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"This inquiry into English hegemony’s duality concludes that, although English serves as a vehicle for advancement, it also threatens the survival of local languages and cultures, thus embodying a dualistic nature. For non-English-speaking countries to leverage English beneficially, they must navigate this dichotomy with strategic cultural and linguistic preservation efforts."

Zeng, J., Yang, J. English language hegemony: retrospect and prospect. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 317 (2024). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-028 @linguistics

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"In contrast, Locke lived at a time when it was still possible for a well-educated man to master many branches of knowledge. The polymath was still a reality: John Locke, though primarily a philosopher, was a qualified doctor, and wrote on theology, political theory, and education. His herbarium (a collection of 3,000 flowers) preserved between sheets of his pupils' exercises, and now housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford) is possibly the oldest surviving collection of English wild flowers."

Jeffreys M V. John Locke. Br Med J 1974; 4 :34 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.4.5935.34 @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @philosophy

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"We propose to conceptualize science-related populism as a set of ideas which suggests that there is a morally charged antagonism between an (allegedly) virtuous ordinary people and an (allegedly) unvirtuous academic elite, and that this antagonism is due to the elite illegitimately claiming and the people legitimately demanding both science-related decision-making sovereignty and truth-speaking sovereignty."

Mede, N. G., & Schäfer, M. S. (2020). Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science. Public Understanding of Science, 29(5), 473-491. doi.org/10.1177/09636625209242 @science

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"A peer-reviewed medical journal has published strange AI-made images, despite them containing imaginary words and letters as well as a very unusual rat." youtu.be/OqjpK70BOZg @science

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"The results allow us to reconstruct the seasonal strategies employed by neolithic groups that occupied Campo de Hockey and to establish whether this island site was occupied all year round or seasonally."

García-Escárzaga, A., Cantillo-Duarte, J.J., Milano, S. et al. Marine resource exploitation and human settlement patterns during the Neolithic in SW Europe: stable oxygen isotope analyses (δ18O) on Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778) from Campo de Hockey (San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 16, 38 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-019 @science @archaeodons @anthropology

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"Notably, we reveal long IBD sharing between Corded Ware and Yamnaya groups, indicating that the Yamnaya herders of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe and the Steppe-related ancestry in various European Corded Ware groups share substantial co-ancestry within only a few hundred years."

Ringbauer, H., Huang, Y., Akbari, A. et al. Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA. Nat Genet 56, 143–151 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-015 @science @biology

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"Our analyses show that although societies that share similar ecologies are more likely to share cultural traits, the Eurasian continent is not significantly more ecologically homogeneous than other continental regions."

Chira, A.M., Gray, R.D. and Botero, C.A. (2024) ‘Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond’s axis of orientation hypothesis’, Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, p. e5. doi: doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.34 @geography @anthropology @biology @science

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"Since 2019, we have been maintaining the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR), which aims to provide an up-to-date, curated version of the world’s published ancient human DNA data, represented at more than a million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at which almost all ancient individuals have been assayed."

Mallick, S., Micco, A., Mah, M. et al. The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes. Sci Data 11, 182 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-030 @science @biology

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"The scientists’ results show that classical computing can be reconfigured to perform faster and more accurate calculations than state-of-the-art quantum computers." nyu.edu/about/news-publication @science

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🇩🇰 "While the two major shifts in Danish Mesolithic and Neolithic material culture may have had different drivers and causes, the outcomes were ultimately the same: new people arrived and rapidly took over the territory. With this arrival, the local landscape was modified to fit the lifestyle and culture of the immigrants. This is the hallmark of the Anthropocene, observed here in high resolution in prehistoric Denmark."

Allentoft, M.E., Sikora, M., Fischer, A. et al. 100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark. Nature 625, 329–337 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-068 @science @archaeodons

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"Here we use an ice core record from grounded ice at Skytrain Ice Rise to constrain the timing and speed of early Holocene ice sheet retreat."

Grieman, M.M., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Hoffmann, H.M. et al. Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Nat. Geosci. (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-013 @science

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"Their AI is able to recognize patterns in complex data sets and to formulate them in a physical theory. " fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/ @science @physics @ai

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"The main objective of this scientific study was to see whether AI could be used in a scientifically appropriate manner to improve the scientific writing process. Indeed, AI reduced the time for writing but had significant inaccuracies. The latter necessitates that AI cannot currently be used alone but could be used with careful oversight by humans to assist in writing scientific review articles."

Kacena, M.A., Plotkin, L.I. & Fehrenbacher, J.C. The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific Review Articles. Curr Osteoporos Rep (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11914-023-008 @science @ai @writing

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"Our findings suggest that a low education is a risk factor for adult mortality, after controlling for age, sex, and marital status. We find that, on average, an adult with 12 years of schooling has a 24·5% (95% UI 23·0–26·1) lower risk of mortality compared with an adult with no schooling, with an average reduction in mortality risk of 1·9% (1·8–2·0) per year of schooling. The protective effect of higher education on mortality was significant across age, sex, period, birth cohort, and Socio-demographic Index level and did not attenuate at higher levels of education."

Balaj, M. et al. (2024) 'Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis,' The Lancet Public Health [Preprint]. doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(23). @education @health

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"Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers." nature.com/articles/d41586-024 @ai @archaeodons

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"It is a puzzle why humans tend toward unrealistic optimism, as it can lead to excessively risky behavior and a failure to take precautionary action. Using data from a large nationally representative U.K. sample (N=36, 312) our claim is that optimism bias is partly a consequence of low cognition—as measured by a broad range of cognitive skills, including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning."

Dawson, C. (2023). Looking on the (B)right Side of Life: Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/01461672231209 @psychology

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"Climate change is arguably one of the greatest challenges today. Although the scientific consensus is that human activities caused climate change, a substantial part of the population downplays or denies human responsibility. In this registered report, we present causal evidence on a potential explanation for this discrepancy: motivated reasoning."

Stoetzer, L.S., Zimmermann, F. A representative survey experiment of motivated climate change denial. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-019 @climate

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"The re­search­ers con­clude that cli­mate-re­lated stress could trig­ger a pan­demic out­break or in­tensify dis­ease out­breaks - for ex­ample, be­cause food is scarce and people be­come more sus­cept­ible for dis­eases." marum.de/en/Discover/climate-a @science @climate

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🇳🇴 🇸🇪 "The findings show that Sámi ethnic background increases the probability of experiencing discrimination. While individual-level economic inequality is also pertinent, this does not directly materialise as between-group inequality. Instead, minority language use is a strong predictor of discrimination experience, revealing the socio-cultural nature of ethnic inequalities."

Rusen Yasar, Fabian Bergmann, Anika Lloyd-Smith, Sven-Patrick Schmid, Katharina Holzinger & Tanja Kupisch (2023) Experience of discrimination in egalitarian societies: the Sámi and majority populations in Sweden and Norway, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023. @politicalscience

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🇳🇴 🇸🇪 "To conclude, our study has produced new insights about some of the inequalities Indigenous people face in egalitarian societies. The prevalence of experiences of discrimination among the Sámi is strongly connected to their language use and thus rooted in the cultural status dimension." doi.org/10.53779/SBPL3716 @politicalscience

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