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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🌍 🌡️ **Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals**
Timothy Neal
“_We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from an average of 11% (under previous modelling assumptions) to 40% (under our modelling assumptions). This level of damage could devastate livelihoods in large parts of the world._”
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #GlobalEconomy #Economy #GlobalWarming #Research #Economics #Analysis @climatechange @economics
🔴 **Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic**
“_Our study also shows that during the Final Palaeolithic, the climatic cooling of GS-1 coincides with a pronounced population decline in most parts of the study area. An apparent increase in population density occurs only in north-eastern Central Europe and north-eastern Italy. Our estimates suggest that the total population was reduced by half._”
Schmidt I, Gehlen B, Winkler K, Arrizabalaga A, Arts N, et al. (2025) Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0310942. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310942
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Demography #Paleoclimatology #Paleoecology #Paleobiology #Europe #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
🔴 🗺️ **Known unknowns in the North. Uncertain maps of the Arctic in early modern times**
“_By zooming in on world maps and North Pole maps from the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries and examining them in a long-term chronological sequence, we can follow lines and lands that appear and disappear and trace the winding paths of mapping processes and practices through the centuries._”
van Netten, djoeke (2025) ‘Known unknowns in the North. Uncertain maps of the Arctic in early modern times’, International Journal of Cartography, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/23729333.2025.2478270.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Map #Maps #Cartography #EarlyModern #Europe #NorthPole #Arctic #Academia #Academic @earlymodern
🔴 **Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics**
“_This process is illustrated by querying ChatGPT with questions from a history of mathematics quiz designed to highlight the common occurrence of mathematical results being misattributed. ChatGPT's performance on a set of decades-old common misconceptions is mixed, illustrating the potential for these systems to reproduce and reinforce historical inaccuracies and misconceptions._”
Rowlett, P. (2024) ‘Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 39(1), pp. 64–69. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2312789.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Academia #Academic @ai
🔴 **Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus**
“_An array of new provenance studies demonstrates the complexity of the Bronze Age metal trade and, taking a maritime perspective, provides the opportunity to reveal how strategically positioned actors such as Nuragic Sardinia managed to dominate sea-borne routes, and gained a prominent and independent international position._”
Sabatini, S. and Lo Schiavo, F. (2020) ‘Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus’, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35(13), pp. 1501–1518. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020.1758329.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Archaeology #LateBronzeAge #Metals #Copper #Tin #Lead #Mining #Trade #Nuragic #Sardinia #Cyprus @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **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
#Image attribution: Etching created by Cadell and Davies (1811), John Horsburgh (1828) or R.C. Bell (1872)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AdamSmith.jpg
🔴 ⛳ **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
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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