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🖥️ **AI-Induced Dehumanization**

"_Our research reveals that the socio-emotional capabilities of autonomous agents lead individuals to attribute a humanlike mind to these nonhuman entities. Perceiving a high level of humanlike mind in the nonhuman, autonomous agents affects perceptions of actual people through an assimilation process._"

Kim, H.-y., & McGill, A. L. (2025). AI-induced dehumanization. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 35, 363–381. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1441.

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

🇺🇸 "_This article examines the rationale behind the United States’ pivot from subsidies to tariffs and explores implications for trade partners and multilateral institutions._"

Rickard, S.J. (2025) ‘Tariffs versus Subsidies: Protection versus Industrial Policy’, World Trade Review, pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474562510102X.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Economics #Trade #Tariffs #Subsidies #USA #US #UnitedStates #Academia @economics

"_With a specific focus on France, Belgium, and Great Britain, this article argues that the revolutions of 1830 were not simply events coincidentally affected by their imperial context, but were themselves transformative of the imperial landscape. They gave a boost to European expansion, ushered in more direct forms of colonial dominion, and initiated an era of heightened trans-imperial co-operation._"

Beatrice de Graaf, Erik de Lange, The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf016, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf016.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism #Empire #C19th #Academia #Academics @histodons

"_The results indicate a dominant contribution of western European silver, pointing to the fate of loot seized by the Vikings during their raids on the Continent in the ninth century. Nonetheless, Islamic silver is also present in several large ingots: silver from the east—the product of long-distance trade networks connecting Scandinavia with the Islamic Caliphate—permeated Viking wealth sources even in the western part of the Viking overseas settlement and should be seen as a significant driver of the Viking phenomenon._"

Kershaw, J., S. Merkel, A. Woods, J. Evans, V. Pashley, and S. Chenery. 2025. “ The Provenance of Silver in the Viking-Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire.” Archaeometry 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70031.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #History #Vikings #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons

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"_Our results reveal a persisting local gene pool that, during the Middle-Late BA, absorbed additional ancestry from Anatolia and the neighboring Eurasian Steppe. In subsequent periods, we document population growth and increasing genetic diversity, supported by a high rate of individual ancestry outliers, particularly in urban centers of eastern Georgia._"

Skourtanioti et al., The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility, Cell (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.013.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Genomics #Archaeogenetics #History #Migration #Caucasus #BronzeAge #MiddleAges #Academia #Academics @science

📖 **Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit**

"_It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects._"

Boyes, P.J. (2021) Script and Society : The Social context of writing practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52589.

#OpenAccess #OA #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Writing #BronzeAge #Levant #Ugarit @archaeodons @bookstodon

"_Together, these studies, using diverse research designs, provide evidence that economic hardship and anomie may contribute to anti-immigrant sentiment, with conspiracy beliefs potentially mediating these relationships._"

Hattersley, M., Skipper, Y., Douglas, K.M. and Jolley, D. (2025), The Interplay Between Economic Hardship, Anomie, and Conspiracy Beliefs in Shaping Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55: 600-623. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70002.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #Anomie #Immigration #Migration #ConspiracyTheories #Economics #Academia #Academics @psychology

**Five thousand years of inequality in the Carpathian Basin**

" _We find that although farming did increase the potentials for both relational and material inequalities, the potential was rarely reached and then only for short durations. We identify a series of leveling mechanisms varying over time, including the removal of material wealth from circulation through the placement in graves, community fission, and investments of surplus labor in infrastructural investments._"

Paul R. Duffy et al., Five thousand years of inequality in the Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.11, eadu0323 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu0323.

#OpenAcess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #History #Histodons #Academia #Academics @anthropology @histodons

🇺🇸 "_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