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"World Trade Organization launches first global agreement to curb overfishing"
#Fish #Environment

World Trade Organization launches first global agreement to curb overfishing | The Optimist Daily
The WTO’s first environmental pact takes effect, tackling harmful fishing subsidies to protect ocean life and global food security.

Playing a cassette for the first time in I don't know how long. Flipping sides is wild, man. Ah, that takes me back 😂 (the cassette version of this has a Hall & Oates cover added. Nice)
#PhysicalMedia #IndieRock #HotOcean

Multichannel highly sensitive diamond quantum magnetometer
Atsumi Yoshimura, Ayumi Kanamoto, Naota Sekiguchi, Chikara Shinei, Masashi Miyakawa, Takashi Taniguchi, Tokuyuki Teraji, Hiroshi Abe, Shinobu Onoda, Takeshi Ohshima, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20055

Multichannel highly sensitive diamond quantum magnetometer
We demonstrate a highly sensitive real-time magnetometry method at two measurement points. This magnetometry method is based on the frequency-division multiplexing of continuous-wave optically detected magnetic resonance. We use two ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers separated by 3.6 mm to measure a magnetic field. A different bias field is applied to the two NV ensembles to resolve the resonance peak for each ensemble in the frequency space and enables the multiplexed magnetometry at t…

MENLO: From Preferences to Proficiency - Evaluating and Modeling Native-like Quality Across 47 Languages
Chenxi Whitehouse, Sebastian Ruder, Tony Lin, Oksana Kurylo, Haruka Takagi, Janice Lam, Nicol\`o Busetto, Denise Diaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26601

MENLO: From Preferences to Proficiency - Evaluating and Modeling Native-like Quality Across 47 Languages
Ensuring native-like quality of large language model (LLM) responses across many languages is challenging. To address this, we introduce MENLO, a framework that operationalizes the evaluation of native-like response quality based on audience design-inspired mechanisms. Using MENLO, we create a dataset of 6,423 human-annotated prompt-response preference pairs covering four quality dimensions with high inter-annotator agreement in 47 language varieties. Our evaluation reveals that zero-shot LLM j…

Unprecedented levels of forever chemicals found in dolphins and whales #AnimalRights

Unprecedented levels of forever chemicals found in dolphins and whales
New research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean's surface are not immune from the burden of toxic forever chemicals, with whales and dolphins showing unprecedented levels of PFAS contamination.

The Courant-Hilbert construction in 4D Chern-Simons theory
Osamu Fukushima, Takaki Matsumoto, Kentaroh Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22080 https://arx…

The Courant-Hilbert construction in 4D Chern-Simons theory
We consider the Courant-Hilbert (CH) construction of integrable deformations of a two-dimensional principal chiral model (2D PCM) in the context of the four-dimensional Chern-Simons (4D CS) theory. According to this construction, an integrable deformation of 2D PCM is characterized by a boundary function. As a result, the master formula obtained from the 4D CS theory should be corrected by the trace of the energy-momentum tensor so as to support the CH construction. We present some examples of …

Optimization procedure of the baffle of the GroundBIRD Telescope to mitigate stray light
Miku Tsujii, Tomonaga Tanaka, Alessandro Fasano, Ricardo G\'enova-Santos, Shunsuke Honda, Yonggil Jo, Keisuke Kataoka, Chiko Otani, Mike Peel, Junya Suzuki, Osamu Tajima, Eunil Won, Makoto Hattori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22071

Optimization procedure of the baffle of the GroundBIRD Telescope to mitigate stray light
We presented the optimization procedures of the baffle mounted on the GroundBIRD telescope for measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background~(CMB). The telescope employs dual mirror reflective telescopes installed in a cryostat. The primary objectives were to minimize stray light contamination, maintain the integrity of the main beam, and ensure that thermal loading from the baffle remains significantly below that from the atmosphere. Using quasi-optical simulations, we have opt…

#Japan 🇯🇵 finally got their first female PM! Unfortunately, I don’t like most of her far-right political views, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, desire to amend Japan’s pacifist constitution, support for anti-immigration policies, and downplaying of Japanese war crimes.