover effects in prioritized PrEP for HIV prevention
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a highly effective intervention for preventing HIV transmission, but its high cost and uneven uptake raise challenges. While spillover effects - wherein PrEP use in one group reduces infections in others - are known to occur, they remain poorly quantified and rarely guide policy. We develop and analyze a novel compartmental HIV model that stratifies the population into three interacting subgroups: heterosexual males (HETM), heterosexual females (HETF), and men…

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants https://www.404media.co/the-biological-rulebook-was-just-rewritten-by-ants/

Discovery of H$\alpha$ Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate Around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668-3010270 with MagAO-X
Jialin Li, Laird M. Close, Feng Long, Jared R. Males, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Alycia Weinberger, Katherine Follette, Sean Andrews, John Carpenter, Warren B. Foster, Kyle Van Gorkom, Alexander D. Hedglen, Gregory J. Herczeg, Parker T. Johnson, Maggie Y. Kautz, Jay K. Kueny, Rixin Li, Joshua Liberman, Joseph D. Long, Jennifer Lumbres, Sebastian Marino, Luca Matr`a, Eden …

Discovery of H$α$ Emission from a Protoplanet Candidate Around the Young Star 2MASS J16120668-3010270 with MagAO-X
2MASS J16120668-3010270 (hereafter 2MJ1612) is a young M0 star that hosts a protoplanetary disk in the Upper Scorpious star-forming region. Recent ALMA observations of 2MJ1612 show a mildly inclined disk ($i$=37$^\circ$) with a large dust-depleted gap (R$_\text{cav}\approx$0.4" or 53 au). We present high-contrast H$α$ observations from MagAO-X on the 6.5m Magellan Telescope and new high resolution sub-mm dust continuum observations with ALMA of 2MJ1612. On both 2025 April 13 and 16, we recover…

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 6. demonstration of Lyot low order wavefront control combined with high order wavefront control using a vortex coronagraph
Kian Milani, Kyle Van Gorkom, Chris B. Mendillo, Ramya Anche, Jaren N. Ashcraft, Kevin Derby, Jared Males, Adam Schilperoort, Ewan S. Douglas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.0287…

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 6. demonstration of Lyot low order wavefront control combined with high order wavefront control using a vortex coronagraph
To reach and maintain high contrast levels, coronagraph instruments will require a combination of low-order and high-order wavefront control techniques to correct for dynamic wavefront error. Efficient low-order wavefront sensing and control (LOWFSC) schemes use the starlight rejected by the coronagraph such that LOWFSC can operate with a relatively bright signal to correct rapid disturbances. Meanwhile, a family of high-order wavefront sensing and control (HOWFSC) techniques utilizing the scie…

Modelling birdsong transmission with methods from molecular sequence analysis
Anthony Kwong, Mark Muldoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20833 https://arxiv.or…

Modelling birdsong transmission with methods from molecular sequence analysis
In many species of songbirds, juvenile males learn their songs from adult male tutors. In this paper we formulate a novel Markov model for birdsong transmission developed by analogy with models used in biological sequence analysis. We fit the model using the recently developed Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithm (IPLA) of Akyildiz et al. (arXiv:2303.13429) and analyse a collection of songs from Java sparrows (Lonchura oryzivora) originally recorded and studied by Masayo Soma and her collabo…

Mechanistic-statistical inference of mosquito dynamics from mark-release-recapture data
Nga Nguyen, Olivier Bonnefon, Ren\'e Gato, Luis Almeida, Lionel Roques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06080

Mechanistic-statistical inference of mosquito dynamics from mark-release-recapture data
Biological control strategies against mosquito-borne diseases--such as the sterile insect technique (SIT), RIDL, and Wolbachia-based releases--require reliable estimates of dispersal and survival of released males. We propose a mechanistic--statistical framework for mark--release--recapture (MRR) data linking an individual-based 2D diffusion model with its reaction--diffusion limit. Inference is based on solving the macroscopic system and embedding it in a Poisson observation model for daily tr…

Direct Detection of Known Exoplanets in Reflected Light: Predicting Sky Position with Literature Orbit Solutions
Logan A. Pearce, Jared R. Males, Mary Anne Limbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06747

Direct Detection of Known Exoplanets in Reflected Light: Predicting Sky Position with Literature Orbit Solutions
The next generation of ground- and space-based observatories will enable direct imaging and characterization of cold, mature planets through thermal emission and, for the first time, reflected light detection. Known RV and astrometrically detected planets provide a known population for detection and characterization observations. However, many of the most promising targets lack orbital parameters of sufficient precision to confidently predict their location on relative to the star for a direct …

Geographical inequalities in mortality by age and gender in Italy, 2002-2019: insights from a spatial extension of the Lee-Carter model
Francesca Fiori, Andrea Riebler, Sara Martino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06210

Geographical inequalities in mortality by age and gender in Italy, 2002-2019: insights from a spatial extension of the Lee-Carter model
Italy reports some of the lowest levels of mortality in the developed world. Recent evidence, however, suggests that even in low mortality countries improvements may be slowing and regional inequalities widening. This study contributes new empirical evidence to the debate by analysing mortality data by single year of age for males and females across 107 provinces in Italy from 2002 to 2019. We extend the widely used Lee Carter model to include spatially varying age specific effects, and further…