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🖥️ 🇬🇧 **Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories**
"_In addition to showing how algorithms increased the visibility of posts featuring images (particularly those created with AI) and videos representing racist conspiracy theories, this article explores how these posts likely fuelled the riots by appealing to a crusading mentality that projected White/European men as morally entitled to defend Britain, animating racist fantasies deeply entrenched in the Western collective unconscious._"
Lopes Buarque, B., & Lewis, N. (2025). Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481251391636.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Politics #UKPol #Algorithms #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Racism #UK #UnitedKingdom #Academia
🇬🇪 **Discovery of unknown script in Georgia: the Bashplemi Lake tablet**
"_This tablet, which bears 60 signs, 39 of them different, raises the question of the origin of the Georgian script, proto-Georgian. While the basalt on which it is based is known to be of local origin, its meaning is unknown and there remains a long way to go to decipher it._"
“DISCOVERY OF UNKNOWN SCRIPT CHARACTERS IN GEORGIA: THE BASHPLEMI LAKE TABLET” (2024) JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, 11(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v11i3.1035.
#Archaeology #History #Language #Georgia #Research #Academia
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **U.S. is the biggest recipient of Chinese loans, study shows**
"_The United States received the most official sector credit from China, more than $200 billion for nearly 2,500 projects and activities, the report said._"
🔗 https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/us-biggest-recipient-chinese-loans-study-shows-rcna244742.
#News #China #USA #US #Economy #Economics #Loans #Debt #Study #Research
**Testing for racial bias using inconsistent perceptions of race**
"_We apply our method to test for bias in police traffic stops, finding that the same driver is likelier to be searched or arrested by police when they are perceived as Hispanic than when they are perceived as white._"
Nora Gera, Emma Pierson, Testing for racial bias using inconsistent perceptions of race. Sci. Adv. 11, eadx5829 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx5829.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #ComputerScience #SocialScience #Race #Bias #Research #Academia
**"What if... Charlemagne's other sons had survived?" Charlemagne's sons and the problems of royal succession**
"_The article is concerned with the problem of Early and Medieval royal succession in different circumstances: the death of two of Charlemagne's designated heirs in 810 and 811, the succession of Louis the Pious in 814 and the conflicts between Louis and his sons resulting in Louis's deposition in 833 and the division of the Carolingian Empire._"
Ohnacker, E. (2009). "What if... Charlemagne's other sons had survived?" Charlemagne's sons and the problems of royal succession. Historical Social Research, 34(2), 184-202. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.2.184-202
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #Medieval #Europe #Analysis #Research #Academia
🇰🇿 **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.
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