Today is Merce Romero-Gomez turn at the Galactic bars, bulges and discs conference in Lipari @icc-ub.bsky.social @ieec.cat @ub.edu

Toni Soler in action at the conference on Galactic bars, bulges and discs www.astrolipari2026.com @icc-ub.bsky.social @ieec.cat

And @tetsuroasano.bsky.social also from our group at the same conference in Lipari about Galactic bars, bulges and discs. @iccubdivulga.bsky.social @ub.edu @ieec.cat

@msemczuk.bsky.social at the Conference in Lipari share.google/eJse11Vs7NM0... @icc-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu @ieec.cat

The physical-sciences repository arXiv is banning researchers from posting their manuscripts on the platform for one year if a submission is found to contain references that have been hallucinated by artificial-intelligence tools. go.nature.com/4nDfXvv

Japan’s prime minister is considering changes to the pacifist clause in the country’s constitution. Now pushback is mounting with nationwide protests by those wary that Japan could get drawn into military conflicts if it drops its constitutional guardrails.

The exponential growth of infinitesimal perturbations in the long-term evolution of simulated galaxies. T. Asano et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12053

Over 1,000 demand Takaichi to apologize to China over embassy intrusion, yet media urges China to drop its ‘bad habit’ of criticizing Japan; experts warn of cover-up fueling militarist shift www.globaltimes.cn/page/202603/...

Galaxy fly-bys sustain bar-halo friction and bar slowdown in disk galaxies. Rumi Kodama et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12584

Tokyo Metropolitan University press release: We are not alone: our Sun escaped together with stellar "twins" from galaxy center www.eurekalert.org/news-release... Articles by Taniguchi et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004... and Tsujimoto et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

スペイン中央政府が発表した50万人規模の不法移民の合法化。 バルセロナ市長は少なくとも市内では24000人が対象になると算段。 個人的にはバルセロナならその倍は対象になる気がするけど。 スペインの観光都市に行った人なら一度は見た事がある布にTシャツや土産物を並べて売る「トップマンタ」さん達、まだあどけないアフリカの青年が多いけど彼らも合法化されて警察から逃げたりせず安定した生活を送れると良いけど。 バルセロナ市長も「これで人間的な生活を手にする人が増える」と。まともな政治家の反応だと思う。 スペインでは不法滞在であれ必ず住民登録をしろ、と言われるのは時々こう言う合法化政策があるから。

Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name https://go.nature.com/4lCOHLo