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🔴 🇮🇶 **Ancient Artifacts Unearthed in Iraq Shed Light on Hidden History of Mesopotamia**
Eddy Duryea ’13
_“Kurd Qaburstan is believed to be ancient Qabra, an important regional center mentioned in the records of other city-states,” Earley-Spadoni says. “The presence of writing, monumental architecture, and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since the site must have been an important city of its time.”_
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #Research #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Ancient #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia #Mesopotamia @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States**
_"As outlined earlier in the article, increasing development might reduce levels of gender inequality and economic uncertainty, which can lead to higher fertility."_
Henrik-Alexander Schubert, Christian Dudel, Marina Kolobova, Mikko Myrskylä; Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States. Demography 1 December 2024; 61 (6): 1949–1973. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680156.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Demography #Fertility #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Academia #Academics
🔴 💻 **AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking**
_“This study highlights how AI-driven virtual influencers shape consumer behaviour and decision-making processes, potentially reducing the need for independent critical evaluation. The reliance on AI-generated content can diminish users’ critical thinking abilities, as they may accept information and recommendations without thorough scrutiny. The phenomenon of virtual influencers acting as trusted sources of information mirrors the trust participants in our study place in AI tools, leading to reduced critical engagement.”_
Gerlich, Michael. 2025. “AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking” Societies 15, no. 1: 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #Technology #Tech #Education #Academia #Academics @ai
🔴 ⚗ ‘Still angry’: Chemist finds his name on a study he didn’t write
_“I am acutely aware of how academic malpractice can ruin an academic career so did not want to be associated with this paper.”_
🔗 https://retractionwatch.com/2025/01/13/chemist-martin-mcphillie-journal-biochemical-technology/.
#Science #Chemistry #Research #Academia #Academics #Publication @science @chemistry
🔴 **Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum**
_“Our results paint a picture of Yemen being in a crossroads, marked by the large-scale baseline genetic diversity that largely evolved many millennia. Yemen witnessed an initial gene flow pattern defined by the more ancient markers from the rest of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant that started as early as the Epipaleolithic period followed by population isolation and limited expansion. Yemen witnessed additional, but less substantial, flow from southwest Asia, Jordan and Syria through the Nabateans during the active incense trade between the Levant and Yemen, from Arabia during the Islamic Expansion, and a subsequent one from the west and southwest dominated by East Africa.”_
Henschel, A., Saif-Ali, R., Al-Habori, M. et al. Human migration from the Levant and Arabia into Yemen since Last Glacial Maximum. Sci Rep 14, 31704 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81615-4.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Biology #Genetics #Genomics #Migration #Yemen #Arabia #Levant #Academia #Academics @science @biology
🔴 **Lead Pollution Likely Caused Widespread IQ Declines in Ancient Rome, New Study Finds**
🔗 https://www.dri.edu/lead-pollution-likely-caused-widespread-iq-declinesin-ancient-rome/
#Science #Research #Pollution #Ancient #Rome #Antiquity #IQ #IntelligenceQuotient @science
🔴 **High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**
_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_
Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons
🔴 💻 **Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn**
_“This AI will combine knowledge of our online habits with an uncanny ability to attune to us in ways we find comforting – mimicking personalities and anticipating desired responses – to build levels of trust and understanding that allow for social manipulation on an industrial scale, say researchers.”_
#Research #News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Chatbots #IntentionEconomy #Economy @ai
🔴 **Pre-roman copper industry had no polluting impact on the global environment**
_“Our results, combined with a comprehensive survey of previously published data, support the minimalist interpretation of the polluting effects of metallurgical activities on ancient societies, at least for pre-Roman copper production industries.”_
Yagel, O., Greener, A., Ondricek, W. et al. Pre-roman copper industry had no polluting impact on the global environment. Sci Rep 14, 29675 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80939-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Ancient #NearEast #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Metallurgy #Pollution #TimnaValley #Environment #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
🔴 **Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients**
_"Advertisers mimicked the sensitive queries of cancer patients to target them with their marketing using Google’s keyword-matching feature. In 2023, 20,035 unique keywords emulated Google searches seeking information on cancer prognosis, alternative treatments, accessing treatment, treatment options, diagnosis, specific cancers, and late-stage cancer._
_The Google tools used by alternative cancer clinics exploit users’ searches for information and give prominence to websites promoting treatment unsupported by scientific evidence."_
Zenone, M., Marcon, A., Kenworthy, N., van Schalkwyk, M., Caulfield, T., Hartwell, G., & Maani, N. (2024). Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-170
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Google #Health #Cancer #Advertisements #Advertising #Information #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics
🔴 🌡️ **Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality**
_“Using climate model simulations of idealized SG and data-driven of temperature-attributable mortality, we estimate that, in a world 2.5 °C warmer than preindustrial, 1 °C of global-average cooling by SG reduces mortality by over 400,000 deaths annually by 2080, with a possible range from −1.2 million to 2.7 million deaths annually.”_
A. Harding, G.A. Vecchi, W. Yang, D.W. Keith, Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (52) e2401801121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401801121 (2024).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Geoscience #Engineering #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @science @climatechange
🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin**
_“Our evaluations reveal spatially different histories in Transdanubia even between communities in close geographical proximity, highlighting the importance of dense sampling and analyses. Our findings highlight extensive homogenization and reorganization processes, as well as discontinuities between Hun, Avar, and Hungarian conquest period immigrant groups, alongside the spread and integration of ancestry related to the Hungarian conquerors.”_
Dániel Gerber et al., Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.10, eadq5864(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5864.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeogenomics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Genomes #Science #CarpathianBasin #Hungary #Europe @anthropology @archaeodons
🔴 ✈️ **Travelers Weigh in on Weight-Based Airfares for Eco-Friendly Skies**
_“Those who were more in favor of weight-based policies tended to be younger with those ages 18-35 accepting weight-based pricing almost 20 percentage points more than travelers who were 66 and older. Additionally, travelers with higher incomes or frequent flyer status were 25% more likely to support weight-based policies than those in lower income brackets or who didn’t travel as much.”_
🔴 🖋 ⌨️ **Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom**
_“Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity. It appears that the movements related to typewriting do not activate these connectivity networks the same way that handwriting does.”_
Van der Weel FR and Van der Meer ALH (2024) Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. Front. Psychol. 14:1219945. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Education #Psychology #Brain #Neuroscience #Learning #Handwriting #Writing #Typing #Typewriting #Academia #Academic @science @psychology
🔴 **Publisher reviews national IQ research by British ‘race scientist’ Richard Lynn**
Hannah Devlin and David Pegg
_“There have been repeated calls for publishers to retract Lynn’s papers or flag concerns about their reliability with warning notices. Academics who have evaluated his papers allege that Lynn, who died last year, systematically biased data to produce implausibly low IQ scores for sub-Saharan nations.”_
🔴 **The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030**
_“The primary trigger of the rapid transition to the first ice-free day within 3–6 years that we identified was a warm atmosphere in the previous winter and spring, leading to a loss of sea ice mass year-round Fig. 3b).”_
Heuzé, C., Jahn, A. The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030. Nat Commun 15, 10101 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54508-3.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Arctic #Ocean #Climate #Science #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 🇫🇷 **Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes**
_Combining visual and textual analysis, this article suggests that royal image makers linked Muslims and Protestants to defend the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and manifest the French king's religious zeal and imperial ambition while distracting from the ahdname (capitulations) granted by the Ottoman sultan that precluded France from joining a Catholic alliance to fight the “Turkish menace.”_
Gillian Weiss; Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. French Historical Studies 1 November 2024; 47 (4): 549–570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-11284379.
#Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #LouisXIV #Huguenots #Protestants #Muslims #Islam #France #Europe @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Hegel and White Freedom**
_“In order to show that Hegel's idea of freedom is linked to white identity, I trace its connections with the Western idea of property. My suggestion is that Hegel conceptualizes freedom as appropriation, thereby linking freedom to property and white identity.”_
Stibor, L. (2024) ‘Hegel and White Freedom’, Hegel Bulletin, 45(2), pp. 210–236. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.36.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Hegel #Identity #Freedom #Academia #Academics @philosophy
🔴 **‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril**
Holly Else
_“The size of the problem is not clear, but a manuscript posted to the Center for Open Science’s OSF preprint server in September suggests up to one in seven published papers are fabricated or falsified.”_
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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