Tootfinder

"Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

Role of thalamus in human conscious perception revealed by low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66832-3 these findings "underscore the modulatory potential of thalamocortical networks in shaping visual experience";

A million-solar-mass object detected at a cosmological distance using #GravitationalImaging / An extended and extremely thin gravitational arc from a lensed compact symmetric object at redshift of 2.059: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02651-2 / https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L24/8262431?login=false -> Astronomers ‘image’ a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe: https://jive.eu/news/new-nature-astronomy-and-mnras-letters-astronomers-image-mysterious-dark-object-distant

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities
Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches, and old-growth coastal redwoods, shrouded with a thin layer of marine fog that dissipates in sunlight. Visitors fish, hike, camp, and surf, the temperate climate and ocean views providing a boost to their mental and physical health. […]

This is nature on the island of #Norderney as me, @…, and @… visited it du…

The ephemeral nature of digital music and "albums" is a bit annoying. You can listen to an album today that has more or fewer songs than it had two days ago.
Also, artists can republish the same song on the same album, effectively replacing the original over time. Next thing you know, your folk album is a dubstep nightmare (hyperbole).

Food for thought:
“Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed—and why it matters.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1
This compelling perspective shows how openness alone fails to challenge AI’s power concentration.
As r…

Southward impact excavated magma ocean at the lunar South Pole–Aitken basin: #ImpactCrater made a radioactive splash: https://news.arizona.edu/news/moons-biggest-impact-crater-made-radioactive-splash

Recasting the nature of INTEGRAL hard X-ray transients previously classified as active galactic nuclei
V. Sguera, L. Sidoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06920 https://

Recasting the nature of INTEGRAL hard X-ray transients previously classified as active galactic nuclei
We present new broad-band X-ray results aimed at the identification and characterization of four poorly studied hard X-ray transients discovered by INTEGRAL: IGR J16426+6536, IGR J09446-2636, IGR J21268+6203, and IGR J02447+7046. The key properties and X-ray behavior of these sources have remained largely unknown until now. We investigated the temporal, spectral, and energetic characteristics of their hard X-ray outbursts detected above 20 keV by INTEGRAL. In addition, we performed a systematic…

from my link log —
Desperately seeking squircles.
https://www.figma.com/blog/desperately-seeking-squircles/
saved 2025-12-08 https://…

Desperately seeking squircles | Figma Blog
In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short sequence of fundamental questions about the nature of design.

There are many key lessons for higher education in @…'s Enshittification. One is about mission:
"...the double edged nature of vocational awe. Sure Googlers [faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

"Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine"
#Plants #Nature
https://

Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine
The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.

2027 is the planned manned moon landing.
Extende moon stays may require large, energized "shower rooms". For extravehicular personnel equipment. No demonstrations of dust-repellant clothes and tools have been done.
It will be a serious problem BEFORE it's fixed.
#Space #SpaceTechnology

The most perceptive question made in this series of Reith Lectures, "So what is this great moral singularity?", that's a paraphrase.
For which there was no answer except human nature.
I would prefer avoiding the cesspit and condemnation of morality and rather turn to the process of Ethics.
#ReithLectures

May the supremes reap what they sow... May His Lardass find judges wanting for not offering enough worship. Remember the scorpion's nature will drown all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/de…

🏎️ Giving waste plastics a second life as high-performance carbon nanomaterials
#plastics

Giving waste plastics a second life as high-performance carbon nanomaterials
A study published in Nature Communications has shown that, rather than being discarded, plastics can be transformed into valuable carbon nanomaterials that help solve both energy and environmental challenges.

"Faking Receipts with AI"
smh ... every part of our digital experience is about to be cooked.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/faking-receipts-with-ai.html

There is a (very) old joke:
Two haberdashers were on an oceanliner, which sank. As the only survivors, they ended up in a lifeboat with lots of food and water, which was good, because they were not rescued for a very long time.
It all worked out well for them. When they were rescued, they were both very wealthy, having successfully traded hats with each other at a great profit.

There is a (very) old joke:
Two haberdashers were on an oceanliner, which sank. As the only survivors, they ended up in a lifeboat with lots of food and water, which was good, because they were not rescued for a very long time.
It all worked out well for them. When they were rescued, they were both very wealthy, having successfully traded hats with each other at a great profit.

Sonnet 020 - XX
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou f…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- The Meaning and Magic of Music
Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years as a Carmelite nun. After 25 years outside the order she asks what is the nature of the powerful connection between music and the soul.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029pt3

Apocalypse Not: Science Journal 'Nature' Retracts Catastrophic Climate Change Study (Jameson Mitrovich/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/apocalypse-not-science-journal-nature-retracts-catastrophic-climate-change-study/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p106#a251204p106

OBS-Diff: Accurate Pruning For Diffusion Models in One-Shot
Junhan Zhu, Hesong Wang, Mingluo Su, Zefang Wang, Huan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06751 https://

OBS-Diff: Accurate Pruning For Diffusion Models in One-Shot
Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models, while powerful, suffer from prohibitive computational cost. Existing one-shot network pruning methods can hardly be directly applied to them due to the iterative denoising nature of diffusion models. To bridge the gap, this paper presents OBS-Diff, a novel one-shot pruning framework that enables accurate and training-free compression of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. Specifically, (i) OBS-Diff revitalizes the classic Optimal Brain Surgeon…

Dust, sand and wind drive slope streaks on #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65522-4 -> Swoosh! https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/11/Swoosh

Urban Texture II 🧩
城市质地 II 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Adaptive LLM-Symbolic Reasoning via Dynamic Logical Solver Composition
Lei Xu, Pierre Beckmann, Marco Valentino, Andr\'e Freitas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06774 https://

Adaptive LLM-Symbolic Reasoning via Dynamic Logical Solver Composition
Neuro-symbolic NLP methods aim to leverage the complementary strengths of large language models and formal logical solvers. However, current approaches are mostly static in nature, i.e., the integration of a target solver is predetermined at design time, hindering the ability to employ diverse formal inference strategies. To address this, we introduce an adaptive, multi-paradigm, neuro-symbolic inference framework that: (1) automatically identifies formal reasoning strategies from problems expr…

The Robins are getting drunk on Camphor tree seeds again 🥴🐦‍⬛
#birds #nature

Constrained Natural Language Action Planning for Resilient Embodied Systems
Grayson Byrd, Corban Rivera, Bethany Kemp, Meghan Booker, Aurora Schmidt, Celso M de Melo, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Mathias Unberath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06357

Constrained Natural Language Action Planning for Resilient Embodied Systems
Replicating human-level intelligence in the execution of embodied tasks remains challenging due to the unconstrained nature of real-world environments. Novel use of large language models (LLMs) for task planning seeks to address the previously intractable state/action space of complex planning tasks, but hallucinations limit their reliability, and thus, viability beyond a research context. Additionally, the prompt engineering required to achieve adequate system performance lacks transparency, a…

Addressing Visual Impairments with Model-Driven Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
Judith Michael, Lukas Netz, Bernhard Rumpe, Ingo M\"uller, John Grundy, Shavindra Wickramathilaka, Hourieh Khalajzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06483

Addressing Visual Impairments with Model-Driven Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
Software applications often pose barriers for users with accessibility needs, e.g., visual impairments. Model-driven engineering (MDE), with its systematic nature of code derivation, offers systematic methods to integrate accessibility concerns into software development while reducing manual effort. This paper presents a systematic literature review on how MDE addresses accessibility for vision impairments. From 447 initially identified papers, 30 primary studies met the inclusion criteria. Abo…

A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information
#BorgRats
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01319

Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50% contained signs of AI use (Miryam Naddaf/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

A Total Variation Regularized Framework for Epilepsy-Related MRI Image Segmentation
Mehdi Rabiee, Sergio Greco, Reza Shahbazian, Irina Trubitsyna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06276

A Total Variation Regularized Framework for Epilepsy-Related MRI Image Segmentation
Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) is a primary cause of drug-resistant epilepsy and is difficult to detect in brain {magnetic resonance imaging} (MRI) due to the subtle and small-scale nature of its lesions. Accurate segmentation of FCD regions in 3D multimodal brain MRI images is essential for effective surgical planning and treatment. However, this task remains highly challenging due to the limited availability of annotated FCD datasets, the extremely small size and weak contrast of FCD lesions,…

Oh, almost forgot #silentsunday!
My last hike led me to this summit which is usually very well visited.
But given the weekday & weather, I was totally alone while I was up there. Noone around. No human made sound. Just me and nature. It felt so much like real freedom.
#hiking

"Die im Fachjournal Nature vorgestellte Studie untermauert die Sichtweise, dass Schmerz nicht bloß ein sensorisches Signal ist, sondern ein dynamischer Zustand im Gehirn, der von Wahrnehmung, Erinnerung und Emotion geformt wird."
https://www.

Neue Gentherapie lindert chronische Schmerzen, ohne süchtig zu machen
Die innovative Methode imitiert den schmerzlindernden Effekt von Morphium im Gehirn, vermeidet aber dessen schwere Nebenwirkungen

Dynamical development of strength and stability of #asteroid material under 440 GeV proton beam irradiation: #impact – and reveals the hidden strength of space rocks, a breakthrough with direct implications for #PlanetaryDefence strategies: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-08-new-study-simulates-asteroid-impact-and-reveals-hidden-strength-space-rocks

Diving into a WWII novel or an action-adventure film is my ultimate way to unwind. These narratives entertain and enrich our understanding of history and human nature. Have any recent books or films fired up your imagination or offered you a new perspective? 📚🎥 #WorldWarII #HistoricalFiction #BookLovers

Fully Parallel Multi-Agent Photonic Optimizer
Ghazi Sarwat Syed, Philipp Schmidt, Frank Br\"uckerhoff-Pl\"uckelmann, Jelle Dijkstra, Wolfram H. P Pernice, Abu Sebastian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06424

Fully Parallel Multi-Agent Photonic Optimizer
Optimization problems are central to many important cross-disciplinary applications.In their conventional implementations, the sequential nature of operations imposes strict limitations on the computational efficiency. Here, we discuss how analog optical computing can overcome this fundamental bottleneck. We propose a photonic optimizer unit, together with supporting algorithms that uses in memory computation within a nature inspired, multi agent cooperative framework. The system performs a seq…

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience #blindness

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience - Nature Reviews Psychology
In sighted adults, spatial perception relies on information integrated across sensory modalities. In this Review, Gori and colleagues consider spatial perception in visually impaired infants, children and adults to clarify how it develops and the role of sensory information in the process.

The Mongabay news source checks out. The story about the salamanders checks out.
But I'd like to know about the nuns and their cough syrup made with salamanders. Going to have to follow up on this one!
#Nature #Ecology #Science

“You have often expressed dissatisfaction with the spartan nature of my quarters. Is this an attempt at embellishment?”
https://www.theverge.com/news/815337/lego-star-trek-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-d-data-picard-riker-worf-minifigures

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers:
--A hacking gang extorted Italy's elite,
--An Indian backwater became a wealthy cybercrime locale,
--The nature of China's espionage threat to the UK,
--Cybercrime laws are used to censor the press,
--The dark side of Apple&…

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Three tips to improve your sleep:
- Go to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual on weekdays instead of sleeping in at the weekend 🛏️
- Expose yourself to bright light in the morning as much as possible, be it outdoor or indoors light 💡☀️
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Sonnet 020 - XX
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou f…

Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02713-5

Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds - Nature Astronomy
Several moons in the outer Solar System have oceans encased beneath an ice shell. If the ice shell thins, ocean pressure decreases. Modelling shows that on Mimas, Enceladus, and Miranda, the ocean can boil. On larger bodies, instead, compressional forces form tectonic features.

The rise and fall of Little Red Dots could be driven by the environment
Rosa M. M\'erida, Gaia Gaspar, Yoshihisa Asada, Marcin Sawicki, Kiyoaki Christopher Omori, Chris J. Willott, Nicholas S. Martis, Adam Muzzin, Ga\"el Noirot, Gregor Rihtar\v{s}i\v{c}, Ghassan T. E. Sarrouh, Roberta Tripodi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06408

The rise and fall of Little Red Dots could be driven by the environment
The Little Red Dot (LRD) paradigm comprises three main unknowns that are intrinsically connected: (1) What is the nature of these sources? (2) How do they form? (3) How do they evolve? Larger spectroscopic samples and high-resolution data are needed to delve deeper into the mechanisms ruling these sources. Understanding their formation and evolution requires identifying the rise and fall of the key features that characterize these systems, such as their compactness and ``V''-shaped spectral ene…

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium L…

Ensemble seismic study of the properties of the core of Red Clump stars
Anthony Noll, Sarbani Basu, Saskia Hekker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06494 https://…

Ensemble seismic study of the properties of the core of Red Clump stars
Red clump stars still pose open questions regarding several physical processes, such as the mixing around the core, or the nuclear reactions, which are ill-constrained by theory and experiments. The oscillations of red clump stars, which are of mixed gravito-acoustic nature, allow us to directly investigate the interior of these stars and thereby better understand their physics. In particular, the measurement of their period spacing is a good probe of the structure around the core. We aim to ex…

Computational Study on the Physical Properties and Hydrogen Storage Capability of Insulating LaMg2H7
Tanvir Khan, Md Hasan Shahriar Rifat, M. Ibrahim, Razia Marzia, F. Parvin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06875

Computational Study on the Physical Properties and Hydrogen Storage Capability of Insulating LaMg2H7
LaMg2H7 is a ternary wide band gap semiconductor that is a member of the hydride family. The bulk physical characteristics of the LaMg2H7 compound, including its structural, electronic band structure, elastic, thermal, and optical characteristics, have been examined in this work utilizing density functional theory (DFT). The elastic constants indicate that {\rm LaMg}_2H_7 is mechanically stable, brittle in nature, and anisotropic. This studied compound possesses a moderate level of hardness. Th…

“There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.”
(Yes, reading Moby Dick right now.)

The Hidden Wheel-Within
Falko Ziebert, Igor M. Kuli\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06830…

The Hidden Wheel-Within
There is this old, eternal question: Why don't animals have wheels? In this perspective we show that they actually do. And they do so in a physically extraordinary way -- by combining incompatible elasticity, differential geometry and dissipative self-organization. Nature's wheel -- the ``wheel-within'' -- has been mysteriously concealed in plain sight, yet it spins in virtually every slender-body organism: in falling cats, crocodilians spinning to subdue their prey, rolling fruit-fly larvae, c…

Deep Generative Model for Human Mobility Behavior
Ye Hong, Yatao Zhang, Konrad Schindler, Martin Raubal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06473 https://arxiv.org/…

Deep Generative Model for Human Mobility Behavior
Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health. Despite decades of effort, simulating individual mobility remains challenging because of its complex, context-dependent, and exploratory nature. Here, we present MobilityGen, a deep generative model that produces realistic mobility trajectories spanning days to weeks at large spatial scales. By linking behavioral attributes with environmental context, MobilityGe…

Why each AFC playoff team will win the Super Bowl, and why they won’t https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6932205/2026/01/07/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-afc-champion/

The most exquisite peak in culinary art is conquered when you do right by a
ham, for a ham, in the very nature of the process it has undergone since last
it walked on its own feet, combines in its flavor the tang of smoky autumnal
woods, the maternal softness of earthy fields delivered of their crop children,
the wineyness of a late sun, the intimate kiss of fertilizing rain, and the
bite of fire. You must slice it thin, almost as thin as this page you hold
in …

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/or3ZsTX
Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
via Input 4 RELCFP

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world 🧪
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03474-x …

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Working With Wildlife
A nature based podcast that aims to learn from and listen to the small moments of those that work with in the vast amount of fields within the wildlife industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/working-w…

Continual Action Quality Assessment via Adaptive Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization
Kanglei Zhou, Qingyi Pan, Xingxing Zhang, Hubert P. H. Shum, Frederick W. B. Li, Xiaohui Liang, Liyuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06842

Continual Action Quality Assessment via Adaptive Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization
Action Quality Assessment (AQA) quantifies human actions in videos, supporting applications in sports scoring, rehabilitation, and skill evaluation. A major challenge lies in the non-stationary nature of quality distributions in real-world scenarios, which limits the generalization ability of conventional methods. We introduce Continual AQA (CAQA), which equips AQA with Continual Learning (CL) capabilities to handle evolving distributions while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Although param…

Looking for inspiration in the new year? A chance to rediscover wonder and connect with nature? Our big spring semester exhibition, "We, Too, Are Made of Wonders," opens January 24 and takes inspiration from a poem by Ada Limón currently traveling to Jupiter on the Europa Clipper space probe.
https://lnkd.in/eDfgFdp5

Phonon Hall Viscosity and the Intrinsic Thermal Hall Effect of $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$
Avi Shragai, Ezekiel Horsley, Subin Kim, Young-June Kim, B. J. Ramshaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06443

Phonon Hall Viscosity and the Intrinsic Thermal Hall Effect of $α$-RuCl$_3$
The thermal Hall effect has been observed in a wide variety of magnetic insulators, yet its origin remains controversial. While some studies attribute it to intrinsic origins -- such as heat carriers with Berry curvature -- others propose extrinsic origins -- such as heat carriers scattering off crystal defects. Even the nature of the heat carriers is unknown: magnons, phonons, and fractionalized spin excitations have all been proposed. These questions are significant for the study of quantum s…

"‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Norfolk #Beavers

Quartic level repulsion in a quantum chaotic three-body system without symplectic symmetry
Alex D. Kerin, Barbara Dietz, Joachim Brand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06772 https://

Quartic level repulsion in a quantum chaotic three-body system without symplectic symmetry
Among the fundamental symmetry classes of quantum chaotic systems in Dyson's threefold way, the symplectic class is rarely observed in nature. Characterized by the strongest possible level repulsion in the energy spectrum, the symplectic symmetry class also implies a double (Kramers) degeneracy of levels. Studying the spectral statistics of three quantum particles (identical bosons or mass-imbalanced fermions) in a harmonic trap, we find numerical evidence for strong level repulsion in the regi…

The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/nature-extinction-crisis-mirrored-in-our-bodies-huge-health…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Naughty by Nature:
🎵 O.P.P.
#NaughtybyNature
https://miketempo.bandcamp.com/track/naughty-by-nature-o-p-p-mike-tempo-remix

Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands"
#Africa #Wetlands #Environment

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands
As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the hilly capital of Kigali has embraced nature-based solutions. The city is restoring and reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow runoff and enhancing biodiversity.

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21720-0 "Tactile sensory substitution, like auditory substitution, effectively compensates for lost vision by engaging cross-modal r…

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted - Scientific Reports
This study investigates the effectiveness of a vibrotactile bracelet in supporting goal-directed hand movements and grasping tasks for visually conditioned individuals. The research addresses the challenge of object manipulation without visual feedback, comparing tactile to auditory cues. The primary research question explores whether vibrotactile signals delivered via a wrist-worn device can accurately guide hand movements and improve grasping precision. Forty-one participants with varying deg…

High-energy variability of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211
Sarah M. Wagner, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Greg Madejski, Andrea Gokus, Krzysztof Nalewajko, Patrick G\"unther, Karl Mannheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07220

High-energy variability of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211
The production site and process responsible for the highly variable high-energy emission observed from blazar jets are still debated. Gravitational lenses can be used as microscopes to investigate the nature of such sources. We study the broad-band spectral properties and the high-energy variability of the gravitationally-lensed blazar PKS 1830-211, for which radio observations have revealed two images, to put constraints on the jet physics and the existence of a gravitationally-induced time de…

Little to no active faulting likely at Europa’s seafloor today: #Europa: https://www.reuters.com/science/study-casts-doubt-potential-life-jupiters-moon-europa-2026-01-06/

Moody Urbanity - UP 🆙
情绪化城市 - 上面 🆙
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"Should lynx and wolves be reintroduced to Britain and Ireland? Young people have mixed feelings"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals

Should lynx and wolves be reintroduced to Britain and Ireland? Young people have mixed feelings
Human nature will shape the feasibility and viability of proposals to reintroduce apex predators such as lynx or wolves.

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/DWzu19j
Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
via Input 4 RELCFP

Accept
Harmony is only in following the Way.
The Way is without form or quality,
But expresses all forms and qualities;
The Way is hidden and implicate,
But expresses all of nature;
The Way is unchanging,
But expresses all motion.
Beneath sensation and memory
The Way is the source of all the world.
How can I understand the source of the world?
By accepting.
-- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"

Sonnet 084 - LXXXIV
Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature ma…

Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…

People filming themselves in nature
A lot of hiking, camping, and cycling youtube video makers choose to film third-person footage of themselves alone in nature... sometimes with a drone, but s...

DEX in near Earth orbit in light of #Venus Orbiter Dust Experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21988-2 -> India’s Cosmic Dust Experiment - Ground-breaking Hunt for Interplanetary Secrets: https://www.isro.gov.in/Indias_Cosmic_Dust_Experiment.html

Brain-aligning of semantic vectors improves neural decoding of visual stimuli #BCI

"Northumberland nature recovery project takes shape with biggest land sale in 30 years"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Northumberland

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn #nature

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn
With climate change expected to intensify heat waves, flooding and air pollution in cities worldwide, why are we not tapping into the full potential of nature-based solutions?

"EU seeks to exploit nature-based products for competitiveness push, green groups say"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Nature

EU bets on nature-based products to increase domestic competitiveness
Nature-based products such as biofuels and bioplastics will be looked to as drivers of green growth under a recently announced bioeconomy strategy, but critics are wary of overexploitation.

#Caturday #Nature
“The Curious Six” by Amit Eshel
from the Nature InFocus Awards 2025

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127143/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

"Wildlife charities a third of the way to buying key UK nature refuge"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Nature

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

WildLeaks is the world’s first whistleblowing initiative dedicated to environmental crime. #nature #environment

WildLeaks
WildLeaks is the World's First Wildlife Crime Whistleblower Initiative

"‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

Open-Access Scientific Game-Theory Paper Shows Religion Worth a Damn
Fear of supernatural PUNISHMENT can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05734-7?ref=404media.co
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Fear of supernatural punishment can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Human activities largely impact the natural environment negatively and radical changes in human societies would be required to achieve their sustainable relationship with nature. Although frequently overlooked, previous studies have suggested that supernatural beliefs can protect nature from human overexploitation via beliefs that supernatural entities punish people who harm nature. Studies of folklore and ethnology have shown that such supernatural beliefs are widely found. However, it remains…

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

Chlorine and potassium enrichment in the Cassiopeia A #SupernovaRemnant: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02714-4 -> Where the elements come from: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1107792

Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-025-00385-4 The vOICe
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal co…

"5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025"
#Animals
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/5-unexpecte…

5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025
Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such examples that Mongabay reported on in 2025: Massive fish aggregation seen climbing waterfalls in Brazil For the first time, scientists observed a “massive […]

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes #BCI

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes - npj Flexible Electronics
Neural representations arise from high-dimensional population activity, but current neuromodulation methods lack the precision to write information into the central nervous system at this complexity. In this perspective, we propose high-dimensional stimulation as an approach to better approximate natural neural codes for brain-machine interfaces. Key advancements in resolution, coverage, and safety are essential, with flexible microelectrode arrays offering a promising path toward precise synth…

"Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Researchers build their own dams to find out"
#Beavers #Animals #Nature

Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Researchers build their own dams to find out
High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers.

Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu: #Bennu Samples: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/sugars-gum-stardust-found-in-nasas-asteroid-bennu-samples/

"COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate

COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief breaks down the main COP30 outcomes on food, forests, land and nature.

Alteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater, #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02856-3 -> Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter millions of years ago: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/findings-suggest-red-planet-was-warmer-wetter-millions-of-years-ago/ - evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater.

"Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline"
#UN #UnitedNations #Nature

Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline - Carbon Brief
Just 28% of countries have met a UN call to submit new plans on addressing nature loss – a year after the original deadline

Satellite #megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09759-5 -> Planned satellite constellations may swamp future orbiting telescopes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/planned-satellite-constellations-may-swamp-future-orbiting-telescopes/ - planned orbital observatories would see satellites cross nearly all of their images.

"Why Britain is one of the world's least 'nature-connected' nations"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Why Britain is one of the world's least 'nature-connected' nations
Britain is one of the least "nature-connected" nations in the world, and new research has explored the reasons why.

"Report: Climate change to become world’s biggest driver of nature loss by 2050"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Nature