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Clarity Dawns: Human Beings, Nature, and Becoming
#becoming #BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2019/clari…

Clarity Dawns: Human Beings, Nature, and Becoming
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Meet Aeneas: the AI that can fill in the gaps of damaged Latin texts
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02335-x?utm_source=Live Audience&utm_campaign=371cd4c3c5-nature-briefing-daily-20250724

Broncos LT Garett Bolles gushes over 'freak of nature' Bo Nix after impressive rookie season https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-lt-garett-bolles-gushes-over-freak-of-nature-bo-nix-after-impressive-rookie-season

Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62375-9 by @…

Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications
When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely reflecting the specific internal experiences that emerge in an instance of recall.

@… wow
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01976-2

Obesity drugs show promise treating a new ailment: migraine
Liraglutide, part of the family of blockbuster weight-loss drugs, reduces headaches by half in a small study.

"Conservation’s silent strain: Nature’s protectors face a mental health crisis"
#Conservation #Nature

Conservation’s silent strain: Nature’s protectors face a mental health crisis
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Amid the calls of gibbons and the whir of drones scanning forest canopies, a quieter crisis is unfolding within the ranks of those trying to save nature. Conservationists, often seen as tireless stewards of the planet’s dwindling biodiversity, […]

The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid / Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples / Space weathering effects in Bennu asteroid samples: #Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation: https://news.arizona.edu/news/asteroid-bennu-time-capsule-materials-bearing-witness-its-origin-and-transformation-over / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/nasas-bennu-samples-reveal-complex-origins-dramatic-transformation/

Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/19/early-ripening-berries-uk-shows-nature-under-stress-experts

I can't believe that retraction took 15 years – and that the authors still haven't accepted their L. That study was extremely oversold from the get-go, by the author's not being self-critical enough and wanting to believe their own extraordinary claims.
«Controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years — but authors fight back»
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02325-z

Another #hiking story is online! No mountains this time but along the shores of the river #Mangfall .
Tough to photograph on such a day. In autumn - with some fog - it must be great. But we really had a great day there!
See more of it:

Hilariously, this one is pay-walled! #openscience #nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01826-1

"In old times, and also in our time among the Indian tribes, psychedelic substances were considered sacred and they were used with the right attitude and in a ritual and spiritual context. And what a difference if we compare it with the careless and irresponsible use of LSD in the streets and in the discotheques of New York City and everywhere in the West. It is a tragic misunderstanding of the nature and the meaning of these kinds of substances."
— Albert Hofmann

Trump Reportedly Cuts Funding for Publisher of Prestigious Nature Journals and Scientific American Magazine
https://gizmodo.com/trump-reportedly-cuts-funding-for-publisher-of-prestigious-nature-journals-and-scientific-american-magazine-2000620234

An interview with Alex Kachkine, who shook the art world in June with a research paper in Nature on restoring paintings using AI, as he works to refine the tech (Ephrat Livni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/…

The Hobbyist Restorer Who Rocked the Art World With an A.I. Innovation
Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.

@… @… Naughty by Nature 😅

Paper 1 has been resubmitted! Yay!
Paper 2 now open and it looks like the editor killed all my darlings...
Boo!
But luckily prepint servers exist, so you can read it here in full unedited glory...
https://hal.science/hal-05024130v1/document
Shh, 🤫 don't tell Nature. 😜

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
#nature #photography
https://muz4now.com/2025/clouds-and-mo…

Clouds and More from the Finger Lakes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sources: Trump administration terminated millions in subscriptions for Springer Nature, after earlier accusing it of acting as a partisan in scientific debates (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/trump-cuts-contracts-scientific-publisher

Scoop: Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant
The administration has questioned editorial practices and whether journals are partisans in scientific debates

Halogen abundance evidence for the formation and metasomatism of the primary lunar crust: #moon –> new clues about formation.

On some properties of that strange component of Nature called "time"
Maurizio Gasperini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18090 https://

On some properties of that strange component of Nature called "time"
Are time-travels possible? is the past still existing? and is the future already existing? We try to give an answer to these an other questions concerning the properties of time and the close connection (but deep physical difference) between time and space.

Calamus 13 "Calamus taste"
A celebration of nature in March, an entreaty to enjoy and nurture growth. Both botanical and metaphorical, our personal growth. Some lovely turns of phrase:
Gushes from the throats of birds
Frost-mellowed berries
But I'm here for the gay reading. The erotic is latent in all this burgeoning spring. But it's also more explicit. That first line "Calamus taste" sure is promising if we understand Calamus as a phallic symbol. Then there's the "pinks of love", the "young persons wandering out in the fields", the "love-buds".
It's not porny or anything but it's a little horny. The physical exuberance of springtime.
This poem got edited heavily down in later versions, and perhaps it needed it. But he eliminated one of my favorite lines, "I must change the strain". Gonna drop that in conversation next time I need to change the topic.

On the nature and charge state of the X-Defect, a radiation-induced Silicon defect with field-enhanced charge carrier emission
Niels Sorgenfrei, Yana Gurimskaya, Anja Himmerlich, Michael Moll, Ulrich Parzefall, Ioana Pintilie, Joern Schwandt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16197

On the nature and charge state of the X-Defect, a radiation-induced Silicon defect with field-enhanced charge carrier emission
The elusive X-Defect, a defect found in low-resistivity $p$-type Silicon after irradiation, observed as a low-temperature shoulder of the $\mathrm{B}_\mathrm{i}\mathrm{O}_\mathrm{i}$ defect (Boron-interstitial-Oxygen-interstitial complex) in Thermally Stimulated Current (TSC) measurements, was investigated to determine its properties, matching them with those of a previously identified defect. Through a combination of TSC, Deep-Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS), Difference-DLTS (DDLTS), numer…

@… The very nature of this question is monstrous.
And you know I do it anyway.

For the US: Paracetamol is aka Acetaminophen.
https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/114737099892263897

„Die EU-Mitgliedsstaaten machen sich zum Erfüllungsgehilfen der Lobbyverbände und schwächen das EU-Lieferkettengesetz noch weiter ab als die Kommission.“ Eine Einigung auf diesen Vorschlag würde die Schutzwirkung massiv schwächen. Kritik kommt auch vom World Wide Fund for Nature. Statt wie bisher 5.500 deutsche Unternehmen wären nur weniger als 300 von neuen Sorgfaltspflichten betroffen, rechnet der WWF vor. Es wäre wie neue Verkehrsregeln, die dann nur für 5 Prozent der Autos gelten.“

Bangladesh turns to nature for biodegradable plates to replace plastic ones https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/bangladesh-turns-to-nature-for-biodegradable-plants-to-replace-plastic-ones/

Bangladesh turns to nature for biodegradable plates to replace plastic ones
In Bangladesh, disposable tableware, including plates made of areca palm leaves, is gaining popularity as a good alternative to single-use plastic during social gatherings and festival celebrations, Mongabay’s Abu Siddique reported in May. A survey from 2018 estimates that Bangladesh used around 250 metric tons of single-use plastic tableware and straws every month. However, since […]

Some recent popular books “explaining” music are actually awful. They commit the naturalistic fallacy with flair - as if the sweep of nature had quietly handed us a tidy little musical rulebook. I come away not with understanding but with a feeling of aesthetic conscription. Or constipation.

EarthLink: Interpreting Climate Signals with Self-Evolving AI Agents
Zijie Guo, Jiong Wang, Xiaoyu Yue, Wangxu Wei, Zhe Jiang, Wanghan Xu, Ben Fei, Wenlong Zhang, Xinyu Gu, Lijing Cheng, Jing-Jia Luo, Chao Li, Yaqiang Wang, Tao Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Fenghua Ling, Lei Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17311

EarthLink: Interpreting Climate Signals with Self-Evolving AI Agents
Modern Earth science is at an inflection point. The vast, fragmented, and complex nature of Earth system data, coupled with increasingly sophisticated analytical demands, creates a significant bottleneck for rapid scientific discovery. Here we introduce EarthLink, the first AI agent designed as an interactive copilot for Earth scientists. It automates the end-to-end research workflow, from planning and code generation to multi-scenario analysis. Unlike static diagnostic tools, EarthLink can lea…

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12604-4 "repetitive quasi-isochronous drumming enhanced mental imagery vividness, with a stronger effect observed when the drumming contained random micro-variat…

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports
Music can shape the vividness, sentiment, and content of directed mental imagery. Yet, the role of specific musical features in these effects remains elusive. One important aspect of human musical performances is the presence of micro-variations—small deviations in timbre, pitch, and timing, driven by motor and attentional processes. These variations enhance perceived “naturalness” compared to mechanical playing without such variations. Here, we investigated whether random micro-variation…

Two Types of Temporal Symmetry in the Laws of Nature
A. Y. Klimenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15730 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.15730…

Two Types of Temporal Symmetry in the Laws of Nature
This work explores the implications of assuming time symmetry and applying bridge-type, time-symmetric temporal boundary conditions to deterministic laws of nature with random components. The analysis, drawing on the works of Kolmogorov and Anderson, leads to two forms of governing equations, referred to here as symmetric and antisymmetric. These equations account for the emergence of characteristics associated with conventional thermodynamics, the arrow of time, and a form of antecedent causal…

Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 #disk : #Planet Imaged by NASA #Webb Is Lightest Ever Seen: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-126 and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_finds_evidence_of_a_lightweight_planet_around_TWA_7

Vision encoders should be image size agnostic and task driven
Nedyalko Prisadnikov, Danda Pani Paudel, Yuqian Fu, Luc Van Gool
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16317 https://

Vision encoders should be image size agnostic and task driven
This position paper argues that the next generation of vision encoders should be image size agnostic and task driven. The source of our inspiration is biological. Not a structural aspect of biological vision, but a behavioral trait -- efficiency. We focus on a couple of ways in which vision in nature is efficient, but modern vision encoders not. We -- humans and animals -- deal with vast quantities of visual data, and need to be smart where we focus our limited energy -- it depends on the task.…

FinDPO: Financial Sentiment Analysis for Algorithmic Trading through Preference Optimization of LLMs
Giorgos Iacovides, Wuyang Zhou, Danilo Mandic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18417

FinDPO: Financial Sentiment Analysis for Algorithmic Trading through Preference Optimization of LLMs
Opinions expressed in online finance-related textual data are having an increasingly profound impact on trading decisions and market movements. This trend highlights the vital role of sentiment analysis as a tool for quantifying the nature and strength of such opinions. With the rapid development of Generative AI (GenAI), supervised fine-tuned (SFT) large language models (LLMs) have become the de facto standard for financial sentiment analysis. However, the SFT paradigm can lead to memorization…

Modal Logic for Stratified Becoming: Actualization Beyond Possible Worlds
Alexandre Le Nepvou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17276 https://

Modal Logic for Stratified Becoming: Actualization Beyond Possible Worlds
This article develops a novel framework for modal logic based on the idea of stratified actualization, rather than the classical model of global possible worlds. Traditional Kripke semantics treat modal operators as quantification over fully determinate alternatives, neglecting the local, dynamic, and often asymmetric nature of actualization processes. We propose a system Stratified Actualization Logic (SAL) in which modalities are indexed by levels of ontological stability, interpreted as admi…

"Springer Nature Discovers MDPI" #OpenAccess

Quantum Software Security Challenges within Shared Quantum Computing Environments
Samuel Ovaskainen, Majid Haghparast, Tommi Mikkonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17712 https://…

Quantum Software Security Challenges within Shared Quantum Computing Environments
The number of qubits in quantum computers keeps growing, but most quantum programs remain relatively small because of the noisy nature of the underlying quantum hardware. This might lead quantum cloud providers to explore increased hardware utilization, and thus profitability through means such as multi-programming, which would allow the execution of multiple programs in parallel. The adoption of such technology would bring entirely new challenges to the field of quantum software security. This…

It used to be that the use of #genAI for #PeerReview was forbidden (at least for anything else other than helping with the language).
I've just checked the policy on this from #Nature and it's…

Reproducible Evaluation of Camera Auto-Exposure Methods in the Field: Platform, Benchmark and Lessons Learned
Olivier Gamache, Jean-Michel Fortin, Mat\v{e}j Boxan, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18844

Reproducible Evaluation of Camera Auto-Exposure Methods in the Field: Platform, Benchmark and Lessons Learned
Standard datasets often present limitations, particularly due to the fixed nature of input data sensors, which makes it difficult to compare methods that actively adjust sensor parameters to suit environmental conditions. This is the case with Automatic-Exposure (AE) methods, which rely on environmental factors to influence the image acquisition process. As a result, AE methods have traditionally been benchmarked in an online manner, rendering experiments non-reproducible. Building on our prior…

This is bad: #Mercury has reached #toxic levels in the #Arctic

Retrieval-Augmented Defense: Adaptive and Controllable Jailbreak Prevention for Large Language Models
Guangyu Yang, Jinghong Chen, Jingbiao Mei, Weizhe Lin, Bill Byrne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16406 …

Retrieval-Augmented Defense: Adaptive and Controllable Jailbreak Prevention for Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, which attempt to elicit harmful responses from LLMs. The evolving nature and diversity of these attacks pose many challenges for defense systems, including (1) adaptation to counter emerging attack strategies without costly retraining, and (2) control of the trade-off between safety and utility. To address these challenges, we propose Retrieval-Augmented Defense (RAD), a novel framework for jailbreak detection that incorporate…

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2022/loves-shifting-nature-nowplaying/

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Automated Code Review Using Large Language Models with Symbolic Reasoning
Busra Icoz, Goksel Biricik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18476 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Automated Code Review Using Large Language Models with Symbolic Reasoning
Code review is one of the key processes in the software development lifecycle and is essential to maintain code quality. However, manual code review is subjective and time consuming. Given its rule-based nature, code review is well suited for automation. In recent years, significant efforts have been made to automate this process with the help of artificial intelligence. Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have also emerged as a promising tool in this area, but these models ofte…

Multimodal Behavioral Patterns Analysis with Eye-Tracking and LLM-Based Reasoning
Dongyang Guo, Yasmeen Abdrabou, Enkeleda Thaqi, Enkelejda Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18252

Multimodal Behavioral Patterns Analysis with Eye-Tracking and LLM-Based Reasoning
Eye-tracking data reveals valuable insights into users' cognitive states but is difficult to analyze due to its structured, non-linguistic nature. While large language models (LLMs) excel at reasoning over text, they struggle with temporal and numerical data. This paper presents a multimodal human-AI collaborative framework designed to enhance cognitive pattern extraction from eye-tracking signals. The framework includes: (1) a multi-stage pipeline using horizontal and vertical segmentation alo…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 515 nodes and 6379 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Beginning the second day of the #Rotary International 2025 Convention in Calgary, Canada… over 15,000 people here!

Distinguishing Predictive and Generative AI in Regulation
Jennifer Wang, Andrew Selbst, Solon Barocas, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17347

Distinguishing Predictive and Generative AI in Regulation
Over the past decade, policymakers have developed a set of regulatory tools to ensure AI development aligns with key societal goals. Many of these tools were initially developed in response to concerns with predictive AI and therefore encode certain assumptions about the nature of AI systems and the utility of certain regulatory approaches. With the advent of generative AI, however, some of these assumptions no longer hold, even as policymakers attempt to maintain a single regulatory target tha…

Dusty streaks on the #Moon - fingerprints of multiphase flow instabilities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62001-8 -> Johns Hopkins engineers explain forces that create unusual radiating dust patterns: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/21/lunar-landing-dust-debris/

Exploring the Potential of LLMs for Serendipity Evaluation in Recommender Systems
Li Kang, Yuhan Zhao, Li Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17290 https://arx…

Exploring the Potential of LLMs for Serendipity Evaluation in Recommender Systems
Serendipity plays a pivotal role in enhancing user satisfaction within recommender systems, yet its evaluation poses significant challenges due to its inherently subjective nature and conceptual ambiguity. Current algorithmic approaches predominantly rely on proxy metrics for indirect assessment, often failing to align with real user perceptions, thus creating a gap. With large language models (LLMs) increasingly revolutionizing evaluation methodologies across various human annotation tasks, we…

Improving Multislice Electron Ptychography with a Generative Prior
Christian K. Belardi, Chia-Hao Lee, Yingheng Wang, Justin Lovelace, Kilian Q. Weinberger, David A. Muller, Carla P. Gomes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17800

Improving Multislice Electron Ptychography with a Generative Prior
Multislice electron ptychography (MEP) is an inverse imaging technique that computationally reconstructs the highest-resolution images of atomic crystal structures from diffraction patterns. Available algorithms often solve this inverse problem iteratively but are both time consuming and produce suboptimal solutions due to their ill-posed nature. We develop MEP-Diffusion, a diffusion model trained on a large database of crystal structures specifically for MEP to augment existing iterative solve…

'Sonnenuntergang oder Sonnenaufgang' #FotoVorschlag 'Sunset or Sunrise'
You might know that I'm not that much a #sunrise / #sunset person. But that day we hiked to the sum…

Ein Bürgerforschungsprojekt hat über 234.000 #Lichtquellen in deutschen Städten erfasst.
Nach Mitternacht bleibt im Schnitt pro Person ein Licht an. #Straßenlaternen sind dabei nur ein kleiner Teil. Besonders häufig leuchten private Fenster,

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights - Nature Cities
This study employs a citizen science approach to identify and classify over 230,000 light sources in German city centers, suburbs and villages. The results underscore the pivotal role of citizen science in expanding knowledge of artificial light emissions and bolstering policymaking efforts to mitigate urban light pollution.

Constraining light dark matter in vector-scalar portals with COSI and AMEGO-X
Ma\'ira Dutra, Clarissa Siqueira, Tonia M. Venters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15891 https://

Constraining light dark matter in vector-scalar portals with COSI and AMEGO-X
Detecting gamma-ray signals that could be due to dark matter (DM) particles would give us invaluable information about the nature of DM. In particular, gamma-ray lines could provide a way to measure the DM mass. The excellent energy resolution of the upcoming Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) will allow us to probe underexplored regions of the DM parameter space while being sensitive to distinctive spectral features of potential DM signals. In this work, we consider a fermionic sub-GeV DM …

Eine neue Studie zeigt die negativen Auswirkungen menschlicher Aktivitäten auf die biologische Vielfalt für alle Arten und Ökosysteme.
Menschliche Aktivitäten treiben den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt sowohl direkt, als auch indirekt voran.
Via @…

The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature
Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

Adaptive Control Attention Network for Underwater Acoustic Localization and Domain Adaptation
Quoc Thinh Vo, Joe Woods, Priontu Chowdhury, David K. Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17409

Adaptive Control Attention Network for Underwater Acoustic Localization and Domain Adaptation
Localizing acoustic sound sources in the ocean is a challenging task due to the complex and dynamic nature of the environment. Factors such as high background noise, irregular underwater geometries, and varying acoustic properties make accurate localization difficult. To address these obstacles, we propose a multi-branch network architecture designed to accurately predict the distance between a moving acoustic source and a receiver, tested on real-world underwater signal arrays. The network lev…

Detectability of dark matter density distribution via gravitational waves from binary black holes in the Galactic center
Zhijin Li, Xiao Guo, Zhoujian Cao, Yun-Long Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19327

Detectability of dark matter density distribution via gravitational waves from binary black holes in the Galactic center
The fundamental nature of dark matter (DM) remains unknown, with significant uncertainties in its density profile. DM environments surrounding massive binary black holes (BBHs) modify their orbital dynamics, thereby altering gravitational wave (GW) emissions. For BBH systems at the Galactic Center, dynamical friction induced by DM spikes could produce detectable deviations in GW spectra, potentially observable by future space-based detectors. To address the uncertainties in the Galactic Center'…

A principled approach for comparing Variable Importance
Angel Reyero-Lobo, Pierre Neuvial, Bertrand Thirion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17306 https://arxiv.…

A principled approach for comparing Variable Importance
Variable importance measures (VIMs) aim to quantify the contribution of each input covariate to the predictability of a given output. With the growing interest in explainable AI, numerous VIMs have been proposed, many of which are heuristic in nature. This is often justified by the inherent subjectivity of the notion of importance. This raises important questions regarding usage: What makes a good VIM? How can we compare different VIMs? In this paper, we address these questions by: (1) propos…

Transforming drab alleys into insect havens with the Pollinator Pathways Project in Bristol. Creating vital habitats for pollinators and connecting people with nature to combat declining insect populations. #climatechange #climatesolutions

COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) I. Project Overview and General Characteristics of Detected Comets
Yuna G. Kwon, Dar W. Dahlen, Joseph R. Masiero, James M. Bauer, Yanga R. Fern\'andez, Adeline Gicquel, Yoonyoung Kim, Jana Pittichov\'a, Frank Masci, Roc M. Cutri, Amy K. Mainzer
https://arxiv.o…

COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) I. Project Overview and General Characteristics of Detected Comets
We present the first results from the COSINE (Cometary Object Study Investigating their Nature and Evolution) project, based on a uniformly processed dataset of 484 comets observed over the full 15-year duration of the WISE/NEOWISE mission. This compilation includes 1,633 coadded images spanning 966 epochs with signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) greater than 4, representing the largest consistently analyzed infrared comet dataset obtained from a single instrument. Dynamical classification identifies …

Neural-operator element method: Efficient and scalable finite element method enabled by reusable neural operators
Weihang Ouyang, Yeonjong Shin, Si-Wei Liu, Lu Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18427

Neural-operator element method: Efficient and scalable finite element method enabled by reusable neural operators
The finite element method (FEM) is a well-established numerical method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, its mesh-based nature gives rise to substantial computational costs, especially for complex multiscale simulations. Emerging machine learning-based methods (e.g., neural operators) provide data-driven solutions to PDEs, yet they present challenges, including high training cost and low model reusability. Here, we propose the neural-operator element method (NOEM) by s…

DCMF: A Dynamic Context Monitoring and Caching Framework for Context Management Platforms
Ashish Manchanda, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Abhik Banerjee, Kaneez Fizza, Arkady Zaslavsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17226

DCMF: A Dynamic Context Monitoring and Caching Framework for Context Management Platforms
The rise of context-aware IoT applications has increased the demand for timely and accurate context information. Context is derived by aggregating and inferring from dynamic IoT data, making it highly volatile and posing challenges in maintaining freshness and real-time accessibility. Caching is a potential solution, but traditional policies struggle with the transient nature of context in IoT (e.g., ensuring real-time access for frequent queries or handling fast-changing data). To address this…

Four decades of photometry of XX Trianguli, `the most spotted star' in the sky
Zs. K\H{o}v\'ari, K. G. Strassmeier, K. Ol\'ah, B. Seli, G. W. Henry, K. Vida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17926

Four decades of photometry of XX Trianguli, `the most spotted star' in the sky
Over the past 40 years the brightness variations of XX Tri, a single line RS CVn type binary system with a synchronized K-giant primary, has exceeded one magnitude in the V band. Although these changes are primarily caused by starspots, an additional activity-related mechanism may also be behind the long-term trend of overall brightness increase. By compiling the most complete photometric data set so far, we attempt to examine how the nature of seasonal-to-decadal changes can be linked to glo…

#monsterdon alert: Super Mice!
What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01898-z

From my bike ride a few days ago. Not a great photo but this light post is completely enveloped in vegetation.
#urban #nature #vegetation

Trusted Data Fusion, Multi-Agent Autonomy, Autonomous Vehicles
R. Spencer Hallyburton, Miroslav Pajic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17875 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Trusted Data Fusion, Multi-Agent Autonomy, Autonomous Vehicles
Multi-agent collaboration enhances situational awareness in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Ad hoc networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allow for real-time data sharing, but they face security challenges due to their decentralized nature, making them vulnerable to cyber-physical attacks. This paper introduces a trust-based framework for assured sensor fusion in distributed multi-agent networks, utilizing a hidden Markov model (HMM)-based approach to estimat…

Coherent Track-Before-Detect
Mingchao Liang, Florian Meyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18177 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18177

Coherent Track-Before-Detect
Accurately tracking an unknown and time-varying number of objects in complex environments is a significant challenge but a fundamental capability in a variety of applications, including applied ocean sciences, surveillance, autonomous driving, and wireless communications. Conventional Bayesian multiobject tracking (MOT) methods typically employ a detect-then-track (DTT) approach, where a frontend detector preprocesses raw sensor data to extract measurements for MOT. The irreversible nature of t…

@… I voted 3-5 based on first instinct, but now that I actually think about it, it’s definitely above 6.
Rate of change definitely increased once I got a job in consulting. The nature of the job is simply to adapt to the environment of the client and project, I don’t have the luxury of “choosing”.
This year alone, there have been moments whe…

Stochastic stability of physical measures in conservative systems
Weiwei Qi, Zhongwei Shen, Yingfei Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17598 https://

Stochastic stability of physical measures in conservative systems
Given the significance of physical measures in understanding the complexity of dynamical systems as well as the noisy nature of real-world systems, investigating the stability of physical measures under noise perturbations is undoubtedly a fundamental issue in both theory and practice. The present paper is devoted to the stochastic stability of physical measures for conservative systems on a smooth, connected, and closed Riemannian manifold. It is assumed that a conservative system admits an …

Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in #microgravity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01890-0 -> New Research Enhances Oxygen Production for Space Missions: https://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/en/news-list/news-display?tx_news_pi1[action]=detail&tx_news_pi1[controller]=News&tx_news_pi1[news]=422&cHash=848685cc29bedccacbabce23b44180b5 - a breakthrough in space life support systems, simply because water is magnetic.

Tabular Diffusion based Actionable Counterfactual Explanations for Network Intrusion Detection
Vinura Galwaduge, Jagath Samarabandu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17161

Tabular Diffusion based Actionable Counterfactual Explanations for Network Intrusion Detection
Modern network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) frequently utilize the predictive power of complex deep learning models. However, the "black-box" nature of such deep learning methods adds a layer of opaqueness that hinders the proper understanding of detection decisions, trust in the decisions and prevent timely countermeasures against such attacks. Explainable AI (XAI) methods provide a solution to this problem by providing insights into the causes of the predictions. The majority of the exi…

Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/tasmanian-leaders-environment-laws-protect

Structuring GUI Elements through Vision Language Models: Towards Action Space Generation
Yi Xu, Yesheng Zhang, jiajia Liu, Jingdong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16271 https:/…

Structuring GUI Elements through Vision Language Models: Towards Action Space Generation
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as pivotal tools in enhancing human-computer interaction. In this paper we focus on the application of MLLMs in the field of graphical user interface (GUI) elements structuring, where they assist in processing user instructions based on screen contents. Despite the promise of MLLMs, their performance in precisely generating UI element coordinates, a critical aspect of GUI understanding, is hindered by the nature of next-token prediction trai…

LLM-as-classifier: Semi-Supervised, Iterative Framework for Hierarchical Text Classification using Large Language Models
Doohee You, Andy Parisi, Zach Vander Velden, Lara Dantas Inojosa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16478

LLM-as-classifier: Semi-Supervised, Iterative Framework for Hierarchical Text Classification using Large Language Models
The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has provided unprecedented capabilities for analyzing unstructured text data. However, deploying these models as reliable, robust, and scalable classifiers in production environments presents significant methodological challenges. Standard fine-tuning approaches can be resource-intensive and often struggle with the dynamic nature of real-world data distributions, which is common in the industry. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive, semi-supervise…

Numerical solution of quantum Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation
Vahid Azimi-Mousolou, Davoud Mirzaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19594 https://

Numerical solution of quantum Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation
The classical Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation has long served as a cornerstone for modeling magnetization dynamics in magnetic systems, yet its classical nature limits its applicability to inherently quantum phenomena such as entanglement and nonlocal correlations. Inspired by the need to incorporate quantum effects into spin dynamics, recently a quantum generalization of the LLG equation is proposed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 266704 (2024)] which captures essential quantum behavior in many-…

SoK: Understanding the Fundamentals and Implications of Sensor Out-of-band Vulnerabilities
Shilin Xiao, Wenjun Zhu, Yan Jiang, Kai Wang, Peiwang Wang, Chen Yan, Xiaoyu Ji, Wenyuan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16133

SoK: Understanding the Fundamentals and Implications of Sensor Out-of-band Vulnerabilities
Sensors are fundamental to cyber-physical systems (CPS), enabling perception and control by transducing physical stimuli into digital measurements. However, despite growing research on physical attacks on sensors, our understanding of sensor hardware vulnerabilities remains fragmented due to the ad-hoc nature of this field. Moreover, the infinite attack signal space further complicates threat abstraction and defense. To address this gap, we propose a systematization framework, termed sensor out…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

A Systematic Mapping Study on Smart Cities Modeling Approaches
Maria Teresa Rossi, Martina De Sanctis, Ludovico Iovino, Manuel Wimmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16273 https://…

A Systematic Mapping Study on Smart Cities Modeling Approaches
The Smart City concept was introduced to define an idealized city characterized by automation and connection. It then evolved rapidly by including further aspects, such as economy, environment. Since then, many publications have explored various aspects of Smart Cities across different application domains and research communities, acknowledging the interdisciplinary nature of this subject. In particular, our interest focuses on how smart cities are designed and modeled, as a whole or as regards…

Love’s Shifting Nature – in memory and in honor #grief #love #relationship

Love's Shifting Nature - in memory and in honor
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Back home from a bike and hike with a friend. I'm absolutely devastated.
Every muscle from my hips downward hurts. But I made it!
#nature #landscape #hiking

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, Mary Calabro, Orit Shaer, Osnat Mokryn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18706

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into creative communities, like fanfiction, is reshaping how stories are created, shared, and valued. This study investigates the perceptions of 157 active fanfiction members, both readers and writers, regarding AI-generated content in fanfiction. Our research explores the impact of GenAI on community dynamics, examining how AI affects the participatory and collaborative nature of these spaces. The findings reveal responses ranging from cautious acceptan…

MCM: Mamba-based Cardiac Motion Tracking using Sequential Images in MRI
Jiahui Yin, Xinxing Cheng, Jinming Duan, Yan Pang, Declan O'Regan, Hadrien Reynaud, Qingjie Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17678

MCM: Mamba-based Cardiac Motion Tracking using Sequential Images in MRI
Myocardial motion tracking is important for assessing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, for which cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has been established as the gold standard imaging modality. Many existing methods learn motion from single image pairs consisting of a reference frame and a randomly selected target frame from the cardiac cycle. However, these methods overlook the continuous nature of cardiac motion and often yield inconsistent and non-smooth motion estim…

Angular phase-space integrals with four denominators through Mellin--Barnes
Taushif Ahmed, Syed Mehedi Hasan, Andreas Rapakoulias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15952 https://

Angular phase-space integrals with four denominators through Mellin--Barnes
We compute four-denominator angular phase-space integrals using the Mellin--Barnes (MB) technique in dimensional regularisation. Independent of the scattering process, an angular integral can be categorised based on the nature of the momenta appearing in the denominators. We address all scenarios involving fully massless and massive momenta. We present a partial fraction decomposition that relates angular integrals with multiple massive momenta to those with a single massive momentum. By solvin…

Pragmatic Policy Development via Interpretable Behavior Cloning
Anton Matsson, Yaochen Rao, Heather J. Litman, Fredrik D. Johansson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17056

Pragmatic Policy Development via Interpretable Behavior Cloning
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for deriving optimal policies from observational data, but challenges related to interpretability and evaluation limit its practical use in safety-critical domains. Interpretability is hindered by the black-box nature of unconstrained RL policies, while evaluation -- typically performed off-policy -- is sensitive to large deviations from the data-collecting behavior policy, especially when using methods based on importance sampling. To add…

"Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

Mass-Gap Neutron Stars from Vector \texorpdfstring{$f(R)$}{f(R)} Gravity Inflationary Deformations
V. K. Oikonomou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17384 https://

Mass-Gap Neutron Stars from Vector \texorpdfstring{$f(R)$}{f(R)} Gravity Inflationary Deformations
The latest observations from the LIGO-Virgo indicated the existence of mass-gap region astrophysical objects. This is a rather sensational observation and there are two possibilities for the nature of these mass-gap region astrophysical objects, these are either small black holes that result from the mergers of ordinary mass neutron stars, or these are heavy neutron stars. In the line of research implied by the former possibility, in this work we shall examine the implied neutron star phenomeno…

Moment Martingale Posteriors for Semiparametric Predictive Bayes
Yiu Yin Yung, Stephen M. S. Lee, Edwin Fong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18148 https://arxiv…

Moment Martingale Posteriors for Semiparametric Predictive Bayes
The predictive Bayesian view involves eliciting a sequence of one-step-ahead predictive distributions in lieu of specifying a likelihood function and prior distribution. Recent methods have leveraged predictive distributions which are either nonparametric or parametric, but not a combination of the two. This paper introduces a semiparametric martingale posterior which utilizes a predictive distribution that is a mixture of a parametric and nonparametric component. The semiparametric nature of t…

Comparative analysis of machine learning techniques for feature selection and classification of Fast Radio Bursts
Ailton J. B. J\'unior, J\'eferson A. S. Fortunato, Leonardo J. Silvestre, Thonimar V. Alencar, Wiliam S. Hip\'olito-Ricaldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18854

Comparative analysis of machine learning techniques for feature selection and classification of Fast Radio Bursts
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of extragalactic origin, exhibiting a wide range of physical and observational properties. Distinguishing between repeating and non-repeating FRBs remains a key challenge in understanding their nature. In this work, we apply unsupervised machine learning techniques to classify FRBs based on both primary observables from the CHIME catalog and physically motivated derived features. We evaluate three hybrid pipelines combining dime…

Symmetry re-breaking in an effective theory of quantum coarsening
Federico Balducci, Anushya Chandran, Roderich Moessner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17386 https://

Symmetry re-breaking in an effective theory of quantum coarsening
We present a simple theory accounting for two central observations in a recent experiment on quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable quantum simulator [T. Manovitz et al., Nature 638, 86 (2025)]: an apparent speeding up of the coarsening process as the phase transition is approached; and persistent oscillations of the order parameter after quenches within the ordered phase. Our theory, based on the Hamiltonian structure of the equations of motion in the classical limit of t…

Towards Stealthy and Effective Backdoor Attacks on Lane Detection: A Naturalistic Data Poisoning Approach
Yifan Liao, Yuxin Cao, Yedi Zhang, Wentao He, Yan Xiao, Xianglong Du, Zhiyong Huang, Jin Song Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15778

Towards Stealthy and Effective Backdoor Attacks on Lane Detection: A Naturalistic Data Poisoning Approach
Deep learning-based lane detection (LD) plays a critical role in autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. However, its vulnerability to backdoor attacks presents a significant security concern. Existing backdoor attack methods on LD often exhibit limited practical utility due to the artificial and conspicuous nature of their triggers. To address this limitation and investigate the impact of more ecologically valid backdoor attacks on LD models, we examine the common data poiso…

Solar wind erosion of lunar #regolith is suppressed by surface morphology and regolith properties: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02546-0 -> Mond unter Beschuss: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/medienmitteilungen/2025/medienmitteilungen_2025/mond_unter_beschuss/index_ger.html - die Wirkung geladener Sonnenwindteilchen auf den Mond wurde bisher massiv überschätzt.

Optimizing electrical stimulation parameters to enhance visual cortex activation in retina degeneration rats #BCI

Optimizing electrical stimulation parameters to enhance visual cortex activation in retina degeneration rats - Scientific Reports
In patients with degenerative retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, retinal prostheses offer a promising approach to restoring partial vision. Among these, epiretinal prostheses have shown encouraging preliminary clinical efficacy; however, optimizing stimulation parameters remains essential for improving efficiency and reducing power consumption. In this study, we investigated the effects of key electrical stimulation parameters— phase duration, …

"Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds"
#Nature #Environment #Wildlife

SoK: Current State of Ethereum's Enshrined Proposer Builder Separation
Maxwell Koegler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18189 https://a…

SoK: Current State of Ethereum's Enshrined Proposer Builder Separation
Initially introduced to Ethereum via Flashbots' MEV-boost, Proposer-Builder Separation allows proposers to auction off blockspace to a market of transaction orderers, known as builders. PBS is currently available to validators through the aforementioned MEV-boost, but its unregulated and relay-dependent nature has much of the Ethereum community calling for its enshrinement. Providing a protocol-integrated PBS marketspace and communication channel for payload outsourcing is termed PBS enshrineme…

Stop the export of toxic pesticides to African countries https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/stop-the-export-of-toxic-pesticides-to-african-countries

Stop the export of toxic pesticides to African countries - Online petition
! If you don't have a zip code, please use the code 1234xx Some pesticides are carcinogenic, hormone-disrupting or impair fertility. Others are harmful to aquatic organisms, bees and pollinators or hardly break down in nature. That is why the European Union decided to ban the use of these toxic pesticides. Yet they are still produced in Europe, and Belgium, for export, including to African countries. Africans and Europeans are together calling for a ban on these toxic exports. Because what is to

Global heliospheric #TerminationShock strength in the solar–interstellar interaction: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02634-3 -> https://x.com/NASASolarSystem/status/1957804782841663708 (thread).

Taughannock Falls beauty and inspiration
#nature #photography #waterfall

Taughannock Falls beauty and inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Extremely stripped #supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09375-3.epdf?sharing_token=-91B1DW3w-guLbzqMqlHyNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NoiEk03zQVupBWc3RIFpnZ-YbG1aen1S3iwOSFB_RqF1OTO0bm0p0OHR8FBWxK_mN3eXwuH6ArSJP4HcczCXFHQpGcyTSxTYyDRLdjMKS54rLmINcgiC4lgfYYUiIR0lfeQSiucSVktXCGmKwEy2_IMqVFdcWX7jjZmgmaOssqo_tTEwBI3IeJz_wpoAWLQllnGU6ii1DgLBiibeFsnNsdVtR4XCzzQSogTBu5R7SLsA==&tracking_referrer=www.sciencenews.org -> A dying star revealed its heart: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dying-star-heart-supernova - it’s the first observation of an innermost layer of a massive star.

Solar Cycle Variations in Meridional Flows and Rotational Shear within the Sun's Near-surface Shear Layer: #solar rotation: https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00101-6 - scientists uncover how deep plasma flows reshape the Sun’s rotation and hint at mysteries below its surface.

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights: #LightPollution

Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays: #universe.

Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night: #moth makes its epic migration navigating by starlight: https://www.science.org/content/article/moth-makes-its-epic-migration-navigating-starlight - Bogong moths fly 1000 kilometers orienting to stars and the Milky Way, an ability never seen before in invertebrates.