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🔴 **Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing**
_“At the heart of the problem is a lack of money, infrastructure and expertise to archive digital resources. “Digital preservation is expensive and also quite difficult,” says Kathleen Shearer, who is based in Montreal, Canada, and is the executive director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, a global network of scholarly archives. “It is not just about creating backup copies of things. It is about the active management of content over time in a rapidly evolving technological environment.”_
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03842-z
#DOI #Information #Technology #Tech #Science #Research #Digital #Archives #Publishing #Editorial @science
🔴 **Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland**
_“If Iceland and the Faroe Islands are indeed genetically divergent, as found in the present study, two scenarios may explain their differentiation and Iceland’s relative isolation on the networks: (1) the populations were settled by different regional groups; or, (2) another historically contingent process of evolution between the two groups has resulted in the divergence.”_
Mann AE, Magnussen E and Tillquist CR (2024) Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Front. Genet. 15:1462736. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2024.1462736.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #FaroeIslands #NorthAtlantic #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say
By Ashley WennersHerron
“A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read”
🔴 🇬🇧 Southerners among worst at spotting fake English accents, study finds
Ian Sample
“Are southern English accents simply easier to fake than others? Goodman thinks not. Instead, he sees cultural evolution at work. A person’s accent is a signal of their social identity, and the history of tensions across the UK could have brought northerners, Scots and others closer together, making them more attuned to outsiders.”
#UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Accents #English #Language #Research #News
🔴 Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island
"In terms of similarities, genomic studies reveal that the ancestors of the Asian clade migrated from Africa through India, entering Australia around 48,000 years ago (Sasikumar, 2023). Subsequent sub-clades, such as M31, migrated to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands around 37,000 years ago (Palanichamy et al., 2006; Barik et al., 2008), showing genetic affinity with the Burmese populace (Sasikumar, 2023)."
Paul, S., Justin, A. & Chatterjee, S. Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1512 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03994-3
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Athropology #NorthSentinelIsland #Sentinelese #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology
🔴 A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem
"From this, we can see that all but the most trivial of phrases will, in fact, almost certainly never be produced during the lifespan of our universe. There are many orders of magnitude difference between the expected numbers of keys to be randomly pressed before Shakespeare's works are reproduced and the number of keystrokes until the universe collapses into thermodynamic equilibrium..."
Woodcock, S. and Falletta, J. (2024) 'A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem,' Franklin Open, p. 100171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fraope.2024.100171.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Infinity #Combinatorics #Probability #Monkeys #Shakespeare #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 🇺🇸 American Fears 2024
"Sitting at #1 on our list of top fears, as it has for the last 9 years, is the fear of corrupt government officials. Nearly 2/3 of Americans fear that our government is run by corrupt officials."
🔗 https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/babbie-center/survey-american-fears.aspx
#Academia #Research #Poll #Polls #Survey #Fears #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🔴 A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia
"Alongside this local economy, the site was part of a wider regional exchange network, at a time when trans-Arabian travel by donkey was on the increase ([29, 61]). The microfabrics of a few rare sherds of Red Burnished Ware found during surveys and excavations seems to come from outside the oasis (perhaps Qurayyah or Tayma). Sourcing analyses of arsenic copper at Tayma and Qurayyah have shown a regional provenance, either from Oman or the Arabian Shield ([60]: 141, [64])."
Charloux G, Shabo S, Depreux B, Colin S, Guadagnini K, et al. (2024) A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia. PLOS ONE 19(10): e0309963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309963.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Anthropology #Deserts #Arabia #BronzeAge #Urbanization #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaedons @anthropology
🔴 Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer
"Our findings highlight that human-induced climate change poses a risk beyond vulnerable populations, extreme temperatures, heatwaves, or Southern regions characterized by high summer temperatures. However, we also find that population groups more susceptible to heat, i.e. women and the elderly, are more adversely affected by anthropogenic warming than the general population."
Beck, T.M., Schumacher, D.L., Achebak, H. et al. Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 245 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00783-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Europe #Health #PublicHealth #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016
_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._
Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #WorldHistory #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Empire #Imperialism #Education #Learning #Textbooks #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016
_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._
Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2362250.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #WorldHistory #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Empire #Imperialism #Education #Learning #Textbooks #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇳🇴 Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga
"Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a medieval well at the ruins of Sverresborg Castle in central Norway. In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains."
Ellegaard, M.R. et al. (2024) 'Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga,' iScience, p. 111076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Paleobiology #Paleogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Norse #Norway #History #Europe #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology @archaeodons
🔴 Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand
"Overall, this study showed that although news stories produced with automation were perceived equally to those produced without regarding sentence and paragraph length and writing style, they were evaluated as less comprehensible overall and with regard to the presentation of numbers and statistics."
Thäsler-Kordonouri, S., Thurman, N., Schwertberger, U., & Stalph, F. (2024). Too many numbers and worse word choice: Why readers find data-driven news articles produced with automation harder to understand. Journalism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241262204.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Journalism #Data #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #News #Media #Academia #Academic #Academics @ai @journalism
🔴 Language at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual input
"Our results indicate that the left temporal cortex performs a rough sketch of syntactic structure starting as early as 125 ms after stimulus onset. This is faster than most estimates of even single-word visual perception (14), suggesting that the speed arises specifically from the parallel availability of the full sentence, with each word supporting the recognition of the other ones. This allows for rapid matching of the stimulus to top-down knowledge of sentence structure. Just like you can recognize a cup very quickly if you lay your full hand on it, feeling many parts simultaneously (15), you are able to understand a sentence very quickly if you lay your eyes on the full sentence all at once."
Jacqueline Fallon, Liina Pylkkänen, Language at a glance: How our brains grasp linguistic structure from parallel visual input. Sci. Adv. 10, eadr9951 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr9951
#OpenAccess #Research #Article #DOI #Neuroscience #Brain #Language #Psychology #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @psychology
🔴 🧠 The hidden role of air pollution in cognitive decline
"PM2.5 are fine airborne particles small enough to enter the lungs and even the bloodstream, posing significant health risks. Long-term exposure has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, resulting in air pollution being listed as one of the modifiable risk factors in the recent report of the Lancet commision on dementia prevention, intervention and care. However, the mechanisms through which PM2.5 affects cognitive function remain poorly understood."
🔗 https://www.uni.lu/lcsb-en/news/hidden-role-of-air-pollution-in-cognitive-decline/
🔴 🇯🇵 Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine
"As argued elsewhere, right-wing ideologies are constructed on a distinctive ontology and explanations for political phenomena.[67] In Japan, this has emerged around the issue of war-history: exonerating Japanese colonial history is not only a matter of national pride but considered to be central to political power. This emerged in the 1980s in response to issues such as history textbooks, territorial disputes, and re-writing the constitution, and carries on today. [68] It was around this time that the Yasukuni shrine also reemerged as the focal point for such reactionary historical revision in popular consciousness."
Narita, K. (2024) ‘Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine’, Journal of Political Ideologies, pp. 1–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024.2418189.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Japan #Imperialism #Empire #Colonisation #Politics #PoliticalScience #RightWing #History #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
🔴 🇯🇵 Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago
"One of the important findings of this study is that, in all analyses, among modern populations, the Korean population exhibited more genetic similarity to the Doigahama Yayoi individual than any other East Asian populations, except for the Japanese. This suggests that immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago during the Yayoi period primarily originated from the Korean Peninsula."
Kim, J., Mizuno, F., Matsushita, T. et al. Genetic analysis of a Yayoi individual from the Doigahama site provides insights into the origins of immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago. J Hum Genet (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s10038-024-01295-w.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Biology #Anthropology #Population #Genetics #Japan #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 The illusion of information adequacy
"...this study provides convergent evidence that people presume that they possess adequate information—even when they lack half the relevant information or be missing an important point of view. Furthermore, they assume a moderately high level of competence to make a fair, careful evaluation of the information in reaching their decisions. In turn, their specific cross-section of information strongly influences their recommendations."
Gehlbach H, Robinson CD, Fletcher A (2024) The illusion of information adequacy. PLOS ONE 19(10): e0310216. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310216
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Information #Education #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Lord Kelvin: how the 19th century scientist combined research and innovation to change the world</font>**
"_Thomson’s lifelong talent for inventing ingenious scientific instruments secured him 70 patents, enabled dozens of scientific breakthroughs and made him a highly successful entrepreneur._"
🟡 🇸🇪 **<font color="yellow">Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right</font>**
"_Drawing parallels to the UK, where pub closures led to increased support for UKIP, this study investigates similar trends observed in Sweden. Utilizing a novel dataset of over 50,000 alcohol-serving permits and electoral data from 2002 to 2018, the study finds that a reduction in permits is associated with a 3.7% increase in support for the Sweden Democrats (SD)._"
Isaksson, Z. (2024) 'Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,' Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102850.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #PoliticalScience #Politics #Populism #Europe #Sweden #Swedish #Alcohol #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
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