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A new dwarf planet may have been found in the solar system | The Week
https://theweek.com/science/dwarf-planet-solar-system-space-discovery

One of the RV dwellers Lurie plans to displace is a staffer helping Joel Engardio fight his recall. #sfPol
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/l…

Lurie has a plan to get RVs off the streets. RV dwellers say it's cruel and misguided
The residents react to City Hall's voucher proposal: "That's a step down."

Formation Channels of Gravitationally Resolvable Double White Dwarf Binaries Inside Globular Clusters
Lucas Hellstr\"om, Miros{\l}aw Giersz, Abbas Askar, Arkadiusz Hypki, Yuetong Zhao, Youjun Lu, Siqi Zhang, Ver\'onica V\'azquez-Aceves, Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13122

Formation Channels of Gravitationally Resolvable Double White Dwarf Binaries Inside Globular Clusters
Current gravitational wave detectors are sensitive to coalescing black holes and neutron stars. However, double white dwarfs (DWDs) have long been recognized as promising sources of gravitational waves, and upcoming detectors like LISA will be able to observe these systems in abundance. DWDs are expected to be the dominant gravitational wave (GW) sources in parts of the LISA frequency range, making it crucial to understand their formation for future detections. The Milky Way contains many white…

It continues to seem to me like #Neovim plugin authors haven't yet fully understood the power of #treesitter. I wish I had the time to explore the possibilities more thoroughly.

I cannot stress enough how stupid and dangerous an idea this is. https://mastotut.cat/@LoDeivit/114685756943284819

Panchromatic characterization of the Y0 brown dwarf WISEP J173835.52 273258.9 using JWST/MIRI
Malavika Vasist, Paul Molli\`re, Helena K\"uhnle, Olivier Absil, Gilles Louppe, Rens Waters, Manuel G\"udel, Thomas Henning, David Barrado, Leen Decin, John Pye, Pascal Tremblin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12264

Panchromatic characterization of the Y0 brown dwarf WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 using JWST/MIRI
Cold brown dwarf atmospheres are good training grounds for analyzing temperate giant planets. WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (WISE 1738) is an isolated Y0 brown dwarf with a temperature between 350-400 K, at the T-Y transition. While its near-infrared spectrum has been studied, bulk properties and chemistry remain uncertain. We analyze new JWST MIRI medium-resolution spectra (5-18 micron), combined with near-infrared spectra (0.98-2.2 micron) from HST/WFC3 and Gemini/GNIRS, to better constrain WISE …

Chemo-dynamics of the stellar component of the Sculptor dwarf galaxy II: dynamical properties and dark matter halo density
Jos\'e Mar\'ia Arroyo Polonio, Raffaele Pascale, Giuseppina Battaglia, Guillaume F. Thomas, Carlo Nipoti, Eugene Vasiliev, Eline Tolstoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11845

Chemo-dynamics of the stellar component of the Sculptor dwarf galaxy II: dynamical properties and dark matter halo density
Dwarf galaxies satellite of the Milky Way are excellent laboratories for testing dark matter (DM) models and baryonic feedback implementation in simulations. The Sculptor 'classical' dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a system with two distinct stellar populations and high-quality data, offers a remarkable opportunity to study DM distributions in these galaxies. In this work, we infer the DM halo density distribution of Sculptor, applying a method based on spherically symmetric distribution functions dep…

I get the desire for live coding interviews, you can't just take people's word that they know how to do it.
But what's the point in throwing Advent of Code style problems at me and interrupting a naive or incorrect approach before I even start implementing it? Let me write unoptimized code for you and then make it better! I'm not going to write the perfect implementation first try for every problem, but I can show you my process and prove I can write _some_ code.
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Rotation Periods of Candidate Single Late-M Dwarfs in TESS
Samantha Lambier, Stanimir Metchev, Paulo Miles-P\'aez, Leslie Moranta, Dakota Wolfe, Joelene Hales, Jeffrey Martinovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10847

Rotation Periods of Candidate Single Late-M Dwarfs in TESS
Recent studies suggest that the angular momentum evolution of late-M and brown dwarfs differs from the well-known spin-down evolution of hotter stars. Characterizing the distribution of rotation periods of these objects in the solar neighborhood can help elucidate this evolutionary pathway just above, at, and below the hydrogen burning limit. In this paper, we examine 399 candidate single late-M dwarfs with $G - G_{RP} \geq 1.4$ mag ($\gtrsim$M6) using TESS light curves. To determine rotation p…

I've been working on a full calendar app upgrade to the Discordian date widget I made years ago for Android. It's nearly ready for release, just got a bug or three to fix first.
#discordianism #discordiancalendar