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🔴 **Analyzing wealth distribution effects of artificial intelligence: A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach**
_"Our findings highlight a temporal dichotomy in AI's effects on wealth inequality: in the short term, AI exacerbates disparities in wealth distribution, while the long-term outcomes depend on the extent of AI's influence across different technological domains. The nuanced nature of AI-driven technological progress leads to distinct consequences for the rate of return on capital—showing short-term increases across all forms of technological progress, but with varying long-term effects."_
Liu, F. and Liang, C. (2025) 'Analyzing Wealth Distribution Effects of Artificial Intelligence: A Dynamic Stochastic general Equilibrium approach,' Heliyon, 11(2), p. e41943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41943.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Economics #Finance #Academia #Academics @ai @economics
🔴 **News article or big oil ad?**
_“A sneaky form of advertising favoured by oil giants influences public opinion with climate action misperceptions, but researchers are studying potential solutions.”_
🔗 https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/news-article-or-big-oil-ad
#News #Research #Advertising #Oil #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Climate #Environment #Communications @climatechange
🔴 **Oxford University researcher uncovers hidden copy of Shakespeare sonnet**
_"Dr Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection."_
#News #Research #Poem #Poetry #Literature #Shakespeare @poetry @literature
🔴 **Rising Wages Drive Innovation in Automation Technology**
_“A new UZH study shows for the first time that higher minimum wages for low-skill jobs drive firms to develop automation technologies. Rising wages for high-skill labor, in contrast, can hamper this effect.”_
🔗 https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2025/rising-wages-and-automation.html.
#Research #Study #Economics #Wages #Tech #Technology #Automation @economics
🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire**
_“We provide new compelling evidence on the origins of the Hun-period population, its considerable diversity and its ties to the steppe and the Xiongnu elites.”_
G.A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, Z. Rácz, S. Liccardo, J. Lee, Y. Huang, L. Traverso, R. Radzevičiūtė, Z. Hajnal, A. Szécsényi-Nagy, B. Gyuris, O. Mateovics-László, Z. Bernert, T. Szeniczey, T. Hajdu, B. Mészáros, M. Bálint, B.G. Mende, B. Miller, Z. Samashev, A. Childebayeva, L. Djansugurova, P. Geary, H. Ringbauer, T. Vida, C. Jeong, W. Pohl, J. Krause, & Z. Hofmanová, Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (9) e2418485122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418485122 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Anthropology #Science #Biology #Ancient #Genomes #DNA #Eurasia #Huns #Xiongnu #MiddleAges #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 **Domination vs. Persuasion: The Role of Libido Dominandi in Adam Smith’s Thought**
_“We love to dominate not because we seek approval but because, through ordering, we do not need to persuade others to foster our ends. We are free from the troublesome endeavor of persuading them.”_
Santori, P. (2025) ‘Domination vs. Persuasion: The Role of Libido Dominandi in Adam Smith’s Thought’, The Review of Politics, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003467052400069X.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AdamSmith #Politics #Domination #Persuasion #Academia #Academic
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🔴 ⛳ **Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy**
_“Our study shows that in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, far more land is allocated to golf courses than to renewable energy facilities. Areas equivalent to those currently used for golf could support the installation of up to 842 GW of solar and 659 GW of wind capacity in the top ten countries with the most golf courses.”_
Jann Michael Weinand et al 2025 Environ. Res. Commun. in press https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adb7bd.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Golf #Environment #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Energy #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @climatechange
🔴 🎙️ **What is ‘mirror life’ and why are scientists sounding the alarm? – podcast**
_"Recently, a group of world-leading scientists called for a halt on research to create ‘mirror life’ microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an ‘unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth."_
#Audio #Podcast #Science #Research #Biology #Microbiology @science @biology
🔴 🇬🇱 **Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection**
_“...we find twice as many high-impact genome-wide associations to metabolic traits in Greenland compared with Europe. We infer that the high-impact variants arose after the population split from Native Americans and thus are Arctic-specific, and show that some of them are common due to not only genetic drift but also selection.”_
Stæger, F.F., Andersen, M.K., Li, Z. et al. Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08516-4.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Biology #Greenland #Academia #Academic @science
🔴 💻 **AI Is Supposed to Make You More Productive — It’s Making You Dumber and Overconfident**
#Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Microsoft #Research @psychology @ai
🔴 **The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers**
“Quantitatively, when considering both task- and user-specific factors, a user’s task-specific self-confidence and confidence in GenAI are predictive of whether critical thinking is enacted and the effort of doing so in GenAI-assisted tasks. Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking.”
#Microsoft #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Thinking #Cognition @ai
🔴 **Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony**
_“We review recent developments, including the surprising benefits of modeling with more parameters than data, the increasing appreciation of the context-sensitivity of data and misspecification of scientific models, and the development of new modeling tools.”_
M. Dubova, S. Chandramouli, G. Gigerenzer, P. Grünwald, W. Holmes, T. Lombrozo, M. Marelli, S. Musslick, B. Nicenboim, L.N. Ross, R. Shiffrin, M. White, E. Wagenmakers, P. Bürkner, & S.J. Sloman, Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (5) e2401230121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401230121 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Psychology #Science #Statistics #Modelling #OckhamsRazor #Academia #Academics @psychology @science
🔴 **Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany**
_“...we develop and test the argument that the Roman occupation produced an advantageous positive economic imprint (e.g., investments in economic infrastructure and a trade culture), which in turn imprinted a deep, persisting adaptive macro-psychological profile. Both the economic and macro-psychological imprints co-evolved and continue to contribute to inequalities in adaptive personality traits and related health and well-being outcomes across Germany today.”_
Obschonka, M. et al. (2025) 'Roma eterna? Roman rule explains regional Well-Being divides in Germany,' Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, p. 100214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100214.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Culture #Health #History #Histodon #Histodons #Geography #Roman #Empire #Imperium #Germany #Europe #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @psychology
🔴 **How Much Does the Scientific Ecosystem Change over Time?**
Athene Donald
_"One should remember back then papers were not online. Wading through the Science Citation Index – a very substantial collection of tomes which was the necessary route for me and generations before (and after) to try to track down who had cited which paper/ whose papers had been cited – was hard work in a library, not something one could skim through at one’s desk, and useless papers just take up unnecessary space."_
#Science #Culture #University #Research #Academia #Academics
🔴 **The aging society: Is growth reverting to pre-industrial levels in the 21st century?**
_“In this paper, I have extended the literature in three dimensions, all of which more than counter the negative growth effects of the demographic transition on investment: 1) by showing that fertility transition-induced increase in enrollments into higher education has positive growth payoffs in the future; 2) by bringing ideas production and higher education into the center of the analysis; and 3) by allowing for the endogenous responses of education, innovative activity, investment, and labor force participation to the age structure of the population.”_
Madsen, J.B. (2024) 'The aging society: Is growth reverting to pre-industrial levels in the 21st century?,' Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 229, p. 106849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106849.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Demography #Productivity #Education #Economics #Academia #Academics @economics
🔴 🇺🇸 **Life expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000–19: an observational analysis**
“Nationally, in all years there was a clear educational gradient in life expectancy at age 25 years where those with higher levels of education had higher life expectancy: individuals who had completed a college degree had higher life expectancy compared with those who had completed some college education (by 0·3 to 2·0 years over the study period), those who had completed some college had higher life expectancy than the high-school graduate population (by 4·1 to 4·9 years over the study period), and those who had graduated high school had higher life expectancy than those with less than a high-school education (by 3·4 to 5·1 years over the study period).”
Sylte, D.O. et al. (2025). Life expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000–19: an observational analysis. The Lancet Public Health, [online] 0(0). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00303-7.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Health #PublicHealth #Education #USA #US #UnitedStates #TheLancet #Medicine #Academia #Academics
🔴 **Takers not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth from colonialism**
_“Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned - 60% comes from either inheritance, cronyism and corruption or monopoly power. Our deeply unequal world has a long history of colonial domination which has largely benefited the richest people. The poorest, racialized people, women and marginalized groups have and continue to be systematically exploited at huge human cost.”_
🔗 https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/takers-not-makers-unjust-poverty-and-unearned-wealth-colonialism
#Research #Inequality #Billionaires #Trillionaires #Colonialism #Poverty #Debt #Wealth
🔴 **North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**
_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_
Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genomics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ukraine #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
🔴 **Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture**
_“We reconstructed six-generation pedigrees at both sites including up to 450 closely related individuals, allowing per-generation demographic profiling of the communities. Despite different ancestry, these pedigrees together with large networks of distant relatedness show absence of consanguinity, patrilineal pattern with female exogamy, multiple reproductive partnerships (for example, levirate) and direct correlation of biological connectivity with archaeological markers of social status.”_
Wang, K., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Science #Ancient #DNA #History #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 **Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries**
_“Our analysis suggests that discourses to deny and delay climate policy are aligned and coordinated across the three sectors to reinforce existing infrastructure and inhibit change. Exceptions in this alignment emerge for a few distinct sector-specific goals, including contrasting messages about biofuel.”_
Kinol A, Si Y, Kinol J, Stephens JC (2025) Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries. PLOS Climate 4(1): e0000370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000370.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #FossilFuels #Energy #Corporations #Industry #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #SocialMedia #Academia #Academics @climatechange @environment
Not a bot, just a corpulent male, fifty years of age, who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, book, map, chart, and graph related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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