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"While much has been written about the passive voice in scientific writing, similar interest involving humanities writing in general has been more modest. A paucity of diachronic studies also raises the need to understand more about how passive use has changed over time and what such changes imply for the norms in academic writing."

Leong, P. A. (2021) “The passive voice in scholarly writing: A diachronic look at science and history”, Finnish Journal of Linguistics, 34, pp. 77–102. Available at: https://journal.fi/finjol/article/view/103168 (Accessed: 8January2024). #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Linguistics #Academic #Writing #Science #History #PingAlvinLeong #Academia #Academics #Humanities #SocialSciences @linguistics @writing

"He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal features. Linjamaa's research supports the hypothesis that the Nag Hammadi texts had their origins in Pachomian monasticism. He shows how Pachomian monks used the texts for textual edification, spiritual development and pedagogical practices."

Linjamaa P. The Nag Hammadi Codices and Their Ancient Readers: Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009441483 #OpenAccess #OA #Bible #History #Religion #Christianity #Gnostic #Ancient #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academic #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @religion @bookstodon (73)

"The essay shows that while the majority of research projects at SIRB concerned medical genetics in the years 1936−1960, racial science never disappeared. SIRB scientists engaged in theoretical debates on the concept of race and conducted racial surveys of the Swedish population, using anthropometry and later serology as research methods."

Martin Ericsson (2021) What happened to ‘race’ in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46:1, 125-148, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020.1778520 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #History #Scandinavia #Sweden #Europe #Science #STEM #ScienceMastodon #Biology #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #Academia #Academic @science @biology

"The aim of this paper is to reflect on the characteristics and role of Sardinian maritime “enterprises” in the long-distance metal trade in the Mediterranean and beyond, including continental Europe."

Serena Sabatini & Fulvia Lo Schiavo (2020) Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35:13, 1501-1518, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020.1758329 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Sardinia #Cyprus #Europe #Mediterranean #BronzeAge #Trade #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

"The ultimate objective of this work is to demonstrate that it is possible to reconsider the emergence of modern science as a process of disintegration of the quadrivium, which was considered a stable scheme for the organization of knowledge."

Valleriani M. (2022) From the Quadrivium to Modern Science. HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol.16 (Issue 1), pp. 121-132. https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2022-0007 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #HistSci #Science #STEM #Medieval #Medievodons @science @medievodons

"This paper discusses the archive and library of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society, as a starting point for research into the history of Dutch mathematics."

Danny J. Beckers, History of Mathematics in the Netherlands: where to find it. EMS Newsl. 107 (2018), pp. 23–27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4171/news/107/5 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Paper #Archives #Libraries #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #STEM #Dutch #Netherlands #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"This book does not attempt to answer this seemingly unsolvable puzzle either but aims to shed light on a simple fact usually overlooked by linguists and laypeople alike: the conceptual pair is not a timeless given but has a history, and a much shorter one than one might assume."

Van Rooy, Raf, Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Nov. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845713.001.0001, accessed 24 Dec. 2023. #OpenAccess #OA #Language #Dialect #History #Linguistics #Languages #Antiquity #Antiquidons #MiddleAges #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Reading #Read #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @linguistics @medievodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (72)

"Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia."

Waerzeggers, Caroline, and Melanie M. Groß, eds. Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE): An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009291071 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Babylon #Mesopotamia #Cuneiform #NonFiction #Academia #Academic #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Read #Reading #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (71)

"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

"My aim is not to give a complete account of the activities of British biblical scholars during the war, but to explore some of the distinctive ways in which their writing on biblical subjects was informed by their experience of the war, and especially by the themes of Allied propaganda."

Mein, A. (2022) “Biblical Scholarship and Political Propaganda in First World War Britain”, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok , 87, pp. 52–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.58546/se.v87i.11086 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Bible #Exegesis #Divinity #Propaganda #History #Britain #UK #WW1

"...we try to illustrate in a concise way the two main “wonders” of Faraday’s life: that the son of a poor blacksmith in the Victorian age was able to become the director the Royal Institution and member of the Royal Society, still keeping a honest and “virtuous” moral conduct, and that Faraday’s approach to many topics, but mainly to electrochemistry and electrodynamics, has paved the way to the modern (atomistic and field-based) view of physics, only relying on experiments and intuition."

Bagnoli, F. and Livi, R. (2018) “Michael Faraday: a virtuous life dedicated to science”, Substantia, 2(1), pp. 121–134. doi: https://doi.org/10.13128/Substantia-45 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Science #HistSci #Biography #Chemistry #Physics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @chemistry @physics

"Prior research suggests several predictors of susceptibility to conspiracy theories, including narcissistic personality traits (grandiosity, need for uniqueness), cognitive processes (critical thinking, confirmation bias) and lack of education. The aim of the current paper was to explore how facets of narcissism predict susceptibility to conspiracy theories."

Cosgrove TJ and Murphy CP (2023) Narcissistic susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs exaggerated by education, reduced by cognitive reflection. Front. Psychol. 14:1164725. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1164725 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Narcissism #ConspiracyTheories #Education #CriticalThinking #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology

"This paper compares Rider Haggard’s use of this analogy in his novel Elissa or the Doom of Zimbabwe with other writers of his time who compared Britain to the Phoenicians. Haggard emerges as deeper, more wide-ranging and sophisticated in his use of the ‘Phoenician analogy’ than other writers who employed it."

John Coates, “Haggard’s Use of the Phoenician Analogy with Britain”, Cahiers victoriens et edouardiens [Online, 91 Printemps, 2020 released on June 1, 2020, accessed 31 December 2023. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/cve/7672; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/cve.7672 #OpenAccess #OA #Literature #Fiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Phoenicia #British #Empire #Carthage #Rome @bookstodon

"In this article I trace the origins of this period in terms of the infrastructure required to produce this explosive growth: recognition of the importance of systematic data collection by the state; the rise of statistical theory and statistical thinking; enabling developments of technology; and inventions of novel methods to portray statistical data."

Michael Friendly. "The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics." Statist. Sci. 23 (4) 502 - 535, November 2008. https://doi.org/10.1214/08-STS268 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Data #DataViz #DataVisualization #History #Statistics #STEM #Maths #Math #Mathematics @statistics

"This article traces the intellectual genealogy of genomic history from World War II to the present, examines recent attempts to answer criticism from the humanities and social sciences, and suggests paths for responsible use of aDNA in historical and prehistorical scholarship."

Parmenter, C.S. (2023), THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN. History and Theory.. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12328 #OpenAccess #OA #Genomics #History #aDNA #DNA #Archaeogenetics #Ancient #Greek #Archaeology #Prehistory @archaeodons

"The heated debates that Bernard Mandeville’s work inspired in Britain, France, and Germany are well-documented. No such account is available for the public reception of his ideas in his country of birth, the Dutch Republic. This paper seeks to fill that void."

Hengstmengel, Joost, and Rudi Verburg. “THE UNEVENTFUL RECEPTION OF MANDEVILLE’S IDEAS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH REPUBLIC, OR THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING OUTRAGE.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45, no. 3 (2023): 427–46. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000128. #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Economics #Dutch #Europe #Netherlands #C18th #18thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @historyofeconomics

"Here, across five experiments, we present consistent evidence that online search to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles actually increases the probability of believing them. To shed light on this relationship, we combine survey data with digital trace data collected using a custom browser extension."

Aslett, K., Sanderson, Z., Godel, W. et al. Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06883-y #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Politics #SocialMedia #Online #Search #Misinformation #News #Academia #Academic

"Religion does not act in a vacuum; nor need it dominate other facets of identity. In the early Christian persecutions, inter-religious competition proves much more important to later (Christian) writings that sought to make the everyday more providential than it ever was on the ground. "

James Corke-Webster, By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?, Past & Present, Volume 261, Issue 1, November 2023, Pages 3–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac041 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Christianity #Religion @histodon @histodons @religion

"This article closely analyses Hobbes's scriptural case for two aspects of eschatology: the doctrine of mortalism and the terrestrial kingdom of God."

OKADA, T. A. K. U. Y. A. (2022) “Hobbes's Eschatology and Scriptural Interpretation in Leviathan,” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge University Press, 73(2), pp. 308–325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046921000683 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #History #Christianity #Religion #Eschatology #Philosophy @religion @philosophyofreligion @philosophy

"In the 1650s, two professors of philosophy at the University of Utrecht defended atomism. Interestingly, one of them, Johannes de Bruyn, is considered to be a staunch Cartesian, while the other, Daniel Voet, was a neo-Aristotelian and strongly opposed to Descartes’s philosophy. This article examines this curious situation and analyses the theories of both professors."

Bos, E. (2023). Atomism and Cartesianism: Gassendi and Gorlaeus (and More) in Utrecht Disputations in the 1650s. Erudition and the Republic of Letters 8, 4, 420-444, Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-08040006 [Accessed 23 December 2023] #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Philosophy #History #Europe #Dutch #C17th #17thCentury @philosophy