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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say

Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say

Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
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New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say

Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/660727/

New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say

Language is ever evolving—from ancient dialects to modern slang, the words and accents people use are…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #culturallinguistics #dialects #JamesBurridge #language“weathermap” #languagechange #languageevolution #languagemapping #linguisticpatterns #regionalaccents #sociolinguistics #Statisticalphysics #UniversityofPortsmouth #wordspread
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/476603/ New Study Reveals Language Evolves in Predictable, Weather-Like Patterns, Researchers Say #CulturalLinguistics #dialects #Éire #IE #Ireland #JamesBurridge #Language“weatherMap” #LanguageChange #LanguageEvolution #LanguageMapping #LinguisticPatterns #RegionalAccents #Science #sociolinguistics #StatisticalPhysics #UniversityOfPortsmouth #WordSpread

From the lab of Roger Guimerà and Marta Sales Pardo:

"CoCoGraph, a collaborative and constrained graph diffusion model capable of generating molecules that are guaranteed to be chemically valid."

"A collaborative constrained graph diffusion model for the generation of realistic synthetic molecules", Ruiz-Botella et al. 2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01229-5.epdf

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16365

#StatisticalPhysics

The #paperOfTheDay is a classic of #thermodynamics : "Equation of state in the Neighborhood of the critical point" from 1965. Here, Benjamin Widom introduces what is now known as "Widom scaling".
Generically, the properties of a fluid might depend on parameters, such as temperature or density, through power laws. There are certain critical points in the phase space, i.e. certain temperatures, densities, etc., where the behaviour of the fluid changes qualitatively. The observation is that close to the critical point, the exponents of the various power laws have different numerical values than what one would expect classically. For example, the specific heat diverges at a power law, but the exponent of divergence is not what one would expect from the conventional equation of state.
Widom's paper now makes a specific conjecture: Near a critical point, the equation of state should be altered by introducing an arbitrary function of density of temperature, however, this function is assumed to be homogeneous. That is if x is temperature and y is density, it is a function of the form e.g. x^c * f(y/x), where f is an arbitrary function of y/x, and c is a constant. It turns out that almost all experimental observations can be described from this conjecture without knowing the functional form of f. The scaling exponent c alone is sufficient to give rise to the non-classical power laws and the relations between them.
This paper is significant because it is an early (and purely heuristic) version of universality: The behaviour of systems in #statisticalPhysics at the critical point is largely determined from structural properties, independently of concrete details.
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article-abstract/43/11/3898/210917/Equation-of-State-in-the-Neighborhood-of-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Metamaterials that learn to change shape

Smart, C. L. et al. Magnetically programmed diffractive robotics. Science 386, 1031 (2024). Artic…
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Metamaterials that learn to change shape

Smart, C. L. et al. Magnetically programmed diffractive robotics. Science 386, 1031 (2024). Artic…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/570185/

Metamaterials that learn to change shape

Smart, C. L. et al. Magnetically programmed diffractive robotics. Science 386, 1031 (2024). Article  ADS  Google Scholar  Li…
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/424676/ Metamaterials that learn to change shape #Atomic #ClassicalAndContinuumPhysics #ComplexSystems #CondensedMatterPhysics #Éire #general #IE #Ireland #MathematicalAndComputationalPhysics #Molecular #OpticalAndPlasmaPhysics #Physics #Science #SoftMaterials #StatisticalPhysics #Theoretical #ThermodynamicsAndNonlinearDynamics

https://www.europesays.com/uk/878262/ Metamaterials that learn to change shape #Atomic #ClassicalAndContinuumPhysics #ComplexSystems #CondensedMatterPhysics #general #MathematicalAndComputationalPhysics #Molecular #OpticalAndPlasmaPhysics #Physics #Science #SoftMaterials #StatisticalPhysics #Theoretical #ThermodynamicsAndNonlinearDynamics #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/uk/787455/ Sensing with discrete time crystals #Atomic #ClassicalAndContinuumPhysics #ComplexSystems #CondensedMatterPhysics #general #MathematicalAndComputationalPhysics #Molecular #OpticalAndPlasmaPhysics #Physics #QuantumMetrology #Science #StatisticalPhysics #Theoretical #ThermodynamicsAndNonlinearDynamics #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/ie/353934/ Sensing with discrete time crystals #Atomic #ClassicalAndContinuumPhysics #ComplexSystems #CondensedMatterPhysics #Éire #general #IE #Ireland #MathematicalAndComputationalPhysics #Molecular #OpticalAndPlasmaPhysics #Physics #QuantumMetrology #Science #StatisticalPhysics #Theoretical #ThermodynamicsAndNonlinearDynamics

Sensing with discrete time crystals

Principle: prethermal DTC lifetime extension by a.c. fields The system consists of a diamond crysta…
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Sensing with discrete time crystals

Principle: prethermal DTC lifetime extension by a.c. fields The system consists of a diamond crysta…
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Sensing with discrete time crystals

Principle: prethermal DTC lifetime extension by a.c. fields The system consists of a diamond crystal with 13C nuclear…
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Sensing with discrete time crystals

Principle: prethermal DTC lifetime extension by a.c. fields The system consists of a diamond crystal with 13C nuclear…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #Atomic #AU #Australia #ClassicalandContinuumPhysics #ComplexSystems #CondensedMatterPhysics #general #MathematicalandComputationalPhysics #Molecular #OpticalandPlasmaPhysics #Quantummetrology #Science #Statisticalphysics #Theoretical #thermodynamicsandnonlineardynamics
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/500590/

What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!

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#statisticalphysics #physics #mathematics #science #disorder #criticality #fluids #networks #graphs #biophysics #economics #sociology #complexity

What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!

Please boost far and wide, and spread the news to students, colleagues, and anyone who may be interested!

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#statisticalphysics #physics #mathematics #science #disorder #criticality #fluids #networks #graphs #biophysics #economics #sociology #complexity

What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!

Please boost far and wide, and spread the news to students, colleagues, and anyone who may be interested!

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#statisticalphysics #physics #mathematics #science #disorder #criticality #fluids #networks #graphs #biophysics #economics #sociology #complexity

What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!

Please boost far and wide, and spread the news to students, colleagues, and anyone who may be interested!

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#statisticalphysics #physics #mathematics #science #disorder #criticality #fluids #networks #graphs #biophysics #economics #sociology #complexity

What are your plans for the second week of July? The correct answer is: to participate in the Sigma Phi Conference in Chania! From 6 July to 10 July, a huge event covering all topics of interest in Statistical Physics. And, there will be also a special workshop on Mathematical Ideas across Multiple Scales in Networks (or MAIMUN, for short), organized by yours truly and with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Ginestra Bianconi, Stefano Boccaletti, Sebastian Contreras, Piero De Lellis, Tiziana Di Matteo, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Sarika Jalan, José Mendes, Osnat Mokryn and Punit Parmananda!

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https://www.europesays.com/ie/278468/ A polyhedral structure controls programmable self-assembly #Atomic #ClassicalAndContinuumPhysics #ComplexSystems #CondensedMatterPhysics #Éire #general #IE #Ireland #MathematicalAndComputationalPhysics #Molecular #NanoscaleMaterials #OpticalAndPlasmaPhysics #Physics #Science #SelfAssembly #StatisticalPhysics #Theoretical

A polyhedral structure controls programmable self-assembly

Yield calculations and their experimental validation As discussed in the main text, we consider…
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A polyhedral structure controls programmable self-assembly

Yield calculations and their experimental validation As discussed in the main text, we consider…
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A polyhedral structure controls programmable self-assembly

Yield calculations and their experimental validation As discussed in the main text, we consider design parameters consisting o…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/684149/ A polyhedral structure controls programmable self-assembly #Atomic #ClassicalAndContinuumPhysics #ComplexSystems #CondensedMatterPhysics #general #MathematicalAndComputationalPhysics #Molecular #NanoscaleMaterials #OpticalAndPlasmaPhysics #Physics #Science #SelfAssembly #StatisticalPhysics #Theoretical #UK #UnitedKingdom

A polyhedral structure controls programmable self-assembly

Yield calculations and their experimental validation As discussed in the main text, we consider design parameters consisting of…
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Temporal anti-parity–time symmetry in diffusive transport

Gross, D. J. The role of symmetry in fundamental physics. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 93…
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Why can’t I remember? Model may show how recall can fail - Enlarge (credit: Serdar Acar / EyeEm)
Physicists can create serious mathematical models of stuff ... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1648447 #statisticalphysics #memoryrecall #powerlaw #science

I have a steam powered tea pot let me explain

It's one of those translucent plastic cylinders molded with a tight fitting lid that has two spouts: one with a square opening and another with a grate that doesn't filter small things like broken leaf tea.

Hot tea in this tea pot contains water with a high vapor pressure, one that is high enough to evaporate enough water to create a pressure large enough to lift the lid. The pressure inside and out was atmospheric pressure until water began evaporating from the tea I put in the tea pot.

The lid doesn't lift very far, but the bearing surface is tea, so the friction is low enough for the lid to move up.

Or conversely there is a small passage, albeit larger than all the rest, through which I can hear bubbles popping as the evaporated water leaves the tea pot. What was initially a flat interface between the membrane of tea and the external atmosphere was pushed out by this pressure difference. The push was the water vapor and air pushing against the surface tension of the tea membrane. It takes force to deform a fluid membrane.

So my steam powered tea pot is running on the heat energy in the hot tea inside it. The work it is doing could be lifting the lid but it surely is popping water bubbles that I can hear.

#statisticalphysics

🤣 Oh, you thought you'd be defying gravity by throwing statistical physics into JavaScript? 🚀 Spoiler alert: no amounts of buzzwords or IDEs will magically transform your code into something comprehensible. Next time, just stick to IMDB stalking for a real challenge! 🙄
https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/antigravity-stat-mech/ #defyinggravity #JavaScript #statisticalphysics #codinghumor #IMDBstalking #HackerNews #ngated

Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JavaScript

https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/antigravity-stat-mech/

#HackerNews #Antigravity #StatisticalPhysics #JavaScript #TechInnovation #HackerNews

Flatiron Research Fellow, Statistical Biophysics, Center for Computational Biology
Simons Foundation

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/simons-foundation-27778-flatiron-research-fellow-statistical-biophysics-center-for-computational/

#biophysics #computationalbiology #statisticalphysics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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Flatiron Research Fellow, Statistical Biophysics, Center for Computational Biology
Simons Foundation

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/simons-foundation-27778-flatiron-research-fellow-statistical-biophysics-center-for-computational/

#biophysics #computationalbiology #statisticalphysics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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🔥 Dive into the riveting world of statistical physics with #R, where you'll realize that writing endless lines of code for Monte Carlo #simulations is SO much more fun than watching paint dry! 🎨✨ But wait, there's more: GitHub's #AI is here to save the day by doing absolutely nothing to alleviate the tedium! 🤖💤
https://github.com/msuzen/isingLenzMC #statisticalphysics #MonteCarlo #GitHub #codingfun #HackerNews #ngated

Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo

https://github.com/msuzen/isingLenzMC

#HackerNews #StatisticalPhysics #R #IsingModel #MonteCarlo #GitHub #DataScience

Physics Expert (PhD)
Mercor

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#classicalmechanics #quantummechanics #statisticalphysics #thermodynamics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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"Testing for correlation between network structure and high-dimensional node covariates", Fuchs-Kreiss & Keith Levin 2025
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03772
#StatisticalPhysics #GraphAnalysis

I wrote a blog post about the rather silly idea of applying thermodynamics to Minesweeper: https://oscarcunningham.com/792/minesweeper-thermodynamics/

#Math #Maths #Mathematics #Minesweeper #Thermodynamics #StatisticalPhysics

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Mercor

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#classicalmechanics #quantummechanics #statisticalphysics #thermodynamics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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`His initial intended uses were for linguistic analysis and other mathematical subjects like card shuffling, but both Markov chains and matrices rapidly found use in other fields.`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_matrix#History

#AndreyMarkov #Markov #MarkovChain #MarkovModel #statistics #stochastic #stochasticProcess #randomWalk #statisticalPhysics #physics #inference #distribution #equilibrium #transitionRate #transitionMatrix #MarkovMatrix #stochasticMatrix #linearAlgebra #differentialEquation #equation

Typical thermalization of low-entanglement states

The micro-canonical ensemble is commonly defined as the maximally mixed state-supported in a narrow window around a fixed…
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Typical thermalization of low-entanglement states

The micro-canonical ensemble is commonly defined as the maximally mixed state-supported in a narrow window around a fixed…
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Anyway. Sorry for the spam, but would anyone like to read a barely technical blog post I wrote about #StatisticalPhysics and optionally give me some feedback before I make it public? :)

re-#introduction
Hi Fediscience! I am an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (Honolulu). I got here starting from Physics training with many scientific detours into data-driven models, complex systems, nanomaterial self-assembly, human learning of complex networks, naval ships, and design problems.
I grew up in Belarus and have *opinions* on that region of the world. I've been on Fediverse since late 2022 when *something* happened to our previous cybersocial infrastructure, but the previous server I was on is sunsetting. Please come say hi and recommend cool people to follow here.
I have a blog with longer thoughts on science-adjacent topics.
https://www.aklishin.science/blog/
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #DataScience #DynamicalSystems #CollectiveBehavior #StatisticalPhysics

Ever since I read through the beginning of David Tong's statistical notes, I've been fascinated by how independent the notion of temperature is from laws of physics. To get a notion of "temperature of a system", basically all you need is 1/ a way to assign a set of possible microstates and macrostates (along with a probability distribution for them) to a system 2/ a notion of energy, that is, a quantity that is extensive (i.e. the energy of the combination of two systems is the sum of their individual energies) and conserved.

This got me thinking: in our universe, there are many more extensive, conserved quantities (mass, charge, linear/angular momentum along the x/y/z-axis...). What happens if you take the definition of temperature and just swap energy for one of those other quantities? I can't imagine no one has ever considered that!

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/statphys.html

#physics #StatisticalPhysics

Magnetic whirl simulation in real time: Collaboration at #MainzUniversity enables the simulation of #skyrmion dynamics on experimentally relevant time scales 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/magnetic-whirl-simulation-in-real-time/

#TheoreticalPhysics #ExperimentalPhysics #StatisticalPhysics #skyrmions #physics