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🔴 📖 **‘The Edge of Sentience’ now available online!**

"_LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch has published his new book ‘The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI’ with Oxford University Press. The online version is available for free now!_"

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🔴 **Analyses of Johannes Kepler's Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A Revised Scenario for the Solar Cycles in the Early 17th Century**

"_Here, we make use of Kepler's sunspot drawings and descriptive texts to identify his observational sites and time stamps. We have deprojected his sunspot drawings and compared the reported positions with our calculations of the inclination of the solar equator as seen from these sites at that time._"

Hayakawa, H. et al. (2024) 'Analyses of Johannes Kepler’s Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A revised scenario for the solar cycles in the early 17th century,' The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), p. L31. doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad57.

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🔴 **Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice**

"_Moreover, participants indicated lower willingness to follow the advice when AI was believed to be involved in advice generation. Our findings point toward an anti-AI bias when receiving digital medical advice, even when AI is supposedly supervised by physicians._"

Reis, M., Reis, F. & Kunde, W. Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice. Nat Med (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-031

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🔴 **A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America**

"_The letters of Charles Liernur, a Dutch-born Confederate, provide a unique insight into the mind of an explicit supporter of slavery in an American context. How and why a Dutchman could defend slavery is the primary question this article addresses._"

Douma, M.J. (2017) “A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America”, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 132(2), pp. 27–50. doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.103

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🔴 **Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel**

"_Typological and radiocarbon dating indicate an Early Pottery Neolithic occupation and evidence for continuity of subsistence and economic strategies with both earlier and later Neolithic cultures. The results indicate the resilience of coastal communities in the face of significant climatic uncertainty and contribute to understanding human responses to environmental change._"

Nickelsberg R, Levy TE, Shahack-Gross R, et al. Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel. Antiquity. 2024;98(398):343-362. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.32

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🔴 **‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration**

"_I argue that, similar to Philo’s proselyte inclusion strategy, Paul incorporates Gentiles-in-Christ into ethnic Israel. As Abraham’s ‘offspring’, Paul suggests that his addressees not only gain membership in Israel’s covenant on account of Israel’s messiah, but that they also acquire a new ethnic identity despite that their prior identities as ‘the Gentiles’ are not erased._"

McDonald, D. N. (2022). ‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 45(1), 23-50. doi.org/10.1177/0142064X221082

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🔴 **Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics**

"_Conservative white Christians use apocalypse to articulate their experience as God’s chosen but persecuted people in a diversely populated cosmos, wherein their political foes are the enemies of God._"

Douglas, Christopher. 2022. "Revenge Is a Genre Best Served Old: Apocalypse in Christian Right Literature and Politics" Religions 13, no. 1: 21. doi.org/10.3390/rel13010021

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🔴 **Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks**

"_Language models also perform imperfectly on logical reasoning tasks and more often fail in situations where humans fail—when stimuli become too abstract or conflict with prior expectations._"

Andrew K Lampinen, Ishita Dasgupta, Stephanie C Y Chan, Hannah R Sheahan, Antonia Creswell, Dharshan Kumaran, James L McClelland, Felix Hill, Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024, pgae233, doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae

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🔴 📖 **Medicine in an Age of Revolution**

"_This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine._"

Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853, accessed 9 July 2024.

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🔴 **Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace**

"_Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce._"

Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46–57. doi: doi.org/10.1162/00115260538873

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🔴 **Great Britain and the Confederacy**

"_This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South's leaders were confident that Britain's need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public's aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral._"

Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-002

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📚 **Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698**

"_Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire._"

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-7013

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**Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy**

"_We also propose and find evidence via both measurement (study 2A) and manipulation (via short video interventions; studies 2B and 2C) for the role of each dimension of scientific literacy—scientific knowledge and reasoning—and their impact on evidence evaluation and conspiracy beliefs._"

Nathan Allred, Lisa E Bolton, Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy, Journal of Consumer Research, 2024;, ucae024, doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae024

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Timár, Gábor, and Eszter Kiss. 2024. "Web Publication of Schmitt’s Map of Southern Germany (1797)—The Projection of the Map Based on Archival Documents and Geospatial Analysis" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13, no. 6: 207. doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13060207

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**Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers**

"_These results demonstrate that the Neolithic plague was prevalent and potentially lethal. Together with the fact that these plague cases are found in one of the last populations with Neolithic Farmer ancestry observed in Scandinavia, we believe that plague could have been a contributing factor to the Neolithic decline._"

Seersholm, F.V., Sjögren, KG., Koelman, J. et al. Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-076

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**The Danelaw: The Scandinavian Influence on English Identity**

"_Perhaps it is a possibility that these English noblemen and clergymen and some portion of the common people felt a certain fear of these foreigners, not just because of the invading force that the Great Armies were comprised of, but because these men and women from across the sea were so different yet so similar and perhaps it was because of these similarities that these two cultures were able to form a cultural hybrid in the eastern half of England where even today we can still find faint traces of Scandinavian influence._"

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**Split Infinitives in Early Middle English**

"_The split infinitive is one of seven syntactic properties that English is said to share with Old Norse, and I will show that, on the basis of the area and date of its first occurrence, Norse origin is unlikely._"

van Gelderen, E. (2016). Split Infinitives in Early Middle English. Language Dynamics and Change 6, 1, 18-20, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00601 [Accessed 07 July 2024]

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**The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’**

"_....this study explores the comparative archaeologies and histories of slave markets in order to examine the potential form and function of these sites, and how they might have operated as part of the wider, interconnected Viking world._"

Raffield, B. (2019) ‘The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’’, Slavery & Abolition, 40(4), pp. 682–705. doi: doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2019..

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**Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province**

"_Here, we examine evidence for three different socioeconomic rates that are available from the archaeological record for Roman Britain. We find that all three measures show increasing returns to scale with settlement population, with a common elasticity that is consistent with the expectation from settlement scaling theory._"

Scott G. Ortman et al., Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk5517 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk5517

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**The genetic structure of Norway** 🇳🇴

"_The main finding of this study is that despite Norway’s long maritime history and as a former Danish territory, the region closest to mainland Europe in the south appears to have been an isolated region in Norway, highlighting the open sea as a barrier to gene flow into Norway._"

Mattingsdal, M., Ebenesersdóttir, S.S., Moore, K.H.S. et al. The genetic structure of Norway. Eur J Hum Genet 29, 1710–1718 (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-008

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