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🇵🇹 🧬 **The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years**

"_We reveal dynamic patterns of migration in line with cultural exchange across millennia, but also the persistence of local ancestries._"

Roca-Rada, X., Davidson, R., Williams, M.P. et al. The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years. Genome Biol 26, 248 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03707-2.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #Portugal #Iberia #Paleogenomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Anthropology #Migration #Academia @science @archaeology @anthropology

🇮🇳 🇩🇪 **Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea**

"_The article explores the relationship between knowledge production and National Socialist state politics through the lens of Bannerjea’s life, focussing on the exchange of resources between Bannerjea and the National Socialist apparatus._"

Framke, M. Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea. N.T.M. 31, 307–332 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-023-00363-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #India #NationalSocialism #Germany #Knowledge #Academia

🖥️ **Fidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language Models**

"_When forced to reason beyond familiar answer patterns, all models demonstrate declines in accuracy, challenging claims of artificial intelligence’s readiness for autonomous clinical deployment._"

Bedi S, Jiang Y, Chung P, Koyejo S, Shah N. Fidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language Models. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(8):e2526021. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26021.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Medicine #Health #Academia

🖥️ **Does ChatGPT Ignore Article Retractions and Other Reliability Concerns?**

"_In a follow-up investigation, 61 claims were extracted from retracted articles from the set, and ChatGPT 4o-mini was asked 10 times whether each was true. It gave a definitive yes or a positive response two-thirds of the time, including for at least one statement that had been shown to be false over a decade ago._"

Thelwall, M., M. Lehtisaari, I. Katsirea, K. Holmberg, and E.-T. Zheng. 2025. “ Does ChatGPT Ignore Article Retractions and Other Reliability Concerns?.” Learned Publishing 38, no. 4: e2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2018.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #ChatGPT #Technology #Tech #Academia

"_The Seleucid era was the first to introduce continuous counting of years, a system adopted by many societies for over a millenium. Its usage gradually declined during the Middle Ages and early modern period, and today it is preserved only by a small group of Yemenite Jews for religious purposes. This article explores the preservation of this calendar within the Jewish community of Yemen, where it was referred to as the “Era of Contracts” (Minyan ha-Shetarot)._"

Anzi, M. The Seleucid Era and Rhythms of Time Consciousness in Modern Jewish Yemen. JEW HIST (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10835-025-09475-7.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Judaism #Culture #Academia @histodons

**”My AI is Lying to Me”: User-reported LLM hallucinations in AI mobile apps reviews**

"_The estimated prevalence of user-reported LLM hallucinations (RQ1) at 1.75% of AI-error-related reviews, while seemingly modest, represents a high-impact, low-frequency type of error that significantly erodes user trust. For product managers and QA leads, this signals that while hallucinations may not be the most common complaint, their presence is a critical indicator of deep model failure._"

Massenon, R., Gambo, I., Khan, J.A. et al. ”My AI is Lying to Me”: User-reported LLM hallucinations in AI mobile apps reviews. Sci Rep 15, 30397 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-15416-8.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hallucinations #LLM #Technology #Tech #Academia

🇺🇸 📚 **The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey**

"_We found marked declines in the proportion of individuals reading for pleasure daily in the US, with decreases of 3% per year (prevalence ratio = 0.97, 95% confidence interval = 0.97, 0.98, p < 0.001)._"

Bone et al., The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey, iScience (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113288.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Academia @science @bookstodon

🖥️ **Cognitive Bias In Generative AI Influences Religious Education**

"_For example, AI-generated texts on Islam contained 1.5 times more references to “conflict,” while Christian texts featured more positive terms like “love” and “forgiveness.” These findings support the hypothesis that generative AI in religious content creation can induce cognitive biases, influencing users’ attitudes._"

Zhang, J., Song, W. & Liu, Y. Cognitive bias in generative AI influences religious education. Sci Rep 15, 15720 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99121-6.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Religion #Education #Bias #Ethics #Academia

**The Hoax of Semi-Freedom in Babylonia**

"_Declaring dependent groups, such as non-priestly temple personnel or foreign deportees settled on royal land, to be “semi-free,” despite being qualified to own and bequeath property, live in families, and perform state duties, limits the number of “really free” individuals considerably, basically, to male heads of wealthy households and noble descent only._"

Wunsch, C. (2025) The Hoax of Semi-Freedom in Babylonia. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Vol. 12 (Issue 1), pp. 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1515/janeh-2024-0021.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Ancient #Babylonia #Slavery #Manumission #Freedom #Hoax #Academia @histodons

🇩🇰 🇬🇱 **The Danish ‘Coil Campaign’ in Greenland**

"_It concludes that, while more investigation is needed, it is possible that the coil campaign in Greenland may constitute genocide._"

Lekvall, E. (2025). The Danish ‘Coil Campaign’ in Greenland: Indigenous Genocide Through Forced Birth Control?. Nordic Journal of International Law (published online ahead of print 2025), Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-bja10102 [Accessed 18 August 2025].

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Law #Legal #Contraception #IUD #Births #Genocide #History #Denmark #Greenland #Colonialism #Academia

**On the Controversies Behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics**

"_Here I provide brief histories of the origins of US statistics on prices, national income and product, and unemployment to illustrate this story._"

Rockoff, Hugh. “On the Controversies Behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 33, no. 1 (2019): 147–64. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26566981.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Economics #Statistics #Academia @economics

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset**

"_Focusing primarily on a sub-adult female from Updown in Kent, the authors explore the societal and cultural contexts in which these individuals lived and died, and the widening geographic links indicated by their presence, pointing back to the Byzantine reconquest of North Africa in AD 533–534._"

Sayer, D. et al. (2025) ‘West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset’, Antiquity, pp. 1–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10139.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #DNA #Africa #Kent #Dorset #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #AngloSaxon #England #Medieval #Medievodons #Migration #Academia @archaeodons @medievodons

🖥️ **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