Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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.
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Joined Nov 2022
**Racism Is Not Innate**
"_Research shows a link between racism and anxiety, insecurity, and lack of a sense of identity._"
🔗 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-of-the-darkness/202510/racism-is-not-innate
**Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences**
"_We show that optimizing LLMs for competitive success can inadvertently drive misalignment. Using simulated environments across these scenarios, we find that, 6.3% increase in sales is accompanied by a 14.0% rise in deceptive marketing; in elections, a 4.9% gain in vote share coincides with 22.3% more disinformation and 12.5% more populist rhetoric; and on social media, a 7.5% engagement boost comes with 188.6% more disinformation and a 16.3% increase in promotion of harmful behaviors._"
El, B. and Zou, J. (2025) 'Moloch’s bargain: emergent misalignment when LLMs compete for audiences,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.06105.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #ComputerScience #Preprint #Research #Academia
**When knowing more means doing less: Algorithmic knowledge and digital (dis)engagement among young adults**
"_A new survey of U.S. young adults finds that while higher algorithmic awareness and knowledge are linked to greater concerns about misinformation and filter bubbles, individuals with greater algorithmic awareness and knowledge are less likely to correct misinformation or engage with opposing viewpoints on social media—possibly reflecting limited algorithmic agency._"
Chung, M. (2025). When knowing more means doing less: Algorithmic knowledge and digital (dis)engagement among young adults. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-186
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Survey #SocialMedia #Technology #Tech #Algorithms #Misinformation #Academia
**Marie Antoinette portrait really sister, study finds**
"_A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found._"
🖥️ **Censored AI Chat Models Hallucinate More, Research Finds**
"_New research finds that the same internal mechanisms used to block ‘unsafe’ responses also suppress factual information, meaning that attempts to align models for safety can backfire by making them hallucinate more_"
🔗 https://www.unite.ai/censored-ai-chat-models-hallucinate-more-research-finds/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Hallucinations #Research #Study
🇺🇸 **Study Analyzed 38 Million Obituaries and Discovered What Americans Really Value in Life**
"_Two values dominate the modern obituary: tradition and benevolence. Tradition appeared in roughly 80 percent of obituaries; benevolence in about 76 percent. In other words, we tend to remember people for caring for others and belonging to something larger than themselves._"
🇺🇸 **U.S. Latinos hit new population and labor force records**
"_The total U.S. Latino population in the United States is estimated to be over 68 million, with one out of every five people being Latino for the first time in history._"
🔗 https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/u-s-latinos-population-labor-force-growth.
🇨🇭 ⛰️ **Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says**
"_Between 2015 and 2025 alone, the glaciers shed 24 percent of their volume, Wednesday's report said, compared to 10 percent between 1990 and 2000._"
#News #Research #Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment
**Drowning in a sea of fakery**
"_Some instances of this fakery have been met with hilarity as the images were so bad they would fool no one who gave them more than a cursory glance. Unsurprisingly, however, the technology has improved. A couple of years ago there were warnings that AI could produce convincing fake images of cancers and western blots that could fool experts._"
🔗 https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/drowning-in-a-sea-of-fakery/4022181.article.
#Academia #PaperMills #Publishing #Fake #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Images #Technology #Tech
🖥️ **Poor Alignment and Steerability of Large Language Models: Evidence from College Admission Essays**
"_We consistently find that both types of LLM-generated essays are linguistically distinct from human-authored essays, regardless of the specific model and analytical approach. Further, prompting a specific sociodemographic identity is remarkably ineffective in aligning the model with the linguistic patterns observed in human writing from this identity group._"
Lee, J. et al. (2025) 'Poor Alignment and Steerability of Large Language Models: Evidence from College Admission Essays,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2503.20062..
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #Essays #ComputerScience #Research #Preprint #Academia #Academics
**Let’s get negative about scholarly publishing**
"_Though science is our most potent tool for figuring out the whole story about how the world works, the academic research record’s neglect of negative results is long-standing._"
🔗 https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/09/24/lets-get-negative/.
🧠 **Having Trouble Concentrating or Remembering? It’s Not Just You, Study Finds**
"_The new study examined 4.5 million survey responses from 2013 to 2023, finding that among people under 40, cognitive disability has jumped from 5.1% to 9.7%._"
#Research #Study #Neurology #Medicine #Health #Science #Academia #Academics
🇦🇹 🇺🇸 **Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts**
"_Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities._"
#Austria #USA #US #UnitedStates #Research #Academia #BrainDrain #BrainGain #Education
🖥️ **Workslop is the new busywork. And it’s costing millions.**
"_Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab uncovers how AI-generated “slop” masquerades as productivity._"
🔗 https://www.betterup.com/workslop.
#Study #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Workslop
🌡️ **Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study**
"_According to the study, Italy was the country with the most heat deaths last summer with an estimated 19,000, followed by Spain and Germany, both with over 6,000._"
#Study #Research #Science #Heatwave #Epidemiology #Health #RiskFactors #Europe
🌍 **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
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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Joined Nov 2022
