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"In this way, La Marmotta is causing a literal sea change in our view of those first Neolithic farming groups. It was always difficult to understand how they could have travelled around all Mediterranean Europe. The Marmotta canoes are not only outstanding evidence of how they achieved that but also an example of the complexity of those societies from the viewpoint of their social and technical organisation."

Gibaja JF, Mineo M, Santos FJ, Morell B, Caruso-Fermé L, et al. (2024) The first Neolithic boats in the Mediterranean: The settlement of La Marmotta (Anguillara Sabazia, Lazio, Italy). PLOS ONE 19(3): e0299765. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299765 #OpenAccess #OA #PeerReview #Research #Article #DOI #Neolithic #Archaeology #Boats #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology

"Despite these advancements, the study finds that lexicography remains relevant, especially for less-documented languages where AI falls short, but human lexicographers excel in data-sparse environments. It argues for the importance of lexicography in promoting linguistic diversity and maintaining the integrity of lesser-known languages."

Lew, R. Dictionaries and lexicography in the AI era. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 426 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02889-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Dictionary #Dictionaries #Lexicography #Lexicon #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

"In this paper, we apply the methods of graph theory to reveal hidden relations within the corpus of the Hebrew Bible texts. The structure of relations between different texts was studied based upon their interpretation of the otherworld and the afterlife. We have identified 43 most relevant texts that contained concepts related to the notion of the otherworld and constructed a graph representing the relations between the considered texts."

Tantlevskij, I.R., Evmenova, E. & Gromov, D. Identification of the network structure of the Hebrew Bible texts based upon the notion of the otherworld and the afterlife. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 411 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02911-y #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Hebrew #Bible #Theology #Language #Linguistics #Philosophy #Religion #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics @philosophy @religion

"Having mapped and reconstructed Hegel's conception of colonialism through his writings and lectures, the article argues that his account of Europe's modern colonial expansion is based primarily on economic considerations, rather than on civilizational assumptions proclaiming the spiritual superiority of European peoples—to which Hegel nevertheless subscribes."

Mascat, J.M.H. (2024) ‘Hegel, Colonialism and Postcolonial Hegelianism’, Hegel Bulletin, pp. 1–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.10. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Artcile #DOI #Colonialism #Postcolonial #Europe #Imperialism #Hegel #Philosophy #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy

"The author argues that a cadre of Southern theologians rejected the liberal heritage of the United States and redefined the relationship between the individual and state. Southern clerical fascists reconceived of an alternative modernity that reflected God’s precepts. Slaves, laborers, and slave masters all had a mandate to guide secular and spiritual progress."

Roel Reyes, S. (2021). ‘Christian Patriots’: The Intersection Between Proto-fascism and Clerical Fascism in the Antebellum South. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 9, 1-4, 82-110, Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/22130624-00219121 [Accessed 10 March 2024] #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #America #UnitedStates #Fascism #Christianity #Religion #Theology #Culture #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

🇯🇵 "Finally, I will attempt to shed light on the historical forces and scenarios that might return Japanese ultranationalists to the center of political influence and power in the Japanese state and overturn Japan’s postwar pacifist constitution and noninterventionist military foreign policy."

Skya, W. A. (2023). The Other Japan: Back to Japan’s Religious Roots for a New Japanese Nationalism? Journal of Right-Wing Studies, 1(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/RW3.1500 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53w442f7 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Asia #Japan #Japanese #RightWing #Ultranationalism #Nationalism #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

🇩🇪 "Using an inductive approach, we asked 987 German citizens to describe what being German means for them. A latent class analysis of content-coded responses revealed four classes: a heritage-based identity class with a strong focus on language and culture (39%), an ideology-based identity class that revolves around democracy, welfare, freedom, and economy and safety (19%), a legal-formalistic identity class that is mostly concerned with the legal requirement for obtaining and holding citizenship of national identity (26%), and a trait-based identity class describing personality-traits that are supposed to be typical for Germans (16%)."

Ditlmann, R. K., & Kopf-Beck, J. (2019). The Meaning of Being German: An Inductive Approach to National Identity. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 423-447. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.557 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Report #DOI #Identity #German #Ethnicity #Ethnic #Germany #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology

"Our results show that presenting the success rate of previous raters works as an incentive to evaluate information more accurately, but that monetary bonuses provide the strongest increase in accuracy, and that only remuneration is associated with a greater use of external resources (e.g., search engines) that have been shown to meaningfully improve evaluation of new content."

Ronzani, P., Panizza, F., Morisseau, T., Mattavelli, S., & Martini, C. (2024). How different incentives reduce scientific misinformation online. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-131 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Study #DOI #PeerReview #Science #Misinformation #Psychology #SocialMedia #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @psychology

"Taken together, the essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an "imperial commons," a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize the other."

Hofmeyr, Isabel, and Antoinette Burton. Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons. 1 ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2015., https://doi.org/10.1353/book.70934. #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Empire #Imperialism #Print #Culture #Essays #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (77)

"Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists."

Hornkohl, A.D. and Khan, G. (2021) 'New perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew,' in Semitic languages and cultures. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0250. #OpenAccess #OA #Hebrew #Language #History #Linguistics #Bible #Philology #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @linguistics @bookstodon (76)

"Finally, the article shows that Ford’s central purpose was to foster a visceral hatred of the British empire among his Irish-American readership, to maintain a commitment to their ethnic heritage as proud Irish people, and to encourage his readers that a better future would soon arrive, when the British empire was finally a relic of the past."

O’Sullivan, R. (2024) ‘Irish-American Anti-Imperialism in Patrick Ford’s The Criminal History of the British Empire’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000098 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialsim #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Empire #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

"With its added translations from Arabic into Hebrew, the astrolabe closely recalls the recommendations prescribed by the Spanish Jewish polymath Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–1167) in the earliest surviving treatise on the astrolabe in the Hebrew language written in 1146 precisely in Verona."

Gigante, F. (2024). A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona: The Seventeenth-Century Collection of Ludovico Moscardo. Nuncius 39, 1, 163-192, Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10095 [Accessed 04 March 2024] #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Judaism #Hebrew #Arabic #Medieval #Medievodons #Astrolabe #Spain #C11th #11thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @medievodons

"Can arguments change minds? Philosophers like to think that they can. However, a wealth of empirical evidence suggests that arguments are not very efficient tools to change minds."

Catarina Dutilh Novaes, VII—Can Arguments Change Minds?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 173–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoad006 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy

"Put simply, these tools are not trustworthy for reporting facts. They may be the right tool for particular jobs, for example text-processing and organizing information. A person might use a generative AI tool to summarize some information or express some idea in history of mathematics."

Peter Rowlett (2024) Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2312789 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Academia #Academic #Academics

"In 2023, the development of El Niño is poised to drive a global upsurge in surface air temperatures (SAT), potentially resulting in unprecedented warming worldwide."

Jiang, N., Zhu, C., Hu, ZZ. et al. Enhanced risk of record-breaking regional temperatures during the 2023–24 El Niño. Sci Rep 14, 2521 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52846-2 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Meteorology #Weather #ElNino #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange

"Belief in conspiracy theories appears to be driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (understanding one’s environment), existential (being safe and in control of one’s environment), and social (maintaining a positive image of the self and the social group)."

Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., & Cichocka, A. (2017). The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(6), 538-542. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417718261 #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Research #Article #Psychology #ConspiracyTheories #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology

"With stronger freshwater anomalies, our results indicate an increase in the risk of warm, dry European summers and of heat waves and droughts accordingly."

Oltmanns, M., Holliday, N. P., Screen, J., Moat, B. I., Josey, S. A., Evans, D. G., and Bacon, S.: European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies in preceding years, Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 109–132, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-109-2024, 2024. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Statistics #Data #Weather #Climate #Europe #ClimateChange #Environment #Oceanography #Geoscience #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange

"We conducted a large-scale survey of 11,050 researchers and found that researchers on average rated themselves as better than other researchers at following good research practice, and rated researchers in their field as better than researchers in other fields at following good research practice. Given that it is statistically impossible for the majority of a group to be better than the group median, our results suggest that researchers on average have inflated beliefs about their own research ethicality and the research ethicality of their field."

Lindkvist, A.M., Koppel, L. & Tinghög, G. Bounded research ethicality: researchers rate themselves and their field as better than others at following good research practice. Sci Rep 14, 3050 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53450-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Psychology #Science #STEM #Ethics #Academia #Academic #Academics #DOI @psychology @science

"This inquiry into English hegemony’s duality concludes that, although English serves as a vehicle for advancement, it also threatens the survival of local languages and cultures, thus embodying a dualistic nature. For non-English-speaking countries to leverage English beneficially, they must navigate this dichotomy with strategic cultural and linguistic preservation efforts."

Zeng, J., Yang, J. English language hegemony: retrospect and prospect. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 317 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02821-z #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #English #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics

"The overall acceleration of pinning-point loss is striking and paints a bleak future for many Antarctic ice shelves. From 2000 to 2022, the vast majority of pinning points in the 3,000-km stretch of coastline in West Antarctica from George VI Ice Shelf to Hull Glacier, along with an 800-km stretch of coastline in Wilkes Land, reduced in area or completely disappeared."

Miles, B.W.J., Bingham, R.G. Progressive unanchoring of Antarctic ice shelves since 1973. Nature 626, 785–791 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07049-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #STEM #GeoSciences #Climate #ClimateChange #Antarctic #Ice #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange