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The American Diabetes Association has ejected from its annual ...

2026-06-07T01:13:42+02:00

The American Diabetes Association has ejected from its annual meeting the editor-in-chief of its journal Diabetes Care, its former president, and three other scientists, for handing out reprints of an editorial published in the journal and critical of the US government's attacks on science: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/scientists-ejected-from-diabetes-conference-for-distributing-journal-reprints/ . According to video evidence the ejected scientists "were not disruptive or disorderly in their conduct". Nevertheless, the ADA claims that this behavior constituted a violation of the association's code of conduct.

The editorial in question: "Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!", _Diabetes Care_, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dci26-0068

The _Ars Technica_ link also has links to threads on bluesky about this incident.

Thanks for the reference! I think Dickson is good enough for ...

2026-06-04T08:08:09+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…vm9t
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Thanks for the reference! I think Dickson is good enough for Wikipedia, though. I had more difficulty tracking down good sourcing for Al-Khawwam; I'm convinced by the source there now but it's not as solid as Dickson or what you found.

(Also thanks for the translation but my French is mostly good enough to read that. On the other hand the original Arabic for all this is a complete mystery to me.)

It doesn't help that the entire section is unsourced, so you ...

2026-04-21T04:04:15+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…qwa2
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It doesn't help that the entire section is unsourced, so you can't go back to the source and compare to try to figure out what they really meant.

Faces may be irrelevant for this example but they're just as ...

2025-11-19T07:36:36+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…amzg
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Faces may be irrelevant for this example but they're just as easy to describe, as bitstrings with wildcards. Vertices (0-faces) are strings of five bits. Edges (1-faces) are strings with one of the bits replaced by a *. Squares (2-faces) are strings with two of the bits replaced by *s, etc. The vertices in a face are all ways of expanding each * into a 0 or 1.

An actually useful post from this thread! All this time I've ...

2025-02-08T03:07:21+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…hk2w
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An actually useful post from this thread! All this time I've been using option-e e. Which works when I know the option-code, but this gets me more.

Cute. But there appears to be a missing constraint in the ...

2024-10-26T09:29:12+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…h4k4
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Cute. But there appears to be a missing constraint in the description of how to do this: the green triangles need to be separated from each other in order to make the yellow net be a simple polygon. That is not true for all 11-gons. Also, your drawing shows a convex 11-gon, but that is not necessary; the same procedure can work for non-convex 11-gons (I don't know whether the proof that all polyhedra of this type can be represented in this way requires non-convexity).