# now published — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover now published. Page: Feed: --- ## [Instafangs](https://portsherry.com/comic/instafangs/) _2026-08-11 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ A while ago I brought this up with my dad and he had no recollection of it. Me? I never forgot it. I was floored by his quick thinking! You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi,\[ \] Read the rest of this entry... ## [Closet Picks](https://portsherry.com/comic/closet-picks/) _2026-08-04 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ I know Speed Racer isn t in the Criterion Collection. It should be, though. Can t go wrong with Criterion movies. But as for the ones that resonated with me specifically: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947) The Red Shoes\[ \] Read the rest of this entry... ## [Keeping up with pollination: using ChatGPT as a research alert](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/07/24/keeping-up-with-pollination-using-chatgpt-as-a-research-alert/) _2026-07-24 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ There is too much science. That is not a complaint about the quantity of research being done. Quite the opposite: it is remarkable how much good work is now being published across the world. But the sheer volume creates a serious practical problem. How can any researcher keep track of what is relevant to their \[ \] ## [Medical issues of the future](https://portsherry.com/comic/medical-issues-of-the-future/) _2026-07-21 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ All in all, an optimistic comic. You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi, weeks (months now!) before they are published here. Thank you for supporting my work! ## [The Real Test](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/the-real-test) _2026-07-15 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ A dog’s loyalty repaid in full [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207150911.mp3) ## [Nothing](https://portsherry.com/comic/nothing/) _2026-07-14 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi, weeks (months now!) before they are published here. Thank you for supporting my work! ## [The nerve](https://portsherry.com/comic/the-nerve/) _2026-07-07 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi, weeks (months now!) before they are published here. Thank you for supporting my work! ## [Eunoia: Euler and Venn Diagrams in Five Languages](https://jolars.co/blog/2026-07-04-eunoia/) _2026-07-04 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ Ten years ago I wrote eulerr as part of my Bachelor’s thesis (Larsson 2018) in statistics—an R package for area-proportional Euler diagrams . At the time it was the first package to feature ellipses beyond three sets, EulerAPE (Micallef and Rodgers 2014) being the first to introduce ellipses at all. eulerr has been surprisingly popular, having been used in (at least) 600 academic papers. It was… ## [Bird pollination finally confirmed in Britain!](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/07/01/bird-pollination-finally-confirmed-in-britain/) _2026-07-01 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ In my book Birds Flowers, I included a chapter called “The curious case of Europe”. The point of that chapter was simple enough: compared with much of the rest of the world, Europe appears to be oddly deficient in bird pollination. There are no hummingbirds, no sunbirds, no honeyeaters, and very few native plants \[ \] ## [Float Fusion](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/float-fusion) _2026-07-01 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ "I don't write about AI"--I find myself saying this to friends and colleagues with some frequency. And yet the topic is difficult to avoid these days. Below are some notes on one of the fundamental problems in AI: Is is possible for a discrete machine to model continuous phenomena? Instead of trying to solve the \[ \] ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7dBrO7O0pup8) _2026-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [The Revenge of Balthasar Julius](https://portsherry.com/comic/balthasar-julius/) _2026-06-30 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi, weeks (months now!) before they are published here. Thank you for supporting my work! ## [Press release: Europe risks a crisis if it fails to halt pollinator loss, researchers warn](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/06/24/press-release-europe-risks-a-crisis-if-it-fails-to-halt-pollinator-loss-researchers-warn/) _2026-06-24 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ NOTE FROM JEFF: This press release came out at the start of the week and I am involved in two of the EU-funded projects that are mentioned, Butterfly and ProPollSoil, and I m a co-author of the White Paper. For immediate release University of Bergen Brussels office, Rue Guimard 1040, Brussels, Belgium, 22 June 2026 Eight EU-funded \[ \] ## [Lizard](https://portsherry.com/comic/lizard/) _2026-06-23 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ Feel free to share and use this comic for educational (non commercial) purposes! This is the Creative Commons license: Lizard © 2026 by Pedro Arizpe is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 You can find my latest comics over at Patreon\[ \] Read the rest of this entry... ## [Just putting it out there](https://portsherry.com/comic/just-putting-it-out-there/) _2026-06-16 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ I m sure at first there was a curt message like CLEAN THE LENS and this was their way of softening it up. You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi, weeks (months now!) before they are published\[ \] Read the rest of this entry... ## [Basin: Numerical Optimization in Rust](https://jolars.co/blog/2026-06-10-basin/) _2026-06-10 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ Basin is a new numerical optimization library that pairs a small generic core, a set of problem traits that you implement, a pluggable termination layer, and a driver loop called the Executor . On top of that sits a growing collection of solvers spanning first-order, derivative-free, nonlinear least-squares, and evolutionary methods. I built Basin entirely because of my project Eunoia —a Rust… ## [Many bothans died for this breakthrough](https://portsherry.com/comic/many-bothans-died-for-this-breakthrough/) _2026-06-09 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi, weeks (months now!) before they are published here. Thank you for supporting my work! ## [Digital/Analog FAQ](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/digital-analog-faq) _2026-06-05 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ During my explorations into the digital and analog, I often encounter a series of frequently asked questions. I will address three of them here... Question: does it have to be either/or? Must one decide between the digital and the analog? What about digital-analog mixtures? What about ambiguity? No, it is not necessary to decide. Both/and is \[ \] ## [Photobooth](https://portsherry.com/comic/photobooth/) _2026-06-02 · Pedro Arizpe · Port Sherry_ That s not Greedo. That s his cousin, Wratho. You can find my latest comics over at Patreon and Ko-fi, weeks (months now!) before they are published here. Thank you for supporting my work! ## [Summer Has Come To Norway, Along With a brand new The Goodest Boy book!](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/summer-has-come-to-norway-along-with) _2026-05-28 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ Greetings, all! ## [When an old experiment revealed a new story about flowers](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/05/21/when-an-old-experiment-revealed-a-new-story-about-flowers/) _2026-05-21 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ Sometimes, science does not go the way you plan. That is usually framed as failure: the experiment did not work, the results were inconclusive, the story was unclear. But science can also advance when we go back to old data and ask a different question. That is exactly what happened with a study of Field \[ \] ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/90WepSSM98Yp) _2026-05-21 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [Common Mistakes When Trying to Define the Digital](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/common-mistakes-when-trying-to-define-the-digital) _2026-05-20 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ Several common mistakes should be avoided when trying to define the digital. (1) The first mistake is to assume that the digital is bound by the field of consumer electronics. Focusing on consumer electronics tends to confine digitality within a relatively narrow band of history (industrial societies roughly since World War II) and a relatively \[ \] ## [The General Equivalent](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/the-general-equivalent) _2026-05-04 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ In the past I've written about the importance of cuts within digitality. A cut indicates difference, difference of whatever kind. But a cut is not enough for a full-fledged digital system. Cuts will not spontaneously assemble into a regular series, and cuts will not calculate or compute, at least not if they remain in the \[ \] ## [Could LLMs like ChatGPT ever replace part of the academic peer-review process?](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/27/could-llms-like-chatgpt-ever-replace-part-of-the-academic-peer-review-process/) _2026-04-27 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ Recently, I made a comment over on Steve Heard s Scientist Sees Squirrel blog: I have never published a paper that’s not been improved, to some degree, by peer review, and broadly the system works. But I do wonder if it’s sustainable in the long-term and whether in the future LLMs might actually be a more \[ \] ## [What the COVID lockdowns taught us about plant-pollinator specialisation in gardens](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/23/what-the-covid-lockdowns-taught-us-about-plant-pollinator-specialisation-in-gardens/) _2026-04-23 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ One of the few positive things to come out of the COVID lockdowns was the unexpected opportunity to look much more closely at the nature right outside our doors. In 2020 I coordinated the Lockdown Gardens initiative, bringing together pollination ecologists from around the world to carry out standardised surveys of flower visitors in the \[ \] ## [Spring comes in one day!](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/spring-comes-in-one-day) _2026-04-11 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ Spring arrived a few days ago, all at once. ## [Edible Apocynaceae: a new global synthesis of diversity, conservation and pollination just published – and a personal landmark for me!](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/08/edible-apocynaceae-a-new-global-synthesis-of-diversity-conservation-and-pollination-just-published-and-a-personal-landmark-for-me/) _2026-04-08 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ This year 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of my first publication. Forty years. Imagine that I certainly can t! It feels like a long time ago, a distant memory, another life. I was 21 and I hadn t even begun my undergraduate degree. After a less-than-successful time at school I decided to complete a \[ \] ## [Monkey business at the SCAPE conference](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/05/monkey-business-at-the-scape-conference/) _2026-04-05 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ I d like to tell you about a dream that I had last night. As far as I can recall this is the first time I ve mentioned my dreams in about 14 years of regular blogging. I dream almost every night: vivid, highly immersive, realistic, often weird, sometimes scary, frequently funny dreams that, each morning, I \[ \] ## [Help us uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting bees](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/02/help-us-uncover-the-hidden-lives-of-europes-ground-nesting-bees/) _2026-04-02 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ When most people think about pollinators, they picture bees visiting flowers. But for many species, a large part of life happens elsewhere: in the soil. Many pollinators do not just feed above ground, they also nest, shelter or develop below it Discovering more about this aspect of pollinator life histories is the focus of ProPollSoil, \[ \] ## [Pollinator decline for legal professionals – a new article explains this complex and important issue](https://jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/02/pollinator-decline-for-legal-professionals-a-new-article-explains-this-complex-and-important-issue/) _2026-04-02 · Jeff Ollerton · Prof. Jeff Ollerton – ecological scientist and author_ Oxford University Press recently commissioned me to write a piece for their Expert Essentials series, which is designed to give legal professionals an overview of complex topics that increasingly affect their clients, their sectors, and the regulatory landscape in which they operate. My contribution, on pollinator decline, has now been published. That might seem an \[ \] ## [Martha Schwendener's "The Society of the Screen" -- April 9](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/martha-schwendeners-the-society-of-the-screen-april-9) _2026-03-31 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ Join me for an event at NYU with Martha Schwendener about her new book The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience. We will talk about Flusser, art and art making, screens, technical images, cybernetics, and many other things. April 9, 6:30pm Einstein Auditorium 34 Stuyvesant Street NYC Register ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/B9meR1zZeNQA) _2026-03-31 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [The Dog Who Knew a Thing or Two](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/the-dog-who-knew-a-thing-or-two) _2026-03-30 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ A short story from The Goodest Boy, Volume 2 (coming soon!) ## [New Book is Almost Here!🐕](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/new-book-is-almost-here) _2026-03-11 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ A note for my wonderful readers! ## [The Enduring Bond](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/the-enduring-bond) _2026-03-09 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ Dogs love us better than we love them. They love us with their entire being, every single second they’re alive. They wait by the door for as long as it takes. They rest their head on our knee when we cry. They stand guard over our sick beds, our empty pillows.Their love isn’t complicated by ego or condition. It just is. Pure, steady, and eternal. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190364334/924aac6db9103619e5247fe83f791fe6.mp3) ## [Structuralism (Neo- or Paleo-)](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/structuralism-neo-or-paleo) _2026-03-07 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ Digital theory will benefit from a return to structuralism. As I've said before in print, structuralism was the apex of digital theory during the 20th C. During that period, scholars were obsessed with codes, logics, binarisms, linguistic structures, and even quasi-mathematical approaches, as seen in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, or Lacan's Seminar 2 on \[ \] ## [Lost & Found: The Final Chapters ( was serialized here, but now published)](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/lost-and-found-the-final-chapters) _2026-03-04 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ Henrik & Axel's story: A heartwarming tale of a man and a dog bound by grief and their own evolving relationship growing from strangers to friends, as the seasons change from winter to summer. ## [The Life You Choose 🐾](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/the-life-you-choose) _2026-02-28 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ This is what the last day of February here looks like (temporarily, at least!😆). ## [Lost & Found: Chapters 6 & 7 (was serialized here, but is now published)](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/lost-and-found-chapters-6-and-7) _2026-02-28 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ Henrik & Axel's story ## [Digital Dialectics?](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/digital-dialectics) _2026-02-26 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ While the four of us largely agree on the basic terms discussed in Digital Theory, a few specific points of disagreement remain. Dialectics is one of those points of disagreement. Handelman and Weatherby's chapter, titled "Digital Dialectics," argues that the two terms are intertwined. Meanwhile, my chapter insists that the digital is strictly incompatible with \[ \] ## [Lost & Found is now published!](https://thegoodestplace.substack.com/p/lost-and-found-chapters-4-and-5) _2026-02-26 · I.L. Williams · The Goodest Place: A Dog’s Home in Norway!_ Henrik & Axel's story ## [Digital Theory -- now published](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/digital-theory-now-published) _2026-02-13 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ I'm excited to announced that Digital Theory is now published in both book form and open access PDF. I haven't actually seen a physical copy yet.. but it's apparently out in the world. The four of us--Beatrice Fazi, Matthew Handelman, Leif Weatherby, and me--recently went on both the Disintegrator and Acid Horizon podcasts to discuss \[ \] ## [Introducing Tomat: A Pomodoro Timer for Status Bars](https://jolars.co/blog/2026-01-12-tomat/) _2026-01-12 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ Introduction I have on-and-off been a user of the Pomodoro technique, which is based on splitting your work day into increments of, typically, 25-minute work sessions followed by 5-minute breaks, repeated say, four times, and then followed by a longer, 15-minute break. In Figure 1, you can see a simple illustration of how the Pomodoro technique works. graph TD A\[25 min work\] --\>|Sessions 1-4| B\[5… ## [GEN2026](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/gen2026) _2026-01-03 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ So tired of "gen" in AI/computation/etc. Hoping for new horizons of degen in 2026.. full-stack permadeath.. crypto-erasing.. stunlock design patterns.. fractal death drive.. full-stack permadeath -- one and done. you babies. crypto-erasing -- asset forfeiture, guaranteed. like when the K Foundation burned a million quid. stunlock design patterns -- for (int i = 1; i \[ \] ## [What the Cuck](https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/what-the-cuck) _2025-12-27 · ARG · Alexander R. Galloway_ Recently I've been revisiting the cinema of cuckoldry. You know, those films where a roving Lothario colludes with a married woman to cuck-n-kill her husband before getting whacked himself. There's Double Indemnity (1944), of course, and The Postman Always Rings Twice (both 1946 and 1981 versions). There's the peerless Body Heat (1981), where the woman \[ \] ## [What’s New in Moloch 2.0.0](https://jolars.co/blog/2025-12-05-moloch-v2/) _2025-12-05 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ Tip Moloch has now been published in TUGboat ( Larsson and samcarter 2026) ! The article will be available for free on the TUGboat website when the next issue is published. Moloch 2.0.0 is Released! I’m excited to announce a major update to Moloch, a minimalist Beamer presentation theme. Version 2.0.0 brings a complete overhaul of the color system, new themes, improved documentation, and several… ## [Qualpal](https://jolars.co/blog/2025-10-22-qualpal/) _2025-10-22 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ Qualpal(r) It is now nine years since I first blogged about my pet project Qualpal (at that point called qualpalr ), which is an R package for generating qualitative color palettes for data visualization in R. It was motivated by the fact that almost all color palettes were designed for a fixed number of categories and therefore must be suboptimal for other numbers of categories. At the time,… ## [LUSEM’s Best Thesis Award 2024](https://jolars.co/blog/2025-05-06-lusem-award/) _2025-05-06 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ It seems that I am on a lucky streak! I was also just 1 awarded Lund School of Economics’s award for best thesis in 2024. 1 Used to be correct when I started drafting this post, but now it’s been a little more than a month actually. You can read the news post here , in which I answer some questions regarding the thesis. Here is the nomination: In his dissertation, Johan Larsson develops new… ## [Cramér Prize for Best PhD Thesis](https://jolars.co/blog/2025-02-05-cramer-prize/) _2025-02-05 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ I am very happy to have just heard that my thesis was selected for the 2025 Cramér Prize for best thesis in statistics defended in 2024! The thesis is about optimization and algorithms for sparse regression and I have previously written about it in a blog post here so I will not delve into details. But I am tremendously happy to have received this prize and want to thank my supervisors and… ## [New Paper on Feature Normalization and Regularized Regression](https://jolars.co/blog/2025-01-21-normreg/) _2025-01-21 · Johan Larsson · Johan Larsson_ The Lasso, Elastic Net, and Ridge Regression Tip The paper has now been published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) ! (Larsson and Wallin 2025) You can find the final version on the TMLR website . The content of this blog post is mostly unchanged from the arXiv version, but please refer to the published version for the final and authoritative account of our work. I’ve also…