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🇺🇸 📚 **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

🇺🇸 "_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