A mottled brown songbird (lark sparrow) is perching at the top of a long finger of tree branch covered with green needles. The bird is facing to the right and appears to be looking off into the distance.

This Lark Sparrow caused a major commotion amongst the group of birders I was with when it was discovered. Quite a rare bird in these parts.

Kent Island, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

📸 #birds #LASP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Sun’s Fireworks: How the Inouye Solar Telescope Is Revealing the Secret Life of Solar Flares Using the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, scientists have captured the most detailed view of solar flare “ribbons”—bright streaks on the Sun’s surface created during powerful eruptions. In these ribbons, they discovered tiny, regularly spaced hot spots just a few hundred kilometers wide, called ribbon blobs, that are far more dynamic than their surroundings. These blobs may form when solar magnetic fields snap and reconnect in many small bursts, a process that helps drive the flare’s explosive energy. By revealing such fine-scale details across multiple layers of the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time, the study offers fresh clues to how flares work and could improve forecasts of solar storms and space weather that affect Earth’s technology.

forgot to add tags to this thread. For more #Rocket, #SoundingRocket, #Space, #AerospaceEngineering, #Science, and #SolarPhysics info from this #Payload at #CUBoulder #LASP.
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LASP: Linear Attention Sequence Parallelism

Weigao Sun, Zhen Qin, Dong Li, Xuyang Shen, Yu Qiao, Yiran Zhong

Action editor: Shuangfei Zhai

https://openreview.net/forum?id=gG8sQUUtN7

#attention #memory #lasp

#LASP Today, it was a teaching moment getting parking at the #Costco when an SUV sat idle for several minutes causing my traffic to linger in the main thoroughfare. A lady yelled in my direction that it was blocking regular traffic. Soon, the SUV relented the stoke. Else, an ambulance was staged

Introducing myself with something other than a political post. I'm a Colorado native so spend much of my time in the mountains. Also a current Trustee (and previous #Mayor) of #NederlandColorado. To pay the bills I send things into space at #LASP #CUBoulder, like the IMAP spacecraft here!