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😍 Der globale #LNG-Markt verändert sich grundlegend mit direkten Folgen für Australien.
Länder wie #Pakistan, #Indien und

How solar and big batteries are shaping a new global gas market reality – and what it means for Australia
Gas power's business model is disappearing. Solar has cut into daytime operation. Batteries are starting to take the rest. And that's bad news for Australian LNG.

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship

Introducing the a16z New Media Fellowship
A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, astrophysicists have for the first time found firm evidence that a companion is disrupting the atmosphere of Betelgeuse.
Like a boat moving through water, the companion star creates a ripple effect in Betelgeuse’s atmosphere.
Astronomers now see direct signs of this wake, confirming that Betelgeuse really does have a hidden companion shaping its appearance and behavior.

NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship

Introducing the a16z New Media Fellowship
A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media

"Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture"
#Worms #Environment
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Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture
Earthworms don't stop shaping soil processes when they die. A new study shows they can still help store carbon in the soil, even after death. "This is quite surprising," says lead author Tullia Calogiuri. "Most of our knowledge about earthworms comes from their activity while alive, such as burrowing, feeding, and producing feces. Finding that they also play a role after death is exciting."

🤼‍♂️ Japan's sumo association turns 100, but the sport's rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country
https://theconversation.com/japans-sumo-association-turns-100-but…

Japan’s sumo association turns 100 – but the sport’s rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country
As Japan’s national sport, sumo has shaped perceptions of its culture since the mid-1800s.

#ChristmasMusic still wafting through the house, now intermingled with my daughter's homemade sourdough bread. We'll devour that at lunch with my wife's homemade chicken soup. This is shaping up to be an awesome weekend.
#Baking #RandomTune
https://youtu.be/wx8BWzOfIOA?si=ue_2u74Ii0NUmqCB

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA's post-Trump future (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/04/chris-buskirk-maga-vance-post-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYyMjMyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNjE0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjIyMzI0MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk5YWZhMmE5LTZhYWEtNGE3NC1iMWMxLTUxNjUzMmZmOWJkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMTEvMDQvY2hyaXMtYnVza2lyay1tYWdhLXZhbmNlLXBvc3QtdHJ1bXAvIn0.Nk3INROYmwwt16HaHUNQ_iWxt9l3u1o1G7ZftWlMiH4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p37#a251104p37

MUSICbible Australia
Your backstage pass to the artists, stories, and moments shaping the Australian music scene...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/musicbible-australia/

🦠 Global initiative launches to prioritize conservation of vital microbial life
#bacteria

Global initiative launches to prioritize conservation of vital microbial life
Microbes include bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae and archaea (single-celled microorganisms with a bacteria-like structure). They are invisible to the human eye, but they play a huge role, shaping ecosystems, producing food and regulating disease.

Straight from the Ministry of Truth: unemployment is now a "jobless boom."
https://www.aol.com/articles/jobless-boom-shaping-story-2026-014531927.html

Simultaneously Determining Regional Heterogeneity and Connection Directionality from Neural Activity and Symmetric Connection
Jiawen Chang, Zhuda Yang, Changsong Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04110

Simultaneously Determining Regional Heterogeneity and Connection Directionality from Neural Activity and Symmetric Connection
The spatiotemporal patterns of neural dynamics are jointly shaped by directed structural interactions and heterogeneous intrinsic features of the neural components. Despite well-developed methods for estimating directionality in network connections from network of homogeneous nodes, how local heterogeneity impacts on directionality estimation remains poorly understood. In particular, the role of excitatory-inhibitory interactions in shaping network directionality and how these interactions shou…

The #EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) has now an Implementing Act:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/cyber-resilience-act-imple…

Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together
Hi everyone, We recently shared how we’re approaching AI in Firefox with user choice and openness at the center of everything we build. We’ve heard from many of you who’d prefer not to have AI in your browser at all, and we get it: We will soon provide additional settings for you to control how AI i...

25% of all traffic across the GÉANT backbone comes from or goes to regions outside Europe.
With intercontinental traffic expected to grow by another 30–35% annually, resilient long-term global links are essential.
In this #CONNECT50 article, Tanja Maier highlights several major cable projects shaping intercontinental R&E connectivity:

Last week, I had the honour of presenting my work on smart charging and V2G to the IEA's Transport Project Partnership.
https://www.iea.org/news/the-iea-convenes-transport-project-partnership-to-examine-the-topics…

The IEA convenes Transport Project Partnership to examine the topics shaping the transport sector - News - IEA
The IEA convenes Transport Project Partnership to examine the topics shaping the transport sector - News from the International Energy Agency

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/s…

Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media'
Adam Mosseri offered a notably candid assessment on how AI is upending Instagram.

Before plants or animals, fungi conquered Earth’s surface #nature

Before plants or animals, fungi conquered Earth’s surface
Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals appeared. Using advanced molecular dating and gene transfer analysis, researchers reconstructed fungi’s ancient lineage, revealing they were crucial in shaping Earth’s first soils and ecosystems.

"How vets are shaping a more sustainable future"
#Animals #Sustainability
https://www.edi…

Super Bowl 2026 odds entering Week 18 with No. 1 seeds and division titles still up for grabs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-odds-week-18-no-1-seeds-divis…

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- Prior preferences in active inference agents: soft, hard, and goal shaping
Filippo Torresan, Ryota Kanai, Manuel Baltieri

If you're free Wednesday night in SF, check out this panel on social housing at 518 Valencia. Sounds like it'll be good (I unfortunately can't make it):
Wed, Oct 22, 7:30pm
Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs
"What we’re doing on housing isn’t working. We’ve upzoned, streamlined, deregulated. And still, the crisis deepens. There is a movement waiting to be built—...rooted in care, solidarity, and the belief that everyone deserves a place to live.&qu…

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Global average farm size may triple by 2100 amid rural population decline
#farming …

Global average farm size may triple by 2100 amid rural population decline
Farm size plays a crucial role in shaping food production systems and environmental outcomes. However, its long-term global trends have remained poorly understood.

This really is shaping up to be one of the worst governments in living memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/25/moj-considering-extreme-proposal-to-scrap-jury-trials-for-all-but-most-serious-cases

There were many other great talks at the #OpenSSL conference, I encourage you to check them out at https://www.youtube.com/@OpenSSLConference. Some of my highlights in 🧵.

OpenSSL Conference
The official channel of the OpenSSL Conference Watch talks, panels, and interviews from the 2025 conference in Prague and stay tuned for updates on the next edition. Subscribe to follow the OpenSSL community, explore expert insights, and keep up with future events shaping the world of secure communications.

Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/s…

Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media'
Adam Mosseri offered a notably candid assessment on how AI is upending Instagram.

Here's Fox's picks for the newest young Democratic "radicals" 💪🏽
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-2-0-meet-americas-next-wave-radical-democrats-shaping-partys-future

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future
Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

National cyber strategy will include focus on ‘shaping adversary behavior,’ White House official says https://therecord.media/national-cyber-strategy-cairncross-shaping-enemy-behavior

The way you make an axe haft is you take a straight grained piece of hickory or ash, you split it along the grain with a froe, and then you use a drawknife to do final shaping (including for the eye). The reason you do this is that the shape then follows the natural cellulose fibres of the wood, which are very much stronger along their length than at even at a very slight angle.
(Yes, I'm sub-tooting someone on YouTube).
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The Atacama #Cosmology Telescope: DR6 maps / power spectra, likelihoods and ΛCDM parameters / constraints on extended cosmological models: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/061 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/062 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/063 -> ACT releases its final data, shaping the future of cosmology: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1106637

informed by rigorous research in the sonic properties of sung Arabic phonemes and their role in shaping synthesised electronic sounds

Performance Index Shaping for Closed-loop Optimal Control
Ayush Rai, Shaoshuai Mou, Brian D. O. Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10202 https://arxiv.org…

Performance Index Shaping for Closed-loop Optimal Control
The design of the performance index, also referred to as cost or reward shaping, is central to both optimal control and reinforcement learning, as it directly determines the behaviors, trade-offs, and objectives that the resulting control laws seek to achieve. A commonly used approach for this inference task in recent years is differentiable trajectory optimization, which allows gradients to be computed with respect to cost parameters by differentiating through an optimal control solver. Howeve…

Mitigating Overthinking through Reasoning Shaping
Feifan Song, Shaohang Wei, Bofei Gao, Yejie Wang, Wen Luo, Wei Li, Linli Yao, Weimin Xiong, Liang Chen, Tianyu Liu, Houfeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09535

Mitigating Overthinking through Reasoning Shaping
Large reasoning models (LRMs) boosted by Reinforcement Learning from Verifier Reward (RLVR) have shown great power in problem solving, yet they often cause overthinking: excessive, meandering reasoning that inflates computational cost. Prior designs of penalization in RLVR manage to reduce token consumption while often harming model performance, which arises from the oversimplicity of token-level supervision. In this paper, we argue that the granularity of supervision plays a crucial role in ba…

Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
Marta Emili Garcia Segura, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08255 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08255

Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being deployed as autonomous agents in real-world environments. As these deployments scale, multi-agent interactions become inevitable, making it essential to understand strategic behavior in such systems. A central open question is whether LLM agents, like reinforcement learning agents, can shape the learning dynamics and influence the behavior of others through interaction alone. In this paper, we present the first investigation of opponent shapin…

Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning
Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Dechen Gao, Kai Fukazawa, Iman Soltani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08442

Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning
Visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents must learn to act based on high-dimensional image data where only a small fraction of the pixels is task-relevant. This forces agents to waste exploration and computational resources on irrelevant features, leading to sample-inefficient and unstable learning. To address this, inspired by human visual foveation, we introduce Gaze on the Prize. This framework augments visual RL with a learnable foveal attention mechanism (Gaze), guided by a self-supervise…

Talking Aussie Farming
Each episode features candid conversations with farmers, innovators, policymakers, and industry leaders shaping the future of food and farming...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/talking-aussie-farming/

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";

The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …

A cacophony of colors, textures, temperatures and climate zones
(That rubble actually is a tiny section of the side moraine of a glacier, with a several hundred meters drop down to the ice flow directly behind and its vast carved out valley opening up... Boulders and rubble which have been piled up for millions of years and life slowly spreading its thin fragile carpet over it... True borderlands experience and sheer wonder about the forces actively shaping this planet... Sometimes I d…

with love to rob reiner: spinal tap was absolutely one of the most influential bands of the '80s & had a powerful shaping impact on the alt '90s. if the rock & roll hall of fame meant anything, they'd have been inducted long ago.

Probabilistic Constellation Shaping for OFDM ISAC Signals Under Temporal-Frequency Filtering
Zhen Du, Jingjing Xu, Yifeng Xiong, Jie Wang, Musa Furkan Keskin, Henk Wymeersch, Fan Liu, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12204

Probabilistic Constellation Shaping for OFDM ISAC Signals Under Temporal-Frequency Filtering
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is considered an innovative technology in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, where utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication signals for sensing provides a cost-effective solution for implementing ISAC. However, the sensing performance of matched and mismatched filtering schemes can be significantly deteriorated due to the signaling randomness induced by finite-alphabet modulations with nonconstant modulus, such …

Optimised spectral purity of unfiltered photons via pump and nonlinearity shaping
Tommaso Faleo, Christopher L. Morrison, Rom\'eo Beignon, Francesco Graffitti, Vikas Remesh, Stefan Frick, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Gregor Weihs, Robert Keil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06196

Optimised spectral purity of unfiltered photons via pump and nonlinearity shaping
Photonic quantum technologies rely on the efficient generation and interference of indistinguishable photons. Exceptional achievements in this respect have been obtained by domain engineering of quasi-phase-matched parametric down-conversion sources, demonstrating high two-photon interference visibility using only moderate bandpass spectral filtering. Here, we optimised the spectral purity and indistinguishability of photons from telecom-wavelength sources by combining Gaussian quasi-phase-matc…

Week 12 Injury Report: 2 key starters removed from final report https://insidethestar.com/week-12-injury-report-2-key-starters-removed-from-final-report

the plan for next spring is shaping up, six or seven weeks i guess (# nights in parentheses): ann arbor 🚌 detroit 🛫 istanbul (3) 🛫 stockholm (14) 🚢 helsinki (3) 🛫 paris (14) 🚂 lyon (5) 🛫 puglia(20) 🚂 rome 🛫 istanbul 🛫 detroit 🚌 ann arbor

In-space manufacturing of optical lenses: Fluidic Shaping aboard the International Space Station
Omer Luria, Mor Elgarisi, Eytan Stibbe, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Crissy Canerday, Alexey Razin, Sivan Perl, Valeri Frumkin, Jonathan Ericson, Khaled Gommed, Daniel Widerker, Israel Gabay, Ruslan Belikov, Edward Balaban, Moran Bercovici
https://ar…

In-space manufacturing of optical lenses: Fluidic Shaping aboard the International Space Station
In-space manufacturing technologies are vital for enabling advanced space missions and addressing logistical limitations of space exploration. While additive manufacturing has progressed rapidly, it still falls short of delivering the ultra-smooth surfaces required for optical elements. Fluidic Shaping is a novel method that harnesses surface tension under microgravity to form optical components with exceptionally smooth surfaces. This study demonstrates the feasibility and potential of Fluidic…

Mutale Nkonde: Building the AI Future We Want to Live In
Event on December 5th at the Toronto Reference Library
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mutale-nkonde-building-the-ai-future-we-want-to-live-in-tickets-178232…

Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/…

How Seneca’s Firefighting Drones Signal A New Era Of Climate Adaptation
Seneca’s firefighting drones show how adaptation tech is shaping a resilience economy amid rising climate risks and billion-dollar wildfire disasters.

Impact of Packet Loss and Timing Errors on Scheduled Periodic Traffic with Time-Aware Shaping (TAS) in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)
Manuel Eppler, Steffen Lindner, Lukas Osswald, Thomas St\"uber, Michael Menth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05290

Impact of Packet Loss and Timing Errors on Scheduled Periodic Traffic with Time-Aware Shaping (TAS) in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a collection of mechanisms to enhance the realtime transmission capability of Ethernet networks. TSN combines priority queuing, traffic scheduling, and the Time-Aware Shaper (TAS) to carry periodic traffic with ultra-low latency and jitter. That is, so-called Talkers send periodic traffic with highest priority according to a schedule. The schedule is designed such that the scheduled traffic is forwarded by the TSN bridges with no or only little queuing delay. …

Grounded Live
Grounded Festival brings together international and local voices shaping the future of farming, food systems and rural resilience...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/grounded-live/

Restructured #Paramount under Larry Ellison's control announces end of remaining #MTV #MusicVideo channels across globe

MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News
Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, MTV has been a cultural juggernaut, shaping youth culture, launching musical careers, and defining how generations consumed music, fashion, and pop culture. The […]

ARES: Multimodal Adaptive Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Token-Level Entropy Shaping
Shuang Chen, Yue Guo, Yimeng Ye, Shijue Huang, Wenbo Hu, Haoxi Li, Manyuan Zhang, Jiayu Chen, Song Guo, Nanyun Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08457

ARES: Multimodal Adaptive Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Token-Level Entropy Shaping
Recent advances in multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) have substantially improved their ability to solve complex textual and visual tasks. However, these models tend to overthink on simple problems, producing unnecessarily lengthy reasoning traces, while under-exploring on challenging ones, leading to missed solutions. To address this imbalance, we propose ARES, a unified open-source framework for adaptive reasoning that dynamically allocates exploration effort based on task difficulty. …

Revisiting Trust in the Era of Generative AI: Factorial Structure and Latent Profiles
Haocan Sun, Weizi Liu, Di Wu, Guoming Yu, Mike Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10199 https:/…

Revisiting Trust in the Era of Generative AI: Factorial Structure and Latent Profiles
Trust is one of the most important factors shaping whether and how people adopt and rely on artificial intelligence (AI). Yet most existing studies measure trust in terms of functionality, focusing on whether a system is reliable, accurate, or easy to use, while giving less attention to the social and emotional dimensions that are increasingly relevant for today's generative AI (GenAI) systems. These systems do not just process information; they converse, respond, and collaborate with users, bl…

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Batu El, James Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping how information is created and disseminated, from companies using them to craft persuasive advertisements, to election campaigns optimizing messaging to gain votes, to social media influencers boosting engagement. These settings are inherently competitive, with sellers, candidates, and influencers vying for audience approval, yet it remains poorly understood how competitive feedback loops influence LLM behavior. We show that optimizing LLMs …

Mapping the Urban Mobility Intelligence Frontier: A Scientometric Analysis of Data-Driven Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction and Simulation
Junhao Xu, Hui Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10327

Mapping the Urban Mobility Intelligence Frontier: A Scientometric Analysis of Data-Driven Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction and Simulation
Understanding and predicting pedestrian dynamics has become essential for shaping safer, more responsive, and human-centered urban environments. This study conducts a comprehensive scientometric analysis of research on data-driven pedestrian trajectory prediction and crowd simulation, mapping its intellectual evolution and interdisciplinary structure. Using bibliometric data from the Web of Science Core Collection, we employ SciExplorer and Bibliometrix to identify major trends, influential con…

Born on this day in 1919,
Art Blakey
—jazz drumming legend and founder of The Jazz Messengers.
For 35 years, he turned rhythm into mentorship, shaping generations of greats with every beat.
https://bsky.app/profile/thatericalper.com/post/3m2xtmjzn7y2l…

Eric Alper (@thatericalper.com)
Born on this day in 1919, Art Blakey—jazz drumming legend and founder of The Jazz Messengers. For 35 years, he turned rhythm into mentorship, shaping generations of greats with every beat.

New UN report outlines economic pathways for tackling planetary crisis #environment

New UN report outlines economic pathways for tackling planetary crisis
A new global assessment of the planet's environmental health was unveiled this week at the seventh UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7), with University of Portsmouth researchers playing a central role in shaping its economic blueprint for a sustainable future.

Towards Long-Term User Welfare in Recommender Systems via Creator-Oriented Information Revelation
Xu Zhao, Xiaopeng Ye, Chen Xu, Weiran Shen, Jun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10511

Towards Long-Term User Welfare in Recommender Systems via Creator-Oriented Information Revelation
Improving the long-term user welfare (e.g., sustained user engagement) has become a central objective of recommender systems (RS). In real-world platforms, the creation behaviors of content creators plays a crucial role in shaping long-term welfare beyond short-term recommendation accuracy, making the effective steering of creator behavior essential to foster a healthier RS ecosystem. Existing works typically rely on re-ranking algorithms that heuristically adjust item exposure to steer creator…

Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
https://ift.tt/b0lIBT1
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

Jets in Low-Mass Protostars
Somnath Dutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12475 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12475

Jets in Low-Mass Protostars
Jets and outflows are key components of low-mass star formation, regulating accretion and shaping the surrounding molecular clouds. These flows, traced by molecular species at (sub)millimeter wavelengths (e.g., CO, SiO, SO, H$_2$CO, and CH$_3$OH) and by atomic, ionized, and molecular lines in the infrared (e.g., H$_2$, [Fe II], [S I]), originate from protostellar accretion disks deeply embedded within dusty envelopes. Jets play a crucial role in removing angular momentum from the disk, thereby …

Shared and distinct phonemic features in sound–shape and sound–size correspondences: a study of Mandarin Chinese https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.70138 "role of language experience in shaping crossmodal correspondences"

Zero-Inflated Bayesian Multi-Study Infinite Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Blake Hansen, Dafne Zorzetto, Valeria Edefonti, Roberta De Vito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07518 ht…

Zero-Inflated Bayesian Multi-Study Infinite Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Understanding the association between dietary patterns and health outcomes, such as the cancer risk, is crucial to inform public health guidelines and shaping future dietary interventions. However, dietary intake data present several statistical challenges: they are high-dimensional, often sparse with excess zeros, and exhibit heterogeneity driven by individual-level covariates. Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), commonly used to estimate patterns in high-dimensional count data, typically…

A Framework for Measuring How News Topics Drive Stock Movement
Qizhao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06864

A Framework for Measuring How News Topics Drive Stock Movement
In modern financial markets, news plays a critical role in shaping investor sentiment and influencing stock price movements. However, most existing studies aggregate daily news sentiment into a single score, potentially overlooking important variations in topic content and relevance. This simplification may mask nuanced relationships between specific news themes and market responses. To address this gap, this paper proposes a novel framework to examine how different news topics influence stock …

Colossus, with deeply reported profiles of tech and business moguls, is a magazine where "punches will be pulled, but the reading pleasure isn't sacrificed" (Hiten Samtani/@hitsamty)
https://x.com/hitsamty/status/1978234210608697576

Hiten Samtani 🗞️ (@hitsamty) on X
The team at Colossus is breaking something in magazine journalism in a fascinating way. Let me try to articulate. Even just a few years ago, if you wanted to read a beautifully written, exhaustively reported and actually interesting piece on someone shaping a corner of the

Magma ocean interactions can explain JWST observations of the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
Matthew C. Nixon, R. Sander Somers, Arjun B. Savel, Jegug Ih, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Edward D. Young, Hilke E. Schlichting, Tim Lichtenberg, Luis Welbanks, William Misener, Anjali A. A. Piette, Nicholas F. Wogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07367

Magma ocean interactions can explain JWST observations of the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
Sub-Neptunes with substantial atmospheres may possess magma oceans in contact with the overlying gas, with chemical interactions between the atmosphere and magma playing an important role in shaping atmospheric composition. Early JWST observations have found high abundances of carbon- and oxygen-bearing molecules in a number of sub-Neptune atmospheres, which may result from processes including accretion of icy material at formation or magma-atmosphere interactions. Previous work examining the e…

How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends
and what it all means

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House
in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff
— a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment
— has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington "peace proposal"
that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands.
A source in Ukraine's President…

How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned. Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands. A source in Ukraine's President's Office earlier said that Witkoff is shaping the plan…

RKKY interaction in Weyl semimetal nanowires
Rohit Mukherjee, Asutosh Dubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10589 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10589

RKKY interaction in Weyl semimetal nanowires
We investigate the effective couplings induced between localized impurities on the surface of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) nanowire within the framework of Ruderman--Kittel--Kasuya--Yosida (RKKY) theory. The itinerant electrons from the chiral Fermi arc surface states mediate impurity-impurity interaction at low energies. As a result, the spin-momentum locking naturally plays a central role in shaping the spin-spin correlations. We show that the dominant interaction channels have distinct origins: wh…

Inside Out: The Louvreclad Podcast
Reveals how the people behind Australia’s most distinctive buildings are shaping the nation’s future...
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"Shell-funded school materials accused of downplaying fossil fuels’ climate impact"
#Shell #FossilFuels #Climate

Shell gave €5m to this museum. Should parents be worried?
School materials emblazoned with the Shell logo are shaping how children as young as 10 learn about climate change.

Updated NFL Draft Order for Week 11: Cowboys move up after Packers loss https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/11/updated-nfl-draft-order-in-week-11-cowboys-move-up-af…

In the wake of President Trump’s return to the White House,
independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders spent months crisscrossing the nation rallying huge crowds in red and blue states during his Fighting Oligarchy tour.
His new book,
“Fight Oligarchy,” is an extension of those rallies and also serves as a blueprint for how everyday Americans can push back against the deep-pocketed forces shaping politics today.
But at 84 years old, the two-time presidential candidate …

Bernie Sanders on Beating Authoritarianism, Billionaires & AOC
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 10/20/2025 · 1h 1m

Train Stochastic Non Linear Coupled ODEs to Classify and Generate
Stefano Gagliani, Feliciano Giuseppe Pacifico, Lorenzo Chicchi, Duccio Fanelli, Diego Febbe, Lorenzo Buffoni, Raffaele Marino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12286

Train Stochastic Non Linear Coupled ODEs to Classify and Generate
A general class of dynamical systems which can be trained to operate in classification and generation modes are introduced. A procedure is proposed to plant asymptotic stationary attractors of the deterministic model. Optimizing the dynamical system amounts to shaping the architecture of inter-nodes connection to steer the evolution towards the assigned equilibrium, as a function of the class to which the item - supplied as an initial condition - belongs to. Under the stochastic perspective, po…

Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-lets-you-pick-what-shows-up-in-reels/

Instagram Will Start Letting You Pick What Shows Up in Your Reels
In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.

Decoding Positive Selection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Phylogeny-Guided Graph Attention Models
Linfeng Wang, Susana Campino, Taane G. Clark, Jody E. Phelan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08703

Decoding Positive Selection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Phylogeny-Guided Graph Attention Models
Positive selection drives the emergence of adaptive mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, shaping drug resistance, transmissibility, and virulence. Phylogenetic trees capture evolutionary relationships among isolates and provide a natural framework for detecting such adaptive signals. We present a phylogeny-guided graph attention network (GAT) approach, introducing a method for converting SNP-annotated phylogenetic trees into graph structures suitable for neural network analysis. Using 500 M…

Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-lets-you-pick-what-shows-up-in-reels/

Instagram Will Start Letting You Pick What Shows Up in Your Reels
In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.

Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/annou

Do LLMs "Feel"? Emotion Circuits Discovery and Control
Chenxi Wang, Yixuan Zhang, Ruiji Yu, Yufei Zheng, Lang Gao, Zirui Song, Zixiang Xu, Gus Xia, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Xiuying Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11328

Do LLMs "Feel"? Emotion Circuits Discovery and Control
As the demand for emotional intelligence in large language models (LLMs) grows, a key challenge lies in understanding the internal mechanisms that give rise to emotional expression and in controlling emotions in generated text. This study addresses three core questions: (1) Do LLMs contain context-agnostic mechanisms shaping emotional expression? (2) What form do these mechanisms take? (3) Can they be harnessed for universal emotion control? We first construct a controlled dataset, SEV (Scenari…

The Beat
A podcast from the Heart Foundation that unpacks the latest research, news, and trends shaping Australia's heart health...
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CPU- and GPU-Based Parallelization of the Robust Reference Governor
Hamid R. Ossareh, William Shayne, Samuel Chevalier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08288 https://

CPU- and GPU-Based Parallelization of the Robust Reference Governor
Constraint management is a central challenge in modern control systems. A solution is the Reference Governor (RG), which is an add-on strategy to pre-stabilized feedback control systems to enforce state and input constraints by shaping the reference command. While robust formulations of RG exist for linear systems, their extension to nonlinear systems is often computationally intractable. This paper develops a scenario-based robust RG formulation for nonlinear systems and investigates its paral…

How right-wing influencers, like Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor, are supplying the Trump administration's narrative around National Guard deployment in Portland (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/poli

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

🏔️ Weathering of the Southern Andes plays a critical role in balancing CO₂ emissions
#geology

Weathering of the Southern Andes plays a critical role in balancing CO₂ emissions
The towering peaks of the Southern Andes are not just shaping the skyline of South America—they are also quietly influencing Earth's atmosphere.

Study of HI Turbulence in the SMC Using Multi-point Structure Functions
Bumhyun Lee, Min-Young Lee, Jungyeon Cho, Nickolas M. Pingel, Yik Ki Ma, Katie Jameson, James Dempsey, Helga D\'enes, John M. Dickey, Christoph Federrath, Steven Gibson, Gilles Joncas, Ian Kemp, Shin-Jeong Kim, Callum Lynn, Antoine Marchal, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Hiep Nguyen, Amit Seta, Juan D. Soler, Sne\v{z}ana Stanimirovi\'c, Jacco Th. van Loon

Study of HI Turbulence in the SMC Using Multi-point Structure Functions
Turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) plays an important role in many physical processes, including forming stars and shaping complex ISM structures. In this work, we investigate the HI turbulent properties of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to reveal what physical mechanisms drive the turbulence and at what scales. Using the high-resolution HI data of the Galactic ASKAP (GASKAP) survey and multi-point structure functions (SF), we perform a statistical analysis of HI turbulence in 34 sub…

FAAA Podcast Series
Tune into the latest from the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) as we bring you updates, insights, and conversations shaping the financial advice profession...
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Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
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This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem staged a bizarre photo op in Portland that appeared designed to bolster Trump’s effort to deploy Oregon’s National Guard against ICE protesters in the city.
Noem stood on a rooftop observing protesters below, and MAGA influencers hailed it as a moment of extraordinary heroism against a powerful, implacable enemy.
“Noem just stared down violent Antifa rioters on the roof of a Portland ICE facility,” one wrote.
Alas, it turn…

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

A three-dimensional acousto-optic deflector
Lewis R. B. Picard, Manuel Endres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07633 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07633

A three-dimensional acousto-optic deflector
Acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) are widely used across physics, microscopy, neuroscience, and laser engineering, providing fast, precise, and non-mechanical control of light. While conventional AODs naturally support multiplexing in one and two dimensions, no analogous device has existed for three-dimensional control, leaving a critical gap in rapid focus tuning and 3D beam shaping. Here we demonstrate a three-dimensional AOD system capable of multiplexed axial and lateral beam control with hig…

Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
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Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
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Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
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Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134839/webinar-more-just-choice-how-religion-race-and-identity-influence-food