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🇺🇸 📖 **Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870**

"_Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most enthusiastic foreign-born supporters of the early Republican Party. However, the malleable concept of citizenship was used by immigrants to resist draft service, and support a white man's republic through territorial expansion on American Indian land and into the Caribbean. Consequently, Scandinavian immigrants after emancipation proved to be reactionary Republicans, not abolitionists._"

🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civil-war-settlers/FA57A6A7FAFBB55A40482369AEA61330.

#OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Nonfiction #Books #History #USA #UnitedStates #Scandinavia #Immigration #Migration

**The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking**

"_The depictions of flower petals in the geometric sequence of the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32, as well as 64 flowers in another type of arrangement, point to arithmetical knowledge._"

Garfinkel, Y., Krulwich, S. The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking. J World Prehist 38, 14 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #History #Maths #Mathematics #Mesopotamia #Pottery #Art #Culture #Academia #Research

**Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health**

"_ A 1-week social media detox intervention significantly reduced symptoms of anxiety by 16.1%, depression by 24.8%, and insomnia by 14.5%._"

Calvert E, Cipriani M, Dwyer B, et al. Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(11):e2545245. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.45245.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #SocialMedia #Health #MentalHealth #Medicine #Academia #Research

**Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century**

"_Here, using three global glacier models, we project a sharp rise in the number of glaciers disappearing worldwide, peaking between 2041 and 2055 with up to ~4,000 glaciers vanishing annually._"

Van Tricht, L., Zekollari, H., Huss, M. et al. Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Glaciers #Academia

🇮🇹 **Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy**

"_The community shows closer genetic affinity to Early Bronze Age Sicilians than to contemporaneous populations from the Italian peninsula. However, unlike contemporary Sicilian individuals, they lack eastern genetic influences, suggesting distinct ancestral trajectories and interaction networks among Bronze Age populations._"

Fontani, F., Larocca, F., Cilli, E. et al. Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy. Commun Biol 8, 1766 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09194-2.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Demography #Science #Biology #Consanguinity #Genetics #History #BronzeAge #Italy #Academia

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📖 **Making Babies in Early Modern England**

"_Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. In this fascinating new history, Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to family life._"

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009602846.

#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #EarlyModern #England #Health #Medicine #Gender #Academia #Books #Bookstodon

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis**

"_A rise in negative health markers affecting Roman individuals is identified, particularly within urban centres, suggesting life under Roman occupation was less conducive to long-term health."_

Pitt, R. (2025) ‘Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis’, Antiquity, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10263.

#OpenAccess #OA #Archaeology #IronAge #Romans #Health #England #Research #Academia

**Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks**

"_Our findings show that Americans use fuck most frequently, while Australians least frequently but they are highly creative with spelling variants of the word._"

Laitinen, M. et al. (2025) 'Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks,' Lingua, 320, p. 103931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103931.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Swearing #SocialMedia #Sociolinguistics #Academia

🧠 **Does mathematics training lead to better logical thinking and reasoning? A cross-sectional assessment from students to professors**

"_The results in this study revealed that in general the greater the mathematics training of the participant, the more tasks were completed correctly, and that performance on some tasks was also associated with performance on others not traditionally associated. A ceiling effect also emerged._"

Cresswell C, Speelman CP (2020) Does mathematics training lead to better logical thinking and reasoning? A cross-sectional assessment from students to professors. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0236153. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236153.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Maths #Mathematics #Reasoning #Logic #Academia

**Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe**

"_Here, we argue that a post-volcanic climate downturn and trans-Mediterranean famine from 1345–1347 CE forced the Italian maritime republics of Venice, Genoa and Pisa to activate their well-established supply network and import grain from the Mongols of the Golden Horde around the Sea of Azov in 1347 CE. This climate-driven change in long-distance grain trade not only prevented large parts of Italy from starvation but also introduced the plague bacterium to Mediterranean harbours and fueled its rapid dispersal across much of Europe._"

Bauch, M., Büntgen, U. Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe. Commun Earth Environ 6, 986 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02964-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Medieval #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Ecology #Academia

🧬 **Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China**

"_These findings reveal a predominantly patrilineal descent structure across Shimao communities, and possibly sex-specific sacrificial rituals. We also characterize the population history, revealing that Shimao culture-related populations originated mostly from a Yangshao culture-related population present at least 1,000 years earlier, and the lasting inflow of Yumin-related populations from Inner Mongolia did not interrupt regional genetic continuity._"

Chen, Z., Gardner, J.D., Sun, Z. et al. Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09799-x.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Neolithic #China #Academia

🧬 **Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihoods**

"_We showed that the Neolithic diffusion of early farmers introduced lighter phenotypes, but for millennia, pigmentation diversity remained extensive, so that many Europeans kept the dark skins of their African ancestors well within the Bronze and Iron ages_"

S. Perretti, P. Santos, M.T. Vizzari, E. Tassani, A. Benazzo, S. Ghirotto, & G. Barbujani, Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihoods, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (29) e2502158122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502158122 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #Phenotype #Pigmentation #Europe

🖥️ 🇬🇧 **Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories**

"_In addition to showing how algorithms increased the visibility of posts featuring images (particularly those created with AI) and videos representing racist conspiracy theories, this article explores how these posts likely fuelled the riots by appealing to a crusading mentality that projected White/European men as morally entitled to defend Britain, animating racist fantasies deeply entrenched in the Western collective unconscious._"

Lopes Buarque, B., & Lewis, N. (2025). Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481251391636.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Politics #UKPol #Algorithms #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Racism #UK #UnitedKingdom #Academia

**Testing for racial bias using inconsistent perceptions of race**

"_We apply our method to test for bias in police traffic stops, finding that the same driver is likelier to be searched or arrested by police when they are perceived as Hispanic than when they are perceived as white._"

Nora Gera, Emma Pierson, Testing for racial bias using inconsistent perceptions of race. Sci. Adv. 11, eadx5829 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx5829.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #ComputerScience #SocialScience #Race #Bias #Research #Academia

**"What if... Charlemagne's other sons had survived?" Charlemagne's sons and the problems of royal succession**

"_The article is concerned with the problem of Early and Medieval royal succession in different circumstances: the death of two of Charlemagne's designated heirs in 810 and 811, the succession of Louis the Pious in 814 and the conflicts between Louis and his sons resulting in Louis's deposition in 833 and the division of the Carolingian Empire._"

Ohnacker, E. (2009). "What if... Charlemagne's other sons had survived?" Charlemagne's sons and the problems of royal succession. Historical Social Research, 34(2), 184-202. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.2.184-202

#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #Medieval #Europe #Analysis #Research #Academia

🇰🇿 **A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy**

"_Occupied from around 1600 BC and linked to the Cherkaskul and Alekseevka-Sargary cultures, Semiyarka is a newly identified 140ha Late Bronze Age settlement in north-eastern Kazakhstan._"

Radivojević, M. et al. (2025) ‘A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy’, Antiquity, pp. 1–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10244.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Asia #Kazakhstan #BronzeAge #Research #Academia

🌏 **Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic**

"_We suggest a group with a similar lithic technology became isolated somewhere in the vicinity of the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kuril region, developing genetically into ancestral American populations. Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas. By ~16,000 to ~15,000 cal yr B.P., they had become widely dispersed across North America._"

David B. Madsen et al., Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic. Sci. Adv.11, eady9545 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady9545.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #Americas #Asia #Research #Academia

📚 **History Day 2025 reading list**

"_To celebrate History Day 2025 at London’s Senate House this week, we’ve put together a reading list of essential open access books in history._"

🔗 https://uclpress.co.uk/history-day-2025-reading-list/.

#UCL #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon

🧬 **Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin**

"_We have shown that the CB Sarmatians are descendants of the Sarmatians from the Ural and Kazakhstan regions, who migrated from the Carpathian foothills in present-day Romania. The descendants of the substantial CB Sarmatian population formed a significant portion of the population during the subsequent Hun era._"

Schütz, O. et al. (2025) 'Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin,' Cell, 188(15), pp. 4074-4090.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.009.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Migration #Academia

**Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning**

"_Results from seven online and laboratory experiments (n = 10,462) lend support for these predictions, and confirm, for example, that participants reported developing shallower knowledge from LLM summaries even when the results were augmented by real-time web links._"

Shiri Melumad, Jin Ho Yun, Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning, PNAS Nexus, Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2025, pgaf316, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf316.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #Learning #Education #Psychology #Academics