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🔴 **How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons**

_“Using existing estimates for manuscript production and loss we may infer, under the assumption that the estimates are valid, that at least 110000 manuscripts were copied by female scribes, of which around 8000 should still exist.”_

Ommundsen, Å., Conti, A.K., Haaland, Ø.A. et al. How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 346 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04666-6.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Linguistics #Religion #EarlyModern #Medieval #Manuscripts #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @linguistics

🔴 📖 **Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic**

“The corpus consists mostly of translations from Greek, highlighting significant lexical borrowings and idiosyncratic syntax, such as periphrastic verb constructions. The article traces evidence of Arabic substrate influence in pre-Islamic times, including phonological shifts and loanwords, reflecting interactions between Arabic- and Aramaic-speaking Christians.”_

Gzella, H. (2025) 'Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 747–770. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.27.

#History #Aramaic #Greek #Arabic #Languages #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 📖 **Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?**

_”The study investigates the historical roles of Aramaic as both a lingua franca and a koine, examining its development and usage across various periods. It identifies three main contexts: as the administrative and diplomatic language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, as the religious and scholarly language of Jewish communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and as the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.”

Healey, J. (2025) 'Aramaic: lingua franca, koine, or both?,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 771–796. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.28.

#History #Aramaic #Language #OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 **Analyzing wealth distribution effects of artificial intelligence: A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach**

_"Our findings highlight a temporal dichotomy in AI's effects on wealth inequality: in the short term, AI exacerbates disparities in wealth distribution, while the long-term outcomes depend on the extent of AI's influence across different technological domains. The nuanced nature of AI-driven technological progress leads to distinct consequences for the rate of return on capital—showing short-term increases across all forms of technological progress, but with varying long-term effects."_

Liu, F. and Liang, C. (2025) 'Analyzing Wealth Distribution Effects of Artificial Intelligence: A Dynamic Stochastic general Equilibrium approach,' Heliyon, 11(2), p. e41943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41943.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Economics #Finance #Academia #Academics @ai @economics

🔴 **Late Wittgenstein’s money**

_“In particular, I first consider the inflation hypothesis as a derivative of the commodity theory of money and therefore inherently linked to a purely quantitative regime of monetary management. I then argue that, based on the hinge proposition that money is a creature of law, money’s value might instead be grasped and engaged on the basis of its political and qualitative dimensions.”_

Steininger, L.E. (2025) ‘Late Wittgenstein’s money’, Finance and Society, pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2024.27.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Finance #Society #Monetarism #Wittgenstein #Philosophy #Money #Academia #Academics @finance @philosophy

🔴 **Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality**

_"These patterns suggest the presence of an ancient, enduring mechanism underlying urban inequality. Supported by an agent-based network simulation and informed by the settlement scaling theory, we propose that the observed patterns arise from common preferential attachment in social networks—a simple, yet powerful, driver of unequal access to interaction potential."_

Carleton, W.C., Elton, H., Miranda, W. et al. Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality. Nat Cities (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00213-1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Roman #Cities #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire**

_“We provide new compelling evidence on the origins of the Hun-period population, its considerable diversity and its ties to the steppe and the Xiongnu elites.”_

G.A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, Z. Rácz, S. Liccardo, J. Lee, Y. Huang, L. Traverso, R. Radzevičiūtė, Z. Hajnal, A. Szécsényi-Nagy, B. Gyuris, O. Mateovics-László, Z. Bernert, T. Szeniczey, T. Hajdu, B. Mészáros, M. Bálint, B.G. Mende, B. Miller, Z. Samashev, A. Childebayeva, L. Djansugurova, P. Geary, H. Ringbauer, T. Vida, C. Jeong, W. Pohl, J. Krause, & Z. Hofmanová, Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (9) e2418485122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418485122 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Anthropology #Science #Biology #Ancient #Genomes #DNA #Eurasia #Huns #Xiongnu #MiddleAges #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology

🔴 **Domination vs. Persuasion: The Role of Libido Dominandi in Adam Smith’s Thought**

_“We love to dominate not because we seek approval but because, through ordering, we do not need to persuade others to foster our ends. We are free from the troublesome endeavor of persuading them.”_

Santori, P. (2025) ‘Domination vs. Persuasion: The Role of Libido Dominandi in Adam Smith’s Thought’, The Review of Politics, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003467052400069X.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AdamSmith #Politics #Domination #Persuasion #Academia #Academic

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🔴 ⛳ **Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy**

_“Our study shows that in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, far more land is allocated to golf courses than to renewable energy facilities. Areas equivalent to those currently used for golf could support the installation of up to 842 GW of solar and 659 GW of wind capacity in the top ten countries with the most golf courses.”_

Jann Michael Weinand et al 2025 Environ. Res. Commun. in press https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adb7bd.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Golf #Environment #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Energy #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @climatechange

🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate**

_“Owen supported whatever political form could best preserve the long-term safety of the English commonwealth and godly rule against the Stuarts. Yet Owen’s legacy became contested among the godly after the Restoration, as the agent of the protectorate’s fall and the failure of puritan politics.”_

Quibell, A. (2025) ‘John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000803.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 📖 **The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces**

_“It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers.”_

Richardson, J.T.E. (2022) The legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces, Springer briefs in education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90984-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Reading #Text #Serif #SansSerif #Typeface #Topography #Design #Nonfiction #EBook #PDF #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🇬🇱 **Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection**

_“...we find twice as many high-impact genome-wide associations to metabolic traits in Greenland compared with Europe. We infer that the high-impact variants arose after the population split from Native Americans and thus are Arctic-specific, and show that some of them are common due to not only genetic drift but also selection.”_

Stæger, F.F., Andersen, M.K., Li, Z. et al. Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08516-4.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Biology #Greenland #Academia #Academic @science

🔴 ⚗ **S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history**

_“Introduced as a convenient symbol for ‘hydrogen ion exponent’ by the Danish biochemist S.P.L. Sørensen in 1909, after a decade or two pH won broad acceptance in the fields of physiology, biochemistry, medical research, and industrial chemistry in particular. Apart from detailing how pH and related concepts were initially received, this paper examines the language and nomenclature associated with the pH scale until about 1930.”_

Kragh, H. S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history. Found Chem (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-025-09532-6

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Chemistry #Biochemistry #Academia #Academic @science @chemistry @biochemistry

🔴 **The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology**

_“This article introduces the underlying reasons for the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire, challenging entrenched assumptions through the lens of climate. It reviews scholarly discourse, focusing in particular on a theory linking Mongol expansion to a global dry period, while juxtaposing this with recent research spearheaded by climatologists. Their findings reveal that Mongol expansion coincided with favorable climatic conditions, casting doubt on the traditional narrative.”_

Fan, K.w. The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 135 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04344-z.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #MongolEmpire #Climate #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony**

_“We review recent developments, including the surprising benefits of modeling with more parameters than data, the increasing appreciation of the context-sensitivity of data and misspecification of scientific models, and the development of new modeling tools.”_

M. Dubova, S. Chandramouli, G. Gigerenzer, P. Grünwald, W. Holmes, T. Lombrozo, M. Marelli, S. Musslick, B. Nicenboim, L.N. Ross, R. Shiffrin, M. White, E. Wagenmakers, P. Bürkner, & S.J. Sloman, Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (5) e2401230121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401230121 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Psychology #Science #Statistics #Modelling #OckhamsRazor #Academia #Academics @psychology @science

🔴 **Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions**

_“An unusual mixture of runes and other markings are revealed as the fragments are reconstructed into a single standing stone, suggesting multiple episodes of inscription and providing insight into early runic writing practices in Iron Age Scandinavia.”_

Solheim, S. et al. (2025) ‘Inscribed sandstone fragments of Hole, Norway: radiocarbon dates provide insight into rune-stone traditions’, Antiquity, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.225.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scandinavia #IronAge #Epigraphy #Academia #Academics @archaeodons (2/2)

🔴 **Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events**

_“In this Review, we link physical climate science with heat mortality risk, including crossings of uncompensable thresholds (beyond which human core body temperature rises uncontrollably) and unsurvivable thresholds (lethal core temperature increase within 6 h).”_

Matthews, T., Raymond, C., Foster, J. et al. Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00635-w

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Geography #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Health #Academia #Academics @science @geography @climatechange

🔴 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919**

_“This article argues that Wilson fought for inclusion of both the phrase ‘self-determination’ and the substance of it but was convinced to remove both by his own advisers and members of the British delegation. These men had an agenda at variance with Wilson’s, one focused on solidifying wartime transatlantic co-operation into a post-war governance model that would strengthen the British imperial position and bring the US into support of it.”_

Malcomson, S.L. (2025) ‘The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000682.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Imperialism #Empire #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany**

_“...we develop and test the argument that the Roman occupation produced an advantageous positive economic imprint (e.g., investments in economic infrastructure and a trade culture), which in turn imprinted a deep, persisting adaptive macro-psychological profile. Both the economic and macro-psychological imprints co-evolved and continue to contribute to inequalities in adaptive personality traits and related health and well-being outcomes across Germany today.”_

Obschonka, M. et al. (2025) 'Roma eterna? Roman rule explains regional Well-Being divides in Germany,' Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, p. 100214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100214.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Culture #Health #History #Histodon #Histodons #Geography #Roman #Empire #Imperium #Germany #Europe #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @psychology

🔴 **The aging society: Is growth reverting to pre-industrial levels in the 21st century?**

_“In this paper, I have extended the literature in three dimensions, all of which more than counter the negative growth effects of the demographic transition on investment: 1) by showing that fertility transition-induced increase in enrollments into higher education has positive growth payoffs in the future; 2) by bringing ideas production and higher education into the center of the analysis; and 3) by allowing for the endogenous responses of education, innovative activity, investment, and labor force participation to the age structure of the population.”_

Madsen, J.B. (2024) 'The aging society: Is growth reverting to pre-industrial levels in the 21st century?,' Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 229, p. 106849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106849.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Demography #Productivity #Education #Economics #Academia #Academics @economics