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Meet the Welsh Puppies Stopping Wildlife Poachers in Africa https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/meet-the-welsh-puppies-stopping-wildlife-poachers-in-africa/

Meet the Welsh Puppies Stopping Wildlife Poachers in Africa
In the lush, emerald hills and valleys of Wales, dogs are trained to protect endangered wildlife a whole hemisphere away. Their scent tracking allows them to turn hunters into the hunted, and catch poachers even in total darkness; even hours after they’ve left their kill sites. After a decade of work in Africa, these special […]

My wife and I just watched a show on Kanopy, called Language Matters with Bob Holman--by David Grubin, 2015.
It was just top-notch. It was about 3 endangered cultures: the 1st was on islands off N. Australia, the 2nd was Welsh, and the 3rd was Hawaiian.
I'm going to watch it again, right after I think about it some more.
#Language

So glad to see the Welsh nationalists beat the umm, gammon nationalists. Marginally better :)

GENERAL (RET.) MARK A. WELSH III (Mark A. Welsh III/president.tamu.edu)
https://president.tamu.edu/messages/an-update-from-president-mark-a-welsh-iii.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p3#a250910p3

Sequential multi-isotope sampling through a Bos taurus tooth from #Stonehenge, to assess comparative sources and incorporation times of strontium and lead: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325001189?via=ihub -> Scientists uncover secrets of Stonehenge’s mysterious cattle: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/scientists-uncover-secrets-of-stonehenges-mysterious-cattle/ - cutting-edge analysis of a Neolithic cow tooth dating back to the construction of the famous landmark provides evidence of Welsh origins.

The absolute irony of the person complaining about a little bit of #Welsh being called Ceri.
Also, it's not a Pelican crossing, looks more like a Puffin. #rdguk
Reading council installs Whitley Welsh pelican crossing
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25367371.reading-council-installs-whitley-welsh-pelican-crossing/

Tight cylindric partitions
Shashank Kanade, Matthew C. Russell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15113 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15113

Tight cylindric partitions
In this note, we initiate the study of generating functions for tight cylindric partitions. For general (i.e., $r$-rowed for $r\geq 2$) tight cylindric partitions, we provide analogs of the Corteel--Welsh functional equations. We prove closed forms for the bivariate generating functions for 2-rowed tight cylindric partitions. We also show that these partitions are in bijection with a class of partitions studied by Dousse, Hardiman, and Konan.

[The Welsh First Minister] said: “My understanding is that [Sir Keir Starmer] never goes to by-elections".
A shy PM?
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/prospect-of-chaos-if-reform-…

‘Prospect of chaos’ if Reform or Plaid win in Wales – Welsh First Minister
There is a “real prospect of chaos” if Reform UK or Plaid Cymru win in Wales, the Welsh First Minister has said.

Incarcerated Welsh rock singer Ian Watkins #Lostprophets killed in another UK prison attack behind bars, in 2023 he'd been stabbed and held hostage by inmates. He was 48 and had spent over a decade in prison thus far after a 2013 drug bust found pedophiliac materials on his electronic devices, and after police investigation, he admitted to a string of sex offences – including the attempted rape of…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Delius
Frederick Delius's Violin Concerto, with Tasmin Little and Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. Recorded in May 1991 in the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h0vw

Trying to think of a project name for my #transient #emacs build tool interface. I've been playing around with an anglicisation of the #welsh phrase "iechyd da" which is often used as a drin…

"Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of three UK rivers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Pollution

Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of
reliable, well-engineered commercial software?
-- Matt Welsh

It's officially autumn as today was the #VSCC Welsh weekend with the hill climb at Cwm Whitton. We've been going for more then 20 years - that's even since before our son was born. He was probably there in utero. The cars have to get up the slope - dry this year so much easier - then round the corner they have to stop and do a hill start, to a round of applause if they make it. We always …

"I want to thank everyone out there ... but not the Scots, Welsh or Northern Irish" #TOTP

Notes on the topology of independence structures
Kevin Ivan Piterman, Volkmar Welker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12971

Notes on the topology of independence structures
Following Welsh, a pre-independence space (pi-space) is a set $M$ together with a non-empty collection $I(M)$ of subsets of $M$, called independent sets, which is closed under taking subsets, and finite independent sets satisfy the exchange property from matroid theory. We show that $I(M)$, viewed as a poset, is contractible if it is infinite-dimensional, and Cohen-Macaulay otherwise. Moreover, the proper part of the associated poset of flats is also contractible in the infinite-dimensional c…

A Single Index Approach to Integrated Species Distribution Modeling for Fisheries Abundance Data
Quan Vu, Francis K. C. Hui, A. H. Welsh, Samuel Muller, Eva Cantoni, Christopher R. Haak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15379

A Single Index Approach to Integrated Species Distribution Modeling for Fisheries Abundance Data
In fisheries ecology, species abundance data are often collected by multiple surveys, each with unique characteristics. This article focuses on Atlantic sea scallop abundance data along the northeast coast of the United States, collected from two bottom trawl surveys which cover a larger spatial domain but have low catch efficiency, and a dredge survey which is more efficient but limited to domains where the species are believed to be present. To model such data, integrated species distribution…

Mixed symmetries of S_n: immanants in the sampling of U(d) submatrices
Jacob Daigle, Hubert de Guise, Trevor Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21108 https://

Mixed symmetries of S_n: immanants in the sampling of U(d) submatrices
We provide results on the mean and higher moments of immanants of submatrices of ensembles of Haar-distributed unitary matrices, mostly without proofs. This paper is based on a talk presented at ISQS29 in Prague in July 2025 by Trevor Welsh.

Another example of training machine learning / AI models to 'read' historical maps, this time identifying long-standing woodland https://digitalanddata.blog.gov.wales/2024/09/09/can-ai-help-find-lost-woodland/

Can AI help find lost woodland?
Post by Evie, Data Science Unit, Welsh Government Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg There are many areas of Wales where woodland clearance has taken place, especially since the 19th century. &nbs…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Frederick Delius, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Charles Mackerras, Daniel Washington & Welsh National Opera Chorus:
🎵 Appalachia (Variation 7)
#FrederickDelius #WelshNationalOperaOrchestra #CharlesMackerras

#NowPlaying Guided by Julian Cope’s “The Modern Antiquarian” and Aurbrey Burl’s “A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain”, Llyn Y Cwn aka Ben Powell makes abyssal dark ambient soundscapes with site-specific field recordings from Wales and beyond. https://…

Llyn Y Cwn
Llyn Y Cwn is a field recording based dark ambient project with focus on atmosphere, immersion and environment. Ben Powell has been making electronic music since the 90s, drawing inspiration from his native North Wales landscape and his participation on Arctic research cruises. Llyn Y Cwn (Welsh - lake of the dogs) is a small lake at 715m in the Glyder mountain range of Snowdonia, North Wales.

Adjusted Random Effect Block Bootstraps for Highly Unbalanced Clustered Data
Zhi Yang Tho, Raymond Chambers, A. H. Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07770 https://

Adjusted Random Effect Block Bootstraps for Highly Unbalanced Clustered Data
Clustered data arise naturally in many scientific and applied research settings where units are grouped within clusters. They are commonly analyzed using linear mixed models to account for within-cluster correlations. This article focuses on the scenario in which cluster sizes might be highly unbalanced and proposes a proportional random effect block bootstrap and a modified random effect block bootstrap, which are applicable in such cases and accommodate general distributions of random effects…

Rugby Team Carries Wheelchair-bound Dad up Snowdon Peak – Fulfilling His Lifelong Dream (LOOK) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rugby-team-carries-wheelchair-bound-dad-up-snowdon-peak-fulfilling-his-lifelong-dream-look/

Rugby Team Carries Wheelchair-bound Dad up Snowdon Peak – Fulfilling His Lifelong Dream (LOOK)
This is the touching moment a rugby team carried a wheelchair-bound dad to the summit of Snowdon—helping to fulfill his lifelong dream. Members of Bangor Rugby Club helped Phil Thompson to the Welsh mountain’s 3650-foot peak earlier this month. The 66-year-old has always wanted to reach the top of Snowdon but thought it would be […]

Qui aurait pu prévoir ?
"Les prix des courses sur Uber sont de dix Š vingt pour cent plus élevés que ceux des courses en taxi, et jusqu'Š 50 % plus élevés pendant les périodes de pointe (lorsque la demande est la plus forte)."
#Uber

Virtual Reality Alters Perceived Functional Body Size
Xiaoye Michael Wang, Ali Mazalek, Catherine M. Sabiston, Timothy N. Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00824 https://

Virtual Reality Alters Perceived Functional Body Size
Virtual reality (VR) introduces sensory perturbations that may impact perception and action. The current study was designed to investigate how immersive VR presented through a head-mounted display (HMD) affects perceived functional body size using a passable aperture paradigm. Participants (n=60) performed an action task (sidle through apertures) and a perception task (adjust aperture width until passable without contact) in both physical, unmediated reality (UR) and VR. Results revealed signif…

The distribution of intersections in $\mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{Z}) \backslash \mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{R})$ and lattices related to roots of cubic congruences
Matthew Welsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00898

The distribution of intersections in $\mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{Z}) \backslash \mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{R})$ and lattices related to roots of cubic congruences
In this note we study the distribution of the intersections between certain translates of closed orbits of the positive diagonal subgroup in $\mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{Z}) \backslash \mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{R})$ with a maximal parabolic subgroup. These intersections are closely connected to roots of congruences for certain monic, irreducible cubic polynomials $F(X) \in \mathbb{Z}[X]$. The the main result is that the intersections, considered as a sequences in the diagonal subgroup and the parabolic…

"Labour has also won every time the Senedd has been contested, as it will be again in May. Yet, if the most recent Wales-wide poll holds good, that is set to change. Plaid will instead be the largest party, just ahead of Reform UK, with Labour third. Though still a minority, Plaid would be in government. In Welsh terms, that would be a political earthquake. Perhaps in Britain-wide terms too"
#UKPol

The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionisation: A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey
Louise Welsh, Valentina D'Odorico, Fabio Fontanot, Rebecca Davies, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Guido Cupani, George Becker, Laura Keating, Emma Ryan-Weber, Manuela Bischetti, Martin Haehnelt, Huanqing Chen, Yongda Zhu, Samuel Lai, Michaela Hirschmann, Lizhi Xie, Yuxiang Qin

The clustering of C IV and Si IV at the end of reionisation: A perspective from the E-XQR-30 survey
We aim to study the clustering of metal absorption lines and the structures that they arise in as a function of cosmic time. We focus on C IV and Si IV absorption features that are identified along a given quasar sightline. We exploit the two-point correlation function (2PCF) to investigate the clustering of these structures as a function of their separation. We utilise the E-XQR-30 data to perform a novel analysis at z>5. We also draw on literature surveys (including XQ-100) of lower redshift …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Historic Brass of the Guildhall School and Royal Welsh College of Music and Dram & Choir of Girton College:
🎵 Hodie assumpta est Maria
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZGtjMYXheQ8Bv6WhGjDc6

Volume Polynomials and Log-concavity of the Characteristic Polynomials of Matroids
Eric Katz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08391 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08…

Volume Polynomials and Log-concavity of the Characteristic Polynomials of Matroids
The Rota--Heron--Welsh conjecture (now a theorem of Adiprasito, Huh, and the author) asserts the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids. We give an exposition of the Lorentzian polynomial proof following the work of Branden and Leake aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate students.

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.RT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.RT/new
[1/1]:
- Mixed symmetries of S_n: immanants in the sampling of U(d) submatrices
Jacob Daigle, Hubert de Guise, Trevor Welsh

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- Virtual Reality Alters Perceived Functional Body Size
Xiaoye Michael Wang, Ali Mazalek, Catherine M. Sabiston, Timothy N. Welsh

"Critically endangered angel shark filmed off Welsh coast"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Sharks

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.MF. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.MF/new
[1/1]:
- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit Markets
Liam Welsh, Udit Grover, Sebastian Jaimungal

"Co-op to power 140 supermarkets with Welsh wind energy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #COOP #Energy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Frederick Delius, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 Autumn (North Country Sketches)
#FrederickDelius #WelshNationalOperaOrchestra #CharlesMackerras

"Wildfire damage to English and Welsh landscapes could reach £12m this month"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Environment

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Frederick Delius, Tamsin Little, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 Violin Concerto
#FrederickDelius #TamsinLittle #WelshNationalOperaOrchestra #CharlesMackerras

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Grace Williams, Royal Ballet Sinfonia & Andrew Penny:
🎵 Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
#GraceWilliams #RoyalBalletSinfonia #AndrewPenny
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Rt8JHd0qBLg3VJYJb55S6

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Traditional Welsh & Cerys Hafana:
🎵 Ffarwel i f'Ieuenctid [Farewell to my Youth]
#TraditionalWelsh #CerysHafana

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Edward Elgar, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera & Carlo Rizzi:
🎵 In the South
#EdwardElgar #OrchestraofWelshNationalOpera #CarloRizzi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Gioachino Rossini, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera & Carlo Rizzi:
🎵 Overture (William Tell)
#GioachinoRossini #OrchestraofWelshNationalOpera #CarloRizzi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Giacomo Puccini, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera & Carlo Rizzi:
🎵 Capriccio Sinfonico
#GiacomoPuccini #OrchestraofWelshNationalOpera #CarloRizzi
#Spotify

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Luciano Berio, Virginie Verrez, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera & Carlo Rizzi:
🎵 Folksongs
#LucianoBerio #VirginieVerrez #OrchestraofWelshNationalOpera #CarloRizzi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #PrivatePassions
John Hughes, Bryn Terfel, The Black Mountain Choir, The Risca Choir, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Gareth Jones:
🎵 Cwm Rhondda (Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah)
#JohnHughes #BrynTerfel #TheBlackMountainChoir #TheRiscaChoir

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Ottorino Respighi, Virginie Verrez, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera & Carlo Rizzi:
🎵 Il tramonto
#OttorinoRespighi #VirginieVerrez #OrchestraofWelshNationalOpera #CarloRizzi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera & Carlo Rizzi:
🎵 The Sicilian Vespers (Overture)
#GiuseppeVerdi #OrchestraofWelshNationalOpera #CarloRizzi
#Spotify