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Went to the #pride march in #Bucharest, #Romania yesterday. Good excuse to get some exercise! First time going to a pride march, wasn't sure what to expect beforehand. Met a bunch of people…

Functional and structural plasticity induced by audiovisual associations and sensory experiences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-025-02951-3 "widespread increases in functional connectivity between the trained region and higher-order frontal…

Functional and structural plasticity induced by audiovisual associations and sensory experiences - Brain Structure and Function
Crossmodal associations and correspondences play important roles in shaping perception and guiding our actions. However, we still have a limited understanding of association-induced changes in the adult human brain. An important question to address is to what extent passive exposure to crossmodal associations leads to functional and structural changes in the brain. Utilizing an audiovisual association paradigm in which motion stimuli presented in the left visual field were paired with auditory …

Well, this album goes harder than I was expecting .. though I don't know what I was expecting (sometimes those random Tidal recommendations pan out)
https://album.link/es/i/1620207937
Scratches the itch for the more aggressive early-mid 90's era NIN sound I have a soft spot fo…

#WaPo: Reagan National Airport expected to close for up to several hours on June 14 for military flyovers,...
As loyal subject, I happily volunteer this sacrifice for my king's birthday. 🙄
But won't tolerate the extra "up to" in the report.
#uspol #parade

Dimerization in $O(n)$-invariant quantum spin chains
J. E. Bj\"ornberg, K. Ryan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06103 https://arxiv.o…

Dimerization in $O(n)$-invariant quantum spin chains
We establish dimerization in $O(n)$-invariant quantum spin chains with big enough $n$, in a large part of the phase diagram where this result is expected. This includes identifying two distinct ground states which are translations of one unit of eachother, and which both have exponentially decaying correlations. Our method relies on a probabilistic representation of the quantum system in terms of random loops, and an adaptation of a method developed for loop $O(n)$ models on the hexagonal latti…

Prince of Persia: completed!
Having completed level 10, I was expecting the difficulty to ramp up towards the end of the game. In fact, level 11 wasn't that difficult, provided you didn't take it too slowly. The first part of the level required a run along a long collapsing pathway in order to reach the end platform before it was too late; you had to run along this to avoid stepping on traps which closed the door to progress.

This took longer than expected. Pretty cool that it works.
Post featured in video: #PhanpySocialDev

Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I’m just too fabulously queer and genderfluid to function like anyone expects. My identity is a whole spectrum, shifting and sparkling with every color and every gender. 🌈✨
Some days I’m femme, some days I’m masc, and some days I’m something totally unique and undefined. 💖💙🤍
My

Earlier this year, Elon Musk poured tens of millions of dollars into the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, after spending hundreds of millions to elect Donald Trump.
It looked like our democracy was truly over. 
But Blue Future's young organizers pounded the pavement.
We out-organized Musk.
And we defeated his MAGA candidate on a shoestring budget!
Now, Trump has lost confidence in Musk, who's slinking away from the White House!
What's next? …

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