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🇰🇿 **A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy**
"_Occupied from around 1600 BC and linked to the Cherkaskul and Alekseevka-Sargary cultures, Semiyarka is a newly identified 140ha Late Bronze Age settlement in north-eastern Kazakhstan._"
Radivojević, M. et al. (2025) ‘A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy’, Antiquity, pp. 1–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10244.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Asia #Kazakhstan #BronzeAge #Research #Academia
**Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts**
_“We believe many applicants probably used GAI for language and grammar polishing, and we believe that to be acceptable,” Bouter said by email. “But among the submissions there are a proportion that are clearly off-topic and low quality that look like they were generated by GAI.”_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #Ethics
🌎 **‘Almost half of the beaches will disappear by the end of the century,’ warns researcher**
#Pollution #Beaches #Environment #Ecology #Science #Research #Academia
**People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines**
"_Our findings suggest that advances in photorealistic image generation will likely lead to greater susceptibility to misinformation, and that future interventions should consider shifting attention to images_"
Guo, S., Zhong, Y., & Hu, X. (2025). People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-189.
#Academia #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Images #Misinformation
🧬 **Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia**
"_For Li Dan, genetic analysis reveals a close relationship with modern Brahmins, supporting his Brahmin status and his biography as the progeny of Brahmanic descent. Alongside the eclectic archaeological culture, we believe Li Dan preserved his ethnic heritage while forming an integrated Chinese cultural identity._"
Du, P. et al. (2025) 'Ancient genomic evidence uncovers a 6th-century cross-border couple between South Asia and East Asia,' Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 68, p. 105474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105474.
#Academia #Research #Archaeology #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Asia
🌏 **Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic**
"_We suggest a group with a similar lithic technology became isolated somewhere in the vicinity of the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kuril region, developing genetically into ancestral American populations. Between ~22,000 and ~18,000 cal yr B.P., a subset of this population migrated along the southern Beringian and Northwest coasts into the Americas. By ~16,000 to ~15,000 cal yr B.P., they had become widely dispersed across North America._"
David B. Madsen et al., Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic. Sci. Adv.11, eady9545 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady9545.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #Americas #Asia #Research #Academia
**Network-Based Detection of Wash Trading**
"_Applying this method to the Polymarket exchange, we estimate that transaction patterns indicative of wash trading began to trend upward in July 2024, peaking at nearly 60 percent of volume in December 2024._"
Sirolly, Allen and Ma, Hongyao and Kanoria, Yash and Sethi, Rajiv, Network-Based Detection of Wash Trading (November 06, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5714122.
🇬🇧 🔬 **Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency**
"_The UK has an internationally competitive research base, especially in its universities, albeit this is now under financial threat. There is a healthy and growing scene of start-ups and spin-outs; great progress has been made at their early stages. But the UK has been less effective both in scaling up companies that start in the UK and in diffusing new science and technologies across the economy. The result is a country with four of the top ten global universities, but only three of the top 100 industrial R&D spenders globally and none in the top ten._"
🔗 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldsctech/192/19202.htm.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Science #Technology #Tech #STEM #Research #Report
🖥️ **arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers**
🔗 https://www.404media.co/arxiv-changes-rules-after-getting-spammed-with-ai-generated-research-papers/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #arXiv #Spam
🖥️ 🧠 **AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition**
"_In Study 1, participants (N = 246) used AI to solve 20 logical reasoning problems from the Law School Admission Test. While their task performance improved by three points compared to a norm population, participants overestimated their task performance by four points._"
Fernandes, D. et al. (2025) 'AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition,' Computers in Human Behavior, p. 108779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108779.
#Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Psychology #Metacognition #ComputerScience #Research #Academia
**Delaware professor on how monsters are used to exploit cultures**
"_Persephone Braham, a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Delaware, specializes in the cultural history of monsters. Her research focuses on how European colonizers used monstrous imagery to justify the enslavement and exploitation of Indigenous and African peoples._"
**The Downside of Fertility**
"_The reasons for the declines from the 1970s to the early 2000s involve greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the desires of men and women. Men benefit more from maintaining traditions; women benefit more from eschewing them._"
Claudia Goldin, "The Downside of Fertility," NBER Working Paper 34268 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w34268.
🖥️ **Analyzing the Effects of TikTok on the Attention Span of Evolving High School Students**
"_After extensive examination, the findings of this study indicated that TikTok did have a greater negative influence on the attention spans of freshman students, affecting the way they absorb information during lecture lessons._"
🔗 https://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/3463
#SocialMedia #TikTok #AttentionSpan #Education #Learning #Technology #Tech #Research
🖥️ **News Integrity in AI Assistants**
"• Almost half of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
• A third of responses showed serious sourcing problems.
•A fifth contained major accuracy issues, such as hallucinated and/or outdated information."
🔗 https://www.ebu.ch/research/open/report/news-integrity-in-ai-assistants
#News #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech
**Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts**
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-bring-us-closer-to-breathing-through-our-butts.
**The Economic Geography of American Slavery**
"_We find that the economic impacts of emancipation are substantial, generating welfare gains for the enslaved of roughly 1,200%, while reducing welfare of free workers by 0.7% and eliminating slaveholder profit. Aggregate GDP rises by 9.1%, with a contraction in agricultural productivity counteracted by an expansion in manufacturing and services driven by an exodus of formerly enslaved workers out of agriculture and into the U.S. North._"
Treb Allen, Winston Chen, and Suresh Naidu, "The Economic Geography of American Slavery," NBER Working Paper 34356 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w34356.
#Academia #Research #History #Histodons #Economics #Slavery #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Attachment Anxiety and Problematic Use of Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Mediation of Emotional Attachment and Moderation of Anthropomorphic Tendencies**
"_Individuals with high attachment anxiety urgently need relatively perfect partners to reduce negative emotions. While the emergence of conversational artificial intelligence meets their needs, there is a risk of excessive dependence._"
Heng S, Zhang Z. Attachment Anxiety and Problematic Use of Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Mediation of Emotional Attachment and Moderation of Anthropomorphic Tendencies. Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2025;18:1775-1785 https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S531805.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Study #Psychology #Anxiety #Emotions #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia
🇺🇸 **Nearly 70% of US adults considered obese under proposed new definition, study finds**
"_The new approach would label someone as being obese if they have a BMI over 40 or if they have a high BMI plus at least one sign of excess body fat, for example a large waist, high waist-to-hip ratio, or high waist-to-height ratio. People could also be classed as obese if they have two signs of excess fat even with a "normal" BMI, or if scans show they have excessive body fat._"
#News #Science #Study #Research #Health #Obesity #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Lost Data in Electron Microscopy**
"_Of the more than 150,000 electron microscopy images evaluated in this study, only approximately 3500 (just over 2%) were made available in publications. For the analyzed dataset, the amount of lost data in electron microscopy can be estimated as >90% (in terms of data being recorded but not being published in peer-reviewed literature)._"
Ivanova, Nina M., Alexey S. Kashin, and Valentine P. Ananikov. 2025. "Lost Data in Electron Microscopy" Chemistry 7, no. 5: 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemistry7050160.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Chemistry #Data #Images #Academia
🌍 🌡️ **57 Extra Superhot Days A Year? New Study Says That's Where The World Is Headed, But It Could Be Worse**
_“There will be pain and suffering because of climate change,” said Climate Central Vice President for Science Kristina Dahl, a report co-author._
🔗 https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2025-10-16-study-says-world-could-add-57-superhot-days-a-year.
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