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I haven't a jacket potato for ages. But I just had one for my tea, lavishly dolloped with tuna mayo and sweetcorn, and it was delicious. More of this sort of thing!

I haven't a jacket potato for ages. But I just had one for my tea, lavishly dolloped with tuna mayo and sweetcorn, and it was delicious. More of this sort of thing!

She sat on the trailer steps and stared in reverence at the field of dandelions. Surrounded by flowers, something in her heart began to tug painfully up toward the blue sky. She plucked one, blew on it gently. Up flew the fluff, lighter than air, and her soul soared with it. Later, she would wolf down her breakfast, go back to the exhausted, deadening ratrace. But a part of her would remain here, in the sun and soil and Spring breeze, soaring with those seeds. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

FEASTS Combined with Interferometry (I): Overall Properties of Diffuse HI and Implications for Gas Accretion in Nearby Galaxies
Jing Wang, Xuchen Lin, Dong Yang, Lister Staveley-Smith, Fabian Walter, Q. Daniel Wang, Ran Wang, A. J. Battisti, Barbara Catinella, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Luca Cortese, D. B. Fisher, Luis C. Ho, Suoqing Ji, Peng Jiang, Guinevere Kauffmann, Xu Kong, Ziming Liu, Li Shao, Jie Wang, Lile Wang, Shun Wang

FEASTS Combined with Interferometry (I): Overall Properties of Diffuse HI and Implications for Gas Accretion in Nearby Galaxies
We present a statistical study of the properties of diffuse HI in ten nearby galaxies, comparing the HI detected by the single-dish telescope FAST (FEASTS program) and the interferometer VLA (THINGS program), respectively. The THINGS' observation missed HI with a median of 23% due to the short-spacing problem of interferometry and limited sensitivity. We extract the diffuse HI by subtracting the dense HI, which is obtained from the THINGS data with a uniform flux-density threshold, from the tot…

Israel, Eurovision, social media
I normally stay away from all of this sort of thing. But I've been thinking about this a LOT over the last few hours.
You may not like it, but if you're in the UK and have any kind of open mind at all, you might have to take a long, hard look at your social media bubble.
Israel won the public vote in the UK. That's the telephone vote, where ordinary members of the public choose who they want to win. And it cost each & every person cold, hard cash to cast a vote.
So unless you're going to go all "ThE jEWs thEy aRe RiCh & coNTRoL thE MEdiA" on me (and if you are, FOAD please), the only possible conclusion is that there is a hell of a lot more sympathy and support for Israel among the UK public at large than you'd know from reading Mastodon posts.
It may be an unpalatable truth but the bubble effect is very, very real.

If you are an academic, particularly one in the US, let me know what sort of prevailing norms on guest lecturing there might be.

“In 1977, Judy-Lynn and Lester launched Del Rey at Ballantine. The fantasy list was led by Terry Brooks’ The Sword of Shannara, Piers Anthony’s A Spell for Chameleon, and Stephen Donaldson’s Lord Foul’s Bane. All sold massively, with Brooks’ book reaching No. 2 on Publishers Weekly’s trade paperback bestseller list. (The science fiction line also contributed to Del Rey’s instant success, thanks in large part to Judy-Lynn’s snapping up novelization rights for Star Wars, which sold nearly 4 million copies that year alone.)“
https://slate.com/culture/2023/10/lester-del-rey-invention-fantasy-book-publishing.html

Integrating A.I. in Higher Education: Protocol for a Pilot Study with 'SAMCares: An Adaptive Learning Hub'
Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Nazia Tasnim, Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Suleiman Obeidat, Faruk Yildiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00330

Integrating A.I. in Higher Education: Protocol for a Pilot Study with 'SAMCares: An Adaptive Learning Hub'
Learning never ends, and there is no age limit to grow yourself. However, the educational landscape may face challenges in effectively catering to students' inclusion and diverse learning needs. These students should have access to state-of-the-art methods for lecture delivery, online resources, and technology needs. However, with all the diverse learning sources, it becomes harder for students to comprehend a large amount of knowledge in a short period of time. Traditional assistive technologi…

Throughout #BlackHistoryMonth, we are celebrating our Black professors and administrators. We continue today with Mark Miller, YDS/ISM Lecturer in Sacred Music and Director of Marquand Gospel and Inspirational Ensemble! #yale

Integrating A.I. in Higher Education: Protocol for a Pilot Study with 'SAMCares: An Adaptive Learning Hub'
Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Nazia Tasnim, Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Suleiman Obeidat, Faruk Yildiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00330

Integrating A.I. in Higher Education: Protocol for a Pilot Study with 'SAMCares: An Adaptive Learning Hub'
Learning never ends, and there is no age limit to grow yourself. However, the educational landscape may face challenges in effectively catering to students' inclusion and diverse learning needs. These students should have access to state-of-the-art methods for lecture delivery, online resources, and technology needs. However, with all the diverse learning sources, it becomes harder for students to comprehend a large amount of knowledge in a short period of time. Traditional assistive technologi…