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"Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists."

Hornkohl, A.D. and Khan, G. (2021) 'New perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew,' in Semitic languages and cultures. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0250. #OpenAccess #OA #Hebrew #Language #History #Linguistics #Bible #Philology #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @linguistics @bookstodon (76)

"Finally, the article shows that Ford’s central purpose was to foster a visceral hatred of the British empire among his Irish-American readership, to maintain a commitment to their ethnic heritage as proud Irish people, and to encourage his readers that a better future would soon arrive, when the British empire was finally a relic of the past."

O’Sullivan, R. (2024) ‘Irish-American Anti-Imperialism in Patrick Ford’s The Criminal History of the British Empire’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000098 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialsim #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Empire #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

"With its added translations from Arabic into Hebrew, the astrolabe closely recalls the recommendations prescribed by the Spanish Jewish polymath Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–1167) in the earliest surviving treatise on the astrolabe in the Hebrew language written in 1146 precisely in Verona."

Gigante, F. (2024). A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona: The Seventeenth-Century Collection of Ludovico Moscardo. Nuncius 39, 1, 163-192, Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10095 [Accessed 04 March 2024] #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Judaism #Hebrew #Arabic #Medieval #Medievodons #Astrolabe #Spain #C11th #11thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @medievodons

"Can arguments change minds? Philosophers like to think that they can. However, a wealth of empirical evidence suggests that arguments are not very efficient tools to change minds."

Catarina Dutilh Novaes, VII—Can Arguments Change Minds?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 173–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoad006 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy

"Put simply, these tools are not trustworthy for reporting facts. They may be the right tool for particular jobs, for example text-processing and organizing information. A person might use a generative AI tool to summarize some information or express some idea in history of mathematics."

Peter Rowlett (2024) Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2312789 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Academia #Academic #Academics

"In 2023, the development of El Niño is poised to drive a global upsurge in surface air temperatures (SAT), potentially resulting in unprecedented warming worldwide."

Jiang, N., Zhu, C., Hu, ZZ. et al. Enhanced risk of record-breaking regional temperatures during the 2023–24 El Niño. Sci Rep 14, 2521 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52846-2 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Meteorology #Weather #ElNino #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange

"Belief in conspiracy theories appears to be driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (understanding one’s environment), existential (being safe and in control of one’s environment), and social (maintaining a positive image of the self and the social group)."

Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., & Cichocka, A. (2017). The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(6), 538-542. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417718261 #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Research #Article #Psychology #ConspiracyTheories #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology

"With stronger freshwater anomalies, our results indicate an increase in the risk of warm, dry European summers and of heat waves and droughts accordingly."

Oltmanns, M., Holliday, N. P., Screen, J., Moat, B. I., Josey, S. A., Evans, D. G., and Bacon, S.: European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies in preceding years, Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 109–132, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-109-2024, 2024. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Statistics #Data #Weather #Climate #Europe #ClimateChange #Environment #Oceanography #Geoscience #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange

"We conducted a large-scale survey of 11,050 researchers and found that researchers on average rated themselves as better than other researchers at following good research practice, and rated researchers in their field as better than researchers in other fields at following good research practice. Given that it is statistically impossible for the majority of a group to be better than the group median, our results suggest that researchers on average have inflated beliefs about their own research ethicality and the research ethicality of their field."

Lindkvist, A.M., Koppel, L. & Tinghög, G. Bounded research ethicality: researchers rate themselves and their field as better than others at following good research practice. Sci Rep 14, 3050 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53450-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Psychology #Science #STEM #Ethics #Academia #Academic #Academics #DOI @psychology @science

"This inquiry into English hegemony’s duality concludes that, although English serves as a vehicle for advancement, it also threatens the survival of local languages and cultures, thus embodying a dualistic nature. For non-English-speaking countries to leverage English beneficially, they must navigate this dichotomy with strategic cultural and linguistic preservation efforts."

Zeng, J., Yang, J. English language hegemony: retrospect and prospect. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 317 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02821-z #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #English #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics

"The overall acceleration of pinning-point loss is striking and paints a bleak future for many Antarctic ice shelves. From 2000 to 2022, the vast majority of pinning points in the 3,000-km stretch of coastline in West Antarctica from George VI Ice Shelf to Hull Glacier, along with an 800-km stretch of coastline in Wilkes Land, reduced in area or completely disappeared."

Miles, B.W.J., Bingham, R.G. Progressive unanchoring of Antarctic ice shelves since 1973. Nature 626, 785–791 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07049-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #GeoSciences #Climate #ClimateChange #Antarctic #Ice #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange

"We propose to conceptualize science-related populism as a set of ideas which suggests that there is a morally charged antagonism between an (allegedly) virtuous ordinary people and an (allegedly) unvirtuous academic elite, and that this antagonism is due to the elite illegitimately claiming and the people legitimately demanding both science-related decision-making sovereignty and truth-speaking sovereignty."

Mede, N. G., & Schäfer, M. S. (2020). Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science. Public Understanding of Science, 29(5), 473-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520924259 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Epistemology #Populism @science

"The results allow us to reconstruct the seasonal strategies employed by neolithic groups that occupied Campo de Hockey and to establish whether this island site was occupied all year round or seasonally."

García-Escárzaga, A., Cantillo-Duarte, J.J., Milano, S. et al. Marine resource exploitation and human settlement patterns during the Neolithic in SW Europe: stable oxygen isotope analyses (δ18O) on Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778) from Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 16, 38 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-01939-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Research #DOI #Cadiz #Spain #Europe #Archaeology #Anthropology #Archaeodons #History #Neolithic #Science #STEM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons @anthropology

"We show that the drastic increase in the human population at risk of exposure is partly due to historical changes in population density, but that climate change has also been a critical driver behind the heightened risk of WNV circulation in Europe."

Erazo, D., Grant, L., Ghisbain, G. et al. Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe. Nat Commun 15, 1196 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45290-3 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Epidemiology #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Europe #Science #STEM #Virus #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

🇺🇸 "We estimate that 14.8% of Americans do not believe in climate change. This denialism is highest in the central and southern U.S. However, it also persists in clusters within states (e.g., California) where belief in climate change is high."

Gounaridis, D., Newell, J.P. The social anatomy of climate change denial in the United States. Sci Rep 14, 2097 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50591-6 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #DOI #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Sustainability #SocialSciences #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #SocialMedia #Data #Academia #Academic #Academics @climate

"Notably, we reveal long IBD sharing between Corded Ware and Yamnaya groups, indicating that the Yamnaya herders of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe and the Steppe-related ancestry in various European Corded Ware groups share substantial co-ancestry within only a few hundred years."

Ringbauer, H., Huang, Y., Akbari, A. et al. Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA. Nat Genet 56, 143–151 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01582-w #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Articles #Research #DOI #Bioinformatics #Data #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Biology #Science #STEM #ComputerScience #Yamnaya #CordedWare #Academia #Academic #Academcs @science @biology

"Our analyses show that although societies that share similar ecologies are more likely to share cultural traits, the Eurasian continent is not significantly more ecologically homogeneous than other continental regions."

Chira, A.M., Gray, R.D. and Botero, C.A. (2024) ‘Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond’s axis of orientation hypothesis’, Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, p. e5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.34 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Eurasia #Biology #Anthropology #Science #STEM #Geography #DOI #Research #Academia #Academic #Academics @geography @anthropology @biology @science

"I show that differentials in the early documents are introduced by geometric arguments, lacking dynamic meaning; however in hindsight can a dynamic meaning be recognized in them."

Dias, P.M.C., 2023. Isaac Newton’s early documents on circular motion: can the dynamic reasoning in the “Principia” be found in them?. Rev. Bras. Ensino Fís. 45, e20230263.. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2023-0263 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Science #Physics #C17th #17thCentury #IsaacNewton @science @physics

"The book of Ezekiel is produced by a group that constructed a diaspora identity from the early sixth century onwards, whether in Babylonia or in Jerusalem; in any case, it is written in an environment where the adaptation of a wide array of Mesopotamian linguistic, iconographic, literary, and theological motifs was possible."

Nissinen, M. (2023) “Ezekiel, Ethnicity, and Identity”, Studia Orientalia Electronica, 11(2), pp. 53–71. doi: https://doi.org/10.23993/store.129806 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #DOI #PeerReview #Theology #Religion #Identity #Ethnicity #Hebrew #Bible #Mesopotamia #Babylon #Academia #Academic #Academics @religion

"The concept of «blood and soil» as a historical determinant could be found in Termer’s work ten years before the Nazis used it as their state’s official ideology. After the fall of Nazism, he declared himself an «adversary» and «victim» of that policy. However, a careful reading of his texts reveals that he had supported National Socialism, colonialism, anti-Semitism, and racism for five decades."

Kophamel, W. (2020). Race and soil: Geography, ethnology, and Nazism. Metode Science Studies Journal , 10 , 157-163. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.13560 #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #PDF #Ethnography #Nazism #Colonialism #Guatemala #Racism #Race #Geography #Academia #Academic #Academics @geography