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**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.
**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
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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