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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · Aug 19

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!

In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

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Daniel Klotz @danklotz.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Marine heatwaves have devastating effects on marine biodiversity. And they’re on the rise. Impacts have been particularly strong on habitat-forming foundation species like corals, kelp and seagrass. The result? Widespread, cascading impacts on both biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · Aug 12

i played Hydlide 3: The Space Memories a bit more. i have not successfully saved afterward yet, but i made it to level 3 once and got enough experience for it a second time.

the more i play it, the more impressed by the environment work i am. both the sprites and how the screens flow are great.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Aug 12

Lego is coming out with a near 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld video game system. “It’s not playable, but you can insert & remove Lego game cartridges and use different lenticular screens to pretend.” Total nostalgia bomb. [kottke.org]

The Lego Game Boy

Lego is coming out with a near 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld video game system. It’s not playable, but you can insert & remove Lego game cartridges and use different lenticular screens to pretend

kottke.org

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Daniel Klotz @danklotz.bsky.social · Aug 8

weeeeeee

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hydrology Paper of the Day @hyclimm.bsky.social @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social on extreme events of suspended sediment concentrations: landscape and environmental drivers; processes related to events; how to classify events; variability in the context of glacier melt; and the importance of rainfall.

HYCLIMM - Hydrology & Climate Impacts Group @hyclimm.bsky.social · Jul 16

🥳 New paper by Amber van Hamel

🐟 Extremely high suspended sediment concentration in rivers negatively impact the health of aquatic ecosystems.

❔Curious?

➡️ Suspended sediment concentrations in Alpine rivers: from annual regimes to sub-daily extreme events: hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Suspended sediment concentrations in Alpine rivers: from annual regimes to sub-daily extreme events

Abstract. The occurrence of extreme suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs) in rivers can have negative impacts on human infrastructure, water quality, and the health of aquatic ecosystems. However, ...

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Daniel Klotz @danklotz.bsky.social · Aug 5

Cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature

The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources sustaining hadal fauna.

www.nature.com

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Nye O'Neil @nyebowman.bsky.social · Aug 4

Land Cover Map 2024 is available now!

The latest in the series of @ukceh.bsky.social Land Cover Maps in raster and vector formats across spatial resolutions! This adds another year to our well established time series!

Land Cover Map 2024 is available through @eidcdata.bsky.social

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jul 12

We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall.
Does he *really* not know better? Or assume his readers won't?
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · Jul 7

🎤 @ellis.eu at #AIforGood Global Summit 2025
Don’t miss Bernhard Schölkopf keynote:
🧠 "The future of AI-powered scientific breakthroughs"
🗓️ 8 July |
⏰ 15:35–15:55 CEST
🔗 aiforgood.itu.int/event/the-fu...

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Jul 5

Before anyone says anything about whether there were flood warnings in Texas, read this.

www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Catastrophic Flooding In Texas - Were There Warnings?

Deadly flooding in the flash flood alley of Texas is raising questions about warnings. Here's a preliminary (but not conslusive) analysis.

www.forbes.com

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Daniel Klotz @danklotz.bsky.social · Jul 4

If there isn‘t one, there should be a word for the excessive use of bullet points….

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hochreitersepp.bsky.social @hochreitersepp.bsky.social · Jul 1

xLSTM for multivariate time series anomaly detection: arxiv.org/abs/2506.22837

“In our results, xLSTM showcases state-of-the-art accuracy, outperforming 23 popular anomaly detection baselines.”

Again, xLSTM excels in time series analysis.

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Thiago Nascimento @thiagovnascimento.bsky.social · Jun 30

EStreams dataset version 1.3 available at: doi.org/https://doi....

Note that the catalogue remains unchanged. Stay updated for future extensions.

EStreams: An Integrated Dataset and Catalogue of Streamflow, Hydro-Climatic Variables and Landscape Descriptors for Europe

Check out the paper at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03706-1 (published at Nature Scientific Data). EStreams is an extensive catalog of openly available stream records, along with a dataset of h...

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Daniel Klotz @danklotz.bsky.social · Jun 14

Interesting take: www.dlib.org/dlib/october...

Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby

www.dlib.org

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Daniel Klotz @danklotz.bsky.social · Jun 8

Does seem appropriatw to me with its general use (image below is from merriam webster)

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hochreitersepp.bsky.social @hochreitersepp.bsky.social · Jun 2

TiRex 🦖 time series xLSTM model ranked #1 on all leaderboards.

➡️ Outperforms models by Amazon, Google, Datadog, Salesforce, Alibaba

➡️ industrial applications

➡️ limited data

➡️ embedded AI and edge devices

➡️ Europe is leading

Code: lnkd.in/eHXb-XwZ
Paper: lnkd.in/e8e7xnri

shorturl.at/jcQeq

Introducing TiRex - xLSTM based time series model | NXAI

TiRex model at the top 🦖 We are proud of TiRex - our first time series model based on #xLSTM technology. Key take aways: 🥇 Ranked #1 on official international leaderboards ➡️ Outperforms models ...

www.linkedin.com

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Günter Klambauer @gklambauer.bsky.social · May 30

Recommended read for the weekend: Sepp Hochreiter's book on AI!

Lots of fun anecdotes and easily accessible basics on AI!

www.beneventopublishing.com/ecowing/prod...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 26

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

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Frederik Kratzert @kratzert.bsky.social · May 27

Caravan News🐪🐫

I just published Version 1.6. The main update is that the source data for CAMELS-AUS was upgraded to CAMELS-AUS v2. This means more basins (561 vs 222) and more recent streamflow data (2022 vs 2014).

All relevant links in thread 🧵

(please share/repost)

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Mario Krenn @mariokrenn.bsky.social · May 27

We have several open, fully-funded PhD and Postdoc positions at my group, now at the University of Tübingen. Please #RT and share with potential candidates!

Generally: AI for scientific discoveries in physics 🔥.
mariokrenn.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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hochreitersepp.bsky.social @hochreitersepp.bsky.social · May 26

xLSTM for the classification of assembly tasks: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18012

"xLSTM model demonstrated better generalization capabilities to new operators. The results clearly show that for this type of classification, the xLSTM model offers a slight edge over Transformers."

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 23

Tree rings are amazing, episode #13759! 🌲 💍 🥰

In combination with historical and meteorological reanalysis they can be used (growth eccentricity) to assess past storm occurrence/strength

A nice example from coastal SW France 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Yufang Hou @yufanghou.bsky.social · May 21

‼️Call for Participation: IT:U Summer School 2025 on Natural Language Processing‼️

We are excited to announce that the IT:U Summer School 2025, focused on NLP, will take place on July 25–26 in Linz, Austria, just ahead of #ACL2025.

🔗 Register here: it-u.at/en/itu-summe...

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