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The ngscopeclient about dialog now has a (hopefully) full list of all 77 authors credited! Very manual generation process for now, but I'm going to try and automate the list generation for the future.
One less thing to do before we ship the v0.1 release.
We now have only six release blocking tickets and then we can ship it:
* Fix some shaders assuming unlimited X axis thread block size is possible
* Binary packaging for MacOS
* Window resize events not handled …

Formation process of young stellar population in Messier 16 from a kinematic perspective
Beomdu Lim, Hyeong-Sik Yun, Hyun-Jeong Kim, Yuna Lee, Jae-Rim Koo, Jongsuk Hong, Heeyoung Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08666

Formation process of young stellar population in Messier 16 from a kinematic perspective
We present a kinematic study of young stars in Messier 16 (M16) using the Gaia Data Release 3 and high-resolution spectra. A total of 345 stars are selected as genuine members using the published lists of X-ray, infrared sources, and early-type stars as well as the Gaia data. There is severe differential reddening across this region and the reddening law of the intracluster medium appears abnormal. The distance to M16, derived from the parallaxes of the members, is about 1.7 kpc. The ages of me…

Expanding the Pierre Auger Observatory Open Data program
V. Scherini (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08504 https://

Expanding the Pierre Auger Observatory Open Data program
Since 2021, the Open Data Portal has provided access to the Pierre Auger Observatory's data for both the scientific community and the general public. The data release process has been in place since the Observatory's foundation. It continues to be strengthened as outlined in the approved policy and the Observatory's Data Management Plan. More than 80 000 cosmic-ray events above $10^{17}$ eV, detected with the surface and fluorescence detectors, have been released at various levels, from calibra…

Trump nominates chief economist at rightwing Heritage Foundation
to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics
The nomination comes after Trump fired the BLS commissioner
Erika McEntarfer earlier this month
after the release of a weak jobs report.
Antoni has previously voiced concerns about revisions to the jobs data at BLS.
“There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data
– that is the task for the next BLS commissioner,
and only consiste…

Time to release Abdullah Ocalan!
Kurdish PKK to lay down arms in big step towards ending Turkey conflict - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvj5v67ly9o

Kurdish PKK to lay down arms in big step towards ending Turkey conflict
The disarmament process will start under tight security in Iraqi Kurdistan and is expected to take all summer.

Reading through the changelog, I’m struck by how many new features we have. How is it platforms like Threads, Bluesky, and Twatter take forever to release a new feature with the huge resources they have???
https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/114821931700210430

Quote Posts are almost here!
Finally! A feature that has been held back for a long time but that really brings life to a social network: the ability to share, add, etc.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/

The recent release of Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs), is super interesting.
The technical report provides plenty of details about the entire process.
#ai #opensource #llm

apertus-tech-report/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf at main · swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report
Tech Report of the Apertus LLM Suite. Contribute to swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report development by creating an account on GitHub.

ServiceNow reports Q2 revenue up 22.5% YoY to $3.22B, vs. $3.12B est., and net income up 47% YoY to $385M, fueled by AI growth; NOW jumps 7% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/servicenow-now-q2-earnings-2025.html

ServiceNow lifts guidance on AI growth
"Every business process in every industry is being refactored for agentic AI," said ServiceNow chair and CEO Bill McDermott in a release.

Explaining Christian Wilkins' grievance against Raiders after his abrupt release https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6515836/2025/07/26/christian-wilkins-grievance-raiders-nflpa/

Explaining Christian Wilkins' grievance against Raiders after his abrupt release https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6515836/2025/07/26/christian-wilkins-grievance-raiders-nflpa/

Crypto-Assisted Graph Degree Sequence Release under Local Differential Privacy
Xiaojian Zhang, Junqing Wang, Kerui Chen, Peiyuan Zhao, Huiyuan Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10627

Crypto-Assisted Graph Degree Sequence Release under Local Differential Privacy
Given a graph $G$ defined in a domain $\mathcal{G}$, we investigate locally differentially private mechanisms to release a degree sequence on $\mathcal{G}$ that accurately approximates the actual degree distribution. Existing solutions for this problem mostly use graph projection techniques based on edge deletion process, using a threshold parameter $θ$ to bound node degrees. However, this approach presents a fundamental trade-off in threshold parameter selection. While large $θ$ values intro…

"Scheme to release beavers into wild in England has stalled, say nature experts"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Beavers #Animals

Seems like the situation that lead to the Bell Riots in #ds9 episode "Past Tense" is finally coming true...
https://werd.social/@ben/114910169932717016

Local extraction of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection X-lines
Maximilian M. Richter, Patricio A. Mu\~noz, Felix Spanier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00915 https://

Local extraction of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection X-lines
Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important magnetic energy conversion processes observed in laboratory and space plasmas. It describes the breaking and joining of magnetic field lines, leading to the release of magnetic energy and the acceleration of charged particles. Finding regions where fast reconnection occurs is key to understanding this process. However, identifying such reconnection events within a turbulent environment in three dimensions remains a challenge. In this work, we d…

Infrared observations reveal the reprocessing envelope in the tidal disruption event AT 2019azh
Thomas M. Reynolds, Lars Thomsen, Seppo Mattila, Takashi Nagao, Joseph P. Anderson, Franz E. Bauer, Panos Charalampopoulos, Lixin Dai, Sara Faris, Mariusz Gromadzki, Claudia P. Guti\'errez, Hanin Kuncarayakti, Cosimo Inserra, Erkki Kankare, Timo Kravtsov, Shane Moran, Phil Wiseman

Infrared observations reveal the reprocessing envelope in the tidal disruption event AT 2019azh
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are expected to release much of their energy in the far-ultraviolet (UV), which we do not observe directly. However, infrared (IR) observations can observe re-radiation of the optical/UV emission from dust, and if this dust is observed in the process of sublimation, we can infer the un-observed UV radiated energy. TDEs have also been predicted to show spectra shallower than a blackbody in the IR, but this has not yet been observed. We present near/mid-IR observati…

Searching for continuous gravitational waves in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array DR3
Shi-Yi Zhao, Zu-Cheng Chen, Jacob Cardinal Tremblay, Boris Goncharov, Xing-Jiang Zhu, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Ma{\l}gorzata Cury{\l}o, Shi Dai, Valentina Di Marco, Hao Ding, George Hobbs, Agastya Kapur, Wenhua Ling, Tao Liu, Rami Mandow, Saurav Mishra, Daniel J. Reardon, Christopher J Russell, Ryan M. Shannon, Shuangqiang Wang, Lei Zhang, Andrew Zic

Searching for continuous gravitational waves in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array DR3
We present results from an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from individual supermassive binary black holes using the third data release (DR3) of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA). Even though we recover a common-spectrum stochastic process, potentially induced by a nanohertz gravitational wave background, we find no evidence of continuous waves. Therefore, we place upper limits on the gravitational-wave strain amplitude: in the most sensitive frequency range around 10 nHz,…

Accelerating Universe without dark energy: matter creation after DESI DR2
Sauvik Bhattacharjee, Sudip Halder, Jaume de Haro, Supriya Pan, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15575

Accelerating Universe without dark energy: matter creation after DESI DR2
We investigate the cosmological matter creation scenario, an alternative approach to both dark energy and modified gravity theories, after the recent DESI DR2-BAO release. We consider that the total matter sector consists of three independently evolving components, namely, radiation, baryons, and dark matter, with the latter being governed by an adiabatic matter creation process that leads to a modified continuity equation. Due to the violation of the standard conservation law, a creation press…

Asteroseismology with PBjam 2.0: measuring dipole mode frequencies in coupling regimes from main sequence to low-luminosity red giant stars
M. B. Nielsen, J. M. J. Ong, E. J. Hatt, G. R. Davies, W. J. Chaplin, G. T. Hookway, A. Stokholm, O. J. Scutt, M. N. Lund, R. A. Garc{\i}a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20382

Asteroseismology with PBjam 2.0: measuring dipole mode frequencies in coupling regimes from main sequence to low-luminosity red giant stars
PBjam is an open-source software package for measuring mode frequencies of solar-like oscillators. These frequencies help constrain stellar evolution models to precisely estimate masses, radii, and ages of stars. The overall aim of PBjam is to simplify this process to the point where it may be done by non-experts or performed on thousands of stars with minimal interaction. The initial release of PBjam was restricted to only identifying modes of $\ell=0$ and $\ell=2$, since these are the simples…