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🔴 **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
🔴 **Trump and Musk are obsessed with genetics – but there’s no science behind their simplistic views**
Jonathan Roberts
_“The ubiquity of rhetoric that conflates DNA and identity risks propping up some insidious ideas. This is the language Musk and Trump thrive on, making exclusionary policies look like rational decisions grounded in science. Because, if genes are everything, why bother with policies aimed at tackling inequality? Why waste time and resources addressing social problems when we’re all just products of our genetic code?”_
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/donald-trump-elon-musk-genetics-science-right.
#Science #Biology #Genetics #DonaldTrump #Trump #ElonMusk #Musk #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Opinion #Politics #USPol
🔴 🌋 **Scientists finally solve mystery of giant volcano that almost wiped out the world**
Ryan McDougall
_“Scientists from the University of St Andrews say they have discovered the exact volcano that erupted in 1831, leading to a global cooling of approximately 1C._
_The team discovered it was the Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited island of Simushir, which is part of the Kuril Islands – a disputed territory between Russia and Japan.”_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/simushir-volcano-mystery-1831-study-b2671705.html.
🔴 🌡️ **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
🔴 🇬🇱 🛰️ **Incredible satellite images show Greenland’s massive ice sheet melting**
Julia Musto in New York
_“Altogether, the ice sheet shrank by 563 cubic miles, losing enough mass to fill Africa’s Lake Victoria. The most extreme thinning occurred at the glaciers along its edge, including those known as Jakobshavn Isbræ and Zachariae Isstrøm.”_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/greenland-map-satellite-melting-ice-b2668161.html
#Images #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic #Greenland @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
_“By the numbers: According to the new Copernicus data, November was the 16th out of the past 17 months during which global average surface temperatures exceeded the 1.5°C target relative to pre-industrial temperatures.”_
#Climate #ClimateChnage #Science #Environment @climatechange @science
Global climate records in 2023 and 2024 defy scientific explanation https://www.axios.com/2024/12/16/climate-change-records-surprise-scientists?utm...
🔴 **Scientists Warn of an ‘Unprecedented Risk’ From Synthetic ‘Mirror Life,’ Built With a Reverse Version of Natural Proteins and Sugars**
Eli Wizevich
_“Mirror cells,” as they are known, could one day compose “mirror life,” a type of synthetic organism that, on the molecular level, is the complete reverse of the life forms we know. But the 38 co-authors of the warning article published in the journal Science recommend that research into mirror life be blocked immediately, before it spirals out of control._
🔴 **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.”_
Are there any benefits from climate change that one can preach about?
Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick Preaches the Benefits of Climate Change https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/who-is-chris-wright-trump-energy-secretar...
🔴 **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
🔴 🌡️ 🌊 **Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south**
_“Our results show the Atlantic overturning circulation is likely to become a third weaker than it was 70 years ago at 2°C of global warming. This would bring big changes to the climate and ecosystems, including faster warming in the southern hemisphere, harsher winters in Europe, and weakening of the northern hemisphere’s tropical monsoons.”_
🔗 https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/11/meltwater-greenland-arctic-weakening-ocean-circulation
#Atlantic #Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science @science @climatechange @environment
🔴 📖 🎥 **A Complex Rare Book From 1500s**
🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/rgqoOqEunms
#Video #Shorts #Book #Books #RareBook #RareBooks #Bookstodon #Science #Astronomy @bookstodon
🔴 **‘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.”_
🔴 **Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing**
_“At the heart of the problem is a lack of money, infrastructure and expertise to archive digital resources. “Digital preservation is expensive and also quite difficult,” says Kathleen Shearer, who is based in Montreal, Canada, and is the executive director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, a global network of scholarly archives. “It is not just about creating backup copies of things. It is about the active management of content over time in a rapidly evolving technological environment.”_
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03842-z
#DOI #Information #Technology #Tech #Science #Research #Digital #Archives #Publishing #Editorial @science
🔴 **Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland**
_“If Iceland and the Faroe Islands are indeed genetically divergent, as found in the present study, two scenarios may explain their differentiation and Iceland’s relative isolation on the networks: (1) the populations were settled by different regional groups; or, (2) another historically contingent process of evolution between the two groups has resulted in the divergence.”_
Mann AE, Magnussen E and Tillquist CR (2024) Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Front. Genet. 15:1462736. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2024.1462736.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #FaroeIslands #NorthAtlantic #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 **Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population**
_“We also investigated the debated question on the genetic origin of Armenians and failed to find any significant support for historical suggestions by Herodotus of their Balkan-related ancestry. We checked the degree of continuity of modern Armenians with ancient inhabitants of the eastern Armenian highlands and detected a genetic input into the region from a source linked to Neolithic Levantine Farmers at some point after the Early Bronze Age.”_
Hovhannisyan et al., Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population, The American Journal of Human Genetics (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.022
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Demography #Genetics #Genome #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #History #BronzeAge #Armenia #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology
🔴 🎥 **The Art and Science of Light in the Middle Ages**
_"Scientists in the Middle Ages built on the science hypothesized by ancient philosophers via experimentation and observation. They created a solid foundation of the study of optics (vision and light), and even began to explore the neuroscience of light, or how light affects how we feel through brain processes."_
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-five seconds.
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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