Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Study #Handwriting #Typewriting #Writing #Brain #Neuroscience #Science #STEM #Education #Psychology #Learning #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @science
"Using metallurgical technologies from the Wadi Arabah (Jordan/Israel) as a case study, we demonstrate a gradual technological development (13th-10th c. BCE) followed by a human agency-triggered punctuated “leap” (late-10th c. BCE) simultaneously across the entire region (an area of ~2000 km2)."
Ben-Yosef E, Liss B, Yagel OA, Tirosh O, Najjar M, et al. (2019) Ancient technology and punctuated change: Detecting the emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant. PLOS ONE 14(9): e0221967. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221967 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReviewed #Archaeology #Metallurgy #Archaeodons #Science #STEM #Ancient #AncientNearEast #Anthropology #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons @science
"We thus model the committed evolution of all glaciers in the European Alps up to 2050 using present-day climate conditions, assuming no future climate change. We find that the resulting committed ice loss exceeds a third of the present-day ice volume by 2050, with multi-kilometer frontal retreats for even the largest glaciers."
Cook, S. J., Jouvet, G., Millan, R., Rabatel, A., Zekollari, H., & Dussaillant, I. (2023). Committed ice loss in the European Alps until 2050 using a deep-learning-aided 3D ice-flow model with data assimilation. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105029. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105029 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Science #STEM #Glaciers #Climate #Data #AI #Europe #ComputationalScience #ClimateChange #Environment #Artificialintelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climate
"While we detect long-term shifts in local genetic ancestry in Cambridgeshire, we find no evidence of major changes in genetic ancestry nor higher differentiation of immune loci between cohorts living before and after the Black Death."
Ruoyun Hui et al., Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. Sci. Adv. 10, eadi5903 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi5903 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Science #STEM #Genomics #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics #History #Ancestry #Cambridge #BlackDeath #UK #UnitedKingdom @science @anthropology @archaeodons @biology
"The fediverse is not only an opportunity for social networking on different terms—it can also be seen as a new beginning for social network research, part of a new relationship between academia and its research subject." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100914 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Research #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #Twitter #X #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
"The Tropical Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and southern oceans recorded their highest OHC observed since the 1950s. Associated with the onset of a strong El Niño, the global SST reached its record high in 2023 with an annual mean of ∼0.23°C higher than 2022 and an astounding > 0.3°C above 2022 values for the second half of 2023."
Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K.E. et al. New Record Ocean Temperatures and Related Climate Indicators in 2023. Adv. Atmos. Sci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-024-3378-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Research #Science #STEM #Ocean #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climate
🇩🇰 "As the first in the world researchers from University of Copenhagen has proven mathematically that apart from simple problems it is not possible to create algorithms for AI that will always be stable." https://science.ku.dk/english/press/news/2024/new-study-pinpoints-the-weaknesses-in-ai/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Algorithm #STEM #Technology #Tech #News #Press #University #Copenhagen #Denmark #Research #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai
"We argue that during the Late Iron IIA, the Kingdom of Israel, probably under the Omrides, replaced a small Phoenician village with a fortified casemate enclosure in order to control and institutionalise the production of the dye and other industries. These peaked under Jeroboam II, and subsequently the fort was ravaged during the period of unrest in Israel after this monarch’s reign."
Golan Shalvi & Ayelet Gilboa (2023) Between Israel and Phoenicia: The Iron IIA–B Fortified Purple-dye Production Centre at Tel Shiqmona, Tel Aviv, 50:1, 75-110, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2023.2190283 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #TelShiqmona #Israel #Phoenicia #History #Academia #Academic #Academics #Purple #Dye @archaeodons
"The essay shows that while the majority of research projects at SIRB concerned medical genetics in the years 1936−1960, racial science never disappeared. SIRB scientists engaged in theoretical debates on the concept of race and conducted racial surveys of the Swedish population, using anthropometry and later serology as research methods."
Martin Ericsson (2021) What happened to ‘race’ in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46:1, 125-148, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020.1778520 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #History #Scandinavia #Sweden #Europe #Science #STEM #ScienceMastodon #Biology #HistSci #HistoryOfScience #Academia #Academic @science @biology
"The aim of this paper is to reflect on the characteristics and role of Sardinian maritime “enterprises” in the long-distance metal trade in the Mediterranean and beyond, including continental Europe."
Serena Sabatini & Fulvia Lo Schiavo (2020) Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35:13, 1501-1518, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020.1758329 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Sardinia #Cyprus #Europe #Mediterranean #BronzeAge #Trade #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
"This paper discusses the archive and library of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society, as a starting point for research into the history of Dutch mathematics."
Danny J. Beckers, History of Mathematics in the Netherlands: where to find it. EMS Newsl. 107 (2018), pp. 23–27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4171/news/107/5 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Paper #Archives #Libraries #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #STEM #Dutch #Netherlands #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
"In this paper, we presented a proof of concept for an artificial intelligent agent system capable of (semi-)autonomously designing, planning and multistep executing scientific experiments."
Boiko, D.A., MacKnight, R., Kline, B. et al. Autonomous chemical research with large language models. Nature 624, 570–578 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06792-0 #OpenAcces #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Chemistry #ComputerScience #Computer #Engineering #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #LLM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering
"My aim is not to give a complete account of the activities of British biblical scholars during the war, but to explore some of the distinctive ways in which their writing on biblical subjects was informed by their experience of the war, and especially by the themes of Allied propaganda."
Mein, A. (2022) “Biblical Scholarship and Political Propaganda in First World War Britain”, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok , 87, pp. 52–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.58546/se.v87i.11086 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Bible #Exegesis #Divinity #Propaganda #History #Britain #UK #WW1
"Prior research suggests several predictors of susceptibility to conspiracy theories, including narcissistic personality traits (grandiosity, need for uniqueness), cognitive processes (critical thinking, confirmation bias) and lack of education. The aim of the current paper was to explore how facets of narcissism predict susceptibility to conspiracy theories."
Cosgrove TJ and Murphy CP (2023) Narcissistic susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs exaggerated by education, reduced by cognitive reflection. Front. Psychol. 14:1164725. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1164725 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Narcissism #ConspiracyTheories #Education #CriticalThinking #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
"Finally, basing our discussion in part on an examination of the reading marks that Newton left in the surviving copies of Hebrew grammars and lexicons that he owned, we will argue that his interest in Hebrew was not intended to achieve linguistic proficiency but remained limited to particular theological queries of singular concern."
Joalland, M. and Mandelbrote, S. (2016) ‘Isaac Newton learns Hebrew: Samuel Johnson's Nova cubi Hebræi tabella’, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. Royal Society, 70(1), p. 9-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0055. #Research #Article #Biography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #C18th #18thCentury #Astronomy #C17th #17thCentury #Hebrew #Language #Languages #EarlyModern @earlymodern @science @histodon @histodons
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"This article closely analyses Hobbes's scriptural case for two aspects of eschatology: the doctrine of mortalism and the terrestrial kingdom of God."
OKADA, T. A. K. U. Y. A. (2022) “Hobbes's Eschatology and Scriptural Interpretation in Leviathan,” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge University Press, 73(2), pp. 308–325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046921000683 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #History #Christianity #Religion #Eschatology #Philosophy @religion @philosophyofreligion @philosophy
"The Amsterdam-based merchant and mathematics enthusiast Adriaen Verwer (1654/5–1717) was one of the few in the Dutch Republic to respond to the first edition of Newton's Principia (1687). Based on a close study of his published work, his correspondence with the Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory (1659–1708), and his annotations in his own copy of the first edition of the Principia, I shall scrutinize the impact of Newton's ideas on Verwer's thinking."
Ducheyne, S. (2020) ‘Adriaen Verwer (1654/5-1717) and the first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia in the Dutch Republic’, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. Royal Society, 74(3), p. 479-505. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0008. #Research #Journal #Article #History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Academia #Academic @science @physics
"In the 1650s, two professors of philosophy at the University of Utrecht defended atomism. Interestingly, one of them, Johannes de Bruyn, is considered to be a staunch Cartesian, while the other, Daniel Voet, was a neo-Aristotelian and strongly opposed to Descartes’s philosophy. This article examines this curious situation and analyses the theories of both professors."
Bos, E. (2023). Atomism and Cartesianism: Gassendi and Gorlaeus (and More) in Utrecht Disputations in the 1650s. Erudition and the Republic of Letters 8, 4, 420-444, Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-08040006 [Accessed 23 December 2023] #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Philosophy #History #Europe #Dutch #C17th #17thCentury @philosophy
"We designed the Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES) pill, an ingestible device that performs luminal vibratory stimulation to activate mechanoreceptors and stroke mucosal receptors, which induces serotonin release and yields a hormonal metabolic response commensurate with a fed state."
Shriya S. Srinivasan et al., A vibrating ingestible bioelectronic stimulator modulates gastric stretch receptors for illusory satiety. Sci. Adv. 9, eadj3003(2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3003 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Engineering #Science #STEM #Medicine #Health #Obesity #Academia #Academic @science @engineering
"This Element examines some of their concerns. It uses evidence that critics of peer review sometimes cite to show its failures, as well as empirical literature on the reception of bullshit, to advance positive claims about how the assessment of scholarly work is appropriately influenced by features of the context in which it appears: for example, by readers' knowledge of authorship or of publication venue."
Levy N. Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256315 #OpenAccess #OA #Philosophy #Epistemology #PeerReview #Research #Academia #Academic @philosophy
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