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**Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA**

"_Lifelong sexless individuals are, on average, higher educated, use less substances, and feel lonelier and unhappier. Sexless men tend to live in regions with fewer women, and sexlessness was more prevalent in regions with higher income inequality._"

Abdellaoui, A. et al. (2025) 'Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(38). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418257122.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genetics #Psychology #Academia #Academics

🇬🇧 **Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation**

"_Our observations are interpreted in the context of delexicalization and related long-term diachronic processes, whereby contemporary usage of fuck among teenagers is characterised in terms of semi-delexicalized, pragmatically strengthened usage with weakened taboo status._"

Love, R. and Stenstrom, A.-B. (2023) 'Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation,' Journal of Pragmatics, 216, pp. 167–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.08.008.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #English #Language #Linguistics #Swearing #Conversation #Youth #Academia #Academics

**Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin**

"_Bäck’s case illustrates not only how European anatomists often wrote accounts of skin colour which best showcased their medical skills but also how the production of racial pseudoscience became increasingly driven by the authoritative rise of empiricism, the expansion of the slave trade, and the Enlightenment’s fascination with human differences._"

Roy-Di Piazza, V. (2025) ‘Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Ethnology #Race #EarlyModern #Enlightenment #Europe

**Tall talk about elephants: Hannibal’s crossing through disciplines**

"_The enigma of Hannibal’s Alpine crossing has captivated minds and sparked debates across centuries, much like an elusive puzzle that resists a definitive solution. This article explores the fierce and often acrimonious scholarly debates surrounding Hannibal’s journey, where the quest to separate historical fact from romantic myth has turned into a battleground for competing disciplines._"

William Bainbridge, Stefano Cracolici, Tall talk about elephants: Hannibal’s crossing through disciplines, Historical Research, 2025;, htaf020, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaf020.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons

📚 **Cambridge and Max Planck announce OA book agreement**

"_Under this new model, new Cambridge books by authors at Max Planck Institutes will be eligible for open access publishing. Backlist titles will also be eligible for open access conversion on a case-by-case basis, and Max Planck researchers will be granted unlimited access to books on Cambridge Core._"

🔗 https://www.researchinformation.info/news/cambridge-and-max-planck-announce-oa-book-agreement/.

#OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Publishing #Books #Bookstodon

🌳 **Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition**

"_We conclude that forests are good indicators for atmospheric microplastic pollution and that high microplastic concentrations in forest soils indicate a high diffuse input of microplastics into these ecosystems._"

Weber, C.J., Bigalke, M. Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition. Commun Earth Environ 6, 702 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02712-4.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Geosciences #Science #Chemistry #Environment #Plastics #Pollution #Academia #Academics

**A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos**

"_Biber Deresi is identified as a key site, facilitating hominin movement and communication between Asia and Europe, and providing a novel contribution to the Palaeolithic map of the Aegean._"

Karahan, G. and Arslan, N. (2025) ‘A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos’, European Journal of Archaeology, 28(3), pp. 281–303. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2025.10.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #AcademicChatter @archaeodons @academicchatter

**Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration**

"_In summary, in the current political climate, as invasion discourses about migrants are indeed a global trend from Europe and the US to South Africa, India or Hong Kong, drawing parallels between biological invasion and human migration risks facilitating the misappropriation of invasion science research by political ideologies, potentially criminalising migrant communities and legitimising exclusionary measures of migrants._"

Barbulescu, R. et al. (2025) ‘Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(13), pp. 2496–2501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2527906.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Biology #Race #Migration #Migrants #Culture #AcademicChatter #Academia @science @academicchatter

**Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media**

"_While extremism is usually perceived to be a matter of extreme ideologies and methods, social media enables and shapes distinct hybridization processes by which conspiracy beliefs, personal grievances, and various ad hoc convictions are combined with ideology fragments, consequently producing new extremist narratives._"

Petersen, L. N., & Johansen, M. B. (2025). Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251340145 (Original work published 2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #SocialMedia #ConspiracyTheories #Academia

🚽 **Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids**

"_The study suggests that prolonged engagement with smartphones while using the toilet may be associated with an increased prevalence of hemorrhoids._"

Ramprasad C, Wu C, Chang J, Rangan V, Iturrino J, et al. (2025) Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids. PLOS ONE 20(9): e0329983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329983.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Science #Gastroenterology #Medicine #Health #Phones #Hemorrhoids #Toilet #Academia @science

🧬 **Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs**

"_Our data demonstrate large-scale population movement from Eastern Europe during the sixth to eighth centuries, replacing more than 80% of the local gene pool in Eastern Germany, Poland and Croatia. Yet, we also show substantial regional heterogeneity as well as a lack of sex-biased admixture, indicating varying degrees of cultural assimilation of the autochthonous populations._"

Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Academia @archaeodons @science

🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 📖 **No Country for Travellers British visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820**

"_The travellers’ memoirs reflect changing perceptions of Spain and Portugal as modernisation raised new hopes that vied with pessimism and ancient prejudice, and also the persistence of cultural stereotypes, while the counterintuitive relationship between civilian travel and armed conflict emerges through a case study of the Peninsular War._"

🔗 https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/.

#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #Travel #UK #UnitedKingdom #Spain #Portugal #Ebooks #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodons

**‘Keseph’: The Use of Silver Money in the Southern Levant from the Middle Bronze Age to the End of the Iron Age (~ 2000–600 BC)**

"_The Southern Levant saw significant use of silver during the final stages of the Middle Bronze Age, with the first silver-currency hoards appearing at Shiloh and Gezer (~ 1650/1600–1600/1550 BC), predating other regions. Although silver was temporarily replaced by gold in the Late Bronze Age, it re-emerged as the dominant form of money by the Late Bronze Age IIB, ~ 1300 BC, a status it retained until the end of the Iron Age (~ 600 BC), despite occasional shortages._"

Eshel, T. ‘Keseph’: The Use of Silver Money in the Southern Levant from the Middle Bronze Age to the End of the Iron Age (~ 2000–600 BC). J World Prehist 38, 5 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09191-7.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #BronzeAge #IronAge #Sliver #Money #Levant #NearEast #Academia @archaeodons

**Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer**

"_We propose that tidal irrigation offers a plausible jumpstarting mechanism for high-yield, diversified agriculture providing an impetus for urbanization. As access to sea was restricted by delta build-up and tides shifted with the advancing deltaic coast, intensified reliance on mercurial river regimes eventually led to the expansive fluvial irrigation network of Early Dynastic city-states._"

Giosan L, Goodman R (2025) Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer. PLOS ONE 20(8): e0329084. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329084.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Sumer #Morphodynamic #Rivers #Irrigation #Paleooceanography #Agriculture #Academia

**The Politics of Small Business Owners**

"_...we find consistent evidence that small business owners are more likely to identify with and vote for right-wing parties. We find that this tendency cannot be fully explained by factors that cause people to select into being small business owners. Rather, we identify a key operational channel: the experience of being a small business owner leads people to adopt conservative views on government regulation._"

Malhotra, N., Margalit, Y. and Shi, S. (2025) ‘The Politics of Small Business Owners’, British Journal of Political Science, 55, p. e94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000274.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #RightWing #Conservative #Politics #PoliticalScience #Business #Economics #Sociology #Academia @politicalscience

📰 **You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information**

"_In two studies, we investigated how antagonistic narcissism affects one’s choice of news headlines. We also examined narcissists’ social motives, (affective) empathy, and sensation seeking as potential underlying mechanisms (S2)._"

Chen, J. et al. (2025) 'You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information,' Journal of Research in Personality, p. 104653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104653.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #Personality #Narcissism #Empathy #News #Headlines #Academia @psychology

"_Hayek’s abandonment of the established view on the Aristotelian roots of the Austrian school can be better understood by considering the intellectual environment of his time. His eventual adoption of Karl Popper’s point of view on Aristotle meant taking a stance against Karl Polanyi’s democratic socialism and distancing himself from Wilhelm Röpke’s Catholic conservatism_"

Karp, M. (2025) ‘HAYEK ON ARISTOTLE: THE DEBRIS OF A GENEALOGY OF MODERNITY, VIA POPPER, POLANYI, AND RÖPKE’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 47(3), pp. 317–338. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837225000069.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Economics #Hayek #Aristotle #Academia @histodons @economics

🖥️ **Does generative AI help in learning programming: Students’ perceptions, reported use and relation to performance**

"_Frequent AI use links to lower scores, likely as weaker students rely more on study aids._"

Lepp, M. and Kaimre, J. (2025) 'Does generative AI help in learning programming: students’ perceptions, reported use and relation to performance,' Computers in Human Behavior Reports, p. 100642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100642.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Study #Education #Learning #Academia @ai

**Rise of the alt-White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023**

"_Taken together, these results suggest that we identified two distinct ‘types’ of White men who feel discriminated against: (a) an economically disadvantaged group seeking to explain their disadvantage (the Disenfranchised) and (b) a more privileged group threatened by recent social progress for structurally disadvantaged groups (the Radicalized)._"

Lilly, K. J., Kimberley, C., Bertenshaw, Z., Bahamondes, J., Sibley, C. G., & Osborne, D. (2025). Rise of the alt-White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64, e70010. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70010.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Psychology #SocialScience #Ethnicity #Ideology #Race #Discrimination #Academia @psychology @socialscience

**Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic**

"_This study provides the first genomic evidence of Y. pestis in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First Pandemic, linking archaeological findings with pathogen genomics near the origin point of the Plague of Justinian._"

Adapa, S.R.; Hendrix, K.; Upadhyay, A.; Dutta, S.; Vianello, A.; O’Corry-Crowe, G.; Monroy, J.; Ferrer, T.; Remily-Wood, E.; Ferreira, G.C.; et al. Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic. Genes 2025, 16, 926. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16080926.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #History #Pandemic #Plague #Academia @archaeodons @science