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🔴 **North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**

_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_

Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genomics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ukraine #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons

🔴 **Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture**

_“We reconstructed six-generation pedigrees at both sites including up to 450 closely related individuals, allowing per-generation demographic profiling of the communities. Despite different ancestry, these pedigrees together with large networks of distant relatedness show absence of consanguinity, patrilineal pattern with female exogamy, multiple reproductive partnerships (for example, levirate) and direct correlation of biological connectivity with archaeological markers of social status.”_

Wang, K., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Science #Ancient #DNA #History #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology

🔴 **Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries**

_“Our analysis suggests that discourses to deny and delay climate policy are aligned and coordinated across the three sectors to reinforce existing infrastructure and inhibit change. Exceptions in this alignment emerge for a few distinct sector-specific goals, including contrasting messages about biofuel.”_

Kinol A, Si Y, Kinol J, Stephens JC (2025) Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries. PLOS Climate 4(1): e0000370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000370.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #FossilFuels #Energy #Corporations #Industry #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #SocialMedia #Academia #Academics @climatechange @environment

🔴 🇺🇸 **Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States**

_"As outlined earlier in the article, increasing development might reduce levels of gender inequality and economic uncertainty, which can lead to higher fertility."_

Henrik-Alexander Schubert, Christian Dudel, Marina Kolobova, Mikko Myrskylä; Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States. Demography 1 December 2024; 61 (6): 1949–1973. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680156.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Demography #Fertility #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Academia #Academics

🔴 💻 **AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking**

_“This study highlights how AI-driven virtual influencers shape consumer behaviour and decision-making processes, potentially reducing the need for independent critical evaluation. The reliance on AI-generated content can diminish users’ critical thinking abilities, as they may accept information and recommendations without thorough scrutiny. The phenomenon of virtual influencers acting as trusted sources of information mirrors the trust participants in our study place in AI tools, leading to reduced critical engagement.”_

Gerlich, Michael. 2025. “AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking” Societies 15, no. 1: 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #Technology #Tech #Education #Academia #Academics @ai

🔴 **Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum**

_“Our results paint a picture of Yemen being in a crossroads, marked by the large-scale baseline genetic diversity that largely evolved many millennia. Yemen witnessed an initial gene flow pattern defined by the more ancient markers from the rest of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant that started as early as the Epipaleolithic period followed by population isolation and limited expansion. Yemen witnessed additional, but less substantial, flow from southwest Asia, Jordan and Syria through the Nabateans during the active incense trade between the Levant and Yemen, from Arabia during the Islamic Expansion, and a subsequent one from the west and southwest dominated by East Africa.”_

Henschel, A., Saif-Ali, R., Al-Habori, M. et al. Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum. Sci Rep 14, 31704 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81615-4.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Genomics #Migration #Yemen #Arabia #Levant #Academia #Academics @science @biology

🔴 **Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?**

_“I am arguing that it is likely that the men buried in the princely burials at Prittlewell and Sutton Hoo mound 1 served, with a group of their contemporaries, as cavalry soldiers in the Foederati recruited by Tiberius in 575 in the wars with the Sasanians on the eastern front.”_

Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review, 2025;, ceae213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae213.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #AngloSaxons #SuttonHoo #Byzantinum #Asia #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 **High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**

_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_

Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons

🔴 **Pre-roman copper industry had no polluting impact on the global environment**

_“Our results, combined with a comprehensive survey of previously published data, support the minimalist interpretation of the polluting effects of metallurgical activities on ancient societies, at least for pre-Roman copper production industries.”_

Yagel, O., Greener, A., Ondricek, W. et al. Pre-roman copper industry had no polluting impact on the global environment. Sci Rep 14, 29675 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80939-5.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ancient #NearEast #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Metallurgy #Pollution #TimnaValley #Environment #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

🔴 **Recycling and Recontextualisation in Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Palimpsests**

_“While parchment recycling was common in Iceland both in the medieval and early modern period, it was most productive in the century following the introduction of the Icelandic Reformation when palimpsested parchment from Latin Catholic books was frequently used for religious and legal manuscripts as a cheaper and more readily available alternative to paper. ”_

Lorenz, T. (2024a) 'Endurvinnsla og endurnýting í íslenskum uppskafningum frá miðöldum og á árnýöld,' Gripla, 35. https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.35.1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Medieval #Medievodons #EarlyModern #Iceland #Recycling #Prints #Mauscripts #Academia #Academic @earlymodern @medievodons

🔴 **Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients**

_"Advertisers mimicked the sensitive queries of cancer patients to target them with their marketing using Google’s keyword-matching feature. In 2023, 20,035 unique keywords emulated Google searches seeking information on cancer prognosis, alternative treatments, accessing treatment, treatment options, diagnosis, specific cancers, and late-stage cancer._

_The Google tools used by alternative cancer clinics exploit users’ searches for information and give prominence to websites promoting treatment unsupported by scientific evidence."_

Zenone, M., Marcon, A., Kenworthy, N., van Schalkwyk, M., Caulfield, T., Hartwell, G., & Maani, N. (2024). Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-170

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Google #Health #Cancer #Advertisements #Advertising #Information #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics

🔴 🌡️ **Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality**

_“Using climate model simulations of idealized SG and data-driven of temperature-attributable mortality, we estimate that, in a world 2.5 °C warmer than preindustrial, 1 °C of global-average cooling by SG reduces mortality by over 400,000 deaths annually by 2080, with a possible range from −1.2 million to 2.7 million deaths annually.”_

A. Harding, G.A. Vecchi, W. Yang, D.W. Keith, Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (52) e2401801121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401801121 (2024).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Geoscience #Engineering #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @science @climatechange

🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin**

_“Our evaluations reveal spatially different histories in Transdanubia even between communities in close geographical proximity, highlighting the importance of dense sampling and analyses. Our findings highlight extensive homogenization and reorganization processes, as well as discontinuities between Hun, Avar, and Hungarian conquest period immigrant groups, alongside the spread and integration of ancestry related to the Hungarian conquerors.”_

Dániel Gerber et al., Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.10, eadq5864(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5864.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeogenomics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Genomes #Science #CarpathianBasin #Hungary #Europe @anthropology @archaeodons

🔴 🖋 ⌨️ **Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom**

_“Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity. It appears that the movements related to typewriting do not activate these connectivity networks the same way that handwriting does.”_

Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Education #Psychology #Brain #Neuroscience #Learning #Handwriting #Writing #Typing #Typewriting #Academia #Academic @science @psychology

🔴 **Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia**

_“The frequent engagement with themes relating to the supernatural and the divine in the Babylonian Talmud, when read alongside the Jewish magical evidence from Babylonia and other contemporary sources, suggests a degree of anxiety about the fact that the rabbis were grappling with the appeal of a multiplicity of deities and forces present among the inhabitants of Sasanian Babylonia and that they were actively seeking to clarify how their notions of the divine differed from those of their neighbours.”_

Herman, G. 2021. Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia. In: Kiperwasser, R. and Herman, G. ed. Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671483-006.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Babylonia #Theology #Religion @religion

🔴 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 **An Unknown History Of Portugal (c 1570) In William Cecil's Library: Commissioning And Writing History During the Elizabethan Era**

_“The manuscript is in a mid-sixteenth-century hand and has personal annotations by William Cecil (1520–98), better known as Lord Burghley. It recounts the history of Portugal by reigns and belonged to Cecil’s personal library. Until now, no other extant example of a history of Portugal written in English in the sixteenth century was known.”_

Lowe, K. and Vila-Santa, N. (2024) ‘AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF PORTUGAL (c 1570) IN WILLIAM CECIL’S LIBRARY: COMMISSIONING AND WRITING HISTORY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA’, The Antiquaries Journal, pp. 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000167.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #C16th #16thCentury #Culture #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #Portugal #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa**

_“In the cases of both the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa, it is evident that banks in Luxembourg provided financial services to borrowers accused of forced labor, environmental degradation, racist discrimination, sanctions busting, and other morally inexcusable practices. In other words, ‘their ‘profit’ came in the form of both shareholder dividends and the reproduction of global white supremacy’ (Hudson, Reference Hudson2017: 14).”_

Weeks, S. (2024) ‘Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa’, Finance and Society, 10(3), pp. 234–250. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2024.12.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #Congo #Belgium #Luxembourg #Finance #Europe #Africa #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @finance @anthropology

🔴 **Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”**

_“The article examines the birth and evolution of the roman and gothic typefaces, following Gutenberg’s printing press in the fifteenth century, and assesses how Nazi publications harked back to German and European typographic traditions to make the printed word a vehicle of German “Aryan” identity and divide readers.”_

Waldeck, M. and Leoussi, A. S. (2024) ‘Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2430057.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Race #Language #Script #Typeface #Nazi #Academia #Academics

🔴 **The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030**

_“The primary trigger of the rapid transition to the first ice-free day within 3–6 years that we identified was a warm atmosphere in the previous winter and spring, leading to a loss of sea ice mass year-round Fig. 3b).”_

Heuzé, C., Jahn, A. The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030. Nat Commun 15, 10101 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54508-3.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Arctic #Ocean #Climate #Science #Academia #Academics @science

🔴 **Hegel and White Freedom**

_“In order to show that Hegel's idea of freedom is linked to white identity, I trace its connections with the Western idea of property. My suggestion is that Hegel conceptualizes freedom as appropriation, thereby linking freedom to property and white identity.”_

Stibor, L. (2024) ‘Hegel and White Freedom’, Hegel Bulletin, 45(2), pp. 210–236. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.36.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Hegel #Identity #Freedom #Academia #Academics @philosophy