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**Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway**

“_According to previous accounts, Lovaas and his family were forced farm workers during the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, when Lovaas was 13–18 years old. This article shows that the Løvaas family were in fact members of the collaborationist fascist party Nasjonal Samling._”

Gjerde, Å. B. (2025). Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251324102.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodons #Nazism #Fascism #Norway #Scandinavia #Academia #Academic @histodons

**Comparison of Large Language Model with Aphasia**

“_Large language models (LLMs) respond fluently but often inaccurately, which resembles aphasia in humans. Does this behavioral similarity indicate any resemblance in internal information processing between LLMs and aphasic humans?_”

T. Watanabe, K. Inoue, Y. Kuniyoshi, K. Nakajima, K. Aihara, Comparison of Large Language Model with Aphasia. Adv. Sci. 2025, 2414016. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202414016.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Aphasia #Academia #Academic @ai

📖 **Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions**

“_The chapters in this interdisciplinary collection draw together new research from historians, literary scholars, and linguists working on Norse, English, and Celtic material in order to bring fresh insights into the multilingual and cross-cultural nature of medical learning in northern Europe during the Middle Ages, c. 700–1600._”

🔗 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.KSS-EB.5.141319

#OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Science #HistSci #Medicine #Medieval #Medievodons @bookstodon @medievodons

**Narcissism and Affective Polarization**

“_We argue that the personality trait of narcissism (entitled self-importance) is an important correlate of affective polarization. We test this claim in Britain using nationally representative survey data, examining both long-standing party identities and new Brexit identities. Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship._”

Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav 47, 599–618 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09963-5.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Polarization #Partisanship #Identity #Narcissism #Politics #Academia #Academics

💻 **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 #DOI #SocialSciences #Management #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai

**Why humans evolved blue eyes**

“_And here comes the mystery: for no evident reason, and in an evolutionary time span as short as a few thousand years, the number of people with blue eyes proceeded to expand from one to millions._”

Bressan P (2025) Why humans evolved blue eyes. Front. Psychol. 16:1442500. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1442500.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Psychology #Academia #Academic @psychology

**High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide**

“_Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change._”

Schöngart, S., Nicholls, Z., Hoffmann, R. et al. High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02325-x.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #Academia #Academic @climatechange @science

**From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?**

“_Results from the shipwrecks near Israel strongly suggest that the ‘bronzization’ of the East Mediterranean, occurring 1500–1300 BC, was primarily driven by European tin sources, particularly from south-west Britain, rather than Central Asian sources. Tin ore finds from settlements across Cornwall and Devon suggest a decentralised production model in prehistory, with agriculture still dominant alongside numerous small alluvial tin workings._”

Williams, R.A. et al. (2025) ‘From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?’, Antiquity, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.41.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Trade #Europe #Mediterranean #Britain #Levant #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

📖 **How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond**

"_This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats._"

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Histodons #PoliticalScience #Authoritarianism #Romans #Empire #RomanEmpire #Imperialism #Academia #Academics @politicalscience @histodons

**A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode**

“_....the hyper-Catalan numbers 𝐶𝐦 count the number of subdivisions of a polygon into a given number of triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, etc. (its type 𝐦), and we show that their generating series solves a polynomial equation of a particular geometric form. This solution is straightforwardly extended to solve the general univariate polynomial equation._”

Wildberger, N. J. and Rubine, D. (2025) ‘A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode’, The American Mathematical Monthly, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2025.2460966.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Algebra #Polynomials #Academia #Academics

**Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions**

“_The results indicate that the fertility rate should exceed 2.7 to avoid extinction. The extinction threshold is reduced by a female-biased sex ratio. We argue that the present results explain the observed phenomena of female-biased births under severe conditions as an effective way to avoid extinction._”

Cuaresma DCN, Ito H, Arima H, Yoshimura J, Morita S, et al. (2025) Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0322174. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322174.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Fertility #Extinction #Population #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @anthropology

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 **At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland**

“_ he people who made these artefacts originated in the mainland of northwest Europe, crossed Doggerland into what is now Britain, and eventually reached the far north of the Isle of Skye. Here, they adapted to live in a fragmented, fluctuating, and volatile environment amid melting glaciers, mountains, and oceans—vastly different from the low-lying environments of their homelands on the northwestern edge of the Great European Plain._”

Hardy, K., Barlow, N.L.M., Taylor, E., Bradley, S.L., McCarthy, J. and Rush, G. (2025), At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. J. Quaternary Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3718.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Ahrensburgian #Climate #YoungerDryas #Scotland #Europe @archaeodons

**Profiling misinformation susceptibility**

"_Multilevel modelling showed that Generation Z, non-male, less educated, and more conservative individuals were more vulnerable to misinformation._"

Kyrychenko, Y. et al. (2025) 'Profiling misinformation susceptibility,' Personality and Individual Differences, 241, p. 113177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113177.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Study #DOI #Misinformation #FakeNews #ConspiracyTheories #Personality #Psychology #Academia #Academics @psychology

🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain**

“_This article shows that fiscal capacity was not created only by government bureaucracies: the ‘company-state at home’ model presented here complements the narrative of the ‘fiscal-military state’ by showing that much fiscal revenue from trade was realized through the action of the English East India Company (EIC). Lacking the capacity to enact exhaustive laws, carry out complex calculations, or effectively manage a large bureaucracy, the English state relied on the administrative capacity of the EIC to collect customs on the East Indies trade._”

Karolina Hutková, Ernesto Dal Bó, Lukas Leucht, Noam Yuchtman, Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf009.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #India #EastIndiaCompany #C18th #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

**Tel Shiqmona during the Iron Age: A first glimpse into an ancient Mediterranean purple dye ‘factory’**

“_It is the only site in the Near East or around the Mediterranean—indeed, in the entire world—where a sequence of purple-dye workshops has been excavated and which has clear evidence for large-scale, sustained manufacture of purple dye and dyeing in a specialized facility for half a millennium, during the Iron Age (ca. 1100–600 BCE)._”

Shalvi G, Sukenik N, Waiman-Barak P, Dunseth ZC, Bar S, et al. (2025) Tel Shiqmona during the Iron Age: A first glimpse into an ancient Mediterranean purple dye ‘factory’. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0321082. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321082.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Article #Ancient #Culture #Archaeology #Archaeodons #IronAge #Mediterranean #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

**Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality**

“_This study supports the contention that transitions from labor- to land-limited systems, rather than cultivation and/or herding per se, have contributed systematically to the long-term dynamics of economic inequality._”

A. Bogaard, P. Cruz, M. Fochesato, J. Birch, G. Cervantes Quequezana, S. Chirikure, E.R. Crema, G.M. Feinman, A.S. Green, H. Hamerow, G. Jin, T. Kerig, D. Lawrence, M.D. McCoy, J. Munson, S.G. Ortman, C.A. Petrie, & P. Roscoe, Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (16) e2400694122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400694122 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Agriculture #Wealth #Inequality #Academia #Academics @anthropology

**Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library**

“_The results reveal that most manuscripts contain fewer than 20 excerpts, but a small number show much higher levels of excerpting, highlighting the immense intellectual and literary activities implicated in their production._”

Maeir N (2025) Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0320265. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320265.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Culture #Charts #Religion #Taxonomy #Christianity #Analysis #Philology #Syriac #Academia

**Breaking Free of the Iron Cage: The Individualization of American Religion**

“_Our longitudinal analysis captures a dramatic shift in the American religious landscape, showing how people are breaking free from religious institutions and exploring more personalized forms of faith that resonate with their values._”

Schnabel, L., Horwitz, I., Hekmatpour, P., & Schleifer, C. (2025). Breaking Free of the Iron Cage: The Individualization of American Religion. Socius, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251327442 (Original work published 2025)

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Religion #Society #Culture #Sociology #Academia #Academics @sociology

🔴 **Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin**

“_Our findings provide evidence for a large amplitude drawdown in the Ionian Basin during the MSC, support the scenario of a Mediterranean-wide catastrophic flood at the end of the MSC, and suggest that the identified sedimentary body is the largest known megaflood deposit on Earth._”

Micallef, A., Camerlenghi, A., Garcia-Castellanos, D. et al. Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Sci Rep 8, 1078 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geology #Geomorphology #Geophysics #Sedimentology #Flood #Mediterranean #Academia #Academics @geology

🔴 **Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition**

“_We find that evidence-based language has continued to decline since the mid-1970s, together with a decline in legislative productivity. The decline was accompanied by increasing partisan polarization in Congress and rising income inequality in society._”

Aroyehun, S.T., Simchon, A., Carrella, F. et al. Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02136-2.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Psychology #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @psychology @linguistics