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"University Journals and Their Place in Global Scholarly Publishing" by @…: https://blog.tib.eu/2025/07/22/univers

Columbia University trustees removed control of the student disciplinary process from the University Senate,
with the trustees taking control themselves of the process through the provost’s office.
The intent was to make sure that any student guilty of violating university regulations during an anti-genocide protest would be severely punished.
One goal is to make sure that students engaged in such protest are removed from the university and can’t do it again.
Anot…

The Situation at Columbia XVIII
When I first started writing here about what was going on at Columbia, part of the motivation was that I didn’t understand myself a lot of what was happening, especially the actions of the tr…

A Semi-Empirical Estimate of Solar EUV Evolution from 10 Myr to 10 Gyr
Kevin France (University of Colorado), Girish Duvvuri (Vanderbilt), Cynthia Froning (SwRI), Alexander Brown (University of Colorado), P. Christian Schneider (Christian-Albrects University), J. Sebastian Pineda (University of Colorado), David Wilson (University of Colorado), Allison Youngblood (NASA/GSFC), Vladimir Airapetian (NASA/GSFC), Kosuke Namekata (NASA/GSFC, Kyoto University), Yuta Notsu (University of Colora…

A Semi-Empirical Estimate of Solar EUV Evolution from 10 Myr to 10 Gyr
The extreme-ultraviolet (EUV; 100 -- 911 Å) spectra of F, G, K, and M stars provide diagnostics of the stellar chromosphere through the corona, with line and continuum formation temperatures spanning roughly 10$^{4}$ - 10$^{7}$ K. The EUV stellar spectrum in turn drives atmospheric photochemistry and numerous escape processes on orbiting planets. We present a new study of the EUV history of solar-type stars, using new and archival {\it Hubble Space Telescope} observations of solar analogs (T$_…

Former Australian National University chancellor Gareth Evans has slammed proposed cost-saving cuts to the institution as having "ignored or gravely under-valued the significance" of the university's national mission.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/…

Former Australian National University chancellor slams 'gobsmacking' proposed university cuts
Former Australian National University chancellor, Gareth Evans, says proposed cost-saving cuts to the institution have "ignored or gravely under-valued the significance of ANU's very distinctive national mission".

FENIX: Enabling In-Network DNN Inference with FPGA-Enhanced Programmable Switches
Xiangyu Gao (Tsinghua University), Tong Li (Renmin University of China), Yinchao Zhang (Tsinghua University), Ziqiang Wang (Southeast University), Xiangsheng Zeng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Su Yao (Tsinghua University), Ke Xu (Tsinghua University)
…

FENIX: Enabling In-Network DNN Inference with FPGA-Enhanced Programmable Switches
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used in network data planes for advanced traffic analysis. However, existing solutions (such as FlowLens, N3IC, and BoS) still struggle to simultaneously achieve low latency, high throughput, and high accuracy. To address these challenges, we present FENIX, a hybrid in-network ML system that performs feature extraction on programmable switch ASICs and deep neural network inference on FPGAs. FENIX introduces a Data Engine that leverages a probabilistic token…

Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
Leon Hannig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Annika Bush (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Meltem Aksoy (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Steffen Becker (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), Greta Ontrup (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
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Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
As the use of LLM chatbots by students and researchers becomes more prevalent, universities are pressed to develop AI strategies. One strategy that many universities pursue is to customize pre-trained LLM as-a-service (LLMaaS). While most studies on LLMaaS chatbots prioritize technical adaptations, we focus on psychological effects of user-salient customizations, such as interface changes. We assume that such customizations influence users' perception of the system and are therefore important i…

Teaching Complex Systems based on Microservices
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (University of S\~ao Paulo), Thatiane de Oliveira Rosa (University of S\~ao Paulo, Federal Institute of Tocantins), Alfredo Goldman (University of S\~ao Paulo), Eduardo Guerra (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16492

Teaching Complex Systems based on Microservices
Developing complex systems using microservices is a current challenge. In this paper, we present our experience with teaching this subject to more than 80 students at the University of São Paulo (USP), fostering team work and simulating the industry's environment. We show it is possible to teach such advanced concepts for senior undergraduate students of Computer Science and related fields.

M3ET: Efficient Vision-Language Learning for Robotics based on Multimodal Mamba-Enhanced Transformer
Yanxin Zhang (School of Software Northwestern Polytechnical University), Liang He (School of Software Northwestern Polytechnical University), Zeyi Kang (School of Software Northwestern Polytechnical University), Zuheng Ming (Laboratoire L2Tl University Sorbonne Paris Nord), Kaixing Zhao (School of Software Yangtze River Delta Research Institute)

M3ET: Efficient Vision-Language Learning for Robotics based on Multimodal Mamba-Enhanced Transformer
In recent years, multimodal learning has become essential in robotic vision and information fusion, especially for understanding human behavior in complex environments. However, current methods struggle to fully leverage the textual modality, relying on supervised pretrained models, which limits semantic extraction in unsupervised robotic environments, particularly with significant modality loss. These methods also tend to be computationally intensive, leading to high resource consumption in re…

Optimal Transceiver Design in Over-the-Air Federated Distillation
Zihao Hu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jia Yan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ying-Jun Angela Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Optimal Transceiver Design in Over-the-Air Federated Distillation
The rapid proliferation and growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of federated learning (FL). FL allows wireless devices (WDs) to cooperatively learn by sharing only local model parameters, without needing to share the entire dataset. However, the emergence of large AI models has made existing FL approaches inefficient, due to the significant communication overhead required. In this paper, we propose a novel over-the-air federated distillation (FD) framework by syner…

Decentralized AI-driven IoT Architecture for Privacy-Preserving and Latency-Optimized Healthcare in Pandemic and Critical Care Scenarios
Harsha Sammangi (Dakota State University), Aditya Jagatha (College of Business,Information Systems, Dakota State University), Giridhar Reddy Bojja (College of Business, Michigan Technological University), Jun Liu (College of Business,I.S, Dakota State University)

Decentralized AI-driven IoT Architecture for Privacy-Preserving and Latency-Optimized Healthcare in Pandemic and Critical Care Scenarios
AI Innovations in the IoT for Real-Time Patient Monitoring On one hand, the current traditional centralized healthcare architecture poses numerous issues, including data privacy, delay, and security. Here, we present an AI-enabled decentralized IoT architecture that can address such challenges during a pandemic and critical care settings. This work presents our architecture to enhance the effectiveness of the current available federated learning, blockchain, and edge computing approach, maximiz…

New Frontiers in the Study of Magnetic Massive Stars with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Alexandre David-Uraz (Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA), V\'eronique Petit (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA), Coralie Neiner (LESIA, Paris Observatory, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Paris-Cit\'e University, Meudon, France), Jean-Claude Bouret (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France), Ya\"el Naz\'e (Groupe …

New Frontiers in the Study of Magnetic Massive Stars with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
High-mass stars are notable for several reasons: they are characterized by strong winds, which inject momentum and enriched material into their surroundings, and die spectacularly as supernovae, leaving behind compact remnants and heavy elements (such as those that make life on Earth possible). Despite their relative rarity, they play a disproportionate role in the evolution of the galaxies that host them, and likely also played a significant role in the early days of the Universe. A subset ($\…

An Artificial Intelligence Driven Semantic Similarity-Based Pipeline for Rapid Literature
Abhiyan Dhakal (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal), Kausik Paudel (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal), Sanjog Sigdel (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15292

An Artificial Intelligence Driven Semantic Similarity-Based Pipeline for Rapid Literature
We propose an automated pipeline for performing literature reviews using semantic similarity. Unlike traditional systematic review systems or optimization based methods, this work emphasizes minimal overhead and high relevance by using transformer based embeddings and cosine similarity. By providing a paper title and abstract, it generates relevant keywords, fetches relevant papers from open access repository, and ranks them based on their semantic closeness to the input. Three embedding models…

A Hyperlogic for Strategies in Stochastic Games (Extended Version)
Lina Gerlach (RWTH Aachen University), Christof L\"oding (RWTH Aachen University), Erika \'Abrah\'am (RWTH Aachen University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16775

A Hyperlogic for Strategies in Stochastic Games (Extended Version)
We propose a probabilistic hyperlogic called HyperSt$^2$ that can express hyperproperties of strategies in turn-based stochastic games. To the best of our knowledge, HyperSt$^2$ is the first hyperlogic for stochastic games. HyperSt$^2$ can relate probabilities of several independent executions of strategies in a stochastic game. For example, in HyperSt$^2$ it is natural to formalize optimality, i.e., to express that some strategy is better than all other strategies, or to express the existence …

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
Tony L. Farnham (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy), Jessica M. Sunshine (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, Department of Geology), Masatoshi Hirabayashi (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), Carolyn M. Ernst (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), R. Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), …

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstration of a kinetic impactor concept. The companion LICIACube spacecraft documented the aftermath, capturing images of the expansion and evolution of the ejecta from 29 to 243 s after the impact. We present results from our analyses of these observations, including an improved reduction of the data and new absolute calibra…

In der #Antarktis drohen laut neuer Studie der Australian National University und der University of New South Wales abrupte, teils irreversible Veränderungen von Eis, #Ozean und Ökosystemen.
Der westantarktische Eisschild könnte kollabieren und den

Veränderungen der Antarktis hat katastrophale Folgen für kommende Generationen
In der Antarktis drohen abrupte und möglicherweise irreversible Veränderungen des Eises, des Ozeans und der Ökosysteme des Kontinents, die "katastrophale Folgen für kommende Generationen" haben könnten, warnen Experten.

CFP: 2026 Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120534/cfp-2026-gods-and-monsters-conference-texas-state-university

What drives kpc-scale outflows in Radio-Quiet AGN? Insights from a Polarimetric Study
Salmoli Ghosh (NCRA-TIFR), Preeti Kharb (NCRA-TIFR), Biny Sebastian (University of Manitoba, STScI), Jack Gallimore (Bucknell University), Alice Pasetto (IRyA-UNAM), Christopher P. O'Dea (University of Manitoba), Timothy Heckman (Johns Hopkins University), Stefi A. Baum (University of Manitoba)

What drives kpc-scale outflows in Radio-Quiet AGN? Insights from a Polarimetric Study
We present a review of our findings on the origin, drivers, nature, and impact of kiloparsec-scale radio emission in radio-quiet (RQ) AGN. Using radio polarimetric techniques, we probe the dynamics and magnetic (B-) field geometry of outflows in Seyfert and LINER galaxies. Multi-band data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) reveal how low-power jets interact with their environment. These interactions can slow down and disrupt the radio outflows while locally regulating star formation…

Feel like your collection website could be better but don't know the necessary tools? A few seats left in UMaine's online course in Digital Collections and Exhibitions starting 3 Sep, which teaches  the fundamentals of getting your records in a database and putting them online https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

On some Classes of Reversible 2-head Automata
Benedek Nagy (Eastern Mediterranean University / Eszterh\'azy K\'aroly Catholic University), Walaa Yasin (Eastern Mediterranean University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15317

On some Classes of Reversible 2-head Automata
Deterministic 2-head finite automata which are machines that process an input word from both ends are analyzed for their ability to perform reversible computations. This implies that the automata are backward deterministic, enabling unique forward and backward computation. We explore the computational power of such automata, discovering that, while some regular languages cannot be accepted by these machines, they are capable of accepting some characteristic linear languages, e.g., the language …

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Purdue Fort Wayne professor weaves math into everyday life | Purdue University Fort Wayne
Hanan Alyami, M.S. ’14, likes to use uncommon ways to look at and teach math. Last semester, she taught three classes at Purdue University Fort Wayne, primarily to elementary education majors learning to be math instructors.

Columbia University diligently showing Trump that it's a staunch supporter of genocide too.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/22/columbia-students-protest-punishment

Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest
It comes as Columbia seeks a deal with the Trump administration to reinstate millions in federal funding.

Graph Neural Network Surrogates for Contacting Deformable Bodies with Necessary and Sufficient Contact Detection
Vijay K. Dubey (The University of Texas at Austin), Collin E. Haese (The University of Texas at Austin), Osman G\"ultekin (The University of Texas at Austin), David Dalton (University of Glasgow), Manuel K. Rausch (The University of Texas at Austin), Jan N. Fuhg (The University of Texas at Austin)

Graph Neural Network Surrogates for Contacting Deformable Bodies with Necessary and Sufficient Contact Detection
Surrogate models for the rapid inference of nonlinear boundary value problems in mechanics are helpful in a broad range of engineering applications. However, effective surrogate modeling of applications involving the contact of deformable bodies, especially in the context of varying geometries, is still an open issue. In particular, existing methods are confined to rigid body contact or, at best, contact between rigid and soft objects with well-defined contact planes. Furthermore, they employ c…

Marcel: A Lightweight and Open-Source Conversational Agent for University Student Support
Jan Trienes, Anastasiia Derzhanskaia, Roland Schwarzkopf, Markus M\"uhling, J\"org Schl\"otterer, Christin Seifert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13937

Marcel: A Lightweight and Open-Source Conversational Agent for University Student Support
We present Marcel, a lightweight and open-source conversational agent designed to support prospective students with admission-related inquiries. The system aims to provide fast and personalized responses, while reducing workload of university staff. We employ retrieval-augmented generation to ground answers in university resources and to provide users with verifiable, contextually relevant information. To improve retrieval quality, we introduce an FAQ retriever that maps user questions to knowl…

From Data to Diagnosis: A Large, Comprehensive Bone Marrow Dataset and AI Methods for Childhood Leukemia Prediction
Henning H\"ofener (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany), Farina Kock (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany), Martina Pontones (Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany), Tabita Ghete (Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital E…

From Data to Diagnosis: A Large, Comprehensive Bone Marrow Dataset and AI Methods for Childhood Leukemia Prediction
Leukemia diagnosis primarily relies on manual microscopic analysis of bone marrow morphology supported by additional laboratory parameters, making it complex and time consuming. While artificial intelligence (AI) solutions have been proposed, most utilize private datasets and only cover parts of the diagnostic pipeline. Therefore, we present a large, high-quality, publicly available leukemia bone marrow dataset spanning the entire diagnostic process, from cell detection to diagnosis. Using this…

AC magnetic measurements with a self-oscillating LC circuit and its application to university education
Harshit Agarwal, Oleksandra Uralska, Jasmin Billingsley, Maxim Yamilov, Hyunsoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16709

AC magnetic measurements with a self-oscillating LC circuit and its application to university education
Understanding the magnetic properties of matter plays a key role in materials physics. However, university education on fundamental magnetism is limited to a theoretical survey because of the lack of appropriate apparatus that can be applied for laboratory courses at the undergraduate level. In this work, we introduce an AC magnetometer based on the Colpitts self-oscillator with an inductor coil as a probe. We show that this type of self-oscillator can be adopted in a typical university laborat…

notre_dame_web: Webgraph (Notre Dame)
The web graph of Notre Dame University (nd.edu), as collected in 1999.
This network has 325729 nodes and 1497134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/notre_dame_web
Ridiculogram…

Closure Conversion, Flat Environments, and the Complexity of Abstract Machines
Beniamino Accattoli (Inria & LIX, \'Ecole Polytechnique), Dan Ghica (Huawei Central Software Institute, University of Birmingham), Giulio Guerrieri (University of Sussex), Cl\'audio Belo Louren\c{c}o (Huawei Central Software Institute), Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (Universit\`a di Bologna)

Closure Conversion, Flat Environments, and the Complexity of Abstract Machines
Closure conversion is a program transformation at work in compilers for functional languages to turn inner functions into global ones, by building closures pairing the transformed functions with the environment of their free variables. Abstract machines rely on similar and yet different concepts of closures and environments. In this paper, we study the relationship between the two approaches. We adopt a very simple λ-calculus with tuples as source language and study abstract machines for bot…

String Diagrams for Defect-Based Surface Code Computing
Mateusz Kupper (Department of Informatics, University of Sussex), Dominic Horsman (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford), Chris Heunen (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh), Niel de Beaudrap (Department of Informatics, University of Sussex)
https://arxiv.org…

String Diagrams for Defect-Based Surface Code Computing
Surface codes are a popular choice for implementing fault-tolerant quantum computing. Two-qubit gates may be realised in these codes using only nearest-neighbour interactions, either by lattice surgery or by braiding defects around each other. The effect of lattice surgery operations may be simply described using the ZX-calculus: a graphical language that has proven effective for program design and optimisation. In this work, we formalise a similar description via the ZX-calculus of defect brai…

Long-lived dynamics of the charge density wave in TiSe$_2$ observed by neutron scattering
K. Dharmasiri (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States), S. S. Philip (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States), D. Louca (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States), S. A. Chen (Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States), M. D. Frontzek (Neutro…

Long-lived dynamics of the charge density wave in TiSe$_2$ observed by neutron scattering
Time-resolved elastic neutron scattering combined with rapid laser heating was used to probe the charge density wave (CDW) state in 1T-TiSe$_2$, capturing both the melting and reformation of the CDW on long timescales and providing clues on the roles of phonons and excitons. With the laser source on, superlattice Bragg peaks such as (-1.5, -1.5, 1.5) observed below the CDW transition due to the new lattice periodicity, dissipate within 5 seconds, at a rate that is much slower than the sample's …

“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
#Palestine
#Censorship

The Rectilinear Marco Polo Problem
Ofek Gila (University of California, Irvine), Michael T. Goodrich (University of California, Irvine), Zahra Hadizadeh (University of Rochester), Daniel S. Hirschberg (University of California, Irvine), Shayan Taherijam (University of California, Irvine)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14820

The Rectilinear Marco Polo Problem
We study the rectilinear Marco Polo problem, which generalizes the Euclidean version of the Marco Polo problem for performing geometric localization to rectilinear search environments, such as in geometries motivated from urban settings, and to higher dimensions. In the rectilinear Marco Polo problem, there is at least one point of interest (POI) within distance $n$, in either the $L_1$ or $L_\infty$ metric, from the origin. Motivated from a search-and-rescue application, our goal is to move a …

UCLA Calls Federal Actions a 'Death Knell' for Vital Research
By withholding at least 800 grants from the University of California, totaling $584 million,
officials say the Trump administration threatens to devastate research
in clean energy, neuroscience and cancer
https:…

UCLA Calls Federal Actions a 'Death Knell' for Vital Research
By withholding at least 800 grants from the University of California, totaling $584 million, officials say the Trump administration threatens to devastate research in clean energy, neuroscience and cancer.

I have worked with exceptional university scientists in the US under the H1-B program. This $100,000 fee will make it all but impossible to hire them in academia going forward.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/trump-h1b-visa-100000-fee

High-throughput Super-Resolution Imaging Chip based on Miniaturized Full-frequency Encoded-illumination
Xiaoyu Yang (State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Haonan Zhang (State Key Lab…

High-throughput Super-Resolution Imaging Chip based on Miniaturized Full-frequency Encoded-illumination
A miniaturized full-frequency encoded illumination (mini-FEI) chip is presented for high-throughput super-resolution imaging using the spatial frequency shift (SFS) effect. A tunable full SFS scheme is achieved through propagating and evanescent wave. The multi-illumination modes are precisely and flexibly modulated by an encoded LED array. The light travels to the sample via a set of prisms, producing the super-resolution images with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Mini-FEI super-resolution …

Since 2018, the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade” https://enslaved.org/ at Michigan State University has collected and linked datasets about the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade to create visualizations and let people explore biographies.
It was one of the f…

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

WOOT '25 conference schedule has been announced!
I'm pleased to say that I have not one but two papers (one as first author) being presented there:
"Security through Transparency: Tales from the RP2350 Hacking Challenge", Marius Muench, University of Birmingham; Aedan Cullen and Kévin Courdesses, Independent; Thomas 'stacksmashing' Roth, Hextree; Andrew Zonenberg, IOActive
"Extraction of Secrets from 40nm CMOS Gate Dielectric Breakdown Antifus…

WOOT '25 Technical Sessions

Sometimes innovation is quite simple 🙂
""Our measurements show that wheat and grass-clover mixtures grow just as well between vertical solar panels as in open fields. At the same time, the panels produce electricity in a daily pattern that better matches energy demand. It's a win-win,"
#solarpanels

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale agrivoltaic pilot project in the Danish countryside.

Huh, how time flies. 6 or 7 years ago, at the OER Foundation, for whom I work as Open Source Technologist, we decided to replace our MailChimp with, eventually, a self-hosted instance of Mautic (https://mautic.org) to communicate with learners taking courses in our online open university courses (

A predictive model for bubble-particle collisions in turbulence
Timothy T. K. Chan (Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente), Linfeng Jiang (Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University), Dominik Krug (Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University)

A predictive model for bubble-particle collisions in turbulence
The modelling of bubble-particle collisions is crucial to improving the efficiency of industrial processes such as froth flotation. Although such systems usually have turbulent flows and the bubbles are typically much larger than the particles, there currently exist no predictive models for this case which consistently include finite-size effects in the interaction with the bubbles as well as inertial effects for the particles simultaneously. As a first step, Jiang and Krug (J. Fluid Mech., vol…

"Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater
A small team of researchers at Tongji University, working with a colleague from the Shanghai Academy of Landscape Architecture Science and Planning, both in China, has found that growing plants on roofs can serve as an effective way to remove microplastics from the air. In their study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the group measured the amounts of microplastics found on plants and the soil in which they grow.

Optimized scintillation configuration for IMPISH hard x-ray detection
Dorcas D. Oseni (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States), William S. Setterberg (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States), Reed B. Masek (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States), Lestat Clemmer (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States), Lindsay Glesener (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States), P…

Optimized scintillation configuration for IMPISH hard x-ray detection
The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH) is a solar X-ray spectrometer that features large-area scintillators, fast readout electronics, and good energy resolution in the hard X-ray band. IMPISH is a low-cost spectrometer designed to measure subsecond variation in hard X-ray time profiles from solar flares, with the goal of constraining particle acceleration timescales. To meet these requirements, we carried out a systematic optimization of the scintillation …

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120949/call-papers-25th-annual-africa-conference-university-texas-a…

MLRU : Multiscale Lightweight Residual UNETR with Attention for Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Nand Kumar Yadav (Santosh AI Research Lab, Department of Computer Science,Biomedical,Translational Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine University Of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA.), Rodrigue Rizk (Santosh AI Research Lab, Department of Computer Science,Biomedical,Translational Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine University Of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA.), Willium WC C…

MLRU++: Multiscale Lightweight Residual UNETR++ with Attention for Efficient 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Accurate and efficient medical image segmentation is crucial but challenging due to anatomical variability and high computational demands on volumetric data. Recent hybrid CNN-Transformer architectures achieve state-of-the-art results but add significant complexity. In this paper, we propose MLRU++, a Multiscale Lightweight Residual UNETR++ architecture designed to balance segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. It introduces two key innovations: a Lightweight Channel and Bottleneck…

Electric field control of superconducting fluctuations and quasiparticle interference at oxide interfaces
Graham Kimbell (Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland), Ulderico Filippozzi (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands), Stefano Gariglio (Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland), Marc Gabay (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris Saclay, CNRS U…

Electric field control of superconducting fluctuations and quasiparticle interference at oxide interfaces
We investigate tunable superconducting transitions in (111)$\mathrm{LaAlO}_3/\mathrm{KTaO}_3$ field-effect devices. Large increases in conductivity, associated with superconducting fluctuations, are observed far above the transition temperature. However, the standard Aslamazov-Larkin paraconductivity model significantly underestimates the effect observed here. We use a model that includes conductivity corrections from normal state quasiparticle interference together with all contributions from …

"If you speak against me, I'm coming to your home. If you speak against me, you may end up in jail. If you speak against me, you're going to incur millions of dollars in legal fees, so keep your mouth shut.”
"If you're a university and you teach things I don't like, I'm going to take your funding,” "
**Worst-case scenario' unfolding as Trump sends new 'message' to critics: legal expert** - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-retribution-2673910670/

Can someone who knows University of Toronto answer this:
Why is there so much people practicing dance within the Myhal Centre all the time?
#toronto #UoT

Having a bit of a flashback to the 80s with one of my favourite bands from university days… Who knew any of their stuff was available online?
«Live from the Elmo Combo». I wonder who will get the reference?
Elmo, The CeeDees - Qobuz https://www.qobuz.com/no-en/album/elmo-the

Elmo, The CeeDees - Qobuz
Listen to unlimited or download Elmo by The CeeDees in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscription from kr133.33/month.

"Captain Underpants and the Conundrum of Creating a Custom Cookie Cutter: Creating a Unique, Edible Treat for Banned Books Week" https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26878
"The University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno, celebra…

A Digital Twin-Based Simulation Framework for Safe Curve Speed Estimation Using Unity
Araf Rahman (Clemson University), M. Sabbir Salek (Clemson University), Mashrur Chowdhury (Clemson University), Wayne A. Sarasua (Clemson University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14046

A Digital Twin-Based Simulation Framework for Safe Curve Speed Estimation Using Unity
Horizontal curves are often associated with roadway crashes due to speed misjudgment and loss of control. With the growing adoption of autonomous and connected vehicles, the accurate estimation of safe speed at curves is becoming increasingly important. The widely used AASHTO design method for safe curve speed estimation relies on an analytical equation based on a simplified point mass model, which often uses conservative parameters to account for vehicular and environmental variations. This pa…

This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @… will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen!
https:/…

What are you standing on? Check out the #geology under your feet using the Rockd app on your phone!
Developed by the University of #Wisconsin Macrostrat lab.
Funding from NSF (US National Science Foundation) and U Wisconsin Dept of Geoscience.

She’s Got Game: Sarah Spain ’02 Is a Star of Sports Journalism
#sports

She’s Got Game: Sarah Spain ’02 Is a Star of Sports Journalism - Cornellians | Cornell University
The ESPN veteran hosts the first daily podcast on women’s athletics—and just published her first book

Superbugs in your shrimp: Deadly colistin-resistance genes ride on imported seafood #AnimalRights

Superbugs in your shrimp: Deadly colistin-resistance genes ride on imported seafood
Colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, is losing its power due to rising resistance—and the culprits might be hiding in your seafood dinner. A University of Georgia research team discovered colistin-resistance genes in bacteria found in imported shrimp and scallops from markets in Atlanta. These genes can hop between bacteria via plasmids, potentially turning once-curable infections into deadly threats.

Ground-Based Radar Tracking of Near-Earth Objects With VLBI Radio Telescopes: 2024 MK Test Case
Oliver White, Guifr\'e Molera Calv\'es, Shinji Horiuchi, Ed Kruzins, Edwin Peters, Nick Stacy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15684

Ground-Based Radar Tracking of Near-Earth Objects With VLBI Radio Telescopes: 2024 MK Test Case
The Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Research Project is an active and informal entity comprising the University of New South Wales, the University of Tasmania, the University of Western Australia, and the Curtin University, which performs asteroid research in collaboration with federal agencies, including the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (JPL). Since 2015, we have used the Australian infrastructure to characteriz…

So this is really happening: Page Proofs!!
My intro to the special issue on Camp Memorialization is finally about to be published in Memory Studies
@… @…

Smartphone-integrated RPA-CRISPR-Cas12a Detection System with Microneedle Sampling for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Potato Late Blight in Early Stage
Jiangnan Zhao (Key Laboratory of Smart Agriculture Systems, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Information Acquisition Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China), Hanbo Xu (Key Laboratory of Smart Agric…

Smartphone-integrated RPA-CRISPR-Cas12a Detection System with Microneedle Sampling for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Potato Late Blight in Early Stage
Potato late blight, caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans, is one of the most devastating diseases affecting potato crops in the history. Although conventional detection methods of plant diseases such as PCR and LAMP are highly sensitive and specific, they rely on bulky and expensive laboratory equipment and involve complex operations, making them impracticable for point-of care diagnosis in the field. Here in this study, we report a portable RPA-CRISPR based diagnosis system f…

Allie Vugrincic, "Ohio State University prohibits land acknowledgements under most circumstances"
https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2025-09-08/ohio-state-university-prohibits-land-acknowledge…

Ohio State University prohibits land acknowledgements under most circumstances
A land acknowledgement is a verbal or written statement that recognizes that land was taken from Indigenous people. Ohio State's policy says they are considered statements "on behalf of an issue or cause" and they cannot be given by a university department or at university-sponsored events.

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1
Yuan-Ming Hsu (National Taiwan University), Xiaosheng Huang (University of San Francisco, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Christopher J. Storfer (University of Hawai`i, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jose Carlos Inchausti (University of San Francisco), David Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Moustakas (Siena College), J. Aguilar (the DESI Collaboration),…

A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1
We present a new method to search for strong gravitational lensing systems by pairing spectra that are close together on the sky in a spectroscopic survey. We visually inspect 26,621 spectra in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 that are selected in this way. We further inspect the 11,848 images corresponding to these spectra in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10, and obtain 2046 conventional strong gravitational lens candidates, of which 1906 are new. T…

Hidden binaries in star-forming regions
Mary H. Rawcliffe (University of Sheffield, UK), Nathan Griffiths-Janvier (University of Sheffield, UK), Richard J. Parker (University of Sheffield, UK)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15924

Hidden binaries in star-forming regions
A significant fraction of, and possibly all, stars form in binary or multiple systems. For Solar-mass stars in the Galactic field, the distribution of orbital separations is log-normal over seven orders of magnitude, from $10^{-2} - 10^5$ au. In contrast, the separation distributions of systems in nearby star-forming regions paints a much more confusing picture. There appears to be an excess of systems in the separation range 10 - 1000 au, and recent high-resolution spectroscopic observations o…

Orchestration of Music by Grammar Systems
Jozef Maki\v{s} (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology), Alexander Meduna (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology), Zbyn\v{e}k K\v{r}ivka (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15314

Orchestration of Music by Grammar Systems
This application-oriented study concerns computational musicology, which makes use of grammar systems. We define multi-generative rule-synchronized scattered-context grammar systems (without erasing rules) and demonstrates how to simultaneously make the arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a whole orchestra, consisting of several instruments. Primarily, an orchestration like this is illustrated by examples in terms of classical music. In addition, the orchestration of jazz co…

Oxford University Press stops publishing a journal sponsored by China's Ministry of Justice after years of concerns it did not meet standards on DNA collection (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/scie…

plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…

11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture (Batman University, Çankaya University, Prešov University, Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University) Keynote Speakers: Prof. Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University and Prof. Adelheid Rundholz, JCSU
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updated: Monday, June 16, 20…

When AI Writes Back: Ethical Considerations by Physicians on AI-Drafted Patient Message Replies
Di Hu (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA), Yawen Guo (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA), Ha Na Cho (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA), Emilie Chow (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA), Dana B. Mukamel (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA), Dara Sorkin (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA), Andrew Rei…

When AI Writes Back: Ethical Considerations by Physicians on AI-Drafted Patient Message Replies
The increasing burden of responding to large volumes of patient messages has become a key factor contributing to physician burnout. Generative AI (GenAI) shows great promise to alleviate this burden by automatically drafting patient message replies. The ethical implications of this use have however not been fully explored. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a semi-structured interview study with 21 physicians who participated in a GenAI pilot program. We found that notable ethical cons…

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have requested information on the University of Chicago’s admissions practices and international students, according to bond issuance documents.
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Feds issue 'information requests' on University of Chicago international students, admissions practices
In the more than 200 pages of documents dated July 11, the university wrote that the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security had issued information requests regarding “admissions practices and international students.”

A Classification Program for Nonlocality Paradoxes of Three Qubits
Nadish de Silva (Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University), Santanil Jana (Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University), Ming Yin (Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14673…

A Classification Program for Nonlocality Paradoxes of Three Qubits
Nonlocality is a quintessential signature of nonclassical behaviour and a resource for quantum advantages in communication and computation. The paradoxical correlations witnessed by strong nonlocality undergird the standard probabilistic form of nonlocality and provide optimal advantages in numerous informational tasks. Three-qubit systems are the simplest ones that admit strong nonlocality. Abramsky et al. (TQC, 2017) established the existence of an infinite family of three-qubit paradoxes, …

Design Analysis of an Innovative Parallel Robot for Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery
Doina Pisla (CESTER), Alexandru Pusca (CESTER, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca), Andrei Caprariu (CESTER, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca), Adrian Pisla (CESTER, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca), Bogdan Gherman (LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe RoMas), Calin Vaida (LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe RoMas), Damien Chablat (LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe RoMas)

Design Analysis of an Innovative Parallel Robot for Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery
This paper focuses on the design of a parallel robot designed for robotic assisted minimally invasive pancreatic surgery. Two alternative architectures, called ATHENA-1 and ATHENA-2, each with 4 degrees of freedom (DOF) are proposed. Their kinematic schemes are presented, and the conceptual 3D CAD models are illustrated. Based on these, two Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations were performed to determine which architecture has the higher stiffness. A workspace quantitative analysis is perfor…

🧲 Scientists find new quantum behavior in unusual superconducting material
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-scientists-quantum-behavior-unusual-superconducting.html

Scientists find new quantum behavior in unusual superconducting material
Researchers at Rice University and collaborating institutions have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands in a kagome superconductor. This breakthrough could pave the way for new methods to design quantum materials—including superconductors, topological insulators and spin-based electronics—that could power future electronics and computing technologies.

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

External magnetic field suppression of carbon diffusion in iron
Luke J. Wirth (Department of Materials Science,Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA), Dallas R. Trinkle (Department of Materials Science,Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.…

External magnetic field suppression of carbon diffusion in iron
External magnetic fields reduce diffusion of carbon in BCC iron, but the physical mechanism is not understood. Using DFT calculations with magnetic moments sampled from a Heisenberg model, we calculate diffusivities of carbon in iron at high temperatures and with field. Our model reproduces the measured suppression of diffusivity from field. We find that increasing magnetic disorder flattens the electron density of states compared with the ferromagnetic case, which distorts the octahedral cages…

Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
R. Louw (Stellenbosch University), E. Sharratt (Stellenbosch University), F. de Wet (Stellenbosch University), C. Jacobs (Stellenbosch University), A. Smith (Stellenbosch University), H. Kamper (Stellenbosch University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13205

Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy. However, teachers in large preschool classrooms struggle to accurately identify students who require intervention. We present a system for automatically assessing oral narratives of preschool children in Afrikaans and isiXhosa. The system uses automatic speech recognition followed by a machine learning scoring model to predict narrative and comprehension scores. For scoring predicted transcripts, we…

Fast-VAT: Accelerating Cluster Tendency Visualization using Cython and Numba
MSR Avinash (Presidency University, Bangalore), Ismael Lachheb (EPITA School of Engineering,Computer Science, Paris, France)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15904

Fast-VAT: Accelerating Cluster Tendency Visualization using Cython and Numba
Visual Assessment of Cluster Tendency (VAT) is a widely used unsupervised technique to assess the presence of cluster structure in unlabeled datasets. However, its standard implementation suffers from significant performance limitations due to its O(n^2) time complexity and inefficient memory usage. In this work, we present Fast-VAT, a high-performance reimplementation of the VAT algorithm in Python, augmented with Numba's Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation and Cython's static typing and low-level …

A Myhill-Nerode Type Characterization of 2detLIN Languages
Benedek Nagy (Eastern Mediterranean University / Eszterh\'azy K\'aroly Catholic University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15316

A Myhill-Nerode Type Characterization of 2detLIN Languages
Linear automata are automata with two reading heads starting from the two extremes of the input, are equivalent to 5' -> 3' Watson-Crick (WK) finite automata. The heads read the input in opposite directions and the computation finishes when the heads meet. These automata accept the class LIN of linear languages. The deterministic counterpart of these models, on the one hand, is less expressive, as only a proper subset of LIN, the class 2detLIN is accepted; and on the other hand, they are also e…

"Rethinking #Wikipedia from a #Library Perspective" @ ACRLog: https://acrlo…

"Your morning #coffee really does make you happier" | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1094854

A Few Fit Most: Improving Performance Portability of SGEMM on GPUs using Multi-Versioning
Robert Hochgraf (Rochester Institute of Technology), Sreepathi Pai (University of Rochester)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15277

A Few Fit Most: Improving Performance Portability of SGEMM on GPUs using Multi-Versioning
Hand-optimizing linear algebra kernels for different GPU devices and applications is complex and labor-intensive. Instead, many developers use automatic performance tuning (autotuning) to achieve high performance on a variety of devices. However, autotuning "overfits", and must be redone if any part of the environment changes, such as if the device or input characteristics change. In most non-trivial cases, a single compute kernel cannot maintain near-optimal performance across all environmen…

The Status of the Astrophysical Parameters of Upper Main Sequence Stars
Lukas Kue{\ss} (Department of Astrophysics, Vienna University, T\"urkenschanzstra{\ss}e, Vienna, Austria), Ernst Paunzen (Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotl\'a\v{r}sk\'a, Brno, Czechia)
https://…

The Status of the Astrophysical Parameters of Upper Main Sequence Stars
Calibrating the ages, masses, and radii of stars on the upper main sequence depends heavily on accurate measurements of the effective temperature ($T_\mathrm{eff}$) and surface gravity ($\log g$). These parameters are difficult to obtain meticulously due to the nature of hot stars, which exhibit features such as rapid rotation, atomic diffusion, pulsation, and stellar winds. We compare the $T_\mathrm{eff}$, and $\log g$, values of apparent normal B-F stars in four recent catalogues that employ …

uni_email: Email network (Uni. R-V, Spain, 2003)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, in 2003. The KONECT version is undirected.
This network has 1133 nodes and 10903 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

🎾 The psychological use and abuse of timeouts in professional tennis
#tennis

The psychological use and abuse of timeouts in professional tennis
Data analysis by a University of Manchester psychologist has confirmed the suspicion that tennis players who take a bathroom break are likely to gain an advantage over their opponent.

Rich Lyons,
the University of California, Berkeley, chancellor,
challenged US House Republicanson Tuesday
as they questioned Lyons and leaders of Georgetown University and the City University of New York
in the latest hearing on antisemitism in higher education.
The committee accused the schools of failing to respond adequately to allegations of bias or discrimination,
however the university leaders said that disciplinary action had been taken where approp…

“Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University
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New Journal and CFP: Inaugural Issue of Central Europe Yearbook Now Available The…
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Investigation of the Axe-shaped Radio Galaxy J1051 5523 with uGMRT
Sudheesh T. P. (CHRIST University Bangalore India), Ruta Kale (NCRA-TIFR Pune India), Jithesh V. (CHRIST University Bangalore India), Ramananda Santra (NCRA-TIFR Pune India), Ishwara-Chandra C. H. (NCRA-TIFR Pune India), Joe Jacob (Newman College Thodupuzha India)
https://a…

Investigation of the Axe-shaped Radio Galaxy J1051+5523 with uGMRT
We present a multi-frequency study of the bent-tail radio galaxy J1051+5523, located in the galaxy cluster WHL J105147.4+552309. This wide-angle tail (WAT) galaxy exhibits a complex radio morphology, characterised by a right-angled bend in the northern jet, which resembles an axe, and multiple kinks in the southern jet, as observed in the deep uGMRT radio observations. The radio power of J1051+5523 at 150 MHz is estimated to be $2.91 \times 10^{25}\,\mathrm{W\,Hz^{-1}}$, placing it in the trans…

elite: Barnes-Burkett elite affiliations (1962)
A small bipartite network of the affiliations among elite individuals and the corporate, museum, university boards, or social clubs to which they belonged, from 1962.
This network has 44 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/…

Economic inequality has reached a staggering milestone in Silicon Valley:
just nine households hold 15% of the region’s wealth, according to new research from San Jose State University.
🔥A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of the tech hub’s wealth.
The findings come from the 2025 “Silicon Valley Pain Index”,
a report published by SJSU’s Human Rights Institute each year since 2020. The report aims to quantify “structured inequalities” in Silicon Valley, and measures “pai…

🏃🏿‍♀️‍➡️ Researchers find that individual practice is the secret to maintaining high team performance over time
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-individual-secret-high-team.html

Researchers find that individual practice is the secret to maintaining high team performance over time
When it comes to learning and retaining complex skills, a new study from Texas A&M University uncovered a surprising finding: in the context of teams, having employees practice skills alone may be the best way to help the team succeed.

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Handy Relation Between Binary Black Hole Merger Times and Host Galaxy Properties
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Department of Physics, Fisk University, Nashville, TN), Fazeel Khan (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science), Isaiah Williams (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), Jaelyn Roth (Department of Physics and Astronomy, …

Handy Relation Between Binary Black Hole Merger Times and Host Galaxy Properties
Over the past 15 years, the evidence has clearly demonstrated that massive black hole (MBH) binary merger timescales depend strongly on the structural and kinematic properties of their host galaxy. Stellar density, gas content, shape and kinematics all play a role, combining in non-linear ways to effect the evolution of the binary. The binary properties themselves, such as eccentricity, mass ratio, and orbital plane, all matter as well. This makes it nontrivial to estimate accurate cosmological…

A federal judge Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants,
halting for now a nearly two-month funding crisis that UC leaders said threatened the future of the nation’s premier public university system.
The opinion by U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California
added hundreds of UCLA’s National Institutes of Health grants to an ongoing class-action lawsuit that had already led to the reversal of …

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants
A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026
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Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector CREATe, the RCUK…
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🌱 Living materials now easier to build with a larger palette of ingredients
#materials

Living materials now easier to build with a larger palette of ingredients
Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound or heal themselves after damage could become simpler to create thanks to new research by a team of biologists and engineers at the University of California San Diego.

CFP: 2026 Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University
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Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector CREATe, the RCUK…
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CFP: 2026 Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University
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LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary History Elisabeth Leake (she/her) 07/21/2025 - 8:34am …
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Nāgas and Territorial Deity Cosmologies in Monsoon Asia: Tantras, Mantras, and Worldly Rituals in Comparative Perspective
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

LECTURE> MU-CRS Seminar with Prof. Ujjwal Kumar
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New Journal and CFP: Inaugural Issue of Central Europe Yearbook Now Available The…
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karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 77 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

Lecture: Yen-yi Chan, “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara” (Kanagawa U., Wed., 24 Sept, 3:30–5pm; in-person only)
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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Lecture: Yen-yi Chan, “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara” (Kanagawa U., Wed., 24 Sept, 3:30–5pm; in-person only)
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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