Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

🇺🇸 "_We find that two-thirds of our respondents want a more ethnically/racially diverse United States than the current demographics and over half of respondents want a population that is more religiously diverse than the status quo in 2020. Only a tiny percent idealizes a country that is ethnically or religiously homogeneous._"

Power, Séamus A., Crystal Shackleford, Friedolin Merhout, and Richard A. Shweder. 2025. “ Is multiculturalism as American as apple pie? A survey of attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity in the United States.” Ethos e70018. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70018.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Anthropology #Psychology #Sociology #Demographics #Ethnicity #Multiculturalism #Religion #ReplacementTheory #USA #US #UnitedStates #Academia #Academics @anthropology @psychology @sociology

Resnick, Irven Michael. 2025. "Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism" Histories 5, no. 3: 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/histories5030036.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Culture #Religion #Medieval #Academia

**Semantic change in adults is not primarily a generational phenomenon**

"_Our findings indicate that despite minor age-based differences, word meaning change among mature speakers is likely not a generational process, but rather a zeitgeist process, in which older adult speakers can readily adopt new word usage patterns._"

G. Kamath, M. Yang, S. Reddy, M. Sonderegger, & D. Card, Semantic change in adults is not primarily a generational phenomenon, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (31) e2426815122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426815122 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Society #Linguistics #Language #Academia #Academics @linguistics

**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**

"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"

🔗 https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/15187?v=pdf.

#OpenAccess #OA #Thesis #OldEnglish #Language #Migration #Britain #Germanic #AngloSaxons #Linguistics #History @linguistics

**A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530–510 BCE**

"_Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs._"

Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, and James S. O. McCullagh Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04888

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Chemistry #Honey #Academia @science

**Lying increases trust in science**

Hyde, B.V. Lying increases trust in science. Theor Soc (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09635-1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Ethics #Science #Experts #Trust #Misinformation #Lying #Society #Academia @science

🧬 **Genetic history of Scythia**

"_Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin with major European Bronze Age ancestral components, and genetic traces of migration and invasions._"

Tatiana V. Andreeva et al., Genetic history of Scythia. Sci. Adv.11, eads8179 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #History #Genetics #DNA #Scythians #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academics @science

🖥️ **Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI**

"_Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty for AI use: Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others._"

J.A. Reif, R.P. Larrick, & J.B. Soll, Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (19) e2426766122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426766122 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academic @psychology

**Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers**

"_Results indicate that students with stronger verbal abilities, and who are more curious, open-minded, and intellectually rigorous, are more likely to study philosophy. Nonetheless, after accounting for such baseline differences, philosophy majors outperform all other majors on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind._"

PRINZING, M. and VAZQUEZ, M. (2025) ‘Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10007.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Philosophy #Education #Learning @philosophy

**Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities**

"_Results showed that dark personality traits were significantly associated with academic dishonesty, anxiety, and procrastination, and that these markers of academic misbehavior were linked to increased frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use._"

Song, J., Liu, S. Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities. BMC Psychol 13, 633 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02949-w.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #Psychology #Personality #Academia #Education #Procrastination #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @psychology

🇧🇷 🇵🇹 **The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal**

"_In this paper, we show that the discovery of massive quantities of gold in Brazil over the eighteenth century played a key role in the long-run development of Portugal. The country suffered from an economic and political resource curse. A counterfactual based on synthetic control methods suggests that by 1800 Portugal’s GDP per capita was 40 percent lower than it would have been without its endowment of Brazilian gold._"

Kedrosky, D. and Palma, N. (2025) ‘The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725100764.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Economics #History #Histodons #Gold #Brazil #Portugal #Academia @histodons

**Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia**

"_Genetic ancestry among Andalusians seems to be constituted by three foremost continental origins: European, African and Middle Eastern. The examined male group has revealed a noticeable proportion of individuals (over 45%) with a non-correspondence between maternal and paternal haplogroup origins, a signal of different population demographic histories linked to both sexes in the past._"

González-Barrio, M. et al. (2025) ‘Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia’, Evolutionary Human Sciences, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10006.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Haplogroups #Ancestry #Iberia #Academia #Academics

**Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary**

"_We study vocabulary changes in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 indexed by PubMed and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs._"

Dmitry Kobak et al., Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary. Sci. Adv.11, eadt3813 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Writing #DOI #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics

**Thinking outside the box means thinking outside the search engine**

"_Nominal group analysis reveals that while individual creativity may be enhanced by internet access, groups articulate fewer novel solutions when provided internet access, suggesting that internet access may constrain collective creative fluency._"

Oppenheimer, D.M., Patterson, M.T. Thinking outside the box means thinking outside the search engine. Mem Cogn (2025). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01732-x.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Creativity #Internet #Digital #Academia #Academics

**Literary Texts From The Sippar Library V: A Hymn In Praise Of Babylon And The Babylonians**

"_The article presents a previously unknown hymn in praise of Marduk, the Esagil, Babylon and the Babylonians. It contains unparalleled descriptions of the healing powers of Marduk, the splendor of Babylon, the spring borne by the Euphrates to the city’s fields and the generosity of the Babylonians themselves._"

Fadhil, A.A. and Jiménez, E. (2025) ‘LITERARY TEXTS FROM THE SIPPAR LIBRARY V: A HYMN IN PRAISE OF BABYLON AND THE BABYLONIANS’, Iraq, pp. 1–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/irq.2024.23.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Cuneiform #Babylon #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

**Leonardo's Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery**

"_This paper demonstrates that Leonardo’s explicit textual reference to ‘an equilateral triangle’ between the figure’s legs provides his construction method and reveals the anatomical foundation for his proportional choices._"

Sweeney, R. M. (2025) ‘Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery’, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, pp. 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2025.2507568.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Art #LeonardoDaVinci #VitruvianMan

🖥️ 🧠 **Causal effects of physical activity and screen time on childhood intelligence via Mendelian randomization: The mediating role of intracranial volume**

“_Our two-sample MR analysis revealed a positive causal effect of moderate to vigorous physical activity (PA) on childhood IQ (β = 0.42, 95 % confidence interval (CI): [0.12, 0.72], p = 6.26 × 10−3), whereas leisure screen time (LST) exhibited a negative causal effect (β = −0.35, 95 % CI: [ −0.60, −0.10], p = 5.59 ×10−3). Reverse MR analysis found no evidence of causations._”

Feng, J., Wan, Y., & Zhang, L. (2025). Causal effects of physical activity and screen time on childhood intelligence via Mendelian randomization: The mediating role of intracranial volume. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 74, 101586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101586.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Neuroscience #Psychology #ScreenTime #Exercise #IQ #Academia #Academics @psychology

**Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin**

“_Our findings reveal minor East Asian ancestry in the Carpathian Basin (CB) Sarmatians, distinguishing them from other regional populations. Using F4 statistics, qpAdm, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analysis, we show that CB Sarmatians descended from Steppe Sarmatians originating in the Ural and Kazakhstan regions, with Romanian Sarmatians serving as a possible genetic bridge between the two groups._”

Schütz, Oszkár et al., (2025). Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.009.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Archaeogenetics #Genetics #Roman #Migration #Academia #Academics @science

🇮🇳 🇨🇳 **The Demographic Race between India and China**

"_Using multi-dimensional demographic projections by age, sex, education, and labor force participation, we show that China’s current apparent demographic travails will not necessarily threaten its leading status relative to India for most of the next half century given India’s disadvantage in educational attainment and very low female labor force participation._"

Marois, G., Gietel-Basten, S. & Lutz, W. The Demographic Race between India and China. Popul Res Policy Rev 44, 44 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09966-y.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Demography #Demographics #Population #India #China #Education #Academics

**Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language**

"_Here, we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains does indeed suggest that the Xiōng-nú and the Huns spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language and that this was an early form of Arin, a member of the Yeniseian language family._"

Bonmann, S. and Fries, S. (2025), Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language. Trans Philologic Soc. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12321.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Linguistics #Language #Philology #Academia #Academics @linguistics