Tootfinder

Worth it to insult YouTube commenters with bad takes?
Yes​
Yes

A meeting where the roll call is over 50% of the meeting time:
Is a good idea
Should be an email
Was just a waste
Indicates fireable meeting hoster

CPB's closure threatens tribal radio and TV stations, endangering critical services like emergency alerts in areas lacking broadband or reliable cell service (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/how-trib

How tribal radio stations are preparing for a future without the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
“These stations are not just media outlets, they are cultural infrastructure.”

A fast radio burst - #FRB 20240304B - from the first 3 billion years of the Universe: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01648 -> Astronomers at the South African MeerKAT observatory have discovered the most distant flash of radio waves to date, most likely stemming from activity around a magnetar: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/a-fast-radio-burst-from-the-early-universe/

Cowboys vs. Giants radio coverage: Station, channel, streaming to listen live to NFL Week 2 game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-giants-radio-coverage-station-channels-streaming-listen…

Stingrays in the radio sky: Two unusual diffuse radio relic sources in the direction of the Magellanic Stream
Zachary J Smeaton, Miroslav D Filipovic, Barbel S Koribalski, Manami Sasaki, Rami Z E Alsaberi, Aaron C Bradley, Evan J Crawford, Shi Dai, Nikhel Gupta, Frank Haberl, Andrew M Hopkins, Thomas H Jarrett, Sanja Lazarevi\'c, Denis Leahy, Peter Macgregor, Gavin Rowell, Stanislav S Shabala, Dejan Urosevic, Jacco Th van Loon, Tessa Vernstrom

Stingrays in the radio sky: Two unusual diffuse radio relic sources in the direction of the Magellanic Stream
We present the discovery of two extended, low surface brightness radio continuum sources, each consisting of a near-circular body and an extended tail of emission, nicknamed Stingray 1 (ASKAP J0129-5350) and Stingray 2 (ASKAP J0245-5642). Both are found in the direction of the Magellanic Stream (MS) and were discovered in the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey at 944 MHz. We combine the ASKAP data with low-frequency radio observati…

Radio and television stations,
facing enormous budget holes,
are pleading with NPR and PBS
to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/poli…

NPR and PBS Must Transform After Trump’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters
Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.

RadioFlow: Efficient Radio Map Construction Framework with Flow Matching
Haozhe Jia, Wenshuo Chen, Xiucheng Wang, Nan Cheng, Hongbo Zhang, Kuimou Yu, Songning Lai, Nanjian Jia, Bowen Tian, Hongru Xiao, Yutao Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09314

RadioFlow: Efficient Radio Map Construction Framework with Flow Matching
Accurate and real-time radio map (RM) generation is crucial for next-generation wireless systems, yet diffusion-based approaches often suffer from large model sizes, slow iterative denoising, and high inference latency, which hinder practical deployment. To overcome these limitations, we propose \textbf{RadioFlow}, a novel flow-matching-based generative framework that achieves high-fidelity RM generation through single-step efficient sampling. Unlike conventional diffusion models, RadioFlow lea…

Recent Highlights from the Auger Engineering Radio Array
Marvin Gottowik (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08510 https://

Recent Highlights from the Auger Engineering Radio Array
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) consists of 153 autonomous antenna stations deployed over 17 km^2 to measure the radio emission from extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energies between 0.1 and 10 EeV in the 30 to 80 MHz frequency band. It operates in coincidence with the other detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory particularly the Surface Detector (SD) and the Fluorescence Detector (FD). As the largest cosmic-ray radio detector worldwide before the recent Observato…

Radio Killed the Axion Star: Constraining Axion Properties with Radio Telescopes
Patrick J. Fox, Neal Weiner, Huangyu Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08371 https://

Radio Killed the Axion Star: Constraining Axion Properties with Radio Telescopes
Axion dark matter or any ultralight bosonic dark matter can go through Bose-Einstein condensation due to the large phase density, leading to the formation of axion stars or solitons in dark matter halo centers. The formation rate is enhanced in the presence of the substructures expected in the post-inflationary scenario for the QCD axion or axion-like particles. An axion star will continue to grow until a critical mass is reached, after which it collapses and then explodes, with the emission of…

Machine Learning Frameworks for Large-Scale Radio Surveys: A Summary of Recent Studies
Nikhel Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11145 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Machine Learning Frameworks for Large-Scale Radio Surveys: A Summary of Recent Studies
The rapid growth of large-scale radio surveys, generating over 100 petabytes of data annually, has created a pressing need for automated data analysis methods. Recent research has explored the application of machine learning techniques to address the challenges associated with detecting and classifying radio galaxies, as well as discovering peculiar radio sources. This paper provides an overview of our investigations with the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey, detailing the methodol…

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in #SanFrancisco, an all-time classic. perhaps the tightest, most well-rehearsed show in the band’s history, played to a room full of #radio execs/programmers sittin…

Bayesian-Driven Graph Reasoning for Active Radio Map Construction
Wenlihan Lu, Shijian Gao, Miaowen Wen, Yuxuan Liang, Chan-Byoung Chae, H. Vincent Poor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09142

Bayesian-Driven Graph Reasoning for Active Radio Map Construction
With the emergence of the low-altitude economy, radio maps have become essential for ensuring reliable wireless connectivity to aerial platforms. Autonomous aerial agents are commonly deployed for data collection using waypoint-based navigation; however, their limited battery capacity significantly constrains coverage and efficiency. To address this, we propose an uncertainty-aware radio map (URAM) reconstruction framework that explicitly leverages graph-based reasoning tailored for waypoint na…

A report on Gregg Wallace substantiates 45 allegations made against the former BBC presenter, including claims of unwelcome physical contact (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/14/report-g…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Joseph Haydn, Grit van Juten, Elena Vink, Robert Gambill, Henk Smit, Netherlands Radio Chamber Choir, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Dieter Rossberg & Robin Gritton:
🎵 L'Anima del Filosofo, ossia 'Orfeo ed Euridice' Act IV

Observation and Modeling of Small Spatial Structures of Solar Radio Noise Storms using the uGMRT
Surajit Mondal, Peijin Zhang, Devojyoti Kansabanik, Divya Oberoi, Gillian Pearce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08093

Observation and Modeling of Small Spatial Structures of Solar Radio Noise Storms using the uGMRT
One of the most commonly observed solar radio sources in the metric and decametric wavelengths is the solar noise storm. These are generally associated with active regions and are believed to be powered by the plasma emission mechanism. Since plasma emission emits primarily at the fundamental and harmonic of the local plasma frequency, it is significantly affected by density inhomogeneities in the solar corona. The source can become significantly scatter-broadened due to the multi-path propagat…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Laura Groves:
🎵 Red
#LauraGroves
https://lauragroves.bandcamp.com/album/radio-red
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ECZaiS4KXchydYrKkAMix

DESI and fast radio burst used to constrain modified theories of gravity
J. A. Astorga-Moreno, Miguel A. Garc\'ia-Aspeitia, A. Hern\'andez-Almada, V. Motta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08056

DESI and fast radio burst used to constrain modified theories of gravity
This paper is devoted to study the viability of DESI and fast radio burst to constraint free parameters of modified theories of gravity. Thus, we present a model supported in $f(R)$ gravity involving a function of the Ricci scalar named Starobinsky-type with the peculiarity that the Non-commutative essence is intrinsic to the coefficients. Additionally, to understand the dynamics within a flat Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker Universe, we explore the possibility of deriving a Friedman equat…

If you are using nextcloud as your main file and photo backup (for personal files, not work!), what are you using for organising your photos?
Photoprism? Memories? Something else?
photoprism
NextCloud photos
something else (add in comments)
NextCloud memories

Pre-perihelion radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with Tianma radio telescope
Juncen Li, Xian Shi, Jianchun Shi, Yuehua Ma, Bin Yang, Jian-Yang Li, Zexi Xing, Man-To Hui, Zhen Wang, Ruining Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06936

Pre-perihelion radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with Tianma radio telescope
{The multiple outburst events of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks during its 2024 apparition offer a unique window into highly-active volatile releasing processes not observable during quiescent periods. We performed radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with the Tianma-65m radio telescope, targeting the OH and NH$_3$ inversion lines at 18-cm and 1.3-cm, respectively. By monitoring 12P at different heliocentric distances on its inbound journey, we aim to provide insights into the comet's volatile co…

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

UNIONS Optical Identifications for VLASS Radio Sources in the Euclid Sky (UNVEIL) I. A Catalog of ~146,000 Radio Galaxies up to z~5
Yuxing Zhong, Kohei Ichikawa, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Stephen Gwyn, Akio K. Inoue, Masafusa Onoue, Masatoshi Imanishi, Taketo Yoshida, Martin Kilbinger, Thomas de Boer, Gregory S. H. Paek, Yoshiki Matsuoka, Tohru Nagao, Yoshiki Toba

UNIONS Optical Identifications for VLASS Radio Sources in the Euclid Sky (UNVEIL) I. A Catalog of ~146,000 Radio Galaxies up to z~5
We present results of optical identifications for Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) radio sources using the Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS). A cross-match between UNIONS and VLASS Epoch 2 catalogs yields 146,212 radio galaxies down to $r=24.5$ mag over a wide area of $\sim4,200\ \mathrm{deg^2}$. We perform g-dropout selections and find $>200$ sources at $z\sim4$ optimistically. Of 63,019 sources with valid photo-$z$, 8,692 are at $z_\mathrm{photo}>1$, and 1,171 are …

Did you use the #ScrollLock key?
#FediPoll
I'm sure I've used it one day
I've forgotten I have it
Wait, you people have a Scroll Lock key?!
What's a Scroll Lock?

When we drove home from our vacations (about 4h), we couldn't find a radio program that totally fit our taste.
So we used #symphonium and webradios (#mp3 streaming) for almost the full drive. And had just a single outage when we were without signal for too long.
No Spotify required. I…

An interview with Ben Meiselas, who runs the left-leaning US media company MeidasTouch with his brothers Jordan and Brett, on Trump, right-wing media, and more (Steve Rose/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

“Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42” by @…:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/07/sassy-outwater/
The “and m…

Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42
Sassy Outwater-Wright died on July 12, 2025 of cancer. She was the self-described Tumor Killer Girl in her fierce, honest, and often heart wrenching writing about the disease that ultimately took her life. As she said during a 2022 public radio interview “My superhero name is Tumor Killer Girl.

Gov. Greg Abbott says emails with Elon Musk are too 'intimate and embarrassing' to make public (Lauren McGaughy/KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station)
https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-07-14/texas-elon-musk-greg-abbott
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p103#a250714p103

Determination of the energy scale of cosmic ray measurements using the Auger Engineering Radio Array
Tim Huege (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08500

Determination of the energy scale of cosmic ray measurements using the Auger Engineering Radio Array
The accurate determination of the absolute energy scale in cosmic ray measurements is both a challenging and fundamentally important task. We present how measurements of radio pulses from extensive air showers with the Auger Engineering Radio Array, combined with per-event simulations of radio emission using the CoREAS extension of CORSIKA, allow us to determine the energy scale of cosmic rays between $3\cdot 10^{17}$\,eV and several $10^{18}$\,eV. Our analysis accounts for many factors, each o…

Trump sieht Treffen als Vorbereitung
US-Präsident Donald Trump schließt nicht aus, dass sein Treffen mit Kremlchef Wladimir Putin ergebnislos bleibt. Er sehe dafür eine Wahrscheinlichkeit von 25 Prozent, sagte Trump dem Sender Fox News Radio auf die Frage, ob er sich ein Scheitern bei dem Gipfel vorstellen könne.
Zugleich bekräftigte Trump, dass er das erste Gespräch in Alaska vor allem als Vorbereitung für ein zweites Treff…
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump äußert sich vor Gipfel vorsichtig optimistisch ++
US-Präsident Donald Trump schließt nicht aus, dass sein Treffen mit Kremlchef Wladimir Putin ergebnislos bleibt. Jeweils 84 Kriegsgefangene haben Moskau und Kiew heute ausgetauscht.

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle | Podcasts | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/11/podcaster-ben-me…

Experimental Validation of Provably Covert Communication Using Software-Defined Radio
Rohan Bali, Trevor E. Bailey, Michael S. Bullock, Boulat A. Bash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08380

Experimental Validation of Provably Covert Communication Using Software-Defined Radio
The fundamental information-theoretic limits of covert, or low probability of detection/intercept (LPD/LPI), communication have been extensively studied for over a decade, resulting in the square root law (SRL): only $L\sqrt{n}$ covert bits can be reliably transmitted over time-bandwidth product $n$, for constant $L>0$. Transmitting more either results in detection or decoding errors. The SRL imposes significant constraints on hardware realization of mathematically-guaranteed covert communicati…

Heute habe ich – dank eines Textes von Barbara Eder in konkret – zum ersten Mal vom Heimcomouter Galaksija gehört. Voja Antonić veröffentliche den Konstruktionsplan 1983/84 in der gleichnamigen Zeitschrift. Es entstand eine große Community von Menschen mit selbst zusammengelöteten Computern, Computerprogramme wurden als Frequenztöne per Radio geteilt und viele andere wilde Dinge. Der englischsprachige Wikipedia-Artikel dazu ist auch sehr umfangreich:

I hadn’t realized Dr Demento was retiring. I’m glad to find out so I can listen to his show on a Sunday as is apropos.
It was a Sunday evening in the early 80s when I found his show, lazing in my grandfathers office (which was also where the TV and radio were, when I ran across “so long mom (I’m off to drop the bomb)” by Tom Lehrer. Two performers who would be influential in my life.
🫡

Dr. Demento

It's #MondayRandom10 time! The first 10 random tracks off my playlist (curently 2048 songs) are:
1. White Zombie – Thunder Kiss ‘65
2. Sara Watkins – Take Up Your Spade
3. Beck – Loser
4. Bomfunk MCs – Freestyler (Radio Edit)
5. Ice Cube – Everythang's Corrupt
6. Future of the Left – Animals Beginning with a B
7. Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye
8. R…

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Interpretation of Radio Regulations
Zakaria El Kassimi, Fares Fourati, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09651 https://…

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Interpretation of Radio Regulations
We study question answering in the domain of radio regulations, a legally sensitive and high-stakes area. We propose a telecom-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline and introduce, to our knowledge, the first multiple-choice evaluation set for this domain, constructed from authoritative sources using automated filtering and human validation. To assess retrieval quality, we define a domain-specific retrieval metric, under which our retriever achieves approximately 97% accuracy. B…

Eco Radio
Eco Radio explores some of the strategies at the forefront of the move toward sustainability...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/eco-radio/

During video calls for work or any other contexts, have you witnessed anyone turn off automated transcription for the sake of privacy or to speak off the record?
If yes, I'd be interested in hearing your specific experiences in replies or private DMs if you’re comfortable.
Yes
No
Not personally, but I’ve heard of this happening

West Texas parents outraged over abuse of kids | Marfa Public Radio https://www.marfapublicradio.org/2025-10-13/my-child-was-screaming-like-crazy-west-texas-parents-outraged-over-alleged-abuse-of-kids …

“My child was screaming like crazy:” West Texas parents outraged over alleged abuse of kids
The Midland school district has said it has followed the law. Six teachers and the school principal have either resigned or been fired over the alleged abuse of special needs students.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- For the tongues of angels and souls purified by fire
The German Radio Philharmonic and Munich Radio Choir join forces in the ornate Ottobeuren Abbey for Bruckner's Te Deum, a work that the composer deemed the 'pride of his life.'
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j628

RadioMamba: Breaking the Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-off in Radio Map Construction via a Hybrid Mamba-UNet
Honggang Jia (Sherman), Nan Cheng (Sherman), Xiucheng Wang (Sherman), Conghao Zhou (Sherman), Ruijin Sun (Sherman), Xuemin (Sherman), Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09140

RadioMamba: Breaking the Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-off in Radio Map Construction via a Hybrid Mamba-UNet
Radio map (RM) has recently attracted much attention since it can provide real-time and accurate spatial channel information for 6G services and applications. However, current deep learning-based methods for RM construction exhibit well known accuracy-efficiency trade-off. In this paper, we introduce RadioMamba, a hybrid Mamba-UNet architecture for RM construction to address the trade-off. Generally, accurate RM construction requires modeling long-range spatial dependencies, reflecting the glob…

Former center A.Q. Shipley will fit well as radio analyst https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45922507/arizona-cardinals-aq-shipley-radio-analyst

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Vega 4:
🎵 Radio song
#NowPlaying #Vega4

Cross-Receiver Generalization for RF Fingerprint Identification via Feature Disentanglement and Adversarial Training
Yuhao Pan, Xiucheng Wang, Nan Cheng, Wenchao Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09405

Cross-Receiver Generalization for RF Fingerprint Identification via Feature Disentanglement and Adversarial Training
Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) is a critical technique for wireless network security, leveraging intrinsic hardware-level imperfections introduced during device manufacturing to enable precise transmitter identification. While deep neural networks have shown remarkable capability in extracting discriminative features, their real-world deployment is hindered by receiver-induced variability. In practice, RF fingerprint signals comprise transmitter-specific features as well as c…

A survey for radio pulsars and transients in the 10 pc region around Sgr A*
G. Desvignes, R. P. Eatough, Y. Men, F. Abbate, R. Karuppusamy, M. Kramer, K. Liu, L. Shao, P. Torne, R. S. Wharton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08534

A survey for radio pulsars and transients in the 10 pc region around Sgr A*
Here we report on a new survey for pulsars and transients in the 10 pc region around Sgr A* using the Effelsberg radio telescope at frequencies between 4 to 8 GHz. Our calibrated full-Stokes data were searched for pulsars and transients using PulsarX, TransientX and PRESTO. Polarisation information is used in the scoring of the candidates. Our periodicity acceleration and jerk searches allowed us to maintain good sensitivity towards binary pulsars in $\gtrsim$ 10-hr orbits. In addition we perfo…

Ion acceleration in Fermi-LAT behind-the-limb solar flares: the role of coronal shock waves
Alexander Warmuth, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Nicola Omodei, Song Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08452

Ion acceleration in Fermi-LAT behind-the-limb solar flares: the role of coronal shock waves
We investigate the relationship between the gamma-ray emission measured with Fermi-LAT and radio signatures of coronal shock waves in four behind-the-limb (BTL) solar flares. All events were associated with metric type II radio burst. Both start and end times of the radio bursts were synchronized with the gamma-ray emission. The type II bursts associated with the BTL gamma-ray flares had higher speeds and lower formation heights than those of an average sample. These findings support the notion…

Generalized Distributions of Host Dispersion Measures in the Fast Radio Burst Cosmology
Jing-Yi Jia, Da-Chun Qiang, Lin-Yu Li, Hao Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09463 https://

Generalized Distributions of Host Dispersion Measures in the Fast Radio Burst Cosmology
As is well known, Hubble tension is one of the most serious challenges in cosmology to date. So, it is of interest to measure the Hubble constant by using some new probes independent of cosmic microwave background (CMB) and type Ia supernovae (SNIa). One of the promising probes is the fast radio bursts (FRBs), which could be useful in cosmology. In the literature, the methodology proposed by Macquart {\it et al.} has been widely used, in which both $\rm DM_{IGM}$ and $\rm DM_{host}$ are describ…

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
Prakash Apoorva, Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, P. K. Navaneeth, Dhruv Nayak, Arundhati Purohit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09518

RAD@home citizen science discovery of two spiral galaxies where the 30-220 kpc radio lobes are possibly shaped by ram pressure stripping
We report the RAD@home citizen science discovery of two rare spiral-host radio galaxies (NGC 3898 and WISEA J221656.57-132042434.1 or RAD-"Thumbs up" galaxy), both exhibiting asymmetric radio lobes extending over 30 to 220 kiloparsec scales. We present a multi-wavelength image analysis of these two sources using radio, optical, and ultraviolet data. Both host galaxies are young, star-forming systems with asymmetric or distorted stellar disks. These disks show similarities to those in galaxies u…

ASKAP and VLASS Search for a Radio-continuum Counterpart of Ultra-high-energy Neutrino Event KM3–230213A: #Neutrino Emission on the Extragalactic Express - A Mystery: https://aasnova.org/2025/08/13/ultra-high-energy-neutrino-emission-on-the-extragalactic-express-a-mystery/

Event reconstruction with the Radio detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Simon Str\"ahnz (for the Pierre Auger collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08556

Event reconstruction with the Radio detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory has recently been upgraded with the addition of radio antennas, forming the radio detector (RD). This contribution outlines the standard methods for reconstructing extensive air showers using the RD, along with recent developments. The reconstruction pipeline is based on a robust understanding of the detector itself. The entire instrument, including the antenna pattern and analog chain, has been meticulously characterized within the Offline s…

Tammy Bruce is a former radio host who was a commentator on Fox News for more than 20 years,
where she also served as an occasional guest host of Trump favorite Sean Hannity’s show.
Before her political conversion to conservatism, she hosted a radio show where her outspoken views were broadcast widely on Los Angeles station KFI, and she was one of the few radio commentators representing the progressive movement at that time.
Bruce was fired from her radio job after she voc…

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead take over the great american music hall in #SanFrancisco for an extended soundcheck before the next day’s radio showcase.
much (but not all) coming on the “blues for allah” 50th reissue:

Trump vor Gipfel: Setze auf Deal mit Putin
US-Präsident Donald Trump bekräftigt seine Zuversicht vor dem Gipfeltreffen mit dem russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin. "Ich glaube, er wird einen Deal machen", sagt Trump dem Sender Fox News Radio. Er äußert die Ansicht, seine Drohung mit Sanktionen habe wahrscheinlich eine Rolle bei Putins Entscheidung für das Treffen gespielt.
Wenn das bilaterale Treffen erfolgreich sei, wolle…
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump äußert sich vor Gipfel vorsichtig optimistisch ++
US-Präsident Donald Trump schließt nicht aus, dass sein Treffen mit Kremlchef Wladimir Putin ergebnislos bleibt. Jeweils 84 Kriegsgefangene haben Moskau und Kiew heute ausgetauscht.

The Low-Frequency Spectra of Radio Pulsars
Ting Yu, Zhongli Zhang, Hongyu Gong, Zhigang Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09091 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.090…

The Low-Frequency Spectra of Radio Pulsars
Low-frequency spectral studies of radio pulsars represent a key method for uncovering their emission mechanisms, magnetospheric structure, and signal interactions with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). In recent years, more next-generation low-frequency radio telescopes (e.g., LOFAR, LWA and MWA) have enriched the observational window below 350 MHz, enabling more detailed explorations of the ISM effects, such as absorption and scattering, resulting in diverse spectral behaviors observe…

Waves of Imagination: Unconditional Spectrogram Generation using Diffusion Architectures
Rahul Vanukuri, Shafi Ullah Khan, Talip Tolga Sar{\i}, Gokhan Secinti, Diego Pati\~no, Debashri Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10044

Waves of Imagination: Unconditional Spectrogram Generation using Diffusion Architectures
The growing demand for effective spectrum management and interference mitigation in shared bands, such as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), requires robust radar detection algorithms to protect the military transmission from interference due to commercial wireless transmission. These algorithms, in turn, depend on large, diverse, and carefully labeled spectrogram datasets. However, collecting and annotating real-world radio frequency (RF) spectrogram data remains a significant challe…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
TV on the Radio:
🎵 Wolf Like Me
#TVontheRadio
https://tvontheradio.bandcamp.com/track/wolf-like-me-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Zgd7SomLTZkL1WPh4CUnV

Unraveling the emission mechanism powering long period radio transients from interacting white dwarf binaries via kinetic plasma simulations
Yici Zhong, Elias R. Most
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09057

Unraveling the emission mechanism powering long period radio transients from interacting white dwarf binaries via kinetic plasma simulations
Recent observations of long period radio transients, such as GLEAM-X J0704-37 and ILTJ1101 + 5521, have revealed a previously unrecognized population of galactic radio transient sources associated with white dwarf - M dwarf binaries. It is an open question how to produce coherent radio emission in these systems, though a model driven by binary interaction seems likely given the nature and correlation of the emission with the binaries' orbital period. Using kinetic plasma simulations, we demonst…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Soulwax:
🎵 Run Free (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Soulwax
https://soulwax.bandcamp.com/album/all-systems-are-lying-run-free
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FpGarU82UbiZXyI7Dyh6M

It's Robert Reich.
Never have I seen a president or Congress do so much harm to so many people in so little time.
Trump and his MAGA stooges in Congress have:
- Stripped health care from 10 million people;
- Cut food stamp benefits for 40 million, half of them children;
- Slashed $8 billion from foreign aid programs;
- Defunded public radio and TV;
- Handed $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to Trump and his billionaire friends.
It's our job to ho…

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Fast radio bursts shed light on direct gravity test on cosmological scales
Shuren Zhou, Pengjie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11022 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Fast radio bursts shed light on direct gravity test on cosmological scales
A key measure of gravity is the relation between the Weyl potential $Ψ+Φ$ and the matter overdensity $δ_m$, capsulized as an effective gravitational constant $G_{\rm light}$ for light motion. Its value, together with the possible spatial and temporal variation, is essential in probing physics beyond Einstein gravity. However, the lack of an unbiased proxy of $δ_m$ prohibits direct measurement of $G_{\rm light}$. We point out that the equivalence principle ensures the dispersion measure (DM)…

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
Jake D. Turner, Jack O. Burns, David Rapetti, Philippe Zarka, Jean-Mathias Grie{\ss}meier, Judd Bowman, Gregg Hallinan, Joshua Hibbard, Johnny Dorigo Jones, Laurent Lamy, Corentin K. Louis, Richard Lovelace, Nivedita Mahesh, Ronald Polidan, Xiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09222

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
Exoplanets with and without a magnetic field are predicted to form, behave, and evolve very differently. Therefore, there is great need to directly constrain these fields to holistically understand the properties of exoplanets including their potential habitability. This goal aligns with the Astro2020 Decadal Survey recommendations. Observing planetary auroral radio emissions is among the most promising detection methods, but decades of searching have yet to yield a conclusive detection, though…

Measuring the Magnetic Field of a Coronal Mass Ejection from Low to Middle Corona
Xingyao Chen, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, Surajit Mondal, Muriel Zo\"e Stiefel, Peijin Zhang, Dale E. Gary, S\"am Krucker, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D'Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jacobs, Ghislain Ke…

Measuring the Magnetic Field of a Coronal Mass Ejection from Low to Middle Corona
A major challenge in understanding the initiation and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is measuring the magnetic field of the magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) that drive CMEs. Recent developments in radio imaging spectroscopy have paved the way for diagnosing the CMEs' magnetic field using gyrosynchrotron radiation. We present magnetic field measurements of a CME associated with an X5-class flare by combining radio imaging spectroscopy data in microwaves (1--18 GHz) and meter-wave (20--88 M…

Evidence for an intrinsic luminosity-decay correlation in GRB radio afterglows
S. P. R. Shilling, S. R. Oates, D. A. Kann, J. Patel, J. L. Racusin, B. Cenko, R. Gupta, M. Smith, L. Rhodes, K. R. Hinds, M. Nicholl, A. Breeveld, M. Page, M. De Pasquale, B. Gompertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07276

Evidence for an intrinsic luminosity-decay correlation in GRB radio afterglows
We present the discovery of a correlation, in a sample of 16 gamma-ray burst 8.5 GHz radio afterglows, between the intrinsic luminosity measured at 10 days in the rest frame, $L_{\mathrm{Radio,10d}}$, and the average rate of decay past this time, $α_{>10d}$. The correlation has a Spearman's rank coefficient of $-0.70 \pm 0.13$ at a significance of $>3σ$ and a linear regression fit of $α_{>10d} = -0.29^{+0.19}_{-0.28} \log \left(L_{\mathrm{Radio,10d}} \right) + 8.12^{+8.86}_{-5.88}$. This fin…

Chicago Public Media, which owns the Sun-Times and public radio station WBEZ, names Kimbriell Kelly as EIC effective September 2, succeeding Jennifer Kho (David Roeder/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/media/2025/08/14/kimbriell-…

Kimbriell Kelly named editor-in-chief at Sun-Times, WBEZ
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Kelly has a background in investigative reporting. She will succeed Jennifer Kho, who will work on a project dealing with the future of public media.

Characterizing 5G User Throughput via Uncertainty Modeling and Crowdsourced Measurements
Javier Albert-Smet, Zoraida Frias, Luis Mendo, Sergio Melones, Eduardo Yraola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09239

Characterizing 5G User Throughput via Uncertainty Modeling and Crowdsourced Measurements
Characterizing application-layer user throughput in next-generation networks is increasingly challenging as the higher capacity of the 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) shifts connectivity bottlenecks towards deeper parts of the network. Traditional methods, such as drive tests and operator equipment counters, are costly, limited, or fail to capture end-to-end (E2E) Quality of Service (QoS) and its variability. In this work, we leverage large-scale crowdsourced measurements-including E2E, radio, co…

Powerful Radio Sources as Probes of Black Hole Physics
Ruth A. Daly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09914 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09914

Powerful Radio Sources as Probes of Black Hole Physics
Powerful jetted radio sources for which the luminosity in directed kinetic energy has been empirically determined, independent of assumptions, are considered. The total outflow lifetime of each source determined in the context of detailed cosmological studies was found to depend only upon the luminosity in directed kinetic energy ($L$). The distributions of $L$, total outflow lifetime, and total outflow energy each have a broad range of values, as do the supermassive black hole masses. The tota…

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Secure Transmission for Cell-Free Symbiotic Radio Communications with Movable Antenna: Continuous and Discrete Positioning Designs
Bin Lyu, Jiayu Guan, Meng Hua, Changsheng You, Tianqi Mao, Abbas Jamalipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06868

Secure Transmission for Cell-Free Symbiotic Radio Communications with Movable Antenna: Continuous and Discrete Positioning Designs
In this paper, we study a movable antenna (MA) empowered secure transmission scheme for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided cell-free symbiotic radio (SR) system. Specifically, the MAs deployed at distributed access points (APs) work collaboratively with the RIS to establish high-quality propagation links for both primary and secondary transmissions, as well as suppressing the risk of eavesdropping on confidential primary information. We consider both continuous and discrete MA posit…

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MAGAZ3NE: Far-IR and Radio Insights into the Nature and Properties of Ultramassive Galaxies at $z\gtrsim3$
Wenjun Chang, Gillian Wilson, Ben Forrest, Ian McConachie, Tracy Webb, Allison G. Noble, Adam Muzzin, Michael C. Cooper, Danilo Marchesini, Gabriela Canalizo, A. J. Battisti, Aur\'elien Le Bail, Percy L. Gomez, Stephanie M. Urbano Stawinski, Marie E. Wisz

MAGAZ3NE: Far-IR and Radio Insights into the Nature and Properties of Ultramassive Galaxies at $z\gtrsim3$
Deep and wide-field near-infrared (NIR) surveys have recently discovered and confirmed ultramassive galaxies (UMGs; $\log (M_{\star}/M_{\odot})>11$) spectroscopically at high redshift. However, most are characterized using only ultraviolet (UV)-to-NIR photometry, offering limited insight into obscured star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity. In this work, we add ten far-infrared (FIR)-to-radio passbands to the existing UV-to-NIR catalogs for two spectroscopically confirmed UMG…

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No Metallicity Preference in Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies
Shotaro Yamasaki, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Haruka Kusakabe, Tomotsugu Goto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07688 https://…

No Metallicity Preference in Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients of unknown origin, and studying their host galaxies could offer clues to constrain progenitor models. Among various host properties, gas-phase metallicity is a key factor influencing stellar evolution and the production of transients. We analyze the largest uniformly selected sample of FRB host galaxies to date, measuring oxygen abundances (12+log(O/H) = 8.04-8.84) for 40 hosts using consistent emission-line diagno…

Joint Beamforming Optimization for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)-assisted Symbiotic Radio
Ze Wang, Guoping Zhang, Hongbo Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07002 https://

Joint Beamforming Optimization for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)-assisted Symbiotic Radio
This paper investigates a novel downlink symbiotic radio (SR) framework empowered by the pinching antenna system (PASS), aiming to enhance both primary and secondary transmissions through reconfigurable antenna positioning. PASS consists of multiple waveguides equipped with numerous low-cost pinching antennas (PAs), whose positions can be flexibly adjusted to simultaneously manipulate large-scale path loss and signal phases.We formulate a joint transmit and pinching beamforming optimization pro…

A look at low-power radio stations, which are hyperlocal, focused on emergency notifications and community voices, and usually very budget-constrained (Lucy Schiller/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/public-media-f…

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.
Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.

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Magnetic White Dwarf -- M Dwarf Binaries in Pre-polar Phase as Special Population of Long-Period Radio Transients
Yuan-Pei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09224 https://

Magnetic White Dwarf -- M Dwarf Binaries in Pre-polar Phase as Special Population of Long-Period Radio Transients
Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are a new class of coherent radio sources with periods ranging from minutes to hours. Recently, two LPT sources, ILT J1101+5521 and GLEAM-X J0704-37, with periods of 2-3 hours has been confirmed to originate from white dwarf (WD) -- M dwarf (MD) binaries. In this work, we propose that at least some LPTs originate from the magnetic WD -- MD binaries in the pre-polar phase. The asynchronism between the WD's rotation and the binary's orbital motion allows for th…

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Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
M. P. Snelders, J. W. T. Hessels, J. Huang, N. Sridhar, B. Marcote, A. M. Moroianu, O. S. Ould-Boukattine, F. Kirsten, S. Bhandari, D. M. Hewitt, D. Pelliciari, L. Rhodes, R. Anna-Thomas, U. Bach, E. K. Bempong-Manful, V. Bezrukovs, J. D. Bray, S. Buttaccio, I. Cognard, A. Corongiu, R. Feiler, M. P. Gawro\'nski, M. Giroletti, L. Guillemot, R. Karuppusamy, M. Lindqvist, K. Nimmo, A. Possenti, W…

Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
FRB 20121102A is the original repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source and also the first to be localised to milliarcsecond precision using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). It has been active for over 13 years and resides in an extreme magneto-ionic environment in a dwarf host galaxy at a distance of ~1 Gpc. In this work, we use the European VLBI Network (EVN) to (re-)localise FRB 20121102A and its associated persistent radio source (PRS). We confirm that the two are co-located -- impro…

Radio continuum and \HI 21-cm line observations of a nearby luminous infrared galaxy IRAS 17526 3253
Jianfeng Wu, Zhongzu Wu, Yulia Sotnikova, Bo Zhang, Yongjun Chen, Timur Mufakharov, Zhiqiang Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06075

Radio continuum and \HI 21-cm line observations of a nearby luminous infrared galaxy IRAS 17526+3253
We present results from our EVN and GMRT observations of the radio continuum and spectral line emission in IRAS 17526+3253, along with an analysis of its arcsecond-scale radio properties using archival VLA data. The EVN observations detected radio continuum emission from both the northwest (NW) and southeast (SE) nuclei. The NW nucleus shows two components with high brightness temperatures and radio luminosities, likely indicating the presence of an AGN core and jet. Meanwhile, our EVN observat…

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The superMIGHTEE project: MeerKAT and GMRT Together to Unveil the Deep Radio Sky
Dharam V. Lal (NCRA-TIFR), Russ Taylor (IDIA, Univ. of C.T., Univ. of W.C.), Srikrishna Sekhar (NRAO, IDIA, Univ. of C.T.), Ch. Ishwara-Chandra (NCRA-TIFR), Sushant Dutta (Univ. of C.T.), Sthabile Kolwa (UCT, Univ. of S.A.)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09293

The superMIGHTEE project: MeerKAT and GMRT Together to Unveil the Deep Radio Sky
An international team of researchers has come together to undertake an ultra-broadband exploration of the deep radio sky. The superMIGHTEE project combines data from the MIGHTEE project, using the precursor Square Kilometre Array (SKA) MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, with observations from the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in India to produce deep images at several $μ$Jy sensitivity over a frequency range of 200 MHz--2.5 GHz, with an angular resolution of a few arcseconds…

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Mapping Jet-Gas Coupling and energetic ionized outflows in High-Redshift Radio Galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec
Namrata Roy, Timothy Heckman, Alaina Henry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06707

Mapping Jet-Gas Coupling and energetic ionized outflows in High-Redshift Radio Galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec
We present spatially resolved maps of morphology, kinematics, and energetics of warm ionized gas in six powerful radio galaxies at z=3.5-4, using JWST/NIRSpec IFU to quantify jet-driven feedback in the early universe. All sources exhibit broad [OIII] emission-line profiles with W80 (line width) values of 950-2500 km/s across $\sim$10s of kpc, signifying large-scale outflows. The outflowing nebulae are preferentially aligned with the radio jet axis, suggesting jet-driven origin. On average, the …

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- Ravel and Dutilleux from Poland
Angela Hewitt plays Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, in a programme including Dutilleux's Métaboles and Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole.
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Featuring performances by some of the current and recent Radio 3 New Generation Artists including some of those who have appeared at this year's BBC Proms.
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