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"Since 2019, we have been maintaining the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR), which aims to provide an up-to-date, curated version of the world’s published ancient human DNA data, represented at more than a million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at which almost all ancient individuals have been assayed."

Mallick, S., Micco, A., Mah, M. et al. The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes. Sci Data 11, 182 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-030 @science @biology

"Here we use an ice core record from grounded ice at Skytrain Ice Rise to constrain the timing and speed of early Holocene ice sheet retreat."

Grieman, M.M., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Hoffmann, H.M. et al. Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Nat. Geosci. (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-013 @science

"Our findings suggest that a low education is a risk factor for adult mortality, after controlling for age, sex, and marital status. We find that, on average, an adult with 12 years of schooling has a 24·5% (95% UI 23·0–26·1) lower risk of mortality compared with an adult with no schooling, with an average reduction in mortality risk of 1·9% (1·8–2·0) per year of schooling. The protective effect of higher education on mortality was significant across age, sex, period, birth cohort, and Socio-demographic Index level and did not attenuate at higher levels of education."

Balaj, M. et al. (2024) 'Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis,' The Lancet Public Health [Preprint]. doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(23). @education @health

"It is a puzzle why humans tend toward unrealistic optimism, as it can lead to excessively risky behavior and a failure to take precautionary action. Using data from a large nationally representative U.K. sample (N=36, 312) our claim is that optimism bias is partly a consequence of low cognition—as measured by a broad range of cognitive skills, including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning."

Dawson, C. (2023). Looking on the (B)right Side of Life: Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/01461672231209 @psychology

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. archive.org/details/dr_a-map-o ~via @internetarchive @religion @histodon @histodons

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

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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: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 @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: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.121 @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). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-069 @science @biology

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. archive.org/details/dr_greece- ~via @internetarchive

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

"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). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-067 @science

"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). doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-056 @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). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-481 @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. archive.org/details/dr_a-new-m via @internetarchive

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) archive.org/details/dr_the-wor via @internetarchive @antiquidons

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

"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). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-067 @science @engineering

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