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We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our multidisciplinary volcanic hazards research team at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. This exciting project focuses on developing cutting-edge diffusion-based machine learning models to forecast volcanic activities, significantly enhancing our ability to predict eruption dynamics.

🔹 Scholarship details:

Generous stipend: NZ$35,000/year for 3 years (possible extension).

Full tuition fees covered.

Funding for international conferences and collaboration visits in Europe.

Fieldwork opportunities.

🔹 Ideal candidates:

Background in Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Science, or related fields.

Strong Python skills.

Excellent communication in English.

Previous publications in top-tier AI conferences/journals.

🔹 Supervisors: Prof. Bastiaan Kleijn, Dr. Felix Yan, Dr. Finnigan Illsley-Kemp

📅 Applications reviewed from: September 1st, 2025 (Flexible start date from October 2025 onwards).

For inquiries and applications, please contact me directly at 📧 [felix.yan@vuw.ac.nz](mailto:felix.yan@vuw.ac.nz). Application documents include your CV, transcript, Master’s thesis, and publications.

Feel free to share this fantastic opportunity with your network!

I work for a nonprofit whose site switched from WordPress to Netlify a few years ago. Our SEO tanked with it, largely due to technical issues, and our dev hasn’t been able to address them. We’re now also facing larger hits to SEO due to Gemini — a decrease in organic traffic to the tune of 75%.

The long-term plan is to do a new site but in the meantime, I’m concerned about end-of-year, which is our biggest time for traffic and giving. I’ve been trying to come up with some solutions to work around the technical limitations of our site.

We don’t have the bandwidth to find a new dev, so one idea I had was to set up a subdomain of our main site on a CMS that I can work with. I have enough dev knowledge to build a site on Squarespace or WordPress, and we could move our top whatever pieces of content to [news.oursite.org](http://news.oursite.org) and continue our content marketing strategy through EOY there, with links back to [oursite.org/donate](http://oursite.org/donate), [oursite.org/moreinfo](http://oursite.org/moreinfo), etc. for other sections, and redirects set up for the migrated content.

This would be a band-aid, not a long-term solution, but we’re really bleeding traffic as our news content is about 85% of our site traffic and we had a very robust SEO strategy.

**My question: Is this a completely terrible idea?** I’ve come up with a number of scenarios for this but I need a sounding board. TIA.

OpenAI closed both my user account and API access for “Acts of Violence”, yet absolutely nothing has been violence related on neither my account nor on the web service using API (I checked my API logs as well). They’re not replying to appeals either, essentially locking down business activity as well.

They locked my Tier 5 with all of its funds.

How is this possible without them actually giving details I would need for the appeal?

[Last year’s thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/quant/comments/1bf5x1g/project_ideas/)

We’re getting a lot of threads recently from students looking for ideas for

* Undergrad Summer Projects
* Masters Thesis Projects
* Personal Summer Projects
* Internship projects

Please use this thread to share your ideas and, if you’re a student, seek feedback on the idea you have.

Hi everyone, I’ve tried Agent Mode four times and each attempt returned “An error occurred,” performed zero searches, and still consumed four of my 40 requests. Has anyone else run into this problem?

In conclusion, while anyone’s travel choice is deeply personal and conditional on comfort levels, Monastir offers more than fear might suggest upon first hearing mixed reviews. With sensible precautions and an open heart, your family vacation here could be both enriching and safe, filled with remarkable stories to bring back home.

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Solana’s block capacity jumped 20% to 60M compute units since July 21, 2025, allowing more transactions per block. This move, backed by Solana docs, tackles past congestion (e.g., 2024 meme coin spike) to cut fees and boost UX