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A map of part of Asia to illustrate the Old Testament and classical authors. Trely. W. Saunders, Geogr. Stanford's Geographical Estabt. London. John Murray. (to accompany) Dr. William Smith's Ancient atlas. 40. 1874. https://archive.org/details/dr_a-map-of-part-of-asia-to-illustrate-the-old-testament-and-classical-authors-13007096 ~via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Atlas #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #Asia #Bible #OldTestament #Religion #C19th #19thCentury #Histodon #HIstodons @religion @histodon @histodons

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Its #followfriday, I would appreciate #recommendations for #accounts to #follow. My interest this week will be accounts that #post #toots related to #history (from any period). Thank you in advance for your assistance. #FF @histodon @histodons

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"We document phases of instability and cooling from ~100 CE onward but more notably after ~130 CE. Pronounced cold phases between ~160 to 180 CE, ~245 to 275 CE, and after ~530 CE associate with pandemic disease, suggesting that climate stress interacted with social and biological variables."

Karin A. F. Zonneveld et al., Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE. Sci. Adv.10, eadk1033 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Climatology #Science #STEM #Climate #Environment #Geoscience #ClimateChange #Roman #Empire #Italy #Europe #Pandemic #Disease #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology

Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Study #Handwriting #Typewriting #Writing #Brain #Neuroscience #Science #STEM #Education #Psychology #Learning #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @science

"Here we present ancient DNA evidence of a pre-Columbian New World treponematosis by reconstructing a high-coverage T. pallidum genome retrieved from nearly 2,000-year-old Brazilian indigenous human remains, along with three low-coverage genomes from the same spatiotemporal context."

Majander, K., Pla-Díaz, M., du Plessis, L. et al. Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06965-x #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #PeerReviewed #Article #Genetics #Biology #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Genome #Academia #Academic #Academia @science @biology

Map of the Roman Empire at the period of its greatest extent. About the year A.D. 107. https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-the-roman-empire-at-the-period-of-its-greatest-extent-about-the-yea-1199031 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Roman #Empire #RomanEmpire #Europe #Asia #Africa

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Greece at the time of the Achaean and Aetolian League. Drawn by Dr. Charles Muller. John Murray, London, 1873. (to accompany) Dr. William Smith's Ancient atlas. 21. 1874. https://archive.org/details/dr_greece-at-the-time-of-the-achaean-and-aetolian-league-drawn-by-dr-charles-13007056 ~via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Ancient #Greece #Europe #History

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"Notably, we demonstrated through AlphaGeometry a neuro-symbolic approach for theorem proving by means of large-scale exploration from scratch, sidestepping the need for human-annotated proof examples and human-curated problem statements."

Trinh, T.H., Wu, Y., Le, Q.V. et al. Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations. Nature 625, 476–482 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06747-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #Geometry #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Maths #Math #Mathematics @science

Evropa recens descripta : Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 https://archive.org/details/dr_evropa-recens-descripta-103831329 ~via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Atlas #Cartography #Mapstodon #History #Europe #C17th #17thCentury #EarlyModern @earlymodern

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"We apply this method to ancient skeletal remains from Britain to document the first instance of mosaic Turner syndrome (45,X0/46,XX) in the ancient genetic record in an Iron Age individual sequenced to average 9-fold coverage, the earliest known incidence of an individual with a 47,XYY karyotype from the Early Medieval period, as well as individuals with Klinefelter (47,XXY) and Down syndrome (47,XY, + 21)."

Anastasiadou, K., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes. Commun Biol 7, 14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05642-z #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Population #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #IronAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology

"This article goes beyond the aggregated analysis to explore direct and indirect economic consequences of sea level rise (SLR) at regional and sectoral levels in Europe. Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model and novel datasets, we estimate the distribution of losses and gains across regions and sectors."

Cortés Arbués, I., Chatzivasileiadis, T., Ivanova, O. et al. Distribution of economic damages due to climate-driven sea-level rise across European regions and sectors. Sci Rep 14, 126 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48136-y #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Sea #Economics #Europe #GDP #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @science

A new map of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, from the latest authorities. By John Cary, engraver, 1801. London: Published by J. Cary, Engraver & Map-seller, No. 181, Strand, Augst. 1st., 1801. https://archive.org/details/dr_a-new-map-of-sweden-denmark-and-norway-from-the-latest-authorities-by-jo-00644019 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Sweden #Denmark #Norway #History #C19th #19thCentury #Europe #Scandinavia

#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

The World as known to the Ancients Drawn & Engraved for Dr. Playfair's Geography. N. Coltman delt Vauxhall. Published Novr. 4th 1808 by the Revd. Dr. Playfair, St. Andrews NB. B. Smith sculpt. Walworth. (1814) https://archive.org/details/dr_the-world-as-known-to-the-ancients-drawn--engraved-for-dr-playfairs-geog-4462001 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Ancient #World #History #Classic #C19th #19thCentury #Antiquity #Antiquidons @antiquidons

#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

For those interested #Professor #RobIliffe has an excellent book on Newton's theological writings entitled 'Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton'.

#IsaacNewton #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #BookRecommendations #Recommendations #Theology #Christianity #Religion #Faith #History #Science #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #EarlyModern @bookstodon @earlymodern

"In this paper, we presented a proof of concept for an artificial intelligent agent system capable of (semi-)autonomously designing, planning and multistep executing scientific experiments."

Boiko, D.A., MacKnight, R., Kline, B. et al. Autonomous chemical research with large language models. Nature 624, 570–578 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06792-0 #OpenAcces #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Chemistry #ComputerScience #Computer #Engineering #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #LLM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering

Did you have a #reading goal for 2023? Did you meet it? I did not have a goal; but, I did read quite a few books over 2023. I cannot say how many exactly as I did not keep a written record. Is keeping a record important? Should keeping a record be my #NewYearsResolution for 2024?

#Read #AmReading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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Is it 2024 yet?

#NewYear #NewYears #NewYearsDay

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I miss the days when I could just pick up a printed #book and start #reading. At present I have usually to scratch around for my #reading #spectacles; then I have to locate my #reading light. Once all of these 'measures' have been taken, I can start to #read the #book. Usually by this time my initial enthusiasm for #reading has greatly dissipated.

#Amreading #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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I recently bought two journals to use as commonplace books. Once home and eager to use the latest additions I found that the #ink from my fountain pen bleeds straight through to the other side of the page with both journals. To say that I was disappointed would be an understatement.

#Writing #Journal #FountainPen #Writingcommunity @writing

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The true-born Englishman. A satyr. 1701: Defoe, Daniel https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-true-born-englishman_defoe-daniel_1701_1 ~via @internetarchive #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #C18th #18thCentury #Satire #Poem #Poetry #History #England #UK #Britain @bookstodon @poetry