Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🌍 **Demography and destiny: the world that awaits us in 2050 with fewer births and longer lifespans**
"_This change in the silhouette reflects a transformation that will require profound changes in a social system based essentially on working generations funding retirees._"
🔬 **We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #PeerReview #Academia #Research #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
**Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media**
"_While extremism is usually perceived to be a matter of extreme ideologies and methods, social media enables and shapes distinct hybridization processes by which conspiracy beliefs, personal grievances, and various ad hoc convictions are combined with ideology fragments, consequently producing new extremist narratives._"
Petersen, L. N., & Johansen, M. B. (2025). Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251340145 (Original work published 2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #SocialMedia #ConspiracyTheories #Academia
🚽 **Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids**
"_The study suggests that prolonged engagement with smartphones while using the toilet may be associated with an increased prevalence of hemorrhoids._"
Ramprasad C, Wu C, Chang J, Rangan V, Iturrino J, et al. (2025) Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids. PLOS ONE 20(9): e0329983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329983.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Science #Gastroenterology #Medicine #Health #Phones #Hemorrhoids #Toilet #Academia @science
**Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer**
"_We propose that tidal irrigation offers a plausible jumpstarting mechanism for high-yield, diversified agriculture providing an impetus for urbanization. As access to sea was restricted by delta build-up and tides shifted with the advancing deltaic coast, intensified reliance on mercurial river regimes eventually led to the expansive fluvial irrigation network of Early Dynastic city-states._"
Giosan L, Goodman R (2025) Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer. PLOS ONE 20(8): e0329084. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329084.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Sumer #Morphodynamic #Rivers #Irrigation #Paleooceanography #Agriculture #Academia
🇮🇳 **How researchers recreated faces of 2,500-year-old skulls found in India**
"_The features also reveal traces of Middle-East Eurasian and Austro-Asiactic ancestries, hinting at global migration and the mixing of ancient population groups. But Prof Kumaresan says that more research is needed to properly establish the ancestries of Keeladi's residents._"
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d061dv36lo.
#Research #Academia #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #India @archaeodons @histodons
🇵🇹 🧬 **The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years**
"_We reveal dynamic patterns of migration in line with cultural exchange across millennia, but also the persistence of local ancestries._"
Roca-Rada, X., Davidson, R., Williams, M.P. et al. The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years. Genome Biol 26, 248 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03707-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #Portugal #Iberia #Paleogenomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Anthropology #Migration #Academia @science @archaeology @anthropology
**Nazi Human Experiments Still Influence Medicine Today**
"_A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research?_"
🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-human-experiments-still-influence-medicine-today/a-73742634.
#History #Science #HistSci #Medicine #Research #Nazi #Germany @science
🖥️ **Fidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language Models**
"_When forced to reason beyond familiar answer patterns, all models demonstrate declines in accuracy, challenging claims of artificial intelligence’s readiness for autonomous clinical deployment._"
Bedi S, Jiang Y, Chung P, Koyejo S, Shah N. Fidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language Models. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(8):e2526021. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26021.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Medicine #Health #Academia
**Gold is losing its lustre as a safe investment, research finds**
"_Professor David McMillan, Professor of Finance and Head of Accounting and Finance at Stirling Business School, said: “Our analysis found that gold started to lose its position as a safe haven during volatile periods. Platinum is the only precious metal to show a statistically significant safe haven role during extreme market shocks in the stable and volatile periods."_"
🔗 https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/08/gold-is-losing-its-lustre-as-a-safe-investment-research-finds/.
#Image attribution: istara, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold-295936.jpg.
🖥️ 🇦🇺 **‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows**
"_We found when generative AIs produce images of Australia and Australians, these outputs are riddled with bias. They reproduce sexist and racist caricatures more at home in the country’s imagined monocultural past._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Images #Racism #Bias #Australia #Research #Academia
🇺🇸 **The US Is Not Ready For Its Aging Population. New Northeastern Research Explains Why**
🔗 https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/08/16/aging-population-us-challenges/.
#Demography #Ageing #USA #US #UnitedStates #Research #Academia
🖥️ 📚 **AI Is Making Reading Books Feel Obsolete – And Students Have A Lot To Lose**
"_The evidence reveals that the more users rely on AI to perform work for them, the less they see themselves as drawing upon their own thinking capacities. A study employing EEG measurements found different brain connectivity patterns when participants enlisted AI to help them write an essay than when writing it on their own._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Literature #Research #Learning #Education #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #CriticalThinking #Cognition @bookstodon
🏴 **West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset**
"_Focusing primarily on a sub-adult female from Updown in Kent, the authors explore the societal and cultural contexts in which these individuals lived and died, and the widening geographic links indicated by their presence, pointing back to the Byzantine reconquest of North Africa in AD 533–534._"
Sayer, D. et al. (2025) ‘West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset’, Antiquity, pp. 1–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10139.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #DNA #Africa #Kent #Dorset #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #AngloSaxon #England #Medieval #Medievodons #Migration #Academia @archaeodons @medievodons
🖥️ **AI-Induced Dehumanization**
"_Our research reveals that the socio-emotional capabilities of autonomous agents lead individuals to attribute a humanlike mind to these nonhuman entities. Perceiving a high level of humanlike mind in the nonhuman, autonomous agents affects perceptions of actual people through an assimilation process._"
Kim, H.-y., & McGill, A. L. (2025). AI-induced dehumanization. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 35, 363–381. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1441.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Dehumanization #Academia @psychology
🇨🇦 **Do you speak Yukon English? These researchers want to hear it**
_'Linguists know very, very little about what's going on with Englishes in the Canadian North,' researcher says_
#News #Research #English #Language #Linguistics #Yukon #Canada @linguistics
**Five thousand years of inequality in the Carpathian Basin**
" _We find that although farming did increase the potentials for both relational and material inequalities, the potential was rarely reached and then only for short durations. We identify a series of leveling mechanisms varying over time, including the removal of material wealth from circulation through the placement in graves, community fission, and investments of surplus labor in infrastructural investments._"
Paul R. Duffy et al., Five thousand years of inequality in the Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.11, eadu0323 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu0323.
#OpenAcess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #History #Histodons #Academia #Academics @anthropology @histodons
**Semantic change in adults is not primarily a generational phenomenon**
"_Our findings indicate that despite minor age-based differences, word meaning change among mature speakers is likely not a generational process, but rather a zeitgeist process, in which older adult speakers can readily adopt new word usage patterns._"
G. Kamath, M. Yang, S. Reddy, M. Sonderegger, & D. Card, Semantic change in adults is not primarily a generational phenomenon, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (31) e2426815122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426815122 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Society #Linguistics #Language #Academia #Academics @linguistics
**New research dispels myth of conspiracy theorists as isolated outsiders**
_Co-author Professor Robin Canniford, also from Bath’s School of Management, said: “The participatory aspect of conspiracy theories encourages people to become involved. It can feel very positive and supportive. It’s a thriving and welcoming social scene where people feel they are better informed about the workings of the world and are ready to take action.”
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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