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🔴 🇦🇺 **Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger**

"_Climate model analysis confirms that human influence on the climate system is responsible for the rapid warming in recent decades. This attribution, together with the recent ocean temperature extremes, post-1900 warming trend and observed mass coral bleaching, shows that the existential threat to the GBR ecosystem from anthropogenic climate change is now realized._"

Henley, B.J., McGregor, H.V., King, A.D. et al. Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger. Nature 632, 320–326 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-076

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🔴 🇺🇸 **Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis**

"_Across several dimensions and using multiple measures, we show that material crafted for top leaders in the United States was more likely to use analogical and non-analogical expressions of immaturity, animal-like qualities, belligerence, and irrationality when describing events in the Global South, newly independent states, and for some regions._"

Carson, A., Min, E. and Van Nuys, M. (2024) ‘Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis’, International Organization, pp. 1–35. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0020818324000.

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🔴 **Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community**

"_Isotopic analyses indicated individuals enjoyed a similar diet with little evidence for extensive mobility, however, the genetic analyses indicate that the Muslim and Christian individuals were not only separated by the location of their burials but also by their genetic heritage with no evidence of kinship between the two communities._"

Monnereau, A. et al. (2024) 'Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community,' Royal Society Open Science, 11(7). doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240436.

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🔴 🇨🇳 **The hidden costs of inflation: A critical analysis of industrial development and environmental consequences**

"_As the demand for energy continues to grow, particularly in developing countries, the use of fossil fuels is likely to increase, leading to further increases in CO2 emissions. China is the world’s largest emitter of CO2 emissions, accounting for over a quarter of global emissions. FP, IG, and GNE are identified as key drivers of the increase in CO2 emissions in China. CO2 emissions increase global temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme weather events, and ocean levels. There is a need to shift towards cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy, such as renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydropower._"

Zheng D, Addas A, Waseem LA, Asad Naqvi SA, Ahmad M, et al. (2024) The hidden costs of inflation: A critical analysis of industrial development and environmental consequences. PLOS ONE 19(8): e0297413. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0.

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🔴 **Narcissism and Affective Polarization**

"_Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship. This potentially not only explains why some people are more susceptible to affective polarization, but also has implications for elite polarization given that narcissism is an important predictor of elite entry._"

Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-099

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🔴 📖 **Chapter 7 Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles**

"_The combination of mythological arrival and conquest annals with the strategic inclusion of genealogies allow the annals as a whole to present all the kingdoms and sub-kingdoms of Britannia as important members of a larger family. They show the supremacy of the Germanic incomers over the native Britons, and they focus on the House of Wessex almost from the outset, showing the West Saxons to be the natural leaders of this group._"

Konshuh, C. (2020). Chapter 7 Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. In The Land of the English Kin, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899_ [Accessed 01 August 2024]

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🔴 📖 **The Diagrammatics of 'Race' Visualizing Human Relatedness in the History of Physical, Evolutionary, and Genetic Anthropology, ca. 1770-2020**

"_The Diagrammatics of 'Race' concentrates on Western projects from the late 1700s into the present to diagrammatically define humanity, subdividing and ordering it, including the concomitant endeavors to acquire representative samples―bones, blood, or DNA―from all over the world._"

doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0396

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🔴 **Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement**

"_We contend that the spread of misinformation—and in particular willful disinformation—is demonstrably harmful to public health, evidence-informed policymaking, and democratic processes. We also show that disinformation and outright lies can often be identified and differ from good-faith political contestation._"

Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U.K.H., Cook, J. et al. Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 986 (2024). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-035

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🔴 📖 **‘The Edge of Sentience’ now available online!**

"_LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch has published his new book ‘The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI’ with Oxford University Press. The online version is available for free now!_"

lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2024

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🔴 **Analyses of Johannes Kepler's Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A Revised Scenario for the Solar Cycles in the Early 17th Century**

"_Here, we make use of Kepler's sunspot drawings and descriptive texts to identify his observational sites and time stamps. We have deprojected his sunspot drawings and compared the reported positions with our calculations of the inclination of the solar equator as seen from these sites at that time._"

Hayakawa, H. et al. (2024) 'Analyses of Johannes Kepler’s Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A revised scenario for the solar cycles in the early 17th century,' The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), p. L31. doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad57.

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🔴 **Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice**

"_Moreover, participants indicated lower willingness to follow the advice when AI was believed to be involved in advice generation. Our findings point toward an anti-AI bias when receiving digital medical advice, even when AI is supposedly supervised by physicians._"

Reis, M., Reis, F. & Kunde, W. Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice. Nat Med (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-031

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🔴 **A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America**

"_The letters of Charles Liernur, a Dutch-born Confederate, provide a unique insight into the mind of an explicit supporter of slavery in an American context. How and why a Dutchman could defend slavery is the primary question this article addresses._"

Douma, M.J. (2017) “A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America”, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 132(2), pp. 27–50. doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.103

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🔴 **Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel**

"_Typological and radiocarbon dating indicate an Early Pottery Neolithic occupation and evidence for continuity of subsistence and economic strategies with both earlier and later Neolithic cultures. The results indicate the resilience of coastal communities in the face of significant climatic uncertainty and contribute to understanding human responses to environmental change._"

Nickelsberg R, Levy TE, Shahack-Gross R, et al. Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel. Antiquity. 2024;98(398):343-362. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.32

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🔴 **‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration**

"_I argue that, similar to Philo’s proselyte inclusion strategy, Paul incorporates Gentiles-in-Christ into ethnic Israel. As Abraham’s ‘offspring’, Paul suggests that his addressees not only gain membership in Israel’s covenant on account of Israel’s messiah, but that they also acquire a new ethnic identity despite that their prior identities as ‘the Gentiles’ are not erased._"

McDonald, D. N. (2022). ‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 45(1), 23-50. doi.org/10.1177/0142064X221082

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🔴 **Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics**

"_Conservative white Christians use apocalypse to articulate their experience as God’s chosen but persecuted people in a diversely populated cosmos, wherein their political foes are the enemies of God._"

Douglas, Christopher. 2022. "Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics" Religions 13, no. 1: 21. doi.org/10.3390/rel13010021

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🔴 **Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks**

"_Language models also perform imperfectly on logical reasoning tasks and more often fail in situations where humans fail—when stimuli become too abstract or conflict with prior expectations._"

Andrew K Lampinen, Ishita Dasgupta, Stephanie C Y Chan, Hannah R Sheahan, Antonia Creswell, Dharshan Kumaran, James L McClelland, Felix Hill, Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024, pgae233, doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae

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🔴 📖 **Medicine in an Age of Revolution**

"_This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine._"

Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853, accessed 9 July 2024.

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🔴 **Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace**

"_Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce._"

Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46–57. doi: doi.org/10.1162/00115260538873

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🔴 **Great Britain and the Confederacy**

"_This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South's leaders were confident that Britain's need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public's aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral._"

Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-002

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📚 **Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698**

"_Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire._"

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-7013

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