The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/
lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 1085612 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
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The Iranian sailors weren't offered the chance to surrender,
and there were no US attempts to rescue the survivors
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-submarine-torpedoes-iranian-frigate-in-indian-ocean-in-f…
Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a "rolling scan" scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/01
from my link log —
Never snooze a future in async Rust.
https://jacko.io/snooze.html
saved 2026-03-04 https://dotat.at/:/9QPBM.html
#ThursdayFiveList #SmellsLikeTeenSpirit
Songs from my teen years...
Now guess my age :-)
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Quantenoptisches Mikroskop erreicht atomare Auflösung
https://www.scinexx.de/news/physik/quantenoptisches-mikroskop-erreicht-atomare-aufloesung
"Quantensprung für die optische Mikroskopie: Physiker haben ein Mikroskop entwickelt…
Apple Music: „Transparency Tags" kennzeichnen KI-Songs
Der Apple-Musikstreaming-Dienst will in Sachen KI-generierter Musik transparenter werden. Spotify hat ähnliche Planungen, Deezer nutzt Detektoren.
https://www.…
from my link log —
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all
saved 2026-03-04