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🔴 **Transmission of social bias through observational learning**
"_Across six experiments, we demonstrated that group preferences can be acquired by merely observing the behavior of a prejudiced actor toward members of a group. This effect emerged despite observers’ lack of stereotype knowledge, unawareness of demonstrator preferences, the lack of actual group differences in players’ feedback, and the use of financial incentives for accuracy, suggesting that observational learning constitutes a potent and persistent mode of prejudice transmission._"
David T. Schultner et al., Transmission of social bias through observational learning. Sci. Adv.10, eadk2030 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk2030.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Psychology #Science #Neuroscience #Prejudice #Bias #Learning #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology @science
🔴 **Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia's earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription**
"_The congruence in oxen valuation observed between Northern Sweden and 10th-century England is notably significant. It suggests the existence of a profoundly interwoven European institutional architecture of monetary relations that bridged considerable geographical expanses._"
Edvinsson, R. (2024) ‘Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia’s earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription’, Scandinavian Economic History Review, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2024.2378465.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Scandinavia #Europe #Economics #History #EconHist #Vikings #IronAge #Money #Runes #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @econhist
🔴 **Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?**
"_We argue that LLM providers should be required to mitigate careless speech and better align their models with truth through open, democratic processes. We define careless speech against ‘ground truth’ in LLMs and related risks including hallucinations, misinformation and disinformation._"
Wachter Sandra, Mittelstadt Brent and Russell Chris. 2024 Do large language models have a legal duty to tell the truth?. R. Soc. Open Sci. 11: 240197. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240197.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Truth #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Misinformation #Disinformation #Philosophy #LLMS #LargeLanguageModels #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @philosophy
🔴 🇦🇺 **Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger**
"_Climate model analysis confirms that human influence on the climate system is responsible for the rapid warming in recent decades. This attribution, together with the recent ocean temperature extremes, post-1900 warming trend and observed mass coral bleaching, shows that the existential threat to the GBR ecosystem from anthropogenic climate change is now realized._"
Henley, B.J., McGregor, H.V., King, A.D. et al. Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger. Nature 632, 320–326 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07672-x
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Palaeoclimate #Ocean #GreatBarrierReef #Australia #Academia #Academic #Academic @science @climatechange @environment
🔴 🇺🇸 **Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis**
"_Across several dimensions and using multiple measures, we show that material crafted for top leaders in the United States was more likely to use analogical and non-analogical expressions of immaturity, animal-like qualities, belligerence, and irrationality when describing events in the Global South, newly independent states, and for some regions._"
Carson, A., Min, E. and Van Nuys, M. (2024) ‘Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis’, International Organization, pp. 1–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818324000146.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Racism #Race #Bureaucracy #ForeignPolicy #Data #MachineLearning #Bias #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
🔴 **Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community**
"_Isotopic analyses indicated individuals enjoyed a similar diet with little evidence for extensive mobility, however, the genetic analyses indicate that the Muslim and Christian individuals were not only separated by the location of their burials but also by their genetic heritage with no evidence of kinship between the two communities._"
Monnereau, A. et al. (2024) 'Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community,' Royal Society Open Science, 11(7). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240436.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Ancient #DNA #Science #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Sicily #Sicilian #Medieval #MiddleAges #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons
🔴 🇨🇳 **The hidden costs of inflation: A critical analysis of industrial development and environmental consequences**
"_As the demand for energy continues to grow, particularly in developing countries, the use of fossil fuels is likely to increase, leading to further increases in CO2 emissions. China is the world’s largest emitter of CO2 emissions, accounting for over a quarter of global emissions. FP, IG, and GNE are identified as key drivers of the increase in CO2 emissions in China. CO2 emissions increase global temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme weather events, and ocean levels. There is a need to shift towards cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy, such as renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydropower._"
Zheng D, Addas A, Waseem LA, Asad Naqvi SA, Ahmad M, et al. (2024) The hidden costs of inflation: A critical analysis of industrial development and environmental consequences. PLOS ONE 19(8): e0297413. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297413.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #PeerReviewed #DOI #Pollution #Environment #Economics #Finance #Industry #Inflation #Fertilizers #Energy #FossilFuels #China #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics
🔴 **Nationalism as collective narcissism**
"_We demonstrate that collective narcissism is associated with support for national populist parties and policies. We also review the empirical evidence for the intergroup and intragroup concomitants of collective narcissism._"
Cichocka, A. and Cislak, A. (2020) 'Nationalism as collective narcissism,' Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, pp. 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.12.013.
#Research #DOI #Psychology #Politics #Nationalism #Narcissism #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
🔴 **Narcissism and Affective Polarization**
"_Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship. This potentially not only explains why some people are more susceptible to affective polarization, but also has implications for elite polarization given that narcissism is an important predictor of elite entry._"
Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09963-5
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Polarization #Polarisation #Politics #PoliticalScience #Identity #Narcissism #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
🔴 **Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement**
"_We contend that the spread of misinformation—and in particular willful disinformation—is demonstrably harmful to public health, evidence-informed policymaking, and democratic processes. We also show that disinformation and outright lies can often be identified and differ from good-faith political contestation._"
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U.K.H., Cook, J. et al. Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 986 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03503-6
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Politics #Psychology #Lying #Liars #Misinformation #Disinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience @psychology
🔴 **Analyses of Johannes Kepler's Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A Revised Scenario for the Solar Cycles in the Early 17th Century**
"_Here, we make use of Kepler's sunspot drawings and descriptive texts to identify his observational sites and time stamps. We have deprojected his sunspot drawings and compared the reported positions with our calculations of the inclination of the solar equator as seen from these sites at that time._"
Hayakawa, H. et al. (2024) 'Analyses of Johannes Kepler’s Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A revised scenario for the solar cycles in the early 17th century,' The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), p. L31. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad57c9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Astronomy #Sun #History #HistSci #Kepler #C17th #17thcentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @astronomy
🔴 **Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice**
"_Moreover, participants indicated lower willingness to follow the advice when AI was believed to be involved in advice generation. Our findings point toward an anti-AI bias when receiving digital medical advice, even when AI is supposedly supervised by physicians._"
Reis, M., Reis, F. & Kunde, W. Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03180-7
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Medicine #Health #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
🔴 **Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel**
"_Typological and radiocarbon dating indicate an Early Pottery Neolithic occupation and evidence for continuity of subsistence and economic strategies with both earlier and later Neolithic cultures. The results indicate the resilience of coastal communities in the face of significant climatic uncertainty and contribute to understanding human responses to environmental change._"
Nickelsberg R, Levy TE, Shahack-Gross R, et al. Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel. Antiquity. 2024;98(398):343-362. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.32
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Neolithic #ClimateChange #Environment #History #Israel #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia @archaeodons @anthropology
🔴 **‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration**
"_I argue that, similar to Philo’s proselyte inclusion strategy, Paul incorporates Gentiles-in-Christ into ethnic Israel. As Abraham’s ‘offspring’, Paul suggests that his addressees not only gain membership in Israel’s covenant on account of Israel’s messiah, but that they also acquire a new ethnic identity despite that their prior identities as ‘the Gentiles’ are not erased._"
McDonald, D. N. (2022). ‘Ex-Pagan Pagans’? Paul, Philo, and Gentile Ethnic Reconfiguration. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 45(1), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X221082363
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Bible #NewTestament #Religion #Christianity #Pagans #Academia #Academic #Academic @religion
🔴 **Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study**
"_Archaeologists estimate that 15 to 20% of Pompeii’s population died in the eruption, mostly from thermal shock as a giant cloud of gases and ash covered the city._
_Volcanic ash then buried the Roman city, perfectly preserving the homes, public buildings, objects and even the people until its discovery in the late 16th century._"
#News #Study #Research #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Volcanoes #Italy #Europe @archaeodons
🔴 🎥 **This tiny solar-powered flyer weighs less than a paper plane**
"_...researchers have developed CoulombFly, a solar-powered MAV propelled by a new extremely efficient electro-static motor and powered by incredibly light solar panels._"
#Video length: three minutes and three seconds.
🔴 **Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks**
"_Language models also perform imperfectly on logical reasoning tasks and more often fail in situations where humans fail—when stimuli become too abstract or conflict with prior expectations._"
Andrew K Lampinen, Ishita Dasgupta, Stephanie C Y Chan, Hannah R Sheahan, Antonia Creswell, Dharshan Kumaran, James L McClelland, Felix Hill, Language models, like humans, show content effects on reasoning tasks, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024, pgae233, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae233
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #LanguageModels #Reasoning #Logic #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai
**Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy**
"_We also propose and find evidence via both measurement (study 2A) and manipulation (via short video interventions; studies 2B and 2C) for the role of each dimension of scientific literacy—scientific knowledge and reasoning—and their impact on evidence evaluation and conspiracy beliefs._"
Nathan Allred, Lisa E Bolton, Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy, Journal of Consumer Research, 2024;, ucae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae024
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Conspiracy #Science #Education #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
**Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers**
"_These results demonstrate that the Neolithic plague was prevalent and potentially lethal. Together with the fact that these plague cases are found in one of the last populations with Neolithic Farmer ancestry observed in Scandinavia, we believe that plague could have been a contributing factor to the Neolithic decline._"
Seersholm, F.V., Sjögren, KG., Koelman, J. et al. Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07651-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Epidemiology #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Science #Plague #Neolithic #Biology #History #Scandinavia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @science @biology
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs 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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Joined Nov 2022
