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I am pleased to share that I am receiving professional support regarding my diagnosis (SETD5) and gender dysphoria.
It has been extremely challenging for me to come forward about my gender identity(15 years), however, I will now be formally consulting with a therapist.
#Autism #GenderDysphoria

Persistence of charge ordering instability to Coulomb engineering in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe$_2$
Sebastian Buchberger, Yann in 't Veld, Akhil Rajan, Philip A. E. Murgatroyd, Brendan Edwards, Bruno K. Saika, Naina Kushwaha, Maria H. Visscher, Jan Berges, Dina Carbone, Jacek Osiecki, Craig Polley, Tim Wehling, Phil D. C. King
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Persistence of charge ordering instability to Coulomb engineering in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe$_2$
TiSe$_2$ has long been considered one of the best candidate materials to host the elusive excitonic insulator (EI) phase. However, a finite coupling to the lattice can generically be expected, while a lack of "smoking-gun" signatures for the importance of the electron-hole interaction in driving the phase transition has rendered it challenging to distinguish the EI from the conventional charge-density-wave (CDW) phase. Here, we demonstrate a new approach, exploiting the susceptibility of excito…

The Witcher 4 didn’t look amazing tbh. RedEngine was plenty for what they showcased at the demo.
Unreal is a performance hog if not optimised as was the case with Silent Hill Remake. Did you know the mod that removed the fog showed they were rendering all the buildings which were invisible originally if the fog had existed?
Also, the push for DLSS & FSR is annoying.
just my opinion on things :)

The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Long-term spectral variability study of the changing look AGN Mrk 1018
T. Saha, M. Krumpe, A. Markowitz, M. Powell, G. Leung, F. Combes, R. E. McElroy, J. S. Elford, M. Gaspari, N. Winkel, A. L. Coil, T. Urrutia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03061

The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Long-term spectral variability study of the changing look AGN Mrk 1018
Changing-look AGNs (CLAGN) are accreting supermassive black hole systems that undergo variations in optical spectral type, driven by major changes in accretion rate. Mrk 1018 has undergone two transitions, a brightening event in the 1980s and a transition back to a faint state over the course of 2-3 years in the early 2010s. We characterize the evolving physical properties of the source's inner accretion flow, particularly during the bright-to-faint transition, as well as the morphological prop…

In "holy-crap-that-was-too-difficult", reworked the Jekyll build script to work using the `ruby:alpine` container. I just want the site to build without having to go through the hoops of installing `ruby` and getting `bundle` to do what I want it to. A nice Docker Compose file gets it done nice and quickly without fuss. Also I don't have random gems installed around my system.
#ruby

ML-Driven Strong Lens Discoveries: Down to $\theta_E \sim 0.03''$ and $M_\mathrm{halo}< 10^{11} M_\odot$
Ethan Silver, R. Wang, Xiaosheng Huang, A. Bolton, C. Storfer, S. Banka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01943

ML-Driven Strong Lens Discoveries: Down to $θ_E \sim 0.03''$ and $M_\mathrm{halo}< 10^{11} M_\odot$
We present results on extending the strong lens discovery space down to much smaller Einstein radii ($θ_E\lesssim0.03''$) and much lower halo mass ($M_\mathrm{halo}<10^{11}M_\odot$) through the combination of JWST observations and machine learning (ML) techniques. First, we forecast detectable strong lenses with JWST using CosmoDC2 as the lens catalog, and a source catalog down to 29th magnitude. By further incorporating the VELA hydrodynamical simulations of high-redshift galaxies, we simulat…

Scatter in the star formation rate-halo mass relation: secondary bias and its impact on line-intensity mapping
Rui Lan Jun (UTokyo), Tom Theuns (ICC, Durham), Kana Moriwaki (UTokyo), Sownak Bose (ICC, Durham)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03015

Scatter in the star formation rate-halo mass relation: secondary bias and its impact on line-intensity mapping
We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study the impact of secondary bias -- specifically, the correlation between star formation rate (SFR) and halo bias at fixed halo mass -- on the line-intensity mapping (LIM) power spectrum. In LIM, the galaxy contributions are flux-weighted, and for many emission lines (e.g., H$α$), flux scales with SFR. We show that the (ensemble-averaged) large-scale two-halo term of the power spectrum depends only on the mean luminosity-halo…

The gender-fluid flag reminds me that it’s okay to dress however the hell I want at different times, and that gender doesn’t have to fit into strict boxes.
I can be any gender at any time, or whenever my body feels like being something else, I love me.
Here’s what the gender-fluid flag colors stand for, from top to bottom:
- Pink represents femininity
- White stands for the absence of gender or agender identities
- Purple is for a mix or blending of masculinit…

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
Lei He, Zhengyan Liu, Rui Niu, Bingzhou Gao, Mingshen Zhou, Purun Zou, Runduo Liang, Wen Zhao, Ning Jiang, Zhen-Yi Cai, Zi-Gao Dai, Ye-Fei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02475

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are widely considered the ideal environments for binary black hole (BBH) mergers and the only plausible sites for their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. Graham et al.(2023) identified seven AGN flares that are potentially associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration during the third observing run. In this article, utilizing an additional three years of Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) pub…

Recently I’ve been thinking about taking a step back from my friendship with my mom, maybe just talking to her less.
Sometimes I honestly wonder if I’m just misinterpreting things, but it really seems like she’s uncomfortable with me being fucking queer, especially with me hanging around other queer people at my local gay bar. She’ll question who I’m with and lately it feels like she’s always picking at my life choices. I can’t tell if it’s just me being sensitive, or if she’s actually…